Chapter 7
The first thing Lucy realised when her and Romeo went into the city, was that she really needed to get out more often. The only reason she wasn't a panicking bundle of paranoia, was that Romeo seemed to know where they were going. Where were they going anyways? "Where are you taking me?" She voiced her thoughts out loud, the question unconsciously shifting accusatory in its journey out of her mouth.
Romeo chuckled and raised an eyebrow. "Does this mean I'm the wiser one?"
She glared at him. "Hello no, and wipe that smirk off your face, you know exactly why I don't know where the fuck we are."
He rolled his eyes. "Actually, no I don't. You never really tell me anything."
She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and muttered, "I thought your old man woulda told you everything."
Rome sighed and shook his head. "All he ever says is 'it's complicated'. Do you have any idea how frustrating that is?"
Lucy chuckled. "Remind me to give your dad a hug one day."
Romeo pouted, "so you're not going to tell me what you're doing this for? I help you every time. You can tell me, you know."
Lucy shrugged and rolled the wheels of her skateboard with her hands. "I'll tell you eventually. So, where are you taking me?"
He huffed. "Fine. We're going to the candy store. I thought that was obvious."
"Mmm, let's just pop in. I'll scout it when it's dark out."
Romeo's eyebrows creased in worry. "I can't stay out that long, sis."
Lucy blinked in surprise. "That's fine. As long as you tell me how to get back from there."
Romeo shook his head. "Just scout it some other day, then. You shouldn't be out here alone at night."
He put her hand on top of his head. "Don't worry so much, kid. While it warms my fucked up heart, you know I can take care of myself."
He pouted and crossed his arms over his chest. "I don't like it."
Lucy chuckled, "Well, it can't be helped. I wanna stop somewhere else before we go to the park, too."
"Where?"
She grinned, "Skate store!"
"What do you need there?"
She shrugged. "Nothing in particular. Now, how much further is this place?"
"We're here, actually."
She looked up to see a cute candy store, decked out in pink walls and candy cane pillars. "Aww, how precious!" She cooed, before she turned to Romeo with a dark look. "Why this one?"
He flinched and rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry. It's the only one in Magnolia."
She sighed. "You know I'm gonna hate myself, cuz its so damn cute."
"Don't hate yourself, sis. It's necessary, right?" His eyes saddened.
She grunted and looked at the ground. She inhaled deeply through her nose, and exhaled as she raised her arm up to open the door. "I suppose."
A cute chime rang through the shop at their entry, and a sweet voice called out, "Welcome to Strauss Sweets!" They both looked over to see a beautiful woman with long, white hair, and a radiant smile. "I'm Mira. Let me know if I can help you with anything." She waved at them and then sauntered off to go behind the counter.
Lucy and Romeo slowly turned to each other, and breathed out a "whoa" at the same time. Shaking her head from her stupor of the the beautiful woman, she started walking towards one of the aisles. Feeling no presence next to her, she looked back to see Romeo still standing there with a dazed expression. She walked back to him and promptly smacked his right cheek, then left cheek with the same hand.
"Ow!" He grabbed both cheeks in his hands. "What was that for?"
"For having perverted thoughts. Now, c'mon, lover boy."
"I was not!" He whined as he started following her.
Lucy just chuckled at him, but it died to a squeak in her throat when she saw a white plush with a carrot nose sitting on top of a pink wool cushion. "Oh. My. God. It's so cute!" She gushed as she squeezed it to her chest.
"What is it?" Romeo slowly asked as he eyed it warily.
"Isn't it adorable, Romeo?" She ignored his question and pushed it in his face. "Isn't it?!"
"Well, I wouldn't call it adorable…" he muttered lowly as he backed away from the slightly terrifying carrot nose.
"Pink walls are not manly!"
They both blinked and turned their heads to see a giant man with white, spiky hair marching up to the beautiful lady from earlier.
"Well, black walls are not cute!" Mira huffed and crossed her arms.
"Sorry, Elf. I agree with Mira." A cute girl with short, white hair chimed in...she looked super familiar to Lucy.
"Not you too, sis!" The man whined. "I'm gonna be the laughing stock of the school!"
"Don't worry, Elf." Mira consolingly patted his arm. "At least school doesn't start for another few months."
"Not helping, Mira." He sulked and the cute one giggled.
She knew she had seen her somewhere...where was it? She didn't get out much, so maybe she was going crazy….then she saw her laugh, and it dinged like a lightbulb. Ohhh she was angry, she was gonna tell her exactly what she's wanted to say for a while now. So, she marched up to the counter, ignoring Romeo's question of, "are you really going to buy that thing?" And slapped her hand on the counter, startling the three behind it.
"Can I help you?" Mira smiled and tilted her head.
Lucy ignored her and pointed an accusing finger at the short haired one, who widened her eyes. "You!" She then proceeded to flip her off. "Fuck you!"
"What's wrong with you?" Mira gasped.
"Don't talk to Lis that way!" Elf shouted and pulled the girl behind him. "It's not manly!"
"Well, I'm not a man!" Lucy huffed, her raised finger still hovering in the air.
"Excuse me, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave!" Mira pinned her with a dark stare, which Lucy ignored in order to focus on the cowering girl behind the big man.
"Lucy, what are you doing?" Romeo shout-whispered as he came up behind her.
"What did I do to you?" Lis shakily asked.
"Of course you don't remember me, you bitch." Lucy sighed as she dropped her am to her side. Mira and Elf both crossed their arms and shot her menacing glares.
"Lucy." Romeo whispered urgently as he tugged on her arm.
She looked down, annoyed. "What?"
"You can't just do that to random people!"
"But she deserved it!"
"How did she deserve that?"
"She's always throwing her nasty, used, half empty drinks at my head when she drives by the edge in that shiny car! I have to pick up all that shit, and what does she do? She laughs! She fucking laughs at me! It pisses me off, and sometimes it makes me sad and I feel like the scum of the earth! So, yeah! She deserved it!" Lucy's voice got gradually higher the more she talked, and she was practically panting when she was done.
Romeo turned to glare at the girl who was now glaring at his sister. "What's wrong with you?"
Lucy sighed and looked at Mira and Elf, who were frozen with shocked faces. "That's all I wanted to say." She looked at the plush she was hold, and looked at the pricetag. She frowned at the price and reluctantly put it on the counter before she grabbed Romeo's arm. "We'll leave your too damn cute store now." They let the chime of the bell finalize their words as they stepped onto the street.
"How do you do that?" Romeo asked as they slowly started walking again.
"Do what?" She tilted her head.
He shook his head. "It was like you were over it after you said what you wanted to say. How are you not still mad?"
She shrugged. "I got to say what I wanted to say. I wasn't expecting an apology or anything. Unless she does it again, it's over and done with in my book."
Romeo smiled as he looked at her, but then he frowned. "Is that true?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you really feel like scum?"
She frowned and idly stroked the wheels of her skateboard. "Sometimes." They walked in a solemn silence for a minute, before they stopped when they heard someone shouting behind them.
"Wait!" Mira shouted as she jogged to catch up to them. She stopped in from of them, panting slightly as she held one arm behind her back. "Lucy, right?" Said girl nodded. "I wanted to apologize for my sister. I had no idea that she did that. I'll be talking to her, for sure. Oh! What's your name?" She asked as she turned to Romeo.
"Romeo." He almost whispered as he stared at the beautiful woman, to which Lucy rolled her eyes.
"It's nice to meet you. My name's Mirajane, but you can call me Mira." She smiled sweetly and revealed the white plush with a carrot nose from behind her back, and Lucy's breath hitched. "Here, I saw you looking at this, and I want you to have it as an apology."
Lucy's eyes were wide and sparkly and her hand was clenching and unclenching as she refrained from grabbing it. "You don't have to." She wistfully whispered.
Mira giggled and shoved the plush into her hand. "Please. Take it."
"Okay." Lucy breathed as she clutched it to her chest.
"Please, come back to the shop sometime, okay?" she smiled sweetly and waved before she started walking back to her shop.
Lucy nodded mutely as she walked away and turned to look at Romeo. "I don't wanna do this."
Romeo frowned as he met her gaze. "I'll try to think of something else, but it's perfect for what you need."
She sighed and they both turned to start walking. She looked down and squealed again, making Romeo cover his ears and cringe. "He's just soo cute! You need a name, don't you? Oh I know the perfect one! Hello, Plue! How would you like to be a part of my family!"
"Plue?" Romeo raised an eyebrow and shook his head. As much as he hated her squealing, it made him happy to see her act like a normal girl. It was these moments that made her seem happy, and he wondered what she would be like if she was living a normal life, and not in the community center.
"Why can't I have your old one?" Romeo whined as they neared the skatepark.
"Because I said so!" Lucy huffed in reply. They had gone to the skate shop, and she had bought a new skateboard, much to Romeo's surprise. After telling Lucy how to get home from the candy store, he stared begging her to give him her old skateboard.
"But you don't need two!" He threw his arms in the air.
"I am fully aware of that." She rolled her eyes.
"Ugh! So why can't I have your old one!"
"You're not getting my old one! So shut up!" She finally snapped, causing the boy to scowl and cross him arms over his chest.
"Well, what do we have here?" They both turned to see a smirking Laxus, Gajeel, and Jellal leaned against the fence encasing the skate park...with red solo cups in their hands. "The princess finally left her castle."
She scowled at Laxus and shot him the finger. "Fuck you." Which just made him grin and chuckle.
"Look at that, you really are a punk." Gajeel leered at her, to which she tilted her head. She noticed his eyes roving over her attire, and she looked down. She was wearing a red belly shirt, baggy black jeans, her converse shoes, and her hair was in picktails with her favorite beanie on her head.
She shrugged, "I thought I looked fancier than usual." He grinned at that, and she took a moment to look over their attire. Gajeel was dressed similar to her, only his jeans had metal chains attached to them and he had a tight, black muscle shirt on. Laxus had a purple dress shirt on and tight, black, leather pants, and she decided she would have to get him to turn around at some point. His ass probably looked fantastic. Jellal had on a messy, white dress shirt, that was half unbuttoned, showing off his chisteled chest that she would just love to lick. It was rolled up to his elbows, and one side was untucked from his pants, which were also black jeans, no quite as baggy, but still a little baggy. It seemed black pants were a trend here. Her gaze moved up to lock onto his eyes, and he was smirking at her, causing her cheeks to heat up a little.
"See something you like?" His rich, smooth voice sent a small shiver through her.
She tried to play it off nonchalantly, so she cocked her hip to the side. "Of course." All three of their answering grins sent heat down her body. Jesus Christ, her panties had no chance.
"Hey, look. It's Natsu!" Romeo shouted.
She grabbed his arm before he could run off. "Hold on. Take this." She thrusted the new skateboard in his hands.
His eyes widened in shock, as he stared at the new board. "What?"
She rolled his eyes. "I bought that for you, stupid."
His face scrunched up in confusion. "But, this whole time you said you wouldn't give me one!"
"No." She glared at him. "You kept asking for my old one. There's no way in hell I'm parting with it. You never asked for the new one." She grunted when he crushed her in a hug.
"Thanks, sis! You're the best!" His muffled voice shouted from under her boobs.
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." She ruffled his hair. "Just show Natsu up for me, yeah?"
He grinned and pumped his fist in the air. "Hell yeah!" She smirked at his language and watched him run off, finally noticing just how many people were there. Everyone sported the same cups as they cheered for the skaters on the ramps. Her stomach dropped slightly as she realised. This was a high-school party. Oh, god. Was she ready for this? As she looked at the three, still grinning, hot guys beside her, she realised, no. No, she was not ready for this.
What do you guys want to see happen at this party? Let me know and I might put it in the next chapter, with your credit of course!
Alright, and for the scores. We got:
Jellal- 7
Laxus- 6
Gajeel- 5
Natsu- 5
Gray- 1
Aww, Gray. Someone gave you some love. In all pure honesty, I have to say that from the way this story's going, I don't think she is going to end up with Natsu or Gray. So I might have to take them out of the running. Sorry, guys. But a multi pairing is still up in the air even though I've never done that before. I dunno, I'm relying on your guys feedback, cuz I'm having a hard time deciding. Thanks for the input and support so far! I love you guys ;) muah! I'll spare my cat this time, and lick YOU instead!
