Finally got to upload this chapter after six failed attempts! God that was painful.
Nothing was going to put a downer on Lucy's day, let alone week right now; Loke had said goodnight to Lucy the previous night and had promised her some more alone time with her after the next few days as he had an essay to hand in.
Not even Natsu and Gray arguing that morning had interrupted Lucy's thoughts and happiness, in fact Natsu and Gray had found it to be a little too creepy how Lucy would daze out in to a trance of happiness.
"What's up with Lucy? She's acting all crazy and weird at the moment." Natsu asked, Gray shrugged his shoulders in response, he was already dealing with enough craziness of his own; as a certain blue haired girl had been following him around the last few days.
"How should I know? Maybe it's something girl related or something?"
Natsu nodded in agreement to Gray's theory. After all, Erza was crazy most of the time so maybe it was just a natural thing for girls.
"Either way, girls are weird." said Natsu.
I have a free period this afternoon as my lecturer has to leave early today, want to hang out?
Lucy looked at her phone, Levy's text had caught her off guard; of course there was nothing more that Lucy would have loved to of done but see Levy, but there was no way of her getting out her next class - unless she missed it, but would she really be that person?
I don't exactly have a free, but I can see what I can do? Depending on the lecture I may just skip it
She held her breath waiting for a response back, but that never appeared and before she knew it she was making her way towards her long two hours of boredom; there was also a small hope that Loke would gate crash her lesson again, not that she would admit that she enjoyed having her sit next to her and tease her, but it took away some of the mind numbingly boredom that arose in her class.
She was left deflated, no Loke and instead she had to sit through a two hour class where her lecturer was educating the students on their marks from his previous assessment to them. Even the weather had decided to curse her. The small hope of sunshine had vanished and left the clouds growing dark with a small light tapping on the windows of the room of the rain.
You know, I could really do with you gate crashing my lesson again; I'm so bored.
Lucy sighed as she began to chew on the lid of her pen, she had hardly taken notes through out the lesson and no one had responded to her messages. What was so important that there wasn't one tiny little message for her?
She was knocked out of her thoughts quickly as a large ear piercing alarm rang through out the building,
"Fire alarm!" A student shouted as everyone grabbed their belongings and vacated the building; Lucy had noticed all the other classes in her building had also gone outside and lined up in their class order, although she did see a familiar orange haired boy ahead of her smirking to himself.
She managed to sneak up behind him and nudge his arm,
"Oh, well hello," his smirk still present on his face, Lucy held her own smirk in response.
"I know it was you who set the alarm off,"
"Well, you did say you were bored, I thought you could do with being outside for a bit." Lucy rolled her eyes whilst still smiling, of course Loke would have gone to this extent, although she was sure it would have been Natsu who would have gone to this extreme.
"Hanging around Natsu must be rubbing off on you with such silly ideas."
Half an hour had passed before students were allowed back in to class, Lucy sighed, at least she still had an hour and a half to endure the rest of her day. And to make matters worse she was now soaked, standing under the tree with other students had proved to be difficult and now she was wet and had to sit through the rest of her class.
"And where do you think you're going?" Loke pulled her hand back, Lucy confused, raised her eyebrow.
"Going back to class?"
"I go through all this effort to get you outside and you want to go back in?" There was a playful smile on his face as Lucy saw what he was getting at,
"Okay, okay. What do you have planned?"
"I thought we could go back to mine, watch a film, avoid doing essays. You know, the normal things student's do instead of going back to class,"
Lucy rolled her eyes, but she had to admit it was a much better idea then spending it back in class being bored once again.
Loke had opened the door to his room and led Lucy inside; she was surprised as to how neat his room was - compared to Natsu's messy room and Gray's cold room Loke's was just perfect in every way.
She had noticed Loke had gone to his bathroom and fetched her a towel, after all she was still soaking wet from the rain.
"Thanks Loke." she replied, squeezing the last remanding drops from her hair; although it was still rather wet it was better than what it was before. Although that didn't help she was still in her wet clothes.
"I've left some of my clothes in the bathroom for you to change in to, give you at least some dignity there," Loke winked, causing a blush to form on Lucy's face. How thoughtful of him.
"You know, when you said clothes, I actually thought you meant clothes, joggers, a top, something along those lines. Not exactly this," Lucy replied, poking her head around the bathroom door and frowning at Loke, who only held a smirk on his face as he shrugged,
"It's not like I keep girls clothes around here,"
Lucy sighed, defeated. She was wearing a long black top and a pair of Loke's boxers as shorts and a pair of his socks - at least he thought about how cold her feet got.
But she still felt stupid, more to the point she wasn't wearing underwear under Loke's clothes due to the rain.
"You know, part of me feels like you planned this so much."
"And what makes you think that?"
"The fact that my now wet clothes are drying on the radiator in your bathroom and the fact I'm now sat in your clothes feeling completely venerable." Loke laughed at the sight of the blonde, her face was showing a hint of pink, she was obviously embarrassed by the situation.
"If it's any consolation, I think you look pretty cute in my clothes." Loke shrugged, "But I can understand how you would feel like that, but honestly don't be. I won't do anything."
Lucy sighed a relief, as much as she trusted Loke he was still a big flirt at times. But still a close friend.
"Now, seeing as you're now dressed, how about we watch a film?"
"I wouldn't call this exactly dressed, but fine with me."
Loke laughed as Lucy made herself comfortable on the orange haired boy's bed, she had snuggled up to his pillow and pulled it to her chest and tucked her feet under the duvet. Just like she did in her own room.
"I would say make yourself at home, but I feel like you have already." Loke teased, causing Lucy to pout at him,
"I'm cold if you must know,"
"I can clearly see that," he looked down towards Lucy's nipples which were just starting to poke through the top
"Perv." Lucy cried as she held her arms over her breasts. Loke smirked as he too got under his covers and nudged her arm
"Not my fault."
"I think you'll find this whole situation is your fault. If you hadn't set the fire alarm off and then made me walk back in the rain I would be fine,"
"But you would also be stuck in your 'boring' lecture." Loke pointed out, Lucy huffed, he was right.
Both Loke and Lucy had fallen asleep through the film, Lucy had rolled over and held the duvet close to her body whilst Loke had his arm over her, protecting her. But it was short lived as a large alarm rang through the building of the boys' dorm. Loke woke up immediately, his arm still wrapped around Lucy's sleeping body.
"You have to be kidding me." he heard her mumble as she opened her eyes
"This best not be one of your tricks again lion boy."
"Afraid not. But I suppose we should still vacate the building." Panic rose on Lucy's face.
"I can't go out like this!"
Loke chuckled as he saw how flustered she had got in the space of ten seconds, she glared at him.
"Come on, I'll give you my hoodie, just as long as you promise to give this one back to me," he winked, handing her the red hoodie that hung on the back of his door; Lucy blushed as she put it on and zipped it up to keep the cold out.
Whilst outside Lucy had noticed that the rain had long stopped, but the floor was still damp whilst there was a cool night breeze blowing on her bare legs which caused her to shiver momentarily.
"Cold?" Loke asked, as he stood in front of her and embraced her to keep her warm. She replied with a small moan of comfort.
"Much better."
Loke smiled as he heard her mumble her reply to him, even the small moan that escaped her lips.
"Flame brain, this wasn't your doing was it?!" Lucy and Loke heard Gray shout over to Natsu who had just walked out the building yawning.
"Why would you think I would do this ice pants!?"
"It's way too late at night to be hearing these two bicker," Lucy mumbled in to Loke's chest. She was actually quite content with staying in that place. Loke was quite muscular, not so much as other guys she had seen on the campus, but there was muscle there, Loke was a lot leaner than the others she had noticed.
"You okay down there?" Loke laughed as Lucy snuggled in to his stomach,
"Quite, just sleepy and the fact everyone is just be loud."
"You're quite cute you know when you're sleepy."
The problem had soon been resolved; the boys were allowed back to their rooms as it had been noted that the alarm system had a fault which caused the alarm to ring. Natsu had ended punching Gray for accusing him of doing such a thing, which had then resulted in a brawl outside whilst everyone went back in.
"I can walk you back if you want?" Loke offered as they got back to his room. Lucy shook her head, yawning.
"I'm okay here, and anyway, you're quite warm in bed whilst I'm freezing cold. It's quite nice," Loke held a smile on his face, whilst Lucy got back in to his bed and curled back in to her position before they were interrupted by the fire alarm.
"If that's what you want, I'll happily oblige." He replied, wrapping his arm over her and pulling her back in to his chest causing her to squeak at the sudden movement.
"Goodnight Loke," Lucy mumbled as held on to his arm before she fell back asleep.
"You look tired Luce, are you alright?" Levy held a concerned expression on her face as she looked at her blonde friend.
"I'm fine, just got little sleep that's all," she replied, trying to stop herself from yawning but only failing once more. It had been her fourth yawn in the space of ten minutes.
"I heard there was a fire alarm at the boys' dorm last night. Gajeel said it was something to do with a fault?"
"Yeah, everyone had thought it was Natsu, because of well, you know Natsu." Levy laughed,
"Seriously Luce, you're going to fall asleep soon, why don't you head back to your bed?"
"I'm fine, honestly. I just need to finish this work and then I can sort myself out for what I'm doing for this halloween party next week."
"Oh I almost forgot about that, but that's because I've had my outfit finished for a while now."
The Fairy Tail Academy Halloween Party was a notorious celebration which the Academy took pride in; more to the point it was known as get away with wearing anything and getting drunk more than anything. Which was why there was so much hype around the campus over it, especially Mira's cocktails this year - which she had always been known to do deadly shots as well as deadly drinks, who knew someone who looked so innocent could cause death by drink?
"So what are you this year?" Lucy asked, ideas had already begun to plague her head, but there was so much to choose from, at least if Levy told her what she was going as she had less of a chance of clashing with her.
"A witch of course, although I did hear Erza does that every time. But I'm set for this, I'm so excited! And Gajeel said he would be my black cat,"
"I suppose you bribed him with something?" Lucy raised an eyebrow and a smirk as she guessed what her best friend did. Especially as Levy held a bright red face in front of her.
"Talking of boys, what about you and Loke? You two seem rather close as of late? And Gajeel told me he saw you last night," now it was Lucy who was facing a red race,
"I, um, I don't know…." she regained her normal colour before continuing. "I'll admit, we've kissed a few times, but I don't know. I don't know what he sees me as. A friend with benefits? Girlfriend? Friend? I just don't know."
"What do you want?"
Lucy thought for a moment, what did she want? Did she want Loke to be her boyfriend? She did admit he was good looking, and he did aways make her laugh and he did offer her his clothes to wear last night.
"I wouldn't say no, if he asked me." The blush returned to her cheeks and Levy squealed, causing Mira and Erza to peer over at the two friends.
"What's made Levy squeal?" Erza questioned, watching Levy calm herself and hold the largest smile Lucy had ever seen on her friend, ever.
"Let's just say, Lucy has a thing for Loke." Both Mira and Erza held a smirk on their faces, Lucy gulped at the two of them,
"I'm really not liking your faces right now, there's something brewing in there and frankly what ever it is I'm not playing."
"But it's got something to do with Loke, and halloween," Mira chimed, Lucy sighed, there was no way she was going to get out of this.
The night of the party had finally arrived; for most of the students it couldn't have come at a better time. Especially Lucy had received more homework then ever the last few days and had become the anti social friend to the world. No one had seen her come out of her room and Levy and Erza had once walked in to her room and found Lucy sat on the floor of her room surrounded by seven piles of books and next to it essays Lucy had wrote.
"Is Lucy okay? I haven't seen her all week and the party's tonight." Gray mentioned as him and a few others had decided to grab a few drinks in the bar before getting ready.
"According to Levy and Erza, Lucy has been doing loads of work, apparently one of her lectures said she had to catch up the one lesson she missed and gave her four essays to right by next week," Mira spoke, over hearing the conversation, Loke gulped.
"I just hope she'll be here tonight," Natsu replied "Maybe we should go and help her with her work? There's got to be something we can do?"
"Natsu, there is no way Lucy would allow you anywhere near her work, let alone anyone else. Levy had said Lucy had everything sorted in to piles as to what work went where. I think she would kill us if we messed that up." Gray replied.
"Speaking of Levy, where are the girls?" Loke questioned; the bar had been stocked with boys since the late afternoon, not a girl in sight, apart from Mira behind the bar.
"Probably getting ready, you know how girls are. They take forever." Natsu replied.
"I hope I look okay, because I feel fucking stupid right now," Lucy moaned as Erza and Levy stood in her room getting ready,
"You look fine. If anything if Loke doesn't want you there's plenty more guys that would," Erza smiled, Lucy rolled her eyes. She had no idea how on earth she got herself in to this situation, or how on earth both Mira and Erza had decided this would be the perfect outfit for tonight.
"Erza's right, you'll be fine Lucy, and I'm sure Loke will want you," she winked,
"You're fine Levy, your boyfriend is dressing up with you, I have no idea if Loke want's to be my boyfriend. I think I need a drink."
"Lucy you will be fine. Stop worrying." Erza reminded her as she dragged the two girls out of Lucy's room and down to the bar.
Lucy was thankful that the lights were dim in the bar that evening, and the fact the strong smell of alcohol was present; although wether there was going to be any left if Cana was already in the building was a whole other story.
"I still feel stupid," Lucy protested as they went to the bar and saw Mira wearing a she devil outfit,
"You look amazing Mira!" Levy smiled as all three girls sat at the bar and grabbed the mixture of alcohol in a glass Mira and given them.
"As do all three of you," she replied, Lucy sighed, she was going to need a lot more drink to deal with this evening especially in her outfit that Mira and Erza had forced her in.
Lucy wore a white ballet top with a low back with a white fluffy cotton tail at the back just above her bum, she also had white bunny ears in her hair and wore black heels that made her legs long longer.
Compared to her friends she felt like a slut, but the girls had all told her she looked fine for the party, Mira had explained the fact that it was the one time of the year where it was fine to wear a little less clothing, but that didn't help Lucy's nerves disappear as she heard the familiar sound of Natsu and Gray entering the building.
"Jesus Christ!" Gray spoke as he looked at Lucy, which caused her to bang her head on the table harder than she wanted.
"You're really living up to the name bunny girl aren't you," Gajeel said as he walked in wearing all black and black cat ears on his head.
"Do you want to wear any less clothes Luce?!" Natsu began to tease.
"Shut up!"
Lucy ended up punching Natsu due his outburst of laughing so much, but more from the fact he had been staring a lot longer than he should have.
"I swear to god if anyone ever mentions this outfit again I will happily rip off what makes you a man." Lucy huffed, downing another drink.
The boys sniggered at her tiny threat to them, Levy and Erza smiled, but at least they had a reaction from the boys, just not the one guy Lucy wanted.
"Where's Loke?" Erza asked, counting the boys already here,
"He said he would be coming along later," Gray shrugged, Lucy rested her head on her hand, typical.
Hey lion boy, you best not be bailing out on this party. I look absolutely ridiculous and frankly you should be buying all my drinks, because I look so stupid right now for your entertainment.
She huffed once again, typical, the one time she expected Loke with the others he wasn't with them and she was already building a collection of butterflies in the pit of her stomach just waiting for his reaction, although knowing his pervy mind he would be delighted with the choice of outfit she was wearing right now.
Sorry beautiful, I'll be there in fifteen minutes, can't have a beautiful girl left at the bar with out me ;)
"Of course he would reply in that tone," Lucy cursed under her breath. She looked around the room, more students had entered since and she had noticed a few of the guys staring at her, which was just perfect in Lucy's mind, pervs everywhere.
"Lucy! We've got a table!" Levy called as she dragged Lucy off her stool and towards the table, which also happened to be in front of the bar.
Lucy was really not experiencing fun that evening, she had already watched Gray, who was dressed as a zombie brawl with Natsu, who thought throwing a little bit of fake blood on him was acceptable. Of course, this resulted in both boys knocking in to Erza who then sent them flying out the doors and just past Loke who had finally made it.
Lucy had ended up watching Loke's reaction turn from watching Natsu and Gray roll out of the door to looking over straight at her and she could have sworn she saw him lick his lips at her.
He did end up winking at her and smirking as he walked over to the bar.
"You know, lion's love rabbits." He whispered in Lucy's ear as he sat down next to her with a drink for her,
"Took you long enough to join us." she replied, smirking from his comment which still lingered in her mind,
"Well you know, I have to be fashionably late when I look this handsome," Lucy laughed, although she did have to admit, Loke did look pretty damn good. He had joined Gray in the zombie theme, although she was a little disappointed he didn't take the opportunity to dress as a lion, but she would still accept this outfit considering she could still still a small trace of his muscle definition through the shirt he wore and he had fake blood trickling down his neck.
"You look like death,"
"I think you'll find that to be the theme of tonight," Loke joked, as he took a sip of his drink.
The rest of the night had involved almost too much alcohol for Lucy as she remembered she promised herself she wouldn't get back in to a terrible state where she ended up being out of control and relying on Loke to take her home again.
Although as she looked around the room she couldn't see him anywhere; he had vanished completely. She did however spot Gray kissing Juvia in a corner of the room where the lights were very dim, she would really have to pester Gray about that the next morning and see if he remembers kissing her.
Natsu had ended up passing out on a poor Lisanna, who was blushing madly about the situation she was now in, whilst Levy was talking to Erza and Mira still whilst her well behaved cat Gajeel drank his problem of being dressed as a cat away from his memory.
Where the hell are you?
Hunting my prey for the evening
"What the hell is that suppose to be Loke?" Lucy questioned out loud as she read his text,
Care to explain?
Come outside and you'll see
Lucy sighed, as she made her way drunkly towards the front doors of the bar to outside; she had to admit being outside was a lot better than indoors, the room had become too warm from the amount of students packed in the building, the outside air cooled her instantly.
You should know you look so beautiful in that outfit right now, even as the moon light touches your bare skin I'm struggling to stay in control of my mind
Lucy smirked, Erza and Mira's plan was slowly working it seemed; even though she had to wear this ridiculous outfit she was hoping it was going to be worth it.
Why don't you show yourself lion, I'll be a good little rabbit
Nice try Lucy, but I'm going to take my time and savour the moment, after all lion's love to hunt.
"If you take your time Loke I'm sure I'll freeze," Lucy smiled as she walked towards the grass verge just beside the bar entrance, at least she was out the way if anyone was going to exit the building.
You can't hide from me on that verge, you're out in the open. You're begging to be hunted little bunny
She laughed, Loke was really taking this lion business seriously, but she couldn't help but feel excited, after all what was he going to do when he found her?
Maybe that's my whole plan lion. Be out in the open and then take out the hunter, after all, didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food? ;)
A small smirk crept on to her lips, she was enjoying this too much, the fact that Loke was somewhere close and watching her was thrilling. But she would just wish he would make himself known, after all it was cold out here.
"You're playing a dangerous game Lucy,"
She looked behind her and saw Loke standing behind her, smirking as he pulled her in to his arms.
"Dangerous games are my favourite," she held a playful tone as she looked up at him, he smiled as he leaned down and kissed her lightly
"I don't think you understand what that outfit is doing to me right now" he whispered in to her ear, sending shivers down her spine, Loke saw the reaction he made her feel.
He kissed her neck lightly, allowing a small moan to escape from Lucy's lips, music to his ears. He was amazed that he had held on this long before devouring Lucy, although was it the alcohol again? He had hoped not. He stopped briefly to look at her, her eyes filled with lust for him. Maybe it wasn't the alcohol.
"You know Loke, I didn't think it would take you this long to catch your prey."
"You're prey worth hunting for Lucy," Loke replied softly as he took her lips once again, causing Lucy to smile between their kisses.
"But in seriousness Loke," he stopped as she looked at him in the eyes, "What do you see in me?"
"I see a beautiful girl; a girl who is wise and knowledgeable, who isn't afraid to speak up and someone who doesn't mind being around me. Hell the fact you actually make me laugh and I find it so easy to just hang with you. You know, call me crazy but I actually like you Lucy."
A blush crept on to her face as Loke spoke,
"What do you see me as then? Because I have no idea what you want from me, and frankly if this is just a one time thing I want it to stop now,"
"I can see why you would ask these questions. I've been wondering these too over the last few days. I can honestly say I know exactly what I would want, but wether that's what you want is a whole other thing. I like you Lucy, I would do anything for you, in fact, scrap the like you part. I love you Lucy and I would want nothing more than to have you."
Lucy stood there, taken back by what she had just been told, Loke loved her? She had to admit she held a soft spot for the guy, the fact he pulled such a stunt of setting the fire alarm off to get her out of her class was something no one would have ever done. And she had to admit being in his presence was nice, he was right about him being comfortable around her, because she was the same with him. But did she love him? She smiled to herself, of course she did.
"You know Loke. Hearing all that has made me think as well. I love being around you, I love having you tease me and give all your attention to, I love how you look after me and are always there to make sure I get home safely. I had wondered a while ago if you ever did like more than just a friend, I was crushing hard on you so much but chose to hide my feelings back until I heard it from you first. You know what? I love you too."
Loke looked at her, the smile ever so present on his face as he leaned down and kissed her lightly on the lips, both of them smiled in to the kiss as Loke pulled her closer.
"The lion has defiantly caught his prey." Loke spoke through them both kissing.