Hotspring mayhem
I.
A ‘boom!’ caught her attention, making her head turn around and look at the bamboo wall style that serves as a divider for male and female’s bath. Blinking, she wonder what in the world is going on in the other side. Probably it’s Natsu’s doing. He’s the only person she knew that likes making that sound. ”He’s starting” she muttered, letting out a soft sigh as she turned her head back and continue her girl talk with the Knight. Actually, Erza got a point. In fact, her statements are all true. It’s only Lucy, who keeps on saying that Natsu was an immature guy who has no interest when it comes to love stuffs and just care about his friends, fighting and getting stronger even though she knew that Erza was correct. ”It’s hard to expect…” she started, voice started getting low. ”Expectation will just lead to disappointment. I don’t want to assume.” saying those words made her realized that it’s like, she already just confessed that she has a thing for her best friend. Realizing that made her snapped out and goes: “I-It’s not that I like him! Don’t get the wrong idea!” yep, just like that. Lucy paused for a while and took a breath before speaking. ”But to be honest, I kinda want to know what’s on his mind. Really”
II.
She still haven’t gone out with any guy before that’s why, she sees Erza as a lucky woman because someone asked her to go out last Valentines Day. That ‘someone’ that made Lucy half surprise and half not. She’s half surprise because she didn’t expect that ‘that’ guy was going to ask him and half not surprise because it’s possible that he’ll ask Erza out. Erza is his childhood friend after all. Not only a childhood friend but a special childhood friend. No, not just any special friends — deeper than that. The special thing called ‘love’. Yes, he love Erza that’s why he asked her and of course, Erza accepted because he love him as well. They love each other. Jellal and Erza love each other, so much. “J-JELLAL?! YOU WENT OUT WITH HIM LAST VALENTINE?! So that’s why I haven’t seen you at the inn that time.” A teasing look appeared on the blonde’s face. Oh? A ‘payback’ for teasing her to Natsu? “So…how was it? How was your date?” Blushing Erza sure is cute. That’s what she thought while watching her as pinkish color grew on the Titania’s cheeks.
III.
As Erza turned around, Lucy was now facing Erza’s back. Then, using the scrub that Erza handed over to her, Lucy started scrubbing her back. “A woman’s…intuition…”she repeated. “Erza, you and Natsu are childhood friends, right? I was just curious if he…uh…had…a…c…crush on someone…”
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『 The sound continued to resonate through their vicinity, she could smell the smoke coming from the Salamander’s flame, it was so usual of him to respond in such manner. Since the mood is quite good and relaxing, she’ll let the chaos pass for now. Her hearing perception focused on to the celestial mage’s musing whilst toying with the water, the way she released her words came out as if she was a helpless fool with an unrequited love (literally, she does have one but she still couldn’t realize it), the salamander had a lack of knowledge when it comes to romantic stuffs ❝Expectation will lead to disappointment but try to have a little faith in your feelings, I’m sure you’re the only one who can keep up with his idiocy. You wouldn’t want him to get taken away by others.❞ and by ‘others’, she was pertaining to a certain take over mage ❝For someone indecipherable like him, it’ll be impossible to read him.❞ 』
『 Their topic altered in regards to the past date that occurred to the knight, she dipped her head into the water for a second to hide the faint of blush across her cheeks, gathering the guts to speak again, she faced the female blonde and spoke ❝T-the date was alright, it’s a great experience, at least we managed to build a bond. Luck was on my favor at that time.❞ there was a terse chuckle in the middle of her sentence as she liberated her response despite being flustered sharing her story. Lucy sure managed to get her payback thru teasing. Recalling the memory gave her butterflies, silently she was squealing. Her relationship with Jellal was complicated but somehow, she was satisfied with what they have now, after all, it’s better to be able to interact with him rather than get awkwardly silent. 』
『 She sighed comfortably as Lucy began to scrub her back, it felt relaxing and she was clean once again. The sudden inquiry that her friend blurted out caused her to giggle; the blonde delivered her question in a cutesy way ❝Hmmm, a crush? He never had one I guess, he was a colossal idiot, he never fails to do moronic things. Though, Lisanna did like him very much but I don’t think he reciprocated her feelings in a romantic way, the feelings that he had for her was platonic.❞ 』
