Drinking in Love
Chapter One
"You doubled your alcohol consumption" Macao Conbolt said, standing while he looked down at Cana.
"So what" she replied.
"When I told you to cut down on alcohol you did… and now, well you're worse than before. I'm concerned for you Cana" the older man of eighteen years said.
Cana Alberona ignored him and continued to drink. She was wearing her striped blue and white bikini top and Capri black pants. Her gray bag was off to the side of the table that she was sitting at, and the table had bottles of beer and other kinds of liquors everywhere.
"Cana…" He tried to reason with her again, but again she ignored him.
Macao didn't know what to do. He had known Cana since the day she joined Fairy Tail, she was so small and little back then. She was eighteen now and she hadn't changed much form all those years ago. She still had her big bright chocolate eyes from when she was a child, but occasionally her drinking brought her down to a depression, and the brightness in her eyes dimmed. She was small as a kid, and she still was small even now, with her tiny waist and small form, but other places on her body had… matured greatly.
Macao tried his best not to concentrate on those parts. It was as if Cana was his own daughter, and it felt very wrong to look at her that way. Of course every man could clearly see how beautiful she was. That is why she deserved a great and powerful young man to be her future lover. Not someone as old as him who already had a child, and was divorced.
Sometimes he blamed himself for Cana's drinking, after all she was never interested in drinking until she was thirteen and started to hang around him and Wakaba. At the time he was newly divorced and miserable. He still remembered what his ex-wife said to him, "You will never be truly loved." It had hit him hard, and he took alcohol as his companion, and the only people he wanted in his life were those who could tolerate his drinking.
That was Cana. She was able to drink incredible amounts of alcohol without ever getting drunk. Of course she could and did get drunk occasionally, and those few times she did, he would learn more about Cana than anyone else in the guild, even more than the younger members in the guild that were her own age. He knew the reason why Cana joined Fairy Tail, because Gildarts was her father, and it broke his heart that she didn't have the courage to tell him. From that point on, he made it his duty to protect Cana, and to be a man she could depend on. Maybe that was his mistake. He showed Cana fatherly love, and she took it the wrong way.
"How dare he" Cana muttered drunkenly under her breath.
She felt ashamed that she listened to him when he told her to lay low on the drinking. She thought that he cared about her more than a comrade. She thought that maybe he felt the same way she felt for him… but no, that asshole did not, and he went and got himself a girlfriend!
"What was her name again?!" Cana drunkenly yelled questioningly at Mira.
Instead of getting an answer Mira patted Cana's shoulder and told her that she was going to walk her home.
Somehow getting her jacket and bag on, Cana waited at the front door to be escorted back home by Mira. Looking around at Fairy Tail's happy people, it made her stomach hurt and jealousy always formed. It made her so mad how happy everyone was, especially the S class mages. She need to become an S-Class mage... in order to tell... him.
"Cana" Macao called her name silently behind her.
"Shit! You scared me Macao," she said closing her eyes and leaning against the walls of the guild.
"You're drunk" he stated after getting a better look at her.
"No shit" she answered rudely back.
She opened her eyes to look at Macao. His hair was a shadowy indigo color, and as always it was gelled back. She knew this because Macao was always honest when he was drunk, and of coursed she asked him every question possible when he was in that state… expect for one question. Do you love me?
He was slim with a slight muscular build, and his outfit was the same as ever. Dark shirt, dark pants, and a white jacket. He wasn't wearing that necklace for once though, she had to give him that. Maybe he was just on a date.
He was attractive in her eyes… and apparently other women's eyes too.
"Oh Macao, I was just about to walk Cana home, unless you would do it for me" Mira asked in her innocent voice.
"Yeah, I'll make sure she gets home safe" Macao answered, putting his arm around Cana's shoulders and turning her around so they could walk out of the guild.
"Get your hands off of me" Cana said with a glare in her eyes.
"What's wrong Cana? Why are you so angry at me" Macao countered, not taking his hand off her shoulder as he walked her to her dorm. He was not going to let go of her. Something inside of him didn't want to, and another was scared that he was somehow going to lose her if he did. The part where he didn't want to confused him.
When they at long last reached her dorm, he walked her to her room, and like always helped her take her shoes off, and helped Cana into bed. This time was different though. It seemed Cana was serious about him not touching her, because the minute he knelled down to take her shoes off, she kicked him in the head. Hard.
"Cana! I've had enough of this, you're going to tell me what I did to make you so angry" He yelled at her. He didn't mean to use such a voice on her, but he was angry that she kicked him.
"NO! Just get out" Cana yelled at him while she stood up pathetically and started to throw even more pathetic punches at his chest. Alcohol made her weak, and they both knew it. Her card magic needed concentration, and there was no way she could concentrate when she was intoxicated, also she was not very physically strong to begin with.
"I'm not leaving till you tell me," Macao said, not moving one step towards the door. He was serious about this.
"…" Cana looked down, refusing to look at him and instead of answering she put her arms around his back, bringing him into an embrace.
She expected him to push her away, not that he had ever done anything like that before when she touched him, but that's what she expected him to do. But he didn't, and instead he put his own arms around her small back and tightened their embrace.
"I'm angry because you got a girlfriend" she answered him, leaning her forehead on his neck and her lips happened to touch his collarbone.
"Cana, don't be jealous, I'm still going to have time to drink and have fun with you" he said with a smile, he couldn't believe how cute Cana was being.
"No! That's not why I'm angry!" she pushed him away, but he insisted to keep one hand on her hip. "I'm angry because I'm in love with you, and you got yourself a girlfriend when I'm right here and willing to be yours!" she blurted out. She knew she was going to regret this in the morning. Damn alcohol. Why couldn't she find this kind of strength around Gildarts?
Macao's eyes widened from her confession and he didn't seem to know how to answer.
Cana was in love with him? Impossible! But she did just say it herself… and Cana was not one to lie, actually she was a rather serious person.
"Cana" he said, trying to form his words. He didn't have any idea what to tell her. He had a girlfriend and he had no idea she was in love with him, but even if he knew that... telling her he didn't feel the same would be… a lie? No… its not like was he in love with her.
"Just leave!" she said as her tears started to fall down and curve at her lips. She couldn't believe how pitiful she was being. Damn alcohol was making her all sensitive. Her heart felt like it had been stabbed, and that it was bleeding. It hurt so much that the man she loved was with another woman.
"Cana" he said again, trying to make a sentence form and make sense. He wanted to tell her something, and he couldn't just leave like this, if he did what would happen to their relationship? He loved Cana like a daughter, he loved her like a friend, and he loved her like a comrade. Do I love her as a woman?
"LEAVE" she yelled at him. He was after all the last person she wanted to see her cry.
As if he didn't know what to do, she made the decision for him as she walked over to the door, opened it and closed her eyes, hoping that he was going to still be there when she opened her eyes. But when she did open them, he was not there.