/Chapter 3\\

"Good morning Lucy!" A all to familiar voice said.

"Natsu, I told you! Knock before coming in someones house!" She yelled

The sunlight was just beginning to seep into the house.

"Look, Lucy we got a job!" Natsu exclaimed with a big goofy grin on his face. "Really! What is it, and how much?" she asked.

"16,000,000 jewels!" Happy said flying around the room.

"W-what that's 4,000,000 for each of us!" She yelled happily. "What do we have to do?" she asked

"Just help some business guy get from here to there." Gray said opening up the door.

"Gray, were you ease-dropping? ...And clothes...?" she sighed

Gray looked down in surprise "Damn it! Where did I leave them!" He said running out of the room...though not out of the house she heard things being tossed around. "My poor house..." she cried in her head.

"Ne, Lucy, you know if you don't put flowers in water they will die." Happy said.

Lucy looked at the flower. It had not withered at all even though she had forgotten to put it in water. "Oh well, maybe it's because it is a magic flower" she thought.

"Oh yeah! We gotta hurry! Erza's waiting at the train station!" Natsu yelled jumping out of Lucy's window.

Gray must have left to because there was no noise downstairs. Lucy quietly packed up some of her stuff,she never knew how long they would be gone so she packed enough for a week. Then walking over to her desk she picked up the flower that Haruo had given her. "It's really pretty." she said gazing at the flower. She decided to put it in some water before she left.

Silently walking down to her small kitchen, she found a tall glass cup and filled it with water. As she took the cup, water, and flower into her living room she noticed that it was really quiet. She didn't think much of it, and went to the window to place the flower facing the sun. After about two minutes of fidgeting with it, she finally got it just the way she liked it. She sighed, happy with her flower arranging skills, then took a step back to see it from further away. As soon as she did that two strong arms held her, then something moved close to her ear and whispered "Boo." Lucy was about to scream when Gray turned her around to see her face. Then helplessly started laughing. "Lucy, you should see your face!" He choked out in between laughs.

"Oh Lucy, come on! It was a joke! Will you please talk to me?" Gray pleaded.

Lucy however responded like a small child and stuck her tonuge out at him. Over off in the distance they could see the train station.

"Okay then, come on you don't want Natsu and Erza waiting any longer do you?" Gray did not give her the chance to answer he grabbed her hand and pulled her along. Lucy blushed but tried to hide it from him. But then he stopped and she ran right smack into his chest she was about to look up to yell at him when his arms wrapped around her. Now her face was almost entirely red. "What is he thinking!" she yell inside her mind.

"Lucy, I'm very sorry for scaring you." He said calmly. Lucy didn't know what to say, so she just stood there while random people on the street stared at them. But, someone else was following them and Gray had noticed it from the moment they left her house. He glared at the figure, as it shrank back into the alley way.