Shopping trip

Chapter 12

Ah, fall. The time for playing in the fallen leaves before winter comes. The beautiful combination of the red and yellow leaves falling from the trees. The lovely breeze in ones face. Going on a picnic with your loved ones before the cold comes. I hated it. People don't understand how annoying it is to sleep outside when the wind blows off your blankets and the leaves get stuck in all sorts of places. It sucks. I went into the guildhall and greeted everyone good morning. The day went about like normal until after lunch.

"Jack. Let's go. Now," someone grabbed my hand and pulled me out of my chair. Zeke noticed and ran along.

"Well good evening to you too Sapphire. Where are we going?"

"We are going shopping. I'm tired of looking at your ruined clothes. So, we're buying some new ones for you."

"Um okay. But I don't get what's wrong with my clothes," the two of us walked out of the guild.

"Hey Sapphire?"

"What is it?" I looked at my hand.

"Can I have my hand back or are you going to hold onto it for me?" she had forgotten to let go of me so we had been walking down the street holding hands. When she saw it, she immediately let go and turned her head around. Zeke laughed aloud.

"Sorry."

"it's okay, you don't have to apologize to me. we're friends. And Zeke don't laugh that's not funny,"

"You're not the boss of me. Don't tell me what to do!" we stopped walking and we were standing in the shopping district of Magnolia.

"Alright Jack I'll let you pick the first stop." Sapphire said and we started walking around looking in the windows.

"This sucks I'm going back to the guild," Zeke exclaimed. "REQUIP: ANGEL FEATHERS!" with that he flew away leaving me and Sapphire to shop for ourselves. We had been walking around aimlessly for a while.

"Would you mind choosing instead? I have never been out shopping for clothes before."

"Oh… right. This place looks good let's go in here," we went inside and Sapphire went to look for some things I should try. I found an empty changing booth and sat on the chair out front. After a while, Sapphire showed up with a couple of wests, tank tops and pants. She threw them in my face.

"These look like your style of clothes, try them on. And before you change I want to see how you look," I nodded and walked into the booth and changed my current west for a completely black one and my grey tank top was replaced with a dark green one instead. I walked out of the booth.

"How do I look miss fashion model?"

"It's certainly better than the old ruined ones. And don't call me a fashion model!" I changed again and it became more of a catwalk show than a shopping trip. I made some weird poses as the changes went on and Sapphire was laughing her ass off at my less than male poses. We had a lot of fun. When we were done, I got into my old clothes and paid for three new complete outfits.

"If it's okay with you I'll buy new boxers on my own sometime."

"Of course."

"So where are we going next?"

"Don't you have enough new clothes?"

"I do. But I can't take a girl shopping without buying her anything. Isn't that how it works or am I imagining things?"

"Well are you sure you want to spend some of your hard earned cash on me?"

"A: yes B: what else am I going to buy with it C: I don't need to buy food because I can hunt it myself. So why not it'll be fun right?" I smiled at her. She blushed a little. We walked to another store that sold girls clothes.

"I'm warning you Jack. This really expensive."

"Well, I still have around 200.000 jewel from our mission and it can't be that expensive," she blushed, looked at the ground and held her clenched fist against her chest

"*shyly* Would you really spend 200.000 jewel on new things for me?"

"Of course I will, if you'll do me favor."

"What?"

"I don't want to sleep outside this fall so I'll stay over for the rest of fall."

"For 200.000 jewel. Deal!" we went in th store and Sapphire gave me quite a show each time she came out of the booth to show off her new outfit.

"How do I look?" she asked. She was wearing a light blue dress with snowflakes on it that reached just below her knees. It was loose on the bottom with curly fabric.

"You look… gorgeous" was all I could manage to say. My eyes were literally stuck to her. She smiled at my lack of common sense from seeing her. She walked back into the booth. When she was concealed, I got my eyes and logical thinking back.

"The dress looked nice too," as soon as I said it I facepalmed myself. You idiot. I thought. Zeke would have died of laughter if he heard me say that. Sapphire didn't reply. She came back out in her normal outfit. She was carrying the dress she just wore which was now neatly folded.

"I think I'll have this one."

"Just that one. Alright," we walked to the cash register. The cashier looked at the price tag.

"That'll be 50.000 jewel," she looked at my clothes and I could tell she didn't think I could pay. I took out my wallet and placed the 50.000 on the counter.

"Don't judge a book by the cover," I walked out of the store and Sapphire followed. When we knew we were out of hearing distance we looked at each other and burst into laughter.

"*laughing* Did you see her face when you put down the money? Priceless."

"*laughing* Well it cost me around 50.000 but that's another story. Where do you wanna go next?"

"I think I've spent enough of your money for one day."

"Alright," we started walking to her house and I bought some glasses for an afternoon snack. I was crunching on one of them and people were looking. Sapphire was walking and giggling beside me.

"There's something I've been wondering about. Why are you not hanging around with Zeke that much?"

"Zeke is my partner and best friend but he needs a lot of space so if he doesn't want to be around me I leave him be. I think he's even found a place to sleep in the guild somewhere."

"Oh. But you still count on him in battle?"

"Of course. When it comes to fighting we're on the same page as all the other dragon slayers with exceeds," we arrived at her place. We went inside and I dropped our bag of clothes on a table. We decided to get takeaway because none of us felt like cooking. We were sipping on our noddle soup and generally having a great time. Ever since I joined the guild, Sapphire and I had been great friends. I enjoyed her company and she enjoyed mine. We were done and had cleaned up.

"You know Jack? I haven't really seen what those dragon slayer powers of yours can do," she said

"There is only one way to change that!"

"Was that a challenge?"

"Did it sound like a challenge?"

"I guess we'll be going to the forest won't we?" We decided to go to the forest for a late night brawl. When we got there, I took off my west and threw it on the ground.

"Alright this time I won't hold back. Now come at me!" I was getting déjà vu. This was just like last time we trained in the forest.

Sapphire leapt forward and got ready for a strike. I moved to the side and kneed her in the stomach and she flew into the air. "GLASS DRAGON PISTON!" I threw my arm after her. She blocked my arm and pulled on my arm so her momentum was directed back down towards me. She held her arm up and was ready for another attack. "MEGATON STRIKE!" She missed me but the shockwave of her attack sent me flying into a tree. I got up and saw her charging at me. "GLASS DRAGON LANCE!" I ran towards her and sliced at her she jumped over the glass spear and placed her hand on my head in a tight grip and did a front handspring. When she landed, she got ready to throw me again. "GLASS DRAGON TORNADO!" I breathed out tiny glass shards the size of grains of sand. While I did this, I started spinning so fast that the glass started. The glass ripped on Sapphires skin and she had to let go. I stopped spinning and faced away from her "GLASS DRAGON ROAR!" I hit my body against hers she fell and I went a little up in the air. "GLASS DRAGON PISTON!" I sent it full force and missed her on purpose. She looked at me in defeat. I landed beside her and helped her up.

"That was a good fight are you satisfied with that demonstration of my magic."

"That depends… wanna go for another round?" I accepted her request and we ended up fighting for hours. I won some and she won some. After the final match, we were both really tired and we went back to her place.

"I think I'm going to bed," I said stretching.

"Sure me too."

"You know what. I know that we are going to end in the bed anyway so why not just go up there to begin with," she blushed and looked away.

"S-sure why not. I'll change."

"Don't wear a pajama for my sake. I could tell last time that the one you have is too small so you don't wear it normally."

"Thank you I hate those damn things. I don't even know why I have one in the first place,"

"Just curious. What do you usually wear when you sleep?"

"Well… my… um underwear."

"So do I. Don't worry about it," we went to the bedroom and took off our clothes.

"Don't look please I'm very shy about my body."

"I understand," I faced the other way and I was now standing in my boxers.

"You can turn around now," when I did, she was already under the blankets with only her head popping out. I got into bed next to her. And we just stared in each other's eyes for a while in an awkward silence.

"I said I understand but I really don't. Why are you shy about your body?"

"Well almost all the other in the guild have developed… um… and mine are still…"

"You don't have to say it. And just so you know not everyone cares about that sort of thing," I said in a comforting voice and smiled at her.

"Do you!?"

"No. Why do you ask?"

"No reason," she answered quickly. I laughed a little.

"Goodnight Sapphire."

"Goodnight Jack," we went to sleep. In the middle of the night, I woke up when something touched my chest. I looked to my side and saw that Sapphire had rolled over and was laying on my arm with her hand on my chest. I let on a smile. I put my arm around her. Her skin was so soft yet rough in a good way. Must be from all the training she does. Her small hand on my chest. Somehow, it just felt right. I memorized the moment and fell asleep again.

Here I was. Laying with the most beautiful girl in Fairy Tail!