Hey, guys! I'm sooooo sorry for the late update! :( But I was just so busy with school because my final exams are coming up and I haven't had any time to relax from all the studying I've done lately T.T And this update is also quite short, I feel really bad about it... T.T But I hope you'll still like it! :(

Chapter 4: The Drama Starts

The stars appeared one after another. Soon, I was able to make out most of the constellations I learned all those years ago with my mother. The Orion, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, even the Phoenix was clearly visible. It looked like a painting.

I was lying on the grass, staring at the sky. After everything that had happened today, I wanted to have a time-out so I had excused myself and gone for a walk. Without a real destination I had just ended up here. I liked this place. It gave off a certain vibe of familiarity. And the stars were close. I had never felt this close to the stars before. Closing my eyes, I thought of Fairy Tail. My Fairy Tail. The guild, all my friends, and even though I realized just moments ago that they were all here, I missed the friends I knew. The friends that were still silly, childish and my age. And because of that I imagined that everything was just as usual. That I had never ended up opening that door and traveling to the future. That this was the time I belonged to and that when I opened my eyes everything would be normal again. 'It's just a dream', that's what I kept telling myself as a lonely tear ran down my face. It's just a dream.

"Luce?"

My eyes flew open as I picked up the sound of Natsu's voice. Could it be? Was this really a dream? Looking around, I didn't see anybody. There was no noise either.

A bitter smile appeared on my face and tears started gathering in my eyes. Silly, I scolded myself. How could you start hallucinating?

With that, I pulled my knees closer and put my arms around them, clenching my wrist tightly and started sobbing.

"What? You're dating?" Gray yelled right as I opened the door. I blinked a few times, looking at the weird situation in front of me. Gray was talking with Juvia who was standing next to... Lyon? What was Lyon doing here? While my eyes searched the room for more mages from Lamia Scale Juvia said: "That's right. Juvia decided that it would be best if she started dating Lyon-sama."

My eyes were probably about to pop out as I turned my head slowly, not wanting to believe what I just heard. The rest of the guild who had gathered up around the three showed the same expression.

"Give it up, Gray", Lyon said, doing an arrogant hand gesture. "Juvia finally realized that her love for me is stronger than the crush she had on you."

"Juvia", Gray said nearly inaudibly. His facial expression was unreadable. "Are you sure about this?"

"Yes", Juvia answered self-confidently, directly looking at Gray. "Juvia is well aware that her feelings won't be returned by Gray-sama. And while Juvia was grieving over that Lyon-sama consoled her. So Juvia forgot about Gray-sama and fell for Lyon-sama instead."

What kind of drama was this? Those three were acting as if they had jumped out of a novel for middle-aged women! I really didn't want to look at Gray at that moment. He was probably about to erupt or attack Lyon with one of his icy spears. So I just fiddled with the hem of my skirt nervously.

"That's great!"

What?

"Oi, Gray!" Erza said. "What are you saying?"

"Isn't it, Erza?" Even thought he was talking to Erza, Gray did not take his eyes off the couple in front of him. A provocative smile on his face. "This way, all of us can be happy. Lyon has a girlfriend, Juvia gets even more love than she usually gives and I? I won't be annoyed anymore. This is just perfect." All this while he had looked straight at Juvia's eyes as if he was out to hurt her. And it was clearly visible just how painful the impact of Gray's last remark was on Juvia. Her expression said it all. "Isn't it? Erza?" Gray said, turning his head to look at his teammate who seemed to be as equally shocked as the whole guild.

"Fine", Juvia said monotonously. "If Gray-sama approves, Juvia will take her leave now." Obviously suppressing her tears, Juvia stormed out of the guild.

What... just happened?, I wondered confusedly.

"What shall I do? This is not what I wanted", Lucy said next to me, desperately chewing on her nails.

"What are you talking about?"

"I told Juvia to do that."

"WHAT!?"

That's it for now.. :/ I don't think I'll be able to update for a while now since the written exams are in a month and I haven't even finished studying half of the stuff I wanted to T.T So frustrating X.x But as soon as I have my freedom back, I'll keep updating this story! I promise! Somebody gave me a few tips regarding the story and I got some ideas myself but of course you can still tell me what kind of events you want to read about! I'll do my best to follow your wishes! :)

Again, I'm really sorry, please be understanding x(

Bye~