A/N: OK, I couldn't bare Gray being all OOC and mopey...! Thanks for the super duper motivational reviews! :3

- Chapter 10 -

This, is seriously uncool, the ice mage thought to himself internally. Guys don't bawl, period and what was he doing in front of the 2 people he least want to be there watching him (there's Natsu and Erza and… right pretty much everyone)? Yeap, sobbing his heart out. Worse still, the word vomit just kept coming. At least it's not real vomit, Gray thought to himself bitterly. His mood darkened as he saw Hibiki. Tsch, get out of my sight!

"Ice make, cube!" successfully this time, Gray conjured 4 huge walls of ice separating him and Lucy from everyone else. A small satisfied smile flitted across the ice mage's features as Lucy blinked from the sudden change in Gray's demeanour.

"G-Gray, just calm down the enchantment is probably making you feel things that aren't really true," Lucy tried amending the situation, backing into one of the ice walls as Gray slowly stood up. Gray laughed coldly.

"Yeah, you're right Lucy. I'm feeling things that aren't true. So why have I been feeling the need to be by your side since the day we met? Why have I put up with Natsu so that I could be in the same team as you? Why do I feel acid burning through me whenever some guy like that pretty-nerd next to you get close? Why have I fought the temptation to jump you when I can easily overpower you since we touched? That's right Lucy, after that idiot cursed you, I was one of the first people you touched," Gray added at Lucy's surprised expression, "Natsu and I were fighting, Erza knocked us to the floor, you helped us up. Remember?"

"I guess you wouldn't remember everytime we touched. I'm a cool guy Lucy, it's weird when one particular girl can send shivers up and down your spine with just a touch or a look. Lucy, do you know what it's like when your heart is pummelling you with emotions so intense they blind you whilst your mind is screaming out and commanding you to defy your heart and act differently to how you're actually feeling?" Gray closed the distance between him and Lucy slowly his eyes never leaving her beautiful yet gobsmacked face. You're doing it again, playing with my heartstrings. How much I wish I can embrace and whisper into your hair that you'll always be safe with me.

"Gray, I'm sorry that you're feeling like this! But as soon as we find Ichiya we can revert all this-" Lucy said unsure how she should be dealing with this emotional and sensitive Gray. I'd much rather take on a million love-stricken Natsus, Gajeels and Lokes at this rate… Lucy thought darkly.

Gray chuckled sarcastically his face framed with a pained smile.

"Oh Lucy, you still don't get it do you? The enchantment is only amplifying what I've always felt. And no matter how great that orange-haired nerd thinks his guild master is, there is no potion to revert love. Not to mention," Gray placed a warm hand on the ice wall behind Lucy and peered at her, "there's no way I'd take it if it really existed."

Lucy couldn't think straight, with Gray's defined body so close to her that she could feel his body heat it was even more difficult. Enchantment, there's no way Gray would actually like me. Pah give me a break, with someone as elegant and powerful as Juvia beside him all the time why would he have anytime to think about me? Stop fantasising, Lucy! the Celestial mage told herself firmly.

"Lucy! Are you alright in there? Lucy, answer me!" Hibiki's voice cut through her haze of confusion.

"I-I'm fine! It's OK!" she called back. Gray chuckled.

"Of course you'd be fine, you're with me. I'd be the last person to hurt you."

Damn it! Don't fall for him, Lucy! He's just been magicked to feel this way! but Gray's husky voice flowed over her like water, raising her skin with goosebumps and sending her heart racing.

And it hit her. All along, ever since Mirajane suggested that Gray may have the hots for her, she's had this glimmer of hope that maybe he did. Of course, she hid it away to stop it interfering with their team and trampled it down when Juvia made it especially clear that Gray was hers. Those nostalgic feelings came rushing back. Deep down, the spark relit.

No, not now Lucy! You'll only make the spell worse! And anyway, if his feelings are amplified it may just be friends' love mistaken for romantic love. Oh please stop racing, my stupid heart! Once this is over… Lucy felt excitement course through her at the possibility, I'll probe him about it, I don't exactly want to date a love-crazed mage- Whoa, slow down dating may not even be an option... Oh whatever!

"What are you thinking, Lucy?" the Celestial mage didn't trust her voice but she knew what she had to do. There are always priorities in life. Quests, the wellbeing of her friends and the rent came first. Right now, Lucy Heartfilia's priority was to get Gray back to normal before she could make her move.

"I'm thinking, of how we should get out of here?" Gray's remain unchanged.

What am I doing? Can't believe I'd stoop this low to trap her in here with me. Wow. The shame of it, I'm almost as bad as those other dorks. Ha, I guess I'll just blame it on the alcohol or something. Deep meaningful confessions are definitely not a guy's thing. Gray pulled away from Lucy.

"I should have known," he said before undoing his Ice Make magic. As Hibiki rushed in towards Lucy, Gray turned heel and disappeared from the bar.

Time to cool your head, Gray Fullbuster.

From sobbing to depressed... awww Gray~ Eeeeeeeek, exam results tomorrow _! I really hope I pass *prays*

Shaari