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"Hello Lucy?" I say as I drape my hoodie over my head and put on my sunglasses.

"Gimme two minutes." She whispers. I can hear Natsu's voice in the background. She's telling him something about going out for a breather and telling him to keep an eye out for customers or something. "Yeah, alright I'm done now.".

"Let's go over the plan." I ask her.

"Oh hello Jellal I'm fine! Thank you so much for asking." She says with sarcasm oozing out of her words.

"Fine, fine. How are you Lucy?" I ask her.

"Fine thank you very much." She chirps. "How was your concert? I mean I did attend it and it was spectacular but how'd you enjoy it?" She asks.

"You did? Ah well we're talking about me, it was obviously amazing." I chuckle to myself.

"Stop bragging already. Anyway now let's get down to business." She gets into a much more serious tone.

"I'm listening." I mumble as I stand in a corner, under the lamppost.

"Me and Natsu are already present in the stall, well technically he's at the stall I'm outside to talk to you. I mean you wouldn't want him to know that I'm talking to you. That'll just make this complicated, more than it already is. Natsu really won't be happy to know you're still around. He was telling me earlier when we were walking together to the festival that he wanted to rip your head apart-" I stop her before she could ramble on any farther about Natsu.

"Lucy." I say to get her back to the problem at hand.

"Oh, uh, yeah, sorry. Anyways, Natsu and I are present in the stall so you could grab Erza. I made sure that she comes after us. What's the time now? I suppose somewhat 7:35? Whatever. So I asked her to pick up a corndog from a nearby stall ,which I will tell you where later on about where it is, when she'll be at the stall and ready to come to our own stall you'll take her with you.

Approximately forty-seven steps and two right away from the corndog stall is the dumpster alley. There's a stall in front of the dumpster alley, but don't worry it doesn't open until nine. You've enough time to talk to her till then." She takes a breath as she concludes the plan.

"It's actually 7:51. What time is she coming?" I ask Lucy.

"Shit. She enters the festival at 8:00. Erza is super punctual so we know that she'll be there around that time. Now the corndog stand, it's the fourteenth stall from the main entrance. Oh my lord you're killing me with all this anxiety. I'm about to chew my nails and I just had a 4000 jewels manicure!" She admits in a chuckle.

"Thank you Lucy. I mean you've helped me out twice, now that I'm in a trouble with Erza and especially when I was a struggling musician in high school. I owe you twice." I smile as I stare up to the twinkling stars up in the sky.

"Don't do the mushy talk with me alright? You're welcome though. Oh and remember Jellal, there are cameras everywhere in the festival so if you even think about doing something fishy to my best friend-" I cut her off.

"Not even the police officers or Natsu could beat me up more than Erza if I tried to do something fishy." I laugh as the frightening thought of Erza kicking me in the guts comes to my mind.

"You're right though. Hey, by the way, how will you know who's Erza. There's a pretty tight crowd in here." Lucy questions.

"What's the most noticeable feature on Erza? Something that stands out no matter what?" I ask her a question for a question.

"Her hair?" She replied with uncertainty.

"Exactly." I reply.

"Natsu's calling for me. Time to go. Best of luck Jellal." She says.

"Thank you. For reasons more than one." I say as a new sense of fear and excitement goes through my body.

She hangs up and I stare at my watch. 7:59.

Let's do this.

I walk to the place where I think the main entrance is. Lucy wasn't kidding when she said that the place was packed. I freeze for a few seconds. Panic starts to engulf me. What ifs and maybes occupy my mind.

She doesn't necessarily have to say yes. Why is there paradise going on in my mind? She could say no, she could call the cops on me, so why was there a thought lingering in my mind that she could say yes and smooch me on the spot?

We can't and we won't find out until we try, that's what is going on in my head. I look around me and search for scarlet hair. I'm this close to thinking that she's gone ahead or isn't here yet when a scarlet hue goes past my eyes.

Let's do this, Jellal.

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Holy hell!
Almost at the end.
Wow.

I hope you all
are just as excited and
a tad bit sad as
I am.

What's your thoughts one how
things will turn out?

Angst or nah?

Do you guys even
listen to the music I put up there?
Tbh the only reason I put up music
is that so you could know what
inspired me to write the chapter.

As for the song in this chapter.
It's not in English and I bet 99% of you
won't understand it but hey,
good music is good music.

Hasta la vista!