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-Let there be midnight
Me No Own Fairy Tail
The Attic's Little Secret—
Curious Multicolored Eyes
Gray scratched the back of his head as he tried to force down a yawn to no prevail while he entered the kitchen. He barely noticed Erza making breakfast in his still half asleep mind as he took a seat at the small table the kitchen supplied next to Lucy and Loke. Without so much as a grunt, he buried his head into his folded up arms on the cool wooden surface of the small wooden table, the sound of sizzling eggs lulling him to doze.
"Gee, someone looked like they didn't even wake up this morning. Must be sleepwalking." Loke teased as he took a drink from his orange juice, watching Gray with amusement.
"Shut up." Gray moaned as he rose slowly into a hunched position and blinked a few times to unsuccessfully rid the sleep from his eyes. He blinked at Loke once more before he looked around the kitchen to see that someone was missing. "Hmm… Where's that Natsu kid?" he asked groggily as he looked back at Loke who shrugged and drunk from his orange juice once more.
"He caught sight of my cellphone earlier this morning so I gave it to him and he ran off to the sitting room." Erza said as she scrapped off some eggs in the pan on the plate in front of Lucy before going back to the stove to cook Loke's eggs.
"It explains why he was so confused when he heard my ringtone last night." Lucy commented with a hum as she started to eat her eggs, her brown eyes shifting to where the sitting room was located, on the opposite hall from the living room and dining room.
"Poor kid probably doesn't even know the great invention of a television." Loke sighed in sadness at just the thought of not having a TV in his life, much less not knowing what it was. "Don't know how he survived." he added with a small shake of his head.
"Quiet easily if you asked me, because without knowing what electronics are, he could better fit his days with doing something actually physical." Erza said with a small smile. Loke shook his head once more as he drank the remainder of his orange juice, getting up and going to the fridge to refill his glass once more seeing as his eggs were almost ready.
Everyone was too busy with doing things to occupy there time to notice the pink haired teen silently slink into the room with Erza's cellphone clenched tightly in both of his hands, his multicolored eyes frantically looking around the room as he made his way silently and unnoticed to Erza who had her back to him, almost finished making Loke's eggs.
A small tap on Erza's shoulder made her turn around in surprise, only to see that Natsu was standing in front of her with her red cellphone clenched tightly in both hands.
"Yes, Natsu?" she asked him politely, earning the attention from her friends who caught sight of the rosy haired teen. Wordlessly, he held her phone out in front of him for her to take, his multicolored eyes deeming the floor a safe place to look, but found that the smell of eggs, something foreign to him, was too alluring to not to look at. Erza took her phone gently from his hands and set it on the counter. "Thank you Natsu." she said before noticing where he was looking. She smiled slightly to herself as she took the pan off the burner before the eggs burnt and moved towards Loke to scrape them off onto his plate where he happily started to eat them. "Would you like some eggs?" she asked him as she moved back to the stove and cracked two more eggs into the hot and greasy pan.
"Eggs…?" Natsu asked curiously as he peered at the pain where the sizzling yolk lay, curious as he looked back at Erza for conformation. She nodded and hummed in reply.
"Yup, these are eggs. Would you like some?" she patiently asked him again. Natsu looked at the eggs again and suddenly found himself starving, not remembering the last time he has eaten and nodded his head enthusiastically, making Erza giggle softly to herself. "Alright, why don't you take a seat at the table as you wait for yours?" she suggested with a quick glance in the teens direction, seeing the hesitancy in his eyes as he glanced over to her three other friends who occupied it. Lucy perked up, seeing this as her opportunity to join in.
"Yeah, there's plenty of room here and Loke can get you a glass of orange juice too, if you like." she said happily, scooting out the empty chair by her side for the rosy haired teen to take. Loke looked up at hearing his name, an eyebrow raised.
"I will?" he asked confused. Lucy looked to him and smiled as she nodded, a dangerous gleam in her eyes that seemed to promise pain if Loke didn't fulfill the task. He quickly shot out of his chair as a shiver of fear ran down his spine. "I will!" he shouted nervously as he went to go do what the blonde ordered. Natsu chewed on his bottom lip as he played with the fringe of the large hoodie he wore, making his way slowly to the open seat, his eyes glancing nervously at Lucy and the empty seat.
By the time he had sat down, Loke had poured a glass of orange juice and set it in front of him before he took his seat once more. Natsu looked at the foreign liquid, never having seeing it in his life, only ever drinking water that was sometimes in itself not the cleanest thing to drink. Lucy finished the last of her eggs as she looked at Natsu with some curiosity.
"So, Natsu," she started taking the attention away from the glass of orange juice to her. "We were going to go swimming today and would like to know if you would like to join us?" she asked, watching as he tilted his head to the side, scrunched up his eyebrows and squinted as he thought about the word.
"Swimming…" he mumbled to himself, finding the word faintly recognizable and having a faint idea about what the word meant. It had something to do with water, but what it was about, he had forgotten. He seemed to have forgotten a lot lately though, but it seems like none of it was important for him to remember it in the first place anyway.
"Hmmhuh." Lucy hummed. "Would you like to join us? We can teach you if you like?" she invited again, patiently awaiting his answer as Erza moved from the pan to scrape eggs onto Gray's plate and move back to the stove to start his.
"Does swimming involve Natsu-chan drinking water?" Natsu asked curiously, his voice soft so he wasn't too loud. Gray and Loke chuckled a little at hearing this, but otherwise didn't intrude on the conversation, only listening in with little curiosity.
"You could say so." Lucy said with a grin as Natsu looked at her curiously with his multicolored eyes.
