The right time to fall

Outside Natsu's home

Erza paid and got out of the cab and started to walk towards Natsu's house. As she was about to reach his front door she stopped in her track and got her compact makeup out and gave herself a quick touch up before knocking on the door. She waited for a minute before knocking again. She then started shouting "Natsu! Are you in there?"

After realising there wasn't anyone at home, she got out her phone and started to ring him. That's when she heard Natsu's ringtone inside the house. "Damn it, he left his phone at home!" as she said that she sat on his front door step.

Erza: What am I meant to do now? I've come all the way here I can't exactly go home now. I guess I could always find Jellal and spend today with him. Wait! I'm supposed to be planning the wedding. I'll just wait for Natsu, he shouldn't be out for long; knowing him, he's probably gone to the shop to buy some food.

Outside the Dragons Head

"Hey are you alright?" Jellal asked Lucy as she cried on the floor. Lucy looked up her eye makeup had smudged all the way down her cheek. "I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH YOU PERVERT!" She grabbed an empty Pepsi can and through it at Jellal. He easily hit it away then said "Pervert… erm ok. I guess you don't want my help then. I'll just go then."

He turned around and disheartened, he walked away. "No, wait! I'm sorry! I know you're not a bad guy… I've just had a lot to deal with today."

Jellal stopped in his tracks and turned around "So you'll accept my help?"

Lucy refused to make eye contact with him but nodded. She then got up and wiped away all the smudged make up from her face. Her knees were red because of how she was sitting. She quickly dusted herself off, ran inside, grabbed two brooms and ran back out. "Here catch!" Lucy said whilst throwing a broom towards Jellal. He caught it and began to sweep up the alleyway.

"So I know you've only just met me but do you want to tell me what happened? A friend of mine told me that people generally feel better after they talk about something they found distressing." Jellal said after a couple of minutes of sweeping. Lucy stopped sweeping took a deep breath and then said to Jellal "Well first of all I have to sweep this up because of my idiot friend… well at least I think it was him it could have been some other idiot. Second, I have to worry about all the perverts at my workplace, I have to be nice to them even if they are giving me abuse. It's so frustrating!"

Lucy stopped there to check if Jellal was still listening to her, most people found that whenever she complained about anything they found her annoying. To her surprise, Jellal was leaning on his broom listening attentively to everything she had said. She smiled a little then carried on "Then there's the other employees they always push me around making me do their shifts whenever they want to go on a date. They say to me that I'll understand what they go through when I get a boyfriend. And don't get me started on my parents! They think I'm a thorn in their backsides; when in actual fact they are a thorn in mine. They want me to get married so that I don't have to work in a bar anymore. Every time they call me it's the same thing! They don't even bother saying I love you anymore."

Jellal: I think this will last a while. Well at least she's venting instead of keeping it bottled up. I'll let her have her rant.

Jellal sat on the floor and Lucy sat next to him and proceeded in complaining "Basically I come from a wealthy family. They own the Heartfilia railway, I'm sure you've heard of it."

Jellal: Yeah I've heard of it. I used to trade with you before Ultear came along.

"So after a while I wanted to be able to provide for myself and left home. I refused to take any money from my family otherwise it would defeat the purpose of me leaving. However, my family obviously didn't want to let me go; so I had to make an agreement with them that I would work at the Dragon's Head as one of my butler's sons own it. But now they aren't happy that I work at a bar. I don't think they realised at first that the Dragon's head was a bar but, oh well, that was their own mistake. Now the only way to rectify their mistake is by getting me married off to someone wealthy."

Jellal: This girl has a lot of drama in her life. Well to be honest so do I.

"Hey you know what? That did make me feel better! Thanks a lot… I feel like such an idiot! I haven't even asked you your name before giving you my life story! My name is Lucy, Lucy Heartfilia. What about you?" Lucy went red but she smiled all the way through.

Jellal snickered then replied "My name is Jellal Fernandez…"

Jellal: CRAP! I shouldn't off told her my surname! Especially not a Heartfilia! She'll be able to figure out who I am!

"Fernandez… isn't that one of my family's partners?" Lucy looked suspiciously at Jellal then shrugged. "Well I guess a lot of people could have that name. So what brought you here Jellal?"

Jellal sighed with relief and then answered Lucy's question. "Well one of my friends is getting married. She wanted to prepare something around here so I came along."

"Prepare something. Well, tell your friend that if she needs a caterer then we will be happy to oblige. As soon as we are done cleaning up I'll go and tell Leo ok?" A sudden chill of air passed the two of them.

"Well I'm not sure if I should be the one to be making these arrangements."

"Oh shut it. It's fine if they already have a caterer then just cancel with us. I owe you for helping me out and listening to me."

"If you say so Lucy." Jellal smiled as he got up. He assisted Lucy up when a gust of air came blowing some of the lighter trash away. "We better hurry with the cleaning or all the trash is going to fly away."

A/N- I know this chapter is short but please bear with me for the next couple of months. It's going to be really hard for me to make chpters let alone making them long. I will try my best to keep updating every week. Read and Review please! See you next week:)