Prompt: Coffee Date + Jellal/Minerva? - itsajoshyboy
Stalkers
Jellal couldn't help but shift uncomfortably as a he spotted a head of bright pink hair pop up outside the cafe window over his date's shoulder. He knew it was Meredy straight away, of course, and even though Jellal had hoped his adopted family would just stay home and let him go off on his own for once, he really wasn't surprised that Meredy had turned up to spy on his date - no doubt with the rest of the clan as well.
"This was a waste of time, wasn't it?"
He was brought back to the conversation he'd admittedly been tuning out to when watching Meredy keep ducking behind the window to not be seen by him, and blinked twice before finally uttering, "W-What? No, I don't believe so. Why would you say that?"
"You're clearly distracted…" Minerva replied quietly. She was barely any good at talking to people, let alone actually putting herself out there (which probably explained her lack of dating experience). But it was her third date with Jellal, and she'd been under the impression that things had been going well.
Albeit slow, since they were still only on a coffee date and getting to know the basics about each other, but well nonetheless. Besides, slow was always good in Minerva's book…
"I'm…"
Well, he was distracted, especially now after catching a glimpse of Erik walking by the window with a smirk on his face (apparently the whole fam really was spying on him on his date), but… Jellal didn't really want to admit that he was distracted. Because if he admitted it, then Minerva would think it was because she was boring him and really, that wasn't the case. The only way Jellal saw of being able to avoid that happening was to just tell her what was actually distracting him. At least that way she wouldn't think it was to do with her.
Besides, if he did 'lie' about it, Meredy would no doubt hang it over his head for the rest of his life. She did things like that.
So with a sigh, Jellal awkwardly admitted, "I told my family I was seeing you here today, and I guess they followed me to spy on me and see who I was on a date with, and… They've been watching us for the last five minutes from outside the cafe."
Minerva raised an eyebrow at the admission and turned on her chair to look to the wide window behind her, and sure enough, she witnessed three heads quickly duck town below the window just outside. Nosy families was something she had a bit of experience with herself, and as she turned back around with a relieved smile playing on her lips, she pointed towards a booth on the far wall of the cafe and said, "If it makes you feel any better, my brothers came to spy on me too."
Jellal didn't get a chance to see the faces of the two sitting in the booth Minerva pointed to before they were picking up their plastic menus and hiding themselves behind them.