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•.•.•.•.•. Hush •.•.•.•.•.•

"Sting was such a bastard.." Lucy sighs as she puffs her cheeks out.

"Seriously? I liked Romeo-kun, he seemed nice," Wendy gushes, blushing slightly.

"Jellal hasn't changed.." Erza whispers loudly enough for us to hear.

"Juvia thinks Gray-sama was very cool," Juvia says, lowering her eyes.

"How about you, Ari? I saw you making googly eyes at that pink boy, Natsu right?" Lu asks, smirking.

I roll my eyes and hit her playfully on the shoulder.

"He's nothing. Just another stupid member who's the "flirty type." I reply, swatting my hand like it was nothing.

"Flirty? No, no, no, Sting was flirty. I swear to god that he winked at every single girl when we went for ice-cream.." Lu describes, her eyes slightly gloomy.

I grin. "Is my Luce finally falling for a boy?"

Lu widens her eyes and crosses her arms.

"N-No! I won't ever fall for that freak..." she swears, somehow her expression betraying her words.

Erza smiled at her softly as she wrapped an arm around my neck.

"As you say.." I say, not quite believing her.

"How was Jellal? He seemed cute," I ask, smiling kindly towards Erza.

"Jellal... He remembered me. I was very grateful that I could meet him once again.." Erza replies, happiness shone in her scarlet eyes.

"Well, you're in luck. We're meeting them tons of times from now on. It seems that Ignite has joined the MBC's Music Battle," Lucy says, her fingers clicking on the laptop's keyboard.

"We knew that already.." I remind her.

"I know... Just saying," she grumbles.

I laugh and back hug Lu as she gave me a pat on my head.

"Ari-chan! I want a hug too!" Wendy says, jumping into my arms.

"Juvia wants one too!" Juvia yells, waving her arms.

"GAHHHH!" I yell, being toppled over by two teenage girls.

"Hahaha..." I hear Erza and Lucy laugh.

My eyes instantly rolled as my cheeks puffs out with annoyance.

"Hey guys, look!" Lucy calls over with her hand.

My friends and I curiously walk over to her staring at the email on the laptop.

"It's from.." Wendy starts.

"Ignite.." Juvia finishes.

Erza strokes her chin as her left hand was planted next to her waist.

"Why would they?" she wonders out loud.

I read the email closely.

Hey! It's Ignite! We thought maybe since we were bonding so well yesterday, you guys could come over to our hotel room! Don't worry, it's actually pretty big. Anyway, find us at Seoul's Exquisite Hotel! We're room 805! Wish you Celestials can come! Bai! ~Ignite

"Eh??!!!!!" All of us yell with surprise.

Ignite wanted us to come over to their hotel room? And worse. It's the same hotel we're in.... -.-

"So are we going or what?" Lucy asks, crossing her arms.

Juvia brings her legs up to her chest as she stares at the floor. Her cheeks were tinted pink, or other wise, blushing.

"J-Juvia thinks it would be nice to have some real fun once in a while.." she states, stuttering shyly.

Wendy smiles and nods. "I agree with Juvia-chan. We should be able to have some downtime once in a while."

Lucy sighs slumping her shoulders. "Dammit.. I have to meet that Sting guy again. I swear he's a pervert.."

Erza smirks. "You said that while smiling, Lucy.."

Lucy's face goes red with embarrassment. "I-I did not!"

"Sure..."

I stayed quiet, somehow a picture of a smiling Natsu appears in my mind. His pink soft spiky hair.. His red velvet like eyes... Oh I wanted to-Wait what? Oh no... Oh no, oh no, oh no...

"I THINK I MIGHT LIKE NATSUUUUU!" I yell, uncontrollably.

Everyone stares at me with wide eyes. Wendy was the first to react.

"H-Heh.. Ari-chan, congratulations!"

My head drops to the ground in chibi mode.

"D-Did I really just say that our loud?" I ask, not knowing who I was asking, my friends or myself.

"Nice, Ari! First to catch the fish! Now you just have to reel him in," Lucy says, grinning.

I blush, as Lucy smirked at my dirty mind.

"S-Shuddap!" I say, blushing red.

Why Baka? Out of all the people... It had to be Natsu Dragneel.

"Well then, it's settled. The Celestials are heading to Ignite's hotel room then!" Erza declares, grinning.

Lu nods as Wendy cheers three times.

"Ari-chan?" a small whisper asks me from behind.

I turn my head to see Juvia, fiddling with her fingers.

"Y-Yeah?" I answer.

"Juvia remembers... Ignite is part of Zeref's Musiz and Master Makarov told us to be careful... Juvia thinks they're trying to trick us," she informs.

I bite the bottom part of my lip. She's right. Ignite might be planning something that might get us out of the music business. Especially when the MBC Music Battle was happening soon...

"You're right Juvia, I'll inform the others quickly," I say, tapping my chin with my index finger.

Juvia nods and scurries away to Wendy as I turn my head to call Erza.

"Erza!" I half whisper and half yell.

She looks at me with confusion but jogs towards me.

"What is it?" she asks, cocking her head.

"You do remember that Ignite's our rival right?" I remind her.

Erza nods stiffly, her eyes suddenly steely.

"Yes, We'll have to be on the best look out for any suspicious works. Ignite is still part of Zeref's company and wether their our friends or not, we have to beat them," she describes, eyes shining with determine and leadership.

She and I high five each other. We both get ready for the big group hangout with Ignite. 5 boys and 5 girls in one room... .-. That's totally fair. Well, we have Erza...

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"Knock knock!" Lu yells, tapping on the door four times.

"Coming!" Romeo's voice is evident as the footsteps get closer.

"Wendy, you go first!" Lu insists as she lightly pushes Wendy's back to the door.

"Eh, Lu-chan!" she whimpers, as the door flings open showing Romeo.

Wendy's cheeks turn red as she accidentally trips on the door frame on the bottom. And there on, of course, she falls into the arms of a startled Romeo Conbolt.

"I-I'm so sorry, Romeo-kun!" Wendy quickly apologises bowing several times.

"Heh, it's okay, come in guys!" Romeo stutters slightly, as he looks away from Wendy.

"Ah, young love," I hear Lu whisper, giggling.

I smile slightly and head inside. The room was technically the same room as ours. Four beds, one couch, and a big washroom. A chandelier hung from the top as clothes were sprawled all over the floor.

"JELLAL-KUN! STING-KUN!" Romeo yells.

"Sheesh! What Romeo? I'm still brushing my-Oh..." Sting saunters in, scratching the back of his neck, not to mention he was holding a toothbrush in his right hand.

His face expression was priceless. His green emerald eyes widened as his mouth hung open. His gaze quickly darted to the one and only, Lucy Heartfilia.

"Uh... JELLAL! Get out here!" Sting yells.

"What is it, Sting?! You know I hate it when people-Wow, um.. Hello.." Jellal walks outside the washroom with only a towel on his waist, and bare from the re up.

His blue aqua hair was wet as his lips parted the slightest bit. All our eyes quickly darted away from him and onto any other object we could find.

"Sting.... You didn't tell me that they would be here so EARLY!" Jellal growls, looking really agitated.

"H-Hey, sorry! I didn't know they would be here this early!" Sting holds his hands up with an innocent face.

Early? I peeked on my phone for the time and saw it was 3:30 pm.

"It's not early, Baka... Besides you guys never typed in what time we had to be here," Lu boringly explains, rolling her eyes.

"Y-Yeah! But we thought it might at least take you half an hour to dress up or something!" Sting defends himself.

I raise one of my eyebrows. Dress up? He's kidding, right?

"Why would we dress up? It's not like we're those freaking Barbie dolls," Lu scoffs, crossing her arms.

"Well, it's not my fault-"

"Now, now, let's not fight?" Erza and Jellal say in sync as they cut off Sting and step between the two rivals.

Erza blinks at Jellal as he did so the same.

"Heh, sorry about that, Erza," Jellal apologises, ruffling his hair.

"It's fine. I am too," she stutters..-.-

"Anyway, where's Gray and Natsu?" Lucy cuts the love moment, smiling.

"Gray-kun is-"

"Right here.. Yo," a smooth voice comes from the door behind us.

Juvia jumps slightly as she took a step towards me. There leaning on the door frame, stood Gray Fullbuster, the cool one. His hands were in his pockets as he crossed his arms.

"Sorry, we're late. The flame idiot and I got stuck with fans. Get in here, BAKA!" Gray yells behind his shoulder.

My heart races at the sight of his salmon pink hair. I suck in a breath and brace myself. He's just my rival.. He's just my rival..

"Yo! Glad you guys could make it! Especially Ari!" Natsu waves, smiling cheek to cheek.

My face starts to warm up.

"S-Shut up!" I yell, avoiding his eyes.

"Heh, you're so fun to tease!" Natsu chuckles, placing an arm around my neck.

"Ooo... Is the new couple becoming for real?" Lu jokes, smirking.

"I will kill you in your sleep.." I hiss at her, still weak from Natsu's touch.

Lu rolls her eyes playfully and sticks out her tongue. Oh, she better sleep with one eye open tonight...

"Anyway! We should get the party started, huh? After all, you're our guests," Sting says, winking at Lu.

"Looks like my OPT, is finally working!" I joke, sticking my tongue out at Lu.

"Hush, child!" Lu argues, red tinting her cheeks.

Obvious she was falling for Sting.

"You're cute when you do that," Natsu whispers, making me shiver all over.

"H-Hey, get off!" I make an excuse as my cheeks were now on fire.

"Aw, is Ari mad at me?" Natsu jokes, pouting.

I turn on my heels and scoff, but failing horrendously.

"What do you guys want to do?" Romeo asks, while I thank him silently for changing the subject.

"Guys want to watch a movie?" Jellal suggests.

We all nod.

"I'll buy the snacks," I volunteer, grinning.

"I'll help-"

"I'll do it," Gray interrupts, raising his hand as he cut Natsu off.

"Hey, no! I wanna help Ari!" Natsu argues, puffing his cheeks out.

"Whatever.. You know the deal, Flame Idiot," Gray mumbles, before grabbing me by the arm and pulling me outside the room.

Well, now this is going to get interesting....

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