A/N- Haven't updated in sooooo long I am sorry I still love you I swear! Have a nice long chapter as an apology gift
A Few Days Later- Magnolia Station
Blaire, Eve, Hibiki, Ren and Sherry were the first ones to arrive at the train station. They stopped at a small café to get coffee and snacks for the train. Blaire's stomach was already in knots just from being around trains.
Next to arrive was Mirajane, Lisanna, Freed, Laxus and Julie. Julie was clinging on to Laxus' arm and smiling a creepy fake-looking smile. Mirajane was giving Julie a dirty look and Freed was holding her hand trying not to get in the way of his girlfriend's intense stare down. Lisanna ran over and gave Hibiki a warm hug that made everyone smile.
"Ohayo Minna-san." Lisanna said greeting the other members of the group.
Next to arrive was Natsu, Happy, Lucy, Grey, Juvia, Wendy, Romeo, Carla, Erza, and Jellal.
"Ahhhhh Lucy! I still can't believe that we have to go on a TRAIN! You have no idea how much I hate trains!" Natsu complained.
"Actually I do know how much you hate trains and I promise everything's gonna be fine." Lucy comforted.
"Thanks Luce you're such a great friend." Natsu said giving Lucy a warm hug. Just then Happy floated by.
"They lllllike each other." He said rolling his tongue when he said it.
"Umm well you see Luce… About that… I kinda have been meaning to tell you…"
Natsu was cut off mid-sentence by Lucy's lips touching his. They kissed until Kitty, Beletokia, Hayden, Levy, Gajeel and Pantherlily arrived.
"Good morning everyone. Oh what do we have here? Lucy and Natsu together! I knew it! You owe me 1000 jewels Hayden!" Kitty exclaimed as Hayden pulled out his wallet and handed Kitty 1000 jewels.
"God Kitty sometimes you remind me of Cana and not in a good way." Lucy said still blushing with her arms still around Natsu's waist.
Cana was a known matchmaker and assistant to the resident matchmaker Mirajane, and surprisingly one of Kitty's close friends. She also made bets with others about who was going to become a couple. Kitty and Hayden also made ridiculous bets with each other and the loser had to pay money or do something comical and usually embarrassing.
As everyone boarded the train, the dragon slayers immediately felt the effects of transportation on their bodies.
"Oh my god. Is it really bad that my stomach feels like jello right now?" Kitty said.
"Just try and fall asleep okay I'll carry you to the hotel room and wake you up when were going to go to the theme park or the beach." Hayden said with a smile.
"Yeah I'll do the same for you Blaire." Eve said.
Lucy and Levy also agreed to this idea and soon all of the whiny dragon slayers were sound asleep.
"Why don't you get motion sickness Wendy?" Romeo asked his crush. Romeo and Wendy both like each other but were to shy to admit it.
"I'm not really sure. I do get really dizzy on trains and sometimes I get sick in horse drawn carriages but definitely not as bad as these guys." Wendy said glancing over at Natsu who was loudly snoring and drooling on Lucy's shoulder, Gajeel who was peacefully sleeping while holding Levy's hand (They lllllike each other Happy thought to himself), Blaire who was sleeping with Eve's arm around her protectively, and last but not least at Kitty who was sleeping all alone. Wendy felt bad for Kitty. She had her crush stolen from her by Julie, the girl who had been so cruel to her for no reason. She wanted Kitty and Hayden to be together so badly.
Seeing Wendy was upset, Romeo grabbed her hand, not knowing what to say to make her feel better. The two young mages sat there in silence for the remainder of the train ride.
As everyone exited the train Romeo apologized for holding her hand.
"I'm sorry I made things completely awkward on the train. I shouldn't have held your hand without telling you why or anything. I just did it and I feel bad." He said as the pair started walking towards the hotel.
"Romeo you've got to be kidding me." Wendy said, slightly blushing. "I really loved it when you were holding my hand before. It makes me feel like you actually care about me."
"Why do you say it like that? Of course I care about you." Romeo said, still trying to comprehend what Wendy meant by that.
"Yeah you only care about me as a friend. I on the other hand am in love with you and I know you don't love me back. But it's seriously fine. Forget I even mentioned it. I wouldn't want my stupid feelings to get in the way of our friendship." Wendy said quickening her pace to a run as a steady stream of tears ran down her face.
"Wendy please wait. I really love you too." However it was too late. Wendy was already out of earshot and the only one who heard his confession was Carla who was listening to their whole conversation.
"Go after her. You might be the only guy I actually want to be with Wendy. I never trusted any of her other boyfriends but you really seem to make her happy. There's no way you would break her heart." Carla said.
As the whole Fairy Tail group arrived in the lobby of the hotel, Wendy arrived still crying.
"What happened Wendy? Where's Romeo." Mirajane said, scooping up the still crying dragon slayer in her arms. She held her there until she stopped crying long enough to answer her questions.
"I ran away from him. I finally confessed my feeling to him and he just looked at me awkwardly. Like I ever stood a chance with him anyway." Wendy said sadly.
Just then Romeo walked into the lobby with Carla and walked over to the still sobbing Wendy.
"As I was saying before you ran away from me, Wendy of course I love you. I've loved you since we met. You're probably the prettiest and sweetest girl I've ever met. Why else would I decide to hold your hand and then nervously apologize?" Mirajane let the still teary-eyed Wendy down and she walked over to Romeo and gave him a warm hug. The two young mages just stood there hugging for a while until Wendy broke the silence.
"I'm so sorry I ran away from you. I should have given you time to respond before jumping to conclusions." She said, her arms still around his waist, tears still in her eyes (however these were tears of joy.)
"The beauty of young love." Erza said, smiling kindly at the young mages. Jellal was standing by her side as usual but he was smiling today too. Smiling was a rare occurrence for Jellal, knowing he could never truly find happiness with the girl he loves, he already had hurt her enough both mentally and physically, but he was happy today because they get to spend 3 days of fun together before he was planning on leaving Fairy Tail forever.
After the groups checked into the hotel and went into their rooms to get ready for a day at the beach, Erza decided to talk to Jellal about him leaving.
"Jellal I know after this vacation you were planning on leaving Fairy Tail but is there any way you could stay with me… I mean us at Fairy Tail because I… I mean we would miss you because I love and care about you so much…"
"Don't you mean we?" He said trying to lighten the mood.
"No… that time I actually meant I… I love you and don't want you to ever leave me again." She said now crying. "Why do you even have to leave in the first place? No one is asking you to go. Everyone would miss you… especially me. I just love you to much for it not to hurt to see you go."
"I just don't want to hurt anyone anymore. I've already hurt you and everyone else too much. You all would just be better off forgetting I ever existed and moving on with your lives." Jellal said, tears in his eyes now too.
"You've already made a big enough impression in all of our hearts for us to just forget about you that easily." She said sitting down on his bed next to him. "I will never forget you. Even if everyone else does I will always love you." Erza said putting her arms around him and pulling him in for a kiss. After about a second of apprehension he finally kissed her back. It was a long passionate make-out.
"There's no way I could leave after a speech that heartfelt. I love you too and I will never leave you again." Jellal said when they finally separated. Just then they heard a small knock on the door.
"Hey were gonna leave for the beach soon so you guys should get ready." Wendy said from outside the door.
Erza went into the bathroom and changed into her favorite plain black bikini. By the time she left the bathroom Jellal had changed as well. Erza packed a beach bag for the two of them and they went to the lobby where they agreed to meet everyone.
Wendy, Carla and Romeo were already waiting in the lobby when Erza and Jellal arrived. Wendy was wearing an adorable light blue and white striped one-piece bathing suit.
Lucy Happy and Natsu were surprisingly the next group to arrive. Lucy was wearing a red bikini and Natsu was wearing red swim trunks.
"I thought you said you were going to wear your black bathing suit so we wouldn't be matching!" Lucy was clearly pissed off that they were matching but Natsu just smiled and wrapped his arm around Lucy's waist and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek to calm her down.
They match… They are such a cute couple. Erza thought to herself.
Levy Gajeel and Pantherlily were the next people that walked into the lobby. Her bathing suit was a bright lemon yellow halter bandeau bikini. She was also wearing her favorite bright yellow bandana. She smiled as Gajeel put his hand protectively around her waist. The two of them were definitely like each other and there was no doubt in anyone's mind as they walked over to the group of Fairy Tail mages.
Next Juvia, Grey, Mira, Freed, Julie and Laxus came down to the lobby. Mira was wearing her usual white bikini. Juvia's swimsuit was an ultramarine blue and black floral printed bandeau. Julie was wearing a strapless red one-piece bathing suit.
Hibiki, Lisanna, Blaire, Eve, Ren and Sherry were the next group to arrive in the lobby. The Blue Pegasus team (plus Lisanna) always seemed to travel in their own little pack, even though they did get along well with the others. Sherry was wearing a pink bikini top with a ruffled skirt bottom. Blaire was wearing a white strapless bikini with black polka dots. Lisanna was wearing a silver bikini. The top was lacey and had a small bow on it. It happened to be Lisanna's favorite bathing suit ever.
The group of friends was chattering away while waiting for Kitty and Hayden.
"Where the hell are those two? I'm so bored." Gajeel said with an irritated tone of voice.
"They probably got locked in a closet and instead of trying to call for help they just started making out." Blaire guessed.
"What a slut!" Julie said with a malicious giggle.
Blaire was obviously making a joke but something in her voice told everyone that Julie actually meant what she said.
Mirajane shot her one of her infamous death glare as Hayden and Kitty finally arrived.
"I can't believe it took you that long to pick out a bathing suit. You looked really pretty in all of the ones you tried on so it shouldn't have taken you that long to choose." Hayden said, blushing after he realized that he complimented her instead of scolding her.
"Well you should have told me that I looked good in all of them sooner. I asked your opinion and you just said yes to everything while reading the newest Sorcerer's Weekly magazine. You weren't even paying attention." Kitty said. She did look amazing in the orange fringe bandeau bikini that she was wearing but still felt uncomfortable. She never really wore bikinis because her only friend was a guy so somehow that made her feel awkward wearing bikinis in front of him. But ever since she moved to Magnolia her new friends encouraged her to wear bikinis.
"As a matter of fact I was paying attention to you. Actually I must say out of all of them I like the orange one the best." Hayden said, complimenting her and blushing yet again.
"Yeah right. You're just saying that because I already have this one on." Kitty said angrily. Beletokia floated by and laughed.
"This isn't bad compared to some of the arguments they had at home." She smiled and landed on top of Kitty's shoulder.
"Wait Kitty and Hayden live together. That's not normal. There has to be something going on there. I always knew Kitty had a thing for my ex." Julie said being a bitch as usual.
"WERE FREAKING NEIGBORS AND THERES NOTHING GOING ON BETWEEN US!" Kitty said pissed off with Julie as usual. There was nothing abnormal about this scenario.
"Lets just go to the beach already I am so tired of just standing around the lobby. Who's with me?" Gajeel said still annoyed that they hadn't left for the beach yet.
"Hai!" everyone responded and the group said as they finally headed out towards the beach.
The rest of the day passed by uneventfully as the fairy tail mages finally went to the beach. Everyone was satisfied with the hotel and there was not a care in the world for anyone.
Juvia however was worried. She wanted to know what her Grey-sama truly felt about her. She decided to ask his sister, Blaire. Blaire and Grey were very close siblings and they told each other everything.
"Blaire? Juvia was wondering if you could do her a favor." Juvia asked when the two girls were swimming in ocean.
"Of course Juvia. What's up?" Blaire said. Blaire was very attached to her friends who used to be a part of Blue Pegasus with her, but she really was starting to become good friends with Juvia.
"Well Juvia was just wondering if you happened to know if Grey-sama finds Juvia annoying." Juvia said with a pale pink blush spreading over her face.
"Actually Grey really thinks you're an amazing girl and he really likes you a lot but the only thing is he doesn't like it when you put yourself down. That's the only problem he has with you." Blaire said. "Just try to let him get to know you a little bit better and maybe be a little bit less stalkerish and he will definitely fall for you." Blaire said with a smile.
"Thank you so much Blaire. Juvia really appreciates your help." Juvia said smiling and walking away.
Blaire was happy for her brother and Juvia, knowing they would make a great couple in the future. As day turned to night, the fairy tail mages ate dinner at a fancy restaurant. Natsu managed to start a food fight and got himself kicked out of the restaurant. He went back to the room that he shared with Lucy and ordered room service. After dinner, everyone decided to go to the casino. After a long night of gambling, drinking and fun the fairy tail mages finally retired to their rooms.
