Compliments

Chapter 9-Stuff

Fairy Tail and its characters belong to Hiro Mashima

The day was better after lunch. Or-‘Awkward Feast of the Combined Forces’-as I liked to call it. Next hour was P.E., and all of us, with the exception of Gray, Juvia, and Jellal had it together. The five of us walked together to our lockers, earning ignored glances. I pretended not to notice the stares, the dirty looks, the secretive pointing.

“Hey Lucy, how come I never see you in P.E.? I see Erza, but I never see you or Levy,” Natsu asked. Of course he had to ask something like that and catch me off guard. I couldn’t tell him I watched him do physical activity in nothing but basketball shorts and a tight-fitting muscle shirt! That’d just be-weird. Normally I was prepared for everything, I had an answer for everything whether it was the truth or a lie. But this somehow caught me by surprise.

“Uh, stuff,” I replied lamely. Natsu snorted beside me, and gave me a look of doubt.

“Oh yeah, of course you were doing stuff! How could I be so stupid?” he mused sarcastically. I gave him a playful glower and punched his arm lightly. We laughed in harmony until we reached our lockers. Fortunately, Natsu’s was just down the hall, so we weren’t too far apart.

I grabbed my P.E. clothes, a pair of red basketball shorts and a baggy shirt, and shoved them into my backpack. Just as I shut my locker, Natsu came over to me, while Gajeel, Levy, and Erza were already a little ahead.

“But seriously, what do you do? Other than stuff?” Natsu asked, chuckling the slightest bit.

“We just read over in the corner,” I lied. The short amount of time to myself had given me the opportunity to think of an excuse.

“Then why were you so secretive about it? What- do you guys read some dirty things over in your little corner, huh?” he questioned humorously, but my I felt the blood rush to my face.

“N-No! We read normal books! Normal ones!” I scolded, but he just continued to laugh.

When we finally got to the gym, Natsu and I split ways, and I practically flew to the girls’ locker room. I threw the door open, and rushed over to my locker, where I found a head of blue.

“Levy! Now that the boys’ group and our group is kinda, together, are we gonna actually participate in P.E. or-?” I asked.

“I, guess we participate?” the small bookworm mused. I nodded in agreement before changing into my required clothes.