A bang yanks me from me my nap, I didn't even realize I fell asleep.
"Hold on." I free myself from Lucy's blanket prison and the door flies open.
"How's my best man doing?" Grey busts in with a twelve pack of beer in one hand, a magazine and a fist full of colorful squares in the other.
"what is that?" I point to his hand.
"Juvia wants me to pick a few color options for me out of the colors she already picked and look at what kind of suit I'll be wearing."
"A tux, right?" I look at the magazine under his arm.
"She said to pick a style." Grey shrugs and kicks the door closed.
"there's more than one kind of tux?" I ask.
"I know, right?" Grey plops down beside me. "how's the hand?"
"Lucy overacted." I tell him "She thinks it's her fault that guy was bothering her."
"That's a load of BS but she was okay, right?" Grey asks concerned.
"Yeah, he didn't touch her but... I didn't protect her, Grey." I shake my head "She needed me and I got myself knocked out." I sigh and comb my fingers through my hair.
"dude, yeah you got knocked out, but you still did something." Grey says.
"Yeah, soaked up spilled beer before I regained consciousness." I drop my head back and stare at the ceiling.
"Shut up." Grey says. "What you did took more guts than what I did."
"You mean actually save my girlfriend?" I mock myself. Grey punches my good shoulder.
"knock it off, I'm not in the mood." I grumble.
"I mean doing something even though you knew what was gonna happen." Grey clasps my shoulder "Of course it's easy for me to get into a fight, it's fun because I took eight years of judo. Fighting is easy for me." He sighs "it's not fun for you, it's not something you're good at-"
"Is this supposed to be making me feel better?" I demand.
"what you did took more guts than what I did." He pats me on the back "now quit giving yourself a hard time and help me figure this out." Grey pushes the magazine into my hand and flips the colorful squares back and forth.
"There's more than just one tux?" I ask again.
"I know, man," Grey cracks open a beer "that's what I said." He passes me a beer.
"You know Lucy hates day drinking." I remind him. He nudges it against my hand.
"You'll be sober by the time she gets back." Grey pushes the bottle into my hand, I take it.
"Think of it as a pre-bachelor party gathering." He takes another drink.
"I don't think that's going to make Lucy any happier when she finds out." I take a swig anyway, I'm not gonna get drunk or anything stupid like that.
I should really stop. I'm a little farther past tipsy than I meant to get. Grey is worse though. Lucy won't even know notice me with Grey here.
"Dude, this one or this one." Grey shoves the magazine into my face.
"not so close." I push the magazine away and hold it out to in front of me. There's a black suit on one page and a grey one on the other.
"I think..." I burp "I think you should definitely wear a, black one."
"I was thinking the sane thing, but Juvia wanted me to think about a grey one because she said she wants to wear a blush dress." Grey burps "so she said to pick a few black and a few grey ones."
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Every Reason I Loved Her- FairyTail edition
FanficNatsu loves Lucy, Lucy loves Natsu Their whole relationship has been as easy as breathing but lately Natsu notices Lucy acting strangely, he trusts her but he'd do anything to protect her but how can he do that when she won't tell him what's wrong...
