Every Reason I Loved Her- FairyTail edition

Chapter 4: Bar Fights

Lucy and Juvia lean against each other in front of us as we wait in line.

"Yeah and then these older couples were dancing and singing to each other and it was so sweet." Lucy sighs. She looks good in her, what did Juvia call it... romper. It's gold and sparkly and these loose see through sleeves. Lucy looks really good in gold. It makes her look like an angel.

"You got a crowd of people to watch you and Lucy dance in the park?" Grey backhands my shoulder.

"You purposed to Juvia." I point out.

"Juvia is going to dance in every park now trying to get a bunch of old couples to dance with her and people to applaud us." Grey slaps his hand over his face and shakes his head. "how am I supposed to top that?"

"You purposed to Juvia." I hiss at him, trying to keep my voice low so the girls don't hear us. "You didn't even give me a heads up."

"Juvia wanted to be the one to tell Lucy and you can't keep secrets from Lucy." Grey laughs "You can't even wait to give her her Christmas presents."

"Lucy doesn't celebrate." I roll my eyes at him "I just like getting her stuff, so I give them to her early so she won't get upset with me."

"What's that thing Lucy's wearing?" Grey asks.

"Juvia called it a romper." I move closer to Lucy as the line moves forward.

"I need to get Juvia one." Grey nods appreciatively.

"Dude," I elbow his arm back, missing is side "are you checking Lucy out?"

"No." He shakes his head "I'm imagining my girl in that outfit." Grey smiles, I walk up behind Lucy and wrap my arms around her anyway.

"Ready to dance?" Lucy asks, resting her hands on mine.

"With you?" I squeeze her to me "always." She giggles and Juvia glances back at Grey, she's pouting at him. Grey scowls at me.

"I.Ds." the bouncer holds his hands out, he gives both girls and appreciative once over and I try not to let it get to me. the girls grab their IDs from their tiny bags and flash their IDs while Grey and I flip out our wallets.

"Go ahead." He jerks his chin toward the door. I step between the bouncer and Lucy and wrap my arm around her. I catch Grey doing the same thing as he leads Juvia past the guy and she giggles and tiptoes to kiss him. Grey lifts her off her feet to give her a boost.

"Come on!" Lucy drags me forward, straight toward the center of the dance floor. She slides through the crowd, dodging elbows and drink, I elbow through the crowd and try to stay on my feet. She stops almost as suddenly as she started and she turns to her, her eyes sparkling in the multicolored strobe lights. She raises her arms and swings her hips and let her lead because the best part of this is for me is just watching her. I love watching her dance.

"Dance." She smiles and takes my arm and raises it over her head so she can spin under it. She sways and flips her hair and I don't even know how she moves sometimes, so fluid and connected.

"You left us!" Juvia drags Grey and squeeze between the people dancing next to us and forces them to move back. Juvia is a much more aggressive dancer as she and Grey actually dance together. Grey and Juvia look like choreographed dance scene straight out of Step Up.

Lucy just watches me as I do a poor job of following the rhythm and she dances around me. She never makes fun of me or pushes me to learn, she just smiles and she dances and it's good.

Grey and Juvia already have a few drinks in them, their dancing getting sloppier with every passing drink. Lucy hasn't had even a sip, she rarely does. She likes to be alert and happy on her own. I've had a beer or two but Lucy doesn't try to control that either. She just smiles and giggles and dances and my phone buzzes in my pocket.