A/N: I'm not supposed to post this now, but I had this idea in my mind so I couldn't help it. This will be a short story, four to five chapters I think? It depends. They get longer, I promise! Reviews are loved :)

Chapter I

Her delicious scarlet hair stayed up in a ponytail. She adjusted the glasses on her nose to study the piece of paper more clearly. Her eyebrows were furrowed, her lips a thin line. Seriousness was practically screaming from her face. The young teenage boy, however, didn't seem affected. He had already gone through the notice and didn't really care much. He was simply leaning against the doorframe of her bedroom, both hands in his jacket's pockets.

"Gray," she started in a quiet tone, "what is this?"

Gray Fullbuster scratched the back of his head foolishly, giving her a nervous smile. He should've expected this. After all, when it came to Erza Scarlet, she would never agree with anything easily. "It's a… well, um, event."

"I know what it is, I can read. It's like a summer camp, or winter camp if that's what you'd like to call it. What I mean to ask you is, why are you showing me this?"

"Well," he began, "I thought it would be quite fun if we went together, you know. It has different activities for us to do, and I think it's a good way to spend the winter vacation than laying around all day playing video games."

"I don't lay around and play video games on winter vacations, I do stuff which actually helps me in life. How did you even think I would agree to this nonsense?"

"Well, it's not that bad. And the main reason I showed this to you is because you need to live a little."

"What?" the sixteen year old girl was now confused, and slightly offended, by what her best friend had just said.

"Well, you see Erza, you are way too serious for your own good. You should go out, meet new people, have fun. And this," he pointed to the note in her hand, "is just perfect to do exactly that."

"But this won't help me later on, will it?"

"It will. You'll have more friends to stand by you in the future."

"Don't need that. I have enough friends, thank you very much."

"Oh yeah? Excluding me, it's only Lucy and Natsu, which makes two. Well, three, if you count Natsu's cat Happy."

The girl gave him skeptical look, for which Gray simply sighed and walked forward, taking a seat beside her on the bed. "Look," he said, "I think this is great, and I really want to go. But I cannot exactly do that without my best friend, can I?"

"Really?" she sounded doubtful.

"Really," he confirmed, giving her a sure look. That simple contact of their eyes proved to Erza how serious he really was, and she cracked a smile.

"I'll talk to mom and dad; try to get their permission."

With those comforting words, the young boy broke into a huge grin. He was about to hug his friend out of happiness when his phone rang, shifting both of their attention to the technological device. Gray took it out, glanced at the caller's ID, and accepted the call.

"Yeah?" he spoke to the person on the other line, while Erza simply watched. "Oh, oh yeah. Sure, I'll be right there."

With that, he hung up and put his phone back in his jean's pocket. "I have to rush. You keep the notice, just in case your parents want to check it."

The boy stood up, giving her a quick smile before starting to leave, stopping midway when she asked, "Was that Juvia?"

He turned around, "Yeah. Yeah, it was."

"Does she ever stop calling?" her tone was one of absolute annoyance.

"Hey," he spoke quietly, but kept his point across, "she's not that bad, okay?"

"Yeah, sure," she spoke, sarcasm clearly dripping out of her words.

"Come on, give it a rest. You two should seriously bond more."

"Oh, please. I would do anything in this world than bond with your girlfriend."

"Erza…"

"Don't you have to go somewhere?" she reminded him, wanting to change the subject. He stood there for a while, just observing her.

"Yeah, you're right," he finally spoke, continuing on his way, but not before shouting some last words. "Call me once you're done talking to them, okay?"

"Okay, will do!" she shouted back, since he was out of sight by now. When she heard the sound of the door opening and slamming shut, she understood he had left. The girl took one last look at the notice, which had 'Winter Wonderland' in the subject. She decided to take one last look at the contents, just to be sure of what it had to offer. The apparent 'camp' was only for a week and, given their winter vacation started about ten days ago, it would take a fair share of her time. However, Gray said that it would be fun, so why not give it a try? The girl dismissed the negative thoughts and kept the paper on her study table. Maybe she did need to loosen up a bit.