AN: Hello everyone! I'm a big fan of Fairytail and after reading countless fanfictions on it I decided to write my own. I got this story's idea from a few other fanfic's I've read (not in the Fairytail archive though). I am currently working on another story for Rave Master and therefore may be a little slow on my updates. But stick with me and I promise I'll continue writing. One more thing, parts of the story written like this are the characters thoughts. Now let the story, BEGIN!:)

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Oh my God, Oh my God! Where the hell are my shoes?!

A young woman searched her apartment frantically for her new, red (and expensive) pumps.

This is just great! Just freaking fantastic! My first day and I'm going to be late! Damn it all-

Suddenly, catching a glimpse of crimson from under her bed, the woman all but dived down to retrieve the dastardly heels she had been looking for.

"Yes! There is a God!" cried the woman and with that she ran out of her apartment and to her car, all the while cursing how uncomfortable pencil skirts where.

Lucy was this woman's name, Lucy Heartfilia.

Lucy was an exceptionally beautiful young woman with an even more exceptionally large chest.

She had long blond hair that flowed over her chest and button up white blouse.

Lucy also had large chocolate brown eyes that seemed to stand out more than anything.

She had recently moved into this new apartment and already had issues with the landlord, regarding rent.

Money was a struggle Lucy was used to but not happy with.

This was the very reason she had decided she needed a job that paid more than minimum wage (at McDonald's no less).

Lucy had spent the last few years schooling in the field of none other than teaching.

It seemed ironic to Lucy that she should want to teach (especially since high school was less than her best years) but nonetheless she possessed a passion for knowledge, particularly in ancient history and Greek mythology.

Yes Lucy loved to learn (about her interests anyway) and presumed she would also love to teach.

Although, as it seemed, so far, not so good.

This morning Lucy's alarm had not gone off (due to a short that had also affected her hairy dryer, making her hair a hot mess) and thus had made her late.

Lucy now found herself trying to multitask with driving and putting her hair up in a messy bun.

She rushed down the freeway, honking at 'idiots' who got in her way (idiots who had not been expecting her to cut them off).

Finally Lucy arrived at her new job at the high school known as Fairy Tail Academy.

Lucy bolted out of her car, jumping to put on her heels, and up the steps to the high school.

Once inside she noticed that a few students had already begun to arrive, a sure sign that she was late.

Lucy checked her watch one more time to see that it read 7:40.

Dammit I'm twenty minutes late! What a first impression!

Frantically, Lucy searched for the door that said, 'Teacher's Lounge' (where the official 'welcome' meeting was currently taking place) and upon finding it, threw it open.

Lucy looked around to find many surprised (and confused) faces.

Unaware of what to do, Lucy said rather awkwardly, "H-hello. I'm sorry I'm so late. There were issues with my alarm and..."

Lucy looked around at the seemingly uninterested faces of her colleagues and took a seat in an empty plastic chair.

"As I was saying," resumed the speaker (in which Lucy knew to be the principal, Mr. Makarov and her boss), "Let's all have a great year and go easy on the kids, yeah? Not too easy though. Meeting adjourned."

The principal concluded his speech and immediately the other teachers went to the counter that held free donuts and coffee.

Lucy sat in her seat as she saw the principal approaching her.

At this moment Lucy realized two things.

One: this man was incredibly old, short, and had it not been for his gray hair and suit Lucy could have easily mistaken him for a child.

And two: She was more than likely about to be fired, and on her first day!

"Ms. Heartfilia," Mr. Makarov started in his raspy voice, "I would like to say," Oh God here it comes, "Welcome to Fairy Tail Academy. I trust you'll be on time from now on?"

Lucy was both shocked and overjoyed by the mercy of this man.

Oh there was so a God.

"O-of course Mr. Makarov! I'm very excited about this job and will always take it seriously!"

The old man chuckled, "Good, oh and never mind the Mr., Makarov will do fine."

"Oh, whatever you say...Makarov." Lucy smiled and Makarov made his way out of the lounge into the school halls.

After feeling very much relieved Lucy realized all at once just how hungry she was (and how desperately she needed her coffee) and made her way to the food counter.

Oh how I deserve this.

Lucy sighed with satisfaction as she bit into a chocolate frosted donut.

"Sounds like you're enjoying that donut a little too much."

Lucy suddenly snapped out of her 'food' trance to see a young man smirking next to her.

The young man had shaggy black hair and wore a white button up shirt with a black tie and blazer.

Lucy couldn't help but notice how attractive he was and immediately felt her cheeks go red when she realized how she had been stuffing herself.

Lucy gulped down her bite and awkwardly wiped her mouth with a napkin.

"Well," Lucy said trying not to cough from swallowing too hard, "it has been a rough morning for me."

The raven haired guy smiled and said, "I know the feeling, by the way I'm Gray, I teach algebra and government."

Lucy smiled back; feeling a bit flustered and said, "I'm Lucy, I teach history."

Just when Lucy had begun to think her and this Gray fellow where having somewhat of a flirtatious moment someone else entered the conversation.

"Good God Gray! Can't the woman eat without you sexually assaulting her?"

Lucy turned to see another young man and was shocked she hadn't noticed him earlier.

He wore a white button up with a red tie and a black vest; his sleeves were also rolled up.

But the most surprising part about this young man was his wild salmon hair.

Lucy couldn't help but wonder what kind of school allowed their teachers to have pink hair.

"Excuse me Natsu, I was merely getting acquainted with this lovely lady." Gray turned to Lucy, "Forget about him Lucy. Shall we continue our conversation?"

"Uh..." Lucy was beginning to feel uncomfortable; the flirtatious moment had been thrown out the window after the words 'sexual' and 'assault' had been said.

These two were definitely too straight forward.

"So your name's Lucy?" the pink haired guy asked and stuck out his hand (ignoring Gray's comments), "I'm Natsu."

"Oh, hi." Lucy said shaking Natsu's hand.

"I gotta admit it was pretty funny when you walked in late." Natsu said letting out a laugh at the memory.

Lucy felt her eyebrow twitch in annoyance, the nerve of some people.

"Yeah that was freaking hilarious." Gray agreed and burst out laughing.

Oh these two were so not cute.

"Knock it off you two!" a voice echoed and immediately the two young men stopped laughing.

Lucy turned to see a beautiful woman with cherry red hair and fierce eyes.

"I'm sorry if they've been bothering you. My name's Erza by the way and you are..."

"Lucy." Lucy said and allowed herself to smile.

"Oh, well nice to meet you Lucy. You teach history?"

"Yeah, it's one of my favorite subjects."

"That's an excellent subject. I thought of teaching it myself but science is my calling." The woman said and smiled.

Lucy couldn't help but think how nice this woman was.

"Well you better get to your classroom; it's almost time for the first bell."

Lucy looked at the clock and realized Erza was right.

"Thanks for the heads up. See you later." Lucy said and dashed out to her class.

Once Lucy was gone Erza turned to Gray and Natsu with a glare.

"C'mon Erza, it was funny." Natsu said trying to mask his fear, "Besides its Gray who was bugging her."

"I was not!" Gray shrieked in defense.

"Oh please, you two are just as bad as the freshmen in my class." Ezra stated, rolling her eyes, "Anyway don't be rude, she seems like a nice girl."

And with that Ezra left the lounge.

"She seems nice alright, nice in the sack." Both Natsu and Gray turned to see a man with golden spiked hair and a navy suit.

"I'll agree with that Loke. She does have a great rack." Gray wiggled his eyebrows and Natsu rolled his eyes.

"Oh like you weren't thinking the same thing Natsu." said the golden haired Loke.

"Nope." Natsu said and began to collect his things for his class.

"Oh really? Then just what were you thinking?" Loke asked raising his brows in mock amusement.

"That's she's weird." Natsu replied simply and with that, made his way to his classroom.

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The first half of Lucy's day went well and when lunch break rolled around she decided to make her way to the lounge, so that she could heat up her instant noodles.

Lucy was thinking of all the lesson plans she had covered and how she could improve them when she absent-mindedly bumped into someone.

"Oh I'm sorry." Lucy said and looked up to see the same pink haired man from earlier that morning.

"No problem." Natsu smiled, "You like noodles?"

"Oh," Lucy looked down to remembering what she was holding, "well you know, they're cheap and easy."

Natsu couldn't help but snicker at what Lucy had just said a fact that did not go unnoticed by the young blonde.

"Wow, real mature." Lucy said and a ghost of a smile was on the corners of her mouth.

"Sorry, it was just...I couldn't help it." Natsu said smiling with a wolfy grin.

Lucy shook her head and stepped inside the lounge, with Natsu close behind.

Much to Lucy's surprise, the lounge was vacant.

"Where is everybody?" Lucy asked beginning to heat up her noodles in the small microwave.

"Well it's the first day back. They're probably working on their lesson plans still. You know, last minute touch ups." Natsu said sitting at the little round, plastic, table at the center of the lounge.

"Oh," Lucy stated dumbly, "Should we be doing that?"

"Nah." Natsu said taking a bite into his spicy chicken sandwich, "It's not good to mess with your lesson plan too much. Better to trust your first judgment on it. Besides it's break-time and that means: take a damn break."

Natsu gave a smile and Lucy smiled back, feeling reassured that she wasn't slacking.

"So," Lucy started, taking her hot lunch to the table and sitting down, "what subject do you teach anyway?"

"Art." Natsu said and took a sip of his cola.

"Wow, I love art." Lucy said wide-eyed, "It must be one hell of a class to teach."

"It is." Natsu said putting down his can, "It's great because it's not so uptight like all of the other classes. You can kind of go with the flow, ya know?"

Lucy nodded her head and added, "I would've liked to teach a class like that. I actually…no never mind." Lucy said looking down at her noodles sheepishly.

"What?" Natsu asked curiously, "Never mind what?"

"No it's too embarrassing." Lucy said with a slightly awkward chuckle.

"Oh c'mon Lucy," Natsu said pointing to his hair, "you honestly think I'm going to judge you?"

"All right." Lucy said giggling, "I would actually really like to teach writing. I like to write stories of my own. Nothing exciting but I do love doing it."

"What's so embarrassing about that?" Natsu pondered grinning, "I think that's awesome. I only wish I could write, but that spelling shit has got me beat, oh and grammar too."

Lucy giggled.

"So why don't you teach it? Instead of…history, was it?" Natsu asked.

"Oh, don't get me wrong," Lucy said waving a hand, "I love teaching history. I don't teach writing because…well I guess I don't really know why. Maybe it's a self-esteem issue?"

"Huh," Natsu said, appearing slightly confused, "whatever the case, I think you should teach it. If you really want to I mean."

Lucy sighed and finished off the last of her noodles and threw them away.

"Well," she said walking towards the door, "it was nice talking to you Natsu."

"You too," Natsu smiled then added right before Lucy walked out, "Oh and I'd like to read one of your stories sometime."

Lucy could feel her cheeks become hot with embarrassment, "Maybe," she said despite herself, "someday, if I can trust you."

"C'mon," Natsu said with a cheeky grin, "who wouldn't trust me?"

"Oh we'll see. Bye." And with that Lucy was off to her class with a little smile the whole way.

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A/N: A little bit shorter than I would have liked but all in all I'm pretty pleased with it. Let me know what you think:D Reviews give the author inspiration! Oh and constructive criticism is always welcome. Thank you to everyone who takes time to read!