Werewolves//Book 1//

Chapter 16. Problems Begin

"You can call someone from this? You have this and now I have one?" Jellal asked in surprised as I showed him his new phone.

He grabbed it like a child and started to swipe it and accidently opening one of the default apps. I sighed and took it away from him to fix it back to the home page.

"Yes, you can play games, watch videos, and call or text people," I told him. After a few moments of fiddling with the device, he got used to the feel of it and wanted to learn more. His room had stacks of my old books and posters that he printed out from his favourite trilogies.

"No duh I can phone people." He rolled his eyes. He thought for a second and balanced the phone in his hand experimentally. "Can I have Natsu's number?" He asked me.

Natsu's words would ring in my mind every day since a month ago. All he had done was ignore the very existence of me and talk to Juvia. At first, I decided to give him some space but it slowly became a pain somewhere in me. A pain that wouldn't go away and would haunt me at the back of my mind.

It was torture.

"Here, and why?" I raised my eyebrows at hm after typing in the number in his contacts. I held the phone in my hand, ready to delete it if he were to do anything to harm anyone. I even began to type in everyone else's number in it.

"This is new right?" He asked me hopefully. I raised the shiny object to his face bluntly to signal it was. "Stop it and that would mean if I message him or call him, he wouldn't know it would be me! I could have a lot of fun!" He said as he snatched it away from me.

"Knock yourself out!" I grinned as I laid on his bed. I could hear his fingers typing on the screen and I looked at him.

"He answered! He answered!"

He was such a child at times but sarcastic at others, it matches so well that it creeps me out sometimes. "And he's creeped out, he's threatening to call the police!" Jellal panicked after a minute of texting.

"For the love of God, just tell him that you're you!" I yelled at him. If he were to be caught by the police again, what would his excuse be this time? I don't even remember what he said to escape the last time.

"Done it, he says he's going to kill me, he's asking if you're in the room." He laughed at the last comment. Before he said anything, he typed in another message. I sat back up and pressed my back against the wall.

"Lucy?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I invite him and the others over tomorrow? It's Saturday tomorrow, so it's fine, right?" He asked me.

"You're so lucky that mum's at her friend's house, so yes, you can. And even if she were here, she would agree." I told him.

"Natsu's coming." I looked over at his screen for proof. The grey bubble with the default font had written in that he was indeed coming over.

"Juvia, you're still doing a sponsored silence?" I asked her. The whiteboard weighed lightly in her pale hands and the marker in the other. She nodded with a pale grin. I walked her into the living room and sat down on the coach with Levy. Juvia distanced herself from the boys in the group.

"Can you believe what happened! I refuse to believe it! You never told me that he was going to do that!" I shook her by the shoulders.

Remember the anime we watched a few months ago? The one when I was still getting used to Natsu? Yeah, something struck me during it and I refuse to believe it happened.

"It's not my fault! That's a new episode and he wanted to make it up to them for betraying them!" She breathed out before I stopped shaking her. I scowled at her before stuffing my face with what was closest to me.

"There is a new episode that came out yesterday, you know?" She asked me hopefully to try and get me to a better mood.

I watched as Juvia and Gray walked out of the living room. Juvia looked uneasy from what was happening, which was different. And Gray seemed...I don't know. He could be nervous but happy? Maybe a little confident but he was sweating in his hands.

"Do you know her?" Jellal yelled from the other side of the room. Levy and I looked at him as he stuck his tongue out playfully and bit his lip at Erza. She blinked a few times, trying to comprehend what he was trying to communicate with her before looking back at us.

I guess she didn't get it.

"Do you know me?" I asked her. "If you did, you would know I would be way too upset to watch another episode! I need to calm down and then watch it!" I yelled at her.

"How long is that going to take?" She asked. She leant back from the heat I was giving off and from what I might be yelling at next.

"Probably another month!"

Before she could say more, Gray ran into the room. His skin was flushed red from either what he had done or that he ran. He was out of breath and seemed very concerned and worried. His left hand supported him by the door frame and he stood up straight, breathing through his mouth.

"Juvia's crying. She's in one of the bedrooms, I don't know who's though. She's crying!" He panicked. I don't know what was so bad that he was this worried. We could easily fix the problem he was screaming about.

"And when she cries...she has no voice..."