"Tomorrow's gonna be a long day…."
Lucy stood in front of Fairy Tail Academy, sighed, and ruffled her hair. She stood there, hands on hips, deciding whether to enter the school or not. She took a few steps forward, sighed, turned around to walk out, but only turned to face the school again.
"Dammit! Why did that stupid Pinky have to do that?!" Lucy grumbled to herself, burying her face in the palm of her hand.
"Lucy?" Lucy snapped her eyes open and looked up, sighing in relief when she saw Rogue.
"Sup," she replied, exhaling tiringly.
"Why aren't you in class? What's wrong?" He walked up to her and frowned slightly.
"Well I was gonna skip school bu-"
"Are you crazy? Skipping school?! Get in class, now!" Rogue pushed Lucy and ushered her into the school, watching her as she changed into her school shoes and shoved her bag into her locker.
"Now get to class!" He barked, eyeing her suspiciously.
"Hai, hai," Lucy replied lazily, walking in the direction of the classroom. She ignored the heads of the students turning around from the classes already in session and walked through the never-ending hallway, frowning when she saw the familiar door of her room.
She tried to remove the sensation from yesterday – she could still feel Natsu's scorching hot hands connect to her face and his lips press softl –
Crap, why do I keep thinking about it?!
Lucy shook her head, as if it provided her with confidence and helped removed the 'disgusting' visual from her head, grabbing the door handle. She fiddled around with her facial muscles and put on a blank poker face.
"Well, here goes nothing," she breathed. She tugged on the door and watched it slide, putting her hands in her pockets and walked in the somewhat quiet classroom.
"Sorry I'm la-"
"CONGRATULATIONS!" The whole class erupted into cheers and streamers were thrown above Lucy's head, pieces of confetti littered on the ground.
"…What?"
"You're dating Natsu-kun, aren't you?" someone asked.
"He showed us a picture of you two kissing!"
"Congratulations, Heartfilia-san!"
"CONGRATULATIONS!" the whole class chorused again. Lucy glanced around the classroom and spotted Natsu's familiar pink hair.
"Jump into my arms, my love," he smirked, stretching his arms out for her.
"KISS! KISS! KISS! KISS!" The class cheered, the girl's squealing when Lucy walked up to Natsu slowly.
"You stupid Pinky," she hissed at him, grabbing him by the ear and dragging him out of the classroom, only making the class erupt into even more cheers.
"Stupid Pinky," someone hissed similarly. Gray crossed his arms and looked out the window. "They're damaging my eyes, I'm gonna go blind."
"Gray….are you…jealous?" Levy grinned at the scowling Gray and watched as his hand flew to his face.
"Wha – no! I mean, she's hot and yeah but – Wait, what am I – No! I ju – no! I – no!" Gray stuttered, sighing in defeat and deflating on his desk.
"Gray's jealous~" Levy sang out, dancing back to her seat happily. Lisanna, who was sitting close to Levy, exhaled deeply and looked out the window, cupping her cheek in her palm. "Jealous? hmmm…" She mumbled to herself.
"What is your problem, you damn Pinky?" Lucy slammed Natsu against the wall and he held up his hands in mercy.
"Easy there, tiger," he chuckled as Lucy released her grip from his collar. "I just want to have a good time with my new girlfriend," he shrugged, flinching at Lucy's death glare.
"Don't, alright? Just stop. No." Lucy stepped back and crossed her arms, leaning on the opposite wall.
"Why, what's wrong with it? Us dating, I mean? What if my feelings are real?" Natsu suggested, raising his eyebrows. "If your feelings are real then you can dig a hole and bury yourself in it, cause' there is no way I'm going to date you." Lucy replied, scoffing.
"Ouch," he laughed, scratching the back of his head. "You can't fool the others though. It's spread like wildfire among the whole school." Natsu's smirk reappeared on his face. "I'm glad I still have it as a rumour as backup," Natsu thought to himself.
"Fine, I'll…I'll date you."
"REALLY?!" Natsu's eyes gleamed like big diamonds as he went to hug Lucy, but instead got a foot in his face.
"When Hell freezes over, sure. You're dismissed. Call off this shit, right now," Lucy growled. "Or things are going to get ugly. Especially your face." She balled her hand into a fist and dug her nails into her palm, resisting with all the life in her body to wipe the smirk off of Natsu's face.
"How about…no."
"You wanna go, Pinky?" Lucy gripped her fist even tighter.
"You can try, but I'm not going to deny anything," Natsu smirked as he walked back to the classroom, hands in pockets. "You coming?" He asked, calling out from behind his shoulder.
"Whatever." The two walked to the classroom in silence, and when they did reach the room, the whole class whistled and cheered, chanting for the two of them to kiss and whatever else.
"Just shut up! I'm not dating him!" Lucy yelled at them once she had finally had enough of it.
"Y – you're not?" Someone asked her.
"His head is in the clouds. He's just pretending," Lucy answered back, closing her eyes and swinging her legs on the table. Where are teachers when you need em?
"Then what about the kiss?"
Lucy stopped moving and a blush slowly creeped up her face.
"She likes him! Kya!"
"She's just trying to hide their secret!"
"So cuteeeee!"
"I don't like him!" Lucy slammed her hands on the table and stomped out the room, sliding the door open and slam it so hard it looked like it was about to break.
"Did we…say something wrong?" One of the girls asked Natsu worriedly, a bunch of girls crowding Natsu.
"Don't worry. I think it's just her time of month, you know?" He flashed the girls a toothy grin and they nodded, melting away at Natsu's smile.
"Dammit! Why is this happening now?!" Lucy growled at herself, walked to who knows where, ignoring all the yells from other teachers, scolding her to get back to class. Suddenly, she bumped into the chest of someone and grit her teeth, looking up. "Watch we're you're going, pun – oh, Oji-san." Lucy ran a hand through her hair and stormed out of his way.
"Don't call me oji-san!" Sting yelled at her, noticing that she was a tad pissed off. A tad.
"Oi, Lucy! Wait up!" He called after her, trying to catch up to her fast-paced walking.
"No, why should I?" she yelled back at him, taking bigger steps.
"I'll give you some tea and biscuits?" Sting offered, making her stop in her tracks. "I'm also the Student Councillor," he grinned at her, jabbing a thumb at himself proudly.
"Councillor? Oh please. You can't even be a teacher," Lucy scoffed at him, laughing.
"Shut up! I can too! That's no way to talk to your oji-san!" he scolded her.
"You called yourself oji-san!" Lucy giggled at him.
"S – shoosh!"
The two had walked to the teacher's block and to Sting's office – each teacher shared an office with 1 other teacher. Incidentally, Sting shared a room with Rogue, who soon joined the two of them later. Lucy had confessed everything that had been going on – of course, while munching on the biscuits and drinking the tea that Sting had offered her.
"So that's it," Lucy concluded, biting into the last biscuit.
"Woow, he sure moves fast," Sting stated, drinking a sip of tea.
"High School jerks are everywhere, don't be fooled by them," Rogue warned her playfully, grabbing some candy from his special stash of heavenly food.
"What? When did you buy all that candy?!" Sting complained at him, telling him to hurry up and open the packet.
"I went out to work while you slept all day." Rogue scolded at him, lifting the tray of sweets away from him.
"Hey, I want some!" he whined.
"Here, take some before he hogs them all," Rogue rolled his eyes and offered the tray to Lucy, who grabbed a handful of the candy in her hand.
"She took so much!" he complained, pointing towards Lucy accusingly, who smirked at him while shoving the treats in her mouth.
"That's your fault for always hogging the food," Rogue shrugged, placing the plate of delicacies on the table agonizingly slowly.
"Put it down faster! I want some!"
Lucy lunged forwards and grabbed some more, much to Sting's disappointment.
"Stop stealing all the candy!" Sting screeched, smacking Lucy's hands away from the plate and snatching it away from her grasp.
"I ureshy gosh shum," Lucy smirked with her mouth open, making Sting and Rogue sweatdrop.
"Well who cares if you already got some, I get the rest," Sting grinned triumphantly. Lucy silently shrugged and the two ate their snacks in silence.
Ring!
"Wow, that was quick," Lucy wiped her hands with a tissue and threw it in the bin.
"Oh no, I've got that naughty class again…" Sting sulked, hanging his head.
"Sucks being a teacher, doesn't it?" Lucy asked, standing up.
"Kind of," Rogue replied as he put the empty plate of lollies in the sink.
"Well, I gotta go now," Lucy said as she walked towards the door. "…Thanks," she yelled quickly, exiting the room so they couldn't say anything back. The two teachers chuckled and grinned at each other.
"I guess she's warming up to us now, isn't she?" Sting stood up and scratched the back of his head.
"I guess so."
-X-
"Look, Heartfilia-san's here!" Someone whispered as Lucy walked in the classroom casually, slumping into her seat next to Gray.
"Good afternoon, sweetie," Natsu smirked as he turned his head towards Lucy.
"Why are you sitting next to me? Don't you usually sit in front of me?!"
"I just wanted to sit near my girlfriend, is all," he pouted, making the whole class swoon.
"Oi Gray, let's swap seats," Lucy grumbled, making him a little startled at her randomly talking to him.
"Uh, yeah, sure." Gray and Lucy shifted awkwardly and Lucy leaned her head on her elbow, watching the clouds move slowly outside.
"Luceeeeee! I miss you already!" Natsu whined at her.
"What did you just call me?" Lucy asked Natsu with a murderous intent in her voice.
"Luce, your new nickname."
"Well, stop calling me that. I don't like it," Lucy said coldly. Luce was the name that her mother used to call her, up until she disappeared when she was small.
"Luce, Luce, Luce, Luce!" Natsu repeated the name over and over again, finally until Lucy snapped. She pushed herself backwards and her chair scraped across the floor like nails on a blackboard. Subconsciously, she grabbed the back of the chair and lifted it towards Natsu.
"I told you to shut up!" Lucy roared at him. A few seconds passed, and she almost threw the chair across the room, but instead dropped it on the ground. The echo of its clattering filled the ears of the students. She stormed out of the classroom and slammed the door shut, leaving everybody to whisper and murmur.
"Oooh, Natsu made his girlfriend angry!" someone giggled.
"Chase after her, Natsu!"
"Go, get her!"
"Go! Go! Go! Go!"
"…Of course I'm going to go after her. She's my girlfriend, after all," Natsu smirked at them, exiting the classroom to find Lucy.
"Why does my chest hurt?" Gray wondered when Natsu said that. "She's my girlfriend, after all." The short but painful sentence echoed in his head, over and over again.
"Stop it, shut up!" Gray muttered, hitting himself on the head.
"What the hell is wrong with me?!"
-X-
"Yo, Luce!" Natsu walked to the lockers where Lucy was standing.
"Shut up!" she growled at him.
"This is actually fun, teasing you like this," he smirked.
"Are you a sadist? That's disgusting."
"Only for you, honey."
"Oh shut up! I've had enough of your crap!" Lucy opened her locker and grabbed one of her converse, flinging it in Natsu's face.
"Ow! What was that for?!" he complained, throwing the shoe back, but failing to hit Lucy. She put her shoe back neatly in her locker and stayed silent, crossing her arms.
"Fine then. I'll leave you. Geeeeez." Natsu rubbed his sore cheek and walked back to the classroom.
Lucy slumped down the lockers, groaning when a stick poking out of someone's locker pierced her back.
"What is up with that stupid Pinky?!" she sighed to herself, extending her legs on the brown platform. She covered her eyes with her hand and felt a pit in her stomach screaming out to her: I regret coming to this school in the first place! First a bully, now a fake lover? What next? A husband?!
Lucy sighed again and looked outside in the peaceful sky, watching a bird fly past.
"I wish I was a bird….so peaceful," Lucy accidentally mumbled aloud.
"….A bird? If only we could become them." Lucy froze, cursing under her breath that she didn't hear the footsteps approaching her.
"Who is it?" Lucy called out, trying to move her head, but failing. "Come on stupid head, move, move!"
"Who do you think it is?" Lucy felt the person sit next to her and sigh loudly. She finally got around to moving her head, nearly jumping out of her skin when she saw Gray next to her.
"What do you want? Why are you here?" Lucy took a defensive stance and slid away from Gray, who raised his hands up in defeat. "I'm not here to criticize you or anything," Gray assured her, slowly putting his hands down, fiddling with his loosened school tie. "He's quite a handful, isn't he?" Gray asked her.
"You wouldn't even know," Lucy groaned, slumping her head down.
"Actually, I do. I've been stuck with him for my whole life," Gray chuckled, running a hand through his hair. The sides of Lucy's mouth slid upwards just a small fraction.
"I remember the time when he got stuck in a rubbish bin," Gray laughed, his chest rumbling.
"What, really? How I'd love to see that!" Lucy laughed with him, starting to smile.
"Yeah, a tennis ball fell in the bin and he went to grab it but ended up falling in! He ended up smelling disgusting after we managed to help him climb out of the dump!" Lucy and Gray laughed together. Unknowingly, Lucy had left her guard down with Gray. He began telling her stories of the many accidents Natsu had been in, making the two crack up every time, until it was break time.
Ring!
The bell rang loud and clear, startling the two.
"Shit, I got carried away!" Lucy panicked, scooting away from Gray.
"I…I wasn't trying to comfort you or anything, ya know!" Gray stuttered at her.
"Y – yeah."
"And… I – I'm not worried about you o–or anything!"
"Mmhmm."
"A–and I'm not j-jealous or anyth – shit, what am I saying!" Gray yelled at himself, standing up quickly.
"Um….bye!" He yelled at her, dashing down the hallway.
"Wai – what?" Lucy retracted the arm that was attempting to grab Gray's wrist. "Bad hand, bad hand!" Lucy smacked her right hand and walked out of the building, but all the while, a grin flashing brightly on her face.
A/N: and that's all I've got for this time! tell me what you thought about this chapter in a review!
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- hime