Stay With Me

The Date

Chapter 66

Gray woke up today was the day after waiting 4 days today is the day he gets the date today the day were he either continues to try or gives up completely. He began to get nervous he had to make sure everything went right. Just like he done before he texted her to let her know if the date was still on and she had said yes so he was making sure everything was good. It wasn't till later on in the evening but yet he was already nervous as hell. He bought the things he needed for later on and started preparing the things he was going to take. Once everything was settled he looked at himself "now to get ready Ughh this is going to be a long day" gray said to himself.

Erza had got his text to see if the date was still on and she had yes she had prayed that everything goes good what she was really scared of was Jellal coming out of the blue like he always does and him getting mad. Erza dos some of her chores around her house and when out with Lucy she told her about the date she was having today "maybe you guys can fix things maybe y'all can finally get together again" Lucy said "no Lucy I told him it's a friends date or else I wouldn't have agreed, what we had will not happen I just can't anymore" Erza said. Lucy looked down "all I'm saying Erza it's not correct to marry someone you no longer are in love with" Lucy said "what if I am in love with Jellal I remember how we use to be and how in love I was with him all of our sweet memories we had" Erza said. "You're confusing things Erza that's no longer love, what y'all had is over" Lucy said. "how do you know when it's over?" Erza asked "maybe when you fell more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you" Lucy said. Erza looked down "Lucy I have to go get ready I'll tell you how it went tomorrow see ya" Erza said walking off "just know Erza no one will judge you it's up to you but I do tell you let your heart choose because you'll regret it later on and you don't want to grow up with regrets" Lucy said "I'll keep that in mind" Erza said and left. Erza came home exhausted and she looked at the time and her heart started beating fast it was almost time and she was getting really nervous "it's just a friends date Erza nothing else" Erza said to herself and got out a maroon dress from her closet and then grabbed black heels and jewelry. She set it on the bed and got into the shower and came out and blowed dried her hair. She then put on the dress and put the heels and jewelry on and did her hair in small curls and adjusted herself she looked at the time she had a few minutes till gray would come "and now to wait" Erza said and sat down.

Gray walked to Erza door. He took a deep breath. He was really nervous, he had been all day thinking about the date he didn't even want to eat breakfast in the morning. He then knock. The door opened and his eyes opened widen once Erza came out in a maroon dress. He didn't know what to say he just stood there. "Ugh gray?" Erza said getting shy grabbing one of her arms. That's when he reacted "I'm sorry ugh here these are for you" gray said looking away handing her roses. Erza eyes widen "t-thank you" Erza said taking them and placing them in her counter and coming back shutting the door behind her and locking it. They walked out of the building. "So where exactly are we going?" Erza said "well um the last date I took you out on turned out to be such a fail I just though a simple little date since I remember you love simple dates" gray said and in a little hill there was a table with food gray had set up. Erza eyes widen, around the table were little white Christmas lights shining on them and in the middle a small rose. Erza smiled "this is lovely.." Erza admitted. Gray smiled "I'm glad you like it" he said and walked towards a chair and he open the chair for her, Erza walked over and sat down. Gray pushed her in and then he sat down. "I forgot to tell you how beautiful you look tonight" gray said. Erza blushed and looked away. They started talking about stuff and how there jobs were going and what country gray was to go to next for his world tour. That's when he saw Erza was eating her food he watched her intensely the way her eyes looked at her food and the way she chew it and the way her nose wrinkled up a bit. Erza felt like she was being stared at and looked up and saw gray looking at her, she started blushing "what?" Erza said. "I like looking at you when you're not paying attention because I think that's when you're the most beautiful because you're not trying, you're just being you and to me that's better than any picture you or anyone else could ever take" gray said Erza grew red and almost choked on her food and took a sip of her water to keep herself from choking. Gray chuckled he always found her cute like this the way she got nervous and blushed turning red like a tomato. They talked a bit more but then It grew silent once again. Gray began to think of everything that has happened the bad things and the good. The happiness in his eyes changes to sadness and Erza noticed "what's wrong?" Erza said. "Huh?"gray said "you look sad?"Erza said. "I- it's nothing"gray said looking down. Erza took it as he didn't want to talk about it so she didn't force him to. Gray decide maybe he should just say it  "I never wanted us to end up like this.." Gray said. "End up like what?" Erza said setting her fork down "like this a big gap between us I feel it, I feel it when there is silence, when we can't even bare to look at each other, I didn't want us to be like this. We were always so close. Laughing together, smiling together, sharing everything telling what hurts us, what makes us happy there was never no gap between us and now.. There is and a big one and I feel it" gray said. "You think I wanted this as well? I hate it too I don't even know what to say anymore, I try to find words or something to talk about but there nothing, I just.. I don't know anymore.. I just can't look at you the same as much as I try I want to just be friends but when I look at your eyes I see the person that once was the whole world to me" Erza said. " how do you think I feel, looking at the girl who made you the happiest man on earth, the girl who brought out the best in you, the girl you love engaged to someone else, I can't stand it I try to not think about it but it's always on my mind. I don't want to look at you as just a friend I can't because my eyes only look at you with pure love " gray said Placing his hand on Erza hand. Erza removed her hand slowly " stop telling me stuff like that please stop you're making me have doubts, making me think I'm doing wrong in getting married" Erza said. "But that's the thing I don't want you to get married, I don't want to lose you" gray said. " you lost me the day you did what you did.. Can't you understand how much you hurt me?" Erza said "I understand it, I wake up everyday feeling like shit knowing I hurt the girl that loved me the most I know what I did it haunts me everyday, I can't sleep, I can't eat but knowing more that you're getting married it's just tearing me more I know I fucked up big time I made mistakes I screwed everything we had but I just can't stop loving you Erza I try and I try but I can't seem to get you off my mind there is no girl in this whole world that can replace you Erza I love you" gray said. Erza shook her head. Standing up "no please no stop it .. Stop it... Stop getting in my head. I don't even know of what I'm doing is right anymore I don't even know if marrying Jellal is what I want" Erza said. "Erza I can't stop its what I feel I can't stop loving you. I fell in love with you. With the way you smile, with how you smell. I can't think of one thing about you that I'm not In love with. To me you're perfect. Your "flaws" aren't flaws to me because I adore them all. I am in love with you, with every single piece of you" gray said. "Stop telling me things like that It makes me.. Fall in love with you more" Erza said gray eyes opened wide "what?" He said. "Yes I still love you, it took me a while to realize but when I did I tried to push the though out of my head but I can't I still love you. Even when I realized I could not trust you, I still could not stop myself from loving you. Even when I realized you didn't deserve me, I still felt like I deserved you. Because I had already given so much of me, and invested so much time and energy, that  it just didn't seem fair to have to walk away with nothing." Erza said "but, I have Jellal and I didn't think it was fair for him to have gone all his way to make me happy just for me to leave him like that so I said yes thinking I could forget about you, thinking I could fall in love with him but I still can't get you off my fucking mind I hate myself for that.. But mostly, I hate the way I don't hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all" Erza said and tears began to fall down her face. Gray looked at her and grabbed her and pulled her into a hug Erza tried fighting him but he held on to her. "Let me go" Erza said "I don't care how much you fight me I'm not letting go" gray said. Erza stopped she tried to hold it in but it all came out. Gray held her. Maybe to the people that would pass by they might look like idiots from a chick flick but to him it meant so much more holding her here with him right now. The Stars shined bright. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for fucking your life up so bad, sorry for making you cry, I'm so sorry.." Gray said the cracks in his voice made Erza look up. Their eyes met he look at her and she looked at him. The tears still falling he wiped them away with his hand. "I'm sorry Erza.." He said. His eyes grew with pain as he said the next words "but please, don't marry him" he said as a tear fell from his eyes. Erza was about to say something but gray leaned in and his lips brushed against her as he began to kiss her. Erza stood there shocked for a while but then she closed her eyes and began to kiss back. They knew both of them couldn't resist each other any longer...

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Another update since I took for ever to update sorry it was short and oohhhh crap Erza and gray kissed what will happen next?? There is still way to much drama don't worry our story is not done yet anyway hope y'all enjoy

-Alondra