Chapter 5
"What?" Irene said surprised, raising an eyebrow "Why should I? Now you go away from here, I'm already getting tired of this conversation"
"Why... I... Just ..." Erza said in a broken voice, clenching her fists.
"Eh?" Irene said staring at her. "Are you... Crying?" Irene said with a drop behind her head as she saw tears in Erza's eyes.
"Shut up! I'm not crying! "Erza shouted as tears began to fall down her face "Why should I!"
"It must be from the drunkenness she has now..." Irene thought, narrowing her eyes.
"If you want so much for me to go from here, then I'm leaving!" Erza said, looking at her. "I don't know the reason why I thought that we could get along for a moment! When we were at the party, whether you believe it or not, I didn't feel hate towards you, I felt happiness, because you were there, even when you held me, even if it was only today... I wanted to be with you... But I was wrong. I was naive to think you weren't as you were pretending to be! But It doesn't matter anymore! Nothing is going to change, you hate me! If that's what you want, if it makes you feel better!" Erza shouted, crying as she wiped the tears away with her hands. "Fairy Tail is the only family I have! Erza shouted turning around.
"Erza, wait" Irene said. "You can stay tonight" Irene said with a sigh.
"Eh?" Erza said, turning around looking at her "What did you say?"
"You can stay, just tonight"
"But I thought you..."
"Don't make me repeat it" Irene said, looking at her.
"So..." Erza said, looking at her out of the corner of her eye.
"Yes" Irene said nodding "Come" Irene said, Erza rushed toward her, hugging her tightly.
"Erza-"
"Please, let me be like this for a little longer"
"No... I said it because you are hugging me too hard!"
"Eh..." Erza said with a slight blush as she loosened the embrace, then Irene looked at Erza for a few seconds, then lifted her hand and put it over Erza's head, she hesitated for a few seconds, but without touching it, then, she began caressing Erza's head.
"Do you want us to go to sleep?" Irene said, Erza nodded and they went to bed.
"This is a little tight" Erza said as she was looking at the ceiling of the room.
"I would have preferred a bigger bed but they didn't have any... Besides, I didn't know that a certain person would begin to cry and would ask me to stay in my room" Irene said looking at her as she grabbed Erza's cheek lightly with her hand, Erza blushed slightly.
"Ah, I don't have a Christmas present to give you..." Erza said looking at her.
"Eh? It doesn't matter, I don't have any either" Irene said.
"... I already know, we can say that our gift is to spend the night together" Erza said smiling.
"What are you saying?" Irene said staring at her. "Saying those things... Go to sleep at once" Irene said with a slight blush. "Or do you want me to tell you a story?" Irene laughed.
"No!"
"Do you prefer a lullaby then?
"What- No, it's not necessary!" Erza said blushing furiously, as she quickly covered her head with the bed sheet "Good night!" Erza shouted, after a while, Irene was watching as Erza slept.
"My, my, what a problematic girl she is" Irene said with a smile as she sighed softly. "I did hate you because you had a human body that I lost, I wanted with all my strength to have one... And in the end I ended up hurting you without you being guilty of anything ... And even though I knew it, the despair gripped me, like a nightmare that would never end" Irene thought as she was looking at Erza sleeping next to her, then she gently brushed away a lock of hair from Erza's face behind her ear and pulled Erza into her arms.
"Warm..." Erza murmured as she hugged Irene while she was sleeping and snuggled into her chest.
"At least I know you are alive... Good night, Erza" Irene said, kissing her on the forehead.
/Fairy Tail Christmas/
The next morning, the rays of the sun pierced the windows of the inn.
"Ah... My head..." Erza said putting her hand on her head "Where am I?" Erza said sitting up in bed and looking around the room.
"Did you wake up already? I would have preferred you don't do it until I was gone" Irene said looking at her upset and standing in front of her.
"What... YOU! What are you doing here!" Erza looked at her in surprise.
"What am I doing here?" Irene said with a crooked grin. "Are you serious?"
"So yesterday... It wasn't a... dream" Erza said with a slight blush.
"I'm sorry to say, but it wasn't, for that matter, you didn't want to let me go" Irene said as she saw Erza blushing furiously. "Now, I have to go away, they wait for me"
"Eh? Are you leaving?"
"Yes, you wouldn't expect me to stay, would you?" Irene said with a smile "I have no intention of staying with you, with what happened yesterday I had enough" Irene said with a serious look.
"Of course, I will not ask you to do it" Erza said, looking at her seriously.
"Hmph, then I'm leaving" Irene said, making a circle of magic on the floor. "Goodbye Erza" Irene said as she disappeared teleporting away from the inn.
"I can't believe what happened yesterday..." Erza said sighing and rising from the bed, then saw that there was something on the night stand next to the bed.
"Ah?" Erza said, approaching it "And this letter?" Erza asked raising an eyebrow, and taking the letter with her hand as she opened it "There is something written" Erza said, then began to read it:
"Dear Erza,
When you read this, I will surely be gone, I will have gone with Zeref and the others, so you don't try to find me, I want you to know that even if it were only for a few hours, I was happy to be with you, by this I don't mean that I want your forgiveness, I know I can't have it after all I did, when we meet again, we will be enemies, try not to die until then, I would like to see you once more.
Sincerely,
Irene
PS: I made you hot chocolate with whipped cream, I hope you like it. Oh, when you are drunk, you have a bad temper"
"Ha..." Erza said with a trembling smile, she went to the table where the cup of chocolate with whipped cream was, she grabbed the cup and took a sip. "It's a mixture between sweet and bitter..." Erza said with a shadow covering her eyes as a small tear fell from her eye.
/Fairy Tail Christmas/
"What a mess..." Lucy said with a drop behind her head.
"But the party was fine" Mirajane said with a smile.
"Yes... And these two still are sleeping" Lucy said looking at Natsu and Gray, then Erza entered the guild.
"Erza! Where were you yesterday? "Lucy asked, going towards her.
"I went to sleep somewhere else... I'm sorry"
"You don't have to apologize, Spriggan 12 are already gone," Mirajane said. "Can you help us to clean all this?"
"Sure" Erza said, nodding. "Do you want me to take these boxes out?"
"Yes, please" Mirajane said.
"Okay" Erza said as she grabbed some boxes, went outside the guild and laid it on the floor, then she looked up at the sky. "This is my family, the next time we meet, we will be enemies as you said, even so, the short period of time I was with you yesterday, I won't forget it, mom" Erza thought as a gentle wind that had risen was waving her hair.
/Fairy Tail Christmas/
"We could have eliminated them while they were sleeping" Dimaria said with her arms crossed, sitting on a chair, she and the rest of Spriggan were on a ship going to Alvarez.
"Don't be in such a hurry, we'll do it, didn't you have a fun time?" Zeref said smiling, Dimaria sighed. "Is Irene on the deck?" Zeref asked.
"Yes, she is looking at the sea" August replied. Zeref went where Irene was.
"It's painful, isn't it?" Zeref said beside her.
"I don't know what you are talking about" Irene replied, looking at him.
"You don't have to be separated from her, do you know?" Zeref said.
"That's something time will decide" Irene said.
"You're very hard on yourself, and I'm not one to judge you, though" Zeref said, looking at the sea. "Oh, by the way, there is one thing that Erza told me to tell you when we were at the party." Zeref said. Irene.
"What?" Irene raised an eyebrow.
"Thank you"
"Tsk, this girl..." Irene murmured.
"Oh, now that I think about it, Fairy Tail gave us something" Zeref said taking out a bag of cookies from the pocket "They made the cookies, take it"
"Do you know I can't find the taste of what I eat, don't you?"
"I know, but I thought that like Erza made it too, you would love eat it, but if you don't want it..."
"I didn't say that, give it to me" Irene said, taking it from his hands, opened the bag and tried one.
"I knew it, this doesn't taste anything" Irene said as she ate the cookies.
"I'm going to talk to August" Zeref said, smiling, leaving Irene.
"Maybe things would have been different between us if some of them had changed, Erza" Irene thought as she looked up at the sky, then suddenly, a gentle wind that had risen was waving her hair.
/Fairy Tail Christmas/
"This is the last thing" Lucy said, removing a blanket from the floor.
"Meeen~" Ichiya said completely naked.
"Ah?!" Lucy cried.
"What's going on, Lucy!" Natsu and Gray shouted, going towards her, then they saw Ichiya.
"What are you still doing here?!"
"Merry Christmas meen"
"They'll be for you!" Natsu and Gray shouted at once.
"I should not have picked up the blanket... Someone make me forget this" Lucy said, staring at the ceiling with a fake smile.
"And so, Fairy Tail had a nice Christmas" Ichiya said smiling.
"Do you want to put some clothes on and go out now!" several members of the guild shouted at once.
End of chapter 5, this story is finished. Thanks for reading and follow it. I apologize for grammatical error because English is not my first language.