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It was now 1 in the afternoon. Lucy had made it back to the hotel about half an hour ago. She was now laying in one of the beds in hers and Grays hotel room. Unfortunately for her the nap she was hoping to get wasn't coming so easily for her. After she changed and tried resting her eyes her thoughts went back to what had just occurred not to long ago. As she tossed and turned she couldn't help but feel a bit angry.
Even though she had no right to be angry at the raven haired male because to her knowledge he had no clue what was going on with her and her feelings towards Natsu and Lisanna she couldn't help it. Unbeknown to her that Gray was some what aware of what was going on.
"How could he not tell me?" Lucy huffed as she tossed once again and adjusted her pillow rather aggressively.
"This trip was supposed to be just the two of us. A weekend away from the guild and a weekend away from my problems." Lucy continued to grip as she laid on her stomach with her head resting on her arms. "How could he invite my problems on this trip?"
Letting out a frustrated sigh Lucy turned over onto her back "I guess I can't really blame Gray" she voiced "I know that if Gray knew then he wouldn't have invited them but I just can't tell him."
"Ugh!" Lucy said with an aggravated and confused breath as she placed her hands over her face "What am I going to do?"
Throwing her hands back down on the bed laying flat on her sides she continued ranting to herself "I can't just leave early because then they would know something is wrong and Gray went through all this trouble and spent all that money for this trip. But can I really continue like nothings wrong? I'm still not over my feelings for Natsu and seeing him and her here together is only making it harder and more painful for me to try."
"I thought that by coming on this trip and getting away from everything and everyone that maybe... just maybe I could..." she stopped herself mid-sentence not wanting to say it out loud. Turning over onto her side she looked out the window "But now" she continued "I just don't know."
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. "Lucy?" a familiar voice whispered from behind the door "Are you awake?"
Knowing that with everything that was floating threw her head that there was no way she was going to be able to get any kind of rest. Throwing the covers off of her Lucy got out of bed and opened the door.
"Is everything ok Lisanna?" Lucy asked "I thought you were out with looking around the resort with the guys?"
"I was but I just wanted to come by and make sure you were ok with mine and Natsu's intrusion."
"Uh yeah" Lucy said trying to sound convincing "I'm glad y'all came along."
"I'm glad" Lisanna said as she sat on the other bed casting glances to every single corner of the room. Lucy could tell there was something more she wanted to say but soon the room was filled with an awkward silence.
"So" Lisanna said cutting off the silence trying to make conversation before she got to the real reason why she was in Lucy and Grays room "This place is amazing."
"Yeah it is" Lucy answered back.
"Because all of this is making me a bit nervous." Lisanna stated causing Lucy to give her a confusing look.
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked.
"Well you see" Lisanna said with a gleam in her eye that went unnoticed by Lucy "I guess you could say that this trip is mine and Natsu's extended first date."
"Oh" was all Lucy could say. Truth of the matter was that Lisanna had over heard most of what Lucy had been ranting to herself about. Though most of it was difficult to hear with how low she would talk at certain times. Her main goal for this trip was to try and push Lucy onto Gray so she could have Natsu all for herself and maybe in time they could be more then friends.
"Yeah and well I was wondering..." Lucy could tell where that sentence was leading too and the last thing she wanted was to help the person who to her knowledge unknowingly stole her crush with dating advice.
"Uhhhh you know what Lisanna?" Lucy said cutting Lisanna off before she could finish her sentence "I bet the guys are probably wondering what's taking you so long so how about you head back to them and I'll meet up with you guys after I change."
"Oh ok" Lisanna said feeling a bit satisfied at the reaction she was getting from Lucy. So far everything was going according to plan. Now all she had to do was help nudge Gray and Lucy together and then she would have Natsu all to herself.
"Yeah so you head back and I'll meet you in a few." Lucy said practically trying to shove Lisanna out of her room.
"Ok well you can find us on the beach when ever you finish changing." Lisanna said at the doorway.
"The beach? Don't y'all need to drop off your luggage off in your hotel room?" Lucy asked.
"We already did" Lisanna explained "After we finished eating Lunch Natsu brought up the suggestion of going to the beach. So we walked back to our room and changed. I've got my swim suit on under my clothes."
"What about Gray? He never came back to the room?" Lucy asked curiously.
"Well Gray mentioned that he didn't want to wake you from your nap so I let him set his stuff down in my room until you woke up."
"Oh" Lucy said feeling a bit touched by his gesture. "Well you hurry up and change and we'll see you there." Lisanna said before she left Lucys room. Gray. It's in your hands now Lisanna thought to herself with a smirk.
Flashback
"Gray?" Lisanna called out "Where are you going?"
"I'm heading to my hotel room to drop my things off and change." Gray answered.
"You don't want to do that. Lucy's sleeping if you go in there now you run the risk of waking her up. Why don't you leave your things in my room for now and then after she wakes up you can put your stuff up." Lisanna offered.
"Yeah I guess you're right!" Gray said before he walked into Lisanna's room.
After Lisanna changed Gray walked into the bathroom to change into his swim trunks and a buttoned down white shirt.
"Gray!" Lisanna called out to the raven haired male who had just appeared from the restroom. "Can I talk to you for a minute?"
Lisanna knew that in order for her plans to work she had to help push things along and pretending to get the vibe that Gray had a crush on Lucy would do just that. Even though she knew for a fact that he had feelings for her since she had been walking home that night and witnessed what had occurred between the two. Since she hadn't wanted to be seen she hid in the shadows and witnessed their kiss first hand.
"Sure" Gray said as he took a seat in one of the chairs in her room. "What's up?"
"I just wanted to ask what your opinion of Lucy was?" Lisanna asked casually.
Suddenly Gray felt his heart skip a beat. "What do you mean? Lucy's my friend and teammate."
"I don't mean like that! What I mean is do you ever think of her as more then your friend?"
Gray's heart started to race. There's now way she could know Gray thought "She's my friend Lisanna. That's all."
"Oh come on Gray." Lisanna said tired of playing the run around. "I know you like her. It's so obvious." Lisanna said trying to hide the huge grin that was trying to make its way onto her features as she watched Grays orbs widen.
It was then at that moment that Gray had become totally and utterly speechless. Even though he tried so hard to hide his feelings for the blonde he had been found out.
"I take it by your silence that I'm right. Right?" Lisanna said sounding a bit smug. "So the question now is... what are you going to do about it?"
"I wasn't going to do anything." Gray answered. The truth was that Gray had planned something but had been debating whether or not he was actually going to go through with it.
"You've gotta be kidding me" Lisanna said as she rolled her eyes "Gray if you like her you should tell her or better yet show her."
"And how am I supposed to do that?" Gray asked in a mocking tone.
"Well..." Lisanna paused placing her finger gently to her chin and glancing up at the ceiling thinking of ideas "Seeing as we are on a this trip you should try and spend as much alone time with her as possible. I don't know exactly how you go about charming a girl but do whatever you have to and work your magic on her."
"Why do you care so much?" Gray asked curiously.
Because I want Natsu for myself. That's why. Lisanna put a smile on her face and said sweetly "Because she's my friend and I want her to be happy." As long as it's not with Natsu
"I'll try" Gray said. I think the plan I had in mind might just do the trick.
"Great!" Lisanna said not able to contain the grin she had been holding back. Natsu will be all mine soon enough.
"Come on guys" Natsu said busting through the door "Hurry up and let's go to the beach."
"Calm down ash brain" Gray said in a harsh and insulting tone towards the dragon slayer.
"What'd you say ya damn stripper!" Natsu's tone now angry as he gripped Grays shirt.
"You heard me flame breath" Gray argued gripping Natsus scarf and aggressively butting their heads together.
"Come on guys" Lisanna said as she walked between the two cutting off their argument. "Let's go and Gray" she looked in Gray's direction "think about what I said."
After they left the room they started walking down the hallway when suddenly Lisanna stopped suddenly as a thought came to her. "You know what guys. I just remembered there's something I need to do. You two go ahead and I'll be right there."
"Would you like us to come with you?" Natsu asked.
"No it's ok" Lisanna said with a smile "It shouldn't take me to long." With that Lisanna ran the other direction down the hallway.
"That was odd!" Gray pointed out. "You said it!" Natsu agreed as they continued down the hallway in the direction of the beach.
End Flashback
"Hey guys!" Lucy said with a smile as she stood before her friends on the beach wearing her white two piece bikini with the pink flowers on it.
"Finally decided to join us, huh Luce?" Natsu with a smile.
"Yeah! I couldn't get get much sleep and after Lisanna dropped by I got changed and came down to find you."
"So that's where you went off to?" Natsu asked looking over to Lisanna.
"It just wasn't the same without Lucy. So I went to see if she was awake and wanted to join us." Lisanna answered. "Well now that we are all here what should we do?"
"Well I've been dying to go wake surfing again" Lucy suggested.
Immediately Natsus thoughts were flooded with memories of him and Lucy on their last visit to the resort and he had suggested he and Lucy go wake surfing and as soon as the boat moved he was laying flat on his stomach begging to get off while holding on for dear life.
"H-How about we play a game of beach volley ball instead" Natsu suggested trying to avoid getting motion sick.
"I-I don't kn-"
"That sounds like a great idea" Lisanna said interrupting Lucy mid protest.
"W-Wait a m-"
"Great" Natsu said pumped up "So how should we pair up? Boys vs Girls or Boy Girl vs. Boy Girl?"
"How about we do Gray" Lisanna said drawing out the ice mages name as she looked over to him with a smirk and winked "and Lucy vs Natsu and I."
"W-Wait a minute!" Lucy said a bit louder "Are you sure you wanna play Lisanna?" that question caused Lisanna to give the blonde a confused stare. "Lisanna you might want to rethink what you just suggested." Lucy said in a lower tone "You don't know how serious these guys can get. Once we went to a spa and the next thing I know the pillow fight from hell was happening."
"Come on Lucy" Lisanna said with a chuckle "that's crazy."
As Lisanna walked away Gray came up next to the still nervous blonde "It shouldn't be to bad" he said reassuring Lucy as he gently placed his hand on the middle of her back guiding her to the net where Natsu and Lisanna were standing.
"If you say so." Lucy said still not convinced.
After the volleyball game
"I told you playing with these Neanderthals was a bad idea." Lucy said standing next to Lisanna.
"It wasn't so bad" the young white haired mage said with a smile.
What game were you watching? Lucy thought as she stared at the deranged strauss sister.
The volleyball game started as a friendly one. That is until Natsu sent a serve full force towards Lucy. Not wanting to re-live the pillow fight incident Lucy had moved out of the way. Not wanting to lose Gray dove in and served the ball back over the net. The boys got so into the game that they were now serving the ball with full force leaving the originally idea of it being two against two had turned into Gray vs Natsu.
"What do you mean you flame brained idiot?" Gray yelled "I won the game."
"You stupid Ice freak. I won" Natsu argued back.
All the girls could do was watch as Natsu and Gray argued over who won.
It wasn't until half an hour later that after an exchange of fists, fire and ice magic was the argument concluded with both sides struggling to stand.
"Now that y'all are done can we go get changed?" Lucy asked impatiently "It's getting late and I'm starving."
"How about we go eat at the casino and then play some of the games?" Lisanna suggested.
"Sounds great!" Natsu said with a grin. "I can play that game again. Last time it didn't give me my number but this time I know it will."
"And if it doesn't you can always cry about it again!" Gray mocked as he wiped the sand off of his chest remembering Natsu's reaction from their last trip.
"I couldn't help it." Natsu defended "It acted like it was gonna give me my number and then changed at the last minute."
"Don't be such a sore loser Natsu." Gray said.
Just as Natsu opened his mouth to rebuttal Lisanna interrupted him "So what'da say? Shall we go?"
"I think I'm just gonna head back to the room, take a hot shower and order room service." Lucy explained.
"What?" Natsu said sounding a bit disappointed "Why?"
"I wanna wash all of this sand off of me plus ordering room service will give me some time to relax. I can join you at the casino later."
"We could all hang out and eat in Lucy and old drupe eyes room" Natsu suggested.
"How about we all head to our rooms, unpack, shower and meet up at the casino in an hour." Gray insisted.
Before Natsu could argue Lisanna hastily chimed in, "That's a great idea Gray. So Natsu and I will head to our rooms and we'll meet you guys later."
As Lisanna grabbed hold of Natsu's arm she hurried off with him towards the hotel. The whole point of their coming along on the trip was to keep Natsu away from Lucy as much as possible while pushing Gray and Lucy closer.
"Well that was odd" Lucy said to Gray as they walked a good distance behind Lisanna and Natsu.
"Yeah." Was the only thing Gray could say. The rest of the walk to the hotel was awkward and silent.
In Lucy and Gray's hotel room
"So do you want to shower first or should I?" Lucy asked as she gathered a change of clothes and a towel.
"I just got into bed so you can go ahead." Gray insisted.
"Alright" she agreed unaware that Gray was watching her from the corner of his eye.
After a moment of silence Gray finally spoke up, "Hey Luce?" His words stopped her mid-step on the way to the bathroom. She didn't say a word as she looked at him but Gray continued "I just wanted to say I'm so-"
"Gray stop!" Lucy interrupted as she set her things on the dresser and taking a seat at the edge of Grays bed "You don't have to apologize."
"I want to explain my reasons for why I didn't tell you so please just let me" Gray said in a serious tone. Lucy sat in silence only nodding her head as a answer to Gray. "Luce the reason why I didn't tell you about Lisanna and Natsu joining us on our trip is because I was afraid that if you knew then you might have changed your mind about coming."
"But why would I mind?" Lucy asked "There our friends."
"Yeah I know they are our friends but..." Gray paused for a minute trying to find the right way to say it without letting her know that he kind of knew her current feelings towards the duo "I don't know lately I've kind of been getting this feeling that you're angry at them for some reason. I might be wrong but that's just what it's seemed like."
For a split second Lucy's eyes were wide in shock at what she had just heard. Could he really tell? But I was so careful on hiding my feelings. No there's no way he could know.
"Lucy?" Gray said a bit concerned
"Listen Gray" she said "If you had told me that the two of them would be joining us I wouldn't have changed my mind about coming on this trip. I'm not angry at either of them and I'm not mad at you for not telling me. I'm sorry if I made it seem that way. I don't know what I could have done that made you feel that way but I'm not angry in the least. Besides, how could I be mad at you when you went through all this trouble to set all this up. Gray you mean more to me then you know. You are one of my closest friends. But if you still feel the need to apologize" Lucy said jokingly as she got up off the bed "why don't you order us some lunch while I go take a bath. I'm starving."
In response Gray flashed her a smirk as he nodded his head and picked up the phone for room service. You already know my feelings for you Luce. Gray thought as he waited to talk to one of the kitchen staff Hopefully by the end up this trip you and I will be more then just friends.
I'm sorry for the delay on this chapter. I kept getting stuck on certain parts and I don't know but I feel like I could have written Gray and Lucy's conversation a bit better. I'm fine with what I wrote but If I come up with something better I'll change it.
So what do you guys think of the new chapter?