Fire and Ice

Chapter 5 ~House Guests~

~Gray~

I looked at him as he pulled away. He was smiling with that huge, cheeky grin again. I gave into that idiot and leaned over onto him. He ran his fingers through my hair, then leaned his head on mine. I looked at Wendy who stood in front of us, tapping her foot. Natsu saw her and scooted over on the bed away from me. I wanted him to come back, to hold me in his warm arms, but he didn't. I looked around to see if the nurse was here, but she wasn't.

"You better stay away from my Gray!" She yelled, latching onto my midsection. I smiled, lifting her head to look at me.

"You know Romeo is standing behind you, right?" I whispered in her ear. She whipped around, not seeing him. Everyone burst out laughing, except for Wendy. She looked at me, then came over and kicked my leg. The leg with my bad ankle. I gasped, then clenched my teeth. She turned around and crossed her arms.

"You deserve it, meany!" She yelled. I smiled and looked at her, then at Natsu. He had a worried look plastered on his face.

I laughed a bit and rubbed my head, "I'm sorry, It was a mean prank, I shouldn't have played it on you. Will you forgive me?"

She turned her head to look at me, then sighed, "Yeah, just don't do it again!" She pointed at me, "And who is this pinkie supposed to be? And why did he kiss you? And why are you acting like you're in- Ohhh." She walked over to Natsu, "If you hurt him at all, I'll kill you."

"Wendy, wait, we aren't dating or anything like that. We're just-"

Natsu got up and walked over, leaning in close to me, "So innocent, thats cute."

"I'm not innocent!" I whined. Natsu put his finger on my lips. It was so warm. Then he leaned in and kissed me again. His lips were soft and warm like the rest of his body. I wanted to pull away but I couldn't. I wanted him to be mine. Mine and only mine. He pulled away, with a slight blush on his cheeks. He was smiling, looking at me, then he noticed the others were still here, watching us. I laughed at their shocked expressions, then saw Gray's cheeks were as red as tomatoes. (Mmmm Tomato Soup)

The nurse walked back in, walking over to me. "Thank you for the help, now all of you should be getting to class. Don't want to be tardy."

Everyone nodded and left. Lucy grabbed onto Natsu's shirt, pulling him out of the room.

-After ankle heals-

~Gray~

I woke up at 7:00 hearing talking coming from downstairs. I sat up, walking down to it and seeing a guy sitting at the kitchen counter. Jane (foster mom) looked at me, shaking her head, "Gray Fullbuster! Where on earth are your clothes?"

I looked down, seeing I was only wearing my boxers. I turned around, walking up the stairs, getting dressed, and heading back downstairs. She nodded in approval. "This is sting. His mom just got a job here. She's an old friend of mine so I'm letting them stay here until they can get somewhere to stay on their own. Sting, this is Gray."

"Hi, Nice to meet you, Gray."

"Sting is also going to be going to your school! Isn't that great!" She said all too excitedly. I nodded.

"Sure." I said, yawning. She slapped me with a newspaper, playfully, "Hey! What?"

"Show some more respect to our guests."

"Jane, I have school today and didn't get my homework done until eleven last night. You're lucky I even woke up." I joked. "I'm heading to school. Sting, you ready?"

"Yeah." He said, grabbing a Nike backpack and following me outside. There was snow on the ground everywhere. Pure, white, untouched snow. Sting ran back into the house.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

"You're crazy! I'm not going out in that weather. How can you stand it?" He half asked, half yelled.

I sighed, "Look, I have to go, are you coming or not?"

He looked at me for a second to see if I was serious, then, deciding that I was, walked outside with me. We walked to the school, seeing that everybody I knew was standing there. Natsu was talking to Romeo when he saw me. Lucy, Levy, and Wendy did their usual, run up to Gray and hug him, bit. Sting put his arm around my neck, leaning down, whispering into my ear, "You have some hot friends. Especially that pink haired guy over there."

I looked at Natsu, who was glaring at Sting. Sting saw this and laughed. Natsu walked over and grabbed me by the arm, pulling me behind him.

"Oh I see. Gray, you forgot to mention you had a boyfriend." Sting said, "You know, you could do a lot better." He said to me. Then he winked at me. Great. Just great. I looked away, seeing Zeref glaring at me. This was going to be an amazing day. Not.

"Natsu, guys, this is Sting. His mother and him moved in with Jane and me until they can find a place of their own." Hopefully that was going to be soon.

Natsu was continuously getting madder. I put my hand on his shoulder, turning him to look at me, "Hey, Whats wrong?"

Natsu stared at me, heartbroken. "Uh hey guys, can we have a minute?"

Everyone left except Sting, "Classes are starting, come on pipsqueak, lets get to class." He grabbed me by the shoulder, flipping me around so I was facing forward. I tried looking back at Natsu, but he was gone. "Where is math?"

Thank god we didn't have the same first period. "This way."

We got to his class and I left, heading to mine. When I got there I saw Natsu was sitting in the back of the class. That was wierd. He usually sat by the rest of us. Meaning me, Lucy and Loke. The two of them looked at Natsu, worriedly. I walked back and sat by him, staring at him, "What?" He asked.

I laughed, "You're jealous."

"Am not." He said grumpily.

"Awwe you are jealous! Thats cute."

He stared at me. I smiled, causing him to smile. "Theres that smile."

He laughed, pushing my face away. It was homeroom so we didn't really do anything in this class but hang out. When the bell rang I saw Sting standing at the door. "I've got P.E. next. Where do I go?" He asked me. Oh great. At least I can beat him in basketball. We all walked into P.E., seeing Gildarts standing in the middle of the gym. Lots of gymnastics things were set up all over the court.

"Everybody line up!" We all did as he said, knowing this was going to be a bad day.