Lucy's P.O.V.

After talking with Lisanna, she told us that she came because she wanted to spend some time with us, and that she had transformed into a butterfly, in order to fit in Natsu's suitcase. Today we decided to go to the beach. I wore a light blue bikini with an orange star on my left breast and a little star key-chain hanging from the ties of the bottom. I thought it was cute

"N-nice suit, Luce! It suits you!" Natsu says nervously

"Thanks, Natsu!" I smile at him. Then Rufus comes up to my side, and he looks pretty cute without his mas- LUCY, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

"Rufus, I challenge you to a volley ball match!" Gray says to Rufus at my side, who just huffs

"Alright" he sighs we all line up, and Rufus gets first pick for his team

"Lucy" he says looking at me with a smile. I smile back and go to his side

"Erza" says Gray, glaring at Rufus

"Orga" Rufus replys to his glare

"Natsu" says Gray confidently

"Sting" Rufus says firmly

"Rogue" Gray says

"Minerva..." Rufus says at the mad-looking girl

"And we get Lisanna!" Cheers Gray

"Don't forget about your friend, he's on my team, and so's your team mate." he says gesturing to me and Elfman

"Getting chosen last is not manly..." cries Elfman. We engage in an all-out game. Orga serves, sending it over the net, Natsu hits it and Erza hits it, also, spiking it our way, I bump it upwards and Rufus spikes it, hurdling towards Grays head, which hits him.

"Point Rufus!" I cheer, giving Rufus a high-five. he smiles at me, showing his teeth

"Oh, yeah!" he says, cheerfully.

Gray serves, sending it Rufus' way, and he hits it towards Erza, who bumps it to Lisanna, who knocks it to Orga, who nails the ball towards the other side, and Natsu lunges for it, but misses

"Nice shot, Orga!" I praise him. he smiles

"Thank-you, Lucy." he tells me kindly .

this time, Natsu serves it, and accidentally spikes it towards my head, which hits me on the head as I black out

Rufus' P.O.V.

Natsu serves the ball far too hard as it hurdles towards Lucy.

"KYAAAAH!" I hear her scream as she tumbles backwards, unconsious

"Now you've done it, you bastard!" Sting yells at Natsu. I go over to her side and pick her up

"you got some ice, Gray?" I ask the ice-make wizard, who makes some ice and hands it to me, and I gently place it on Lucy's head, and she winces.

She wakes up about 5 minutes later

"Guys, what happened? I remember the volleyball hurdling towards me and then-" she looks over my shoulder. I turn my head to see Natsu looking at her

"Sorry, Lucy! I didn't mean to hurt you!" he cries, practically begging forgiveness. Lucy stands up, and brings him to his feet and smiles at him, a warm, love-filled smile

"It's alright, Natsu, it was an accident!" she reassures him. he hugs her

"Thanks, Luce!" he says, nuzzling her cheek, as she just stands there, surprised at his actions.

After a few minutes of seeing if Lucy was okay, we decide that it was getting late, and that we should get ready for our very formal dinner, and we would go to a casino afterwards. Lisanna purchased a non-rigged room to spend the rest of the five days here and went to change, just as everyone else did. I changed into a navy blue suit with a white rose, and pulled my hair back into a low pony tail. But when Lucy came out of the bathroom, I was speachless. She wore a body-tight strapless turqoise dress with gold swirls around the bottom of the dress, which was floor-length, and flowed out, at the knee-point. Her hair was in a curly high pony tail, and to top it off, she had light blue silk gloves.

"Rufus, you alright?" she asks me worriedly, which snaps me out of my trance.

"Yes, lets go, Cherie" I hold out my hand and smile at her. She blushs and takes my hand. When we get to the dining hall, all the guys are wearing tuxedos, and Minerva is wearing a dark purple that is too short for words, and Erza is wearing a dress the same style as lucy's only shorter, and in red to match her hair, and Lisanna is wearing a white-pink number with bright pink stilettos, while clinging tightly to Natsu's arm. I can see Lucy's dissapointed gaze, as she sees this, so I give her hand a reassuring squeeze, and she gives me a sad side-smile. Let's just say the rest of the night didn't go so well, mostly because...

A) Natsu accidentally set Lucy's gorgeous dress on fire

B) Gray froze Lucy's legs to the ground, in attempt to put out the fire

C) Sting sent Minerva flying

D) to top it all off, we got kicked out of the casino

Lucy broke our silence when we got back to our room

"You think that was chaos?" she asks me, changing into a pair of light pink pajamas

"Totally, it was like all of hell broke loose!" I yell at her

"You haven't seen anything yet, Rufus, no, no..." she says