Chapter 12
Lucy was already in her uniform the way she would always wear it and was sitting on the bench waiting for Levy to finish getting ready. She took out her phone and attached her earphones and proceeded to put them on. The music instantly blasted through the headphones blocking out the noises around her. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes letting the music soothe her.
Lucy was shaken by her shoulders from her close friend Levy to wake her up. She took one earphone off and said, "What? You done already?"
"Yes! I was looking for you! The bell rang and now we're late" Levy said looking worried.
Lucy then looked around and realized that the locker room was in fact empty. She stood up and started walking "Let's go then, just get a pass or something" Lucy said while opening the door to get out.
Levy walked behind Lucy and started to panic, "How do you intend I get one? I have never gotten tardy in my life! Not only that but passes are also to be given out by teachers, we can't get one without a teacher's signature! Oh no this is bad this is very bad! I'm going to get suspended and then I'm going to live in the streets with-" Levy kept rambling on and on until Lucy cut her off.
"Will you calm down? No one's getting suspended… Well… you're not getting suspended, Me though, there's no guaranteed. Anyways, here" Lucy handed Levy a tardy slip with a teachers signature that excused her from any class.
Levy's eyes widened when she saw that the signature was Gildarts and started to question Lucy on how she got one. "Lucy when did you get one from Gildarts?" Levy said.
Lucy shrugged and said, "I didn't"
"Then how do you have him to sign it?" Levy said with a puzzled expression.
"I signed it. Looks exactly like his signature huh?" Lucy said proudly.
Levy's eyes widened even more when she heard her blonde friend's response. "You what?! Lucy you can get in serious trouble for this!" Levy said panicking once again.
"Listen bookworm you either take it or you don't. I can assure you though that, that little pass can get you out of trouble." Lucy said
Levy was making up her mind on if she should keep the pass or just face the consequences. She decided on keeping the pass just this once.
"I'll take it, but next time I'll just have to face the consequences." Levy said looking at the pass she was holding.
"No, I think you'll be crawling back to me begging for another fake pass" Lucy said grinning at the blue haired girl.
Levy faced Lucy and said, "I will not!". Lucy just laughed at what she said and started to walk to her class.
"I'll see you later Levy. You should get to class with your FAKE PASS" Lucy said while saying the last part out loud. Levy turned red and yelled back, "SHUT UP! THESE ARE YOURS! NOT MINE!". Lucy snickered and put her headphones back on while getting to her history class.
X
When Lucy walked in all eyes landed on her and the class got quiet. She didn't really care and continued walking to where her desk was, right behind Gray while on the row in her right side was Loke and on her left was Juvia. When she sat and looked to the front she noticed that her teacher Mrs. Virgo was trying to catch her attention. Lucy couldn't hear her since she had her headphones on ignoring the world.
She paused her music and looked up to face Virgo saying, "Yes?"
"I said I hope you have a pass for your tardiness Miss. Heartfilia" Virgo said sternly to the blonde.
Lucy had to admit she did like Virgo at times. Like last class when she had a talk with her before she stormed off from her class. But there are times where Lucy can't stand her because she was a little uptight. This being one of them.
"I may or may not have one" Lucy said while swinging one of her headphones in her hand.
Virgo looked at Lucy and sighed saying, "You know the rules Lucy, if you come late to class you are to have a pass with you if not-"
"You go to the principal's blah blah blah. Yea I know the drill" Lucy said while taking out a paper from her pocket and started making a paper airplane.
"Exactly, so do you have one with you or do I have to send you out?" Virgo said to Lucy.
Lucy merely kept concentrating on her airplane trying to get the fold perfect. Virgo saw this and said, "Lucy did you hear me?"
"Yea I heard you teach. No need to repeat yourself" Lucy said rolling her eyes. She finally got the airplane perfect and brought it up sending it right to Virgos desk and landing perfectly on top of her papers.
Lucy brought both her hands up making a U and said "Touchdoooown" causing the class to laugh.
Virgo got irritated and said, "Miss. Heartfilia go to the principal's office this instance!"
"What for? I didn't do anything wrong" Lucy said leaning back on her chair.
"Yes you did. You came in late to my class, interrupted my lesson and did not have a pass with you." Virgo said.
Lucy snickered and replied, "You might wanna look at that airplane teach."
Virgo turned to where the paper airplane had landed and walked over to her desk picking the paper up and opened it, noticing that it was a pass for the blonde's tardiness.
"Like I said, I believe I did nothing wrong. So please proceed with the lesson my favorite teacher of all time" Lucy said while smirking to Virgo.
Virgo realized that Lucy had won this fight and ended up ignoring the blonde continuing with her lesson.
X
Lucy was still in her History class bored out of her mind waiting for it to end. She started looking around the room to see if she can find something to distract her. Instead she decided to bother Gray since he was right in front of the blonde.
Lucy got her pencil and lightly poked Gray's ear making him bring his hand to scratch it. Lucy found this funny and continued doing it till Gray caught her pencil and whispered, "Quit it or ill brake this pencil in half"
"Okay alright. Only because it's the only pencil I have" Lucy said retreating her pencil. It was then that Lucy felt some eyes on her so she turned to her left to notice that Juvia was giving her a death glare.
"What's with the look?" Lucy said lowly with a straight face.
"You are now Juvia's love rival! Juvia will be the one to win Gray's heart!" Juvia said a little louder causing the class to turn towards her. She however simply just gave a nervous laugh and apologized for her actions making everyone turn back towards the front.
"You can have him. Believe me, I have no intentions on taking your boyfriend" Lucy said in a low whisper turning to the front.
"And how exactly do I know that you're not lying to Juvia" the blue haired girl said in a harsh whisper not fully convinced.
Lucy held up two fingers and said "One, I don't find him attractive and two he's like a second Natsu, but in a less annoying way"
Gray turned around and hissed lowly "I am nothing like that stupid bubble gum"
Lucy brought her hand up to her mouth to contain herself from laughing, "b-bubble haha g-gum haha. That's the first I heard that one"
Loke chimed in and said, "If you ask me Gray and Natsu are practically the same person except Gray is a little more mature at times when Natsu isn't around. Put the two together and you'll have double the trouble."
"No one asked you perv" Gray said glaring at Loke.
"Hey now, I'm not the one who is half naked now am I?" Loke said with a smirk.
"Crap!" Gray said while quickly looking for his shirt and pulling it over his head.
"No! But Juvia loves seeing shirtless Gray" Juvia whined.
"When will this class end" Lucy said looking up towards the ceiling.
Loke brought a hand up to look at his watch and said, "I believe in 3…2…1.." as if on cue, the bell rang signaling them to their last class, the class Lucy almost teared up in yesterday, chemistry.
Loke grabbed his books and turned towards Lucy saying "See you tomorrow beautiful" and made his way out. Juvia waited for Gray to grab his things until he also proceeded to go out the door with Juvia following right behind him.
Lucy didn't want to go to this class at all, so far she's made it through the day without skipping any classes but she was questioning on whether to go or not. She came to a decision and decided to go to the Janitors closet where she hid a pillow and blanket whenever she needed a nap.
Lucy got there and closed the door and locked it before she laid down. She then found the hidden pillow and blanket and got on one of the empty shelves to lay on. Lucy closed her eyes and waited for sleep to take over her body.
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"Heartfilia, Hey Heartfilia. Get the hell up" an irritated voice came into Lucy's head. Lucy groaned and turned the other way saying, "5 more minutes" trying to get back to sleep.
"No way Heartfilia, I told you before to stop using this closet as your bedroom." The man said. Lucy finally sat up and rubbed her eyes looking at who the voice belonged to.
"Really George? Why you gotta wake me up every time." Lucy said while getting off the shelf and grabbing her bag.
"Oh I don't know, maybe because you're in the Janitors closet where the Janitors need their supplies to do their Janitor jobs." The man named George said in a sarcastic voice.
Lucy snickered and said, "What job? You just drink, smoke cigars, and sleep in here also, don't think I don't know you damn hypocrite. Anyways, how much time do I have left?"
George checked the time in his watch and said, "About 10 minutes"
"Nice, see you later George and next time don't wake me" Lucy said running off to chemistry.
"I'll wake you whenever I want Heartfilia" George said to the girl.
X
Lucy got to her class and walked in with 5 minutes to spare. No one really paid much attention to her since they were doing a lab. While Ichiya's back was facing Lucy she was sneakily trying to get past him until a certain salmon head boy saw what she was trying to do and decided to blow her cover.
"HEY LUCY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE SO LATE" Natsu yelled from across the room. This caused everyone to turn and look at the blonde. Lucy stopped on her tracks and saw that Ichiya has noticed her. The girl turned to Natsu and gave him a death glare flipping the boy off. Natsu just chuckled and was watching how the scene was going to play off.
" , I hope you have a pass with you." Ichiya said walking up to the blonde.
"As a matter of fact I don't have a pass with me" Lucy said with a smile.
Ichiya let out a sigh and said, "Then get a move on to Makarovs office."
"Well I don't really want to see the old man right now so, no thanks." Lucy said
"Too bad it isn't your choice, I am telling you to go to the headmaster's office at once. I won't repeat myself" Ichiya said vigorously.
"And I'm telling you I don't feel like going" Lucy said challenging the man.
Ichiya was about to respond back to the girl till the bell rang signaling the end of school.
"Sorry teach, we'll finish this next time." Lucy said making her way out. Ichiya was left dumbfounded.
So you were just stalling weren't you? Natsu thought while staring at the back of Lucy's head with a smirk.
"Natsu, you have detention today don't you? How about you walk me home after my cheerleading practice." Lisanna said in a cheery voice getting closer to the boy.
"Can't, I have to get my jacket from blondie today" Natsu said while getting up from his seat.
"Your jacket? What is she doing with your jacket?" Lisanna said in a disgustingly voice.
"I don't know, what do you usually do with jackets?" Natsu said in a sarcastic way.
Lisanna furrowed her brows and said, "Very funny. What I meant is how did she even get it in the first place?"
"None ya" Natsu said
"None ya?" Lisanna questioned the boy.
"None ya damn business" Natsu smiled in a smugly way.
Lisanna was taken back at first but soon went back to normal and said, "You don't have to be mean about. It was just a question geez"
"Well I don't really like when people pry on my business" Natsu said
"I wasn't even prying, and when did you become such an ass" Lisanna said in a earnest voice.
"When? I' always like this" Natsu said with a straight face.
"Yea to others, but never to me." Lisanna said looking right onto her childhood friends eyes.
Natsu thought stared back but soon averted his eyes and said, "Some things change you know, guess you got to get used to me being like this from now on"
Lisanna didn't respond back and this made Natsu make his way out the classroom.
It's all her fault, Lisanna thought angrily.
X
Lucy was almost out the door until Jellal blocked her way from going any further.
"Oh great, I'm SO happy to see you my best friend of all time" Lucy said bitterly.
Jellal chuckled and walked up to her saying, "Let's go, wouldn't want to be late to detention now would we?"
"You have to catch me first" Lucy said but as she turned her face smacked right into someone's chest making her fall to the floor.
"Ow" Lucy said holding her nose and looking up to see that it was Gajeel the one she smacked into.
"Oh great, just my luck." Lucy said
Gajeel snickered and said, "Let's go bunny girl. You didn't think it was going to be that easy to get away did you?"
Lucy stayed on the ground and said, "Looks like you were prepared. Ill give you credit for that but I ain't getting up"
Gajeel smirked and said, "Fine by me" he grabbed Lucy's leg and started dragging her from the ground making her skirt come up. Lucy quickly held it down crossing her legs to keep it from going up. Jellal just silently walked next to Gajeel.
"WHAT THE HELL! PUT ME DOWN! YOU'RE GIVING EVERYONE A VIEW OF MY UNDERWEAR" Lucy yelled at Gajeel.
"There's no one here bunny girl. Maybe you should try taking a look around" Gajeel said still not letting the blonde go.
Lucy looked around the place and noticed that the halls were empty. Of course they would be empty, anyone would take the chance to leave this hell hole. Lucy thought.
"ALRIGHT ALRIGHT. I promise I won't try to get away." Lucy said to the two.
Jellal and Gajeel both turned to the girl and then faced each other trying to come up with a decision. They both nodded and Gajeel let Lucy's leg go. Lucy briskly stood up fixing her skirt and stared at the two.
"So you going to lead the way or are we going to stare at each other the whole time" Lucy said in an arrogant tone.
"I'll lead the way, Gajeel stay behind Lucy" Jellal said turning and started walking.
Lucy rolled her eyes and followed Jellal with Gajeel right behind her.
X
"How the hell do you even find me" Natsu hissed while on the floor with a red head sitting on top of him keeping him from going anywhere.
"I have my ways, now let's get you going to detention" Erza said getting up from him.
Natsu got up and began walking with Erza right next to him. When they got to a hallway with two ways he quickly went right and started sprinting to get away from the scarlet haired girl. Erza was furious and started chasing Natsu. Natsu however was much more faster than the girl since every afternoon he would go for a run increasing his speed.
Natsu looked back and realized that there was no way Erza was going to catch up with him. He snickered and when he turned back to face the front he saw Jellal turning the corner. Natsu quickly avoided the boy but failed to notice that someone was right behind him causing Natsu to slam right into the person making them go to the ground with Natsu landing right on top.
Owww why the hell do I keep slamming into people. Lucy thought bringing a hand up to her head. She tried to get up but couldn't since there was a huge weight right on top of her. She looked down to see pink hair and noticed right away that it belonged to Natsu.
So close from getting away ughh, and what the hell did I land on Natsu thought and looked up to see a certain blonde staring at the boy with slight blush on her cheeks. Natsu smirked realizing that it was Lucy, "Hey there Luce, thanks for breaking my fall." Natsu said now hovering above the blonde with both his arms on each side of her head.