Here's chapter 11. Please R&R and I shall see you at the bottom of the page.

POV: Lucy

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

A slight wind passes by and when I look up from the book I'm reading I find my class running by in a pack sweating and panting. They run around the track and I keep an eye on them feeling the heat of the overhead sun a bit unbearable as I continue to watch the pack pass by be again.

I search through the crowd and it doesn't take that long for me to realize what, or more like who, I'm looking for. I spot a fluff of pink hair off on the side under the shade of one of the local Magnolia trees along with Gajeel, Elfman, and Gray. They're all smiling and pushing each other around before Erza storms towards them and begins to yell. I can almost see a malevolent aura surround her as all four boys race around the track sneaking glances at the red-headed demon, as some students have dubbed her around the school. They boys pass by me one by one with Gray the only one to smile at me as he passes by. I smile back and when I turn to look at Natsu he just passes by me as if I weren't even there. His words from the night he went to go visit me at the hospital a week ago ring in my head.

Sighing, I gather my things and head toward the school following my class and as I look down at the ground so that I don't trip on some unfortunate pebble I can't fail to notice that a few of my classmates have gauze wraps wrapped around either their ankles – kind of like Erza had – or their arms, and some I could tell had a gauze wrapped around their torsos hidden under their shirts.

"Hey Lu, we're all going to go and change. Do you mind waiting for us to eat lunch," Levy pants once she reaches me placing her hand lightly on my shoulder. Behind her are Erza and Lisanna who are all sweating and panting from the long run while looking at me expectantly.

Smiling I shake my head and head off toward the bench we usually sit at, "I'll meet you at the picnic table," I say and she smiles. Before she can say anything else I lift up a small bag I bought from home with me and say over my shoulder, "Don't worry, I brought lunch today,"

"It's about time you did," Erza huffs crossing her arms across her chest and I simply smile as I watch them all file into the girls locker room.

Once I'm alone I head toward the bench where we sit at lunch when I notice someone is already there. When I get closer to the table I notice that it's Juvia and without a word to her I sit in my usual seat and pull out my lunch that Laxus made me. It's mostly a tuna sandwich with some fruit and a granola bar on the side.

Just when I'm opening my water bottle a somber voice asks, "Where are the others," I look around but find no one but Juvia around and it takes me about a minute to realize that it was Juvia who had asked me the question.

"Oh, um, they're in the locker rooms changing out of their gym clothes," I say a bit hesitantly feeling a bit weird to hear Juvia speak. The only time I heard her talk was when I discovered her and Natsu talking in the halls of the hospital some time back. I eat lunch with her every day since I got to school and all this time she has not directed a single word to me at all. She does glare at me from time to time when Gray talks to me and sometimes even mutters something under her breath, "Juvia," said girl looks up at me and I can feel her dark navy eyes bore into me, "Do you hate me,"

She looks taken aback and after a few seconds of silence shakes her head and looks down at her food in front of her, which is mostly eaten already, "I don't necessarily like you, but I don't hate you," she says still looking down at her food, "I'm not much of a talker,"

"Yeah, I've noticed," Opening my water bottle, I take a sip of my water and look over at the way I had come from to find Natsu heading our way. I hear a crunching sound to my left and find Juvia practically crushing her water bottle and her eyes have hardened with seeming anger and disapproval, "Natsu what…"

"What the hell do you want," Juvia growls while slamming her hand down on the table looking just about ready to scratch Natsu's eyes out.

Natsu smirks looking cocky and crosses his arms across his chest looking smug as he looks at me and then at Juvia, "I need to talk to you," he says nonchalantly and that seems to tick Juvia off even more. Before Juvia can say anything to him he cuts in with, "We found another one," as if a light switch were flipped, Juvia's composure suddenly changes to that of surprise and she looks at me her expression looking almost worried. He must have said something he wasn't supposed to and by now the warning bells in my head have gone off once again and I feel like I'm not supposed to be hearing any of this conversation.

"We'll talk about it after school," Juvia mutters and Natsu nods looking back at where he came from to find the others heading our way, "You should probably leave,"

"Yeah, I hear you," with one last glance toward us Natsu heads on toward the school before saying, "See you later Luce," and deep down I know that he had been tempting me.

The stupid jerk was testing me.

This was more like another filler but trust me that by the next chapter the actual plot of the story starts coming together.

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