*Finally, one that's actually shippy. I was thinking maybe it would never happen again XD.
Jellal always hated the feeling of waking up after crying. It felt like there was a thin layer of cement sealing his eyelids closed that morning, and he could think of nothing he wanted to do more than stay in bed all day with the woman he loved. He reached out for her, but his hands met with nothing but air. I must have overslept. Resigning himself to the arduous task of prying open his eyes, he sat up and squinted around, his eyes protesting the light streaming in from the same crack in the curtains that had lit the room during his other-worldly experience last night.
"Oh, you're awake," Erza commented, standing in the door in the exact place that Simon stood last night. Her frame was much smaller in comparison, and the doorway seemed empty where last night it had been cramped and full. "I tried to wake you up, but you were dead asleep." What an ironic choice of words, he thought. He reached up and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and blinked a few times so he could better focus on her.
"Erza, do you want to stay home today?" He asked. She blinked at him, surprised. He never asked to stay home, not even when the townspeople harassing him had been at it's worst. He was always either out with his guild getting a headache because apparently the former Oracion Seis couldn't function like adults, or he was with her guild, getting a headache because apparently no one in that guild could act like an adult.
"Is something the matter?"
"No, nothing's wrong, I just felt like staying in bed today," he said, shrugging. He didn't want to tell her about the apparitions he saw last night, for some reason he felt compelled to keep that to himself, though he usually shared everything with her. Erza looked at him for a few more minutes before shrugging.
"Alright." She left the room briefly to fill up Skull Crushers food bowl before returning to bed with Jellal. "Are you sure nothing's wrong?"
"I'm sure," he said, wrapping his arms around her and snuggling up close. "Today just seemed like a good day to stay home."