Okay, here goes chapter three and I'll try to update as soon as I can so please bear with me. ^_^
This is it….chapter three of this fanfic and if you don't understand any part of the story feel free to tell
me and I'll do my best to help you guys! :D GRAY AND LUCY time!
Ur straightened herself and ordered the maids to make the house as inviting and neat. It has been so many years since she saw her friend Layla and in a matter of weeks she will get the chance to see her again. Layla called over the phone with a trembling voice and told her that her husband was killed and that they needed someplace safe to hide while the bastard who heartlessly killed her husband was on the loose. Ur was cheered up with the whole idea (Layla coming over not Jude being dead xD) and told her that she could stay at their place anytime. She has made a lot of preparations already and decorated the room for Layla and Lucy herself. She made sure that they will be as comfortable with the accommodations as ever while staying there with them. She reckoned that Layla would stay with her for good now that she was the only one who will be raising her daughter. And she was really excited to meet Layla's little girl. As she stood there making sure that the place was simply perfect a sound of someone getting attention slammed the door and that someone sat down a chair as a thud was heard after. Ur lived in a three-story house that held five rooms ( No idea why they need so much rooms since it's just her and Gray xD) and a private pool outside that connects to the botanical garden and where three miles lies a well where she constructed and made all by herself. She believed that wishes come true when you offer your wish after dropping a bucket full of water into the well.
"Mom! The place is perfect….where not having the queen over are we?" The sarcastic voice of her twelve years old son muttered sitting down himself while he drank a pint of milk.
"Well….we are having your auntie Layla over…I expect you to be nice especially to her daughter Lucy." Ur warned giving her soon a stern look as she patted his head and grabbed the face towel from the counter to wipe her son's sweat from playing basketball with his friends.
"Yeah, whatever. How many days will they be here?" Gray asked clutching the basketball that Gildarts gave him for his sixth birthday.
"It's not nice to ask those kind of stuff, honey…they've been through a though time." Ur's tone saddened and crossed her arms that even Gray got worried, gave up and let her mother win again. Despite Gray's snarky attitude he deeply cares for his mother and would do anything for her. Whenever the both would have an argument Ur played the sad-acting card and it never fails to make her son agree to whatever she wanted.
"Okay, I promise to be hospitable to them since they are important to you." Gray grunted but won't make her mother worried otherwise.
"Thank you my baby!" Ur cheered right up and closed the distance and pecked her blushing son as he gave the speech about 'I'm a grown up man.' "Nonsense! You'll always be my baby." Ur teased hugging her son closer.
"Awww…come on mom!"
"Alright! So when do you want to see Dr. Justine?" Ur asked her son as she picked up an apple and started nibbling on it.
"Um…..well, I…" Gray panicked and remembered that her mother has been telling him that he should have his circumcision already.
"Is my BABY scared?" Ur teased her son emphasizing the word he didn't want to be called. She just found it amusing to get him all worked up and saw her son's grip on the ball tighten.
"NO! Fine tomorrow I'm ready." Gray's voice sounded a bit off at the last two words that he so bravely shouted at his mother who had crossed the room and was pinching him laughing as she did so.
"Awww, my Gray is so cute! Do you want to be an actor?" Ur asked him.
"We had this for a thousand times mom! I don't get your liking for these dramas." Gray scoffed at the whole idea. Ever since he can remember all the birthday themes he had received for his birthday was with her favorite actors and posters of her favorite dramas and this humiliated him when her mom would invite his friends over to have that kind of theme. He has lived in embarrassment.
"But you qualify! You have good looks and I swear I see talent." Ur encouraged tugging at his son's sleeve smiling mischievously.
"I rather get circumcised right now." Gray scoffed pushing his mother away.
"Alright, let's drop the topic for now." Ur muttered placing the damp towel in the washing area and telling Gray to get cleaned up. When the phone rang and she hurried of to answer it.
"Hello? Fullbuster residence."
"Hello, Mrs. Fullbuster about what we discussed yesterday….we are going to have it in Magnolia Cemetery remember?" A croaky voice affirmed.
"Oh, yes please. Have I gotten the slot?" Ur asked twirling the cord of the phone.
"Yes, preparations are going well. We'll be ready any time. My name is Kevin by the way." The man chuckled.
"Thank you Kelvin-san. I appreciate your help. I'll just call you whenever I get the time." Ur answered gratefully.
"Alright. Mind asking who are we doing this for?"
"Oh, well…it's for the husband of my friend." Ur answered. I wonder if it's alright telling him about this stuff.
"I see…you're a good friend, she's lucky to have you. Have a good day Mrs. Fullbuster." Was the last words that were heard from the toad-like voice sensing the discomfort in Ur's voice as he hunged up.
Ur has got it hard since Layla called her on the phone one night while she was eating dinner with her son and Gildarts who came over to visit them.
"Gildarts, it's been awhile since you visited us!" Came the cheerful voice of her son as he opened the door revealing a man who was carrying his loaded stuff from the trip that he always goes with his daughter Cana on her birthday. Gildarts was the closest family friend next to Layla who I counted on. He was even there when I gave birth to Gray and helped me raise my son and help around when I needed it.
"Long time kid! I see you've grownup. Where's your mom?" Gildarts stated patting the boy on the head.
"You've been away just for a week…how could I have gotten tall?" Gray snickered at the tall muscular man.
"Hello, Gildarts back from the trip?" I called out to him seeing that he was talking to my son.
"Yeah, Cana really enjoyed! Thanks for the tickets." I smiled at him remembering the tickets I gave him to go to some hotel to spend the birthday of his daughter together.
"No problem, why don't you stay for dinner?" I offered getting Gray to let go of the big man.
"Don't mind if I do." And as we sat there eating dinner while Gildarts launched into his story about how his trip with his daughter went when the maid interrupted and said there was a phone call and that the person who called said that it was an emergency.
"I'll take this…" I told both of them while they animatedly were swept into their own stories.
"Hello, Fullbuster residence."
"Ur? Hi it's Layla….I need your help."
"LAYLA! You haven't called for the past few days!" I accused although was really glad to get to hear her voice.
"I'm s-sorry." And that was when I noticed that her voice sounded off and that she was sniffling.'
"Hey, what's wrong? Are you ok?" After a few seconds of silence she told me what happened to her husband and that she needed a place to stay while they catch the killer. I felt my head burst with the possibilities that made me think light-headed as I felt sympathy for my friend. I offered to arrange the funeral for her since her hands were tied for taking care of Lucy. She insisted and that letting her stay in my house was more than enough but I told her that I knew someone who can help them get the funeral done soon so she agreed and after talking on the phone I made calls everywhere to get to my friend who knew how to get a slot in the Magnolia cemetery and launching the coffin from someplace since it will be held here.
"Mom? Gildarts left and said that he needed to go because Cana's all alone and aren't you going to finish your food?" Gray explained and took my hand pulling me to finish my food.
"I see…wait honey….Mommy's busy….brush your teeth and go to sleep. I'll be right there in a few minutes." I instructed as I reached out to touch his face as he went dejectedly to his room.
After making a few more calls I went to the kitchen to drink some water and tried to think what preparations would be made for Layla's arrival. They'll be here in a week. And I hurriedly pranced into my son's room to see him glowering in my direction.
"Honey…are you mad? Sorry, about that….I was just a bit preoccupied." I used the sweetest voice I could manage to get my son's forgiveness.
"Nah, I'm not mad mom." He sighed and played with the thick sheets of his blanket.
"That's good. I need to tell you something…" I started sitting down on the edge of his bed. His room was bright blue and was surrounded by his favorite basketball player's posters. And he preferred to leave it at that.
"Is it bad news?" He asked with his dark blue eyes full of questions but did not push around for more answers.
"Well, you know auntie Layla right?"
"You're friend who's insane with dramas as much as you are?" He hinted and I threw him a it-is-not-insane-look.
"Well, her husband…passed away…last night and they are going to hold the funeral here in Magnolia….so I invited them to stay over." I chose my words carefully making sure he understood.
"Ohh….where Is she sleeping?"
"Well, she's not alone…she's bringing her daughter along. Isn't that good? You'll have a friend." I told him and he seemed taken aback with the whole idea. And that's when the complications started and he was totally against the idea of some strangers staying over. I had no idea why he didn't like the idea but I told him that it was my final decision so he just better behave.
And as Ur left his son to sleep they parted with the both of them glaring at each other and decided to continue discussing the matters at hand the next day.
Why did it have to go through this? I know now that I shouldn't mop around and make myself miserable. I still have to live my life for my daughter's sake if not for my own. These past few days….we have been spending our lives as normal as much as we could handle.
Lucy woke up from her sleep after that nightmare and began to look for me. I just finished talking to Ur on the phone as I threw my arms welcomingly and she ran to it. I was afraid of what effect it might leave her. This was too much for a twelve year old girl nevertheless a child to take. I wouldn't know what to say if she started to ask questions like 'Where's Papa?' and other questions that would lead to last night.
"Mama? Why are you crying?" She asked wiping the tears off my face hastily.
"I'm sorry, Lucy…" It was all I can say and I held on to her tightly like my life depended on it.
After Sabrina-san helped me with compromising and making a lot of explanations why I will be disappearing for the time being from my co-workers and for the people that worked in my company I started to notice a difference in Lucy. She wasn't the same girl that I knew. The old Lucy who was very talkative and very bubbly turned silent. She would only speak when spoken to but for the most past would just stare off in some direction and hold on to her teddy. I was worried that this was an effect of witnessing her father's death but when I gathered the courage to ask her….I was in for the most shocking truth for her reply.
"What are you talking about mama? Who's papa?" Was her answer to me. I was motionless for a while and stared in to her brown eyes that were so identical to mine. And before I knew it I collapsed and woke up to see Sabrina-san with a man who was checking up on me. Sabrina told me that she called the doctor after seeing me on the floor with Lucy sitting and just staring at me and she told Sabrina that I was sleeping.
"Sabrina-san! Lucy!" I gasped to see Lucy sitting on the corner with a candy on her hands.
"Well, are you feeling well Mrs. Heartfilia? I took the opportunity to check up on your daughter seeming that she was traumatized by the events."
"Excuse me?" I asked getting up and Sabrina handed me a glass of water telling me that she told the doctor everything.
"Well, as I talked with your daughter and…"
"Is my daughter alright? She's been acting…strange. She wasn't like that….before."
"Well, in this case…I wager she has been traumatized by the events which caused her to forget most of it…and it is really common for people to experience this after being in shock." The doctor explained patting me on my shoulder.
"What do we have to do?" I asked helplessly.
"Well, usually it's either they forget forever if lucky…she'll trigger them in time. All you have to do is show her that she's important. Make her feel that she is loved." The doctor smiled encouragingly as he got up and gathered his materials.
"Thank you Doctor." Sabrina-san muttered glancing up to see Lucy pulling her sleeves.
"R-restroom please." Little Lucy asked and with that Sabrina-san accompanied her to the comfort room.
We left Sabrina-san and thanked her for all the help that she did for us. She told us that it was her pleasure and that was the last time I saw her as we headed off to the airport to go to Magnolia back where Ur would be waiting for me.
"Lucy, are you hungry?" Layla asked her as she tucked her on the seat beside her. She shook her head and stayed silent. Layla felt uneasy knowing the fact that her husband's body was on the same plane as them. She decided that her husband's burial will be held back home. It took four hours for the travel and got a text message from Ur that she was already in the airport waiting for them. She smiled as she read the message and reached for their luggage as her daughter followed her outside.
And as Layla and her daughter walked silently searching for familiar faces. "Lucy stay close to mama." She instructed her daughter.
"LAYLAAAA!" A child-like voice screamed through the crowd and saw that the one face that she wanted to see all of these years and dropped their luggage's running for her best friend, both pushing through the crowd and when they finally reached each other they embraced tightly and both laughed as they cried out of happiness.
"Ur! It's been so long! Still same tomboyish girl." Layla teased wiping away the other girl's tears as Ur did the same.
"You're the one to talk…still the same cry-baby!" Ur accused and both girls continued crying and Layla remembering Lucy motioned for her daughter to come to them.
"Ur…this is my Lucy." Layla introduced and placed her hands on her daughter's shoulders and pushing her lightly. Ur bent down and smiled at the little girl.
"So this is the famous Lucy! I'm glad to finally meet you. What a pretty girl. I'm Aunt Ur." And Lucy shyly went behind her mother's back and staring at Ur with a confused look.
"Shy girl like you?" Ur stated standing up and Layla just laughed and carried her daughter.
"Gray, come and meet my friend." Ur encouraged and Layla noticed that there was a boy wearing a white jacket and his hands were in his pockets approach them and stared at his mother.
"You must be Gray?" Layla asked smiling at him.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Just Auntie." Layla giggled looking at Ur with a stoic look.
"What a handsome kid." Layla complemented.
"Yeah, I've been told. Ne, Layla….how about our children become like Alzack and Bisca when they grow up?" Ur suggested thoughtfully her eyes sparkling with excitement.
"Of course!" Layla answered in return and held the same look.
"Anyway, we should get you guys home so you can rest." Ur hinted looking at the deep circles underneath Layla's eyes. She agreed and towed Lucy over while Gray helped carrying the baggage's.
On the way to Ur's house was complete silence. Ur would have gladly chatter to break the ice but decided Layla was too tired and let her rest. When they arrived she woke her friend softly and laid out to the maids to carry their stuff inside. Layla was awestruck to see such a welcoming house while still carrying the sleeping Lucy.
"Come, I'll show you to your room….I figure you're tired." Ur said motioning for them to follow her and Ur led to a door with golden knobs and pulled then push to reveal an enormous room that held a queen-size bed with a neatly pilled pillows and a bookshelf at the corner and closets. Everything was their including the stuff that they brought with them.
"Is it too much? We can change it—"
"It's perfect Ur! Thank you." Layla cutted her off.
"Well, I'll leave you to get some rest. We'll catch up later ok?" Ur grinned and Layla nodded and placed Lucy on the neat bed.
"Gray-sama! Juvia misses you so much!" A creepy voice shouted as Gray went to Natsu's house to invite to play with him.
"J-Juvia?" Gray stammered looking at the girl running over to him. Adrenaline shook him as he made a run inside the house to see Natsu and Loke his two best friend's playing x-box.
"Hey, join us Gray!" Natsu showed his teeth noticing the panic-stricken boy and Loke nodded in acknowledgement.
"Hide me!" Gray ordered looking for a place to conceal himself. Both of his friends looked at him curiously and when they heard the demanding voice of their friend Juvia helped Gray look for a place to hide which was Natsu's closet.
"Gray-sama? Natsu and Loke have you seen Gray-sama?" Juvia insisted batting her eyelashes to the two acting boys who pretended to be playing x-box the whole time.
"Yeah, he went running outside from my window." Natsu thought quickly pointing through his window which was miraculously open. Juvia thanked them and hopped down the window in search of the boy.
"Wew, thanks, guys!" Gray said and came out from the closet when he sure that there was no sign of the girl and smacked-fist his two friends.
"No problem! We got your back." Loke smirked and pushed his hair back.
"Let's play ball!" Gray invited.
"We can't…." Loke trailed off pulling his arms forward.
"Why not?"
"Natsu's grounded." Loke 's smirk deepened as Natsu threw Loke death glares and threw the joystick at his laughing friend , who dodged it easily with his fasts reflexes.
"Oh, bummer. So I guess we'll be chatting like girls in Natsu's room now." Gray mumbled faking a fluky look while sitting across the two shrugged it off, smirking as they fooled around.
"Anyway, what happened? You saw your mom's friend?" Natsu asked turning off the x-box as he did so.
"Yeahp."
"And she was with her daughter right? Same age as us?" Loke implied. Gray yawned and couldn't really care less about talking about the little girl who did nothing but stare into space and held her teddy bear….so girlish and creepy in a way. His mom's friends have been with them for two days already and as time passed he's gotten the chance to have an over-look of how those two were like. His mom and her friend were always together catching-up and talking about their 'dramas' as the little girl was strangely deaf to him and acted like she was all…..special. And when he couldn't take it….took the opportunity while his mother was preoccupied with her friend and made a run to Natsu's house.
"Well, yeah…"
"Is she cute?" Loke asked getting to his knees and waited for an answer as his eyes filled with wonder. And Gray knew that his friend was the hugest flirt in town his age. Back in their school he even tries to flirt with their teachers and was one of the most popular boys in their school. He had no idea why his friend was like that but couldn't give a damn.
"Quit being such a flirt Loke." Gray started disgustingly throwing the ball he's holding and Loke caught in his hands. While Natsu was laughing at them.
"Jealous? You already taken a liking to this girl?" Loke inspected nudging his eyes for Natsu to back him up.
"Awwww, who knew popular Gray-sama would like girls?" Natsu batted his eyelashes in a girly manner and did smooching sounds.
"I'll help you court the girl Gray…but first you need to get circumcised." Loke grinned deviously and that made Natsu into hoots of laughter as tears fell down his face not being able to contain the humor and Gray had enough of it he has already fore-stalled this from happening and these guys have been making fun of him with that knowledge for weeks.
"Ugh, screw you guys. I'll just go home." Gray grunted and took his ball back and seemed that this made his friend amused as Loke and Natsu laughed at him on his way out.
"Aww, come on Gray! We'll go with you! We want to meet your girlfriend!" Natsu hurried to catch up with his annoyed friend.
"She's not my girlfriend!" Gray blurbed and that made Natsu's ears cring as he reached out to cover it and moan theatrically and that earned a smug-smile from Gray.
"Okay, but we'll still go with you." Loke appeared smiling at his friend.
"Do whatever you wanna do and could you please stop bantering me?" Gray grunted bouncing his ball while walking and the two followed him.
"So is she cute?" Loke started off, but dropped it when he saw his friend Gray looked at him with a face that meant he could kill him right then.
And on their way to Gray's house, Natsu chattered how he was going to make the blonde his friend and as they arrived there the three friends saw a blonde girl sitting on the swing set all by herself gazing over the birds that were frolicking.
"Is that her Gray?" Natsu asked and Gray was about to answer a 'yes' when he saw his two friends missing and surprisingly saw the both of them cornering the little girl and hurried to join them.
"So are you Lucy?" Loke asked winking at the girl.
"Hey, I'm NATSU! Let's be friends." The pink hair grinned holding out his hands for the girl to shake. But the girl just looked at them and trembled at the sight of unfamiliar faces. When the raven-haired boy approached she took one look at him and made her way out of the two insistent faces and ran over and constricted her tiny fists at the boy's jacket and hid behind him. Gray was shocked from the gesture but composed himself and glared at his friends.
"Idiots….look now you scared her."
"We're sorry, Lucy-chan….." The boys trailed off looking at each other.
"We won't hurt you…." Loked smiled and went over to Gray and the shy girl. Lucy peeked and looked at Loke and when he winked, clumsily tugged at the boy's jacket harder.
"I don't think you should flirt with her." Gray comprehended snickering at his friend.
"Hey! What's going on here?" A new voice butted in and all of them boggled at the direction where the voice came from.
"Jellal! What are you doing here?" Natsu asked while Loke was still shell-shocked from the rejected attitude of the girl.
"Well, I was on the way home from piano lessons and I thought you were bullying that little girl." Jellal pointed at the girl behind Gray. Jellal was a friend of theirs and was two years older. He was on the same street as the Fullbusters and his father was one of the owners of Fairy Tail Café.
"We're not bullies!" Natsu yelled at haste sticking his tounge at the blue-haired boy when Jellal gave a 'you-guys-are-bullies-i-know-so-because-you-guys-get-into-trouble-a-lot-at-school-look.' Jellal just laughed and made his way to Gray and the little girl.
"Hey, Jellal…step aside! You might frighten her!" Loke warned but Jellal was not the kind of person who listens and stopped a meter away from the little girl. He was a foot taller so he crouched down to her level and laid his hand on top of her head.
"Hey, there. I'm Jellal…..what's your name?" He asked and smiled warmly at the girl. Gray tensed and was almost close to pulling the girl away in case she decides to cry right there and her mother would definitely blame him. But slowly he felt the pressure that was pulling his jacket let go and to see the little girl relaxing on Jellal's touch and she smiled and for the most surprising part tackled the other boy.
"WHAT?" Natsu and Loke chorused but Gray just glared at the drama.
"Hahaha…you're so cute…" And Jellal picked her up and twirled her around much to their dismay Lucy laughed and smiled happily. Gray never knew that the girl could even make a sound let alone laugh.
"NO! Don't tell me that….Jellal…is so much better at this field?" Loke cursed plucking out a flower and pulling out the petals saying 'I have never been rejected' gibberish all to himself while Natsu laughed at him.
"Looks like you're not a flirt-master after all!" Natsu laughed hysterically.
"See you guys later! I need to go home or else Dad might get worried." Jellal interrupted the chaotic group and dropped the little girl in front of Gray. But as Jellal turned to leave, Lucy held on to his shirt and her face turned pink as she muffled tears.
"I need to go…I promise to visit you alright?" Jellal ruffled her hair and smiled but she still won't let go. It took Gray, Loke and Natsu to get her prying hands off the shirt of the boy but they let go when she started to scream.
"No! P-please, don't leave me!" Lucy cried out and started to smack her fists from the people who took her away from Jellal. We let go of her and she ran back into the confused Jellal. And Gray felt Natsu and Loke stare back in amazement.
"S-she can talk?" Natsu and Loke chorused all over again. The other boy with black hair couldn't speak yet so he just nodded.
"Lucy? Gray, is everything alright?" And all of them turned to see Aunt Layla with Gray's mother walk to them.
"Good evening." Jellal greeted the two elders as they smiled back.
"Mom! Please, don't make him go!" And with that…even Layla gasped at the sound and was bewildered and she started crying and hugging her daughter.
"Lucy! You can…speak a sentence now!" Layla hugged her daughter in delight. And Ur smiled at the both of them and Layla continued to squander her speechless once again daughter.
"Heyy….is it the first time they heard her talk?" Loke whispered to his friend.
"I HAVE NO IDEA." Gray muttered still looking at the scene before his eyes.
"I have to go if you don't mind Mrs. Fullbuster." Jellal bowed and after taking one last look at the little girl left.
"We'll be going too!" Natsu said to Ur bowing in respect.
"Have a good night Aunt Ur. Good-bye Lucy!" Loke called out and both of them said their good-bye's to Gray and closed the gate in haste. Lucy stopped crying and after a few minutes got her teddy bear and lurched off to the swing-set and stared into space and with that she was back to normal-back to her old self.
When Gray opened the gate and made his way as he saw the daughter of Aunt Layla who was in the swing looking off to nowhere.
"Hey, you there…you should go inside…it's going to get cold." Gray ordered expecting to her to talk again and seeing no response from the girl walked away in annoyance and when he took a step backward to see the girl in the same state hid behind the statues and peeked to gape at the girl.
"Is that girl having some sort of syndrome?" He muttered all to himself. The girl continued to motionlessly stare into space and have this blank expression. Gray didn't understand but it bugged him seeing someone like this as he decided to show up…he didn't know what he was even gonna do couldn't even comprehend why this would bother him when he heard footsteps and murmurs faintly, but became noisier by the minute.
"I see…you've been through a lot." Gray heard his mother's voice to see her with Aunt Layla walking side-by-side.
"And my only regret is….she changed. My little girl started acting different. The doctor said it was due to being traumatized." Aunt Layla explained going up to tears as Ur went up to pat her friend.
"Don't worry…I'm sure everything will be alright again. Especially, now that we're together again." Ur smiled.
"Thank you for having me, Ur. I just don't understand why I have to be so ill-fated. Why my daughter has to suffer." Layla shook her head and glanced towards the frail girl on the swing set.
"Oh, Layla….you're not unlucky! You'll get through this…I'll be here with you."
What were they talking about? That girl named Lucy changed? Does that mean that she wasn't deaf before? She was traumatized? Auntie Layla had problems from her previous home I knew that….but how big is the issue? Questions played all over Gray's mind and decided to go straight to his room when the place was crystal clear and his mother and her friend headed off for some more catching up.
"Gray, honey?" Ur knocked and barged inside still wearing the same clothes when she left for work this morning.
"Hey, mom." Gray answered as he closed his PSP and threw it beside the headboard feeling uncomfortable at the moment.
"Honey, about what we have been talking about…wake up early tom….we're going to see Dr. Justine." Her mom directed moving closer and slid her hands in her pockets. Crap, I almost forgot it's time to be a grown-up man now. Loke and Natsu won't be able to make fun of me anymore after this.
"Umm…okay, Mom." Gray said as lightly as possible making sure that his mom won't notice that he was slightly scared but won't show it.
"Good…and next week…I bought your clothes all black and we are attending the funeral of your Auntie Layla's husband. We have to show that we sympathize with them." Gray saw his mother tense about the whole idea and frowned.
"Right….Okay, mom." Ur looked like she was awakened from a dream but Gray shrugged it off and both of them went downstairs for supper. Gray took his seat and opposite him was Lucy who was having trouble with holding her utensils as her mother went over to help.
"Layla, you should try the food! A friend of mine made it!" Ur cheered and sat beside the occupied chair of Layla.
"It does look delicious!" Layla complimented after managing her daughter took a seat and placed the napkin neatly on her lap. Dinner went by fast as both mothers had a conversation and Gray ate silently…sometimes stealing a look at the girl across him.
"Excuse me, and thanks for the food." Gray commenced and pushed his seat away and headed off to his room. Little by little….he took a bath and brushed his teeth and went downstairs to say his good night greeting to her mother who was enthralled with light talking with her friend. This didn't bother him since he has never seen his mother so bliss with happiness with the smile that she wore and after a hug from his mom, headed upstairs and saw the room on his way that was opened partly. Curiousity got the better of him and pushed the door gently and saw the girl sitting at the corner of the room and putting her hands over to her head.
"What is she doing?" Gray couldn't pin-point and decided not to stick at the girl's business after sneaking one more look and he sighed and chuckled at the weird girl and fell asleep still laughing as he tried to decipher what the girl was trying to do.
The next day….Ur came over to her friend's room inviting them for breakfast.
"Layla, I'll be gone for a while. I'll be with my son…we're going to the doctor. You know to get him…circumcised." Ur giggled and Layla chuckled at her bubbliness. "And if there's anything you need feel free to ask one of the maids."
"Sure. I'll be here with Lucy then." And Layla woke her daughter up who looked at her questioningly and she answered with a smile while Ur entered the room and pecked Lucy and Layla a good-bye with her son Gray who doesn't look like a morning person but greeted the guests and the both of them left after entering the car and drove off.
"M-Mama…where is A-auntie Ur going?" Lucy asked her mother. Layla smiled seeing the fondness that Lucy was able to build with her friend. These past few days Ur went home early from her job to spend quality time with Lucy like she was her own daughter. Lucy seemed to brighten up when Ur was around and Layla was glad that they were doing well with each other.
"Auntie Ur will just accompany her son to the doctor. They'll be back soon." Layla explained and Lucy nodded as she went to pick up her teddy bear and started with the daily routine she has gotten used to which was to hold her toys and sit down at a corner and play with the block set that Ur got her a week ago.
I'm glad that my daughter feels at peace here even I feel the same here in this place. I 've forgotten how nice it was here in Magnolia. Ur told stories about her job and that she was one of the owners of that restaurant. It wasn't just a restaurant but was made to be a Café/Hotel/Vacation house. I laughed at first then was awe-trucked learning that she wasn't joking.
It was nice to be able to catch up with Ur and feel normal again. Just to feel a simple and happy life. But last night….after her son Gray greeted her before he slept….Ur got serious and I teased her about it. Then she told me that the preparations for the funeral was ready any time and the same feeling I got from when I grieved for my husband's death came back. And I decided that it should be proper enough for it to commence next week five days from now. I just wish that it won't do any harm on Lucy since I still haven't explained that her father died seeing that she couldn't remember a thing.
"But you need to tell her…..he's still the father." Ur said sadly.
"I'm just worried that it will have a negative effect on her." I said doubly as we sat outside the veranda feeling the chilly night.
"I understand." Ur answered. Layla thought about the conversation she had with Ur last night and painstakingly glanced at her daughter who was still playing.
How am I going to handle this?
OKAY, SO THAT'S IT FOR NOW EVERYONE! :D Hahaha, I couldn't help myself but laugh when I decided to make Lucy kinda spoiled brat and have a thing for Jellal (well, I guess it's just in a brother-kind-of-way) Gray, was to be circumcised! Rofl…..and Loke being rejected! And if you haven't gotten it….Gray, Loke, Natsu and Lucy are 12 years old while Jellal is 14.
I hope you don't mind the lame concept.
Btw, sorry if I won't be updating as fast as I was before….it's because I'm depressed since Fairy Tail just ended showing up on Animax. Just so sad. Haha.