Chapter 6- HeLp! PoPuLaR pEoPle!

{My problem, I never was a model,

I never was a scholar,

But you were always popular,

You were singing all the songs I don't know

Now you're in the front row

'Cause my song is popular}

"Why can't movies tell the truth?" Lucy sighed solemnly, her eyes glued to the screen. "I mean, the shy and unpopular girls are realistic, kinda, but the popular girls aren't. They're always like that in the movies, but never in real life. Why?"

Jude shrugged. "I don't know."

Lucy opened her mouth to say something else, but a loud bark interrupted her. Looking back, she saw Plue sitting impatiently at the kitchen doorway.

"Lucy, you need to feed your dog." Jude instructed, his eyes not leaving the newspaper.

Lucy let out an over-exaggerated groan and began walking to the kitchen where she began to open a can of dog food. "Sexy, beautiful, funny and oozing with confidence. That's what I need to be popular." She scoffed and put a quarter of the cans content into Plue's bowl. "More like socially awkward, shy, emotionally unstable and oozing with low self-esteem." Putting the bowl onto the ground, beside the fridge, Plue instantly began to dig in.

Lucy groaned again and made her way to her bedroom, running her fingers through her hair as she did so. She frowned when one of her fingers got caught in a knot that had been hiding under the layers of blonde locks. "I bet this doesn't happen to Lisanna." She grumbled and yanked her hand away. "Then again, her hair's a lot shorter than mine…"

At the sound of vibrations against wood, Lucy snatched the mobile away from the desk and read the message. 'Beach tomorrow! ;)' Another groan escaped Lucy's lips at the sight of Levy's text. She couldn't do this, she wasn't ready.

"For God's sake! I can't even eat in front of people without getting embarrassed or nervous, let alone strut around in a bikini!" Lucy moaned and buried her face into her palms. "Why did this have to happen? I was fine with being a nobody; I'm not ready to become a somebody!"

"Woof."

Lucy glared at the dog that had somehow snuck into her bedroom whilst she was rambling on. "Woof." She replied.

"Woof."

"Meow."

The dog paused, staring at the its owner with wide, beady eyes that peered into her soul. Quickly and suddenly, he flailed and ran out the bedroom, barking wildly.

"Lucy, what did you do to Plue?"

.:The Next Day:.

"We're wasting our lunch break by doing this, you know that right?" Lucy huffed.

"Do you want to be popular or not?"

"I'm fine being unpopular."

"Stop lying." Levy scoffed and looked back around the corner of the wall while Lucy rolled her eyes before doing what the bluenette had done.

"Not good enough! Come on girls!" The captain, Lisanna, sneered, her eyebrows narrowing dangerously.

"We're trying, Lisanna!" A girl barked back.

"Well try harder!" Lisanna bellow and began to run through the routine once more.

"Looks like someone's in a bad mood." Levy snickered.

"Cheerleading looks so difficult." Lucy sighed.

"But being titled as a cheerleader is worth the effort."

"Wrong, Kinana, completely wrong!" Lisanna shouted, her strong voice bouncing off the walls.

"God, how hard could it be?" Levy asked no one in particular and walked away from the cheerleaders, making sure they weren't in sight. "I mean it's just smiling and moving your arms and legs." She put on an overly exaggerated smile and started moving her legs and arms in moves she had seen from TV.

"ACK!" Lucy howled out in agony when a fist collided with her nose.

"OH MY GOD LUCY! I AM SO SORRY!" Levy cried and spun around to face Lucy, who was clutching onto her nose with her eyes slammed shut.

"Jesus Levy…" Lucy muttered.

"Wanna go spy on the guys instead?" Levy asked, laughing nervously.

"Sure." The blonde grumbled and at her answer, the two began to walk away, Lucy constantly twitching her nose on the small trip.

"They're just so perfect…" Levy yearned and sat on the grass under a tree somewhere near the field, Lucy quickly joining her. "It's like they all came out of some teen movie, all based on different themes."

"What are you blabbering on about?"

"Well first there's Jellal: he's that mysterious, down to earth character. Then there's Gajeel: the badass, cold-hearted character. Gray: smooth, cool and charming. Loke: the flirt, all about woman, prince-charming. And then Natsu: the childish, funny and happy one. They're even all in the football team"

"Wow, I never really noticed that."

"And it's even the same for the girls! Erza: the strong, independent girl. Lisanna: the girly-girl, pretty, sweet and innocent. And Juvia: the obsessive, dramatic, overly emotional."

Lucy hummed and nodded before a thought struck her. She was tempted to forget about it and not ask, but it snuck out of her mouth before she could stop it. "And what are we?" She asked quietly, turning to look at Levy.

Levy too turned to look at her, her eyes soft as she gazed into Lucy's chocolate-brown orbs. "We're the extras. The people in the back of the movie that no one notices, that yearn to be the main actor."

Lucy shuddered. "That was just plain deep and depressing."

"But you know what?" Levy said and laid her back on the grass, her arms spreading out.

"What?"

"We're gonna be the people that the director or someone important says 'See that person? I want that to be my main character.'"

"And how are we going to do that?"

"Simple. We make a scene."

"Pfft, I'm sure we've already made one of them before."

"No, that was to get their attention, to get them to know that we exist. The beach is going to help give us a scene, making sure the bikini version of us, you mostly, gets stuck inside their heads. It'll let them know that there's more than meets the eye under these crappy school uniforms."

"Wow…I never knew you were so…diabolical…"

"Well it was about time you knew."

.:English:.

Lucy laughed quietly to herself as she continued to add details onto her small drawings at the bottom of her page, if only her teacher saw this. Actually, that was a very, very, very bad idea.

"What are you laughing about?" Erza asked, looking at the blonde with a raised eyebrow. Lucy gasped in shock and placed an arm over the drawing and turned to look out the window, not having the guts to face the Goddess without Levy. "Whatever."

Lucy's eyes twitched in irritation, she could practically feel the rolling eyes and weird look.

Well damn.

.:Next break:.

"So how are we going to do this? What are your plans exactly?" Lucy pondered as Levy and herself walked around the school.

"What do you mean?" Levy asked and spared a glance at a group of fighting year nines.

"To become popular. How to you expect someone like us to become someone worthy of the title 'Goddesses'?"

"Well I don't want to give it all away, but so far you know about making them notice us, then making a scene. The next part I'm not too sure about, but if everything goes well, then it'll be confidence."

"Confidence?"

"Yep. Our confidence. That's part of how they get popular, they know that they're perfect, so they use it to their advantage. First, we just have to get to a good enough standard of beauty using make-up. Then we'll convince ourselves that we're worthy and soon they'll start to get interested in us, talk about us."

"Will they be talking good or bad about us."

Levy stayed silent for several seconds and Lucy found herself worrying about the answer. "I haven't decided yet." She finally said.

.:Last Period:.

"I hate this fucking class and the fucking teacher and the fucking students and the fucking walls and the fucking floor and I fucking hate myself and my fucking unpopularity and just fuckity fuck fuck!" Lucy groaned to herself and, if it weren't for the people around her, she had no doubt that she would scream at the top of her lungs.

"Okay people, we're doing volleyball today." Mr Strauss announced with a strong and proud voice.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

"Now find a partner and start passing a ball."

FAN-MOTHER-FUCKING-TASTIC.

"Lucy, you're my partner." Someone said and dragged her away.

WITH FUCKING PLEASURE.

She suddenly found herself fretting. What if it was a bad person? Someone that only wanted to be her partner to throw the ball against her face?

She looked up and gasped at the person she saw. Raven hair, firm jaw, deep blue eyes and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD GRAY FULLBUSTER IS TALKING TO HER!

'PEOPLE BETTER BE SEEING THIS! ARE PEOPLE SEEING THIS!?' Lucy thought to herself, looking around the room frantically.

"W-what? W-why, I-"

"Loke's not here today so I have no one else except you." He shrugged.

She nodded, accepting the fact that she was just a last resort, while he let go of her wrist and went to get a ball.

Wait…He doesn't expect her to be good at these things does he?

"Ohhh shit." Lucy whispered to herself.

"Think fast!" He called out and threw the ball at her, laughing when Lucy screamed and held her arms out to protect herself instead of actually catching it.

She laughed anxiously then turned to go retrieve the rolling ball. That was pretty much how practicing went; Gray would throw, Lucy would fail at catching it and then she would go get it.

"Come on Lucy! Throw harder!" Gray called out.

"I can't!"

"Yes you can!"

Lucy muffled a frustrated scream and threw the ball as hard as she could, only to find out she had a pretty hard throw. Oh who am I kidding, it was terrible.

The ball landed centimetres in front and the two stared at it as it slowly rolled before stopping completely. "Okay…So you can't throw…" Gray mused with a small, awkward laugh.

"Time to start playing! Girls first, boys go wait at the side!" The teacher instructed and the girls split into two teams on each side of the net, Lucy quietly sneeking into one of the groups. "And begin!"

The ball was flying back and forth and Lucy prayed that it would not come to her. She was bad at a lot of things, but volleyball takes the cake. The ball was hit by the same girl from cheerleading, Kinana, and came towards Lucy at an incredible speed. She let out a squeak of surprise and lifted her arms to hit the ball back, that was, until someone jumped in front of her and hit it.

"God, she can't do anything." She heard the girl scoff to her friends.

"I know right, so annoying." The only brunette of the group agreed while the other girl that hadn't spoken nodded.

"LUCY!"

She looked up at the sight of a ball coming towards her, again. Damn, maybe that girl should come over and hit it for her again? She wondered briefly if Kinana had struck it because, once again, it was going at an incredible speed. She didn't have enough time to squeal, scream, shout or yell before the ball collided with her face and she was sent to the ground, grasping her nose in dreadful anguish. All around her she could hear the concerned whispers and the amused laughs of the students around her. She couldn't blame them though, must've looked hilarious. Hell, she would've laughed too. If it wasn't herself, that is.

An arm wrapped around her free arm and yanked her up. "You okay?" Gray asked.

"Y-yeah." She said weakly and attempted to take a step, only to end up falling again.

"Heartfillia, go to the office!" Mr Strauss ordered, though it sounded more like a threat, before adding, "Do you need help getting there?"

The blonde shook her head and stumbled out of the class. She took her hand away from her nose and felt a queasy feeling at the sight of so much blood decorating the palm of her hand, some of the crimson liquid dripping down her wrist.

"Oh God." She gagged and placed her cleaner hand to her nose.

Porlyusica shook her head at the sight of the blonde. "Go lay on the bed and I'll get some tissues."

Lucy nodded and made her way to one of the white beds. Minutes later, Porlyusica came back with several tissues and a wet cloth. "Clean the mess with this and keep some tissues to your nose, and tilt your head a bit." She explained before walking away.

As time passed, Lucy relaxed in the bed and looked up at the roof, creating figures and stories with the power of imagination. An odd sound caught her interest and she sat up, looking to an area where, what she was guessing, was another bed, hidden behind a bland, white curtain.

"What the hell?" She murmured softly and made her way towards the curtain soundlessly, then stopped to debate on whether or not she should look, biting the inside of her cheek as she did so. Finally getting the courage, she yanked open the curtain and a look of undeniable horror took over her features. Natsu lay atop of Lisanna, their legs a tangled mess. They both stared at her with wide, unblinking eyes. No doubt they assumed they would be able to get some alone time.

"I-I,uh, um. I didn't, I'm sorry it's just that I- uh, oh my God, sorry." She stammered then wrenched the curtain shut and ran out the nurses office. In the midst of the running, she failed to see the body in front of her. Not a second later, the two collided and fell to the floor.

"Oh, Lucy. I was just going to check on you." Gray grinned. Lucy sputtered some unknown words and hurriedly got of the boy, a dark blush covering her cheeks. "Aren't you meant to be in the nurses office?"

The blonde blushed harder as images of Natsu and Lisanna played out in her mind, only for anger to boil up inside of her. "I-I just...saw something a-and I just…"

"Don't tell me you saw Natsu and Lisanna making out?" Gray asked, snorting when Lucy froze in her place.

"T-they do it often!?" She marvelled and looked up at the boy in shock.

Gray nodded with a smirk. "Yeah, they go there sometimes just to ditch classes and have a quick make-out session."

"O-oh, I-I didn't know…" Lucy said awkwardly.

"'Course you didn't."

The bell suddenly rang and Lucy visibly jumped at the sudden noise, emitting another laugh from Gray. "I've gotta go and meet up with Juvia, see ya' Lucy." He said and ruffled her hair like a brother would to a sister. Lucy merely nodded and watched him leave, not believing that she had spoken to a popular person and that he was coming to check on her and he ruffled her hair and THIS IS JUST MOVING TO QUICKLY FOR HER.

"Oh, hey!" Lisanna called out and ran towards her, Natsu trailing behind.

"Can you like, not tell anyone about what you saw before?" She asked and Lucy nodded. "Great! You know, maybe in the future you could maybe just ask or say something instead of just coming in?"

"Calm down, Lis." Natsu said with a roll of his eyes and slung an arm lazily around his girlfriend's shoulder. Lucy briefly looked up at her long time crush and in the small time that their eyes met, he smiled kindly at her.

'Oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God HE SMILED AT ME!' The blonde thought joyously to herself.

Lisanna furrowed her eyebrows at his words before looking back at Lucy. "Yeah, well, thanks for understanding." She said with a smile. "Bye Lucille!" She called out and started to walk out of the school, pulling Natsu with her.

"Lucille?" Lucy mumbled to herself.

"Babe, it's Lucy." Natsu corrected and Lucy could feel her heart explode into millions of pieces.

"Heeeey, Lucy!" Levy greeted, suddenly appearing beside Lucy.

"Levy, so many things happened! You will not believe the things that happened!

I had to re-write a chapter with almost 3,000 words.
That's almost 3,000 words to cringe at.

Well that's THAT! And a lot of people said that I should listen to 'Popular Song' by MIKA and MY GOLLY IT IS AMAZE-BALLS. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUGGESTED IT.

And I'm just going to put this out there, in my school we don't have football players or cheerleaders or anything like that, so if I get something's wrong when talking about that, DON'T BLAME ME, I GET ALL I KNOW FROM BRING IT ON.

BEACH WILL BE NEXT CHAPTER.