Hello guys!

Some of you must have been waiting for this chapter, so without further due, here is the next chapter of If There are Two of Them!

Btw, thank you all readers and reviewers for staying tune with my story. I love you guys so much!

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© Hiro Mashima

The boy with the strawberry cake

Erza was dreaming.

Again, it was the same dream as before.

Again, a boy was running towards her. Again, a boy wanted to play with Erza. Again, that boy was consumed by fire that haunted him from behind.

The difference was, now she could see the boy's face clearly. It was his face.

Was it Jellal? Or was it Siegrain?

But Erza was thinking for too long.

Again, the fire chased the boy. Again, the boy was reaching out to her for help. Again, she didn't save him.

And again, everything turned black.

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Erza woke up with a major headache. It was Saturday, so thank God there's no school. She didn't think she'd survive if she attended school this way.

She couldn't think straight, as if her world was collapsing underneath her. After the talk with Milliana yesterday, she couldn't think straight. Should she call Siegrain? Should she call Jellal? She couldn't make up her mind.

Well, one thing for sure was that know she remembered. The boy from her past was either Jellal or Siegrain, that's for sure. But it's odd that she only remembered one of them.

Erza walked downstairs and found out that Rob had gone to work. She saw a breakfast neatly prepared for her on the table. She smiled, knowing that her father would always looked after her.

She ate her breakfast and took a shower. After she felt refreshed, she decided to go shopping for dinner.

The redhead stepped outside and walked to the store. She bought a lot of things but surprisingly still managed to bring all of them all by herself.

On her way back, she spotted a cake shop and decided to stop and eat for a while.

I guess relaxing once in a while is okay, she thought.

As long as she could remember, eating strawberry cake was one of the things she cherished the most in her life. Now that she thought about it, she started to wonder why.

She took a seat and started to eat her cake. Her memories drifted to those when she was young. She knew that at the orphanage, the nun there loved to eat dessert. So, it must be normal for them to give her some.

But then, her childhood memories were really dim. She didn't remember much.

Erza closed her eyes and tried to picture her childhood. Suddenly, an image flashed to her mind.

'Erza, do you like strawberry cake?'

'Umm, sort of... I guess… What about you?'

'I love them! I think strawberry cake is amazing!'

'Ah, yes I think so too.'

Erza opened her eyes. That fragments of memories that she just remembered made her realized something. She realized the reason why she loved eating strawberry cake so much.

She loved strawberry cake because that boy first loved it.

And she suddenly remembered so much about that boy. His kindness. His compassion. His bravery.

How he always managed to make Erza smiled. How he always cared about her. How he always cheered Erza up.

She remembered how much she loved him.

And Erza cried.

Drops of tears fell to her precious strawberry cake. Her brown eyes filled with sadness and regret. And perhaps shame.

How could she forget? He was the one she always loved. All this time and Erza just realized that this feeling never left her.

The feeling she had for this boy was still there inside her heart. Feeling for the boy she once forgot.

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It was a fairly normal Monday in Fairy Tail Academy. Girls were gossiping, boys were fighting, and teachers were gossiping too. Everything was the same for everyone. But, it's not the same for Erza.

Somehow, the twins she had business with were absent today. A very cliché plot development that would happen only in a shoujo manga.

Erza was informed that today both of them needed to attend a business meeting with the rest of the Fernandes and that they will be back by tomorrow.

But Erza didn't have time until tomorrow. A lot of people said that she was a smart and pretty girl, but none of them had ever praised Erza to be patient.

Erza looked to her left, to the empty seat left by Jellal. She knew that this would be the best time to ask them.

'All right class, that would be it for today,' said her homeroom teacher Macao Combolt.

Erza suddenly shot up from her seat and shouted to Macao, 'sir! I will volunteered myself to bring the homework to Jellal.'

The whole class went silent. Most students looked at each other with flustered looks on their faces. Were they talking about homework earlier?

'Erza, I don't think that there are homework for tomorrow,' whispered Lucy. Erza still maintained her stare to her homeroom teacher. With glowing determination on her eyes she replied, 'then make one. Please give us homework, Mr. Macao.'

Erza bowed a little and the whole class turned silent again. No one dared to oppose her. Everyone's face turned as pale as stone.

Macao was really surprised on the fact that a student asked him for homework. But at the end, even he gave up to the determination radiating from Erza's eyes.

That day, all students on class 10 C left with their head down. They sighed and silently prayed that karma would punish Erza.

While Erza, on the other hand, was clenching on a piece of paper. It was the address to the Fernandes's house.

A huge smile was painted on her face. Finally, she would shine the light of truth to all questions that she had.

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