It was raining heavily that day. Thunders and Lightning boomed in the sky. In one of the tree hollow, they sat together, shivering and trembling.

The two had come to the forest to play when the whether took a turn of the worse and it became a heavy downpour.

Lucy was crying as she had her hands covering her ears to block the thunder but every time the thunder roared she visibly flinched and fresh tears filled her eyes.

"It's okay, Lucy" cheered the little Gray. Even though he too was afraid of the thunder, he kept his composure to give give the little girl some comfort. "I'm here with you. This thunder will be gone soon. And we can run a way home"

Lucy just nodded and hiccuped between her tears. Another loud boom, and the little blonde cried out loud, shaking in fear. Gray immediately rushed to her side and hugged tight, whispering positive words and nursery rhymes to stray her mind. They stayed like that for quite some time.

This incident made Lucy fear thunder and hate rainstorms. She would always close her windows, shut the lights and cover herself under the blanket. Seeing Lucy like this made Gray worry about her. And whenever possible he made sure not to leave her go through it alone. He swear on that day he will protect this fragile little girl his whole life.

It's been 17 years since the incident. Gray was walking by the school corridor and he stared outside the window. The sky was exactly like that rainstorm day. It looked like it would rain anytime. Gray sighed and increased his paced as he didn't want to be walking home when it would be pouring heavily.

He looked forward and saw Lucy carrying her piano notebook in her hand as she too stared at the sky. She turned her head and her eyes fell on Gray. Both didn't utter a word or anything. They just walked passed each other with a heavy heart and both knew the reason why.

She doesn't need you anymore the words echoed in his head as he recalled the reason for their current relationship.

It was during their cram school. The girls were outside playing where as the boys were in the classroom drawing doodles on the blackboard. Gray remembered one of boy called Lucy cute and how he really wanted to be friends with her. At that time he didn't know why he felt like that, but none the less he talked how stupid his friend's thought was! He bad mouthed Lucy and told his friends not to talk with a girl like her. Unknown to him, Lucy was just outside. Her eyes filled with tears and guilt hit Gray like a lightning. Before he could say anything, Lucy sprinted away from there and since then there has been a rift between. His childish ego came between and he never apologized for his poor behavior.

"Gray"

The said guy looked to his side, and saw Erza standing there with one hand over her hip and the other holding something that looked like headphones.

"Yo!" Gray greeted her and pointed at the cords.

"This belongs to Lucy. Hand it over to her please" she said and before he could refuse she placed them in his hands and walked off. He was about to say why can't she give it her herself, then he thought she would probably reply 'Since you're her neighbor duh!'

Gray sighed as he ran his other hand through his hair and looked up wondering what to do. He visibly flinched when suddenly there was a loud thunder boom outside and began to rain. Gray groaned and decided to stay at school for a while before leaving for home. In the meantime, he should probably look for Lucy and hand over her stuff back to her.

He has been standing outside the music room for quite some time contemplating whether to go in or not. Or how he should converse with him. There was another thunder and lights in the hallway flickered before going out. He wondered how long the lights would be gone out.

He gathered his courage and slide opened the door and no one was in sight. He called out and no response. Confused, he stepped in and closed the door behind him. The windows were shut and the sound of the rain on the glass echoed in the room. Carefully he walked towards the piano and placed the cords next to the book he saw Lucy holding in the hallway.

Suddenly there was another boom and he heard a loud shriek. This freaked him out and he looked around frantically.

"Lucy?" he called out, he placed his bag down and went towards the closet door and pulled open only to be greeted by brooms and dustpan. He scanned it up and down and around, and shook his head muttering, "Nope. Definitely not the kind of girl to hide in a closet"

'Maybe...' he thought as he approached the teachers desk ever so slowly and looked under it. And behold! There sat Lucy, her legs pulled against her chest her hands covering her ears. She was trembling and crying, just like that day.

"Lucy..." he called out softly, reaching out to touch her shoulder gently. She flinched and looked up, he pulled his hands back, afraid he had scared her. Her eyes were swimming with tears, she bit her lips to hold it back and to no avail.

"Gray" she whimpered out and stretched out her hands reaching for him. At the same, Gray kneeled down and hugged her trembling figure, and wrapped his hands tightly around her pulling her against his chest.

She clutched onto the back of his shirt holding it as dear as her life and cried out.

"Hush hush baby. It's okay" Gray whispered very softly in her ears, "I'm here for you. Don't worry"

She nodded and buried her head in the crook of his head. Gray pressed his lips on her ear to whisper to calm down and she jerked a little.

'Weak spot huh' he thought as he placed his lips below her ear, in order to distract her from the sound. And it worked.

Lucy's focus shifted from the outside rainstorm towards the warm lips of the raven head trailing down her neck.

He shifted ever so slightly as he continued he kiss his way down to her neck and slowly move towards her shoulder. His hands moved towards her necktie to loosen up and get more comfortable access to her shoulder.

"G-Gray!"

This caught him off guard and he pulled off. The poor girl was blushing so hard and she sat there flustered.

"I-I'm so sorry!" Gray apologized, 'Damn it! Self-control idiot!'

Lucy just nodded. She shifted and sat down, looking anywhere but him. Her face was still bright red.

"And I'm sorry for that time during the cram school" Gray started. Well it's better to apologize while he still can. This caught her attention and she turned to face him.

"I just got jealous over the fact that some other guy wanted to get closer to you!"

"It's okay!" she replied, smiling a little.

"What?" asked Gray a little surprised and confused. 'That's it? Like, they weren't on talking terms for the last 16-17 years and it's all resolved with just that?'

Lucy smiled at him and Gray thought 'Oh well! As long as it's resolved and everything's good'

"So…" asked Gray rubbing his hands to warm it up, "Shall we go home?"

Lucy nodded and wiped her stray tears before getting up.

"I better thank Erza tomorrow" Gray muttered as he got too, to get his bag.

"What?" Lucy asked.

Gray just smiled and shook his head saying. Lucy shrugged and went to pick her things. And they both head home together.

Well kinda in-a-rush ending!