Chapter 5 : Feelings

Friday

"I'll finish this quick and smooth. Team, play 'I am A Fool by Jung YongHwa', please. I'm gonna sing the english translations I made myself especially for today. Love~" The female students screamed and Natsu beat the drums lightly and Loke started.

"I must be like this because I'm a fool

It seems alright even when I'm hurt

Even when I'm teased about my pitiful love

Because I'm a fool beyond help

I was good to her because I wanted to be

I was happy with just that

If she smiles just once

I'm happy with that smile "

Gray couldn't help it but the meaning of the lyrics made him feel sad. The lyrics shows exactly his life now. He just hides his feelings inside, not wanting to affect the perfomance. That is the most king of thing he wanted to avoid.

"Thinking This girl doesn't have a person she likes'

I simply stay by her side like this

Because this is a love where I'm happy to be giving

I don't expect anything in return"

Yes. He don't expect anything in return. It's impossible for the woman he loves to return his love when all she does is getting herself away from him.

"A place from where I can reach her any time she holds out her hand

A place from where I can visit her any time she calls for me

I'll stay there without changing

Because I love her

Because she was the one I chose

Even the pain made me happy

If she looks back at me just once

I'm happy with that"

Gray looked down the stage and let his tears flow out without the others realizing. No one saw his face. Except for Loxar. She noticed some spot on the stage were wet in dots where Gray was standing. But he still had full control of his guitar.

Gray is crying...? She thought. She then listens the song too.

"Thinking "This girl doesn't have a person she likes"

I simply stay by her side like this

Because this is a love where I'm happy to be giving

I don't expect anything in return

A place from where I can reach her any time she holds out her hand

A place from where I can visit her any time she calls for me

I'll stay there without changing

Because I love her

Until someone else to watch over her in my place arrives

I'll stay by her side for the time being

Because this is a love where I'm just happy to gaze at her

I don't need anything in return

So that she can lean on me and rest any time

I'll always appear the same

Even if she leaves me without saying goodbye

I'll let her go saying thanks

Because I'm a fool."

Gray-sama must really like Ms. Scarlet. This song hurts. Juvia simply thought.

Loke finished. Girls came rushing to the stage and congratulate him. Juvia slowly walked to Gray and stand with her toes as her knees were brought to her chest and thus supporting her body as she looked up to Gray. Literally.

Gray hurriedly wiped his tears when he saw Juvia looking at him from below with a frown.

"Gray-sama?" She pouted.

"It's-It's nothing. Geez, don't appear like that. It's creepy." He took the microphone from Loke's hand and put it on the microphone stand. (Sorry. I don't know what it was called XD)

He was about to start singing when Juvia took away the microphone. Everyone then starts looking at her.

"Gray-sama, you can't sing like this." She firmly said, not realizing the microphone was close to her mouth.

The female audience started whispering with each other.

"What's with her?"

"Just because she plays along with Gray, is she controlling him?"

"Eww, what a sucker."

"Stalker."

Lisanna and her siblings grew uncomfortable with all these sayings. They began to scold the female students who said all those words and they started fighting. Unable to hold it anymore, Principal shouted for all the annoying students to shut the fuck up and they did just that. They change angry glances and Makarov screamed.

"Would you brats quiet down?!" His children looked down. "Juvia, let him sing."

Juvia was about to protest when Gray took the mike from her.

"Mind your own business, I'm fine as ever." The others were about to play their instruments but Gray stopped them. "I'm fine alone."

"What's with you, stripper? Are you getting all high and might just because you have talents in music and we don't?" Gajeel scowled angrily. Levy pulled him back.

"Stop it, Gajeel!" Levy shouted. The hall's doors opened violently as they smashed against the wall. Erza entered as the hall was quiet during her arrival.

"...This whole contest thingy is canceled." She stood in the middle of the hall, having everyone's attention on her. She then walks towards Principal Makarov and told him something that shocked him and made him begged at her feet. She bends down and hugged him, leaving him crying. The other teachers can only stare at them. The red haired walks out of the hall leaving the students wonder. Mirajane pat Makarov's head but his tears won't stop.

Mirajane asked the Principal what's going on and he told Mira that Erza was quitting her job due to some personnal problems. Makarov claimed that Erza was one of the best teachers in school. Mira then tries to persuade Makarov that maybe Erza think that was the best way to solve her problems.

Natsu heard the conversation and shouted, "ERZA CAN'T QUIT! SHE IS ONE OF THE MOST FUN TEACHERS I EVER HAD IN MY LIFE!"

Cana sweat dropped. "Natsu's distance hearing ability is astonishing."

"Ms. Scarlet is quitting? But why?" Lucy asked. "She can't quit. I'm having fun with these contests!"

"Who's gonna replace the disciplinary section then?" Levy wondered.

"You're worried about that?" Gajeel looks at her.

"If it isn't for Ms. Scarlet, you would still be the bad delinquent by now. She made a huge difference in your life, Gajeel." Not knowing what to say, he avoided from looking her eyes.

The principal coughed.

"Just now, I'm sure some of you saw a blue haired man with a young girl talking to me right? I am going to appoint him as the discipline teacher. He was one of my students back then, too."

Gray put his guitar inside the case and walked out from the hall. His fangirls gave a mean look at Juvia. The blue headed looked down. Lucy gave her a hug, giving her a sign it is not her fault. Juvia returned the hug.

"Would you girls stop that?!" Mirajane ordered. She lost her control this time. The girls showed fear and ran like a mouse was being chased by a cat.

"Juvia didn't mean to make him angry. S-she just saw him cry and tried to comfort him..." Lucy stroked her head gently, resting her chin on Juvia head.

"Gray? Why would he cry?" Natsu asked Juvia.

"Gray, he, *snivels* he likes-"

"Shh...Don't say anything, Juvia. Just calm yourself down." The blonde stroked the crying blue haired head, not minding her mucus stained her uniform.

A woman had witnessed the entire scene and went to her team.

"You're such a heartbreaker, Jellal." The woman said.

"Just what did I do?"

"Well, Erza quit being a teacher. Who knows where she is now?" Ultear said while playing with her nails.

"Why would she quit?" asked Jellal.

"As long as I know you Jellal, you aren't that stupid, you know?"

"It's because you told her you are married and have a child." Meredy interrupted. "Papa is evil."

Jellal's eyes widened not minding the 'papa' calling. He never figured it would be this way. After all, becoming a teacher when he returned back to his world was his plan to protect her. No one can predict when the evil power will will ascend. Shit. If only they managed to retrieve that journal...

Saturday

The next day worked as usual. Only, it's Saturday today so no school!

"Goodbye, Ur. I'm heading to my place now." Gray said as he sat down and wore his shoes. He picks up his guitar case and slings it over.

"Sure. Be careful. And don't forget your appointment with the doctor before you go, okay?" Ur came from the kitchen with her apron still on.

"I won't, Ur." He bends down a bit and kissed his foster mother on the forehead. With a heavy heart and a frown, Ur watches her foster son going to work in the local pub where students and tired hardworking (really?) people go. The pub was likely the main thing in the street and is quite popular for some celebrity usually went to spend their free time.

"I'm so worried about Gray." Ur was still standing in the doorway, Gray in her mind always. Someone came from the kitchen and put on her black high heels.

"I'm late now, mother. Going to work now." Ur reaches over and embraces her daughter.

"Ultear, be really careful when you're driving. If you see Gray not going to the hospital, make sure you force him to go okay? " Ultear opened the door and smiles to Ur before going.

"I will!"

The young woman took hold of the wheels, and drove off. On the way, however, she caught sight of this young man on his bicycles. The thing is, this young man was her foster brother who hates the smell of hospitals and always avoids the way to hospital. Ur would always accompany him for a checkup because he doesn't like it and she had always forced him. She sighs and murmured to herself how her mother was right. She slows down her car while keeping up her pace with the black haired teen.

"Need a lift?"

"I'll get my bicycle stolen." The latter replied and paddles faster.

"...Why aren't you going to the hospital? Mother is worried, you know." She talk back to him while speeding the car to catch up with him ignoring the car behind her. The driver horned Ultear and Ultear horned back.

"...You're gonna be late for work."

"The boss doesn't care if his employees are late or not. We still get the money." Seeing that Gray won't stop, the woman stopped her car and abducted Gray from his bicycle. He tried to attack her but he just can't hit the master of both karate and judo. She had him fainted and takes the bicycle to the car.

The driver behind Ultear saw the whole thing and was shocked. Did he just witness a live action kidnapping in front of him?

The sound of people talking woke him up. A tall green curtain was covering the outsides of it and he realized he is in the hospital. Ultear had brought him here. He covered his nose quickly and Ultear opens the curtain to see he was awake. She crossed her arms and smirked at him while she leans against the wall.

"You can go now if you want. The doctor is done with you." She flips her hair and walks away.

Gray rubbed at the back of his neck and made the sound, "Tch." Ultear turned back as if she remembered something, and told Gray to get his bicycle back from her car. After he did, his cell phone showed him he was very late for work. Let's just hope the pub owner, Daniel, won't cut his pay. Daniel is Ur's best friend and sometimes run errands for her. Truth to be told, he has a crush on her but was rejected when she told him she will not remarry as she still loves her husband even though he had died 3 years ago. Even so, he accepted it and remains friends with her. Soon, he met a nice lady in the pub and they started dating for a while and have now become his fiancée. His fiancée get along well with Ur and her children after sometime and often gossips about celebrity or talks about anything interesting.

Gray opens the rusty iron door and descended downstairs. A familiar voice greeted him as soon he enters the pub.

"Hello, Gray."

"Oh? Daniel's not here?" The lady served as a barmaid and had a clean cloth in her grasp. She was probably cleaning the counter while watching the guests and their funny dance and stopped to greet Gray.

"Hmm, no. He went to do something important. That's what he told me at least." She ended her sentence with a sigh, bored of waiting for his return. "Either way, you're late." She crossed arms.

"Ultear's been holding me up. " He replied and took a seat on one of the stools. Nobody had been seating in one those. He looks at the alcohols arranged neatly inside the glass cabinet one by one.

"You're still underage, my dear. It's not that long before you turn eighteen, isn't it?" She said with a sweet smile on her face. Her cyan flocks fall upon her face and she keeps blowing them off but they never go back in place. She later swept them over her head, irritated and rolled her light purple coloured eyes in annoyance with herself.

"It's not like that, Lyric. My father...He died because he was driving while drunk. In the end, accidents fall before him and he died. A foolish father isn't he?" Lyric looks at him in a worried expression and gave him a carbonated drink. Gray looks at her in confusion.

"I...heard about your father from Ur. Don't worry, the drink's on me." The black haired boy opened the Coke and drank it. The girls in the pub found him drinking and noticed he was the famous guitarist who never sings. They later screamed his name and Gray almost spurt his coke from his mouth.

"It's about time, Gray. I'll make Daniel raise your pay if you go nice-nice with the girls." Lyric winked. Gray turned to see the girls waving to him, blowing kisses to him.

"I don't have the mood to play guitar, now. See ya Lyric." He went upstairs and exits the pub. The girls looked at him with a sad expression and shrugged and went back to the dance floor.

Lyric face palmed. "Did I just make him feel upset? Oh, what shall I do now..."

The teenage couple entered the shop and picked a few things to buy.

"You gonna get anything?"

He asked as he opened the fridge to get a coke. The said girl shook her head. They walked outside the shop and Natsu opened his coke.

"Can I have a sip?"

Natsu looked at her with wide eyes. "WHAT DID I JUST ASK YOU INSIDE?"

The boy said as he points toward the shop they were recently in. What he didn't know was, his girlfriend was on of those PMS days now. With anger, she firmly grasped her handbag after giving him some sort of glare and snorted and then leaves Natsu who simply observe the peculiar behavior of hers.

"Fine, thank you then!"

Clueless, he said to himself, "Just what is wrong with her today?"

Lucy was quite pissed with his little actions earlier. On her way to wherever she stumbled upon Levy and chatted for a while. Natsu appeared behind her and pulled her ear causing her to shriek. She screamed madly at him and simply stormed off.

"Levy, she's been like that to me for a few days. What is wrong with her?" Natsu asked Lucy's best pal, Levy.

"Natsu," she began. "Lu-chan could be on her period."

"P-p-p-period? Oh my god I'm so slow! Here, take this. Toss it or drink it if you want!" He shouted like a mad man and gave Levy his coke. Levy, with the coke given from Natsu, just stared at the quarreling couple. The quarrel ended with a passionate kiss from Natsu but that makes Lucy kicked him in the groin. Sighing, she thought how come Natsu did not know Lucy is on her period for they have been together for three freaking years. They might have never done it before. After recalling what she had just thought, she went red instantly and was about to drink the coke when someone grabbed it from her.

"You can't drink this. It's not yours." The tall figure said and drinks the coke from the red tin.

Levy was surprised by the sudden appearance. "Gajeel!" She shrieked. "What is it this time?" Levy coldly asked, she had her arms crossed.

"I,uh, haven't said sorry about last time." He looks away and feel his ears heating up. Levy's eyes were locked on his, astonished with her eyebrows up as if she was waiting the apology from him. He looked away but Levy won't look away. More like staring. They stayed like that for a long time and Gajeel's face is becoming red.

Levy burst out laughing and walked away, leaving Gajeel in confusion and embarrassment.

"Oi you short shrimp! Don't laugh!" He walked to her. Levy calmed down and wiped the remaining tears of laughter at the corner of her eyes. Levy turned back and her face bump into his chest and backed a bit while touching her nose.

"You're too close." She said, while pushing Gajeel back from her. Gajeel gripped her hands as he bends down to her level and gave her a quick kiss on the mouth. He broke the kiss very soon and Levy was shocked. She became red as a cooked crab and covered her mouth. Gajeel kissed her! That metal punk student named Gajeel Redfox kissed her lips! She looked up and Gajeel was doing the same thing. Except that he looked away. Levy's ears became bright red when she saw Gajeel's ears.

Jet and Droy saw the whole thing. They were in the same shop where Natsu and Lucy went just now. They dropped everything they bought and the eggs crashed as they got out from the shop. The cashier beat their heads with a broom because they had wasted the food and money.

Levy slowly looked away with her hands still covering her mouth. Gajeel turned his back to her and walks.

"You coming or not?" He asks without looking at her. She then walks beside him and purposely hit his free hand with hers by walking as she swings both hands violently.

"You're hurting me." He told Levy.

"Really? Because I can't help it." She continued swinging her hands and hit Gajeel's.

"Well then, I'll have to hold your hand so you won't hit mine." He said and hold Levy's small delicate hand. Levy smiled with happiness and hold his hand tightly.

Droy cried in despair and spent the rest of his life in his room with food. Jet and the cashier became a couple by fate.

To you guys who have spent your precious time to write me a review, I love you all! Tell me how this chapter made you feel. Are you confused? Are you angry? Are you enjoying this? Tell me!