All Is Fair In Love and War

Green with Envy

"Lucy," Levy poked her best friend. "You're staring again." She chuckled.

"Huh? I was?" Lucy snapped back into reality. She was indeed staring. Staring at Natsu Dragneel, the fire Dragon Slayer. She was daydreaming about stuff she shouldn't be caught daydreaming about.

"Was she staring at Natsu again?" Erza said eating some home-made strawberry cake. She decided she'd never make one by herself again, pushing the plate away and sighing.

"Yeah, and probably thinking about something naughty." Levy wiggled her blue eyebrows. Lucy gave a look like she'd just eaten something sour in order to cover up the truth of the matter.

"And you don't stare at Gajeel?" Lucy said, making fun of Levy's giant crush once again. Levy only blushed and kept her head down.

Lisanna watched from a nearby table. She was expecting Lucy to fall for Natsu, but she thought Lucy would also brush it off and go for Gray or Loke. She sighed sadly and turned back to her sister.

"What's wrong Lisanna?" Mira was wiping the counter, and she stopped to talk to her little sister.

"I like Natsu, and so does Lucy." She sighed again, regretting she told Mira. This was about to get akward.

Mira gasped. "A love triangle? Oh no!" Mira legitimately panicked. She shipped NaLu since after their first job, but she didn't want to hurt her sister. Plus, Mira hadn't figured out who to pair Lisanna with anyway.

"Mira... please don't say anything." Lisanna gave her big sister puppy dog eyes. It was too much for the fragile Mirajane.

"Fine!" Mira groaned, gaining a small smile from her little sister.

"So Wendy, what do you think about Romeo?" Levy asked the little Dragon Slayer. Carla wasn't around, so they were free to ask Wendy personal questions without her bodyguard dragging her away.

"What about him?" Wendy was adorably innocent.

"Do you like him?" Levy pressed on slowly.

"Sure he's nice, but he calls me 'Big Sister Wendy' even though we're the same age now. But I like his magic!" She concluded.

"So then do you like him?" Lucy said smirking and wiggling her eyebrows, as did Erza and Levy.

Wendy was confused and Levy had to whisper in her ear. That made Wendy's face go in a rose pink color. "Eh?!" She never thought of Romeo that way.

The girls laughed and giggled at Wendy's innocent response. Then someone hooked their arms around Lucy's to rib cage "Hey Luce!" Natsu said pulling her out of the seat.

"Natsu put me down!" Lucy laughed, secretly enjoying the back-hug.

"Not a chance!" Natsu yelled, spinning Lucy while still holding on to her. "Next stop, Dizzy town!" Natsu said laughing.

"Aaah! Levy! Erza! Gray! Help!" Lucy laughed getting dizzier as the world blurred in her vision. "Natsu! I'm going to puke! Let me go!" Lucy laughed and tried to keep her lunch down at the same time.

Lisanna envied Lucy and Natsu's relationship. She was gone for 2 years, and this is what she gets. A hole in her heart. She always smiled the pain away, hoping no-one would notice.

She wanted to be spun too. To have those strong arms wrap around her and hold her tight. She could only watch as her heart chipped away.

Mira hated to go against her own ship, but her sister mattered more. So she swallowed her pride, womaned up and said, "Why don't you go ask Lucy what she thinks Natsu as. She's always denying that they're more than friends, so maybe she's telling the truth."

Hope developed inside Lisanna. Maybe Lucy just thought as her and Natsu as friends! She waited for Lucy to stop feeling dizzy before walking over to her.

"Hey Lucy, what do you think of Natsu as?" She said in a soft voice. She gained Levy's attention, and Erza's too.

"He probably sees me as his best friend, but I see him a little differently." She gave a loving look in Natsu's direction.

Lisanna's heart sank into the depths of sadness. "Oh. Because IlikeNatsutoo and I wanted to know ifyoudid." she sped up the embarrassing parts.

"Could you say that a little slower? I couldn't hear you." Lucy was concerned for Lisanna.

"I like Natsu too!" Lisanna blurted out. Lucy was shocked, Levy fainted, Erza showed no emotion, but on the inside she was torn, and Wendy gasped.

Lisanna was waiting for someone to talk. Lucy couldn't find words. Gray must have heard her too, and made his way over to the girls. "Haven't you always?" He said.

"Gray your clothes." Cana called. Gray pulled some jeans from under the floorboard and put them on.

"I think she's jealous of Lucy." Juvia said. What did she know? Where was she when they were little kids?

"Not jealous." Erza said. "They're both envious of each other's social standing with Natsu." She concluded. She was right. The two girls looked at each other in dismay.

"Love Rivals..." Juvia gasped.