Hi, it's Merikatori again :3 And thank you for reading, following, making it your favorite and reviewing. I love you guys so much :3 :3

I finished this chapter yesterday but took a little too long to make a few alterations. I'm still not satisfied with this chapter very much, it's kinda boring, in my opinion. I hope it's not too bad. And I'm sorry if you think that the story's progressing kinda slowly but that's how I like it.

Again, English is not my mother language so forgive me if I make mistakes :D :D Enjoy!

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Chapter 4 - Prank

Lucy blinked a couple times, trying to figure out what was going on…

A raven hair woman was standing near Sting. She bent, obviously trying to let him take a pretty good look at her cleavage. His back faced her so she couldn't see his face, but she recognized the name tag on the woman's shirt. Lucy scowled, suddenly feeling irritated.

A teacher? What the hell is she doing with Sting?

She leaned against the door, putting on her smiling face, crossing her legs and arms, then cleared her throat…

Sting groaned the nth time of that day, annoying by the fact that he should have been at the court right now, instead of sitting here and filling paperwork. He really wanted to impress Lucy with his talent but… perhaps not today. He tore his hair out and tried hard not to rend those papers in pieces, but he suddenly stiffened when he heard someone's voice.

"My, my… Sting Eucliffe, what are you doing here?"

He didn't have to turn around to see who she was. Minerva. His eyes narrowed, but he didn't answer. He just continued to do what he was doing.

"Now, now, don't ignore your sensei like that, Sting. Have some respect." - She said in a sing-song voice. He ignored her again, trying to calm himself down. Minerva moved to stand in front of him and smiled a seductive smile.

"Detention huh? Want some help?"

"No." - He said coldly. He really didn't know why a teacher like her could be accepted in Fiore.

Ohh… right, I forgot, her father was Master Jiemma. He inwardly rolled his eyes.

She chuckled at his rude word.

"Oh, don't be so cold like that, let me give you a hand to save your times then maybe… we can… have dinner together, what do you think?" - Her index finger made its way to his face and trailed down his jaw. He swatted her hand away, glaring at her.

"Not interesting, sensei, do you want me report you to the police for harassing your student Minerva-sensei?" - His voice laced with sarcasm, but she ignored it.

"Oh, Sting, what are you saying~? What wrong with a teacher caring about her student, eh? I know you like it, don't you?"

She bent down, tried to show off her cleavage but Sting seemed unaffected. His eyes focused on her face, burning a hold through her skull. He was about to tell her to fuck off, but he immediately frozen again when he heard someone cleared their throat…

Sting quickly turned around and his eyes widened. Lucy was leaning against the door, smiling but the smile didn't reach her eyes.

"Hi... Am I… interruptting something?" - She tilted her head, trying to look innocently, but you could see the cold furry in her eyes.

"Yes/No." - They answered at the same time and Lucy raised an eyebrow.

"Minerva-sensei was just about to leave." - He quickly said before she could utter a word. Minerva frowned at him. She was having fun with her favorite student, but someone just had to show up and ruin "their moment". She eyed Lucy from head to toe. Bitch. She made her way to the door, decided that her chit-chat with Sting could wait for another chance.

"Tsk…" - She glared at Lucy when she passed by. Lucy's smiled dropped and she glared back, eyes narrowed and void of emotion. When Minerva had already left, she moved towards Sting who was sighing in relief.

"I didn't know you are a boy toy who likes cougar women, Sting." - She teased to lighten up the mood.

"I'm not." - He frowned at her.

"Not what I saw." - She smirked.

"Lucy…." Sting sighed and gave her a stern look.

"That's not funny you know, my mood had already been ruined, don't make it worse."

"Sorry." - She mumbled, biting her bottom lip.

His eyes softened at the sight, he gulped and turned back to his work.

"Don't do that."

"Do what?" - She lifted her head, didn't expect that.

"Don't bite your lip like that, it's not good for them." - He lied, eyes focusing on the paper in his hand.

"Ohh…" - She nodded, then plopped herself down on the chair near the desk.

"So... what's going on between you and her? Minerva-sensei, I mean."

"Nothing's going on between me and her, Luce." - He said flatly - "She somehow has had a crush on me since last year. At first, I could see that she was clearly fond of me, I thought that was normal. Teachers usually have their favorite students, right?"

She nodded and kept quiet so he could continue.

"But, when school year was about to end... she started to show more obviously sign that she took interesting in me…" - He rolled his eyes - "She called me to the staff-room after school, asked me to help her, tried to seduce me, blah blah blah..." - He snorted in disgust.

"Why didn't you tell Masters?"

"I told her to stop so we both could avoid the trouble but…" - He sighed.

"... seem like your rejection didn't affect her." - She crossed her legs and finished his sentence.

"Yeah, I think I'm going to tell Master Makarov and Jiemma when they return, they are attending a meeting in Minstrel and won't return until the end of next week." - She nodded.

"So... what are you doing here anyway? Shouldn't you go see Rogue practicing or something?" – Sting asked nonchalantly.

Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw her blinked a couple of times. She looks like a child. He smiled inwardly.

"Oh, you don't want to see me? Okay."

She stood up and was about to leave but his hand caught her wrist.

"WAIT! That's not what I mean… I'm boring to death, so stay".

He sighed, still holding her hand. She snickered and sat down again.

"I'd already seen Rogue practicing, he's really great." - Sting felt jealous a bit, but trying to put the feeling aside, keeping his face expressionless. Wait until you see me play. He nodded, more at himself than her.

Looking at the pile of papers on the desk, she chuckled.

"First week of the new school year and you've already got detention? Impressive, Eucliffe." - She smiled teasingly, making him put on a scowl.

"That's not my fault, his lessons suck." - Lucy arched eyebrows.

"We're having a quality exam next week, you know. You should concentrate more on lessons even though they're boring."

Sting made a face. "So what? It's just a quality exam, it doesn't decide the result of the Autumn term's exam." - Lucy smacked his back and crossed her arms.

"Idiot, quality exam's result appraises your learning capacity. If you fail, you will have to study harder than us a couple of times to catch up with other people. It's only for 12th grade students, and those who in guilds will have to take harder exams because Masters want us both scholar and a warrior. So you have two choices: study carefully or say goodbye to your precious times, which you can use to play sports."

She wiggled her eyebrows and grinned in a pervert way. He frowned but couldn't help chuckling at her face.

"I know, but really, his lessons suck and I couldn't understand anything at all." - He grunted then stared at her.

"How about you helping me?" – He suddenly offered. She blinked, thinking for a bit then nodded.

"Okay, but... in exchange for what… I don't work for nothing, you know" - She smirked.

He stared at her for a minute then grinned, deciding to tease her. He leaned in close and she raised an eyebrow. She could feel his hot breath on her lips but she didn't back away, trying to keep her face nonchalantly although her heart's beat was increasing every second, she ignored it.

"How about a kiss?" – He whispered.

She put her index finger on her chin, pretending to think.

"Huhm… too cheap."

"…Two kisses then?" - She shook her head slowly and giggled.

"Oh? So you want more huh? Tell me what you want then, I can give you paradise you know." - He leaned in closer.

"Okay~ You can back off now, Bee Boy. I'll help you study, just treat me ice cream or something and I'm good" - She laughed lightly and pushed his face away, a slight blush crept its way to her cheeks.

He made a V mark with his forefinger and thumb, put it under his chin then smirked, you could see the sparkle all around him. - "Aww, no kiss? Are you sure? You're throwing away a golden opportunity, let me tell ya. Not many girls have that privilege, this is Sting Eucliffe we're talking about." - He said and Lucy busted out laughing, throwing her head back. Her laugh sounded like the ring of a wind chime to him.

"Thank you for your offer, but I'm good" - She snickered - "Come on, let me help you, then we can call sensei and go home, Rogue will go home first, that's for sure, he still have to cook dinner, right? " - They smiled to each other then turned to face their biggest enemy right now: paperwork.

[A week before present]

"How high are you?"

"56, you?"

"35."

"WTF, 101 , my parents would kill me." - It was a Saturday afternoon at Fiore Academy, but it seemed a lot more noisy than usual. Students crowded about the big score-board which was standing in the middle of the main hall. The result of the first exam of the year had been released a few minutes ago.

"99.8 points. Holy shit, are you even human?"

Lucy laughed awkwardly, nearly sweatdropped at Gray's question. After talking to her parents, Lucy was finally allowed to stay at the dorm, and being a Heartfilia herself, she had her own dorm which was arranged by her father. So here she was now, scanning the board from the top to the bottom, trying to find out how high was Sting.

#1. Lucy Love. – Fairy Tail: 99.8 points

Lucy stared blankly at her name. Lucy Love? Master took that name? She shook her head. That's not a very good name, in her opinion.

#2. Rogue Cheney – Sabertooth: 99.5 points

Wow, runner-up. She smiled. As expected.

#4. Levi McGarden – Fairy Tail: 97.5 points

#4. Hibiki Lates – Blue Pegasus: 97.5 points

Levi tied with a guy from Blue Pegasus? Impressive.

#6. Rufus Lore – Sabertooth: 95.0 points

#6. Jella Fernandes - Fairy Tail: 95.0 points...

…

#10. Erza Scarlet – Fairy Tail: 90.0 points

#11. Kagura Mikazuchi – Mermaid Heel: 88.0 points

#12. Beth Vanderwood – Mermaid Heel: 87.0 points

…

#68. Sting Eucliffe – Sabertooth: 68.0 points

#68. Gray Fullbuster – Fairy Tail: 68.0 points

#68. Gajeel Redfox – Fairy Tail: 68.0 points

Lucy sighed in relief. Thank God, he didn't throw away my effort. I would have definitely killed him if he hadn't made it to the top 100.

Top 100 was all the students who made it from 50 points and above. The rest would have to study harder and was given more homework than the others.

"Woww, look like the crown of a Tiger has been passed to a Fairy. congratulation, Lucy." - Erza nodded in approval and gave her a small smile. Rogue had the highest scores in all the exams the last and previous year, but he was defeated by Lucy this year.

Lucy smiled back. What else could she do anyway?

"You still can defeat me after two years, Luce, as always." - Lucy heard Rogue chuckled from behind her. She turned around and smiled at him sweetly.

"Hey, Rogue… Thank you, you're not so bad either. Shouldn't you stay at home and enjoy your Sunday afternoon instead of being here?"

"I want to see my result, besides no one's home anyway, father is in Bellum on an assignment and Sting…"

"… He's having a date".

Her eyebrows knitted together - "When will he be home?"

"I don't know, he's just left so probably gonna be late tonight, I guess."

Lucy's jaw dropped slightly and she shouted - "WHAT?" - She immediately covered her mouth when people turned their attention to her. She dragged Rogue far away from the crowd. Her eyes narrowed a bit, Sting had promised her that today he would take her to Rose* for ice cream and now he's having a date with another girl? She told Rogue about that, he snickered and shook his head.

"He probably forgot, just punish him or something and he'll make it up to you."

She pouted…

Sting baka, you know I hate it when you break your promise with me. She sighed, thinking about something then... her face suddenly lightened up, an idea flashed through her mind and she smiled impishly. Rogue saw that and his eyes widened a bit, he knew that face.

Uh oh… Not good. Rogue chuckled . You'd better be prepared, Sting.

Sting inwardly sighed. He looked at his watch the nth time, a clearly sign that he's boring, but the girl just kept talking, and talking, and talking.

Why the hell did I ask her out on a date anyway? Well, it was because before Lucy came back, he'd seen the girl - What was her name again? Yumi? Yuri ? Yui ..? Never mind - acting like her on a few occasions, so Sting, being Sting, flirted with her a bit then asked her out. And that... was his biggest mistake.

Because of the exam, their date was postponed until this week. He left home at 3.30 and they decided to meet at 4, but the girl kept him waiting until 5. He rolled his eyes. Girls… They went to watch a movie but it was so boring that he practically dozed off during the film while she kept sobbing about why the main actor broke up with his girl. If only Lucy were here, then I could go watch some horror movie with her instead of some stupid romance, licking ice cream with her instead of sitting here, being tortured.

"And then… when he told me to…"

He sighed and grabbed his hair.

"Okay I've had enough…" - He threw the napkin on the table - "Could you just shut up for a minute, please? My ears hurt from all your rambling. You're pretty, I can give you that. But sadly, you have no brain and your sense of humor sucks, I made a mistake by flirting with you so now, all I want is to go home, sleeping, bickering with my friend or simply doing nothing instead of being here. Maybe you'll get a boyfriend if you talks less. Thank you, and good bye".

He stood up, putting his money on the table. He didn't wait for her to utter a word, then walked out of the door and got on his ZX-14R, speeding along the street.

Rogue lied on the couch, staring blankly at the ceiling, a small smile lingered on his lips. After Sting forgot about his promised with Lucy, she asked him to go with her instead.

[Flashback]

"Rogue, go have some ice cream with me, I want ice cream." - She looked at him with pleading eyes and pouted lips. He smiled then ruffed her hair. He himself didn't like ice cream but… How could I ever say no to you?

"Sure."

With that, she went to her dorm to change and came back to where Rogue was waiting for her. Hooking her arm with his and walked out of school. Rumors had spread through the school since they saw the trio more often, people kept mumbling behind their backs when they passed by, but they just ignored it.

Lucy was wearing a pair of dark blue jean shorts, white tank top, black jacket and brown combat boots, her hair tied in a high pony tail. Rogue was wearing a pair of dark blue jeans with long-sleeved white shirt and snickers. He chuckled at her choice of clothes and knew it was her purpose. We looked like a couple. They thought at the same time.

They decided to walk so they could talk more to each other…

Lucy was telling Rogue a funny story happened when she was in America and he laughed lightly.

"You seem done pretty well in America." - He said tenderly. She smiled.

"Yeah, but… I really missed you guys. I didn't make many friends there, although I'd been there for two years. They're more acquaintances than friends." - He nodded.

"Sooo~ Rogue, I heard that you're pretty popular with the ladies, huh? Already got someone special?" - She said in a sing-song voice.

He raised an eyebrow at her, smirking. He leaned close to her face and asked quietly.

"What? Suddenly take interesting in me?"

She blushed slightly, clearly didn't expect his question and action. She patted his arm playfully.

"Idiot, I'm your friend, I have the right to ask, you know" - She pouted, that made him smile.

If only you knew, Luce. He thought.

"Well.. there is… a girl..." - He said slowly. -"She's really beautiful, long hair, deep eyes. She's really smart but dense at the same time."

"Who the hell is smart and dense at the same time?" - She asked and he snickered. You. He refrained himself from saying it out loud.

"She's very pure, innocent, but sometimes she could be really scary and evil if she wants to, she always makes me smile and… she means the world to me." - He observed her reaction out of the corner of his eyes and saw her eyes was lingering on the ground, she frowned slightly and bit her lips. He unconsciously gulp at the sight.

"How long have you known her?"

"A very long time ago."

"Tell me more about her? What's her name? Which guild is she in?

"Sorry, no can do. That's my own secret."

"She sounds really important to you. Why didn't you ever mention her before?" - She tried to keep her voice nonchalantly, but Rogue knew her too well, he could see through her. He inwardly smiled.

"You never asked."

Lucy frowned again and looked away, suddenly feeling her heart sting for no reason. So if I hadn't asked you, you would have probably never tell me about her, huh? She sighed softly.

But then again… the frosty Rogue has finally found someone special. Hearing him utter those words was really amazing. Lucky girl.

Trying to put her jealous thought aside, she kept quiet and looking straight ahead again, didn't trust her voice to say anything back. Rogue just smiled at her sulking face and grabbed her hand, pulling her closer. Silence pervaded the air but neither of them minded it.

[End of flash back]

After that, they went to Rose and the atmosphere turned back to normal. They talked about everything and laughed together... well… mostly Lucy, Rogue just listened, nodded or smiled, commented here and there. Her face was so lively, it made him want to smile all the time. It was really hard not to smile when he was near Lucy. He just kept replaying the scene when she laughed as he said something funny or blushed at his teasing.

"And here I thought I was the only one who look creepy when I smiled like that."

His smile disappeared. Ignoring his statement, he sat up and stared at his friends with indifferent eyes.

"How was your date?"

"Worst – date – ever." - Sting groaned and plopped himself down on the couch.

"Tsk… Instead of taking Lucy to the ice cream shop like you promised, you decided to abandon her to have the "worst – date – ever"?" - Rogue said casually. Just like Lucy, he hated it when people break their promises, purposely or not. Sting's face full of confusion, he blinked a couple times. Huh? Ice cream? Lucy? Promise?

"HOLY SHIT!" - Sting cried out and facepalmed. How the hell could I forget? I promised I would take her out today.

"Oh God, she's probably sulky with me right now."

"Yeah, she cried a lot you know." - Rogue deadpanned. He wanted to laugh at Sting's horror face, but tried to restrain himself. He only said that to make Sting feel more guilty. Yeah, he was evil like that. Well, he deserved that. That was Rogue's punishment for him. Sting quickly pulled out his cell to called Luce, but Rogue beat him to it.

"Don't call her, she won't answer. Just wait for her to chill out first." - Sting thought for a minute then sighed, he nodded and went to the bathroom to take a shower but blinked at the sight in front of him. Something's missing.

"Rogue, where's the mirror?"

"Then nail broke and the mirror followed its destiny. I'll buy a new one tomorrow". Rouge said loudly. Sting only shrugged.

[The next day]

"Shush… you….. up."

"What if…. mad?"

" …care …deserved it ….punish him… right?"

He was sleeping when he felt his face tickled. Sting heard somebodies were mumbling. A deep voice and a sweet voice, he tried to block out those voices and got back to sleep, but the tickle kept increasing. He scratched his face and opened his eyes slowly. Two figures appeared in front of him. The one with black messy hair was standing near his bed with boring face and the one with blond hair was glaring at him. He yawned, rubbing his eyes then blinked.

Rogue and… Lucy? Lucy? What's she doing here? Wait… Lucy? - He immediately got out of sleep.

"LUCE" - He yelled and hugged her tight - "Oh Luce, I'm so sorry, I totally forgot, please don't mad at me."

When she didn't say anything, he took a look at her and saw her face was red at a tomato and she was looking on the ground. Oh no she's mad, oh God.

"Luce, please don't mad at me, look at me Luce." - He pleaded and tilted her chin.

She coughed, but still refused to look at his face, then stuttered.

"Ehhhh Sting… C..could... y..you pl…please…put …o…on some…cl…cl..clothes" - She coughed and mumbled quietly. - "You're naked."

Rogue snickered, trying not to bust out laughing and Sting's eyes widened. He looked down, then shouted "SHIT", and quickly grabbed the blanket to cover his body, rushing to the bathroom. His face was all red and Lucy laughed out loud. She turned to Rogue, they shared a look and she grinned as if asking something. He smirked.

"Yeah… How long you think he will last before he find out?" - She smiled playfully.

"As long as possible, I hope." - They put on their indifferent faces again when Sting left the bathroom, he blushed slightly.

"Nice butt, Sting." - She teased and laughed at him.

"S... Shut up."

When the laughter died down, Rogue decided to leave them alone for a minute.

"I'm hungry, let go get some breakfast." - He walked out. Lucy was about to follow him, but Sting grabbed her arm, she turned to look at him quizzically and saw his eyes filled with guilty.

"Hey… I'm so sorry about yesterday Luce, I… forgot." - He mumbled the last part - "Forgive me, please?" - He coaxed. Lucy tried to keep her face coolly but his face made it impossible. She turned around and inwardly laughed, her stomach hurt from holding back. She yanked her arm away and crossed them under her chest, pretending to be mad at him.

"No." - She walked out again, but he grabbed her around the waist, putting his chin on her shoulder and held her close.

"C'mon Luce, please, please, please, don't mad at me. I'll make it up to you, 'kay?" - He said in a sing-song voice, rocking her back and forth, trying to take a look at her face from behind but she immediately turned away. He closed his eyes and sighed.

"Fine... You leave me no choice then." - Lucy frowned and was about to ask what did he mean, but she was suddenly attacked by his tickle. She busted out laughing, trying to pry his hands away but to no avail. He picked her up bridal style and threw her on the bed, making her squeal, and then continued to tickle her. Tears were falling from her eyes.

"St.. stop… hahaha… Stingg… hahaha. You're... hahaha... so dead... hahahaha..." - She was yelling and laughing at the same time, Sting were straddling her to prevent her from kicking his face, he was also laughing.

"Fine.. hahaha…I … for... hahaha... give…hahaha... you" - He finally stopped when he heard that, but still laughing at her. She glared at him but he could see sparkle gleamed in her eyes, she grabbed a pillow and hit his face continuously to make him stop. He yanked the pillow away from her grasp, threw it behind and crawled near her, she punched his chest playfully but he caught her wrists. Sting kissed her forehead, making her melt and she blushed slightly. He said softly.

"I'll make it up to you this time, cross my heart." - She giggled then stuck her tongue out at him, finally gave in - "Fine, but you'd better make it worth."

He chuckled and kissed her again, this time on the cheek. Damn it, calm down, Luce, it's just an innocent kiss. She smiled at him.

"Thanks, now let's go, Rogue's waiting" - He dragged her out of the room, grinning like an idiot. Lucy looked at his face and laughed lightly again, she (almost) felt bad about what she and Rogue had done to his face but… Oh well, too late.

End of chapter 4

*Quality exam actually exists in my school and like Lucy said, it's only for 12th grade because they're going to join college so they have to study harder.

*Rose Ice cream shop exists in my hometown too. Me and my friend usually hang out there.

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