"You hooking up with Erza."
"Oh, J – Jellal!" Jellal, dressed in a black baseball top, jeans and a black jacket, turned around to see Erza, nearly falling over in shock.
The stiff and strict Student Council Officer was gone. Wearing a light pink dress, dark pink sandals, a golden necklace, multiple bangles and a cream coloured side-strap bag, no-one would ever guess who she was.
"Why am I even doing this?" Jellal groaned, face flaming, drifting back to the previous day.
Jellal spat his drink out entirely, Lucy standing away just in time, hearing his water splat all over the door and the floor.
"What?" he asked incredulously, banging his hands on the table and standing up.
"You heard me," Lucy smirked, twirling her hair.
"H–how are you going to do t–that?" Jellal blurted out.
Lucy showed him the amusement park tickets.
"With these."
"N – no way!" he yelled, his expression turning from slightly angry to shocked and confused.
"Come on, you little wuss."
"No!" Jellal yelled again, slumping down back to his chair.
"Why not?" Lucy used the two tickets as a fan, stepping away from the mess Jellal just made.
"B – because…" he racked his head thinking of an excuse. "Because I'm wasting your money!"
"Nice excuse, but too bad, I got these for free," Lucy smirked, banging the tickets on his table.
"Go. I know you want to. Just invite the others. I'm sure they'll approve of it," Lucy shrugged, walking towards the door.
"W – wait!"
"Hm?" Lucy turned around just before she was about to close the door.
"Don't worry, I'll be watching you. The tickets expire in two days. You better hurry."
"B – but-"
Lucy left before he had a chance to say anything, banging his head onto the table.
Only one thought lingered is his mind. "….Should I?"
And there it was. Lucy had basically forced him to do this, and he hadn't found any clues of her around.
"Where are the others?" Erza asked, looking around. Jellal pointed towards the roller coaster where Lisanna, Levy, Natsu and Gajeel were practically screaming their heads off.
"Oh," she chuckled slightly.
"This side of Erza…I wouldn't mind," Jellal thought.
"So, where do you want to go?" Erza walked forward, her sandals clicking, scarlet hair swishing.
"How about…there?" Jellal smirked while pointing towards a fancy fish restaurant.
"I'm getting kind of hun- GRRRRRR." Jellal blushed as he rubbed his groaning stomach, Erza letting out a small chuckle. She stepped forward, linking her arm with his, making both of them blush equally.
-X-
"Do we seriously have to follow them?" Gray asked, running a hand through his hair in annoyance.
"It's not like I asked you to follow me, you dimwit," Lucy retorted, sighing when she saw Jellal and Erza walk into a restaurant, not bothering to look at which one.
"I can't believe I dressed up for this…" Lucy mumbled to herself, though loud enough so Gray could hear.
Actually, Gray thought she was dressed up pretty….cutely. She was wearing a plain denim blue dress, a brown belt hanging around her waist with brown ankle lace-up boots with studs, diamond shaped earrings and a heart necklace. Her hair was down, as always.
Gray, on the other hand, was wearing a plain maroon cuffed top, denim blue skinny jeans and teal vans. They both were wearing the same shade of denim, and it kinda looked like they were a couple. Gray almost blushed thinking about it.
"Well, while we're here, why don't we go….over there?" Gray pointed towards a Horror House and smirked, glancing at Lucy.
"Oh, want me to hold your hand, little Gray? I bet you're scared," Lucy flashed him a similar smirk, making him scowl.
"Hmph. You're the girl. I bet you're going to be clinging to me," Gray mused, stuffing his hands in his pockets and walking towards the Horror House.
"Fine then. Challenge accepted." Lucy strided in front of him, the two having a little competition to see who could get there the fastest.
"Ah, are you two a couple? How cute!" the brown haired zombie receptionist pouted. Lucy noticed Gray staring at her up and down, especially at her exposed chest. Lucy scoffed at this, and tapped her foot.
"A couple? No wa," Lucy grinned, poking her tongue out at Gray.
"Owch," Gray winced internally. "Wait… why did I wince?"
"Anyways, welcome to our Haunted House! Please have fun!" The receptionist smiled and pointed towards the dark cellar door near her.
"How about it? You cowering in fear yet?" Lucy smirked in the dark, looking behind her to glance at Gray.
"N – not really.."
"Oooh, you stuttered."
"S – Shut up!"
"RAHHH!"
"Ew," Lucy lolled her tongue out at the cardboard cutout of a mummy, staring at all the cobwebs and the creepy dark shadows around her.
"Why am I even doing this? What happened to revenge?" Lucy thought to herself, shaking her head.
"Oi, watch out! That's a-"
Lucy eyes widened and she screamed as she fell straight into a hole.
"Are you alright? What's down there?"
"Kyahhh! Humann bones!" Lucy screamed again, trying to get out of the hole. Gray looked around frantically, looking for a stick or a rope – anything would do!
"Grab my hand!" He leaned down and offered his hand to Lucy, who quickly jumped up to grab it.
"Hurry!" she barked at him, half angry, half scared. His used both his hands to slowly drag her out of the deep and dark pit. The two collapsed, Lucy falling on top of Gray, tears threatening to fall down her eyes.
"Oi…Don't tell me you're scared of dark pits?" Gray asked Lucy cautiously. She suddenly turned red and scampered off him, standing up and hands on hips, facing away.
"No, no. Of course I'm, not." Lucy said out loud, as if she were convincing herself as well.
"Well, you obviously are! You were shaking like a leaf!"
Lucy shot him a glare and walked in front of him, scoffing.
"O – oi! Where are you going?" Gray called out to her, brushing the dirt off his clothes. He then stared at the beam of light, which was probably from the end of the horror house. "She still remembers that time, huh…" Gray mumbled to himself.
"No! Let me out!" Lucy screamed over again, banging from inside the wooden well bucket.
"No can do," Gray smirked, grabbing hold of the handle.
"Let me out!" Lucy screamed, but to no avail. The lid was firmly held shut with rocks, her small body curled into a ball inside a wooden bucket hovering over a well.
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Lucy wailed as she was pushed down lower and lower into the well.
"Someone help me! Help me! Save me!" She banged on the sides of the bucket so loudly her hands bruised, some f her wounds starting to bleed. But that didn't matter. All she needed to do was to get out. That was the only thought rushing through her mind at that time.
"See you in an hour," Gray waved to the bucket, hands in pockets, and walked off.
"Please! Someone help me! Please…." Lucy wailed, sobbing to herself.
In the end, a teacher had found Lucy and let her out, but Lucy was too afraid to tell anybody who was the culprit – she was too scared that Gray would torture her again.
Gray ruffled his hair and exhaled loudly, deeply regretting all the times he had bullied Lucy. She was his stress ball back then – a stress ball for all the anger and sadness inside him from his father leaving the family. All those smashed up feelings were then vented onto Lucy every single day, which then lead to worse situations. In the end, she had fled, and Gray knew that. He knew he had gone too far.
"I guess forgive and forget isn't going to work in the situation, huh?"
"I can't…I can't take it anymore!"
"Oh come on! Just one more round!"
"No! I'm gonna hurl!" Jellal held his mouth and gagged, glancing at the overly excited Erza pointing towards what he thought would be the umpteenth ride the couple had ridden on that day.
"No…..more….." Jellal gasped out, collapsing on a bench, making Erza pout.
"Not even one?" She held up her forefinger with a happy look on her face.
"Not even one," he breathed out, trying to get his breathing back to normal. Right now, he sounded like a fish out of water with all that gasping.
"But I'm not tired yet!" Erza complained, sitting next to him, her sandals scraping the slab of concrete.
"Ice cream! Ice cream! Come and get your ice cream!" A stall manager yelled out, catching Erza's attention.
"I'll go get us some ice-cream! Chocolate chip flavour, right?" Erza grinned at him, starting to stand up.
"How did you…No way, from last year's school festival?" Jellal asked, shocked. Erza winked at him and skipped off to get some ice-cream. There was no way she remembered his favourite ice cream flavour all the way from last year! Erza's class had a dessert café, and of course, Jellal had visited, and asked for chocolate chip ice cream.
"I'm back! Here's your ice-cream," Erza placed a chocolate chip flavoured ice cream in Jellal's hand and he accepted it, eating it slowly."
"Ah, you like strawberry flavour?" Jellal glanced towards Erza's ice-cream and she nodded happily, gulping the ice-cream down in an instant. Unknown to her, there was a bit of ice-cream stuck around her mouth. Jellal bit his lip and turned away, trying to resist the urge to kiss her right there and then.
"Jellal? What's wrong?" Erza asked worriedly, tugging on his shirt. He took a quick peek at her but regretted it immediately as he saw her squishing against his arm, looking up at him. "That damned piece of ice-cream!" Jellal cursed in his head. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't resist any longer.
He put his ice-cream down and cupped Erza's face with his right hand, swooping down and capturing her lips in a quick and sweet kiss. She responded by kissing him back, her left hand cupping his right cheek. They slowly pulled apart and Jellal smiled softly at Erza.
"Erza…I love you. Will you be my girlfriend?" Jellal brought the two up until they were standing and he kissed her hand.
"Y….Y – yes!" Erza pounced onto him, wrapping her arms around his neck. Jellal chuckled and gave her another kiss, his arms circling her waist.
"Mommy, what are those two doing?" The two suddenly pulled apart, blushing furiously. "Oh my," the kid's mother called out, giggling. "I'm sorry for disturbing you two!" She briskly walked past with her child, whispering to him. The two waited until the mother and her kid walked away, the sound brisk footsteps fading behind them, turned towards each other and laughed out loud.
"I guess could go on one more ride," Jellal intertwined his hand with Erza's making her go red in the cheeks.
"Oh yeah? I'm gonna pick the scariest ride ever!" She grinned, walking with him.
"Fine then. But if I don't puke then I get a prize."
"What prize?"
"A kiss." Jellal gave her a kiss on the forehead and she swat his face away, the blush returning to her cheeks.
"Fine then. It's a deal."
-X-
"Oi Lucy, wait up!" Gray panted heavily and ran towards Lucy, who was running away from him.
"Go away, idiot!" She yelled back, glaring at him in frustration.
"I – I'm sorry Lucy!"
"Sorry's just a wo- Oof!" Lucy suddenly fell back as she bumped into someone.
"Oh, it's Lucy! Are you okay?" Lucy rubbed her sore back and looked up to the person towering over her, spotting familiar pink hair.
"Ugh, it's Pinky," Lucy drawled in disgust, but grabbing the hand he was offering to her anyways.
"What's wrong? You're crying," Natsu said as he brushed her eyes.
"Wha – I'm not crying! Don't touch me," Lucy huffed as she pushed his hands away.
"Oh, it's you guys." Lucy looked behind and saw Lisanna, Levy and Gajeel.
"Lucy!" Gray panted, finally reaching the group of people. Lucy turned to look at Gray, crossed her arms and looked away. She flinched when she felt Natsu's arms circling around her shoulders.
"What are you doing? Get your arms off me," Lucy hissed in Natsu's ears, but he didn't listen.
"Are you making Lucy cry? You're such a nasty person, Gray," Natsu smirked at Gray, who eyed him carefully. Levy glanced sideways towards Lisanna, frowning as she saw Lisanna look down and shuffle her feet around.
"Let go of me!" Lucy yelled at Natsu, throwing his arms off her.
"Sorry, my bad. Just wanted to protect you, princess." Natsu held his hands up in mercy and smirked at Gray again.
"Lucy, I –"
"Just shut up," she replied, annoyed. "Well, it looks Jellal and Erza all lovey-dovey together over there. My job here is done. Farewell." Lucy turned around to go but Natsu grabbed her arm and pulled her back.
"What now?" She asked him, turning her face around. What happened next gained shocked faces on everybody standing around them – Natsu had closed his eyes and pressed his lips against Lucy's as she turned her head around to talk to him.
"N –N–Natsu!" Lisanna stuttered, stepping back.
"Oh my," Levy gasped as she cupped her face.
"Gihi. Making a move on her already?" Gajeel cackled.
"Wh…." Gray was too shocked to say anything at all. He could only watch as Natsu kissed Lucy right in front of his eyes. Lucy squirmed from his grasp and pushed Natsu away.
"What was that for?" She asked him, hands on hips, tapping her foot impatiently.
"Just expressing my feelings," Natsu smirked at her, licking his lips, making Lucy roll her eyes.
"Whatever. Bye-bye." She walked off, hands swaying slowly by her sides.
"Oh, by the way Lucy – you look nice today!" Natsu yelled out to her. He watched and grinned as she raised her middle finger at him from behind.
"What did you do that for?" Gray yelled at Natsu, teeth gritting together angrily.
"Because I like her. What's it to you?"
"She's my –"
"She's your what? It's not like you own her, right? I'm free to go after her as I please," Natsu shrugged as he stepped forward, walking past Gray, making him grit his teeth harder, his hand balled into a fist angrily. "When did Natsu get so…so serious?"
"Natsu…" Lisanna whispered. "Why won't he look at me? I'm right next to him! Look at me, Natsu! LOOK AT ME!"
-X-
"That was my first kiss….that idiot!" Lucy clutched her pillow angrily, tears threatening to fall down. No matter how tough she looked on the outside, Lucy was still a girl, after all. She sighed many times, blowing her nose repeatedly, littering discarded tissues all over the place.
"Come on Lucy, you gotta get through this. You can do it." Lucy inhaled and exhaled heavily, calming down bit by bit. "Oh whatever. It was just a kiss, right? I can do this." Lucy wiped her tears away and sighed, looking out the window.
"Tomorrow's gonna be a long day…."
A/N: finally, erza and jellal are together - but natsu's actions seem to be confusing gray, lucy, and even lisanna! make sure to say what you thought about this chapter in a review!
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- hime