Meeting The Family / Parents & Newlywed
This wasn't something they had planned. Not in the slightest. And to make matters worse, nobody except for the couple knew about it.
Well, all of their friends knew they were dating someone but they never knew who. They were smart to keep it underwraps at the time. Their friends, more like family, could be overwhelming.
They had met online and instantly hit it off. They quickly became close friends, and spent numerous nights on video chats with each other. So it was easy to see that they would gained what they thought to be unrequited crushes, at least, at the time. Their real push into action was when she moved to Magnolia.
Lucy had transferred to Fairy Tail Uni, to follow ehr dreams in being an author. She didn't know that was where Gray lived. Nor where she would meet the people she would consider her family.
It was one particular day, where Lucy was running late for her class, that she ran into Gray, literally. Looking up to apologize, as she had fallen to the ground, it fell dead on her lips as her eyes widened at the man in front of her. "Gray…!"
His eyes widened too before a grin took over her face and he pulled her up, into a hug. "Lucy..! What are you doing here?"
She giggled and hugged him back. "I told you I was moving for Uni, didn't I?"
He pulled back with a look and flicked her forehead. "You never said where."
She laughed. "Oops, I guess."
He just chuckled in response, and they ditched class for the rest of the day to catch up properly. It felt really good and to know that an online connection could be made into a real life day to day conversation. Being able to meet face to face, whether they knew it or not, really strengthened their bond into something that most wouldn't call friendship, but they didn't have a clue.
They knew it wouldn't be long until Lucy met Gray's friends. And it was easily to tell that they all took a liking to her. Levi immediately found someone that she could talk none stop with about books, and he loved the way she could fit in easy with them. Though every time she was with Natsu or Loke, he couldn't help feel something hurting in his chest. It wasn't till after a long chat with Mira that he found out that is was jealousy, and that he was in fact in love with Lucy.
Not wanting to feel like this any longer, and despite knowing the risk of rejection, he asked her out anyways, and boy, was he glad he did that. She had said yes, and it felt like the heavens had opened and showered him with light.
Due to how close they were before hand, their relationship progressed pretty quickly. And by the end of the next year they were getting married. Well, to be correct, they were eloping. It wasn't that they didn't want their friends to know, though they hadn't told them, they just didn't want to deal with the large celebrations that would come with them.
It was a week after their honeymoon, which they spent every minutes of it together, that they came home. Now, being missing for a week or so, you think the couple would have remembered to contact their friends.
They didn't, and there sure was hell to pay for it.
Finally finding out who Gray's and Lucy's mysterious S.O. was, their friends dissolved into a mad heap of questions and people collecting bets. The newlyweds looked at each other with matching smiles. It felt good to be able to be together, but also to have your family, though not always by blood, support and accept your decision.