Sweeter Than Strawberry Cake (Jerza)

Chapter 15 - Let's hear it for New Year!

Erza's POV

After Christmas comes another great celebration, right? Right. And that is...

New year!

Today is the last day of the year and tomorrow is New Year's Day! I couldn't wait! Fireworks, new classes, new students, New Year's resolution, new everything, New Year!

"Erza!" Lucy shouted from downstairs. "Hurry up! We're leaving!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I yelled a reply back. I was in my room upstairs, doing my hair while the others waited downstairs in my house.

"Can you guys stop shouting?" Natsu shouted.

"Hypocrite!" I shouted back.

I quickly slipped on some Converses and rushed downstairs. Natsu, Lucy, Gray and Jellal were sitting on my couch watching TV. When they saw me come, they turned it off.

"Geez, why do girls have to take so long?" Natsu asked.

"Hey! We do not" Lucy slapped Natsu's arm jokingly.

"Stop fighting. We better go now since you guys took so long" Gray said.

Before Lucy could make another remark, I grabbed her arm and dragged her outside. Once all five of us were outside and ready to go, we started walking down the road. We were all going to dinner and then to see the fireworks for New Year. It was just our gang, except Jellal who was an exception.

"Great! We're late now because of girls!" Natsu complained.

"Shut up!" Lucy yelled.

"Don't worry, Lucy. He's not angry at you; he's angry at me because I took too long" I told her and that seemed to calm her down.

"Plus, I think girls are amazing" Jellal said as he wrapped his arm around my waist.

"See Natsu, Jellal's a better boyfriend than you" Gray smirked.

"What?! Well, I don't see you being a better boyfriend. You haven't even asked Juvia out yet" Natsu remarked proudly.

Gray blushed at the mention of Juvia. "Umm, I actually did ask Juvia out. After the Christmas party, I took her to a café and then to the park - where I asked her to be my girlfriend, so now we're official."

"Oh my god!" Lucy squealed and gave me the 'we have to talk to Juvia' look.

"Congratulations" I patted Gray's back.

"Wow, I can't believe you finally got the balls to do that" Natsu exclaimed.

Gray rolled his eyes and punched Natsu's shoulder. Then we stopped walking to see the diner, 8 Island, in front of us. We entered and took a table for five. I looked at the menu and found what I wanted to eat.

"Hi, I'm... oh, it's you" Evergreen walked up to us and snarled. She was wearing the 8 Island orange waitress uniform and she had a notepad in her hand. Wow, I didn't realise she worked at this diner.

Evergreen sighed. "Hi, I'm Evergreen and I'll be your waitress for today. Can I get you some drinks to start off with?" Evergreen asked with a fake smile on her lipstick lips.

"I'll take a lemonade" I said.

Lucy and Jellal ordered water while Natsu and Gray ordered coke. Evergreen wrote them down and then scurried away. While we waited, we just had some small talk about what we would do for the rest of the holidays. Then Freed in a waiter's outfit walked up to our table, carrying a tray of drinks.