I wake up to the sounds of crashing and yelling downstairs. "Layla what is the world??? Hey, that's cheating."

"Ha! You're just jealous that I am rich!!!" Mom yells back.

"No, I don't believe you! Capricorn where are the instructions."

"Ms. Heartifilia, it is believed my turn," Virgo says calmly.

I walk down the stairs to see my parents with Capri and Virgo around our dining room table playing monopoly.

"Here you go sir," Capri hands the instructions to him which is an absolute fake. "Thank you. Now it says here Wheelbarrow collects 300 when passing Go." Dad says as he hits the paper.

"I don't believe you. Give me that paper motherfucker. " Mom tries to grab the paper but Dads puts it out of reach.

"Give it to me!" Mom tried your reach for it again but is unable to grab it. I just stand there and watch my Mom and Dad argue over the rules as Capri and Virgo keep playing normal, ignoring the two arguing people.

Had enough of watching them fight, I decided to sit on the couch and turn on the tv.

'What a way to start the day.' I look towards the clock on the wall to see that it's noon. I've slept in, nice.


An hour later, Mom lost as Dad was the victor of the game. They both became sour with each other.

"Don't talk to me, cheater," Mom says to Dad. "You snake. I hate you!" She storms up to their room and slams the door.

Dad just shrugs his shoulders and keeps cleaning up the pieces with Virgo. Capricorn left to tend to the flowers and Happy is laying on my lap.

"Dad that wasn't nice," I say, my eyes were glued to the tv.

"Yeah I know, but you got to do anything to win or your mom is going to rub it in your face." He says as he gives the box to Virgo to put up in the study. He takes a seat next to me, relaxing in the process.

"That's why we should have gotten rid of that game." I look at him.

"I tried. She always catches me in the process. And when I hide it, she always finds it." He takes the controller and changes the channel. "It's like she has a radar on that game."

"Dad I was watching that." "Oh well, I'm watching now." I shake my head at him and get up.

"Then have fun, I'm going to my room." Happy jump off and follow me upstairs. I enter my room and flop onto my bed as I'm a lazy piece of garbage. A few minutes passed and I decided to be productive and read a book. But as soon as I get deep into the book, my phone goes off.

"Hello?"

"Hey Lucy, are you busy?" Levy asks.

"I'm reading a book," I respond.

"Then you're not busy. I was wondering if you wanted to go with me to the mall." She says.

I sigh, knowing I'm not going to get out of it. "What time?"

"Now."

"Levy it's early in the morn-" I stop myself as I remember the time.

"Were you about to say it's too early? Lucy, did you sleep in again?"

"Yeah."

"Lucy." She starts off. "Get up and get ready. I'll be over there in 20 minutes." She hung up the phone before I could respond. I sigh again and get my lazy self up. I take a quick shower and slip on a baggy shirt and some jeans. I get a cardigan, put it on and slip on my vans. I put my hair in a messy bun and grab my small purse, stuffing everything I need. I headed downstairs to sit on the couch to wait for Levy.

"Where?" Dad questions.

"Mall. Levy." I answered shortly. He nods his head and continues to watch tv.

A short moment later, the doorbell rang and I got up to answer it.

"Ready?" Levy asks.

"Yeah. Hold on." I turn around towards Dad. "I'm leaving now." "Then go."

I close the door and start to walk. "Ma'am, need a ride?" Capricorn asks as he takes off his gardening gloves. "No, we'll take the bus today." He nods his head and lets us go.

We walk towards the bus stop and take a seat, waiting for the darn bus.

"So how was yesterday?" She's eager to get the information out of me.

"Oh, you wouldn't believe it." I reminisce about the memories. "I'm marrying Natsu for one."

She looks at me dumbfounded and shocked. "What the hell?! You're joking, right? Please tell me you're joking."

"Nope, and I learned that he has a little sister," I added. "Don't know her name though."

The bus arrives and we get on and take our seats. "No way."

"Yeah. And if I'm correct, he used to play an instrument." She listens closely, taking all this information in.

"His parents are very nice and I like them a lot." She studies my actions as I say this.

"Lucy by chance, are you okay with this?" I look towards her. "I mean, you look like you enjoyed yourself and didn't have any second thought."

"Levy, I said I enjoyed his parents, not him." I look at her wonder what's going through her head. She gets up as we arrive at our stop. "Whatever you say." She mumbles as we get off. We head into the mall and that's when I ask the question I should've asked a long time ago.

"Why are we here exactly?" She smiles.

"To shop of course." She enters a clothing shop first. I follow.


We visited many stores, our hands full of bags of clothing and items. When our shoulder started to hurt, we decided that we should call it a day and get something to eat. We walk into our favorite restaurant and order some food. While we were chatting, a familiar voice entered my ears. Me and Levy's head turns to the sound. Gray and Gajeel walk in and place their order at the cash register. We watch every movement of those two.

We hear that the restaurant is packed and they're no available seats. We see them look around as they spot up. We hear them say that they'll sit at our table. Levy and I look at each other and try to get out of this situation. But we were too late.

"Lucy, Levy, can we sit here?" Gray asks. "If it's not a problem."

'It's a huge problem.' I put on a fake smile as Levy replied with a yes.

They both sit down, Gray sitting next to me and Gajeel sits next to Levy. While I'm annoyed, Levy looks like she's about to have a mental breakdown. I pick up my phone and text Levy.


Are you okay? Need a chill pill? Sent.

Yeah, why? Received.

You look like you are about to die. Sent.

Nope totally fine. Received.

Oh, I know! You're sitting next to your crush! Read.


"Levy are you alright?" I hear Gray say. I look up and see Levy's face red as a cherry. I choke on a laugh. I compose myself and grab my bags.

"Well, it's time for us to leave." I stand up and leave our tip on the table. Levy immediately stands up and walks out the door with her bags.

"Wait, are you sure?" Gray says as Gajeel hasn't said a word.

"Yeah, we already ate so just enjoy it." I smile and start to leave.

"Lucy, do you hate me." Gray's words stop me.

I turn around and see his face filled with sadness.

"Gray, be like your friend, be silent. Don't say anything, okay." I turn back around. "You can figure that out on your own." I walk out of the place to see Levy waiting for me on a nearby bench.

"What happened?"

"Gray is gonna ask if I hate him. If you ignored me and acted like I didn't exist, what would my answer be." She sighs and gets up.

We head back home as I hurry to make it home. It's 5 o'clock and it's getting dark. I take my keys out and open the door. I walked in and noticed that the lights were out. "I'm home."

I walk upstairs to see that their light is on in their room. 'I guess they made up...or Dad is sleeping in his office.' I place the bags on the floor and turn on the light in my room. I head to Dad's office and knock on the door. I heard a faint mumble and I took that as a sign to enter. I opened the door to see Dad at his desk going through papers with a pen in his hand and a calculator near him.

"Calculating things?" He hears my voice and looks up.

"You know it. Welcome back." He says going back to work.

"Mom kicked you out?"

"You know it." I chuckle.

"I bought you something, I'll give it to you tomorrow," I say as I get his bed ready. "You know you shouldn't work yourself when you are faced with an obstacle."

I pull the latch at the side of the couch and hear a faint click. I pull out the cushions to expand it outwards into a bed. I walk towards his closet where he keeps spare clothes and some blankets and pillows and pulls them out. I lay the blankets and pillows down and then sit on the bed.

"So are you going to join me or work yourself to death?" He chuckles and joins me.

"You know she'll be normal tomorrow."

"Yeah, I know."

"Then get some rest. By that stack of papers, tomorrow will be a long day for you and mom."

He nods and walks over to the closet. He pulls out his pajamas and heads to the small bathroom in the office. He quickly changes and I laugh.

"What the heck is that!" I continue to laugh.

"What? Don't make fun of my PJs. These are only for emergencies." His PJs have little dogs over them.

"Why do you even have those."

"Your grandmother gave this to me before she passed. It was the only thing that I had of her so I decided to keep it as a memento...but only wore it in this situation."

"Well, no wonder you rush into your room every time this happens."

He turns around embarrassed. I get up and walk toward the door.

"Good night dad."

"Good night."

I walk back to my room and start emptying the bags. Four bags hold clothes as five bags hold items for my room.

After a few minutes, I put everything up and checked my phone. It's at 9 o'clock. It took that long. Well, I did take a shower too. I turn off my lights and lay down. I laid down on my book which I forgot to move. 'Ow.'

I move it to my nightstand and hear Happy yawn. I immediately yawn and fall asleep.