Sweet Till The End

7 - Secrets

"Jellal! What the hell is wrong with you?!" I shouted at my fiancé, ripping my arm out of his grasp.

He had dragged me away from the café and I had had enough when we were just outside our dorm building. Our friends were trailing behind us by a few feet.

"Me? What the hell is wrong with you?" Jellal fired back. "You never told me about this boy you met who clearly likes you and you're just letting him hold you like you're together or something."

Lucy let out a loud cough as she awkwardly shuffled away with the rest of my friends. "We'll just leave you two alone to talk it out."

In a burst of smoke and dust, my friends ran into our dormitory building, leaving me and Jellal out on the lawn by ourselves. I cursed Lucy for leaving us. I knew we had to have a confrontation about what was bothering Jellal but I was now tired and I wanted sleep.

"Jellal, Mest doesn't like me. He's just a friend. He's the best company in all of my classes," I reasoned with my fiancé.

"Have you seen the way he looks at you, how he acts around you? That guy is in love with you and it's written all over his face. And you just let him hold you close like you like him too," Jellal argued.

"I don't like him like that. I also doubt he likes me romantically but if he does, I don't. Don't you trust me? I love you and only you."

Jellal ran hand through his blue hair with frustration. "I trust you but I don't trust him. I don't like the guy. He seems... sketchy."

"Maybe if you gave him a chance, you could see that he's a nice person. He's my friend and if you can't accept that – if you let your jealousy get the best of you – then I don't want to talk to you."

"If we're going to keep fighting like this, then why are we getting married?"

I let out a gasp, taken aback by the mention of marriage. Jellal's eyes widened as he seemed to realise what he just said. We never had any big fights like this before and I was sure life after marriage was going to be a breeze. Now, I'm not too sure.

"You don't want to get married, is that it? Is that why you're acting out?" I asked.

Jellal looked even more shocked, as if I just said a bad word. His mouth opened and closed.

"No, I do want to marry you. I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you," Jellal said.

"Well, until you get yourself together, I'm leaving you alone. I'm tired now so I'm going to my room to eat cake." With that being said, I turned and headed to the dorms.

As I slowly walked away, half of me hoped he would stop me, taking me into his arms as he kissed me passionately. But he never did. I let my head fall down sadly.

I loved Jellal so much but we just haven't been ourselves lately and we haven't spent a lot of time together. We were slowly growing up and becoming adults. When we were in high school, things were different – we were different. University was stressful, taking up lots of our time. Now that I had a job, it would be harder to see Jellal a lot. We were making new friends and just the other day, when I wanted to hang out with Jellal, he had already organised to hang out with his new friends from his class. Fate just didn't seem to be working out for us.

Jellal's POV

I stared as Erza walked away. My foot moved automatically, taking a step closer to her, knowing I needed her – she was my world, my reason for living, my everything. I stopped my leg from walking anymore and just watched her disappear into the building. I wanted to run after her and tell her to stop but I knew I shouldn't.