Upon entering the house everyone scanned the place, studying every inch and piece of furniture that was visible to their eyes. Shelves and tons of books could be found from corner to corner. It was all organized in an orderly fashion. At the middle you'd see a plasma screen TV, couches and a glass table that was right between them. They had a second floor that had three rooms upstairs. Levy had said when she gave her a tour in her new home that the first room was hers and the second room was Sting's and the last was a guest room. When Lucy heard the name of Sting's name being mentioned, she shot a glance up to Levy and smirked.

"Save it. Sting's not here," Levy said matter-of-factly.

"Where is he?"

"He's finishing some papers for school."

Lucy was disappointed but whatever she could wait for a couple of hours for him to arrive. They all went down and got themselves comfortable while Levy got their plastic bags from the table and went to the kitchen to fix something up. Loke stood up and popped in a CD to the player so that they could start their movie marathon.

"What are we watching?" Gray asked.

"Conjuring," Loke said in a smug voice. He could see Levy cower from the kitchen. Lucy and Erza on the other hand, didn't seem to mind at all as they continued their little chatter. Gray and Gajeel weren't taken aback either. When all of them were having their conference call, it turns out none watched the Conjuring. Levy being too afraid of watching it when it was released and the rest were just too busy. Loke decided it would be a perfect movie for all of them.

"GAJEEL! GET ME SOMETHING TO DRINK PRONTO!"

The mentioned boy stood up and glared at Lucy while she just waved and shooed him. The gang observed their argument (mostly of Gajeel since Lucy didn't even say a word) and tried to hold their fit of giggles. Gajeel was yelling something about Lucy being a blackmailer, Lucy looking bored, showed Gajeel her cellphone and he immediately cringed and went to the kitchen.

"Since when did you have powers over Gajeel?" Erza asked in a curious tone.

"Do you have to ask?" Lucy responded with a smirk. "Anyway, Erza, how's taekwondo training?"

Erza knowing Lucy decided not to press questions, who knew what she had done to Gajeel to get him dancing on the palm of her hand. "It was good. Although our sensei told us we would have a new student this opening."

"Are you going to beat the crap out of the guy like what you did to the previous ones?" Gray chuckled as he remembered the image of Elfman's huge figure got beaten to a pulp by their scarlet haired friend. "I mean, no one has ever defeated you. I bet you're better than Ichiya."

"No one is better than master in Magnolia," Erza answered. True, Ichiya could be a short, orange-haired pervert sometimes, but Erza has faith in his Master. After all, he isn't called "Master" for nothing.

Lucy shrugged off Erza's words and proceeded to press questions. "I wonder what the theme is for our acquaintance party this year." Lucy pondered, remembering the theme last year: Superheroes. She shuddered at the memory of Gray dressing up as Superman last year and unintentionally stripped down every piece of clothing he had worn. Thank God for the punch bowl hiding his little jimmy.

"I heard the theme for this year is Nerdy," Juvia said, her eyes never leaving Gray's abs.

"Gray, put your clothes on." Loke ordered, his eyes squinting. "Yes, I heard from a friend of mine from the Student Council."

Gray shrunk onto his seat as he felt his face turned red. He threw in his shirt over his head and got his pants lying on the floor. As soon as he got himself composed he jumped in into the conversation. "Not quite. There's still a debate going on in the Council. Others suggested that it would be better if the theme would be 'An Opposites Attract Theme.'"

"WAIT! How come you guys know all about this?" Lucy yelled, jumping off from her feet. She had no proper communication with the school for these past months and she practically lived where the school was located.

"You didn't know?" A voice joined their discussion from the back. Levy was holding a tray that had bowls of chips in different container while Gajeel had his hands full with pitchers of juice and glasses. "Everything was posted on our Facebook Page."

"Aren't you part of the Student Council?" Gajeel inquired, setting the glasses on the table and juice. He carefully put a generous amount of juice in each of the glass while Gray and Loke stifled their laughter. Earning both of them a deathly glare from their pierced comrade. The duo stopped their chuckles and wondered how Lucy managed to get Gajeel in a leash.

Levy dropped the tray on the table before them and hands were flying from bowl to bowl getting their fair share of chips. "Yes, but you see, since I had to go home, I could only ask for information as to the events that happened during their meetings. Luckily, our President made sure that everyone that was out of town had their fill."

"Tch. There's nothing to look forward to this year." It wasn't a question. Lucy made it a statement. She got up and thought about how the student organizers would make such a huge fuss over it. Last year, just to come up with a lame theme (superheroes) they had to establish a formal debate that required every student of the school to attend. "Although I'm looking forward to see a bunch of imbeciles debating over such a small thing."

Levy eyed Lucy's moving figure and thought about what she said. It was true that the Council usually takes everything to extreme measures, but a debate seems to be the only way to solve these kinds of things. The presence of the students would lessen complains or whines about the event in question since everything would be explained or argued right in front of their noses. They would see reason. It's true that organizing an occasion isn't a walk in the park. Their team would plan day and night, sleeping late every time. Sometimes they barely had sleep anymore; One of the reasons why she was close with the debaters, organizers, writers and students who's a part of the council. And hearing irrational complains after they have done so much…they couldn't take it. Alas, they decided to settle everything in a proper debate.

"Er…Lucy," Levy called out trying to catch her friend's attention. "I was part of the debate last year…"

The figure that was pacing around the shelves stopped and Levy could see her body relax. "I know. Your point?" Lucy replied blankly. Her body turned around to Levy to give her a full view of her. She could see the amusement in her eyes.

Levy sighed. Lucy will always be Lucy. Even though Lucy called her an imbecile indirectly, she knows she meant no harm. They were friends for a year now, it was an enough amount of time to determine whether she was serious or not. Lucy just has a certain distaste of rules and system. She was the exact opposite of her. Well, Levy thought, the theme: Opposites Attract Theme did have a point. In the next debate, she would have to go with the side that's for that theme.

"Alright, alright. Everyone that's enough," a strong voice came out from Erza's lips. Noticing that everything was in place with their chips and juices on the table and the CD being popped into the player, all they needed now was everyone's attention. "Loke, if you would," Erza motioned over to Loke who was closest to the remote.

They immediately settled down and Gray took the liberty to turn off the lights to add more drama, which he instantly regretted because he felt someone take hold of his arm and a head on his shoulder. He didn't need a light to see that it was his blue-haired friend. "Gray-sama~," Juvia muttered. "Juvia-sama is afraid."

Gray decided to let this one go and went along with it, not wanting to waste a futile effort to get her away from him. All got comfy in their seats and as the only source of light coming from the T.V. illuminated the room only by little. Silence suddenly occupied the room and the whole thing was just a perfect night to relax and watch a good horror movie with some friends. Loke took this as an initiative and hit play.

Not moments too long, before the movie could even begin, a weak creak coming from the front door distracted everyone from the screen. The silhouette of a man stood there, as if shocked to see why there's so many people gathered in one area. All eyes were now on him and he could feel heat rise up his cheeks.

"I'm sorry?" He started. "I didn't mean to disturb you, but by any chance have you seen my cousin?"

Lucy heard a few shuffling and shambling as one of her companions stood up and wobble his way to the switch. After a split second, the room was engulfed in a bright light that seemed new to them. Lucy rubbed her eyes once more and adjusted it to the brightness, seconds momentarily passed and her vision was now in good condition. She looked from left to right and nodded at her friends who regained their vision as well. Levy carefully made her way to the teen and flashed a smile.

The man beside Levy was handsome. That's all Lucy could think about. He was tall, had blond hair that she thought would sparkle during sunlight, no, not like Edward Cullen's way of sparkling, but a gorgeous boyish spark. His body was built and his composure was off the charts. It reminded her of Channing Tatum's body. She snickered inwardly as she studied his V-neck that showed off his chest. He had the eyes of an eagle, sympathetic yet bold at the same time. She was…dazed.

Levy coughed, trying to catch the attention of her friends, especially to her lady friends. No one heard her. She coughed again. No avail. She coughed louder this time and everyone was back to their senses. Even Juvia's grip on Gray's arm loosened, and for the first time ever, she wasn't paying attention to Gray. Levy knew her cousin was dashing, but she didn't know he was this dashing. To make guys actually check a guy out, that was something.

"So, this is my cousin. Sting Eucliff," she introduced him to everyone normally. "Sting this is everyone." She let her arms wide open as she gestured her friends.

"Hello. I'm sorry for ruining your movie marathon," he forced a smile, his hand scratching at the back of his head. "Well, I'll be going upstairs now."

"NO!" Lucy shouted a little bit too loud for her liking. "I mean...you could watch the movie with us."

Sting considered her thought, as he observed her walking towards him. Her hair down to her shoulders had this bouncy effect while she walked, she had eyes that consisted of his favorite desert – chocolate – her eyes were too sweet for anyone to stare at without melting for even a minute. A hand was now in front of him waiting for him to shake. "Lucy. Lucy Heartphilia." She smiled widely at Sting that made him uncomfortable.

"So, you're Lucy?" he asked. He would always hear her name whenever he was around with Levy, and she did call him once when his cousin refused to send her message to him. He just couldn't believe she would be this…beautiful.

"In the flesh," she smirked. They stared into each other's eyes and the both of them got lost as they were both overwhelmed with their overdue meeting. Lucy had been waiting for her encounter with Sting but she never knew she would feel like what she was feeling now.

"You know…" Levy trailed. "You guys can let go of each other's hand now."

"Oh, right." Sting was the first one to let go of Lucy's hand and knew his face was flushed. "Uh, so…"

Lucy, the first one to compose herself; got back to her normal ways and bellowed. "WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING? Don't be rude! Introduce yourself." Her friends who was engrossed by the moment Sting and Lucy had suddenly woke up the second time again. Everyone was trying to hide their amusement with Lucy's girly side by holding back their giggles. "What are you chortling for? GAJEEL! GET YOUR ASS UP HERE NOW! AND WHERE THE HELL IS MY JUICE GAJEEL?!"

Gray and Loke laughed out loud while everyone snorted at their pierced up friend. Lucy sent daggers at Gajeel while he scurried to get her a glass of juice on the table.

Sting Eucliff was amazed at the transformation of the environment. He has a lot to get used to.