Ame o matte iru (ON HOLD)

4| A bet is a bet

The buzzer sound was the sound of endings and beginnings...

[ Lucy's PoV}

That time everyone was rejoicing. The cheer, the laughter and more...

I just found out that if our school lost we will be forced to transfer and that bet reached our principals...

but

Team ERA won...

Gajeel sang in front of many audience so much to their dismay... and were force to listen until the end.

Levy was praised by her strategies but still teased as the new small strategist.

and me?

It was the start of a new semester. New year, new semester and new students...

"WE WON....right?" I said to levy as we walk together to reach school. 

Levy smiled "yup... though it was just a mere luck... if it wasnt for Erza, our team would lose..."

It seems that during the final minutes of the game, Erza was so pissed at Natsu's long speech and pathetic pose that she threw a mono block chair at him that made him lose the shot.

"I see... so I guess it is all thanks to Erza... but... what about the bet?"

"like what was talked about...a deal is a deal. Gomen [sorry] Lu-chan, Gajeel made a stupid bet and drag you in it..."

"The bet was about who loses will transfer schools, right?"

"yeah..."

I hung my head out "then why... Why the hell are we the one who transferred out?!" 

Levy made a sweat drop and a smile so disturbing "ughh... about that, the principals were the one's at fault. They made a bet about us. Our principal made a bet that he will give ERA Academy to Fairy Academy if our team loses since he thought we would lose because we only have Gajeel and they have that Double Aces in their team..."

" what a pathetic bet that is..."

"since our team won...the fairy academy's principal won and we the students will be force to transfer..."

"mou~ win or lose, we will transfer out?"

"I guess..."

Levy and I made a big sigh when suddenly Gajeel appear behind us. "gihihi~"

"yo shorty! bunny girl!"

"would you stop calling me that?!" both of us shouted. 

"Why the long faces?  we won!" said gajeel while wearing a wide smile.

"aren't you a bit gang-ho about it..." said levy as she walk side by side us. "of course I am... I beat salamander and the nudist. Why wouldn't I be?"

"I guess transferring out, doesn't even bother you..."

"nope." he said with a very confident grin on his face. As the three of us walk together side by side, from the very distance, at the very entrance of the school I saw the glimpse of a pink hair guy. 

without any single thought, while following my instincts. I run after it leaving gajeel and levy alone without saying why. As I reached the entrance, I could not see a trace of him anymore. 

in front of the entrance of Fairy Academy, hoping that the pink haired guy who I've seen in that moment goes there.  As I looked at the very arch of the school.

I made a step forward.

(To be continued)