Chapter Three: The Most Reddest Rose
The preparations were done by 5 o' clock. All the members decided to go home and get ready for the welcome party. So Lucy went home and summoned Plue because she felt lonely. She got to her apartment and surprised the door was open. It was a surprise because she found all her teammates inside.
Erza was already clean and transformed already in one of her best dress. It was a red mini dress with the patterns of a mix of red and purple roses. Natsu was asleep on one her couch and Happy was chewing on a piece of fish. Gray was in a towel drying his hair.
"Aaah! Why are you guys here? Gray! Get yourself in some clothes, you perv!" Lucy screamed. Erza just sat fixing her hair and Gray sighed.
"Alright. But which suit should I wear?"
"Ah, your trying to impress Alice, don'tcha?
"No, she's just a cute looking friend of mine."
"Cute?"
"I like someone else than her. But I don't feel like having a relationship with her. It feels weird when two best friends become more."
"Ah, who do you like?" Lucy blushed.
"I ain't telling you." He said with a grin. Lucy's blush faded and sighed. Gray noticed and shook in nervousness. She looked down and picked up Plue.
"Gray, tell her." Erza said.
"Nah, I'll keep it a secret for now. I'll confess to her in a few weeks." Gray said casually. "Elfman told me to show my manliness. But what's so manly about that?"
"Okay." Erza agreed. She looked at Lucy and smiled at her and winked. Lucy noticed her looking at her and looked at Gray with a sad face.
"It must be Lluvia." Lucy said.
"No, she's sweet. But I keep finding her stalking me. But I don't mind, but it's freaking me out in the inside."
"Oh." Lucy said with a smile. "I prefer the black outfit . It looks good on you."
He blushed and Lucy walked in the bathroom to take a shower. Just after the shower, she looked out and all of them were fast asleep. They must be tired. she thought.
Lucy went to her drawer and took out a white sleeveless (no straps) mini dress. She pulled out her pink laced heels and out her hair down for once. She didn't know how she looked and made a face.
Then in a flash, a huge puff of smoke burst out of the air covering a tenth of the room.
"Your prince is here." a guy with orange hair said. Orange hair?, she thought. The rest of the person's body were blinded by the smoke the air produced. Then a cough was heard by Lucy's two ears and the smoke began to fade away. " I think I overdid it with the entrance!"
It was Loke, the spirit that would always pop up. "Ya think?" Lucy said in disgust. "Why are you here?"
"I heard new girls are coming so I thought I'd join the party." he explained. He was already ready well dressed and his signature "lion hair" never got out of style for Lucy.
"There's no chance."
"What?"
"Ah, Loke, Loke, Loke…. Did you ever realize you are such a womanizer?"
"Just because I get with the ladies doesn't mean I'm a freaking womanizer. It's my charm, honey."
"Do not call me honey, idiot!"
"Tch, fine, honey." he said grumpily. He looked around noticing her teammates taking a deep afternoon nap. Erza was putting her head done and her scarlet hair was tied up to a pony tail. Natsu and Happy, still having a half of fish in his mouth, were snoring and had slept in a weird posture. Gray was in Lucy's bed snuggling on her blanket and pillows. "I'll be going now, to the guild I mean. In case you didn't know Mirajane invited me, I didn't invite myself. Bye." He waved and in cloud of smokes, he disappeared.
What he left was a golden mirror, right enough to see your whole body. She looked at herself, she had to admit she looked better than Erza ("Sorry, Erza. But it's the truth!" Lucy says).
She walked over to Gray and looked at him down close. His face was cute when he was asleep. He also had a cute way of breathing and his breath, it smelled fresh and minty. His eyes opened a bit seeing Lucy right up close, both lips were so close!
"Hey, Luce! Don't scare me like that," he said as he flushed in nervousness. Lucy backed away, hands behind her back.
"I-I was just, you know. If your breathing was right," Lucy lied. Yes, she remembered. His minty, cool breath. She smiled the nicest smile to him. "We should head down to Fairy Tail."
Gray stood up and his hair was messy, more as usual. Lucy fixed his hair and winked at him. " You need to look handsome to Alice, snowy." Ahaha, snowy, my new nickname, he thought.
Both woke up the other three and Natsu took the longest. "Gray you better go down! Take this!" he said in his sleep. He shot his fire filled right hand. But his hand was stopped by no other than ice. Natsu awoke seeing Gray stopping him.
"Get up, flame head."
"As if." Natsu snorted.
"Hey, if you don't go soon, Natsu, the buffet will run out of fire chicken. Oh, yeah did I see some fire ramen noodles prepared?" Lucy said.
"FIRE RAMEN NOODLES?" he said and shot right up and jumped off the couch. He wore a black jacket with a pink button up. Lucy nodded and Gray shot her a good look that said: Fire food work on this idiot, doesn't it?
Erza was awake and it was a frightful event. Once she awoke, she summoned a big sword thinking she was on a mission. Well that almost killed me, Lucy thought.
"Hey before we go, Gray. Don't you need something?" Lucy said. She eyed on a rose inside a vase. " If your going to have a romantic time with her don't you need it?" She picked it up and opened his hand and placed it there.
He was in silence, staring at the rose. It had a beautiful color to it, the reddest rose. The mix of the color of blood and a hint of pink. " I told you-"
"Save it, snowy." Lucy hushed him. " We need to get there. It's getting dark and I think the fire chicken is going to taste bad for Natsu."
"Yeah, Gray!"
The walked down to the street feeling a shout of excitement inside each of them. I guess this is romantic, Gray thought. As what Lucy says it would.
Hey, just asking but puh-leaz review. I'm freaking out if it's good or not. And do which couples do you want in my story? Don't forget about Alice, Annabell, and Serenade! I think there's going to be rivals in love, as what Lluvia would say…..
