【Re:Freezing】 | Gray Fullbuster x OC

32. On The Waters

"Are you bringing Karissa with you?"

Gray stiffened at the question. Slowly, he turned back to look at Mirajane who was smiling at him with contained excitement. How the hell did she know that? He didn't even mention her once.

The white haired wizard only folded her arms on the counter and leaned on it. "It was just a hunch." She revealed, his reaction was enough to give away the answer to her question.

Gray frowned at that. "We've been training a lot. I was thinking of getting us a well earned reward or something..."

Plus, it seemed like a good idea to earn some money to. Two birds with one stone.

"For her birthday too, right?"

"..."

"Aww."

Gray scrubbed the back of his head, embarrassed at how she was cooing and gushing. "So what?"

"Nothing, nothing. I just think it's romantic~"

"R-Romantic?!" Gray sputtered, face flushing red from the blunt description. He froze. With narrowed eyes, he watched the Take Over mage carefully who only smiled at him cheerfully. Did she know? If so, how long has she known? He was sure he didn't reveal his affections for Karissa with how conscious he was in public.

He wanted to ask, but at the same time he didn't want to know.

Mirajane looked around cautiously while motioning her hand for him to come closer.

Okay, he'll bite.

"You know, Karissa once told me that she finds you attractive."

Gray blinked in surprise, stilling at her words. She found him attractive? Since when? It made him think about when she called him handsome at his house and how he wondered what it meant she called him as such. Almost immediately, he asked Mirajane when she told her such a thing.

"When you guys came back from Novera." She replied. "She didn't say the word attractive but she agreed when I asked her. I think she was just too shy to say it. And she certainly didn't deny it when I mentioned it the second time."

Gray just stared at Mirajane who gave him a nod to help him believe what she said, he must have been looking at her suspiciously. The white haired mage then stood up and wandered away from him, leaving him alone with his thoughts.

He turned around and started walking towards the exit of the guild while trying to figure out what to do with this new piece of information. Karissa most likely wouldn't appreciate Mirajane telling him judging from how embarrassed she got when she called him handsome. What she doesn't know won't embarrass her.

He needed to do some more thinking.

"She thinks I'm attractive, huh?"

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Being the mother that Pandora was, when Karissa told her about how she needed to wear something nice for the auction, she refused to let her little sister wear the clothes she brought to Akane Resort. It was also her excuse to drag her out to do some last minute shopping for something nicer. She couldn't waste that opportunity when it could only be a once in a lifetime one with how her sister never went shopping for nice clothes like the average girl. Despite insisting she didn't need to; Karissa was still dragged out of the house and to a store with her brother and sister. Yes, her brother wanted to tag along and see the once in a lifetime event as well.