Fairy Tail High

Chapter 4: Falling for you

"Ok then, now that you know what to do, without blowing it up, get into your partners and do it yourself and record your findings." A tall man with slicked back ginger hair said looking sheepishly at the failed experiment. He wore a white shirt, tucked into black suit trousers and a gold belt around his hips. Lucy walked over to Natsu, he was doodling on the corner of his page, completely oblivious to everything around him. She sighed, reaching out her hand to poke him, when he suddenly looked towards her smiling.

"I'll get the equipment!" He said excitedly getting up and practically skipping to the cupboards, "Do you even know what to get?" Lucy called out to the him, he answered waving his hand at her, as if to say 'pft, totally'. She just rolled her eyes, picked up her book and stood by their work station. The salmon-haired boy walked over carrying the equipment, mostly things that they didn't even need, and placed it all on the table. "Why'd you get a Bunsen burner?" The blonde asked, looking down at the instructions, "We don't need it, go put it back." He completely ignored her and began to set it up, "What are you doing? I said put it away," She commanded in vain. He then reached into his blazer pocket and pulled out a small silver lighter that had a dragon on one side and black flames creeping round the other. "Why do you have a lighter in school?" She asked, trying not to be too loud because she knew that she would somehow get in trouble for this too. "You could get in trouble for having that," He turned on the gas and held the flame over it, the burner ignited into a sapphire blue. Natsu smiled, turning it onto the safety flame, "Hey, pyro, are you listening to me?!" Lucy spoke angrily. "Huh?" He looked to her, slightly confused, "Did you say something, Luce?" She was so angry you could almost see the steam coming out her ears, he tilted his head to the side slightly, kinda like a puppy, before speaking, "Why ya so pissed?" His smile turned into a look of confusion. Looking into his onyx eyes, she sighed as her anger diffused and she gave up on trying to stop him.

Natsu speed over to his bag, it was a black suede shoulder bag with a brown foe leather strap and closure with brass buckles. He opened it and pulled out a black glove, then walked back over. "Wanna see something cool?" He asked with a smirk as he put the glove on. "Sure..." She said hesitantly, narrowing her eyes at him. He then put his gloved hand into the fire and then out again, holding the flames. "See? Cool, ain't it?" He looked at the fire, still smirking, then stepped closer to the blonde. "Uh, Natsu, what are you doing?" She spoke with slight fear in her voice as she backed away from the fire in the boy's hand.

Lucy continued to back away until she bumped into something, this something turned out to be the back of Scarlet-red, none other than class president Erza. The blood-haired woman fell forward slightly into the man next to her, who caught her, one hand on her shoulder and the other placed gently on her waist. He had dark azure hair that perfectly framed his face and piercing mahogany eyes; one of which was centred in an intricate crimson tattoo. The blonde quickly turned around apologizing, she was met with no reply as she watched the to stand looking into each-others eyes.

"Don't bother," Natsu said, fire gone from his hand, "She can't hear you." He smirked, "She's too deep in love~ to care," He laughed. A slight rose glow appeared on her face, this deepened into a red flush after hearing the boy's words, noticing this the mahogany eyed man removed his hands and watched as her eyes turned from amazement to anger. She turned around, glaring at the salmon-haired boy, a fiery aura surrounding her and a blush still on her face, her mocha eyes glaring daggers. She's blushing? Hmm, Lucy thought a smirk appearing on her face. "Uhh, hi Erza, haha, how are you?" He asked, nervously scratching the back of his neck. "How dare you embarrass me?!" She yelled, picking up a ruler and raising it above her head, "H-hey now, Erza... W-we can talk about this." The blonde said failing to diffuse the situation. Erza looked to her briefly, but long enough to scare her half to death, she immediately shut up. Suddenly, a hand was lightly squeezing her shoulder, she lowered the ruler and looked towards the owner of the hand. "No need for violence," His voice was calm and serious, but he carried a gentle smile on his face, "why don't you put the equipment away and go sit down? I'll join you in a sec, okay?" She looked to Natsu one last time, with a stare sharp enough to cut glass, then did what the man said.