I'm finally on winter vacation, and generally caught up on my cosplays so I figured now was a good time to sit down and bust out a chapter! Its been a while, so I hope you enjoy this chapter! Thanks for reading! ~Hana
Levy smiled as she lifted herself up slowly, landing on pointe after two years. She stared into the mirror at herself. Eyes locked on themselves as she felt a smile etch onto her face. Her eyes flickered in the mirror, over to a figure getting up- it was Gajeel. She had forgotten she had been alone.
"Levy!" He practically ran over to her. "You're on your toes." He looked her up and down, marveling at her stance, the way she could effortlessly stand on the tips of her toes without falling over in pain like he had seen so many ballerinas in this room before.
"Im on pointe, Gajeel." She giggled, wrinkling her nose a bit.
"I... I'm-" He struggled for the right words before his feelings overtook him and he pulled her into a hug.
"G-Gajeel?" The hug was so sudden and unprepared that her arms were crushed between the two of them awkwardly.
"I'm so happy for you, shorty." He breathed out, his hot breath tickling her shoulder.
"Thanks..." She started. "For everything."
"No problem." He squeezed her one last time before letting her go, and standing back.
"So this is called pointe." She gestured her arms to her feet.
"Do something."
"Ah, something, my favorite of all ballet moves." She joked.
"Alright, then do one of those... whats the word... fouetté." He said.
"Pfft-" She started laughing to herself.
"What? Did I say it wrong?" He watched her laugh at him, and if he said he wasn't a little embarrassed he'd be lying.
"No, its just ironic." She wiped her eyes as she felt tears forming from laughter. "Last time I tried ballet I was practicing my fouettés, and I broke my ankle. Its just ironic how that's the first thing you want me to do, when it so happened to be my last."
"Well if you broke your ankle don't you think you'd like to stay away from that move?"
"Are you kidding?" She laughed. "Haven't you ever heard the expression, 'If you brake your ankle, you put the ballet slipper back on'?"
"I cant say I have..."
"If it makes you feel any better, you can hold my hands while I spin." She held out her hands for him.
"Alright..." He said as he took her small, delicate, fingers in his own rough palms.
She took a deep breathe before nodding for him to move. Taking a step, he turned her on her right foot, watching as her body moved with ease. "Wow." He breathed out.
"Isn't it beautiful?" She asked.
"Yeah..." Gajeel wasn't one foe going to the ballet, or watching dancing in general. To be honest, he didn't care for any type of dancing. Except hers.
"Watch this." She let go of his hands, the warmth of her hands was immediately missed but he let get go, as she walked on pointe a few feet away. She smiled at him, making sure his eyes were on her. Although, in his eyes, there was nothing more interesting in the room. Even the music in the background blurred as he watched her twirl and move across the floor gracefully.
The bun in her hair stayed atop her head perfectly, with no stray hairs, as she spun at speeds unimaginable for anyone. Her arms elongated and flowed perfectly with every step she took. Her hands were relaxed and delicate the whole time, much like the rest of her body as she effortlessly floated across the room. His eyes followed her around the room, even refusing to blink, in fear of missing one moment. That was until something tore his attention from the girl in front of him.
"What are you two doing here?" A voice said.
Lucy scrunched into her large king bed fluffed with pink sheets, and a ridiculous amount of pillows, as she turned on her TV mounted on the wall parallel to the bed. She let out a long sigh as she realized she forgot to grab a snack. Moving her hand lifelessly across the sheets, she searched for her phone. Once her hand found it, and clutched it safely, she slung her legs over the edge of the bed before sluggishly moving to the kitchen. She tried to stay silent, knowing Levy and Gajeel were watching a movie, and went to the cabinets. She pried them open with only two fingers, hoping to minimize the noise of the creaks. Deeming herself successful, she rifled around for something good to eat before deciding that Cheez-Its would do. She tip toed down the hallway again, listening to Levy and Gajeel whisper in the living room as they watched old videos.
I wish Natsu was my prince in shining armor like Gajeel... She thought to herself as she imagined about how Gajeel saved Levy from her slump. She was actually dancing, and getting back out there. And Natsu was just... Well he was just some dorky pink haired kid that was just as terrible in the sack as he was with words. Honestly, he could be so air headed sometimes.
Walking back into her room, she closed the door quietly before padding across the carpet. She jumped on her bed, only to remember she had a box of snacks in her hands that could go flying everywhere- but thankfully didn't. "Alright, lets see whats on Netflix tonight..." She breathed out as she grabbed the remote.
"Natsu, cmon, I dare you!" A very drunk Gray laughed as he elbowed his best friend in the ribs.
"N-no way!" The pink haired boy slurred before giggling. The whole staff of the gym decided to go out to celebrate Juvia's return from her week off- all the staff that is minus one kickboxing instructor.
"Call her!" Cana agreed, hiccuping before receiving a glare from Laxus.
"Dont call her, bro." He said as he put his hand over Cana's mouth playfully. "Cana doesn't know what shes talking about." He said before his face contorted into that of disgust and he removed his hand from his girlfriends mouth, only to wipe if off on his pants.
"Yes, Juvia agrees Natsu." Juvia said quietly.
"See, Juvia thinks you should call her!" gray said.
"N-no, Gray, I meant-" Juvia started before Gray leaned into her arm.
"You disagree with me, Juvia?" He batted his eyes.
"Juvia t-thinks Natsu should listen to his gut..." She blushed furiously, and moved her gaze to her fingers.
"If only something could change your mind... Oh, I think I know of six somethings." Gray smirked.
Cana could barely moan out an exasperated "Gray~" before the swim instructors T-Shirt was halfway across the table.
"Perhaps my six pack could persuade you, Juvia?" He asked as he shamelessly rolled his stomach next to her face.
"J-Juvia... still thinks... Natsu should... not call her." Juvia breathed out as her eyes spun and her head rolled back onto the top of the couch.
"Awe, there she goes." Mira giggled at Juvia's shyness towards Gray.
"We should take her home with us." Freed offered.
"No, Jellal and I should." Erza interjected.
"We have drank the least out of everyone here." The quiet blue haired man said.
"Or-" Cana slammed her hand down on the table. "We put her in Gray's bed!"
"Hey, whose bed?" Gray turned as soon as he heard his name.
"Yes!" Mira high fived Cana like a school girl.
"Mira, Cana!" Erza said. "Thats... a great idea." She snickered. No matter how close they were, the Fairy's of the gym always like to play pranks on each other. Some lacked a certain gene that told them when to stop- and that gene was especially absent when they were drunk.
"Oi, if Juvia sleeps in my bed, where will I sleep?" Gray asked.
"You could sleep in your bed." Mira suggested.
"Or on the couch." Erza offered.
"Naked." Cana's eyes sparkled deviously.
"Yes." Mira and Erza said together.
"Dont you two think that she's gone through enough?" Laxus asked. "After all she did just go to a yoga convention, and visited her parents in one week."
"Laxus, I seem to recall when Juvia changed your shampoo to make your hair pink." Mira said.
"That was because she lost a bet-" Erza whispered before Cana stared at her with daggers for eyes.
"Yes but..." Laxus thought for a moment. He was usually on of the most level headed members of the group, but today he though he'd let it slide. Besides this one act might just very well be the last push the two needed to finally get together after five years of shameless flirting.
"Mean Girls?" Lucy asked herself as she looked through her Netflix Suggested Watch List. "Ive already seen it a million times though..." She said out loud. "Theres always a bunch of anime on here..." She let a breath out of her nose as she scrolled through boring movies and TV series that she would never watch in a million years before finally settling on watching Mean Girls for the one million and first time.
"Text Lucy!" Gray giggled, wrestling Natsu for his phone.
"No!" Natsu cried as Gray finally snatched his phone, and held it about his head. "She has to text first!" He tried to reach above Gray to grab the phone from his hands, but being just a few inches taller than him meant Gray usually won this fight.
"What do you mean she has to text first? Just man up and text her!" The swimmer said as he opened up Natsu's contacts. "G... H... I- hey, why is my number saved as 'Ice Princess'?"
"Because you're an ice princess, now give it back!" Natsu helplessly swatted at his phone once more.
"Are you going to text her?" Gray took his eyes off the phone, and looked into Natsu's desperate ones.
"No way!" He said honestly. There was a rule to these things, the girl had to text first! Probably... He didn't really know after all.
"Then I will!" Gray snickered, and pushed Natsu back before moving his thumbs across the keyboard furiously. "There." Gray said as he tossed the phone back to Natsu.
"What did you say!" He frantically searched for Lucy's contact.
"I just said, hey."
"Just hey!"
"Yeah, just hey."
"GRAY!" Natsu pulled on his pink hair. "YOU CANT JUST SAY HEY!" He slammed his head on the table, moping to himself. "I cant believe you said hey, I mean this could ruin everything... Gray you ruined everything now im going to die old and alone with like a thousand cats-" Natsu shot his head up as he felt his phone vibrate. "She texted back..." He said to himself in disbelief. "She texted back!" He turned to Gray. "That actually worked?" He asked.
"Yeah." He said, drinking some of his beer.
"Wow..." He said, swiping his phone open. "She said, hey."
"Just hey?" Gray asked.
"Yeah, just hey." Natsu said. "Why?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Are you sure it wasn't heyyy?" Gray asked, elongating the word.
"Nope, just h-e-y."
"Oh no."
"What?" Natsu asked.
"It was just, hey." Gray said, assume Natsu understood his situation.
"You're screwed, buddy." Laxus placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Why? I said hey, so why cant she?" The pink haired boy scratched his head. "Doesn't it work both ways?" He asked.
"And that is why you will forever be single." Gray sighed.
"No, I'm pretty sure Lisanna would leave Bixlow if he begged." Laxus laughed.
"I don't know, I think shes moved on." Gray shrugged.
"You guys know I can hear you, right..." Natsu asked, sitting right in the middle of the conversation.
"What went wrong?" Cana asked.
"I don't know, we had a lovely night." Natsu asked. "I was gentlemanly, and nice, and romantic." He listed.
"Well that's what you say, but how did she react." Mira asked.
"I mean, it ended well." Natsu blushed.
"Did you have sex?" Gray slapped his arm.
"Hey, don't hit me." Natsu slapped him on his arm to even the score. "And yeah we did." He shrugged.
"YOU?" Gray nearly yelled.
"That explains it." Laxus said.
"Bummer." Cana sighed.
"To think there was promise." Erza shrugged.
"I even helped." Mira swirled her drink.
"Guys, whats the big deal?" Natsu asked.
"Natsu, I don't know how to tell you this, but..." Gray started.
"You're bad in the sack." Cana finished his sentence.
"Hahaha, four for you Glen Coco!" Lucy laughed to herself, this movie made her laugh every time. She reached over to grab another Cheez-It when she felt her phone vibrate. She looked down at who texted her, and felt her stomach flip.
The screen had a picture of Natsu with his shirt off, one she took while he wasn't paying attention. The name read "Hottie With A Body" which now she regretted setting it as. She opened her phone reluctantly and read the text.
"Just, hey? Really." She let out a fast breath. "The nerve." She said as she typed back viciously before sending her text. "Think you can just hey me, Natsu Dragneel?"
"No way!" Natsu defended.
"Its true." Cana shrugged.
"How would you even know! We've never slept together!"
"Girls talk." She shrugged.
"So?" Natsu asked.
"Natsu, you really are an idiot." Gray rubbed his eyes. "Nothing is a secret. Why do you think girls go to the bathroom in groups?" He asked.
"I don't know, they're afraid of trolls?" Natsu shrugged his shoulders.
"This isn't Harry Potter." Gray slapped the back of his head.
"Okay, okay." Natsu said, rubbing the spot. "So?"
"So girls talk... About everything." He said. "There are no boundaries. They talk about men, cats, careers, their periods, anything and everything that they can think of comes out. There is no filter."
"How do you know, huh?" Natsu asked.
"Who do you think has to clean the locker rooms by the pool?" Gray asked. "There aren't any women swim instructors, so its me." He clarified encase Natsu couldn't connect it. After all, it was a slow night for the boy.
"Well, say that was true. Is it really the end of the world?" Natsu asked, only to receive a chorus of laughs from the table. "I guess so." He sighed before drinking the last of his beer in one gulp swoop.
"Do you want pointers?" Cana asked, causing Natsu to blush instantly.
"T-that wont be necessary!" He waved his hands in front of him.
"Are you sure because Laxus has stories for days." Cana winked.
"N-no thank you." He said.
"Would you prefer vidoes?" Gray asked.
"Maybe books?" Erza suggested.
"Or comics, if you're into that." Mira winked.
"No, no, and no." Natsu said.
"Natsu, no one is just 'good' at sex." Gray sighed, comforting his friend.
"Speak for yourself." Laxus laughed, and Cana smirked.
"So you're telling me to go home and watch hours of porn." Natsu blinked.
"Basically." Gray said.
"Yes." Mira crossed her arms.
"Its the only way, really." Cana shrugged.
"I mean..." Natsu blushed. "Alright." He said as he stood up.
"Woah, woah!" Gray stopped him. "Right now?" He asked.
"When else?" The pinked haired boy crossed his arms. They were so for him studying the ways of coitus, yet they want him to stay.
"I mean, the party isn't over!"
"Juvia is passed out, the party is over." Natsu pointed out.
"He's right, we have to get her home." Erza said.
"And by home, we mean Gray's bed." Mira whispered.
"Im beat." Cana said.
"Yeah, lets go home." Laxus said as the two stood up.
"But!" Gray struggled to get the groups attention.
"We all have work tomorrow, Gray." Mira reminded him. "And Cana will have her magic anti-hangover mix for anyone who needs it." Mira said to everyone before looking at Juvia. "Although she may need the day off..."
"Maybe Gray too." Erza whispered, laughing.
"We cant make Gajeel cover the swim classes and the yoga classes." Mira sighed. "Although he would look hilarious teaching the pregnant class." Mira giggled.
"One day." Erza winked.
"One day." She agreed.
"Okay, so we have Laxus and Cana taking Natsu home." Mira checked the carpool arrangement to make sure everyone got home, determined not to make a mistake like last time and have someone wake up in the back of the bar. "Erza and Jellal have Gray, and Freed and I have Juvia." She checked.
"Got it." Laxus said as he climbed in his little black car, and sped away with Natsu in the back.
"I have to stop by the gym to grab my bag in the locker rooms, but after we'll meet you back at Gray's." Mira said to Erza.
"You got it." She smiled before climbing in her car.
"Why do you need your bag?" Freed asked as he closed the car door.
"Its important." She said. "Besides, I have a feeling I forgot something else important...
So, I thought i'd get away from the GaLe for a chapter, and write about Natsu a little. He's rekindling things with Lucy (kind of) but this is a start! Poor Natsu, I'm sorry xD It will all turn out. Plus theres a little sprinkle of Gruvia for all the good little girls and boys who asked. And some Laxana, Jerza, because I like to think that they all go out on little couple dates together. Thanks you for reading and favoriting and following my story! It means the world! Leave your thoughts down in the reviews! Till next time! ~Hana