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Chapter 4

The following morning, a fiery mage decided to visit Lucy, sneaking into the window as usual.

"I don't know what's your deal with him. But you two should talk about it." Natsu suggested, as he brushed Lucy's hair.

'She needs to trim her hair..' He thought noticing how Lucy's hair almost reaches the floor.

Lucy sighed. "He's the one who started it."

The young maiden was sitting along the floor between Natsu's legs while the latter was sitting on her bed. She shuts her eyes and tries to relax.

Natsu scrunches up his nose before he responded. "You know how he is,"

"It wasn't my fault." Lucy puffs out her cheeks.

"You should just apologize."

Lucy grabbed Natsu's hand to stop his movements and snapped. "For what exactly?" She craned her neck a few degrees to look at him from the nook of her eyes.

The salmon-haired mage groaned back at her. "You know what I mean."

After a few seconds of staring, Lucy huffs in annoyance as she realized she wouldn't win against Natsu.

Natsu grins behind her and resumed to brushing the maiden's hair.

Swallowing her pride as she looked at the figure sitting across her. His back facing her as she spoke. "I'm sorry for not being able to purchase you fish or souvenirs from my last mission Happy."

But the exceed continued to snub her.

Natsu was right. She was looking for him and today, she finally found him.

"Juvia thinks we should go on a mission..G-Gray-sama." The blue-haired woman proposed.

"Is it a mission from the Master?" Gray asked.

He didn't know how Juvia found this café but he sure needed to find a new spot to hang. He was determined to blame this on Natsu later.

She stutters back. "N-no but Juvia—"

"Then I'm not going Juvia." Gray sighed and stood up from his seat simultaneously leaving a tip before walking away from the table.

"Gray-sama!" Juvia wailed and ran after the ice mage, embracing him from behind.

A few folks gushed at the scene.

"I told you to stop doing this..." Gray looked down, frustration building up.

The blue-haired woman only tightened her hold at him.

"Maaan, I know there's something going on between you two but I didn't expect that you'll both be this showy about it."

Gray groaned at the voice whilst Juvia peeked over at Gray's shoulder. "Loke-san.." She stated, her hold on Gray loosens.

Gray caught Juvia off guard and removed her hands off him. He quickly mouthed a "sorry" at the barista but the latter simply waved his hand at him and gestured him a thumbs up.

"Yo Juvia-chan!" Loke greeted walking towards her. "Out on a date with Gray?" He teases.

The water mage blushes at the word "date" and quickly denied Loke's assumption. "A-ano Juvia's only asking Gray-sama out on a mission.."

"Oho," Loke's eyebrows raises in amusement. He tipped forward to listen more at the mage.

Juvia nods her head. "But Gray-sama doesn't want to go.."

"Is that so?" Loke mused and leered over at Gray.

Gray looked away. 'If Loke's here then it only means Lucy's nearby.'

"She's not around." Loke said, reading Gray's mind.

Gray stared back at him, a surprised expression on his face.

But then Juvia noticed the sudden change in atmosphere between the two. 'She?'

"Juvia is still here—" She lifts her hand.

Gray snaps out of his demeanor and regained his composure. His eyes still on Loke's face as he grabs Juvia's [Juvia incredibly blushes at this] hand. "Tell me more about that mission Juvia," Before pulling her towards the exit.

"W-wait Gray-sama!"

The lion spirit can only smirk at the scene. "Bye Juvia-chan!"

"Loke's taking too long." Natsu groaned. "The cafe's only two blocks away from your place. I'll obliterate him."

Natsu recommended to have lunch outside to clear up the atmosphere between Lucy and Happy. He only went to the bathroom for a few moments and when he came out the two was looking away from each other with their arms folded across their chest and all. Lucy, however, didn't want to go outside so she called out Loke to just order and takeout the meal.

Lucy laughs nervously. "He probably flirted with the waitress or something—" She did hope that Loke wasn't doing anything inappropriate. Why didn't she summon Virgo instead? "—Right Happy?"

The cat sneered at her. "I don't want to speak to you!" The exceed was still upset over the fact that Lucy didn't even buy fish or souvenirs for them. It seemed like she didn't even thought about Natsu and him while she was away.

Natsu laughed. "That's what you get for not buying souvenirs!"

"Mou!" Lucy stomped her foot. "I already apolo—"

Lucy was cut off when they heard a bell chiming in. A few meters away from them, they saw Gray and Juvia emerged from the cafe. Gray dragging a red-faced Juvia towards somewhere.

It took them a few seconds to process what happened.

"Well you don't witness that on a daily basis," Natsu scratches his head.

"Y-yeah.." Lucy nodded, worry filling up her belly instead of food.

"Oh! Natsu its Loke!" Happy shouted, pointing at the spirit coming out of the café.

"OI YOU BASTARD" Natsu hollered, marching towards the latter. "We waited for — "

Like the ocean on a full moon, I'm drawn to you

This was a bit rushed. I'm sorry for any errors.

Thank you so much for reading!