Chapter 5

Natsu and Erza walked side by side out of the invitations shop. "Ok was that really necessary?" Natsu asked Erza.

"Hmm?" She replied with an innocent face on. "What do you mean?"

"Ok, two things: 1. why did you invite the shop keeper? And 2. Why did you get over 300 invitations!?" Natsu tried to keep a calm face however, from a soft calm voice, he practically started to shout by the end.

"Well since it is our wedding, I want as many people to come as possible. Honestly, I don't think that 300 invitations will be enough" Erza explained.

"OK if you say so. It is our wedding and I want this day to be memorable" Natsu smiled at her and then wrapped his arm round her shoulder.

"Now that we have finished that, what shall we do?" He asked.

"Well actually I want to start giving the invitations out as soon as possible, actually I want to give them out right now! We will go our separate ways and invite as many people as possible." Erza's eyes were filled with anticipation.

"Sure whatever you want" Natsu agreed and then started to call for a cab. As soon as they reached Natsu's house, Erza gave Natsu a kiss on the cheek and wished him a good evening. She ran to her bike and unzipped her bag, taking out her leather suit.

It was easy enough wearing it over her clothes, she made it so as she loved driving her motorbike but couldn't always wear her leather suit.

After wearing her helmet she got on her bike and ignited the engine. Before another second past she was already speeding down the street. Erza disliked her helmet, she loved to feel the wind hitting against her face but it was against the law to do that. She had once tried and got stopped by the police, luckily her feminine whiles got her out of that situation.

As Erza drove down the street, towards her home, she saw a familiar face digging through a few garbage cans across the road. The sight made her lose focus on driving almost causing her to crash, but, Erza being Erza, managed to regain balance and parked her motorbike on the pavement.

Crossing the road as fast as she could, she shouted "HEY!" The man quickly tried to make a run for it however, by that time, Erza had gotten far too close and managed to stop him in his tracks.

"Your name is Jellal right?" Erza asked.

"Yeah…" Jellal looked at Erza for a few seconds then realised it was the same bike rider from early this morning. "Sorry, I didn't recognise you. It's kind of difficult since you are wearing complete black as well as a helmet you know"

"Oh is that so?" Erza said as she removed her helmet, her hair glistened in the sun making it look as if it was almost on fire.

"Your hair…" He said in awe.

"Hmm? What about it?"

"It's so… red" His comment made Erza laugh a bit. "You think? Never thought of it"

"No I mean it's really beautiful, Scarlett… that's your surname isn't it? It suits you perfectly"

Blushing, Erza thought for a moment. "I'm glad someone complimented my surname, as soon it won't be a part of my name anymore"

"What?! Really how come?" Jellal inquired.

"I'm actually getting married! In a month or so my name will be Erza Dragneel." She admitted. Jellal's face somewhat drooped, he looked slightly disappointed at the revelation and Erza knew it.

"Do you not like the fact that I'm getting married?" She asked, his reaction slightly disheartened her.

"No that's not it… I don't want you to change name, it's perfect and that's a rare thing, for a name to suit its owner." Jellal replied.

"I guess it is a sad thing, to lose my name, the heritage from my parents, but we have to move on." The second Erza said the word 'parents' Jellal flinched. He took a deep breath then said "Hey, I know! Even if you aren't going to be Erza Scarlet anymore, I can still call you Scarlet, like a kind of nickname."

"A nickname? I never really had a nickname… well I've never had a nice nickname... sure! Why not? I've always liked my surname!" Erza smiled and was about to hug Jellal when she smelt something putrid, she had been smelling a softer version of this scent the entire time she had been talking to Jellal but it grew unbearable when she drew nearer to him.

"Jellal, sorry if I'm being insensitive, but are you homeless?" Jellal kept silent.

"That's it! You're coming with me! You are going to attend my wedding too!" She said grabbing at Jellal's ear and dragging him to her bike.

"Ouch! Where are you taking me?" Jellal cried out.

Erza put her free hand on her chin. "This might propose as a problem, I only have one helmet but there are two of us… I'm sure I'll be fine for 10 measly minutes." She thought aloud to herself. "Jellal get on."

"Please Scarlet tell me where you are taking me!" Jellal pleaded.

"Scarlet… I love it! And I'm taking you to my house, you can live there for a while."

"But you can't trust me! You can't just let a stranger into your house. That's irresponsible!"

"I do trust you though because if you weren't trust worthy you wouldn't have warned me, not only that you risked yourself for me yesterday. That alone makes me trust you. Now get on the bike." Erza ordered.

Jellal looked at Erza and knew he had no way out, he had lost without much of a fight.

"But I don't have any money to pay you."

"Oh you will pay me, just not in money."

Jellal looked at Erza, his eyes filled with curiosity.

"Then how? Do I have to do your chores or something?" He asked.

"Nope! All you have to do is attend all my wedding functions." Time froze for Jellal.

Jellal: Is she crazy? Or maybe just really kind hearted? Or maybe both? I literally pay nothing for a house, no rent or nothing. I can't say yes to this but then again…

"Up you go" Erza had forced Jellal onto the bike and got in the front seat. She passed her helmet back saying "You best wear this"

Jellal held it for a second, when Erza revved the engine did he finally put it on. He was overwhelmed by the wonderful perfumes the helmet was emitting. Sweet lavender, jasmine with a hint of strawberry in the mix.

He lost himself in the fumes that even after the bike had parked, Erza still needed to call his name to pull Jellal back into reality.

"You seemed to be enjoying yourself in that helmet… but anyway we're here, pass me the helmet and I'll lead you to my flat." He did as she wished, reluctantly, the world's perfume wasn't as sweet as hers.

He followed her up to the fifth floor and waited as she unlocked the door. "It isn't much but there is a spare bedroom next to the bathroom, which is the third door to your right. My room is straight at the bottom and on the right is the dressing room. The living room is the third door to your left and the kitchen is the second. First doors on either side is either my mirror room or my shoe room and finally the 2nd door to your right is my work room." Erza explained with a mini tour.

"You realise I barely got any of that right?" Jellal exclaimed.

"Most people say the same, but this is what it is." Erza smiled at him, it was only then did it dawn on him "What about your fiancé? Won't he object to this?"

Erza carried on smiling and said "Oh he'll be just fine, we've known each other for almost 15 years and trust each other with our lives."

"If you are completely sure, then thank you."

"No problem!" Erza said whilst going into her room, after a few seconds she came out again and said "Now catch!" throwing a towel at him.

"I guess this is another condition for living in my house. TAKE A SHOWER!" Erza opened the door to the bathroom. "Don't worry about clothes, I should have a few pieces of my male collection somewhere in my dressing room… I think"

"Male collection?" Jellal whispered to himself.

Jellal: Maybe it could be her fiancé's clothes, somehow I doubt that. Does she invite random people on the street often, I doubt that too, but I do wonder why she picked me.

He entered the bathroom and immediately switched the shower on. Whilst removing his clothes he realised he had no-where to put them so he neatly folded them and placed them in a corner of the bathroom, claiming he'd retrieve them after he got changed.

Jellal: It's been such a long time since I have had a bath, it's probably been a month or so. I've lost track of time ever since I left. You would have thought a 26 year old healthy man, would easily make a living. Well I know from experience it isn't true, I am even leeching off a women. How low can I go? I'm surprised at myself for actually agreeing to this, have I no pride? Maybe her beauty distracted me… No, can't think like that, she has a fiancé already!

Jellal got in and enjoyed a nice hot shower, he was a bit sceptical about using girl hair products, however he realised if he used them he would smell a little like Erza.

"Hey, Jellal! I've put the clothes on your bed ok? I've ordered a take-away, should be coming in the next half-an-hour or so!" Erza shouted through the door.

"OK!" He called back. The steam was slowly getting to his head, making it hard to breathe. Even though he wanted to enjoy his shower, it was cut short. After drying himself and wrapping the towel around his waist, covering him till his knees, he left the bathroom and entered his own room seeing a very classy male suit on his bed. "Scarlet!"

"Yes!" She called from her own room.

"Are these the clothes I'm wearing? They look a bit fanciful!"

"Sorry, my specialty is women's clothes, the one on your bed is just a rare one off, actually the only one off. Scratch that, it was a one off, but now I'm gonna make an even better one for Natsu! And you either wear that or female clothes!"

"You make no sense but I will wear them if that is my only choice, thank you!"

Erza: I make no sense? … OH! I haven't told him I am a fashion designer have I? Hehe, no wonder. My conversations with him might have sounded a bit odd. I'll tell him later. Not only that I don't think I have told that my fiancés name is Natsu, I'll tell him that later too. They seem so obvious to me that I didn't even think that I needed to tell him.

Around ten minutes later Jellal came out of his room tugging and pulling at his suit. He entered the bathroom to retrieve his dirty clothes and shouted to Erza "Erm… Scarlet! Where is your washing machine? If you don't mind I would like to wash my clothes."

Erza opened her bedroom door and called from it "That might be a problem, I don't really like doing chores all too much so I use the launderette a few streets away. Just leave it in the bathroom the next time I go I'll take your clothes along."

Jellal agreed and left his clothes. As he left the bathroom the front door rang. Erza shouted for him to open it and he did, on the other side of the door was the delivery man.

"Hey, I have… your… order" Jellal's formal dressing had slightly caught the delivery man off guard. It looked as if he was just about to attend a ball of some sorts.

Jellal was wearing a black suit that had a slit tail at the back. The inside of the suit was lined with red silk, and made from the finest wool. Though the suit was a few sizes too small and Jellal's wet hair did downgrade the look, his physique was perfect, broad shoulders, tall height and long legs.

"Oh, thanks a lot." Jellal took hold of the food and then called for Erza. She came out of the room wearing the other potential dress for her proposal night.

A pink dress that showed a lot of cleavage with the back was completely open, with only a few strings keeping the entire thing up. Sequins were all over the dress making a beautiful flower pattern. She moved elegantly in the sparkling dress, almost as if she was gliding. Her hair was tied in a bun with her fringe out, and holding it up was a beautiful pink flower.

The moment Jellal saw her his jaw literally drop, not to mention the delivery man's too. Upon seeing the delivery man she walked into the kitchen, retrieved some money and came back out again, only to find both men's stances were completely the same. They were frozen in place.

Erza decided to ignore them, paid the delivery man and shut the door on his face.

Jellal managed to force out the words "Scarlet… What's up with your clothes?"

Erza placed her right hand on her waist and leaned on her left leg. "You like it?" Her smile broadened whilst saying it.

Jellal gulped "… you didn't answer me Erza. Why are you wearing such a…" His face then flushed red causing him to look down. "…a dress?"

"So you don't like it?" Erza said whilst pouting. "I'm a fashion designer, everything people wear should fit the occasion, seeing as you were wearing a very formal suit, I had to wear a formal dress. It like a protocol with me, you might want to get used to it."

Jellal: that's a formal dress… but that's… clean thoughts Jellal. She's a taken women, control yourself. Even if she wasn't getting married she still wouldn't want to go on a date with me. I'm a low leeching bum that can't even earn a living.

"Anyway come on Jellal, I'm hungry" Erza slotted her arm into Jellal's arm forcing him to walk towards the living room with the food.

"I have to say this Erza but the living room doesn't fit with what we are both wearing." Jellal said upon arriving at the foot of the living room. They both took a seat on the sofa and placed they

"I realise that but you can't get everything. Honestly there were two reasons why I wore this attire: the first being that it would be awkward for you to be the only one wearing something formal"

Jellal: I would have been fine with wearing this on my own, in fact it's even more awkward with you wearing such a…. revealing dress. Is it getting hot in this room or is it just me?

"And two is… I wanted an excuse to try out this dress. It's from my summer night edition, one of my latest designs. It hasn't even been on the catwalk, let alone been sold in shops. This is the only one in existence, I just wanted to know how you thought of it." Erza looked down as if she was blushing, her pupil occasionally gazing up to look at Jellal's face.

"You want to know how I think of the dress!? Well, erm, it looks nice."

"Nice?" Erza said with disappointment.

"It looks very nice" Erza looked disheartened making Jellal panic.

"You look good, pretty…. Adorable, gorgeous. YOU LOOK SEXY!" Jellal stared at Erza for a second and his face went a bright red. He looked down, took some of the take away and ate in his room alone.

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