==========| Chapter 5 |

•.•.•.•.•. Falling In Love •.•.•.•.•

"So.." I try to break the silence between the two of us.

Gray saunters beside, his hands in his pockets.

"What's up?" we ask in sync.

Gray and I laugh as we look into each other's eyes. Blue meets violet and we both smile at each other.

"You first," he gestures, being polite.

"Haha, so how's your group?" I ask, both curious yet suspicious.

Gray seemed like a nice guy but with Zeref's orders, he has to follow.

"Pretty good. We're going to compete in the MBC Music Battle so I'm actually really excited for that," he answers, cool as always.

I nod and we soon arrive at the hotel store.

"Pick whatever you like," he says, grinning.

I blush.

"Uh, you too!" I dumbly answer.

Gray chuckles and wraps an arm around me. His skin was cold yet warm. Perhaps, just around the perfect temperature. He and I walk inside the store and pick some drinks and chips.

"Water? We have water back at our hotel room," Gray asks, looking at me with 7 water bottles, curiously.

"Oh, my friends like specific water. Yeah, it's weird.." I smile nervously.

Gray shakes his head.

"No way, the guys always have to have their perfect drink. And what's stupid is that it's based on their hair colour," Gray tells me, grinning.

I laugh. "That's one thing we groups have in common then."

"Yeah," he replies, staring at me.

I take in his features and realize, he's actually really hot. Well, I don't really want to say that I like him but, he's.. Cute..

"Uh, so... We should head back," I giggle nervously.

Gray nods and presses the button for the elevator. My hands start to hurt as the elevator seemed to come slower and slower.

"You want me to hold those?" Gray asks, looking at me worriedly.

I blink my eyes before sinking back into reality.

"N-No! I can carry them, it's just this damn elevator that bothers me," I groan, attempting to kick the doors of the elevator.

Gray chuckles and picks me up bridal style.

"Here, this way you don't have to carry that too much," he smirks at my blushing face.

I gulp the remaining saliva and thrash my legs a little.

"H-Hey, Gray.. Put me down, people are watching!" I whine, squeezing my eyes tight.

"It'll be fine, I've got ya," he whispers in my ear making me blush even harder.

The doors of the elevator finally open and Gray walks inside, still carrying me.

"Gray, it's okay now, put me down.." I whine again, getting used to the feeling although.

"Nah, I don't feel like it," he jokes, running down the hall.

"Grayyyyyyyyy!" I yell, holding onto him tighter.

He bursts into the door of the hotel room and drops me on the couch. I could feel everyone's eyes on both of us.

"Gray, you cold bastard!" Natsu's voice rings my ears.

"I was only joking around, sheesh," Gray rolls his eyes, giving the bag of chips and drinks to Jellal.

"Still! You got be with Ari for an hour and half minutes! The store is two minutes away and it took you that long?!" Natsu informs, pouting.

Lucy smirks at me as I avoid her eyes.

"Natsu, calm down, he and I were picking some things," I try to relax him a little.

He turns around and wails chibi tears making everyone in the room faceplam.

"Let's watch the movie, shall we?" Jellal interrupts, shoving a handful of chips in Natsu's mouth.

I giggle as everyone nods excitingly.

We were watching a horror film, Insidious 2 so I will get scared. I took a seat on the floor beside Gray and grinned. His expression soon turned into annoyance as he looked beside me. I glanced to my side and saw Natsu, crossing his arms, still pouting like a child.

"Let's start the movie," Erza smiles, holding hands with Jellal, secretly.

Sting turns the flat screen TV on and tugs Lucy close to him, while she squirmed.

Wendy turned off the lights and sat beside Romeo, rather, closely.

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I jump, leaning slightly towards Gray, closing my eyes with terror. I hated horror things. I also hated it when people scared me. Those were my pet peeves. Gray wrapped an arm around me and pulled me into his chest. I heard a low growl from the left and a warm hand held mine. I suddenly didn't care about the movie anymore. All I thought about were these two boys, glaring at each other.

After a couple of hours, the movie finally ended with Wendy crying, Erza scoffing at how childish it was, and Lucy getting mad at Sting for trying to grope her butt. Juvia stayed alone, mostly whispering to herself the whole movie.

Meanwhile, I was stuck between two idiotic yet, sweet boys, who were giving each other death stares. My left hand was inclosed in Natsu's as my right was held in Gray's. Lucy smirked and Erza chuckled, holding Jellal's hand.

"She's mine," Natsu scowls, squeezing my hand tighter.

"Who said, idiotic flame bastard?!" Gray demands in a cold voice.

I slip out from the two foolish boys and tug Er-chan away from Jellal.

"Can we leave?" I whisper, uncomfortable.

Erza grins. "Well, the boys invited us to sleep over here at their room today and we just couldn't say no."

I widen my eyes and open my mouth to start yelling at her when her hand closed my mouth and smirked.

"You're welcome, I even brought your fuzzy cat pyjamas," she informs, jogging away to Lucy.

I pouted and was about to pound her to the ground when two muscular arms closed my neck. His head snuggled on the side of my neck and I held back a giggle. It's not my fault I was ticklish.

"Ari you left me.." Natsu's voice was obvious as I shivered at his kawaii voice.

"Nastu, get off of me, you're heavy," I whine, secretly liking the way his hot body warming mine.

"Nah, I don't feel like it," he jokes, snuggling even more.

"Idiot.." I softly insult, ruffling his soft hair.

"A cute idiot," he adds.

"Yeah-wait what?" I snap back into reality and push Natsu off of me.

"Yay, Ari called me cute," Natsu gushes, his cheeks tinted pink.

"And an idiot," I remind him, pouting.

"Still you said cute," he argues, knowing he'll win.

"Whatever," I murmur, blushing slightly.

"Hehe, we're going to be the best of friends, Ari," Natsu softly says, smiling.

"Maybe.." I slightly grin.

We look into each other's eyes and I know that I have fallen in love with Natsu Dragneel..