Hello my readers! I want to apologize for not updating sooner. I just had some real life problems that I had to take care of. I hope you all can forgive me. So to make up for it, here's a super long chapter today. (Over 3,200, not including the authors notes.) But I should be able to update sooner now, as long as real life doesn't get in the way. But then again, I have exmas soon so that might cause some late updates. I'll try my best to update.

I'm also really exited for this chapter, I really like it, so I hope you all like it as well! And I revised it for almost an hour so I'm hoping there's no spelling mistakes or I might just cry. I read this chapter at least 5 times today so far. It's a good thing I like it.

Anyway, lets get on with the chapter.

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Chapter 10

Lucy's POV

Me and Gray later found out that the reason why everyone was staring at us was because they heard a rumor that me and Gray were dating. Which I guess was a good thing, because that means that Natsu and Juvia will hear it sometime soon and that'll spark some unpleasant feelings for them. Not that I want them to be hurt, I just want them to be able to realise their (hopefully) true feelings.

A lot of rumors started to spread about the new couples on Friday. And almost everyone was talking about all of us. Although, no one actually came up to any of us to ask if they were true. But they could probably tell by the way we acted. Not to brag, but me and Gray were really good at acting like we were in a relationship.

Since today was Friday, and like he has been doing, he would drive us to school and we would walk into together. We would walk close together, but not too close, as we were both only just fiends acting to be together, but close enough to make it seem real.

We also went to each other's lockers, and he walked me to most of my classes. I would even get some "aww" form the girls behind me. They were saying how jealous they were me. If only they knew what was really going on.

But along with me and Gray being more "coupley" it seemed as though Natsu and Juvia have also been more couply lately. I have heard rumors of them, and people are saying that they are actually a really nice couple. Which made my heart hurt thinking about it, knowing that he was with someone else. But I tried to focused on the positive, and tried to stay focused on what I was doing.

I was also excited that me and and some of the other girls were going dress shopping tonight. I must say that I was very excited for it. It was going to be me, Erza, levy and Juvia. Although, I was uneasy with Juvia going, but I was going to try my best to have her get her jealous of me and Gray. I was planning on talking about Gray and trying to act like I really liked him. Gray even told me that he would try to do the same for me, and talk about me to Natsu, I just had to hope that he puts in a positive affect. I guess I just have to trust him. We do have to work together after all.

Throughout the school day, me and Gray spent a lot of time together. And at lunch, we sat next to each other, but so did Natsu and Juvia, but sat all the way at the other end of the table. It was weird, being this far from Natsu, I hate being this distant from him. I hope that it would hopefully change soon.

With the two couples sitting together, we got some strange looks from out table of friends. It's no doubt that they have already heard the rumors going around. They are probably very confused as to what's going on, and why we didn't tell them. But no one asked anything, they all just stared awkwardly. It wasn't until the end of the day when someone finally asked me about it.

Gray had just walked me to my locker, and said that he'd meet me in his car, since he is going to drive me home as he has been doing a lot of lately. As I was at my locker, a familiar friend came up to come talk to me.

"Hello, Lu-chan!" Levy said, giving me a happy smile.

"Hi levy. Are we still on for shopping later?"

"Yeah! It's going to be so much fun!"

"I'm really excited. I hope that we all find a dress that we want."

"I'm sure we all will. We just have to look hard enough. And I'll pick you up at your house, we can meet up with everyone together."

"Okay, sounds like a plan."

"Hey, Lu-chan. Is it true?" she asked curiously.

"Is what true?" I looked at her confused.

"Well, it's just there's rumors going around…" She paused, and I think I know where this is going. "Are you and Gray dating." I paused quickly, and my face heated up. I didn't mean it to. If anyone was asked that question they would be embarrassed too! It's not my fault!"

"Oh, I see. Okay." She said, then started to walk away.

"Wait! What do you mean?"

"Well you didn't answer right away. So it's got to be a yes. Or else you would have answered no right away." If only she knew how complicated it was.

"It's just complicated. That's all." I sighed.

"Sure it is. I never thought that it would be you two who got together, but I'll support you. As long as you are happy."

"It's complicated." I repeated. I hope that she would understand that it was something that I didn't want to talk about.

Finally, we walked out together. Gajeel was waiting outside for her. I've noticed he's doing this more often now. I wonder if he's already asked her to prom yet.

I walked over to the spot where Gray parked his car, and I opened the door.

"You look tired." He said.

"I am." I sighed. "And I still have to go out tonight. I'm looking forward to it though." I buckled my seatbelt, and so did he, then he started to drive the vehicle.

"You girls are going dress shopping, right."

"Yeah, we're going to the mall later. I'm hoping to get my dress."

"I'm sure you will."

"I hope so. Anyway, how was your day? Have any plans for tonight?"

"My day was fine. Just went to my stupid classes. But, just so you know, I have been studying for exams that are next week. So I'm getting myself prepared." I nodded in approvement, it's good that at least he's studying. "And no I don't have any plans for night. Not yet, at least."

"Well, I hope that you have a nice night."

"I will. I'll probably make plans later on." The rest of the ride we spent talking about little conversations, and then we finally got to my house.

"Have fun tonight, talk to you soon."

"Thank you, talk to you later. " and then I walked into my house. I started to get ready because we planned on going to the mall early so that we would have enough time at the mall to find what we were looking for. Levy called me and said that she would come pick me up in the next twenty minutes or so. So I made sure that I was ready by then.

Luckily, my dad gave me some extra money to buy a dress because I told him I was going to need some more. So I waited for levy to come, and soon enough she texted me that she was in the driveway.

When I got in the car we gave each other a warm smile and a hello. We were both excited to go buy our dresses. It took a little bit to get to the mall, but we finally got there and after we parked we meet everyone in the food court.

When we got there, Juvia and Erza were already there, waiting for us.

They noticed us too, and they waved and walked over to us.

"Hey, guys." I said.

"Hello, Lucy, levy." Erza greeted us.

"So, shall we go shopping now? Levi asked with a smile on her face.

We all nodded our heads and we left to go into some stores. I also noticed that Juvia was giving me not so friendly smile. He face smiled, but her eyes held a lot of anger. And somehow I knew it was towards me. I didn't mean to, but I gave her a not so friendly look either. I could tell that from this moment, it was going rto be a long evening between the two of us.

The mall that were in was a pretty big one, and had many stores. And a lot of them were selling dresses for prom, so it wasn't hard to find a store. It was hard to find so where to start. At one point, someone just had to pick a store and walk in.

There was one part when we were all in a store, and I went up to Juvia and tried to have a friendly conversation with her. She did start being nice back, but that was probably only because the others were around. I'm getting the feeling that she doesn't really like me all that much. But as were shopping, I so happened to mention Gray in a conversation and she muttered something along the lines of "love Rival." And then, when I was alone looking at a few dresses, I was walking passed her and I "tripped" over her feet. She appologised, but it wasn't a real apology. I was getting really angry as this point,but I remembered that I had to ne nice. So I tried my hardest to get through the evening without getting angry at her.

We then all went into a few different store but with no luck. But as we were walking around for stores to walk into, I happened to see a store that I don't really remember ever going into. But the store seemed to almost glow, and it was almost calling out to me. The sight said, "love and lucky."

"Why don't we try in here?" I said pointing to the store.

"Love and lucky?" Levy asked. "I've never been in there."

The others also said that they had never been in this store.

"It's not like we're finding any luck anywhere else. Let's give it a try." I said. No one argued and we walked in.

When we walked into the store there was this presence almost. I don't know what it was, but I felt good in the store. Like I knew something good was going to happen.

An old lady came up to us and said, "Hello, ladies. Do you need help with anything?" with a warm smile on her face.

"We're looking for prom dresses." I said.

"Oh yes, we have some over here. Follow me." So we walked over and there was a bunch of dresses and they were all beautiful. I think all of us were in awe at how beautiful they were. "If you need any help, I'll be over there." She said and then she left us to look at all the dresses.

"Wow." I finally said. "They are all so pretty!"

We all then started to go through the hangers of dresses trying to find ones that we liked. We all picked some at random and went to the dressing room to try them on. There were four dressing rooms lined up next to each other, we found it perfect. We all picked one and started to try on on. It took us all a little bit to get on the first dress, and when we all stepped out we all commented on how pretty everyone looked. But everyone knew that the dress they had on wasn't for them.

The firsts few rounds went like that, trying a dress on but knowing it wasn't the right one.

Finally, Erza walked out in a beautiful scarlet, long red, dress. It was red at the top, but slowly went to a dark black towards the bottom. It was tight fitted, and hugged all the right curves on her body.

When she walked out if the dressing room in that dress her face was redder than the dress, and we all screamed in exient knowing that that was her dress.

Then Juvia walked out in a snow blue dress, that was tight fitted at the top, and flowy at the bottom. And there was white detail at the bottom what reminded me of snow. And there was snowflake like detailing towards the bottom that made itself wrap spring the dress. Like the dress was a winter wonderland.

Levy soon walked out in a flowy yellow dress, that wasn't too tight fitted, but was still able to hug her body in a good way. The neckline had white detailing, and the dress has shimmering jewels around flowarl detailing.

Now everyone had a dress but me. I went back to look around the other dressed. I had no idea what I wanted now, because I tried on everything I thought I wanted in my dress. I never thought that finding my dress would be this difficult.

As I was aimlessly walking around, the lady from before, who seemed to own the store walked up the me.

"Are you having trouble finding a dress?"

"Yeah." I sighed. " I just can't seem to find one that I'm looking for."

She looked at me for a moment and said "I think I have a dress that'll fit you perfectly. Wait here." And then she was off to get the so called perfect dress for me. I had no idea what I was expecting, but she came back with her hands full of beautiful fabric. She wakes me over to the dressing rooms where everyone was still waiting and I began to go in and try it on.

I tried it on and just by feeling the fabric gave me a good feeling. I turned around to look in the mirror and couldn't hold back a gasp at how the dress looked.

It looked beautiful.

And I looked beautiful in it.

It was a long, light pink dress. It had a long slit up my left leg that went to my mid thigh. At the bottom of the dress there were ruffles that made the dress look flowy at the bottom. There was a fabric like belt that hugged my waist perfectly, and it was strapless with a sweetheart neckline.

I love it. I knew that this dress was the one. I walked out of the dressing room with a slight blush on my cheeks.

"Omg my god! Lu-chan! You look stunning!" Levy yelled in delight.

"You really do look beautiful." Erza agreed.

"Really?" I asked, blushing more.

"Yes! You are going to get it! No doubts about that."

I finally walked back into the dressing room and looked at myself again. And I really did love the dress so much. I hated having to take it off. If only I could have stayed in it forever.

I got dressed back into my regular clothes and stepped back out to meet up with the others.

"Okay. Let's go pay." I said smiling. So we all went up and payed for our things. As we finished paying, I told the others to wait outside because I wanted to do something.

I walked over the the lady before and thanked her for finding the dress for me.

"Your welcome, dear. I'm so glad that you like it. You said you are going to prom?"

"Yes. Me and my friends all have prom soon. We're all really excited."

"Mhm." She paused. "I can sense that there is some tension in the air because of prom."

I was surprised by what she suddenly said, but she wasn't wrong so I couldn't really deny it. "Oh, um, it's complicated." I sighed.

"Yes, I can see that. But let me tell you something." I nodded and listed to her. "It'll all work out. Whatever is going on that's "complicated" it'll work out soon enough. Just have hope that it will. Things have a strange way of working out for the right people."

"Okay. I won't give up. Thank you." I said, then I left to meet up with the others.

"Hey, Lu-chan, do you want to go get something to eat?" Levy asked. I then started to realise that it was getting late, and I was getting hungry so I said yes and we went to the nearest burger joint near the mall.

We sat down and we all ordered our favorite burgers and had a very nice meal together. We talked about our dresses, and about school, but we didn't talk about any gossip. I think it was because of all the things that they have been hearing about me and Gray. And throughout the meal it was like I could feel Juvia starting me down. She was giving me a dirty look. I tried my best to ignore it though.

After the meal, we all walked out of the restaurant and we were surprised to see a group of familiar boys.

Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, and Jellal were all walking in as we were walking out. We all looked at each other and then finally we all started to talk.

Levy and Gajeel talked, Erza walked up to Jellal. Natsu looked at me, and gave me a huge smile which made me blush slightly. But then he looked over to Juvia, and I felt my heart hurt a little bit. Then, Gray came up to me and tried to cheer me up.

"Hey. How was shopping?"

"It was good. We all got dressed."

"That's good. Glad you had fun."

"What are you guys doing here?"

"We just came to get something to eat."

"Oh, okay." I looked at to see that Natsu and Juvia was still talking. Everyone was starting to say goodbye to the boys and then Erza called for me to come.

"I better get going." I said.

When I started to walk, Gray pulled me back and gave me a hug. "It all all work out. Hopefully this'll make them jealous." He whispered in my ear. I of course hugged back, and laughed a little at his comment.

"I'm sure it will." I said back.

"Bye, Lucy. We'll talk soon."

"Bye, Gray." I said and we walked off. I noticed that Juvia was giving me an even more evil look than usual. If she stared any harder, she would have burned a hole in my eyes.

I knew that she must have been getting jealous at this point. Our plan was working out well.

My hug with Gray did get some stares from the others, they were all surprised. And it didn't help that all probably have heard the so called rumors. But it's all part of the plan.

Because I won't give up. No matter what.I won't give up. I can't give up.

And with that, my dress shopping adventure I finished. And I was now getting even more exited for prom.

I have my dress. All I need now is my date.

End of Chapter 10

There's chapter 10. Can you all forgive me now for updating later than usual? I had a lot of fun writing the girls getting their dresses, I hope they are descriptive enough.

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Also, Have any of you read the new Fairy Tail Chapter(chapter 488)?! if you have, I'm sorry and I feel your pain. Honestly, PM me so we can cry together because I think we all need some support. It was way too emotional for me to handle. I'm crying over it.

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