A/N: I did try my best everyone! I did try to make this chapter long but sadly, I failed :( And sorry for the late update everyone! T_T Thanks for the review, favorites and/or subscribes! And this chapter… it's a bit different, the Fullbuster siblings' cousin is in here! I'm sorry if you didn't like it :'(
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Ly-Jane: I see.. well your guess was close :D And really? Well, hehe, I was grinning too when reading it. XP Wow, must have been tough, ten girls? Now that is definitely troublesome, hehehe. I don't think there will be a love triangle, or maybe there will be one? I'm not sure. I hope this is fast enough :S
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Terumi Okino: Yeah, I hope I did not disappoint you with Jude's personality T_T I hope so too, and I guess, though I prefer Sherry with Lyon (Sadly, she's with Ren T_T) Juvia… a new character I guess? And Natsu with Lisanna, I suppose they look cute but Natsu and Lucy look cuter together don't you think? (Sorry NaLi fans) I feel bad for Lucy, her father dead and all. Here's the next chapter anyway :)
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the giggle bug: I know *shakes head* hehehe, you did? Since which chapter? I was kind of hoping no one notice but oh well :P
FTWforANIME: Hahaha, glad you like it ;) It's fine, *Mirajane pops out of nowhere* Mira: There-there *Pats your back* I know! I wonder why~ Is it just a coincidence or..?
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"Oi, wake up,"
Poke.
Twitch.
Poke.
Twitch.
Not being able to stand it anymore, she snapped her eyes open and was face to face with none other than Gray Fullbuster, who was sitting on her bed. Blushing a brilliant color of red, she let out a squeak for the proximity of their faces. Chuckling, he finally backed a bit (Much to Lucy's relief) but still sat on her bed.
"So what are you doing here?" Lucy decided to question him.
"Nothing much, was just bored, so I just decided to check up on you," Gray shrugged, before playfully smirking, "Don't you want to wake up face to face to me every day?"
"O-of course not!" Lucy huffed, blushing while crossing her arms and facing the other direction.
"Such a tsundere you are Lucy," Gray chuckled.
"I am not a tsundere!" Lucy shouted, smacking him with a pillow several times.
"Am I interrupting something?" Ultear was there, wearing a white T-shirt, over it was a purple hoodie and black jeans.
"Nope you aren't," Gray replied smoothly.
"Well Gray, did you tell her?" Ultear questioned.
"Not yet, I was about to anyway, but she just had to smack me with her pillow," Gray shrugged, jabbing his thumb towards Lucy.
"It was his fault Ultear! Don't believe him!" Lucy accused, pointing her finger towards Gray.
"Seriously? This early in the morning and you two are already fighting?" Lyon, wearing a dark blue T-shirt and jeans said, an annoyed look on his face, before shaking his head, sighing, "You two act like an old married couple,"
"What the heck? I'm not old!" Gray glared.
"I agree with Lyon," Ur chirped, grinning widely, and winked, "Well you may not be married now, but I expect you to be my daughter-in-law soon okay?"
"Not you too Ur-san!" Lucy whined.
Ultear chuckled, "Just get ready Lucy, someone's coming over,"
"Alrighty, wait a sec," Sighing, she got up from her bed and made her way to the bathroom.
"So who's coming over anyway?" Lucy asked, drinking her orange juice.
"Our cousin," Lyon replied, simply.
Lucy choked on her orange juice, coughing several times, "Y-you have a c-cousin?"
"Of course we do, why wouldn't we?" Gray raised an eyebrow, taking a bite of his pancake.
Lucy shrugged, "I don't know, I just didn't expect you to have cousins."
"You're weird Lucy," Ultear giggled.
Pouting, Lucy continued putting strawberry jam on her toast, "So is it a girl or a boy?"
"A girl," Lyon answered, "She's thirteen years old,"
"Around Natsu's little sister's age," Ultear pointed out.
Lucy raised an eyebrow, "Natsu has a little sister?"
Gray nodded, "Her name is Wendy, and unlike flame-brain, she's way smarter,"
"She's a very sweet girl," Ultear smiled.
Lucy nodded and returned the smile, "She seems very nice, maybe we could meet her later?"
"Sure, it's fine," Lyon nodded.
"So tell me more about this cousin of yours," Lucy persisted.
"Her name is Charlotte. She's smart, a straight A student, and she's a nice girl," Gray answered.
"I'm sure you'll like her Lucy," Lyon smiled,
Ultear nodded, "Yeah, but hopefully she doesn't see you as a love ri-"
"LOVE RIVAL!" A voice, unknown to Lucy but familiar to the Fullbuster siblings boomed. The owner of the voice happened to be a cute girl, obviously younger with long, wavy blonde hair and sky blue eyes.
"Yes, love rival," Ultear smiled weakly at her, "Sorry Lucy, too late,"
"How dare you foolish commoner be in a room with Ultear-nee-chan, Lyon-nii-chan, and Gray-nii-chan!" The girl, known to be Charlotte glared at Lucy, "I demand an explanation!"
"Now-now, Alice-chan, don't be like that, she's the daughter of my best friend," Ur chuckled.
The blonde pouted, stomping her foot childishly as she crossed her arms.
"Alice-chan? I thought her name was Charlotte?" Lucy asked in confusion.
"Well, her name is Charlotte, but we call her Alice-chan because she looks like Alice in Wonderland! See? Blonde hair and blue eyes, she even played as Alice in a drama," Ultear smiled.
Lucy blinked in surprise; the girl did look like Alice.
"But it's Charlotte for you! You're not allowed to call me Alice-chan!" Charlotte pointed an accusing finger at Lucy.
Lucy smiled weakly, raising her hand up, "Alright-alright, but why did you call me love rival anyway Charlotte?"
The younger blonde stood there for a while, eyebrows furrowed, then she faced Lucy, "On second thought, call me Charlotte-chan, it sounds way better than just Charlotte," She announced, "So what was your question anyway? I wasn't listening to you because your voice is like a grandma's, so I'll call you Obaa-chan okay?"
Everyone sweatdropped while Gray snickered.
"Don't be so mean to her Alice-chan!" Ultear scolded.
"Then Obaa-sama? There's some respect put into it,"
"That's even worse!" Lucy shouted.
"Old lady? There's a sign of compliment too by calling you lady,"
Lucy sweatdropped, but still scowled, "NO!"
"How about… blondie?"
Lucy just wanted to hit her head against the wall, why? Why did the girl hate her so much?
"Why not just plain old Lucy?" Lucy suggested.
"Alright!" Charlotte beamed.
Lucy cheered to herself inwardly.
"Old Lucy it is!" Charlotte laughed.
Lucy smacked herself, that girl was such a devil.
The next two hours, Lucy wasn't even allowed to talk to Gray or Lyon by the watchful eye of the demonic girl while Ultear (Sadly to Lucy) had homework.
"Hey, Gra-"
"Gray-nii-chan! Let's play video games!"
Cut off by the devil.
"Lyo-"
"Do you want to join too Lyon-nii-chan?"
Yup, again.
Lucy wanted to so badly smack herself, Charlotte was definitely possessive over the both of them alright.
"So why did you call me love rival anyway?" Lucy asked, finally calming down. They were currently in the living room, Ultear was still doing her homework, Gray decided to start doing it too, Lyon was answering the phone, and Ur was busy with work so it was only the both of them.
Charlotte sipped her tea and shrugged, "Because you're too close to Gray-nii-chan and Lyon-nii-chan, you're not a boy so I'm not worried about Ultear-nee-chan, so I don't like you,"
Lucy sweatdropped, it was indeed very blunt of her. But Lucy decided to question further, "So you hate me for being close to them?"
"I never said I hate you, I just don't like you," Charlotte corrected calmly.
"Just answer me," Lucy persisted.
Setting her tea cup down, Charlotte sighed, "You never give up do you?"
Lucy smiled, waiting for Charlotte to begin her story.
"I was a loner at school," Charlotte began softly, pain in her eyes, "I didn't have any friends at school, girls hated me for being 'perfect', so I was bullied,"
"Charlotte…" Lucy said, worriedly.
Charlotte's dull eyes brightened slightly, "But then, I met them, Ultear-nee-chan, Gray-nii-chan, and Lyon-nii-chan when I visited here. My parents had work to do, so they dropped me off here. They were kind to me, and I started opening up to them, and I guess had a crush on Gray-nii-chan and Lyon-nii-chan. That's why, I didn't want to lose them, I really admire all of them, so pretty much I'm just afraid to lose them, so-"
Charlotte suddenly stopped.
"Yeah?" Lucy urged her to continue, she was very curious.
Taking a bite of the cookie, she said in monotone, "The end."
Lucy blinked, "What?"
Charlotte suddenly giggled, "I made that up silly! I'm not a loner at school, I have friends! But I guess I do have a tiny crush on them, but it's a form of admiration! I guess my acting is really good huh?"
Lucy's face began to become red, "Come back here you little devil!"
"Nope!" Charlotte giggled before skipping away, "Catch me if you can~!)
Lucy was panting right now, "I. Finally. Caught. You."
Holding the giggling girl, Lucy took a deep breath, and shook her head, "I can't believe you can run that fast,"
"Had fun?" Lyon smirked, leaning on the doorway "I can't believe I was only gone for fifteen minutes, and here I am, seeing you guys chasing each other like friends when just fifteen minutes ago, you were arch enemies."
Gray nodded, Ultear had more homework than him so he was done faster.
Charlotte simply giggled, wriggling of Lucy's grip and hugged Lyon, "It was quite fun. Old Lucy could run quite fast for a grandma,"
Lucy's vein popped, "I'm not a grandma!"
"Then why do you run so slow?" Charlotte stuck her tongue out.
"Yeah, now that I think about it, you're one of the slowest in class, even Ultear can run faster than you," Gray teased.
"See! Even Gray-nii-chan agrees!"
And the chase began once again, but this time, Gray was also included in this.
It was already the afternoon, and Lucy was sitting on the couch, reading a book.
"Hey,"
Lucy looked surprised to see Charlotte blushing, but smiled nonetheless, "Yeah?"
Charlotte was shuffling her feet and looking down, she seemed very nervous,"I guess I-I'm sorry for being rude to you, calling you grandma and stuff. A-a-a-and I guess you can call me A-Alice-chan. You were fun to play with Lucy-chan,"
Lucy giggled, Charlotte could be so cute at times, especially when she didn't call her grandma.
"So in return," Charlotte began, her personality changing to a whole degree from the shy girl, with a determined look, she stated the most horrifying sentence Lucy could ever hear, "I'll help you get together with Gray-nii-chan!"
Lucy choked, Ultear giggled, Lyon laughed (Thankfully for Lucy, Gray was in the bathroom)
"W-w-w-w-what do you mean?" Lucy stuttered nervously, "Aren't you going home?"
"Nope, mama called and she told me that I was staying here for a while, not to mention I'm entering your school. So don't worry! You'll have many chances at school!" Charlotte grinned.
"Aren't you in middle school?"
Charlotte shook her head, "I skipped grades, I'm in your class,"
"Right, we didn't tell you did we?" Ultear smiled sheepishly.
Lucy nodded, dumbfounded.
Charlotte winked, "Don't worry, I'm not called a love master at school for nothing,"
Lucy blushed very red this time, trying really hard to look annoyed, "I do not like him Alice-chan!"
"Sure you don't~" Charlotte smirked.
Lucy groaned; thus there was going to be a new member for the GraLu group that Mira created. She shuddered, the demon Charlotte and the devil Mirajane wasn't going to be a very nice combination.
"What happened?" Gray who had just returned from the bathroom questioned.
"Nothing!" Lucy and Charlotte replied simultaneously, Lucy blushing while Charlotte smirking.
A/N: So Charlotte steps up to help Lucy, please note that Charlotte is just there to make Lucy and Gray closer, I did not intend to make her fall in love with anyone! I was hoping it could be Juvia, but Juvia giving up on Gray? Now that is unbelievable, and I made her as the fan girl so I have to make an OC, I hope you like it! Well please R&R!