Please Read Authors Note at the end.
We all decided that it would be too suspicious if all of us disappeared at the same time so we made a compromise with Dad.
Only Lucy goes home, but she'll stay for a week, which brought great delight to Jude Heartifilia. He agreed and now, Sting and Rogue are helping me pack.
"I say you should bring this Luce!" Sting said, holding up a royal blue knee length dress, that was strapless.
"No way," Rogue said unimpressed. He held my shoulders and faced me towards him instead of Sting. "I think you should bring this" Rogue said holding up a black spaghetti strapped dress that had a gold belt in the middle. It went a few inches above the knee.
Sting and Rogue head butted. "This one suits her better!" Sting growled pointing at the blue dress in his hand.
"This dress brings out her hair!" Rogue said stepping back and held the dress in front of me, as if I'm actually wearing it. He points at my blonde hair and smirks.
Sting stepped back, realizing that it did in fact bring out your hair. He wouldn't give up though. "O-Oh yeah?! This brings out her eyes!" Sting countered, pushing Rogue out of the way and held up his dress in front of me.
In my opinion, they were both cute. I step in the middle of their fight and say that I would like to bring them both. "Alright! We have casual clothing, dresses, and gifts for Dad, now all we need is a formal dress, because no doubt about it, dad's gonna throw a banquet" I said, folding the black and blue dresses into the suitcase.
"Yeah, good point, Dad always does those things when we're around." Sting said rubbing his neck. "Correction: When Lucy is around." Rogue corrected.
"Yeah yeah" Sting said, "Oh, by the way, how's Misaki doing now?"
"She's fine, back to her cheery self, but I can't help but feel something's off. Why?"
"No reason"
"Alright, but I have to go tell the teachers to excuse me on this trip. So that means I'm leaving you guys to pick my formal dress okay?"
Rogue and Sting glared at each other, already knowing what's gonna happen. They were gonna pick different dresses and argue about which one is better. "What if we can't decide or can't find one?" Rogue asked. "Then we can go shopping" I said, thinking it would be a possibility that they couldn't find a dress.
"Alright" Sting sighed. "Let's get started Rogue, I'll start with this wardrobe and you go look in her bathroom closet." Sting said walking over to the huge wooden wardrobe.
"But her bathroom closet has like... two floors!" Rogue complained. "Not my problem" Sting said, looking at a long white dress. "Fine" Rogue gave in, before he went into the bathroom, he looked at me. "Leave it to us Lucy"
I nodded and left the apartment walking towards the school. It should be around the middle of afterschool if my memory serves me correctly.
I lightly jog towards the academy, silently hoping that all the teachers are still there, it was ninth grades turn to do afterschool this week.
I finally make it to the gates of the school. I walk through them and open the doors to the school. I walk down the empty hallways, making my way towards math class. I suddenly see someone walk around the corner, looking like they're about to cry.
Without thinking, I rush towards them. They were looking down, so I wasn't sure about who it actually was. I grab their head and make them face up towards me. My eyes widened at the sight. "Z-Zeref...? What's wrong? What happened?!" I screamed as I shook him.
