Our little secret

S e v e n

Uh,, I made this on a whim and I have 1k reads? Thanks?? I love you all. The support and the bragging rights i got on my friends now, I appreciate them both very much.

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I my breathing begins to quicken as I run down the nostalgic roads of magnolia.

I'm a big fat idiot. Gray was right; I really am a flamebrain.

I'm always jumping to conclusions, and not actually allowing anything to happen the way it should.

So what if Gray's annoying?
That doesn't mean that I can't indulge in the feelings I have.
I don't have to restrict myself just because of who he is- heck it's because of who he is I don't need to.

I can do it. I can confront him with the way I've been feeling.

I can.

So I will.

After I finish my inner monologue, I'm able to smell Gray, which means he's outside.

It means he's near.

I follow the familiar cool sent of mint, the cool sent of... well... cold I guess, as I run to the outskirts of a forest.

I follow the scent a bit further and before too long I can see him, sitting down leaning against a vast tree, both in thickness and length.

"Gray!" I pant frantically.

His head jerks up immediately after I call his name, turning left and right before he sees me; his eyes widening.

He uses the tree to support himself getting up.

"Natsu? Is that you, or am I seeing things, you emotional wreck?" He smiles towards me, wryly.

Is he seriously making fun of my right now...?

"Shut up you loser..." I throw the insult at him half-heartedly, standing barely a metre away from him. "I- I just..."

I can't seem to put it into words.

"I mean, I just wanted to... you know. Uhh, umm... you..." I shuffle back a few centimetres back.

I want to tell him how much I want to hug him. I want to tell him that I'm sorry for acting up. I want to tell him that I want to go back to when we were at Lucy's house and to be able to be friends with him like we were again. I want to be with him again; near him again.

But I keep getting tongue tied.

I shuffle away once more in defeat. "Look, I- I just wanna... wanna..."

Gray sighs. Moving away from the tree he was leaning on, he takes a large step forward, closing the distance I kept growing between us nearly instantaneously.

"I... Mngh!"

Just as I'm about to say something, (I probably was just going to stutter some more, but that's besides the point), Gray cuts me off by placing his own cool lips on top of mine.

A warm feeling of inexplainable heart-aching joy fills me up and I feel my eyes start to go hot and water slightly.

I wrap my lose arms around his back and meekly, softly, timidly kiss him back.

We stand there, embracing each other, kissing with heartfelt emotions void of lust, in the outskirts of the forest and to be honest, there's no place I'd rather be right now.

But I slowly pull away from my oasis. I can't get distracted from the reason I came here.

"Gray, I... I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I was so impulsive and didn't even try to except you. I'm sorry I was so rude. I was just.. scared, you know? I- I- I think i like you, I mean! I'm not gay, I don't-"

He places a more forceful, tougher kiss on me this time. Letting me feel his frustration with his love. Oh how much of a cretin I am. This time, I let my eyes leak hot tears down my face. I let my emotions go, by kissing him back, the same way I wanted to those few days ago at Lucy's. My own lewder kiss.

Now he pulls away first, but keeps our foreheads touching and allowing our noses to rub against one another affectionately. Lovingly.

"If you don't want anyone to know, don't tell them then."

He pecks my lips, softly.

"If no one finds out, it can still be your little secret."

Another peck, affectionately.

"Or it can be ours"

Another peck, harder and more desperate this time.

"I love you, Natsu."

And with that, I'm the one who then attacks his lips, the last tear dripping down my face.

My last barrier.

His acceptance.

"I love you, Gray," I whisper.

"I love you too, Natsu," Gray whispers back, his smiling lips placed onto my own pair of equally happy lips.

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I can't bring myself to smut,, I'm sorry. #teamfluff :')

Since I have no motivation, the next chapter (an epilogue, or maybe I'll force myself to write smut idk give me suggestions) will be out at... 300 votes; why not. Give myself some time.