As the girls conversed over at Lucy's, the boys were hanging out in the arcade. "So, who you guys asking out for the prom," said Natsu as he sipped from his can of Coke and stood up from the game's seat.

Gray slid into the seat the moment Natsu left it, "Well it's obvious that Elf-man's going to ask Evergreen." The said guy blushed and pointed at Gray, "Asking out your own girlfriend is being a man!"

Fried examined his finger-nails nonchalantly, "Well, Mr. Man here has Evergreen. Alzack has Bisca. And you're not exactly one to talk Gray everyone knows that you have a thing for Juvia." Gray blushed and killed a few more zombies on the screen, muttering under his breath.

"Hey Laxus, who're you going to ask anyway," said Natsu as he turned his head to Laxus who broke his high-score on a basket-ball game and sipped from his own Coke can.

The blonde shrugged, "Probably Cana, it's just a question of who asks first really, how about you Bickslow?"

"Who me: Oh, I don't know. I mean, I've been meaning to ask Lisanna out for a while now. I guess I better get it over with."

Gray just got out of his seat and patted Bickslow on the shoulder, "Relax man, she's obviously got a thing for you. And I'm going to ask Juvia. Laxus and Cana are obviously going together, Elf-man and Evergreen have been dating so yeah, Alzack and Bisca definitely, Jellal will ask Erza or vice-versa. And Fried would ask Mira if you ask me."

"Erza/Mira and I aren't like that!" Cried Jellal and Fried, both blushing like idiots.

Laxus nodded at Natsu who had just beaten some person's record at a zombie game, "You going to ask Lucy or what?"

He shrugged, "I guess so." "Well then you better hurry Natsu," said Laxus who looked up from his phone. "Why's that? The prom is in 2 weeks, no rush." "There is, because you apparently have some competition." He looked so surprised that he died in the game, "Who and how do you know?"

Laxus smirked, "Cana just texted me to give you a heads-up, you lucky bastard, you've got the girls watching over you."

"Oi, just tell me what's up dammit Laxus."

"Heh, Lucy just got a delivery." Natsu snorted, while the other boys listened up in interest. "So what if she got a package?"

Laxus smirked again, "It was a bouquet you idiot, of red roses with a box of heart-shaped chocolates." There was a moment of silence… "The person asked what color her dress would be, and that person was Loki."

The silence this time dragged on much longer, finally Natsu looked at Laxus. "So? I mean she gets gifts from admirers all the time anyway."

The guys all face-palmed, and Gray decided to explain. "He's asking for the color of her dress stupid. It means he wants to get her a corsage, which means…"

Natsu's head jerked up as realization dawned, "That ass," he snarled, "that play-boy wants to take Lucy to prom."

AUTHOR'S NOTE: So originally, I was going to put Chapter 1 & 2 together but decided against it. Please tell me what you think.

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