Disclaimer: Are Lucy and Gray a couple? No? Then I don't own Fairy Tail.
I hope this makes up for it.
Gray had to admit that he was way too involved with Lucy.
He hasn't even had a nightmare that night, but he was still heading over to her house.
He was just messing with his feelings.
Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.
Seeing that the light was on, and thinking that Lucy would be expecting him, Gray just walked right into her house (as usual).
When he walked in, a bra hit him in the face.
"Kya! Intruder!" Lucy screamed.
"Baka!" Gray said, "It's me, your friend, the one that comes over to talk nightmares with you!"
"Oh," Lucy reddened.
Gray then glanced at the item she had thrown at him, "You threw your bra at me?" He raised an eyebrow.
Lucy was now a shade of red that rivaled Erza's hair. "It was in my hand, and I had to throw something at the person barging into my house!"
Gray grinned, then tossed the bra back at her. "Why weren't you expecting me?" he asked, "And why are you sorting laundry?"
"Oh... Well, um, you said that you weren't having any nightmares lately, yesterday at the guild. I couldn't sleep, so I decided instead of waiting for you I would do something that needed doing: sorting my laundry so I can wash it." Lucy answered, incredibly flustered.
"I haven't had a single bad dream in almost a month." Gray admitted.
"Nani?" said Lucy, bewildered, "Then why do you keep coming?"
"Just because I slept better doesn't mean I don't miss you. I reliably wake up at the same time, every night, really wanting to talk to you." Gray explained.
"Oh, I'm flattered," Lucy said, "I always want to see you too."
"I guess that means we're really good friends!" Gray smiled.
"Right," Lucy said disappointedly, "Friends, that's all."
"You don't like me or anything, do you?" Gray asked, hoping she said yes.
"Um..." Lucy said.
"'Cause if you do, I like you too." Gray smirked at her.
"As friends?" Lucy inquired.
"That's up to you." Gray told her.
"You're confusing!" Lucy complained. "I don't know what I'm supposed to say!"
"It doesn't matter," Gray said, "Whatever you want, I'm good with. Besides," he teased, "You have excellent taste in bras." He gestured to to the undergarment still in her hand.
Lucy rolled her eyes, and smacked Gray, "Can we think about it? I have no idea if things would ever actually you know, work between us. I mean, Juvia would probably kill me if we started going out."
"Ow! That hurt!" Gray said irritably, "But you might be right. I think Loke and just about every other guy in the guild would be jealous enough to beat me up."
"Deal?" Lucy asked.
Deal." Gray agreed.
They shook on it, then just sat there a while. (Neither person had let go of the others hand.)
"I think I love you." Lucy told Gray.
"You do?" Gray asked.
Lucy sighed discontentedly. "Really? That's how you're going to reply to that?" she said.
"Oh... uh... I think I love you too?" Gray fumbled.
Lucy hugged him, "That's better," she whispered.
"Can I have a kiss goodnight?" Gray pleaded.
"Hm... I don't see why not." she said, and kissed him on the cheek.
"That's not quite what I meant." Gray said, annoyed.
"I know," Lucy said.
"I guess I'll have to get that kiss myself." he grinned.
"Hm... You sure?" Lucy smiled mischievously.
"Yep!" Gray said confidently, "I'm going to get that kiss."
Lucy beat him to it, giving him a quick peck on the lips.
"That's better," Gray said, echoing Lucy's previous words."
"You're welcome." she smiled.
"You'll be thinking about it, right?" Gray asked.
"Yeah," Lucy said, "But I'm pretty sure I've already decided."
"Tell me soon, 'kay?" Gray said.
"Don't worry, I will," Lucy said, then changed the subject, "We should get some sleep."
"Do I have to go home?" Gray said, staring at Lucy with his best adorable puppy look.
"No..." Lucy replied, "But you have to sleep on the couch, or the floor. You are not sleeping in the bed with me. Yet."
Gray smiled at wonderful, predicable Lucy, "Of course I'm not sleeping in the same bed as you! We're not even dating... as of now." He couldn't help thinking about how Lucy had added "yet" to her sentence.
"Yeah, well, that hasn't stopped Natsu." Lucy explained.
"Right..." Gray said, filled with jealousy.
They turned out the lights and crawled into their separate sleeping areas.
"Goodnight Lucy." Gray said.
"'Night." Lucy replied, "And Gray..."
"Yeah?" he asked.
"Sweet dreams."
"You too. And Lucy..."
"What?"
"I don't think I love you. I know I love you." Gray confessed.
"I hope you're right." Lucy said.
THE END (for now)
Yeah, I know this doesn't make any sense, but this just went in a totally different direction then I was planning.
This story is moving way more quickly than I planned. I'm sorry.