Gray has a crush on a certain blonde-haired Fairy Tail mage... and doesn't know what to do. He'd better hurry up before she thinks she loves someone else. What will he do...?
Gray's POV
I walked into the guild and my heart sped up when I saw the familiar blonde-haired girl sitting at the counter. She was talking with Mirajane and Mira had a smile on her face. She looked up from their conversation when I walked in and waved. I waved back and Lucy turned around at Mira's gesture.
She stared at me for a couple of seconds and I had to try really hard not to blush. Gray Fullbuster does not blush. Then Lucy waved at me and gestured for me to come over and sit next to her at the counter.
I obliged and she said, "Hey, Gray. What's up?" I looked at her and said, " Not much." I smiled. "What's up with you?" Lucy laughed at that and sent a shiver (the good kind) up my spine. Whoa. I can't believe her laugh did that to me. I thought. "So, Gray, do you want to go on a job with me?
I have to pay rent and I'm kind of broke right now." Lucy asked me casually, not knowing that my heart was now trying to burst out of my chest, it was beating so hard and fast. "Just you and me?" I asked her. "Sure-" Natsu ran up behind us and said, "So, you and Gray were planning on going on a job without me, huh?"
Anger pulsed through me at Natsu's intrusion and barely stopped myself from punching him in the face with everything I had. "Yes as a matter of fact, we were." I replied coolly, trying to keep my voice level. Natsu looked at me and scowled. "Well what if I said I wanted to come along?"
Lucy glanced at me, then back at Natsu and answered," Sure, Natsu, you can come along. And you can go pick out what job we'll do, okay?" He nodded enthusiastically, sneered at me as if to say, Haha, in your face, then went over to the Request Board.
I sighed. "Why'd you have to do that, Lucy?" I asked her. "To shut him up and so you two wouldn't fight about it... Gray? What are you doing?" I looked down and realized that I had unconsciously taken my shirt off. "Oops.. sorry about that..." Lucy waved my apology away. "Don't worry about it. I don't mind."
Natsu came back over and to my disbelief, Lucy's eyes lit up. "Hey, Natsu." "Hey again." I couldn't believe it, but I think I saw a small blush on Lucy's cheeks when he said hi back. It made my stomach clench with an emotion that I didn't recognize, but I tried to ignore it.
I was back in my apartment, having planned with Lucy and Natsu that we would go on the job tomorrow so we could all get some rest before. Happy had joined in but Erza was already on another job. I couldn't look at Lucy the whole time because she was kind of making goo-goo eyes at Natsu; and I don't know why, but I hated it.
I was laying on my bed, looking up at my ceiling and absentmindedly making little ice figurines before they disappeared into mist and thinking oddly of Lucy. How her blonde hair sparkled and shimmered in the sunlight, how her brown eyes reminded me of milk chocolate, how she always wore that adorable miniskirt, tank top, and boots with a belt that included her spirit keys and whip...
"Ack..." I suddenly opened my eyes and sat bolt upright, ignoring the pain from the wound in my stomach I had gotten when we were on Galuna Island. "What am I thinking?!" I looked out of my window, the one next to my bed, and saw that it was now night, the almost full moon visible from where my window was.
I swung my legs over the edge of my bed and started looking around for some of my clothes; I noticed I was only in my boxers again. "Maybe I should go out for a walk, maybe that will clear my head." I told myself. I found a pair of socks, putting them on, then my pants, pulling them on. I found one of my dark gray collared shirts, slipped it on, and finally yanked my boots on.
I headed out of my front door, locking it behind me. I loved that my apartment was away from all the other houses and that it was still reasonably close to the Fairy Tail Guild. Also, my motorcycle was parked near the side of the apartment but I told myself that I wasn't going to ride it tonight; I didn't want to waste any of my magic energy, so I was going to walk through the woods that was also beside my apartment.
I knew it like I knew the back of my hand so I just wandered around, not really paying attention to where my feet were taking me. I went deeper into the forest, then noticing I couldn't see the moon or any part of the night sky, I turned around deciding I would go back home.
I didn't know how to react to how Lucy reacted when Natsu came back to us with the request earlier, which was a thief-ridding job for 15,000 jewel, and tried to ignore the feeling it gave me. I got back to my apartment and locked the door behind me. I looked at the clock. It read: 11:00. I groaned and threw myself onto my bed when I got to my bedroom. I fell asleep almost instantly.
Lucy's POV
I watched as Gray left Fairy Tail; he hadn't looked at me the whole time we were planning what to do for the job. Natsu and I followed him, Happy behind us, as we went to the train station. Gray walked pretty fast, as did Natsu, but I had to jog to keep up with the both of them.
Natsu looked back and slowed, seeing me falling farther behind and let me catch up to him. He looked at me with surprisingly gentle eyes, then turned his head and called up to Gray. "Hey, Gray, slow down a bit, will ya?" Gray paused, turned around, then hurried back to us. "Sorry. Got a little carried away."
We walked the rest of the way to the train station at a slower pace, so I could keep up. "Sorry you guys." Gray and Natsu looked at me and Natsu asked," What for?" Natsu asked. "I don't walk fast enough for you guys and I'm slowing you down." Gray looked at me and I was surprised to see a little concern in his eyes. "Son't worry about it Lucy. You don't have to be sorry about anything." Natsu and Happy looked at me to, and they both said," Yeah."
On the train, Natsu was laying down on one of the seats and I was sitting across from him; Gray was beside me. I looked at Natsu and a rush of pity went through me. It must be so hard for Natsu because he gets motion sick so easily on any kind of transportation. I feel sorry for him. I thought.
Gray glanced at me and asked," Do you want me to knock him out to put him out of his misery while we're on the train?" He didn't sound mean, but he did sound serious and I laughed. "Sure, Gray, if you want to."
Gray's POV
We finally got to where we needed and climbed off the train; I had to carry Natsu 'cause Lucy let me knock him out so he wouldn't be motion sick. Lucy and I walked to the hotel we had booked and told the lady at the desk which rooms we had gotten.
Natsu, thinking it would be a embarrassing joke, had made Lucy stay in the same room as me, while he had gotten a room for himself and Happy. There was only one bed in Lucy and my room (there was a couch bed) but Natsu's room had two beds. He had really done it and I swear I felt like punching his lights out, but Lucy calmed me down. "You can have the bed, Lucy. I'll sleep on the couch bed, okay?" I told her once we had settled down into the hotel room.
"Thanks a lot, Gray." Lucy replied. She was still hung up on Natsu, and for some reason, it was killing me. How could she not get mad at him for his stupid joke? (Although, I kinda liked it for some reason I didn't know of.) How could she think he was an okay person when he could be such an idiot?
I couldn't understand why I felt the way I did or why she always made me feel all funny when she smiled at me, but I tried to ignore it as best as I could. But Natsu had gone far enough when I tried to unfold the couch bed and found out it was broken.
"Natsu! I'm gonna kill you! You filthy, perverted, bastard!" I ran at him, ice swirling around my hands and punched him so hard in the face that he flew back and hit the wall. Anger pounded through my veins and I was breathing really hard. Natsu leaped to his feet, flames bursting out around him and I yelled,"Ice Make: Knuckle!"
A huge fist made of ice flew out of the blue magic circle I had created and got Natsu right in the face. The force of it knocked him down again and he didn't get up.
I knew he wasn't really knocked out though, and so did Lucy because she came over to me and placed her hand on my chest near my shoulder and said,"Gray, calm down. It's okay. I'm sure Natsu didn't mean any harm with his stupid joke, and I don't mind sharing the room with you; you're my best friend. So, please calm down, Gray."
Then Lucy hugged me. I'm guessing that she felt something too, because I saw her blush a little as I wrapped my arms around her waist. I was the one who broke the hug, so she could go and check up on Natsu. She knelt down beside him with a look in her eyes that made my stomach churn and made me feel terrible.
I felt like I was going to throw up or something, but I pushed the feeling away and went to kneel beside her. Natsu was perfectly fine and he wasn't even mad at all; all I had done was get him revved up for the job, so we were all good.
Lucy's POV
I was back in my hotel room, sitting on the bed. Gray, Natsu, Happy, and I had just gotten back from the job; beating the crap out of the thieves hadn't been that hard, but that's not what I was thinking about. I was thinking about what I had felt when I had hugged Gray earlier.
It was so weird because I knew I had feelings for Natsu and I knew he had feelings for me too and I didn't know how to react to this; maybe it was just because we were really good friends? I don't know...maybe I'll just forget about it for now...plus Natsu said that he had something important to tell me when we got back to the guild, and I was kind of excited about what that would be.
Back at the guild, Natsu immediately pulled me aside, not without a interested look from Mirajane, who was at the counter and had looked up when we had come in. "Lucy... I have to tell you something very important..." Natsu said.
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