Chapter 1

There is always a stage in one girl's life where in you will be excited to plan for your own wedding. A wedding that will make a girl's dream come true. They will be wearing long beautiful white gown, have a veil on, be wedded in a church and see their man stand before them. Waiting to be called her husband.

However, before a girl could even make that dream reality, she needs to find her man. The man who she will spend her life and build a family with. And to have a groom at a wedding, she needs a boyfriend. A boyfriend who knows his woman's dislikes, likes, and everything about his partner. When you got everything, a man, a wedding proposal, wedding plans, and the guts to make it real. Then you can assure yourself that you are ready.

"Ms. Heartfilia! Over here!"

"Ms. Lucy! Look at the camera!"

"Just one picture Ms. Lucy!"

"Look over here Lucy!"

"Lucy!"

All photographers present called as the blonde beauty steps down from her own vehicle and heads to her simple but expensive apartment. Holding on to her paper bags, she uses it to cover her face and tries to escape the very persistent media. As she walks at the trail available towards her home, she hears certain questions that she could voluntarily answer.

"Ms. Lucy, do you have any plans to attend the famous Heartfilia anniversary in Acalypha?" one journalist asked as they followed her walk, "We'll see." Lucy answered still trying to block the flashing of cameras on her face

"What can you say about your parents' marriage?" Another reporter asked which Lucy glanced at and smiled, "Of course I'm happy for them! Who wouldn't be happy for them celebrating their 30 years of marriage?"

"Who will you go with at the celebration?" A third interviewer asked, "You wouldn't go there alone, right?"

Lucy suddenly stiffens in her tracks as she glances at the reporter. As she halts, the paparazzo surrounds her now making her susceptible to any kind of photo. Beginning to feel suffocated, she pushes her way out but then it was too crowded and giving up on the crowd, she stands still and begins to answer various questions.

"Ms. Heartfilia, your parents are very known to be a powerful couple in Acalypha, what are the pressures as their daughter?" A microphone was then leaned in to her face making Lucy surprise but then steps back a bit to answer, "Well nothing much. I guess just to find the man for me who I will spend my life with." Thinking that with her answer, the media would now let her go. But then it just made the media intense in asking questions.

"Well then it's not a rumor that you're a single woman until now and that you're becoming an old maid?" After hearing the question, she looks at her interrogator wide eyes and gives a serious look, "What's so bad about being single?! And I'm just 28!"

"So you are saying you are single? What do your parents think about being a spinster?"

"What?! Nothing!" Beginning to feel irritated with the kinds of questions they were throwing at her, she began to push trying to get out of the attention.

"Wait Ms. Lucy! So, you have no plans of getting married like your parents?" One reporter blocks her from moving away by leaning the microphone closer to her face, "I have!" Lucy slightly shouted, unable to hide her annoyance, "Then when? With whom?"

Gaping at the questions, she annoyingly took the microphone and answered loud and clear to all media, "What do you want to hear?! That I'll be an old maid?! Well you wish! I am engaged and it's none of your business who I am marrying!" And with that Lucy shoved the microphone back to the reporter and pushed her aside. Without looking back, she headed to the entrance of her home and disappeared behind the door as the village's security blocked all reporters. Leaving them with still unanswered questions, they began to howl in disappointment.

After spending her afternoon shopping and ending up being bombarded by the media as she reaches her home, Lucy no longer have the energy to leave her humble home for a dinner with friends. So as soon as she lies down to her bed, she rolls over, grabs her purse, and brings out her phone. Dialing her friend's number, she hummed quietly as she waited for the call to be answered.

"hello?"

"Hey Erza…" Lucy then sits up and crosses her legs, "What's up?"

"I'm good. Hey, we'll have dinner out okay? Don't forget." Erza reminded the blonde as she sounded like a mother which made Lucy flinch in her spot and unconsciously bit her fingers, "About that…"

"Oh you can't say no! You have been bailing on us for three times!" Erza slightly shouted at the other end of the call, "Oh no! I'm not going to bail out…its just that…" Lucy said as she trails off making the red haired girl on the other end of the call nervous, "What?"

"It's the media…they bombarded me this afternoon after shopping. So I was thinking maybe we could just have a pizza party at home? My treat!" Lucy exclaimed biting her lower lip in anticipation, "Well alright…I'll call the girls. But no Natsu!" Imagining Erza being in front of her, she sees Erza pointing at her and gives her wide eyes back, "What? Of course! This is a girls' night!"

"Good…does he know about this?" Erza asked once more, now even more inquisitive to her friend, "No…Why would I even tell him?" Lucy then scoff after finding Erza being ridiculous with her questions, "Well duh, he's your best friend…he knows everything."

Lucy denying about her male friend, she unknowingly blushed as she answers back, "No he does not!"

"Well the last time I check he was the first to know that a guy took you out for a date."

"He wasn't supposed to see us! And can we not talk about that?"

Hearing Erza sigh aloud, she just agreed to the blonde, "Fine…I'll call the girls now. See ya later!"

"Bye!" And with that the call ended making the blonde beauty to shake her head in disbelief to her friend. "Can't believe Erza still feels bad about Natsu knowing that first…" Lucy then stands up from her bed and begins to change her clothes. Pulling up her blouse exposing her slim figure, she heads towards her closet and stood before it. Staring at her clean clothes, she examined what she should be wearing tonight.

"Uh, I'm too lazy to choose what to wear later." Lucy then shifts her weight to her one leg and places her hands to her hips, "I know, I'll tell the girls to bring their sleeping clothes so that we'll be having a slumber party!" Lucy then runs back to her bed and takes her phone. She began to type a message to Erza telling her to bring their sleeping ware so they could overnight in her home. As soon as she finished texting, she began to unbutton her jeans and pull it down. Being in her underwear, she began to head out to her living room unembarrassed since it was her home and no one was at home besides her.

"So…what should I be ordering?" Lucy said to herself as she heads to her wide kitchen and take all the flyers posted in her refrigerator.

"I didn't know you like walking in your underwear…" A voice suddenly said making Lucy freeze in her spot. She slowly stood up straight and turned herself to look at the person who spoke.

Seeing her pink haired friend sitting in her island table, she instantly grabbed the nearest kitchen ware and threw it to him. "KYAAAAA!"

POINGK

"OW!" the pink haired male screamed in pain before passing out

After a good ten minutes, Lucy stood in front of the pink haired man, holding on to her bath robe closely to her body, waiting for him to wake up. When the man was not waking up any time sooner, Lucy began to bring her foot to the man's shin and tried to kick him lightly.

"Oy Natsu, wake up" Lucy said but then the called man wouldn't wake up, so she walked closer and kneeled down and shook him harder. When he won't budge and realized he was just pretending to be asleep, Lucy began to press the obvious bump to her friend's head.

"AHHH!" Natsu shouted sitting up as he felt the pain that Lucy has inflicted to him, "what was that for?!"

"That was for sneaking up on me! And for seeing me barely clothe!" Lucy shouted as she stands up and walks away from the pinkette

"Wait, first of all, its not my fault you were walking around in your underwear and second, I knocked on your door but you wouldn't answer and you left your door unlock so I walked in." Natsu defended as he rubs his injured head, "And what did you throw me with?"

"A casserole…but who cares! You shouldn't be here!" Lucy shouted back as she hands him an ice pack, "And why are you even here? Erza and the girls will be here."

"Why? What's happening here? Can I stay?" Natsu asked as he damps the ice bag to his head. Then, Lucy takes the ice bag and does it for him, "No Natsu you can't unless you have turned into a girl…After this you got to leave." Lucy said as she continued to damp the cold material.

Looking at his blonde friend, Natsu crossed his arms across his chest and gave a stern gaze. Feeling uncomfortable to his stare, Lucy harshly damps the ice pack to his head making the man flinch in pain, "Hey! Be careful!"

"Then quite looking at me like that…" Lucy said as she retracts the ice pack but then returns it after, "There is nothing I can do Natsu…you can't stay, Erza's order."

"Fine…" Natsu then looks away and childishly pouted making Lucy giggle quietly, "What is with that face?"

"You wouldn't let me stay." Natsu huffed as he acted as if he was mad at his friend which only made Lucy chuckle at him, "Not me…Its Erza." Taking the ice pack from Lucy, surprising the blonde, he lowers it down to the table and looked back at her.

"Alright…I just came here for this." Natsu suddenly takes out a box, which was unmistakable to be a ring box. Lucy bulged her eyes out in surprise to the box as she gasps and covers her mouth in pure shock, "Natsu…" She whispered, "Oy Luce" Natsu snapping Lucy out of her trance, "I need you to keep this for me. I'll be giving that to someone." Lucy being caught day dreaming, she uncontrollably blushed and slowly took the box from the pinkette. "Oh…"

"I need you to hold it for me. I'm planning to give that to someone special." Natsu began to scratch his cheek with his finger lightly as he unconsciously reddens. Seeing his friend for the first time to blush, she couldn't help but to feel a foreign emotion towards her friend.

"Y-you have a special someone?" Lucy asked as she lowers her head beginning to feel sad but all of it shifted when suddenly her door bell rang. Quickly looking up at her door, she heard the door bell rang once more. Lucy looked at Natsu who had the same expression and began to panic when they heard the voice waiting outside.

"Lucy~…Its Erza."

"Ah! Erza! Wait, I'm just changing!" Lucy called out as she began to push the man out of the house. Stumbling from the different coffee tables, Natsu couldn't help but to screech in pain.

"Lucy? Is everything alright? I hear voices…" Erza said as she leans her ears close to the door, "Yeah! I just tumbled over a table! I'm coming!" Erza raising a brow at the weirdness of her friend, she just continued to wait outside the door.

"Luce! Stop pushing!" Natsu whispered aloud, "I'll find my way out! Go get Erza"

"Okay!" Lucy answers before turning around but then was stopped when a hand gripped her wrist making her look back, "Take care of the ring, alright?"

And with that Natsu runs off, leaving the blonde stunned as she watches his figure to disappear behind her back door.

That night, one by one, Lucy's friends, Erza, Levy, Juvia and the Strauss sisters came carrying their things. They all spent the night laughing and eating as they talked about anything. It was that time that they discovered that Juvia was finally dating Gray after five years of courtship. They also finally knew that the Strauss sister was beginning their family business. As they all enjoyed each other's company, the girls decided to open the television to browse an old movie until they passed by a news channel.

"Reaching their 30th year anniversary, the Heartfilia couple has come up with a full house party invitation. The couple has invited different personalities and business tycoons, making it as one of the party of the year"

Lucy and the girls listened as the anchor delivered her news about the blonde's parents. Looking at her friend, Levy slightly bumps the blonde and asked, "Are you coming to that party?"

"I don't know actually…" Lucy said trailing off until Levy asked again, "Why? I'm pretty sure your parents miss you."

"Nah…their too busy to notice I'm not there." Lucy said back as she shrugs off her friend who just gave a curious and worried look.

As Lissana change the channel, another channel talked about the Heartfilia making the short white haired girl stop and listened to the anchor.

"With the upcoming celebration of the powerful Heartfilia couple, their one and only daughter, Lucy Heartfilia is questioned to attend the party? And is it true that the power couple's daughter engage?" Everyone in the living room began to widen their eyes before the other girls looked at the surprised blonde. Seeing that the blonde was shock as well, they all looked back at the entertainment anchor and listened.

"Well, it's true you guys! The Heartfilia daughter is no longer in the market after admitting that she was engage. She casually admits it after being allegedly suspected to be a single woman and a spinster. Ouch! What a way to cut the rumors out! Despite admitting to be engaged, the man behind the engagement is to be unknown. It is now a question, who is the man? On the other hand, Lucy didn't confirm if she was to attend the party, so until now it's a wonder, will Lucy come? And this time with her fiancé? Who knows...Up next!"

And with that, the girls slowly turned their heads to Lucy who just froze in her seat and gasp. Freaking out in her mind, she didn't know what to say to her friends. She was beginning to panic when Erza called to her. "Lucy…is it true?"

Lucy slowly looking at her scarlet haired friend, she just stared in haze and began to grip her head tight. "Oh my God! I can't believe they believed me!" She whispered to herself as she shook her head in disbelief

"Lucy?! Your engaged?!" Lissana suddenly exclaimed when she finally snapped out of her shock, "How is that even possible?! You never introduced us to any guy!"

Lucy suddenly stands up and began to pace back and forth making the girls curious as they looked at the confused blonde. Juvia quickly stands and hands a glass of beer and held her by her shoulder, "Lucy-san…what is happening?"

Lucy stared at the blunette before swallowing hard and exhaled deeply as she takes the beer from her friend. As the blonde somehow loosens the tension in her shoulder, Juvia sat down again and waited for the blonde to talk.

"What you just heard is…" The girls leaned forward in anticipation, "not true…I'm no where close to being engage because I don't have a boyfriend…since birth."

"WHAT?!" all the girls shouted animatedly which Lucy found ridiculous since her friends knew, "Oh stop that reaction! You know I never had a boyfriend!"

"Yeah! But why is the news telling that you casually admitted that you're engage?" Levy asked exasperatedly

Lucy scrunched up her face before looking back at her friends, "I may have lied…to the media. I didn't think they would take me seriously when I said that. I was trying to point out to them that I wasn't going to end up as an old maid…I didn't mean to say I was engaged…" Lucy childishly sits down to the floor and puffs in frustration.

Mira then kneels down to Lucy and taps her head, "Well, we'll fix this…what's the worst thing that could happen?" Lucy then smiled and nodded as she felt a positive outlook to her messed up situation, "Your right. What could be the worst thing that could happen because of this stupid rumor…As if my parents even watch television…"

TO BE CONTINUED…