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Yay, a new chapter! Kind of a boring chapter, but I want to save the juicy stuff for the next chapter.
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"Lu!" A high-pitched and far too enthusiastic voice yelled as the blonde entered the library.
She had woken up in the morning with a small headache from the events of the previous day, nothing too serious that she couldn't handle. More like nothing a few Advils couldn't handle.
"Hey Levy." Lucy smiles as she sets her books on the table and takes a seat next to Levy.
"Lucy, I heard you hit your head and blacked out yesterday. Are you okay?!" She asks frantically, her eyes filled with worry as she scans the blonde head to toe as if checking for wounds or something.
Lucy chuckles nervously.
"I'm fine Levy, really I was just sleep deprived." She explains.
The blunette lets out a breath of relief.
"Thank goodness!" She says happily her eyes turning bright.
Lucy nods.
"Wait," She begins, pausing as she was about to open up her notebook and get to work," How did you know I passed out?"
She didn't remember telling anyone.
Levy giggles, and points her finger to the figure entering the library. Lucy looks over and finds raven hair and charcoal eyes.
He smiles and waves as he notices the two and comes over.
"Gray?" She whispers over to Levy, slightly surprised.
She for sure thought it would be Natsu causing a fit.
Levy nods, a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"He was freaking out about it, trying to get Natsu to let him see you but he never got the chance." And then lowering her voice she adds," I think he likes you."
The last part causes Lucy to raise her brows.
"Hey Lucy, glad to see you're okay." Gray says happily, a look of relief spreading across his features as he takes a seat across from the two.
Lucy smiles.
"I'm doing great, thank you." She says politely, Levy's words echoing in the back of her mind.
Did he like her?
"Sorry to worry you." She adds sheepishly, giggling a little.
"Don't be, I wasn't too worried." Gray says, a small blush on his cheeks as he stares at the table in embarrassment.
Levy snickers at this.
"'Wasn't too worried' ha! Gray texted the whole group acting like you were dying. Scared the living crap out of all of us!" Levy adds, mentally high fiving herself as Gray's blush turns a darker shade of red.
"I-I was worried okay? She hit her head that can be fatal sometimes!" He stammers, clearly embarrassed.
Lucy only laughs, finding it cute how he becomes so flustered over such a small thing.
"It's fine Levy, I'm glad I have friends that worry about me." She smiles genuinely at Gray, whose blush only darkens.
"Stop looking at me like that!" He sputters childishly, looking anywhere but at Lucy's eyes.
Lucy, feeling slightly amused, leans over the table a little and stares even harder.
"I'm not staring." She says innocently, hearing Levy giggle wildly to herself.
"You're definitely staring weirdo." A voice says behind the blonde and the three look over to stare at said person.
"Natsu! Lisanna!" Levy says happily as she smiles largely, motioning for the two to sit down.
"I'm not weird!" Lucy pouts folding her arms over her chest as Natsu playfully ruffles her golden locks before taking a seat next to the flustered Gray.
Lisanna takes a seat on the far end of the table, next to Natsu and Levy.
Lucy raises a brow at this. Lisanna always sat next to her.
"Ice prick what's with you? You look like a girl." Natsu taunts, noticing the massive blush on his cheeks.
"Who you calling a girl with that pink hair?!" He fires back, immediately losing the rosiness in his cheeks as he squints at the rosette.
A vein pops on Natsu's forehead.
"IT'S SALMON FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE," He shouts, pointing to the salmon (it was pink) colored notebook Lucy had," SEE SAME COLOR."
Gray laughs at his nonsense.
"Nope, definitely pink."
Lucy nods.
"Natsu, this is a hot pink notebook…"
Natsu looks back and forth from the notebook to Lucy, his face completely lost.
"THIS ICE DICK IS COLORBLIND."
"ME?! YOU'RE THE FLAME HEADED MORON WHO CAN'T TELL THAT HIS HAIR IS PINK."
"Is he calling me colorblind too?" Lucy asks herself, completely ignored by the two.
The two jam their foreheads against each other's, their eyes piercing into the others as the rest of the group watches.
"SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY!" The librarian screams from behind her desk, causing the whole group and everyone in the library to flinch.
Reluctantly, the two sit down but continue to glare at each other.
A silence falls upon the group as they all begin their assignments.
Lucy works diligently, trying to get as much work done as possible when suddenly midway through her Calculus homework something hard hits her head and she stops writing.
She looks up to find a stupid boyish grin plastered on Natsu's face as he bites back a laugh. She rolls her eyes at his childish behavior, and returns back to her work.
But, not until she makes sure to kick his leg under the table. A little harder than usual.
He flinches, kicking his knee against the bottom of the table.
"What the hell? Are you having a seizure flame breath?" Gray hisses, as some of his note cards scatter from the bump of the table and fall to the floor.
Natsu scowls at him.
"It wasn't my fault it was L-"
Another kick to his leg as Lucy smirks behind her laptop.
The table shakes.
More of Gray's notecards fall to the floor and Levy's drink almost spills.
"Natsu, control your leg." Levy scolds him and Gray nods in agreement.
The rosette knits his brows at the blonde.
"Yeah Natsu, control your leg." Lucy smirks.
Natsu exhales loudly, his expression annoyed.
Gray lifts a brow before bending over and grabbing his notecards. Levy goes back to her work.
Natsu on the other hand stares down the blonde as she has a victory smile on her lips and mouths the words "I win."
He pouts, folding his arms over his chest and sinking low in his seat.
Lucy only sticks her tongue out at him.
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Stretching her arms, Lucy checks the clock on her laptop to see that it was nearing 5 in the afternoon. The five of them had been hard at work for the past two hours but now that it was close to dinnertime the blonde was just about ready to wrap up and head home.
"Well, I better get going home." Lucy says, yawning as she cleans up all of her things and begins placing them in her backpack.
"Me too, I did way too much work for one day." Levy agrees, biting the straw of her drink.
Lisanna nods.
"Natsu, come on wake up." She says, poking him on the shoulder as he slowly opens his eyes.
Lucy eyes the white haired beauty, noticing that it's the first time she'd spoken up at all. She wondered why she was acting so quiet today.
"Huh? What time is it?" Natsu says groggily, rubbing his tired eyes.
"Almost 5. We're all going to head home, want to walk with me?" She asks him bluntly, batting her eyes sweetly as she presses herself a little close to him acting flirty.
Lucy feels uncomfortable just watching it. She knows Lisanna likes him…but she'd never acted this way in front of any of them before. It was…weird. Her whole entire behavior today was just...weird.
Natsu, being completely oblivious to her chest up against his arm, only shrugged.
"Sure." He answers simply, grabbing his bag off the floor and standing up.
"Bye guys." Natsu waves, slinging his backpack over his shoulder as he walks out with Lisanna.
As the two walk out, Lucy notices just how close Lisanna keeps herself to him. She was practically walking on him as they left the library.
It made her feel weird inside.
"Are they like an item or something?" Gray asks, his expression slightly confused as he looks from the library doors to Lucy and Levy.
"Sure looks like it. I mean have you noticed how today she didn't talk to anyone but Natsu?" Levy mentions.
Lucy nods to this. It was true. She didn't spark up a conversation at all or join one for the matter. It was unlike her.
Gray licks his lips, before looking over to the blonde.
"Did you two…uh fight or something?" The raven haired male asks, causing Lucy to blink her eyes in confusion.
"Lisanna and I? No, why?" She asks, feeling confused and for some reason nervous.
Did they fight? She didn't remember fighting, the last conversation they had was about some movie they watched over the weekend.
Gray shrugs.
"She was death glaring you whenever you were talking. You didn't notice?" He asks, slightly surprised.
"No…why would she be mad with me?" Lucy questions, feeling her heart turn heavy.
Levy rests a hand on the blonde's shoulder.
"She could just be in a bad mood or something. Don't worry about it Lu." Levy reassures her, smiling warmly at her friend.
Lucy forces a small smile, but still her heart feels heavy.
"Thanks Levy...Well, I really should get going." The blonde says, standing up and slinging her backpack over her shoulder.
"Me too." Gray says, and the three begin to walk out of the library.
But, before they head to the door Levy halts.
"Actually, you two go on ahead. I need to check out one more book before I head out." She says, slowly backing up and smirking Lucy's way.
Lucy raises her brow as the blunette creeps away and races towards the bookshelf.
Lucy knows exactly what she's doing and she swears she's going to kill her tomorrow.
"Well, guess it's just you and me." Gray says, shoving his hands in his pockets.
She nods.
"Come on, let's get out of here."
And the two exit the library, with a smirking and mischievous blunette watching them go.
"You're welcome Gray."
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"GRAY GET IT OUT." Lucy screams, probably loud enough that the whole block could hear it.
She was on the verge of tears. Her whole body was shaking, and she could not by any means handle herself properly like an adult.
"Lucy, you have to hold still otherwise I can't do anything!" Gray yelled back, trying to calm down the blonde who was stomping around the side walk like a child and whipping her hair back and forward like she was in some kind of a Justin Bieber music video.
Why?
"THERE'S A BEE IN MY HAIR GRAY AND YOU KNOW I'M ALLERGIC." She cries, her eyes becoming wet with tears as she hears the deathly buzz.
"ACTUALLY I DIDN'T KNOW THAT AND GOSH STAND STILL." He shouts, but the slight sound of laughter escaping his lips is heard. He can't help it, the whole situation was ridiculous, frightening a little, but ridiculous nonetheless.
The blonde halts in her moves, her shoulders shaking.
"Get it out Gray!"
And that he does as he reaches into her thick blonde locks and searches for the bee.
Seriously, they were enjoying such a nice walk back to her apartment when she just had to get attacked by Mother Nature herself. First Lisanna was upset with her now the world wanted to kill her. Fan-freaking-tastic.
Shaking her blonde locks, a black and yellow striped little bumblebee innocently flies out and zips past her raven haired hero.
"There, all gone." He says, deciding not to mention that bumblebees actually don't sting.
Lucy sighs heavily.
"Oh my gosh thank you, that was terrifying." She shivers.
Gray can't help but laugh.
"It's not funny!" She pouts, slapping him lightly on the shoulder as they begin walking again.
"It was pretty funny." He admits, teasingly.
"S-Shut up." She stammers, hating how even though she should be upset with him she couldn't help but smile at his stupid laugh.
The two fall into a rather comfortable silence as they walk down the sidewalk.
"I can't believe you fainted yesterday." Gray says seriously, breaking the small silence.
"Where did that come from?" Lucy giggles.
Gray rubs the back of his head sheepishly.
"Don't know, but you had me worried. That flame headed idiot wouldn't even let me come into the nurses office to come check on you!" He says, frustration crossing his features before a blush splashes on his cheeks as he realizes what he'd just said.
Lucy raises a brow.
"You came to visit me?" She asks, slightly surprised.
He nods, scratching his cheek.
"Yeah, I wanted to make sure you were…you know…okay."
Lucy smiles warmly towards him.
"I'm surprised I didn't wake up because of your fighting." The two share a laugh.
"Well, it was getting to that until Natsu backed off, knowing you'd wake up if we started screaming." He admits.
At this Lucy's heart does a little mini flip.
"Wait," She looks over at Gray with widened eyes,"Natsu backed off from a fight with you?" She asks, completely shocked.
He never backed off from a fight, especially with Gray. To think he'd do it for her. She didn't know what she was feeling.
It was…once again weird.
"That's what I was thinking!" Gray exclaims, and the two halt in their steps.
"Well, this is where we part ways." Lucy says, looking over at her walking companion as she has to cross the street.
Gray nods, licking his lips.
"Yeah."
She watches him, as the two stand in a silence both not really wanting to head home. She notices the way his hair sways, the raven color looking darker in the dim sunset light. His onyx eyes were focused on the street before them, and something in Lucy's chest felt warm.
He had accompanied her home and although she was confused and a little saddened by Lisanna's actions he managed to make her forget about it. Even if only for a little.
He was a good friend.
"Thank you Gray." Lucy suddenly blurts out before realizing she'd said it out loud.
Gray blinks confusedly.
"For what?" He asks her, his onyx eyes staring down at her.
Lucy smiles warmly.
"For being a good friend."
Gray makes a weird face, although his pale cheeks become significantly redder.
"S-Stop saying weird things Lucy." He stammers a little.
Lucy squints her eyes at him
"Weird things?! I WAS COMPLIMENTING YOU!" She pouts.
Gray laughs, a hand landing on the top of her head as he ruffles her blonde locks.
"Okay thanks Goldie Locks, now go home it's getting late." He says casually, grinning a brilliant shiny white grin at her before turning on his heel and heading towards his house.
Lucy stands there watching him go before his words really sink in.
"HEY DON'T CALL ME GOLDIE LOCKS YOU STRIPPER!"
How did she not notice that his shirt was off this whole time?
