Snowflakes in Summer (Jerza, Nalu, Gale, and Gruvia)

Chapter Eight

Erza P.O.V.

Meeting Lucy was nice and all, but I had other things on my mind. It's still so weird that Jellal lost his memory, leaving no trace of what happened in the past.

Of what happened in the past.

Quickly trying to shake the image out of my head, I decided it would be a good idea to go to the ice cream parlor and have a snack (you see, all of the students have a free period where they can rest to do anything they want).

I sat down on the cold metallic-looking chair, holding my ice cream cone in one hand while scrolling through texts with the other.

"Excuse me," I heard a voice call out. "May I just sit here for a while?"

"Sure," I gave the person my consent with no hesitation. I took my eyes off the phone for a moment to see who this stranger was, and ended up almost dropping my phone.

It was Jellal.

"O-oh," I awkwardly fumbled with my phone as I stuffed it into my back pocket. "Jellal, right?"

"Um yeah," he looked at me with concern. "And you're Erza?"

"Y-yeah," I smiled nervously. Of all the people in the world, why did it have to be him?

We sat in awkward silence for a while, and my strawberry ice cream was too melted to eat, so I disposed of it and came back to see Jellal fidgeting as if he wanted to ask me something. When I sat back down, he urgently wanted to ask me something.

"Sure, ask away." I smiled. I'm not ready. I'm not ready. I'm not ready.

"So," he averted my gaze like it was a laser beam. "I was just wondering if...you can help me study?"

"That will be totally fine," I smiled reassuringly.

"It's just," he explained. "I can't keep up with the class well." He smiled sheepishly.

"Well I'll help you," I replied. "No worries. Now when do you want to start studying?"

"Um," he scratched his head, deep in thought. "What about next Tuesday? I have basketball this Tuesday."

"Alright," I nodded. "See you next Tuesday."

Right after that he thanked me and left the parlor. I just sat there replaying all that has just went on. He asked me to help him study. But isn't that a date? No, we just met, so it can't be a date. We're...study buddies...yeah that's it. Study buddies.

I threw myself onto the metallic-looking table and heaved a great sigh.

What am I going to do?

Jellal P.O.V.

I started going down the sidewalk back to the academy. The wind was blowing up a trash tornado and it was starting to get cloudy.

I thought back to my conversation with Erza. She seemed nice enough, but...why do I know her name and her name only? Why didn't I remember my mom's or my brother's? Has she played some significant role in my past?

All these questions started to cloud up my mind and I became less conscious of my surroundings. So obviously, I ran into a pole.

Rubbing my head after the sharp clang, I gathered my fallen books and shoved them back into my book bag.

Suddenly, I fell back onto the concrete. My head was aching and my ears were ringing. I coughed with my hand to only see copious amounts of blood on it. I tried standing up, but I fell back down.

Not knowing what to do, I fell stomach on the ground. No one was able to witness my collapse and Erza probably went to the school another route.

Hastily taking out my phone, I dialed 911 with shaking hands.

"Hello?" the voice answered almost immediately. "You have called 911."

"I'm at a street near the ice cream parlor where Fairy Tail Academy is," I wheezed. "Please help."

"We will send a vehicle for you right away sir," the voice reassured me. "And may I get your name?"

"Je-" I hesitated. "Siegrain. My name is Siegrain Fernandes."

"Alright Siegrain," she replied. "Please hang in there."

The phone slipped out of my hand and clattered onto the cold ground. It was getting harder and harder to breathe as I kept hacking up blood.

"Someone," my eyes fluttered as my breathing slowed.

"Please."

{Mwahaha, cliffhanger ;) Sorry for the inactiveness I'm just really busy with summer school (yeah I know, I'm hopeless) and other things. Well anyhow, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and the long-awaited GaLe will be the next installment!}