Jellal walked into history class and took his seat next to Laxus. He then buried his head into his arms so Laxus and Mira (who sat in front of Laxus) couldn't see.
"What happened?" Mira noticed Jellal.
"Nothing," Jellal answered, not looking up.
"Come on man, something happen?" Laxus poked Jellal's shoulder to try and get him to look up, but Jellal refused.
"No," Jellal replied, waiting for class to start.
"Lift his arm," Mira instructed, and Laxus followed through. Jellal wasn't as strong as the football player, so Laxus was able to tear Jellal's arm from its locked position and glanced at Jellal before setting his arm down.
"He's blushing like a tomato," Laxus answered.
"Oo, did you have a run in with Erza?" Mira began to tease Jellal.
"No!" Jellal's head shot up, and he got even redder than before.
"I don't think I've ever seen a person blush that hard," Laxus stated. "You so have a crush on Erza and you so did talk to her."
"No!" Jellal protested.
"What were you two even talking about?" Mira asked.
"Nothing!" Jellal answered. "Nothing that you two need to know!"
"Sounds . . . lewd," Laxus teased.
"No! No! Nothing of the sort!" Jellal denied it faster than Laxus could add anything onto the statement. Jellal blushed even harder, if that was even possible.
"So if it wasn't dirty, then what were you two talking about?" Mira asked.
"We were just catching up!" Jellal admitted.
"But then one of you said something romantic and the both of you started looking like tomatoes?" Mira guessed.
"Uh, yeah," Jellal answered.
"Maybe you two should start dating," Mira suggested.
"No, I don't have a crush on her!" Jellal denied.
"You're blushing so hard I can't see your weird symmetrical birthmark," Laxus informed Jellal. "You have a crush on her."
"When is class going to start?" Jellal groaned.
"I dunno," Laxus answered.
"Can we at least change the subject then?" Jellal pleaded.
"Why not?" Laxus agreed.
"You're no fun," Mira informed Laxus.
"Well, I think that if we make him blush any harder his head's gonna explode," Laxus explained.
"Hey!" Jellal protested, grabbing the couple's attention.
"You've got a point," Mira agreed, turning back to Laxus. "But what else is there to talk about?"
"I'm having a party this weekend," Laxus turned to Jellal. "Wanna come?"
"Sure," Jellal agreed, never having been invited to a teenage party before. Things were pretty strict at Tower of Heaven, and even things that you did outside of the school could get you in trouble.
"Awesome, Saturday at seven," Laxus replied as the teacher finally walked in the room. "Be there or be square."