Alone with her friends at last, Wendy immediately grabbed another outfit and a pair of shoes from her mother's closet for Juvia and two outfits and pairs of shoes from her father's closet for Gray and Natsu. The girls went into one room to get changed and the boys went to get changed in another and Gray gave his word that he wouldn't let Natsu peek at them.
"I'm not sure about these clothes." Juvia said looking skeptically at what Wendy had given her.
"What's wrong with them?" Wendy asked.
"Well the shirt is nice but the skirt is a little too short don't you think?"
"Not really. It covers both the waist and the rear perfectly."
"But it goes above the knee doesn't it? Isn't that showing a little too much?"
"What? No. Why would you- Oh right. You lived during the 19th century and back then women weren't allowed to show anything below the waist. Not even their ankles. Look Juvia nowadays it's alright if someone sees your legs and your knees. It's not scandalous."
"Are you sure?"
"My mother wears skirts this length all the time and no one thinks she's a tramp for it. I mean there are some women who will say that about my mom but that's because they want to steal my dad from her."
"Okay. I'll trust you on that." She picked up the outfit given to her. "So um where's the corset?"
"Sorry but in this time period women don't wear corsets. They wear bras."
"Bras? The word sounds vulgar."
"You wore one once. Sort of, when you were in my mother's body. Remember?"
"You mean that thing that hung off her chest? That's what women substituted the corset for?"
"I think it's an improvement." Lucy said. "Corsets were way more painful and I can actually breathe when wearing a bra."
"Lucy yesterday you couldn't breathe at all. You were dead."
"Well I'm pretty sure when I was alive the first time and had to wear corsets, I couldn't breathe. I mean come on, you have admit these bras are way more comfortable."
"I'll admit that but I don't think it covers my bosom as well."
"Bosom? You mean boobs?" Wendy said.
"Boobs? Ugh...That sounds more vulgar than bra. Who comes up with these words?"
"I don't know but that's what they're called nowadays."
"Well my...Boobs aren't covered as properly with this bra as they would be with a corset. I wonder if I could bind them, I hate letting them show."
"Hey at least you have a boobs to show." Wendy said ashamed of her chest which had yet to develop. "I'll probably never get them."
"Darling you're a little girl. You're not supposed to have them yet."
"I'm thirteen. That's when they're supposed to develop." She said turning red in the face. "I can't even wear a training bra yet."
"Now don't be silly. Lots of girls your age haven't developed womanly charms yet."
"Yeah and besides when we were alive women dreaded having a large breast." Lucy said. "Unless of course she was planning to bear children."
"To this day I'll never understand what is it about these that attracts the opposite sex." Juvia said. "They make me feel like a cow. A fat cow. Oh I wish I had more layers."
"Hey you've never been real self conscious about your body before." Lucy said. "That dress you're wearing has no sleeves and a split in the skirt."
"Well number one I didn't pick this dress, it was picked for me and number two I was dead. And when you're dead no really cares about scandal or sex anymore."
"Tell that to Natsu and every dead man I've ever danced for at the Radiant Cemetery."
"The point is I'm more uncomfortable with my body in a living state and I...I would appreciate it if you would let me get dressed alone. Please?"
"Alright. We'll leave." Lucy said. "Call if you need anything."
Lucy and Wendy left the room but they accidentally left the door ajar. A few minutes later Gray came by to ask Wendy something, seeing that the door was not closed he decided that the females inside were fully clothed and went in.
"Hey Wendy does your father have a- Ahhh!" But to his horror and Juvia's he walked in right as she had finished undoing her dress.
She screamed and covered herself. The both of them now capable of blushing in moments like these.
"Wha...What the heck do you think you're doing?" He said adverting his eyes.
"I was changing!"
"What female in her right mind starts undressing in front of a man?! A lady is supposed to conceal her bosom!"
"And a gentleman is supposed to knock before entering a room!"
"The door was open! I thought you were clothed!"
"Just get out!"
"Right! Sorry!"
He moved to leave quickly but he accidentally ran into the wall due to still having his hand over his eyes. He picked himself up, closed the door, and ran back to the room he changed in with Natsu. By the time he got back in there his face was blood red, he was panting, and he was sweating all over. Two things his body had not been able to do for a very long time.
"What happened to you?" Natsu asked.
"I...I don't want to talk about it."
Natsu studied his friend's body conditions at the moment.
"Wait a minute I've seen this before. You saw a woman in un-modest way."
"No I didn't!"
"You can't lie to me pal. You have the same symptoms as any virgin man who's gotten a little female exposure. I know, I've seen this hundred times with my brother."
"That's not- Wait your brother's a virgin?"
"Oops! I wasn't supposed to tell anyone that...Oh well, anyway they said his body had been untouched and he's dating an angel and you know how angels feel about premarital sex."
"Oh..."
"Don't tell him I said that. It's supposed to be a secret between family."
"You can't really be trusted with secrets can you?"
"Sometimes I can." He grinned. "So what did you see?"
"I didn't see anything."
"Liar."
"Even if I did see anything, which I didn't, I wouldn't tell you. A gentlemen never tells."
"Wow you must've seen something really good. Can you at least tell me who is it was?"
"Absolutely not."
"It was Juvia wasn't it?"
"I'm not confirming anything."
"Yep it was Juvia. I can tell, for some reason she's the only woman who gets you going."
"Shut up! She does not get me going!"
"Then why do you have an erection?"
"What?!" He looked down.
"Made ya look!" Natsu laughed and that earned him a bash on the head from Gray. "Ow!"
"Since you're alive again, that really hurt didn't it?" Gray said.
"Yeah you psycho!"
"Remember that before you speak again today!"
"Hey I'm willing to let Lucy take a whack at me all the time because she's a chick."
"And because when she hits you she always has good reason to."
"But you're a man and I'm getting real sick of you constantly assaulting me."
"If you want me to stop then control your mouth and your sexual perversion."
"I don't have to control anything! I live in America! I have rights!"
"Only if you're an American citizen and according to the new laws they established around here you're not. That is if what Wendy found out about you is to be believed."
"What do you mean?"
"According to American law to become an american citizen you must either be born in America or apply for citizenship and according to Wendy's findings you were born in Italy and obviously died before the citizenship was established."
"Don't talk to me like that."
"Like what?"
"Talk like you're so smart and that I'm so dumb!"
"That's because I am smart and you...Hmm...How do I word this so you'll understand?"
"There you go again! Implying that I'm some kind of idiot!"
"Maybe that's because you are an idiot. I mean look at the evidence. You took a potion made by Zeref, you think that was smart?"
"You took it too!"
"A dumb mistake on my part, I admit that but that doesn't make you and I equals on the intelligence level."
"How about on the muscle level huh?"
And without warning, Natsu tackled him which resulted in another brawl between them.