YAY! Chapter two! :D I feel like Erza is a little bit OOC, but, oh well. R&R

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fairy Tail it belongs to Hiro Mashima.

Me, Natsu, Lisanna, and Mira were all crouched down behind a bush, figuring out how to deal with a certain redhead.

None of us knew why, but Erza stormed off earlier that day and won't talk to anyone. Well I guess I sorta know why, she's always like this at this time of year, but I've never asked why since that day by the river almost 4 years ago. I asked her what she was crying about and she wouldn't answer.

"What do guys think is wrong with her?" Flame brain asked

"I dunno, but she looks sad." Lisanna answered

"Maybe Gray knows." Mira said looking at me with a creepy smile

I glared at her, she's been up to this for a while, she thinks I like Erza; which I do, but I'm not gonna tell Mira that! If Mira knows somethin the whole guild knows it two seconds later.

"Aye, I think Gray might know too!" Happy sai- WAIT when did Happy get here? "Happy?! Where did you come from?" We all yelled, except for Natsu.

"Happy's been here the whole time." Flame brain pointed out. "Aye" Happy added (Maybe Happy was in hiding in Natsu's scarf…)

"…"

Anyway, Happy is pretty much Mira's minion. They can both get pretty freakin creepy; especially when it comes to my love life. I just hope Mira doesn't influence Lisanna too much. That would be too much creepy to handle.

"I don't know why she's like this, but I do know she's like this at the same time every year." I say, hoping Mira would back off. Of course she didn't… "Aha! You may not know why but you still know more than us. That shows that you know more about her. Anddd…..that you should be the one to comfort her or something!" Mira said, pushing me towards her.

Crap. Why did Mira always have to put me in these situations?

Walking-cautiously-to Erza, I just put out a hand to her. 'Like that would work, she would be too stubborn to take my hand…' I thought. I was right; she looked up at me with tears streaming down one side of her face. She looked at my hand, then let out a, 'Hmph' and turned her head away from me.

'Looks like I have come up with something to say to her…'

I thought through it for a sec, but I found somethin to say to her. 'Well, here it goes… wish me luck Ul'

"You know, crying doesn't really suit you. It's probably the last thing someone would expect you to do." I started…no response, not a good sign. "I'd always find you here at this time of year. You'd sit here and cry all alone. But you shouldn't." still no response,"Not that it's wrong to cry; sometimes you gotta. But you shouldn't have to…" I trailed off to look at Erza. Her head was half-facing me now; at least I got a semi-response.

"cause you have the guild here. We're all here to comfort you; you've been here a few years now, you should know that we're all here for you. We all care about you… I care about you." That got a response; she blushed a little bit and pressed her face to her legs. 'Crap. Why'd I let that slip out?' I felt my face warm up too. 'Mira's gonna blackmail me with this, isn't she?'

I was going to say more but then Erza cut in, "I don't deserve it…" she whispered "The guilds' comfort, I don't deserve it."

What was she saying she 'doesn't deserve it'?! She's a member of the Fairy Tail family so she does too deserve it!

"I had friends…I betrayed them…" she went on. What did she mean she betrayed them?

Things got quiet after she said that, I was just trying to figure out what to say to that… then an awesome idea popped into my 14-year –old mind.

"Maybe you did betray them," I started…I saw her bottom lip quiver. "But that was the past, and we're your friends now. We; Fairy Tail, are your family now, so deserve it or not we will help you and comfort you, cause that's what family does."

She looked up at me more tears on her face than before I said anything. She looked like she was going to cry even harder now… crap.

But then she did exactly what I didn't think she would do, she jumped up and hugged me, sobbing into my chest. I was a bit taken back at first but then I realized that she was just taking my advice. She let me comfort her. So I did holding her close to me I could already imagine Mira tearing up watching all this. So I rubbed my arm against her back and said something along the lines of 'everything's gonna be alright.'

I pressed my lips to her forehead and said, "You have the whole guild that loves you, and cares about you, so you don't need to cry all alone anymore. Didn't already go over this 4 years ago?"

After that she stopped crying, and gave me that cute smile of hers. The one that made me realize there's no one else out there for me but her.

I walked her back to the guild, and of course Mira, Happy, Lisanna, and Toaster oven followed us. I turned around to face them and their mouths were all wide open, don't know if they were impressed or just plain freaked out.

Then Mira started fangirling, Mira being Mira she doesn't really look like the 'fangirl type.'

"OMG thatwasthemostadorablething EVER! When you were like, and she was like, and you were all like "I care about you" and she was all like "I don't deserve your comfort"."

Happy joined in with Mira while Lisanna was trying to calm her down and Toaster oven was trying not to puke.

"I thought that was horrible and disgusting!" Flame brain said sticking his tongue out

"What'd you say?" I said

"I said that that was horrible and disgusting." That baka said back

"It's true, that that was kinda corny…but corny can be cute!" Mira said

"Aye!" Happy added

Me and that baka already started a fight. "You wanna go Toaster oven?"

"Bring it on Droopy eyes!"

"Enough!" Erza butted in. Me and Natsu were both knocked to the ground and Mira had stopped her fangirling. But then she got an evil grin.

"Oh so you're feeling better Thunder thighs?" Mira taunted, uh-oh

"What did you just call me?" Erza glared

Not too long after that they were the ones fighting.

"Oh so you can fight but-" I started

"Oh shut up!" Erza yelled

I grinned, regular Erza was back, and that's all that matters. Goes to show she should accept the comfort she doesn't deserve.

CHAPTER 2 END

Chapter 2 is done YAY! I was gonna finish this tomorrow but I couldn't fall asleep so I wrote it from about 12:00 A.M. to 4:00 A.M. I think the next chapter will be the final one; you'll get to see what Erza's gift is! R&R