It was a sunny summer afternoon when Jellal found himself ordering a strawberry ice-cream for Erza and a green tea one for himself at the ice-cream stand in Magnolia Park.

He thought back on what had led him to his current situation while watching the girl behind the stand scooping the ice-cream of his order because undoubtedly, eating ice-cream with Erza in a park was not something he had planned to do when he left Crime Sorciere in the morning to take a train ride to Magnolia.

Master Makarov had invited Crime Sorciere to join Fairy Tail to perform in the Magnolia Mid-summer Parade a week ago. He had thought that his members wouldn't take interest in entertaining others. But to his surprise, they found the idea of performing in a parade interesting since they had never participated in a festival before in their lives. Therefore, the purpose of his trip was to discuss with Master Makarov to see how Crime Sorciere could contribute in the parade.

It wasn't saying that he had never considered meeting Erza during his visit to Fairy Tail. On the contrary, he had decided to make use of the opportunity to catch up with her. After all, even he was still lacking the confidence to confess to her because he hadn't completely let go of his guilt yet, it was also an undeniable fact that he was longing to see her.

So once his meeting with Master Makarov was over, he went to greet Erza. She was apparently happy to see him judging from the genuine smile she gave him. They were just starting to update each other on their recent lives when a fight broke out between Natsu and Gray which soon extended to other members in the guild. The brawling made it impossible for them to hear what the other said if the words weren't shouted out from their throats. He noticed the anger on Erza's face and expected her to give a lesson to her reckless guild mates but surprisingly, she didn't.

"Let's go outside." Erza told him and without hearing his reply, dragged him out the guild.

"Mister, here're your ice-creams." A female voice broke Jellal out from his thought.

"Thank you."

Taking one cone of ice-cream in each hand, it only took Jellal ten seconds to walk back to Erza. She was sitting on a long blench under a tree and dressing in a yellow strap sundress which she reequipped in when leaving the guild.

"Thanks!" Erza said excitingly while taking her strawberry ice-cream from Jellal; her brown eyes admiring the pink colored sweet in her hand shined brightly under the sunlight.

Jellal chuckled lightly seeing her innocent and childish reaction.

"You're welcomed." He sat down beside her and took a bite of his own ice-cream, liking the coolness provided by the frozen treat which helped cooling down his rising body temperature caused by the heat radiating from the passionate sun.

He then cast a sidelong glance at Erza.

Staring down at the strawberry flavored dessert with dreamy eyes, Erza opened her mouth and raised her hand holding the waffle cone until the ice-cream sitting on top of the cone came in contact with her parted lips. Her upper eyelids fell to shield her chocolate brown orbs behind them when her teeth gracefully sunk in the frosty and creamy substance. Her upper lip slid down the ice-cream slowly while she took a bite of the sweet into her mouth until it reached the edge of the cone, pulling away only to meet her lower lip once again. A satisfied hum emanated from her throat before her eyes fluttered opened. Looking into the distance, the corners of her lips curved up into a content smile as if she had lost herself in the heaven of strawberry ice-cream. She then slightly parted her lips again to let her tongue to lick away the ice-cream reminded on her lips with its tip.

Jellal swallowed hard and his face reddened from the hot weather heated up more if it was possible as he silently questioned in his head how Erza could look ridiculously sexy when she was merely eating an ice-cream. He then went on pondering how she would act if it was his lips instead of the ice-cream against which she was pressing her lips.

"This tastes absolutely delicious! How's yours?"

Jellal snapped out of his pervert thought hearing Erza's voice and found that Erza had turned her head to look at him. His eyes met hers which were smiling and just as bright and as warm as the sun hanging up high in the sky, but he awkwardly averted his gaze from her after catching himself staring at her for a time longer then he intended to. He then took another bite of his green tea ice-cream before answering her question.

"Mine is delicious too."

Jellal received no response from Erza after giving his comment. But out of his peripheral vision, he noticed that she was gazing at him intensely.

"Hey, Jellal."

He turned his head to the side and his eyes found Erza's pretty face once again.

"Yes, Erza?"

"Would you mind me…having a bite of your ice-cream to taste it?" Erza's eyes darted between Jellal's face and the green tea ice-cream in his hand with anticipation.

"No. Of course not." Smiling, Jellal raised his ice-cream in front of Erza's mouth silently inviting her to taste it as she wanted. If something as simple as sharing his ice-cream could make Erza happy, he couldn't think of any reason for him not to do it.

Erza glanced at Jellal for one last time making sure that he didn't show any hesitation in fulfilling her wish before tilting her head forward.

With admiring and tender eyes, Jellal watched Erza gently landed her pink and soft lips which he had ever touched with his own lips in his dream on his green tea ice-cream and took a mouthful of it. He then heard her letting out a satisfied sigh.

"Yours tastes really good." Erza liked how the refreshing scent of tea leaves filled her mouth as the ice-cream melted on her tongue. "But I have to say it's still not as good as my strawberry one." She told Jellal wearing a proud smile on her face. "I think you should try mine too, Jellal."

Jellal stared at Erza's ice-cream which was being held only five centimeters away from his lips.

"Thank you, Erza, but –"

"You don't like strawberry flavored?" Erza asked Jellal, disappointment and surprise equally evident in her voice.

"No, it's not like that." Jellal denied immediately, not wanting to ruin the good mood which Erza was in just a few seconds ago. "I'm just thinking to let you enjoy it all by yourself."

"I can share it with you if it's only a bite, just like how you shared yours with me." Erza reasoned with a serious and determined tone.

Since Erza insisted and he didn't really have any strong reason to not taste the strawberry flavored sweet, Jellal decided just to do what Erza asked him to.

"Okay. Please let me have a bite then."

"Sure." Erza replied, her tone softened significantly, and smiled gently at Jellal.

Jellal then lowered his head slightly and opened his mouth to take a bite of Erza's ice-cream. It certainly tasted very fruity with minced strawberries in it and was sweeter then the green tea one.

"Do you like it?" Erza asked expectantly.

"It's a little bit too sweet for my taste, but it's still very tasty I'd say. So I think I do like it."

"I'm happy to know that, Jellal." Erza's smile grew wider before she licked away some strawberry ice-cream which had melted and started dripping down the side of the cone. "And I'm really glad that we can spend some time together to enjoy something simple but good."

It made Jellal's heart swell to know how much Erza enjoyed his company even he hadn't did anything special for her but was only doing something ordinary with her. It was true that they didn't really spend much time with each other, even after he had been freed, saved for sharing good things in their lives. Although he hadn't planned on eating ice-cream with Erza in the park, he was honestly thankful now to have been granted such opportunity.

He returned Erza a heartfelt smile and licked his own ice-cream which was also starting to melt.

"Me too."

And the moments in his life spent with Erza, whether they were big or small, would always be the things he treasured dearly in his heart.

"Then you should come to Fairy Tail more often to see me. Or I could go to Crime Sorciere to see you, if you don't mind."

"I'd try my best to come more often." Jellal replied immediately. His guild members, in particular the girls, enjoyed teasing him about his "friendship" with Erza a lot. If Erza was to visit his guild, he was certain that they would do anything just to embarrass him in front of the woman he loved.

"Promise?" Erza asked, sounding hopeful but also uncertain.

"Promise." Jellal said firmly, looking at Erza with sincere eyes.

"Thanks, Jellal."

Then before Jellal could say another word, Erza gave him a peck on his lips. It took Jellal a few seconds to realize that Erza had kissed his lips as it happened so suddenly and the touch was light. He stared at her dumbfounded by her bold action and didn't know what to say. However, she smirked like she was delighted to have finally achieved something remarkable in her life.

"There's ice-cream on your lips." Erza told Jellal, glancing at him with certain mischievous glint in her eyes, then turned her focus back to her ice-cream and started nibbling at the cone.

Jellal knew that it was an excuse but, whatever. He had no doubt that questioning Erza about her real motive for kissing him wouldn't only be superfluous but would also be something extremely stupid to do. Seriously, it was his dreamed woman who gave him a peck on the lips. What kind of hypocrite he would be if he complaint about it?

Smiling to himself, he figured that it was better for him to simply accept Erza's generous gesture together with her naughty explanation.

"I guess so. I'm eating ice-cream now, after all."

But one day, when he could overcome his self-doubt to confess to her, he would make sure to repay her with a true kiss which would taste better than the strawberry ice-cream in her hand.

He then heard Erza chuckling.

"Exactly. It can't be more obvious, right?"

For unexplainable reason, Jellal got the impression that Erza wasn't only talking about the ice-cream on his lips but was also referring to their, well, feelings for each other. But he could be reading too much into her words too.

"Anyway, now, mind if you tell me how Crime Sorciere is going to participate in the parade while eating your ice-cream?"

"Well…" Pushing his doubts aside, Jellal started telling Erza about his discussion with Master Makarov on Crime Sorciere's role in the parade.

And their talk continued, even after they had finished their ice-cream, until sunset.

A/N: I encounter writer's block recently and this is actually an attempt to get me out of it. Not very successful I'd say considering the amount of time I spent on this. Sometimes I could only write 2 to 3 sentences a day and I couldn't make up my mind on how I would like to portray Jerza in this. It was really frustrating.

And I picked "ice-cream" as the theme for this oneshot since it's summer time now.