Chapter 4: Magnolia High and the Movies

Gray shot out of bed at nine in the morning to find his girlfriend making breakfast and Lucy not there. He knew she was at school, so he decided to leave a note for her.

Hey Lucy,

Juvia and I are going out to watch a movie and then going to the orientation at two. We'll be back around four, if not later. K bye!

Gray and Juvia

Gray left the note in Lucy's room and went to Juvia in the kitchen. "Hey Juvia, can you come with Natsu and I to the movies? There is no way in heck I'm going to stay with him alone. We can go to orientation right afterwards." Gray said with a very hopeful look in his eyes. Juvia sighed and nodded.

"Fine, but is it okay if Juvia brings Erza-san and Gajeel-san, also?" Juvia asked.

"Of course, the more the merrier." Gray leaned into Juvia. "With Erza there, I think Natsu will be too scared to be depressed." Juvia giggled and finished making the last of the pancakes, which Gray ate in almost no time at all. The rest of the two hours was spent getting ready for the movies. Gray told her that he wanted to see an action movie, but Juvia debated that they should see a sappy romance. They both decided that they would just watch a comedy: Dumb and Dumber To.( I want to see this so bad, it isn't funny)

~At Magnolia High~

Lucy was taking videos of the people around her school during lunch. There were so many different types of people and they all had different interests. Lucy wasn't very interactive with people and was content with only having a few friends and filming other people. Actually, the only friend she really has is Levy, who was a social bookworm that is friends with lots of people. However, because Gray and Juvia are there, she has a way to better interact with people.

"The human race has discovered many different ways of entertaining themselves." Lucy said into her camera. "One way includes sports." She pointed the camera and zoomed in on some guys passing around the football in the quad. "Other ways include art." She turned the camera and zoomed into a girl that was playing the trumpet and her friend that seemed to be painting a portrait of her.

"Some people find their happiness in eating." She walks up to a boy that she sits next to in her French class. "Tell me Warren, what kind of pizza are you eating?" Warren looks up at Lucy and smiles. He and Lucy aren't really friends, more like acquaintances.

"Cheese, peperoni, sausage, and chocolate covered pineapple." He answered. Lucy walked away and turned the camera back to her.

"Ew. Some ways are more human than others." Lucy said with a disgusted look on her face into the camera. Suddenly, she was knocked down, her camera going with her. Laughing next to her, the culprit who knocked her down was her best friend Levy.

"Hey Lu-chan, what'cha doing?" Levy said as she and Lucy got up off the ground.

"Just taking videos, as usual." Lucy said. Levy and Lucy spent the rest of their lunch talking about different classes. Levy changed the topic to Lucy's novel, and whined when Lucy told her that she couldn't read it until she was done. The bell rang and the two of them went their separate ways. Levy went to AP Anatomy, and Lucy went to Video Production, tied with Honors English for being her favorite class. The class was only made up of seven people, none of which Lucy was close with.

"Okay class," said Mr. Yarunaka, "we will be starting a new project today, and it will be due next Thursday. Come to the front of the class to pick your topics." He said as he motioned to a tin can that had little slips of pale orange paper inside. Lucy was the second to last to reach the front of the classroom, so she had a pick of the last two topics left. She reached her hand inside the tin can and pulled out one of the slips of orange paper.

On the paper said 'Highlight a special cause or foundation that you relate to.'

She had some major brainstorming to do, because everything she does in video production has to be the best it could be. She spent the rest of the period on the computers researching different foundations, and got down a few ideas. A foundation that connects with me, huh? Lucy thought.

The bell rang, signaling the end of the school day. She decided that Gray and Juvia probably wouldn't need her home right now and walked to the park that was right next to her school.

It was also right next to Fairy Tail University.

"Hahahahaha!" Gray and Gajeel couldn't stop laughing their asses off, and even Natsu had an amused look in his eyes. Erza was smiling and Juvia was daydreaming because of Gray's 'handsome' laugh.

"Best movie of the year!" Gajeel said as he took another bite out of the popcorn that all five of the college students were sharing. By sharing, it meant that it was mostly Gray and Gajeel hogging all of it.

"So Natsu, what did you think?" Erza asked. Natsu looked at her and gave her a crooked smile, even though his eyes showed amusement. For a second, she thought she saw the old Natsu before his eyes were torn away from her and started to focus on the ground.

"It was cool." Was his only answer. Gray and Gajeel let out an exasperated sigh. Juvia decided to change to subject.

"Come on everyone, we have to get to Fairy Tail before the orientation starts." She said as she started to drag Gray with Erza walking beside her. Gajeel was behind Natsu, so he wouldn't fall behind.

The five of them passed through the park, which wasn't a very good thing. This was the place where Natsu first asked Lisanna to be his girlfriend. Natsu starts to have painful memories of when he saw her kiss Bixlow, and he wasn't watching where he was going. He accidentally bumped into someone and knocked them both down. Natsu's reflexes kicked in and spun around so that he would take the fall for the person.

The first thing he saw was the golden hair that was glowing on the sunlight.