How Writing Fanfiction Saved Me

Making Plans

Disclaimer: All Fairy Tail Characters Belong to Hiro Mashima

Chapter 5:

"Gray!!!!", Wendy squealed with delight when she saw the boy that was walking beside Natsu. She had always loved the raven haired boy, he had even been her first crush. When she had confessed her feelings he had broken her heart by telling her he was too old for her but he had taken her out for ice cream afterwards and never treated her any differently. She hoped to change his mind when she was older.

She ran towards the two boys and tackled Gray in a violent hug. He chuckled and picked her up squeezing her tightly before putting her down. Wendy could feel the glares of all the middle school girls who were jealous she was being picked up by two cute high school boys. They didn't have to know that one of them was her brother, she grinned to herself.

"So how come we're staying at your house?", Wendy asked curiously, "Zeref-nii didn't mention anything about it this morning."

Gray shrugged his shoulders, "I didn't know until my mom texted me, he was at my house this morning though."

"He's going to be gone all weekend?", Wendy scrunched her eyebrows in a thoughtful expression. "Oh my god! Natsu, do you think he has a girlfriend? Maybe he's taking her away on a romantic weekend!"

"What girl would date Zeref?", Natsu snorted, " He's up to something, though. He was acting all strange this morning."

Wendy secretly agreed but still felt the need to defend her eldest brother,"That's not very nice. Zeref is handsome and smart and kind."

"And boring and moody.", Natsu added, "Plus he doesn't do anything except be on his computer and read. At least before he got to college he did sports and stuff."

"How is that any different from you?", Wendy pointed out.

"I didn't say it was but I'm not looking for anyone at the moment.", Natsu said, "I wouldn't mind it if he had a girlfriend to take some of his attention away from me, though."

Wendy agreed with that too, Zeref had been overly fixated on Natsu the last few months. Although after what she had seen at her grandfather's office the previous week, he was right to be. She had been worried too but she had never thought it would have gotten that bad. She really hoped that Natsu would snap out of his funk this summer. Maybe this sleepover was one of Zeref's plans to help Natsu. Gray had always been able to get through to him before, maybe if they were forced to spend time together he would be able to again.

Whatever the reason, she was excited. She loved going to Gray's house. Mika, his mother, was really nice and his father was nice too, although he and Natsu didn't seem to get along very well lately. His house was fun too, they had converted their basement into a game room with a pool table and an air hockey table as well as lots of video games that you could play on a ginormous LCD projection screen which was also good for watching movies. It also had a small area set aside for a movie style popcorn machine and a refrigerator for drinks. Wendy was sure Natsu would happily live in that room if he was allowed and some summers it felt like they almost did.