Living in the Shadows (a Jerza fanfic)

Chapter 4

(Jellal's pov)
Erza silently took me downstairs. She seemed really fearful, but it was becoming better by each step downward. It was really bugging me that she went through the trouble to bring me up there with a horrible fear of heights, nothing about it made sense. I wanted to bring it up to her, but I could tell that she would be angry with Lucy if I did that. Once we got to the bottom of the staircase, Erza took a deep breath.

"Okay, now it's time to talk to one last person," She said sternly. "If you don't  believe us after this, then fine. Just don't be a dick Fernandes."

"Man what a wild swing of emotions you are red," I laughed.

"Never call me red again," She turned and glared at me. "Never."

"That's right you don't have red hair," I sighed.

"What?" She asked, blatantly confused.

"Don't tell me you've forgotten yourself," I smirked. "Your hair is scarlet, anyone who would pay any attention to you knows that."

"Well no one does," she turned away from me quickly, her face flushed. "Not anymore anyways."

Realizing what she meant, I shut up and just kept walking silently. For some reason, I was feeling slightly guilty for what I had done to her. Maybe it was because I knew what she was doing for others. I had to snap out of this though, I mean she is Titania. She did take one of my sisters away from me. I made a mental note to ask her about Meredy after we talked to whoever she was taking me to now.

She opened a door to a room that just looked like a typical living room, with three guys sitting in it. Immediately I knew who they were. Rogue Cheney, an emo kid in my year; Sting Eucliffe, a high energy sophomore; and one of my closest friends, who was holding a green cat in a frog costume. This seemed to be angering Rogue, who wanted to get the cat back. Suddenly, they all turned to face me. My best friend stood up and smiled at me.

"Jelly!" He said happily.

"Grayyyy!" I cheered.

We ran up to each other and embraced each other. After this, we fist bumped, and smiled. We looked into each other's eyes and uttered the true words of a real bromance.

"No homo right?" I asked.

"Of course not bro," Gray smirked.

"Okay when you two are done having your little bromance," Erza scowled, "Gray can tell you how he ended up here, Jellal."

"Oh yeah Gray," I said, confused. "I had no idea you lived here. What happened?"

"It all happened about 2 years ago," Gray started (Gray's pov)

As you know, my parents abandoned me and my aunt and uncle died. I was living with my cousins Lyon and Ultear. Sometimes we mourned over our losses, but most of the time we just lived in the moment. We went to school, and never had any homework because of our situation. It was hilarious in our opinion, how just because we were all technically orphans that they didn't expect us to do any work. Ultear still tried to force us to do work, but do you really think she could make us? We all got along really well, and never forgot the importance of our bond.

One day, Ultear returned from getting groceries and seemed really weird. She threw them on the table then locked herself in her room. Concerned, Lyon and I tried to go and see what had happened, but she just laughed strangely through the door. This started the fighting between Lyon and I. We each blamed each other for her issues, and never seemed to consider it being an outside force. Unfortunately, that would be the end of us.

"Boys, want to go to this campsite?" Ultear asked. "We haven't done anything like this since all the adults died, and I think you deserve some fun."