Chapter 8- PoPuLaR pEoPlE aLwAyS fIgHt

{I'll get you when I'm popular

I put my hands up in the light

You see me dancing for my life

I will be popular, I will be popular

I'm gonna get there, popular}

"So then the stupid spider actually had the nerve to jump on me!" Levy explained and Lucy laughed in response.

"Did you kill it?"

"…Well I ran away if that's what you mean…" The bluenette trailed off.

Lucy raised an eyebrow before nodding. "I would've too."

"Pfft! I know you would've! You only have to look at one before running away, screaming about how you lost a staring contest with it and it's gonna come get you."

"That was ONE TIMEAND I WAS EIGHT"

"Mmm, pretty sure you were twelve."

"No, eight."

"Twelve."

"EIGHT AND I KNOW BECAUSE THAT WAS THE SAME YEAR I LOST MR FLUFFLES."

"Mr Fluffles?"

"YEAH, MY STUFFED BUNNY."

"Oh yeah. Now would you stop shouting?"

Lucy huffed and crossed her arms over her chest, looking the other way and unconsciously glaring at a tree.

"Lucy! Lucy look!"

Said girl looked away from the tree and followed the trail that Levy was looking at, only to see a red and silver haired girls fighting. "Is that Erza and Lisanna!?" Lucy gasped.

Levy narrowed her eyebrows as she studied the two for a bit more before nodding. "Think so. I wonder what they're fighting about."

Lucy suddenly gasped loudly and her eyes began to shine. "MAYBE SHE BROKE UP WITH NATSU!"

"…Why would they be fighting because Lisanna broke up with Natsu?"

"Because…Just…Why can't you just let me be happy for once?"

.:Many classes later:.

"Since we're nearing the end of school, we'll be doing a scavenger hunt today!" The teacher energetically cheered while the class either cheered along with her or groaned in annoyance.

"Can't we watch a movie or something?" Someone asked and Lucy strongly believed it was Gray, judging from the bored, deep voice. But she always was clueless when it came to things like guessing who was who.

"No! Now get into groups of four, get a map, a bag, then head off and meet back at the classroom twenty minutes before the bell!"

Quickly, the class began to turn into a mess; people trying to get into groups with their friends while the loners, including Lucy, just quietly and awkwardly sat and waited for everyone to leave so they could just be placed with all the other rejects by the teacher.

"Lucy! We need one more person! Please, please, please join our group!" Lisanna pleaded, suddenly right beside the blonde.

Lucy looked around first, making sure that Lisanna was asking her and not some other, more popular, Lucy. But alas, there was no one else. "Uh, s-sure." She stuttered and was instantly hauled away by the blue eyed girl.

The first popular group consisted of Natsu, Gray, Lisanna and Lucy while the second included Erza, Gajeel, Juvia and Loke. Lucy had no doubt that the two groups would just merge into one big group.

Later, the eight people walked around the school, yes they did merge together, while Lucy stayed at the back: silent and deadly. Okay maybe not that deadly. She closely watched the two fighting girls and could easily tell that they were both trying to act all high and mighty. Lucy and Levy did that sometimes, though the fight between Erza and Lisanna was much more serious. Usually Levy's and Lucy's included a lot more shouting and it was meaningless play fighting and while the two popular girls weren't exactly doing it to each other face to face, but they were still doing it.

"What happened between Erza and Lisanna?" Lucy wondered softly, peering up at Gray.

Gray glanced down at her before looking back up at the two girls. "Not too sure, something over Facebook or whatever." He explained and Lucy merely nodded in response.

"Hey Lucy, you're smart right?" Gajeel asked, turning his neck to look back at the blonde.

"Well I-I guess-"

"Good. Do these." He said and handed her the map and bag. Lucy sighed and nodded before studying the map. She wouldn't admit it aloud to these people, but she actually enjoyed scavenger hunts.

"Uhh, we have to go to the basketball courts…" She announced and the group changed course, Lucy somehow ending up at the front.

"And what do we need from there?" Natsu asked.

"A basketball."

Gray hit Natsu upside the head. "What else, dipshit?"

"You wanna go!?"

"Hell yeah!"

"Natsu, Gray, stop fighting." Erza ordered and the two immediately stopped. Quickly after the redhead had spoken, and even though it was quiet, Lucy faintly heard Lisanna mimic the girl, but she wasn't too sure if Erza herself had heard-

"You want to say something, Lisanna?" Erza sneered, venom coating her words.

Yep, she had definitely heard.

"Oh, no, nothing at all." Lisanna smiled in a way that was sweet yet bitchy all at once.

"Lisanna, babe, I think you're getting too ahead of yourself." Natsu spoke up and silently Lucy prayed to God that the two would stop fighting. She just knew that she would somehow get in the middle of it.

"You should listen to your boyfriend, Lisanna."

"Oh shut your fucking mouth bitch!"

"What the fuck did you just say to me!?"

"Uh, guys-" Lucy began to say, her eyebrows raising in worry.

"Oh, so you have hearing problems now too!?"

"You know what?! I am actually so fucking sick of you!"

Lucy once again tried to stop the fast growing fight. "The basketball court is like right over there, so can you girls just-"

"Took the words right out of my mouth!" Lisanna jeered, Lucy's words once again forgotten.

"I'm actually ready to start this right here and right now!"

"I don't think a bitch like you can actually handle taking a hit."

"You better shut your fucking mouth cunt!"

"Guys guys guys, please stop, you're meant to be friends and stuff right?"

"Oh just shut up Lucy!" Erza screeched and, without thinking appropriately, connected her fist with Lucy's face in a painful punch. The blonde fell to the ground with a yelp and clutched her now bleeding nose in undeniable anguish. What was with her and bleeding noses these days?

"Holy shit, Lucy!" Natsu hollered and hurried towards the weeping girl.

"Oh my God!" Juvia gasped as her hands flew up to her mouth.

"What's going on?! I heard a shout!" A teacher, Mr Conbolt, questioned as he rushed up to the group. His eyebrows narrowed when they landed on Lucy. "What happened here!?"

"Well, uh, she um, I just kinda-" This time, it was Erza's time to stutter.

"I-I tripped." Lucy blurted out. "I was running to get a drink and I tripped over my own feet…"

Mr Conbolt eyed her. "That's one hell of a bloody nose from just a trip."

"Well, it was one hell of a fall."

The older man continued to look at her before nodding. "Fine. Natsu, take her to the office." Natsu nodded and he hauled her up, the two hastily making their way to the infirmary.

"What really happened?" Mr Conbolt asked, turning to look at the group of popular boys and girls.

They glanced at each other before Gajeel shrugged and answered lazily. "She tripped."

He studied them closely for moments before walking away, giving them a brief warning before he did so.

"Oh my God, what is your problem Erza!?" Lisanna barked.

"You're the dumbass that started it!" Erza retorted.

"Just shut the fuck up!" Gray cut in. "A girl just got a punched in the face because you two just had to be such fucking idiots! Just figure this shit out without acting like complete dipshits!"

Well you know, it's not the way Lucy wanted it to happen, but she finally to have some alone time with Natsu~!

And for all those that are STILL wondering, this is a NaLu, Natsu x Lucy, LuNa, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT.

I tried to make it as obvious as I could, I mean the picture for it is all about LUCY BLUSHING and then HOLDING A MINI NATSU, WHERE LISANNA IS NO WHERE TO BE SEEN.

But I just needed him to date Lisanna for a real plot! Because otherwise there would be no one for her to get angry over and she couldn't sabotage dates.

So calm down, THIS WILL END IN NALU.

And it's not going to be one of those stories where the only real kissing/ Nalu is like the last two paragraphs of the story, after they get together there's going to still be more chapters cause Lucy's gonna be all happy that she has him then she's gonna get nervous and think that she's not good enough cause she hasn't even had her first kiss and she doesn't know the half about romance except for her undying love for Natsu.

And lastly, for those who like the pairing Gajeel x Levy in this story and want them to get together, don't worry it will happen I have it all planned out, but you won't know when cause there's not going to be anything leading up to the scene it'll just be THERE and it'll be like WOW DID NOT SEE THAT COMING or you could just have a hunch and be like 'Called it'.

ANYWAY THAT WAY MY RANT GOOD BY AND MERRY EARLY CHRISTMAS.