"I wonder if Papa is thinking about me… No, he's probably not." She shook her head and shoved her head under her blanket, closing her eyes and drifting off to sleep.
"C – could you please repeat that?" Lucy asked, her eye twitching.
"I SAID, we're having a cultural festival mid-year and this class has decided to do a cosplay café," Sting repeated back through gritted teeth.
"And what do the girls have to dress up as again?"
"…Maids."
Lucy groaned and slapped her arm on her forehead, dropping the pen she was currently chewing on.
"Are you serious?!" she half-yelled at the blonde eyed teacher, who just smirked and nodded.
"C'mon Heartfilia-san, it's not that bad!" A girl in her class yelled out. A few guys wolf whistled and cheered, egging Lucy on.
"I hate dressing up…" Lucy muttered to herself, face-tableing.
The rest of the class went by in a hurry – preparations were made for the upcoming cultural festival. The guys could dress up as whatever they wanted, but the girls were restricted to either nurses or maids, which most of the girls chose the latter.
"I hate dressing up," Lucy muttered for the second time that day, slamming her locker door closed. Why oh why did she have to dress up? As a maid of all things!? She grabbed a few biscuits and walked outside towards the big tree on campus.
"Heh, I'm stuck here again, aren't I?" She laughed to herself, shoving a biscuit in her mouth. "Actually, I might visit the cafeteria for once," she thought to herself, eating another biscuit. She walked with slow footsteps, thinking about the cultural festival.
Once she reached the bustling cafeteria, she looked around – plain beige painted walls, chairs and tables placed everywhere and a buffet table with a gruff looking woman serving food. Everybody was in their own little cliques – not that Lucy cared, of course. She had been alone her whole life – like she cared about something trivial like friends.
She decided to sit by herself in the corner of the cafeteria where there was a small table – enough to fit a small group of people. Lucy enjoyed being alone, especially in little places with just enough space for herself.
Suddenly, she felt the inside of her jacket start vibrating, nearly making her jump out of her skin. She picked up her phone quickly, not caring to look who was the sender of the call.
"Hello?" She raised an eyebrow when she heard some giggling and screaming in the background. She felt someone's presence ghosting behind her suspiciously.
"Oh hey it's Lu-" Lucy kicked the intruder's face.
"Hey, Lucy! It's Loke!" Lucy heard a few glasses clink on the table and more girls giggling, most likely fawning over him.
"What do you want? I'm at school, you know. Lucky you called during break."
"Lucy, that hu-" Lucy punched the intruder square in the face.
"Nothing, I just wanted to hear your lovely voice," Loke's voice teased through the phone. Lucy heard groans from the intruder, deciding to leave what sounded like a him writhing on the ground.
"I'm going to hang up," Lucy said threateningly to the phone, making Loke chuckle on the other side.
"No, wait! I was only joking. Just reminding you that your shift to day is at 4:30, in case you forget to see me~"
"Of course I know you idiot, I'm not that forgetful, like you. Lay it off, you annoying playboy. I'm hanging up now. Bye."
Lucy snapped her phone closed and shoved it back in her pocket, finding herself staring at a clump of pink hair and a body clutching its stomach on the floor.
"Oh, it's you." Natsu groaned again and swung his arm to a chair opposite of Lucy and used its weight to sit on the chair. Lucy grabbed the last biscuit she had and bit into it. When she opened her eyes, she found Natsu about 5cm away from her, leaning over the table, making the two share eye contact.
"Do you not understand the concept of personal space?" Lucy asked him, who observed her face carefully, with interest. She heard a few chairs scraping, groaning inwardly when she saw Natsu's friends join them.
"But I wanna see your eyes! They look so cool!" Natsu protested, staring into her brown orbs as Lucy blinked silently, eating her biscuit. She cupped her cheek in her palm and stared back at Natsu, giving the bystanders the impression that the two of them were kissing.
"W–what are y–you two doing?" Erza stuttered, blushing for some odd reason.
"Pinky's making a move on the Prez's girl!" Gajeel chuckled heartily.
"She's not my girl!" Jellal yelled at Gajeel, who was currently sitting next to Lucy.
"What did you just call me?" Natsu grit his teeth and spat right in Lucy's face, making her scrunch up her face in disgust and push his face towards Gajeel's, their small moment of 'intimacy' done and over.
"I called you a Pinky, Pinky. Want me to repeat that?" Gajeel smirked, provoking him. Natsu yelled out at Gajeel and the two engaged in a fight within the blink of an eye, making Gray shout out," Oi, knock it off, you two!"
"Stupid exhibitionst."
"Dumb stripper."
And then there were three.
Lisanna and Levy sighed, Erza sat there rigid as a rock and still blushing, Jellal slapped a hand to his forehead and Laxus, who had just appeared, just sat there silently.
"Gomen gomen, those three always fight," Levy mumbled, slumping on the table.
"I noticed that. Since I was a kid, actually." Lucy's cold words made Levy flinch backwards, curling against Lisanna in defence. The latter sat there, chucking nervously.
"So, Prez, don't you have any work to do?" Lucy asked Jellal, her eyes glittering when she saw some barbeque flavoured chips in his hand.
"Actually, I finished everything last ni- Hey! Those are mine!" He yelled at Lucy as she snatched away the last bits of his chips, making him glare at her. She gave him the empty packet, as if it was a liable as compensation.
"That was mine!" he yelled at her. She simply shrugged, brushing the topic off.
"Why are you so quiet?" Lucy asked Laxus, peering behind Jellal.
"It's too boring at this place. No point wasting my breath," Laxus's deep voice rumbled, sighing, making Lucy smirk at him. "I like your way of thinking."
She saw the curves of his lips curve up slightly as she slunk back in your seat.
"It's not your fault you were suspended and have to help out the Student Council," Jellal shrugged, making Laxus growl," Ya don't have to go around telling the whole world, you know."
"Suspended? What did you do?" Lucy asked, crossing her legs with interest. Laxus eyed her suspiciously, deciding whether he could trust her or not. Lucy sensed this and put her hands up in defeat, saying," I'm not going to do anything with it, you know."
Laxus stared at her for a bit more and sighed in defeat. "I smashed a teacher's window and graffitied on the classroom walls," he mumbled, looking away.
"Which gave our school a bad reputation," Jellal added.
"Ya can't blame him. He was in his rebellious stage," Gajeel teased, bruises and bumps on his skin, claw marks occasionally shredding his clothes.
"What did you say?" Laxus growled, gritting his teeth.
"You heard what I said," Gajeel cackled, sitting down on a chair.
"C'mer-"
"Laxus, Gajeel, please stop fighting!" As Laxus was about to lunge ferociously at Gajeel, a sweet voice tingled through the air, making Laxus stop and Gajeel to jump over Laxus, who was also about to lunge.
"Why are you here, Mira?" Laxus gave the white long-haired beauty a small glare, as if he couldn't death stare her.
"Mira-nee!" Lisanna cried out, hugging the girl named Mira. Mira looked around and made eye contact with Lucy, gasping.
"Oh, a new person! Hi there! I'm Mirajane Strauss, nice to meet you! You can just call me Mira," She said warmly, holding a hand out to Lucy.
"Nice to meet'cha. Lucy Heartfilia," Lucy said bluntly, shaking Mira's hand.
"Ara ara, you can let go now Lisanna," Mira said, cupping her cheek. Lisanna pouted and sat back down.
"Mira-nee, did you finish your work with Principal Makarov?" Lisanna asked, making Mira nod.
"I guessed that Laxus was fighting with Gajeel or Natsu, and I was right," Mira answered sheepishly, making Laxus glare softly at her again.
"Alright, alright. I'll stop fighting," Laxus said in a tone that sounded like he was sulking. Mira smiled at him and walked off with a wave, saying," Well, I've got to go now. Bye!"
Multiple goodbyes and farewells were said as she walked off, leaving all of them with a warm and comfortable atmosphere.
"So… when did you guys start dating?" Natsu asked, looking directly at Lucy and Jellal.
"Yeah, when did you start going out? I never noticed you guys even talk. I don't care, of course." Gray said the last part quite quickly, cursing inwardly as soon as it came out of his mouth. Laxus and Gajeel looked at the 'couple' with interest, Erza and Jellal went red in the face while Levy and Lisanna had evil glints in their eyes and were rubbing their hands together deviously.
"W–we're n not dating! Stop misunderstanding!" Jellal muttered, sliding his SCP wristband up nervously. Lucy eyed Erza as she sighed a breath of relief that was near impossible to notice.
"Oh really? I wanted to make you guys go on a date," Levy pouted at the two, making both Jellal and Erza blush even more.
Ring!
They all jumped as the bell rung for classes to start again. Lucy got up first, wincing a bit at the sound of scraping chairs around the cafeteria.
"Just because you sat with me doesn't mean we're friends." Lucy stated very matter-of-factly, making everybody depressed as she walked off, her back facing them.
"Ahaha, she's a bit harsh, isn't she…" Lisanna laughed nervously, depressing lines on everybody's face.
"Well, it's true, isn't it? It's not like we were exactly nice to her when we were kids," Gray said, standing up.
"But she's interesting, I'll give you that," Natsu smirked, getting up with Gray. Natsu wasn't the stupid dumbass Lucy thought he was… and he was definitely planning to do something.
"Great, I've got P.E…" Lucy dragged her bag out of her locker, grabbing her sport uniform – a dark blue shirt and maroon coloured shorts. At least they weren't bloomers.
"Heartfilia-san! Do you want to walk to the gym together?" Lucy turned around and saw Levy, Lisanna and Erza standing near her, Levy waving crazily towards Lucy. She closed her locker and shrugged.
"Suit yourself."
Levy did a mini cheer as she ran to catch up to Lucy, who slung her bag strap over her shoulder and started walking towards the gym. Luckily for her, she had already memorised the layout of the school.
Lucy and the othesr had gotten changed quite quickly, and met their Sport teacher, Minerva Orlando. Her purple coloured hair always swished around – not to mention the two small braids that looped up on the top of her head. She was especially mean to Lucy, probably because of her 'attitude'.
"Keep running! Faster!" Minerva barked, making Lucy groan and pick up the pace. She was currently in the lead and had ran about 5 laps around the track in 5 minutes, which was pretty damn fast. Though it was long, her breath was only faltering slightly and showed no signs of tiredness.
"Faster!" Minerva barked again. Lucy heard all the girls running behind her whine and complain.
"Why do you think Lucy-san is so fast?" Levy asked, her breath rugged and failing to keep up with everybody else. She had only ran 3 and a half laps, and so had Lisanna.
"Dunno. Maybe she was training in the woods, meditating under waterfalls and fighting boars," Lisanna joked, her breathing starting to waver.
Up ahead, Lucy sneezed, sniffling her nose. "Who's talking about me?" she thought to herself, looking around. She shook the thought out of her head and continued running. After they had finished running, they were made to do stretches with a pair. Lisanna paired up with Levy, leaving Lucy with Erza.
"Oh, Lucy! Want to be partners?" Erza had asked her, twiddling with her fingers nervously.
"Sure," she had replied back. They had to link arms and pull each other over their backs as a small strength excersise. Lucy had lifted up Erza like a feather, making the class gape at her.
"What?" Lucy asked them, their mouths still open.
"I thought Scarlet-san was pretty heavy cause of all the strawberry cake she ate," a girl said to Lucy, who was still holding up Erza.
"Hmm, not really. Light as a feather, actually," Lucy said back, shrugging.
"Alright, chop chop! Now swap roles," the teacher said, clapping her hands together and putting her hands on her hips.
Erza then lifted Lucy, who she had also regarded as 'light as a feather', bear no shock to the other student's faces, as Erza could lift practically everybody. The thing that shocked them was that Lucy wasn't dying in Erza's vice grip. Everybody was always scared to pair up with Erza because she always grabbed everybody in a tight vice grip, enough to squish a grown man to pieces.
Surprisingly enough, it didn't look like Lucy was dying in her vice grip. At all. The rest of the day concluded with push ups, stretching, more gaping and shocked mouths, running and much more. Even the last 2 periods when by in a breeze, Lucy flying through them. Well, most of the time, she just ignored the teachers or was focusing on different things, like thinking about hooking Jellal and Erza up somehow.
After the bell to go home had rung, Lucy had grabbed her books, her bag and walked right to the Student Council Office and was now standing at the door, an arm outstretched to knock the big door.
"Oi, Prez, you in there?" Lucy yelled to the door, knocking at the same time.
"Come in." As always, Lucy walked in, closed the door and leaned on the doorframe.
"So, what have you come here for?" Jellal asked, not looking up at Lucy.
"Hey Laxus." Lucy waved at the blonde-haired man, who waved back and continued doing paperwork at his desk. Lucy and Laxus had become friends, in a way. Jellal took a sip out of a plain white cup on is desk.
"Well, I've decided to help you out." Lucy felt for some amusement park tickets in her pocket. Actually, she had thought about inviting someone to go as she had a hidden love for amusement park rides, but had no one to go to. It would look weird if someone went to the amusement park by themselves. Plus, it wouldn't be deducting her money because she had gotten these for free from some guy dressed up as a marshmallow walking in the street with balloons.
"With what?" Jellal asked again, taking another sip and looking up at Lucy.
"You hooking up with Erza."
A/N: so, how was it? make sure to tell me what you thought in a review!
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