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Stellar Mistakes
By : Rhov
Category: +. to F > Fairy Tail
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Chapter 28
Bespoke Shirts and Chicken McNuggets
It was a few days after the showdown on the roof. The Saturday sky was mostly clear with just enough clouds to keep the weather cool. Lucy was in a light blue and white dress she bought at Heart Kreuz, the most trendy store in town. Loke had ditched his business suit, wearing beige capri pants and a bright green shirt with a Leo constellation screen-printed in yellow. He looked so casual and playful in those clothes that Lucy barely recognized him.
"Is there anywhere you want to go?" he asked.
Standing next to Loke in his street clothes, the situation still bewildered Lucy.
The one last thing he wanted to ask of her before they called things off … was for a date.
Lucy looked around at the pedestrians strolling along the sidewalks, boats drifting by in the canals, and cars zooming past them. The king had to know what they were doing. The photo that was shared throughout Fairy Tail was obviously his doing, considering the timing. That meant they were being tailed. If the king knew they were going out on a date, what would he do to Loke?
"Um, are you sure this is okay?" she timidly asked.
"You have nothing to worry about," Loke said, calm and composed, but with a firm face that showed he had probably worked something out ahead of this day. When he spoke again, his voice was light and cheerful. "There's somewhere I'd like to go. Do you mind?"
"N-no! Of course I don't," Lucy said, still feeling nervous about this.
Loke nonchalantly took her hand and intertwined his fingers with hers. It was a simple thing, but to Lucy, she was as nervous as if they were touching for the first time.
A part of her knew, this would be her first and last date with Loke, the only day she would get to openly walk the streets of Magnolia together. As she thought about that, she realized that she had never walked beside Loke except the one time they went grocery shopping together. This was also the first time they had held hands.
'It all ends today.'
That lingering thought kept bringing tears to her eyes. She had cried at home almost every night since that time on the rooftop, but she was determined not to do it here with him. Instead, she looked at his face in profile. He had held her in his arms many times in bed, but holding hands in public, showing off their closeness out in the open like this, brought about a completely different type of excitement. Lucy felt as giddy as a teenager on her very first date as she walked beside him, and her heart pounded like a drum.
The place Loke wanted to go to was a bespoke shirts shop. Lucy had never been in such a place before, and she looked around in awe.
"This is amazing. They measure you?"
"They only measure you your first time," Loke explained. "After that, only if you've had a change in weight. The presentation is soon, and I want to get a new shirt for the occasion."
"For the GMG presentation? Why?"
"Remember I told you about Makarov Dreyar, the Fairy Tail CEO? He bought me a bespoke shirt once as a gift. I wore it for a presentation like this one, and we got the job. The first thing I did was make that commercial you said you liked so much. Now, I have a new shirt made whenever a big job like this comes up. It's like a good luck ritual."
Lucy listened and absorbed the unexpected story from his past.
"Wow…" She grinned at him. "We'll win this!"
He chuckled at her enthusiasm and stroked her hair. "Of course we will, but not just because of a lucky shirt. It'll be the fruit of all of our labors."
It was also a chance to make good on Loke's promise to Makarov. Even if the whole competition was fixed, Lucy wanted to do her best until the end.
Loke picked the fabric and design, and the shopkeeper told him it would be ready in a few days.
"I'm excited to see you wear it on the presentation day," said Lucy.
"Yeah." He tipped her chin up and smiled at her. "It'll be like a signal only you and I know about."
He looked like he wanted to kiss her, but they were still in the shop. Loke's eyes flitted around at the customers and employees before letting go of her chin. Then, to Lucy's surprise, Loke blushed.
She knew this day would mark the end of their relationship, but the sweet things Loke said and his endearing actions would not let her internalize it. She told herself to just ignore the inevitable and enjoy their day together, since she would never have this chance again.
"How about something to eat?" asked Loke. "I know a great place."
Lucy chuckled when he said that. "I think I know where."
And she was right. They went to McDonald's, ordered off the overhead menu, and took their brown trays of food to a table in the corner, near the children's playground.
"It feels funny coming here with you," Lucy muttered as she settled in.
"I think of a burger from McDonald's as a treat." He watched her taking the food off her tray. "Oh, did you get nuggets, too?"
"Yup. Yours have mustard, mine have barbecue sauce."
He laughed and blushed slightly. "You remembered." Then he held out a nugget dipped in mustard. "Open up wide."
Lucy gasped and looked around at the families eating their burgers and fries.
"It's okay," he assured her. "Next, you're going to feed me a nugget dipped in barbecue sauce."
"F-feed you?" she gasped.
"It'll be cute. You did call me cute once."
She had, and she supposed this was the sort of thing a dating couple would do. "O-okay, I can do that."
He seemed to be enjoying how flustered she was getting, and he nudged the nugget closer. "You should eat it before the mustard drips."
She parted her lips, and he gently placed the nugget in her mouth.
"Well? Isn't the mustard good?" He had a mischievous, boyish expression that she never saw at the office. "Your face is redder than your barbecue sauce. You're a grown woman. Aren't you getting a little too worked up over this?"
"I … I'm not…"
"You know what comes next, right?" he said with a teasing gleam in his eyes. "It's time for you to feed me."
He opened his mouth and went "Ah" as he waited. Lucy was embarrassed enough, but she liked seeing this new side to Loke. He had never been this affectionate before.
"Mr. Leo, I can't—"
"Loke."
She clamped her mouth shut. What?
"We're outside of the office. Isn't it weird for you to call me Mr. Leo when we're on a date? To be honest, it's always sounded very formal to me and made me think like I needed to look behind me for my father. Unless, perhaps, you think I'm some old man."
"Th-that's not true! I like thinking of you as Mr. Leo because I honor you—"
"Well, for just today, call me by my first name. Just Loke for now."
Her face heated up to her ears. "Okay … L-Loke."
"You sound far too terrified. It's just a name."
She knew that, but it still tore down a wall of separation that she had always kept up between them. They were Miss Heartfilia and Mr. Leo, not Lucy and Loke.
"Come on, lemme try some of that barbecue. Ahh!"
She picked up a nugget. At the office, and even the times they had gone to his place, he had been so calm, so composed, that it was impossible to read his emotions. Now, he was not like that at all. Now, reading him was a breeze, like he was telling her everything through the expressions on his face.
Just to get him to stop, she dipped her nugget and held it up to him. If he wanted to be cute and act like lovers for once, she wanted it too. He took the nugget into his mouth, and his lips brushed against her finger. She yanked her hand back in shock, and he smirked naughtily.
"Oh, you!" she scolded.
He chuckled as he chewed, and she laughed. At least for today, they could act like a real dating couple, since it would all be gone tomorrow.
Just after that, they hear a squeal from the playground. Loke was facing it, but Lucy had to turn around to see the children on slides and crawling through colorful plastic tubes, all with characters from McDonald's worked into the fun. Some child was simply having a lot of fun going down a slide, squealing loudly each time. Lucy politely ignored the noise, but when she turned around, she saw Loke watching with wistfulness in his eyes.
Did he have fond memories of playing at McDonald's? Or could it be, he always wanted children? She was too scared to ask and possibly ruin their whole day.
"I think parents have one of the best jobs in the world," he said quietly.
Lucy jolted up. Did he actually want to talk about this? And what did he mean by that?
"Of course, you can completely fail at your job," he said, and his eyes sank a little. Was it a bad memory? "Or you can pick up the slack and make sure things work out." His eyes flitted around as he watched the children. "If a parent can get their child to laugh, in my opinion, they've succeeded at their job."
"Did you play a lot at McDonald's as a kid?" Lucy was stunned when the words just fell out of her mouth. Crap, what if this was a bad memory?
She was glad when Loke chuckled. "My father would take me. My mother … she was of the Regulus Clan, very rich, very strict, but my father wanted to make sure I knew how to have fun. My family could have eaten anywhere in the world, but Dad loved chicken nuggets from McDonald's best." Loke glanced down at his plate. "With ranch sauce. He hated mustard, but my mother loved it. I picked that up from her." He dipped a chicken nugget in mustard. "A little combination of both of them," he said, and he popped the nugget into his mouth. "I always wondered, which parent would I be: the strict one, or the fun one? And then one day I realized, it didn't have to be one way or another. It's okay if both parents are strict, and both are fun-loving." He looked at Lucy, and his eyes softened. "Something like that would be nice."
She gulped hard and her eyes dropped to her food. "Yes … I suppose it would be."
Loke sighed, and he watched the children playing. "It would've been nice," he whispered, almost too soft to hear, but Lucy just barely did. Then Loke snapped out of his melancholy. "How about your parents? Tell me about them."
Lucy shivered. "I'd rather not."
"Why?" he asked in worry.
Lucy's throat clenched. "They're both dead."
Loke's mouth dropped, and suddenly his hands were on hers, squeezing her with comfort.
"That commercial of yours, though," she struggled to say. "It reminded me of my mother."
"Was she a good mother?" Loke asked, looking so tender.
A tear slipped down Lucy's cheek. "The best," she said, smiling with deep pride.
"Then I know, you're going to make an awesome mother one day," he said, giving her hands a squeeze. "You'll totally be the one to take your kids to McDonald's."
She laughed, and Lucy dabbed her eyes dry. "Yeah, I hope so," she said, but it was still bittersweet.
It would have been nice to come to this McDonald's together with their own children and watch them play while eating chicken nuggets. However, she knew that future simply wasn't meant to be. She really wanted to bring the mood back to something better.
"So, tell me around your father."
The way Loke's eyes lit up, she knew he was just as eager to get back into a pleasant conversation.
After lunch, they walked around town as time flew. They held hands the whole time and talked about their personal hobbies.
"So, you like going for drives?" she asked, having learned about the cars he had owned and road trips he took with Freed and Capricorn in college.
"I do. There's nothing better than a spontaneous drive, just jumping in the car when I'm in the mood and driving to the next city over, or even further. I try to go on a long distance road trip every summer, if my schedule allows me."
"Okay. What else do you like?"
Loke thought about it. "Not much, I guess. I'm really involved with work these days. Going for drives is really the only hobby I have time for. That, and I sometimes collect the toys you get at McDonald's."
"Get out! No way," she laughed.
"I have boxes of them. I'll have to show you sometime."
She laughed and shook her head. "You are full of surprises."
Before being on his team, Lucy had simply admired Loke from afar, a star in the heavens that she gazed upon from time to time. She would have thought it intrusive to walk beside him before. Lucy knew nothing about him though, not his likes or hobbies or his favorite food. She knew of his work, but not about him.
Now that she had seen so many sides of him, the happiness, the tenderness, the anger, and even the sadness, a feeling she did not have before began to shine brightly in her heart. It was like Loke was brightening her life with his own starlight.
Would it dim when he was gone, or was that light now there to stay, a part of her that she could carry with her through the rest of her life?
Lucy may have dated over the years, she may have had passionate relationships, wild flings, and she may have even fallen in love a few times before, but now, for the first time in her life, she knew what it felt like to truly love someone unconditionally.
As Loke squeezed her hand and pulled her over to watch a street magician do some tricks, Lucy gulped down the sadness that this deep, unconditional love had formed only after an impenetrable barrier had been put up between them. She pressed herself a little closer to his side, wishing she could stay there, and Loke put his arm around her shoulder, as if he too wanted to hold on to her for as long as possible.
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Stellar Mistakes	By : Rhov Category: +. to F > Fairy Tail Views: 14748 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail nor do I make money from this fanfic.

Stellar Mistakes