AN: Yay another chapter! Thank you for the review Kaijerah1718 :) Greatly appreciate your feedback! ( once again, had to write this in notebook, so if there are any mistakes, I am sorry! More chapters to come later today! )


Morning peeked through Lucy's window. She moaned and rolled over in her bed. Her head hurt still from crying so much last night. Her eyes shot open. 'Last night... I...I kissed two men...' She thought to herself, blushing as her thoughts raced. 'What am I going to do now?! I kissed two men on the same night! Not only that, but they were friends and band mates! Ugh I'm such an idiot!' She thought as she puts her face into her pillow. There was a knock at her door and she sits up."Come in."

Levy walked into the room carrying a mug of hot chocolate with whip cream on top. Lucy smiles and thanks her friend for the drink. Levy sits down on the bed and crosses her legs, holding her own mug of hot coco. "Ok so spill the beans sister. I want to know everything." Levy said as she takes a sip. Lucy looks at her and then waves her hand, dismissing the question.

"I don't know what you're talking about Levy."

The blue haired girl put the mug up to her lips, "Gajeel told me that both Gray and Loke kissed you last night. So there's no use hiding it. What happened?" She takes another sip as the blonde wizard looks at her in pure shock. "He didn't say anything to either of them, don't worry. Besides all he knows is that you kissed the two of them. Now if anything else happened, that's what I want to know!" Lucy just sighs and looks down into her mug.

"I made a huge mistake Levy. I don't know why I kissed Loke last night. I mean... I agreed to go out with Gray, which as you know is everything I ever wanted. But then I met Loke on the train and then I found out he was actually Leo from the band, and now all my feelings are messed up! I don't know who I want! Maybe I was just feeling vulnerable last night and that's why I kissed Loke." She pulls her knees up and rests her elbows on them. Levy thinks for a long minute before speaking to her dear friend.

"Well... I'd say do what you're heart wants. Go out with Gray a few times and see how it goes!"

"That's just it... he just seems so busy all the time. Where as Loke... I feel like he would drop anything at a moments notice. How am I supposed to get to know someone, if they don't even have the time for me!"

"That is a dilema...then maybe when you get Grays' attention again, talk to him and ask him if he really wants to be with you or if it's just a fling?" Lucy looks out her window to the gardens below, remembering that kiss.

"Yeah.. I guess you're right."

Levy jumped up with a gasp. "Say! Want to come with me to the library?! It'll only be for a few hours but it would totally be fun!"

"Hey yeah! Maybe I just need to distract myself and then mull things over later when I'm not feeling so down! Thanks Levy! You're the best!" Levy goes to the door and winks at Lucy.

"That's what I'm here for!"


Loke had tossed and turned all night. He was thinking about Lucy the whole time. He sits up in his bed, the covers falling off his chest, he places a hand to his head.

'Why can't I ever seem to get you out of my head Lucy?' He runs his fingers through his orange hair and sets his head back on the headboard. He turns on his cell phone and the tone for his text messages goes off almost immediately. It was a text from his ex-girlfriend Karen. He sighs and disregards the message, telling himself to just look at it later. He sinks back down the mattress and puts his wrists to his forehead now. Closing his eyes, he imagined that slim frame on top of him. Golden locks flowing over her shoulders. Smooth skin and beautiful tasting lips. And those brown eyes... Heaven knows he would do anything for her. When he was around her, he wasn't afraid to show his true self. He really did hate putting on that stupid wig and make up just to make business better for the band. She accepted him for him. Even if her feelings swayed more towards the ice mage, he thought there could be a slight chance for him. He felt a spark between them as they kissed last night. He had never felt it with any other woman he had been with. Not even Karen. He thought Karen was the one and was fully ready to propose to her. That was until he found out the real reason she wanted to be with him. After her, any celestial wizard he had met, all wanted the same thing. It made him sick to his stomach just thinking about it. But how was Lucy so different? When he was on the train, he was heading back from a business meeting and had hoped no one would sit with him. When Lucy asked to sit down, the gentleman in him said it was no problem. He knew there was something different about her, he just couldn't put a finger on it.

In the short amount of time that he has seen her, she has been nothing but kind to him. Treated him as a good friend and nothing less. When she had told him that she was interested in Gray and that he had looked out-of-place in the band, he began to reconsider what he was doing. He was playing the role that someone else thought would be appealing to the crowds. It wasn't really him out there, it was Leo. Over the years in the band, he had grown tired of that name, and one might even say that he began to hate it. That's why he chose to call himself "Loke" when he wasn't on stage. He really didn't realize that his feelings for Lucy had grown so strong over the past few days. Maybe it was just because she wasn't fawning over him like every other girl he knew. Or perhaps it was just jealousy. Gajeel has Levy and Gray would have gotten her. He would be left with just the crazy fangirls who wanted one thing. The title of "The Lion Tamer" or "I survived sleeping with the Lion." He questioned his feelings towards her and thought more on the kiss they shared. He wanted to really love her. What the hell was holding him back?


Levy leads Lucy into the library that afternoon. Lucy looked around and saw shelves upon shelves of books. This library was so massive, there were three floors to the building. Ladders were set up in almost every book section. Levy waved at the regular towns people who came to the library everyday just to read. She goes to the little lounge for employees and sets her things into her locker. She tells Lucy to do the same. "So what exactly do you do while you're here Levy?" Lucy asked.

"Oh well I put away returned books, sort through papers, and if I have anytime, I just read." She said with a smile.

"How would you have time to read when there's three floors to this building! It's making me dizzy just thinking about how much sorting you have to do!"

"Hey I've worked in here since college was done! I have my system down pat!" She giggled.

Lucy just laughs and follows her friend back out into the library. Lucy helped gather all the returned books with Levy and was putting some away in the second floor. She peered down to Levy on the first floor who was putting books away left and right. ' Wow she really does have a system down. I feel like a snail compared to her!' She thought. It only took the girls a few hours to put away the books, so they went back down to the first floor and sat down on the couch to read for a while. Lucy wanted to get inspired to work on her novel, and Levy wanted to read up on rune spells and how to rewrite the harder ones. Lucy looked up from her book after a thought had popped into her head and looked to Levy who had her whole face in a very large, old book. "Say Levy, do you have any books on crafts?" Levy just mumbles and points in the direction of arts and crafts and home goods. Lucy rolled her eyes slightly and went over to the section. She put a finger to her lips as she looked up and down the giant book shelf. Her hand reached out for a book when another hand touched hers.

"Oh! I'm sorry!" Lucy said.

"No, no, go ahead and take that book, fair lady Lucy." Freed said as he withdraws his hand.

"Fair lady Lucy? How did you even know my name?" She said with a questioned look on her face.

"Oh, forgive me. Yesterday I had read your name tag while eating at the restaurant. If I have displeased you, please accept my deepest apologies." He said as he places his hand over his chest.

Lucy waves her hands in front of her. "Hey, you don't have to do that! And you can just call me Lucy. So, were you going to make something for Mira?"

Freed jumps back a bit and blushed. "I-I don't know what you mean! I was just simply, uh... reaching for the book next to it!" Lucy looks at the book next to it and noticed that it was a book about making costumes by hand.

"So you were going to make a costume? But it's only the middle of August! That doesn't seem enough time to make anything. And no offense... you don't look like the costume wearing type."

Freed sighs and looks at Lucy. "MY feelings for Mira go deep, and I would like to present to her a gift, I was just hoping one of these books had the answer."

Lucy hummed to herself and went to another book section. She came back holding a book in her hands. "Here you go! This one I think would help you out with that problem."

Freed looked from her to the book. He takes it from her, "You have my deepest thanks, Lucy. I look forward to our next meeting. Farewell." He turned and went to the check-out counter. She smiled and went back to the books on the shelf.


Gajeel, Gray, and Loke were sitting in a room with their band manager, listening to some of the new music they had just made.

"Something is still missing from this section in the song." Loke said and turns the volume down. "Do you guys have any ideas?"

"I honestly think it sounds fine." Gajeel said as he bites down on some iron screws. Gray sat in his chair with his arms crossed.

"Why must you question every song that Gajeel and I write the music to, Loke? Honestly. It's like you're never satisfied with anything we come up with." Gray said.

Loke runs his hands over his face. There really wasn't anything wrong with the music. He just was being distracted. The band manager finally spoke.

"I think it is best if you all take a break for the next couple of days. We are actually going to be leaving a day earlier than expected."

"Juvia, I thought I told you we were taking a week off, not a six-day vacation." Gray said as he looks over to the woman. She was pale and dressed in blues and whites. Her hair was cut short and stuck out at the ends. She always seemed to be blushing when talking to Gray and got quite jealous when he was talking to the fans.

"Yeah rain woman... what the hell?" Gajeel added in.

Juvia sighs, "You three just need to be on the plane at 9am on Saturday. Please be at the airport before then and enjoy the next two days of your vacation." She leaves the room holding papers and her phone up to her ear. She was constantly busy trying to keep the three men happy, and as much as she wanted to just stay with Gray, she knew she had a lot of work to do before the end of the year.

Gray stands up and flips out his phone. "Well I guess this means I can go hang out with Lucy now. Almost feel bad for blowing her off."

Loke's eyes widen and his fist clench. "Why are you going to go hang out with her?"

Gajeel noticed his reaction but continued to eat his iron bolts, looking between the two wizards. Gray smiled as he typed out a text message to Lucy. "I asked her out last night when I dropped her off at her apartment and she said yes. She wanted to hang out but I told her I was too busy. But now, my schedule has opened back up. Figured I can squeeze in a couple of days of fun before we leave."

Lokes' teeth grind against each other. 'She's not just a piece of meat... she's a person. She deserves better than you. How could she love a guy like him? I have to talk to her... I don't want her to get hurt...' Loke stands up and walks up to Gray, getting close to his face. His eyes narrow as he looks into the ice mage. "Don't you dare hurt Lucy." He walks around Gray and out the door.

"What the hell did he mean by that? Man he's been moody lately. Wonder if it's because of Karen." Gray said looking to Gajeel.

Gajeel just shrugged his shoulders. "Who the hell knows? Not like I care. I'm out of here. I've got to go see Bookworm before we leave in a couple of days."

Gray watched the big man leave. He gets a response to his text message and looks at it. He smirks and closes his phone. "So it's a date."


Side note: In the beginning of the story, I mentioned the boys were only in town for a week. It was basically where they grew up as kids and they just wanted to go there for their week-long vacation. They will be leaving soon to continue their tour. Please R&R! And check out wisdomk6909! R&R her story Iron Gray!