This is a little bit too short. But this is where ALL the conflicts begin :3

"Sorry I have to leave first. Say her not to force herself too much." Mother is leaving?

"Yes, mother. I will." Jellal's back?

"Really, she stayed up all night to practice cooking." Wait… how did she know?

"Oh…" Jellal is just being him, huh…

Hmm? What are they talking about? Why can't I hear what they say anymore?

…Am I going to die like this…?

"Nn… No…" Erza opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was Jellal. He was sitting on the work table next to the bed. He wore the glasses that Erza never even knew he had. And he smelled like cigarette, again.

"Erza…" He said it slowly "Are you okay?"

"Nn." She turned her body so her back was facing Jellal. She looked at the window, it's nighttime. She thought "Mother's back?"

"Yeah." Erza could feel that Jellal was climbing the bed and now he sat at his part of the bed. He leaned his back to the bed's head "You're going to work tomorrow?"

"I must."

"Right." Jellal said. Erza stayed silent. Somehow she wanted Jellal to explain everything to her, and at her current condition, she would swallow even the weirdest kind of lie "Don't work tomorrow."

"Pardon?"

"Don't work tomorrow."

"Because?"

"Because it's my fault."

Erza didn't ask why. She just stayed silent and both of them went to sleep.

The next day was like the usual. One thing she noticed that Jellal left to work even before Erza woke up.

Erza braced herself. She wore her work suit and went to her company. The company was like she expected. Empty. The only people inside were the loyal employees. But they didn't talk to her and pretend that she didn't exist.

When she got into her office, her table was filled with letters of resignation. She threw herself into her chair. She put her legs on the desk, kicking the pile of letter while she's at it. She opened her desk's drawer and saw a framed picture of her opening this company. It was one hell of a work.

She sighed loudly. As soon as she kicked her desk, the door flew open. And it was Mirajane Strauss, her secretary.

"Ma'am…" Mira said

"Don't you know the term of knocking?" Erza looked at her with her piercing eyes. Her hair was already a mess. The only thing still stood still in her office was a wooden cupboard filled with important files, trophies and charters.

"I did, ma'am… You weren't answering and I heard a loud noise so I let myself in."

Erza walked to her "What do you want?"

"No… Umm… It's just that downstairs…" She gulped "There are a lot of reporters downstairs."

Erza snapped. She laughed so hard like she'd gone crazy, she opened her curtains and saw the sea of reporters downstairs. She laughed and laughed, then she slumped at the floor.

"You know what, Ms. Strauss?"

"Y-Yes?"

"This is the end of my company." She said "Yeah, I'm a traitor who married the owner of our company's rival. It's all because of the stupid arrange marriage. And my husband is a jerk who doesn't even love me, what more?"

"Ma'am…"

"Dismiss the employees. Ask them to go home and don't answer anything asked by the reporters. I'll talk to them myself."

"Understood, ma'am." Mira walked out of her room. Erza lied down on the floor like she's ready to be killed right here, right now. She kicked the wall so hard it broke her heel and caused the wall to crack. She looked at her right; her bag fell and the things inside it were lying around.

Her phone vibrated and the caller is from an unknown source.

It's probably Simon.

She rejected it but it kept vibrating again and again, even when Erza kept rejecting it.

She was about to click the block button, but she accidentally answered it.

"Erza," Erza was filled with anger. The voice coming from her phone was none other than the guy that ruined her life—Jellal.

"What do you want? Haven't you satisfied ruining my life?"

"Come here," he whispered

"What?"

"Sneak to my company and we'll discuss it."

"Discuss? Have you lost your mind, Jellal?"

"Erza, please. We can solve it together." Erza was still in her lying down position. She looked up at the ceiling, somehow that was the words she wanted to hear right now.

"Okay."

Erza somehow arrived at Jellal's company without any disturbances.

She used the backdoor which somehow wasn't filled with the reporters. Maybe not yet.

She entered the company with all eyes were on her. Erza was sure everyone knew who she was. She grabbed her bag to hide her face and ran to the CEO's office—on the top floor, exactly like Jellal texted her.

Erza barged in without even knocking and Jellal was standing there, looking indifferent.

"Now what?"

"What's what?" Jellal asked

"How can you look so calm like that?" Erza asked she walked closer to Jellal and looked at him in the eyes which he didn't avoid. "Tell me, Jellal. What's your plan?"

"Let's join our companies."

"Pardon?"

"Don't you think it's easier to merge our company?" Jellal smirked as she held Erza's waist and pulled her closer "Mother said you should stop working, so this is a great chance, isn't it?"

Erza pushed Jellal "No,"

"Then, what? You want to see your company falling apart like a domino?"

"Ugh…" Erza couldn't say anything

It was silence until someone barged in the door

"Sir! Reporters are downstairs!"

"Yeah, I'll talk to them later." Jellal said. The office guy looked at his boss like he was crazy but he went away, closing the door.

Erza saw Jellal looked at the window, he stared outside the window blankly like he was aware of this.

Erza walked to the window too, seeing a lot of reporters there—even much more than the reporters at Erza's company. She glanced at Jellal, he didn't even think that this was a threat for his company. He closed the curtains and took something out—a piece of paper and a pen—and gave it to Erza.

"Let's merge out company." He said again

"No, Jellal." Erza said, looking straight to his eyes "This is the result of my lifetime work and I don't want to lose it."

"So what? We're married, it'll be like a family business."

"You know what, Jellal?" She snatched the paper and rip it apart "I wanted to do this to our marriage paper back then."

"Oh?" Jellal smirked. His smile was so wide, it almost seemed like he's a different person. He glanced to his cupboard and walked to Erza, closer and more intimidating "And why is that?" He asked

"Why? Because this is an arrange marriage! A fucked up one!" Erza shouted "At first I thought I could love you, but you never even looked at me! And later I thought it would be better for us to stay silent forever but then you talked to me! What the heck do you want Jellal?"

She was trembling, she was about to slap him so hard that it could ruin that beautiful face of his.

"Then, what?" Jellal suddenly said "You want me to hold you for the very first time? Kiss you? Act like we're happy together? And do you want me to please you all night long? Things that we never even do this one year…" He pinned Erza to the door. He was different.

He's not Jellal. At least, he's not the Jellal she knew—not like she actually knew him though. It's like he was… Swallowed by a dark, cold creature.

Something fell, a really loud THUMP coming from behind the cupboard

Both Jellal and Erza looked at the source.

It was someone, a reporter with his camera and all of his equipment.

Jellal started to sweat bullets. Erza looked around the room, immediately notice all the spying cameras and bugs attached to almost everything in the room.

She pushed Jellal until he fell as hard as the reporter did

"You DID plan this!" Erza said. She started to cry. She felt betrayed, backstabbed. And it hurt so much. "You know, what's the funniest thing, Jellal? Deep inside of me thought that you are better than this!"

She cried uncontrollably, she was trembling. She was about to become crazy. She'd always about to become mad after Jellal entered her life.

"And you know what Jellal? Forget this marriage thing," Erza said, looking down, still trembling. "I want a divorce."

Jellal was still on the ground, he looked at Erza but stayed silent

"I want a divorce," she repeated.

Jellal didn't say anything. Erza walked away.

"S-Sir…" The reporter said, walking out of this hiding position "I'm sorry."

"No," Jellal lied down on the floor, looking at the ceiling "You did a great job."

A tear fell across his cheek. And everything came back to him.

Okay, so I'm gonna left this story cliff hanging like this and I'll update again next year

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YES, I WAS BEING SARCASTIC TO MYSELF :'' I'm so sorry.

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