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-The Next Day (Gray's POV)-

"Gray! Hurry up or you'll be late for school!" yells my mom. I drag myself out of bed and head downstairs. When I get down, Ultear starts giggling.

"What's so funny?!" I ask her.

"Look down!" Ul giggles. I look down to see that I'm only in my boxer shorts again.

I run back up to put some clothes on. As I put on some clothes, I notice Natsu's scarf lying on the floor. I dust it off and wind it around my neck.

My mom raises an eyebrow when she sees me wearing the scarf, but ushers me out the door anyway.

-2 periods into the school day-

"Science was so boring today," says Wendy to me as we leave the classroom. "I think that Mr. Fernandez was daydreaming about someone the whole time." She giggles.

"Yeah, I guess," I say. Wendy notices my downcast mood and looks at me worriedly.

"Are you okay?" she asks, touching my shoulder.

"Yeah," I reply. In reality, though, I am thinking about how Natsu and Harper are doing.

-Lunch-

"Hey, can I sit with you?" asks Wendy. I nod and take a bite of my cafeteria food. Yucky as always.

The small bluenette sits down next to me and begins eating her sandwich. Just then Laxus walks up to the table and starts talking.

"Marvel," he says to Wendy. "Wanna date?"

What's wrong with that guy?

"No," Wendy says. "I really don't like you." I suck in a breath. Usually when people say that to Laxus, he or one of his cronies beats the poor person up.

"Then you must be dating this fellow sitting next to you," says another person, Laxus' green-haired friend Fried. He has a habit of popping up in random places and scaring the shit out of people. The nice thing about him is he really doesn't like fighting people, so he's a bit of a peacemaker.

I open my mouth and say in my defense, "We're actually not-", and am interrupted by another one of Laxus' friends popping up behind Fried, Evergreem, saying,"If you're dating, then kiss."

Wendy turns a crimson color, and I feel my face heating up.

"Do it or I'll kick your asses all the way to the roof," says Laxus.

I mumble, "Sorry, Wendy," and give her a quick peck on the lips. She turns pink, and Laxus' group leaves.

"That was weird," Wendy says. I give her a nod of agreement.

-After school-

"Gray, what in the living daylights has happened to you?!" my mom yells when I get home.

"Umm...Apparently, Gajeel thought I was trying to beat up Levy, so he beat me up."

My mom just grumbles and hands me a bandage to cover the big red welt on my forehead. I place the bandage on and check the time. 3:45 pm.

"Um, mom," I say. My mom turns to look at me. "I have to go to the park now."

"Fine," my mom grumbles again. "Just be back by 4:45 at the latest."

"Thank you mom!" I yell, and run out the door. I am still wearing Natsu's weird tiled scarf. As I run, the muffler falls off twice and I have to stop and pick it up.

-Park-

"Oh! Loke, I'm over here!" I shout, waving my arms. Loke sees me and walks toward me, Mavis in tow. She's quite cute, once you get a good look at her.

"Hello, Mavis," I say to her.

"Hello, Gray," she says. "You said that you got a note that told us to come here?"

"Yeah, I did," I reply. We go head over to a bench and sit on it. Loke leaves with a little wave.

Mavis and I start chatting about who might have sent the message, until a harsh-sounding voice interrupts us.

"You two, go over there!" the person yells. "Clean the bench those two are sitting on!" Then two people come toward us.

"Gray! Mavis!" one of those people shouts, and I see Harper running toward us, holding a cleaning rag.

"Hi, Harper!" says Mavis, and the two girls exchange a quick hug. I notice Harper and the person that is taking a longer time to get to the bench are both wearing drab tan clothes, so the only color they have on them is their hair.

Harper scrubs the bench while talking to Mavis. When the other person gets to the bench, I notice the person is Natsu. His eyes light up when he sees me.

"Hi, Gray," he says. Then he pulls me into a hug, and I hug him back. "How's life?"

"Nothing new," I say as Natsu attempts to hack a piece of gum off the bench. "Laxus forced me to kiss Wendy."

"Hm," Natsu says. "That's a very Laxus thing to do." He succeeds in scraping the gum off the bench.

"No, Evergreen suggested it."

Natsu shrugs. He then moves to a bird poop stain.

"So, how's your life?" I ask Natsu.

He makes a face. "Well, Harper and I share a cell with these two people called Midnight and Angel, and Midnight thinks it's his job to kick me. Harper and I only get one hour out of the cell, and the food's awful."

"Ouch," I say. Natsu continues speaking as he wipes up the bird poo:
"Also they took away our other clothes and make us clean ourselves up (someone stole my shoes, look, no shoes), so my hair's back to normal. And these clotes gave me a rug-burn when Midnight kicked me."

I wince. "Here's your muffler," I say, unwinding it from my neck handing Natsu the scarf. He smiles and quickly wraps it around his neck. Harper sees and smiles at her older brother. Her blue hair is in tangles.

"Thank you, Gray," he says. "Oh, wait, I need to tell you something."

"What is it?" I ask. In response, Natsu hurriedly cleans up the bird poo, sets down the rag, grabs my wrist and drags me behind the bench, where a small cluster of trees are. The police officer just watches us.

We end up at the base of one of the larger trees on the edge of the forest part. The police officer still stares at us.

"Listen, Gray," Natsu says, still holding my wrist. "I was accused of being a serial killer that killed Harper's family, and the trial's tomorrow. If they call me guilty, I might..."

His eyes tear up. I wrap him in a hug, despite my eyes are tearing up too.

"This might be the last time we see each other," says Natsu, and pulls me into a kiss. I comply and kiss him back.

It seems like the kiss lasted five minutes, but it only is thirty seconds. I pull away from Natsu and quickly check my watch: 4:24 pm.

"Umm, I think I should hurry back now," I tell Natsu. "I'm supposed to be at home by 4:45."

He nods. I pull him into a quick hug and pat his spiky pink hair. "I love you, okay?"

"Okay," Natsu says. "Goodbye, Gray."

I turn and run all the way home, so they couldn't tell my sweat from my tears.