(Wendy's POV)
"Hi, Wendy."

I was spacing out when Mira-san came into my ward.
Fortunately, the tender voice of the white-haired bartender woke me up.

"Hi, Mira-san."

"Are you feeling okay now?"

"Y-yes…
May I ask if I can leave my ward...?"

"Huh? Why?"

"I…
have something to do."

Romeo was very nice to me, but something was off.
I could sense the discomfort in his heart.
There was something he – anybody – wasn't telling me.

"I don't think so." A devilish smile appeared on Mira-san's face.
"Romeo would kill me if anything happened to you."

"Huh?" I blinked twice in confusion.
"R-Romeo-kun?" I stammered.

"He was really worried about you."

"U-uhmm…
I think he'll make an exception for me…"

"Oh, you do?" She asked me as if she was doubting my trust.
"If you're really that bent on leaving the ward, then I guess I have no choice but to let you go."

"R-Really, Mira-san?" I couldn't help but feel that she was plotting something.

"Sure! But first, I need to check if you'll actually be able to go outside your ward."

"U-ummm, sure…"

She gave me a few check-ups – she tried out my strength, temperature, general condition, etc.
I swear sometimes she would be a caring nurse –
Caring enough to hide the fact that she was a demon.

"I guess you're good to go."

"Really?" My eyes lit up.
Was she really going to let me out at my state?
"Thank you, Mira-san!"

She took out all the lacrima currently stuck to my body, and pointed at the door, signaling me to do whatever I wanted to do.
Still feeling some sort of drowsiness, I hastily walked out the door.

(Mirajane's POV)
I swear everything I do is wrong.

But, in all honestly, I was truly curious.

What would the young couple do?

I made a mischievous smile at myself, and walked out the door.

(Wendy's POV)
As I walked out the door, I knew what I had to do.
If I was ever going to find out what truly happened to me – to Romeo, I had to investigate where it all started.
Romeo.

I looked for him in the guild, but, to my disappointment, was nowhere to be found. I caught sight of Macao-san, and approached him, hoping to find answers.

"H-hi, Macao-san."

"Hi, Wendy? Are you okay already?" He asked.

"Oh? Are you supposed to be out of the ward?" Wakaba followed.

"U-um, I am…"

"Ah, okay then." Macao said, breath still tainted with a faint scent of liquor.

"So, whatd'ya need?" He asked.

"Uh-umm, I'm looking for Romeo-kun."

"Ah! Looking for him already, huh?
Ready to get back to dating, I see." A mischievous smile appeared on his face.

"D-Dating…?
W-with Romeo-kun…?"

My face was red. Crimson-scarlet-maroon red. Blood red.
To be honest, I was surprised. Not confused. Surprised. I knew something was up.
But I had doubts in my heart. I wouldn't do or think of anything rash until I was sure that he…

"Hahaha. Still shy, I see.
He's probably at our house. It's not far from here, so you shouldn't be in any trouble.
He's probably dead-shot asleep, though."

"Ah… Thank you, Macao-san."

I went out the door, with my senses detecting a bit of a chuckle between the two now-old-timers.

I headed to Macao-san and Romeo-kun's house. I didn't know where it was, but with every 'guessed' turn I made, I felt closer and closer to my destination…
… as if I knew my destination.

I didn't know where I was at the time – I usually spent the nights at Fairy Hills. I would only go outside on missions or for shopping, and this place did not have any stalls or stores.

But I knew where he was.
Oddly enough, I knew it.
I knew his scent.

I knocked on the familiar door.

No answer.

I knocked again.

Rejection.

I shouted his name.

"Romeo-Kun!"

Denied.

But then, my body acted on its own.

"CONBOLT!"

I heard a voice from the second floor.

"Wendy-san…?" His raspy, 2 o'clock voice seemed sure that I was calling him, despite the fact the he was on the second floor, he seemed drunk, and the windows and doors were closed shut.

"I-I'm coming…" Slow, drunk footsteps followed shortly after.

He opened the door, and as he did, I saw a glimpse of the inside. It seemed so familiar…

"Wendy? Why are you out of your ward?" He asked, as if he didn't know it was me a minute ago.

"Uh-umm… I had to do something…" I was too embarrassed to say that I came out to see him.

For a short while, he looked at the floor, a hint of rage on his face.
He mumbled something, but it was too soft even for my dragon senses to hear.
However, I wasn't impervious to the shape of his lips…
He seemed to have mouthed out "Damn you, Mirajane"…
Not that I was interested in his… lips…

I was spacing out until Romeo woke me up.

"H-hey, are you okay?"

Waking up from my apparent trance, I tried to process what he had just said, hoping he didn't notice the slight blush on my face.

"Y-yes."

"So, aren't you supposed to do something?
Why're you still here?" He asked, voice turning both impatient and disgusted at my sudden appearance.

"U-ummm…" Trying to collect my thoughts, I searched in my brain's deepest sectors for a response that wouldn't seem too awkward or embarrassing.
I failed.

With an impatient, tired, exhausted, and possibly drunk sigh, he returned my thoughts to the matter at hand.

"Well, if you're just gonna keep gazing at nowhere like that, I'd might as well welcome you in.
C'mon, there's a couch over there." He said, teasingly.

"Th-thank you, Romeo-kun."

I entered his house, and I will admit, it was pretty clean.
The second the entered, my nose was barraged by now-more-potent scent of Romeo.
It was too much for me to take in with my enhanced dragon senses, but my mind was just telling my nose to inhale even more. It's not like I didn't like the scent, it's just that I liked the scent.

The odd familiarity of everything increased even more as I tried to observe what was in his house.
Everything was familiar. The paintings, the layout of the house, even the pattern on his couch! It felt like I'd been here before, but that wasn't even the most pressing matter.

He had pictures of us everywhere.

I decided not to give it much thought, as I had just recovered from being stuck in the ward for three days, and everything might seem familiar even though it's not. I might even be imagining things.
But I couldn't shake off the feeling that this place was different.
We continued on to sit down on the couch. As I carefully observed my surroundings, he decided to break the awkward silence.

"Would you like some tea? Coffee? Anything?"

"Uh-uhmm, no, thank you."

"So…" His voice fell into some sort of a serious tone.
"Why'd you come here?"

"Uh-uhmm…" Again, I was stuck thinking of an excuse.

"I would just like to thank you for taking care of me while I was still in the ward." I felt kind of proud for being able to think of an acceptable excuse. I didn't expect him to buy it, but I had to give a response.

"You never needed to." His serious-like tone got replaced by a happy, comforting one as he flashed a grin at me.
"You being healthy like that is enough thanks."

"Uh-uhmmm…" Again, I felt a slight blush on my face.

"Hahaha. Sorry, it must be hard for you to find your words with me in this state. I'm gonna go freshen up first. Suit yourself to anything in the kitchen." He gave me a wide smile, then walked back up to his room.

To be completely honest with myself, I didn't really mind his look.
His hair was a bit messier, but not much changed since he already has the signature 'spiky hair' in him.
He didn't have his vest, which left his previously hidden toned muscles and chest completely revealed.
At this point, I was actually happy that he left me alone.
Then he wouldn't notice the scarlet red shade on my face.

I soon realized that I wasn't getting anywhere thinking about his features, and woke up from whatever my thoughts had been indulged in.
I stood up from the couch and began to look around the living room.
There were some stairs leading to the second floor, a couch and a comfy chair surrounding a rectangular coffee table, some drawers with books, photo albums, DVDs, and pictures, a table where his television lacrima was located, a door to the kitchen, and some abstract paintings littered around the walls.

I decided to start my investigation at the place which caught my eyes the most: the pictures.
They were definitely real – not imagined or illusions. They also definitely had me and Romeo-kun in them, but from the past years – back when we were children. He had pictures of us sitting together, playing tag, eating together, and there was a painting of us smiling possibly made by Reedus, but none of the pictures had anything romantic or explicit in them (and I never wanted to see anything romantic in them). I decided to check out the photo albums next, but they were locked by some sort of magic padlock, and it required a password to open. Oddly enough, my brain flashed me some fragments of what seemed like a password, but it wasn't anything solid enough to attempt and open the locked album. Why he locked his photo album was probably the biggest mystery of all, and it was a mystery I probably would never be able to answer.

With a sigh, I returned everything back where they belonged. I continued my investigation, carefully examining whatever caught my eye. The DVDs were just movies, the books were usually focused on comic books and training tutorials, his television didn't have anything interesting in it, and the paintings were just like any other electro-abstract painting – black background and cool electric neon foreground. I saw no point in looking around here any longer, so I decided to move to the kitchen.

I entered it, and saw nothing suspicious. Dining table, drawers, refrigerator, display case, sink, stove, oven, and whatever else you find in a male teen's kitchen. In a desperate attempt to learn something – anything – about what truly happened, I opened up everything that I could open.

Nothing.

I was already kneeling down, checking out the lower drawers, when I noticed that Romeo had snuck up on me.

(Romeo's POV)
I knew she was gonna go snooping, so I went back down all ninja-like, trying not to be detected by her ever-wandering eyes.

She, quite literally, had inspected everything in the living room, and was about to move to the kitchen.
I snuck up on her, and by the time I did, she was already opening drawers and closets, like a person looking for an airplane in a car show. She would occasionally kneel down in both directions, trying to open the lower drawers, and damn was she sexy. I could take a glimpse of her breasts and butt every now and then, and every second I was trying to prevent any sort of illicit content from going into my mind.

Until I realized that she knew I was there.

To my disappointment, she stood up from her sexy position, looked at me, and covered her face in embarrassment.

"R-Romeo-kun?" She was furiously blushing.
Waaayyy too cute.

"Uh-uhmm…" She said, nervously.
"I was just looking for a glass…" She tried to make an excuse, but I knew that she passed the glasses 2 drawers ago.

"Oh, right. They're over here." Trying to act as naturally as possible so she wouldn't suspect anything, I pointed at a drawer behind her.

"Th-thank you." She said, stammering as she filled her glass with water and drank it down, giving me a good sight of her neck and some of her, ahem, cleavage.
I wanted to kiss her and peck her everywhere, but that wasn't an option right now.

As she finished her glass, she immediately faced me, surprised at my grinning face.

"What's so funny, Romeo-kun?" She asks me, as if she wasn't looking so sexy on purpose.

I gave her a huge smile, and just nonchalantly made up an excuse.
"I think somebody touched my DVDs."

"Ah-uhmm…" She turned to face the living room, and saw that all my DVDs were scattered all over the couch.

"Ah! I-umm.." Again, that nervously cute blushing face.
"I'm sorry, I-I wanted t-to look for a g-good movie to w-watch…" She stammered.

I gave her a short chuckle, and she immediately went over to the living room to fix her mess.

I went over to her, trying to prevent her from over-exerting herself.

"Hey, Wendy." I reached to hold her hand and prevent her from doing any more work.
"You don't need t-" The immediate second my hand made contact with her skin, she recoiled back.
I guess she doesn't like skin-to-skin contact.

"A-Ah! Romeo-kun! Don't scare me like that!"

"You don't need to fix anything." I said, calmly trying to prevent her from freaking out.
"Actually, I think you need to get back to Mira-san and the others." I said, to prevent her from doing anything at all.
"You might need new medicine."

"A-ah! I should go back now!" She looked at the window, only to notice the dark was approaching.
"T-Thank you for your time, Romeo-kun! Sorry for the inconvenience!" She said, running out the door.

By the time I could formulate something to say, she was already too far away.

I locked the door, and as I remembered everything that happened today, I walked up to my room.

She was truly cute. She observed everything like a hawk and I couldn't help but chuckle at her attempts to find out the truth.
I wanted to kiss her and hug her until the ends of the earth. I can't get enough of her.
It'll be hard to forget with her beautiful face and perfect figure constantly being in my mind.

I jumped on my bed and tried to sleep, hoping that when I wake up, this'll all just be a dream.

(Wendy's POV)
As I ran back to the guild, I couldn't help but think of what my next move would be.

There is definitely something he knows that I don't.
Or something he doesn't want me to know.
Whatever it is, it'll all start with him.

I knew that if I was ever going to learn the truth, I had to stay as close to Romeo as possible.

I can't ask anybody else in the guild because they might freak out.

I didn't want to cause anybody any trouble.

But now…
I know what I need to do.

With a smile on my face, I open the doors to the guild.

"Hi, Mira-san!"

A/N First of all, NO, this story will NOT involve any illicit content or any adult themes.
I truly wanted to portray how Romeo felt about Wendy's new features in this one, so I apologize if it was too fantasized for you.
Anyway, I told you guys that I would be able to update in the next two days or so :D
I now have to rethink most of the next chapter, as that also has a lot of holes in it :(
I should be able to update in the next 3 days. It's a kind-of-long wait, but it'll be worth it (I hope) ;)
Again, it may/may not be long, the holes in the story have been a huge problem with the length of these chapters.
P.S. This chapter is probably the longest chapter, with over 2900 words! *feels proud of self*

~TRIVIA:
I usually write about things related to my real life - but only in little tidbits.
For example, in this chapter:
-Romeo's reactions to Wendy may/may not be an exaggerated version of what I would feel if I had a sexy girlfriend (I'm single, and no, I do not want to date anyone as of now)
-The electro-abstract paintings in Romeo's house resemble my many desktop wallpapers, mostly including a black background and some sort of cool neon foreground (usually neon blue)

Seeya then!
-SynInc