"It's not like that guys! I had to hold his hand to keep him from running off! Loke you know how this idiot is! I just met him and I know that if he sees a gumball machine that he'd beg me for a quarter!" I fought desperately to pinch Natsu and try to get him to let go of my hand to no prevail. Loke wiped out his phone and started texting. He pressed the send button and put his phone back in his pocket, smirking. I glared, making his smirk stretch into a grin. Aries blushed beside him, which I can actually understand because when he isn't being a total jackass or using his so called 'seductive' smile, he is actually pretty cool. He can be nice and his natural smile is much more appealing. I've known the guy since middle school and he sure wasn't a play boy then, at least until 8th grade.
I smirked in her direction, until I heard the ruckus coming from behind us. Erza was plowing through everybody, dragging Gray by the wrist through the mall. Natsu attempted to run away, but I held on with a death grip. The bastard brought it upon himself. I glared evilly at him, causing him to waver and gulp nervously. When they arrived, Erza stood in front of us and examined our hands. I grinned. This is so payback.
"What is the meaning of this?" She said sternly, glaring at our locked hands.
"Natsu was being an idiot. He was starting fights and bothering the people around us, and it was embarrassing ,so for about the last 20 minutes, I had to hold his hand to keep from running off." I stated. Natsu gawked for a minute before Erza stepped toward him. She towered over him and whispered something into his ear, though Erza's never been one to whisper softly.
"If you ever embarrass our Lucy again, it'll be too soon. Understood?" She said devilishly. The look on Natsu's face was absolutely priceless as he nodded his head violently, but to keep Erza from biting my head off, I didn't dare laugh, though Gray on the other hand. . .
"WOW, Flame-brain, scared of a girl now are we? Mavis, you're so lame. I often question our friendship. You'll never get a girl if even your bestfriend is questioning your manhood. " He crossed his arms and nodded shamefully. The deathly aura escaping Erza and Natsu, sent chills down my spine. I looked at my circle of friends. Levy was creeping slowly behind Gajeel like he was some human shield, which when I think about it, I would too. He sort of reminds me of a tree with nails stabbed into it's face. Although, trees don't have faces. I shook my head. Get with it Lucy, you're losing your focus, you're supposed to be searching for a place to hide. Aries and Loke disappeared off the face of the Earth. Gray was struggling to keep his cool as the 'demons' crept closer to him. I decided to instead pull out my phone and catch this glorious moment on camera. You know, for future 'favors?
"Kyaaa!" Gray screamed as they lunged forward. Oh my gooshness, did he just? Hahahahaha! Gray is so going to be at my beck and call after this. Natsu kept Gray in a headlock and Erza tickled him. Gray laughed and cried as passersby practically ran in the other direction. It was absolutely hysterical, and I was loving every second of it before security arrived.
"Excuse me. I will need to ask you guys to leave. You guys are disturbing the other customers." He was a buff guy wearing the typical mall cop uniform except he had a nice and shiny bald head along with his buddies behind him. Natsu took one look at the guy and by the look on his face, he was about to do something stupid.
"You look like you need a good laugh, Mr. OfficerManSir." And with that , he attempted to tickle the poor guy. ' ' just stood there without even a small smile before nodding to his cop friends and lifting Natsu by the arm pits. I ended the video when Erza, Gray and I were hefted over the others' shoulders. Gajeel lifted Levy in the same fashion and followed us. Levy protested ever so cutely before pouting again, cutely. Gajeel laughed and continued walking. Then the officers finally set us down, and without a single word, they left us outside in the parking lot. We all looked at each other before busting out laughing.
"Why the hell did you try tickling him, Natsu?" I asked through my fits of giggles.
"The guy was so tense. Like damn, his face must be stuck like that or something." Natsu replied.
"Either that, or he just didn't like you Flame-breath."
"I can't believe that they actually carried us to the exit. We've been asked to leave before, but we were never carried!" Natsu exclaimed. We all sat on the curb,. It was Me, Natsu, Levy, Gajeel, Erza, and then Gray. The sun had just began to set.
"You've never been carried out?" Levy questioned. They fight, argue, and cause chaos, and they've never been carried out? Damn.
"Not once, Shrimp." Gajeel replied. "Though, Salamander and Ice- Prick have tried."
"I was just starting to think you guys were pretty cool too." Levy pouted. A few murmurs of agreement were shared between us girls.
"Like you girls have," Gray stated while crossing his arms over his bare chest. I smirked over in Erza's direction.
"Uhem. . . um. . .Gray. . . you're, uh, clothes. . ." Erza's eyes must've lingered on his chest longer than she intended because she blushed. THE ALL MIGHTY ERZA BLUSHED, THIS IS NEWS! WHERE ARE THE CAMERAS WHEN YOU NEED THEM! SHE IS SO GONNA HEAR IT LATER! Gray looked around and found his shirt, but didn't bother to put it back on.
"Actually we have. Once." Levy wasn't the least bit affected by Gray's half-nakedness. Gajeel, as well the others, seemed to take interest in what the small bluenette had to say.
"It was a while ago, back when I went through this whole rebellious phase. That phase only lasted a good 3 months because Lu-chan, Erza, and I were playing truth or dare and Lu-chan and Erza show no mercy, and I chose dare every time" Levy shivered and the guys leaned in interest. "Lu-chan, made me lick the floor, slap some guy's ass and wink when he turned around, and lastly since we always choose the dares from a cup, we always do the last dare together, we all had to yell 'it's the voices, again! They're back,!' in the cop's faces without laughing, we failed of course, and we were carried out and almost banned for causing such a disturbance. People were all concerned and everything." The guys blinked before busting out laughing. We joined, recalling the memory. It was back in 8th grade right before we went all geek and stuff. I've done a lot of stupid stuff with Erza, Levy, and Aries back in middle school; it was definitely fun. We began telling stories and talked about random nothingness. It was nice, and my world made room for 3 more people.
"Were you really that cruel, Luce? Who would even think it?" Natsu tucked his hands behind his head and looked up at the stars. The sun had set at this point, and it was beginning to get cold, and the others went back in to search for Aries and Loke, who happened to be our rides, leaving me and Natsu alone. Wendy and Romeo had gotten a ride from Natsu's parents.
I laughed, "I had a lot going on back then, you know? Didn't have much experience with people I guess, just what I saw on TV."
"What do you mean?" His 'salmon' eyebrows stitched together. I shrugged.
"Nothing important. I was just really shy back in grade school, I guess."
"Ah," It sounded like he wanted to say more, but he didn't and just sat back on his hands and looked up at the stars, and we sat in silence until the others came back with Aries and Loke. The car ride was pretty much silent with everybody being exhausted and all. It wasn't awkward at all, the silence I mean. It was actually very comfortable. Natsu even fell asleep on my shoulder. We were all dropped off one by one and suddenly I was in my own bed in my own apartment dreaming about the little insignificant things, waiting for tomorrow to come around.
*END OF CHAPTER*
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