Day 8- Orange Sky

"You sure he's gonna like me?" I asked as I stared myself in the mirror.

I wore a dress, yellow one with red flowers on it, and my hair was straightened and a little make-up was given but not too much as to make me look like some kind of a model or a diva.

"Of course he's gonna like you. Who wouldn't like such a beautiful lady?" Gajeel, my middle-school best friend, my side kick and the person who listens and agrees with me be it on any topic.

I chuckled, "thanks for making me look beautiful Gajeel." I got up and bumped his fist.

"Glad you could rely on me."

"Thanks to you, I can make him fall head over heels for me in no time!"

"High five girl!" He high fived me and the both of us have each other a 'fighting' hug.

"NOW GO AND MAKE HIM YOURS!" 

"YOU DONT NEED TO REMIND ME THAT!"

"OF COURSE!"

"WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?!"

"I DONT KNOW, I GUESS WE ARE JUST EXCITED!"

"YOU'RE RIGHT! BUT WHY ARE YOU EXCITED?!"

"FOR YOU!"

"AWW!"

"You're just wasting your time now Erza."

"Yea I should probably leave now..."

- 5 pm, near the lighthouse -

Unexpectedly, he was there. Standing near the bricked wall while supporting on his left.

"Hey." I said as I approached him nervously.

He came causal, like I had thought.Not that I expected him to come in a suit or anything...that would be weird but really handsome..

"You're on time." He said.

"Don't want to keep you waiting now right." I smiled.

"You look pretty."

I gasped. He complimented me. He said what every guy should say on a date. "You look pretty." I repeated his voice inside my head and I man, I could keep it on repeat all day long. Wish I had expected he would say something like that, I would have secretly recorded it in my phone and kept it as my ringtone.

"Th-thank you!" I bowed and blushed. "You look handsome yourself."

"I just wore the usual, what's so handsome in it?"

"You always look handsome. Even if you wear a chicken suit you will look shine."

"That's too much, though I am flattered. Thank you."

I thought of asking him what's making him talk nicely to me, but if I do there's a chance he will get back to being rude so instead, I will keep my mouth shut and go with the flow.

"Let's go?" I asked and he nodded. "Where are we going though?"

"Where do you want to go?" He asked back.

"It up to you."

"But isn't this your date?"

"Our date."

"Hm."

"We can go Someplace nice and quiet or noisy and crowded." I optioned.

"How would you like to spend the date? Alone with me or with people surrounded and looking at us and thinking that we are a real couple?"

Somehow..there is still a tint of harshness in his voice..

"Alone." I quickly responded.

"Then let's go." He grabbed my hand, intertwining his hands with mine and I followed him abreast.

He held my hand..his hands are so rough but he has long fingers..and I like how he's not putting any force in holding it..it's gentle and warm.

I feel weird...

I feel happy.

- Someplace nice and quiet -

We were at the top of a skyscraper. Right at the 58th floor.

"The sunsets great from here." He said.

"But there's still an hour left." I said.

"That's alright. I don't mind spending an hour doing nothing with you."

"Neither do I.."

The breeze, mixed hot and cold blew our hair, roughly slapping our warm faces. I looked down and there were these tiny ant like people walking, tiny cars driving by, tiny trees and tiny buildings with tiny billboards.

It was like there was a different world underneath us.

A world the Giants can't live in, but the tiniest of creatures can.

It was scary, the way the world looked. Small and fragile and invulnerable.

I had never felt something so..intense before.

"I like it." Jellal spoke.

"Like what?"

"This slight feeling that I can rule the world below."

"And how's that?" I chuckled.

"Suppose I throw a huge bag of cash down there, in seconds there will be people rushing to get it. I wanna do it once."

"Wow...that's very Robin Hood."

"And I like it."

"What?"

"Spending this time with you." He kept his gaze below. Still focuses and immersed watching the tiny world run in its pace.

"Then does that mean-"

"But don't take the wrong way." He interrupted me. "It's fun being around you, although you are irritating and have no idea what you are talking, you are an interesting girl to be with."

"I see..."

Is it true..everything that he's saying right now...is it true?

"Then...couldn't you take my feelings into consideration?"

"I did, but you gotta understand my feelings as well."

"There are still 91 days left." I voiced.

"You won't give up? Even after knowing that my feelings will be the same as it is now. It won't change and you are just wasting your precious time on me Scarlet."

The way he calls me Scarlet...I have fallen too deep for him to back away now.

"There are still 91 days left." I repeated.

He sighed.

- Watching the Sunset -

It was pretty. It was really pretty but-I couldn't see it clearly because my eyes were tearing up.

Jellal's words wounded me and I tried to heal them, tried to remove the poison from spreading more but it was too late.

His words, his incompetence of knowing my true feelings, they hurt me bad and I'm trying hard to hide them but these tears won't stop.

The orange sky was blurring, but still it was beautiful.

Being with Jellal, looking at the same orange sky together, it was more than beautiful... It was perfect.

Suddenly, the weight of my body shifted to the left, my head being slanted on his sharp shoulders. "I'm sorry." He said, his hand soft on my ears.

"Eh?" I tried to get back up but he wouldn't let me.

"Wipe your tears and look at the sun before it sets. I won't bring you here again."

"Why?" I asked in a cracking voice.

"Huh?"

"Why are you doing this to me?"

"I'm not doing anything, it's you who should understand."

"Stop it...if you don't love me, don't do things that will give me hope!"

"Shut up will you. You are ruining the moment."

I wanted to talk back, but ceased.

Light tears rolled down my cheeks, and the sun was now bidding us goodbye.

There's another day, there's another tomorrow, there still will be 90 days.