Chapter 1: Lucy

Everything was so boring around the guild. I couldn't wait until we could all go on a job again. I really needed to pay my rent and I'd been promising Mira and Levy that I'd go shopping with them soon and that was a month ago. I couldn't even afford to walk along the richer side of the city! By the way, that was a joke. You don't need to pay anything to walk. That was one of the few things I could do.

"Hey, Lucy!" I turned around and saw Natsu grinning and waving from a table across the guild. I sighed and looked listlessly back down at the wooden table I was sitting at. I couldn't deal with him right now. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw his face fall and I felt kind of bad, but I didn't do anything. I may have felt bad, but I didn't feel that bad. Natsu could handle a bit of disappointment once in a while.

I don't know how long I sat there, but I jumped as Levy plonked down beside me. "You've been sitting there a very long time, Lu-chan," Levy said, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm OK Levy-chan," I sighed dismally.
"That was the biggest lie I've ever heard!" Levy chirped too happily for me to bear. I knew Levy was waiting for me to explain, but I couldn't be bothered. Eventually, she left me to my own devices. That was if I had any devices, of course.

I heard a whispering noise behind me. Carla was whispering to Wendy. I pricked up my ears as I saw Wendy's grin widen excitedly. I heard snatches of words like "Erza", "job" and "going soon." My eyes nearly popped out of my head. Had we finally got a job?

"This is really bad!" I turned and saw an unwelcome visitor in the form of "The Exhibitionist" aka Gray. I sighed and said, "Gray, your clothes!"
He frowned and said, "I don't care about that now! It's really bad. Natsu just came to me complaining about his problems. To me!"
I opened my eyes in shock at that rare sentence.
"Are you completely sure he wasn't trying to start a fight?"
"I've known him for longer that you, Blondie."
"Hey! He doesn't sleep at your house, does he?"
"What? He spends the night now? I wonder what other ugly things you two get up to when we're not around."
"WHAAAA? No way! No way! No WAY!"
I turned brick red with embarrassment and folded my arms as Gray collapsed with laughter.

Gray suddenly changed the subject. "Did you hear about the new job that Erza chose?" he asked.
"Yes, I did," I said huffily, still not wanting to talk to him.
Gray smiled evilly and said, "Did you hear that we have to pretend that two of us are a couple?"
"No, I didn't," this had piqued my curiosity, "Who do you think Erza will choose to do that?"
"Well," Gray cocked his head to one side as if in thought, "You and Natsu are practically married, so it'll probably be you guys!"
"What?" I turned a few more shades of red if it was even possible to be more embarrassed than I was at the time.

Gray knew that he'd got me to embarrassment level 1001. Of course, he didn't stop there. "You guys are going to have to have to nicknames for each other," Gray snorted, "You could call each other Lucy-Wucy and Natsy-Watsy!" Gray had almost regained his composure before he collapsed with laughter again.
"Stop it! This is really, REALLY silly!" I squealed before I had an idea, "Maybe I could tell Erza that I wasn't OK with doing it. She might do it with you then, Gray!"

I watched as Gray's face paled. Ha! Payback time. Unfortunately, I didn't notice the sneaky look come over his face before he said, "I don't think so. She already told Makarov who the couple were. You two, of course!"
"No, no, no, no. This cannot be happening!" I buried my face in my hands. Things were just getting worse and worse. Of course, I didn't even think to make sure that Gray had all his facts right. Why didn't I? If I did, I wouldn't have been attacked by Juvia or by Aquarius when I summoned her. Ugh! I was an utter idiot! Anyway, I'm skipping ahead a bit. What just happened? Oh…right. The couple fiasco. Eeeep!

Gray grinned as he added more embarrassment to my embarrassment cake. It was probably more like a five course embarrassment meal, actually. "You guys are going to have to hold hands and everything," Gray crowed gleefully, "Apparently, we might have to arrange some passionate kisses once in a while too!"

My eyes burst wide open at that point. I was surprised I didn't have steam coming out of my ears or fire coming out of my mouth. Wait…that was Natsu's department. Of course, thinking of Natsu didn't make things any better, so I tried to change the subject, failing miserably.

"Anyway, what was Natsu's problem that you were talking about?" I asked, trying to ignore Gray's "kissing" fingers which he seemed to find hilarious.
"Oh! He was wondering why you were ignoring him," Gray replied, "Trouble in Paradise, is there?"

I'd had enough. I stood up from the table. "I'm going to go to Erza," I proclaimed fiercly and began to stalk off. I got about two paces before I felt a hand on my shoulder pulling me back. I turned and discovered Gray was the one trying to stop me.
"I was messing, OK?" he whispered frantically, "Don't tell Erza! None of it was true."
As he was pulling me back, I tried to resist. Suddenly, I overbalanced and went crashing inot him. His arms folded around me as I almost fell back over again.

My brain took a little while to process what he had just said. It was a LIE!? As soon as that had passed through my brain, another problem made itself clear. Gray was still holding onto me. That wasn't the biggest problem though. He was still holding onto me and he was wearing no clothes.

I hurriedly pulled out of his hug, almost crying from embarrassment and shame. I could hardly fathom that I had believed Gray's HUGE lie. I was also still blushing form the recent close contact with Gray's clotheless body.

I took one glance at his shameless face and decided that it needed some remodelling. I slapped him across the face, listening to the satisfactory clap of my hand connecting to flesh. I turned around and marched out of the guild door, furious with both myself and Gray. I smiled as I imagined the mark that I'd caused. That was that unfortunate incident dealt with!

Hello, fellow humani (unless some aliens are reading this). This is a six chapter story. Each of the first five chapters will be the same scene from different points of view. Lucy, Gray, Natsu, Juvia and Mira. The last chapter will be in third person and will show what happened after. This chapter was written by El and I will be writing some as well. Enjoy and review.