Everyone had been fighting; the stars though were definitely Natsu and Lucy.
Lucy flung her fist in the air, happy about their answers. She needed to get away from Fairy Tail for a while, everything was happening too quickly. She needed to slow down, kick back and kick butt. She jumped up and stretched her back and legs.
"Well, I'm off. Stuff to do, people to see." She smiled as though she was really was happy. Maybe she really was okay. Erza smiled back, showing her teeth but clenched her fists around her glass. Lucy ran off out of the guild, disappearing from sight.
Erza and Gray sat in silence, they were both tense. Why were they so worried? Lucy was strong, she'd been through so much yet this small fight has sent her to hell and back.
"Is she stupid or something?" Gray muttered into his glass. Erza elbowed him in the stomach, winding him. He coughed up his drink, choking.
"ERZA! Trying to kill me?" He yelled. She put her finger to her lip and downed her drink. She got up and walked over to the wooden stools which crowded around the main table.
"Too many depressed girls." Gray chuckled to himself. He walked up to Erza and drooped his arms over her back, hugging her from behind. He rested his chin on her shoulder. She blushed immediately in shock.
"Cheer up now." Gray whispered into her ear with a hint of sarcasm in his tone. He got up from her and burst out laughing, Erza whipped her head around to see him leaning over trying to catch his breath from his outburst.
"You perverted creep!" Erza shouted while facing him.
"Erza blushed! Oh my god! The armour lady has feelings!" He said in an obvious sarcastic tone. Erza couldn't help but laugh, it felt so wrong in the midst of everything but she couldn't help herself. She burst out laughing as well, she'd blushed at an obvious gag. It had cheered her up though and it seemed to put a smile back on Gray's face.
Lucy walked into her apartment, she felt incredibly ill. Maybe waiting in the rain for thirty minutes wasn't one of her greatest ideas. She walked into the bathroom to see her pale face, great, she was coming down with a cold or something. Small sweat droplets formed on her forehead and her mouth ran dry but nothing was going to stop her from seeing Natsu and apologizing to him properly. She should have apologized already but could not conjure up the courage and since Lisanna was clinging around him 24/7, she never really had the chance.
Night was falling incredibly fast. The sun was in the midst of setting and Lucy was preparing to confront Natsu. The weather had worsened in a matter of hours. Outside there was a full on storm raging but peaks of sunlight crept in once and a while, Lucy smiled at herself in the mirror and walked out of her apartment, locking the door behind her. She couldn't say she was feeling the best but she had herself convinced she was just sleep deprived from the previous night from worrying too much. She was fine. She was perfectly fine.
