Sweetheart

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Natsu's phone vibrated and he smirked.

"Finally," he breathed. "Well I have somewhere to be, sweetheart. Don't let anyone come into the drama room, 'kay?"

Aina gasped and looked at him with wide eyes, but he just laughed and slipped out of the library. Her face scrunched up.

"Jesus Christ. During school?"

She looked down at the table and held her hands together.

"This is stuipd. Why am I getting upset about this?"

She shook it off and forced herself to do her homework, sighing every so often.

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Lunchtime had come along and she could feel her shoulders relax when Natsu was nowhere to be seen.

"What's up with you?" Lucy asked, immediately noticing something was off.

"Oh nothing. I'm just ready for this week to be over."

"No kidding. Then you'll be rid of your shadow."

"I mean," Levy reasoned, "it hasn't been that bad. Plus he had gone to all his--"

Lucy and Aina looked at her unimpressed.

"Okay, most of the classes. And he did some homework, so I say that it was productive."

"Yeah I guess," Lucy said.

They all started eating when Aina suddenly spoke up, seeming to speak without thinking.

"He ran off with someone during our free period."

"Wait, like the type of running off that's--"

"He snuck off to the drama room."

Lucy choked on her food and coughed a couple times.

"During the middle of the day?!"

"Wait," Levy questioned, "why's the drama room so bad?"

Lucy looked just as shocked at Levy's question as Aina's revelation.

"How do you not know, Levy?"

"I've never heard anything about the drama room. I didn't know that Natsu did drama."

"My dear salutatorian, there's a section behind the stage that people sometimes use for sex."

"O-Oh. Well that's...new information to me."

"Hey Aina?"

"Yeah what's up? Did you want me to see if I could grab another muffin?"

"Um, no. I was gonna ask why you're crying."

"Huh?"

Aina brought her hand up to her face and jumped back when she felt tears drip onto her fingers.

"Well that's weird."

"You're not...upset about that, are you?"

"What? Not at all. I'm probably just getting my period."

Lucy studied her friend for a few seconds and asked her if she was sure.

"We kissed once," Aina lied. "It's not a big deal."

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The final bell rang and she jumped up, scaring her teacher and some of the students. They all looked at her, expecting some sort of answer.

"It's the end of the week!"

Some of the students caught on before the others and laughed with her. The teacher couldn't help but smile at her favorite student's enthusiasm. Aina grabbed her stuff and followed the other students to the lockers. Lucy jumped out from behind her once she got to her locker and cheered.