Sweetheart

35

"Mister Dragneel, you're late."

"Time is an illusion, teach. You should know that by now."

"Take your seat and don't--"

Natsu's feet could be heard landing on top of another desk. Everyone turned to see that Natsu was smirking at Mister Justine and motioned for him to continue teaching.

"Don't worry. Just pretend I'm not even here."

Lucy glared at Natsu, which went unnoticed by the salmon haired student. Aina caught her stare and reached her leg as far as she could to kick her desk. Lucy huffed and turned back to the front.

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Sting poked Aina's shoulder to gain her attention, and she quickly spun around.

"Clifford knows a few tricks. Wanna see?"

"How on earth do you teach your fish tricks? My fish barely knows how to swim."

Sting howled before pulling out his phone and showing how the fish would swim through a hoop. He went to say something when he caught the dark purple by her neck.

"So, uh how's your project with Natsu going?"

"The English one is done, but he refuses to start on the health one, which is super annoying and..."

She trailed off when she saw him looking at her neck.

"And you weren't actually interested in anything I just said, were you?"

"That's from him right?"

Aina sighed and nodded her head before trying to tell him that she didn't want to make a big deal out of it. Sting shrugged, but his signature smile returned a few seconds later.

"So I guess my advice is working, eh?"

"Huh?"

"Well Natsu's very new to the whole dating thing, so he's been asking some stuff."

Aina paled and asked how long they all knew. Sting shook his head.

"I'm the only one. Believe me, you would know if the others knew. Lucy and Levy know now though, right?"

Aina nodded her head and motioned over to Lucy who was staring at her intensely. He chuckled and gave her a small wave. Mister Neekis had come in and started passing out tests.

"Now I hope everyone remembered this test," he said as he stared right at Sting.

"Don't you worry about a thing, Mister Neekis. I studied all last night and I can confidently say I know half of it!"

Aina giggled when she saw the teacher's defeated face.

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Natsu's upper half was sprawled across Aina's table, forcing Aina and her books into one small corner.

"Do you mind? I'm trying to do some homework."

"Why bother? It's all useless anyway."

"It's not useless."

"What are you doing right now?"

"Derivatives."

"And where do you want to be for a career?"

"I want to be an English teacher."

Natsu stared at her blankly and motioned to her math work.

"So this is useless."

"It's necessary to graduate, so it's not useless."

"You'll never use this again."

"It'll help when I have to take my math gen ed in college."