Chapter 1

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Natsu adjusts his black-framed glasses with a hand as the other turns to the next page of the book he is reading. He gently lets the paper fall into place, his eyes skim the first sentence on the page but to his annoyance, they just will not stay focused long enough for him to read anything.

"Mmm…" Natsu grumbles; unable to keep his attention on the book at bay. He shuts it admitting defeat and lets his eyes gaze up upon a blonde girl that he often found himself staring at.

Her name is Lucy Heartfilia.

She works at Book Land; a book shop and library that he visits every day to read his favorite books.

Lucy has hair that is rather long, often tied in two braids; her bangs are swiped to the side with a cute little star hair clip to keep them in place. Her eyes are hazel and sometimes in the sunlight, Natsu swears he sees gold inside them. She actually used to wear glasses herself, ones that were similar like Natsu's, but recently she stopped wearing them.

A radiant smile always graced her lips and she works as an assistant to the head librarian. She is very helpful to all the customers and tends to know where and how to find what book someone is looking for, it's almost as if she has the entire shop memorized.

Natsu has always seen himself as a boring person in comparison to Lucy though, a bookworm to be exact; he wears large black-framed glasses and his eyes are dark colored. He never thought of himself as someone attractive not to mention his pink hair makes him stand out.

To Natsu, Lucy is the most beautiful thing he has ever laid his eyes on, even more, beautiful than any story he read in his life.

But Natsu is a little on the shy side. He can never bring himself to talk to Lucy really, let alone act normally around her without spazzing out or embarrassing himself. He also has a tendency to be clumsy and didn't want to humiliate himself in front of her with it either.

Lucy, much like Natsu, always has her nose in a book herself. She does her job diligently but whenever she has free time or a break, a book is always in her hand ready to read. Natsu had noticed overtime that the two have much in common to his knowledge, mainly their favorite types of books to read.

Lucy's usual reading place is near the window. She loves having the sunlight drape on her face as she lets herself get captivated by whatever story she is reading. Natsu's reading place isn't too far from hers is either, in fact, he sat in a chair near her spot.

Smack.

"Mr. Dragneel quit ogling at Lucy and put that book back on the shelf where you got it or check it out!" A monotone voice booms loudly into his ears.

Natsu feels a whack to the head. It felt like it one of those hard cover books that hit him; snapping him out of his daydreams. The impact isn't that hard but enough to cause his glasses to fall off his face landing onto the floor.

"U-Uhm, sorry Miss P!" Natsu stutters. He quickly opens the book he was reading and ducks his face inside it to cover his embarrassment. His embarrassment grows further realizing he has been caught staring at Lucy and by all people Porlyusica—who everyone called Miss P—the owner of the shop.

"Hmph." Porlyusica scoffs in response walking away.

Natsu sighs to himself in relief watching her walk away. He was thankful Lucy wasn't around to have heard any the things Porlyusica said; at least he hopes she hasn't or he could never show his face there again.

Natsu scoots his chair back slightly to allow himself room to pick up his glasses; he stops midway when he feels a hand on top of his. His ears pick up on voice as well, however, this one was much kinder than Porlyusica's. It sounds warm and welcoming. It sounds like-

"Ah, are these your glasses? You should really be more careful."

Delicate fingers gently lay his glasses into the palm of his hand; Natsu raises his head up slightly to see that the hands they belong to are none other than Lucy's.

"Sorry about Miss P," She kindly says lifting her head to smile at Natsu.

"People have been leaving their books on the desk and don't bother putting them back to where they were. She's really stingy about that." Lucy giggles remembering all the times she had watched others have to endure the similar treatment of being scolded.

"O-Oh thank you," Natsu mumbles; composing himself while hurrying to put his glasses back on.

"No problem! Hey, aren't you Natsu Dragneel?" Lucy asks as she watches him intently she slides to the side of him resting her elbows on the table.

"Yeah, Iam! Wait, how do you know?" Natsu answers with astonishment in his voice realizing that Lucy knew who he is. He leans a little unable to contain some excitement, nearly knocking the book off the table. The chair makes a loud noise from the movement of him scooting it to catch the book before it falls. The sound is loud enough for the entire store to hear.

"Quiet!" From afar Natsu saw Porlyusica in the back of the library desk glaring at him with daggers in her eyes.

Natsu cringes then nervously laughs to himself feeling really ashamed knowing Lucy watched. To his surprise, Lucy joins him though and laughs herself.

"I always see you here Natsu, plus I'm usually the one that sorts the books." She laughs more wiping a tear from her eye.

"O-Oh really? That's cool." Natsu says sheepishly with a grin. He feels giddy thinking that maybe there is some hope that she likes him; even just acknowledging him is good enough.

For a few moments, they continue to laugh together then awkwardly smile at one another afterward.

"Yup! Well, I gotta go Natsu maybe we can talk again sometime. See you!" Lucy waves and then she is off back to work.

"Ah, bye Lucy!" Natsu waves back returning her farewell.

He gets up to set his book back on the shelf where he got it; his cheeks are still fairly warm from having the chance to talk with her face to face.

Natsu stands still in front of the bookshelf for a moment. Before pushing the book back in place idea forms into his head. If Lucy is, in fact, interested in him maybe there really is a chance she likes him. He didn't want the moment to slip away from his grasp anymore, her appearing before him was enough to give him all the confidence he needs.

"It's time to stop just eyeing her from afar; she made the first move, now it's my turn!" Natsu says to himself with great determination, both hands in fists and fire in his eyes. He doesn't even realize beforehand that he let the book fall onto the floor leaving the sound to echo a little throughout the building.

Natsu gulps realizing Porlyusica probably heard the sound and is ready give him a good scolding again. He hurries to pick the book up setting in it in place and runs out the door.

"I just don't know what you see in that boy Miss Heartfilia," Porlyusica mutters as she shakes her head having heard the sound from afar. She gets back to her work folding a pile of papers together then staples them afterward. To the side Lucy is by her, busy sorting out a few books alphabetically with stickers, she feels her cheeks growing a bit warm at the comment.

"I-I'm not sure what you mean Miss P!" Lucy says quickly with hesitation hoping Porlyusica won't say anything else.

"Hm-hm Lucy, I dunno about that." Porlyusica snickers as her eyes peer back at the blonde. She gets up leaving the pile of paper neatly on the desk standing in front of her chair. She heads towards the coat rack to grab her jacket to leave for the night.

"Make sure to turn the lights off after you leave now, child." Porlyusica reminds her.

And with that, she walks out the door.

Lucy rests her back against one of the cabinets taking a deep breath recollecting her thoughts so far.

Does she actually have feelings for the cute pink haired boy with glasses? Or did she just be nice to him because it was the right thing to do? Why did she decide to try wearing contacts instead of glasses? Was it to try and impress him?

Lucy shakes her head wildly to erase the thoughts of Natsu clouding her mind. She stacks the books onto the cart and grabs her hoodie—making sure to turn the lights off—before she leaves the building.

Later that night…

Before going to sleep, Natsu pulls up his computer and begins to browse a few websites, sites in particular that were geared for flirting.

"I wonder what types of guys Lucy likes. She prolly wouldn't like my boring self. Maybe I can find some pick-up lines and she'll fall for me in a heartbeat." Natsu cackles in triumph imaging the thought of him saying something clever leading Lucy to swoon all over him.

"Meow." A mewl like noise erupts out of nowhere.

"Pfft. Of course, it's a good idea Happy. Plus Lucy'll totally love it." Natsu scowls at his blue furred cat Happy.

"Meow…" Happy growls lowly, adjusting himself into Natsu's arm comfortably to lay.

Natsu's scowl lessens realizing his cat is just trying to look out for him; he gives Happy a few pets then goes back to researching.

Most of the searches Natsu came across are way too embarrassing for him to say to Lucy but he did find some pick-up lines that he thought he can handle. He even decides that he's going to try and spice things up a little.

"Hehe, tomorrow is gonna go great." Natsu stretches with a yawn taking his glasses off. He closes his laptop and turns the lamp off.

Natsu snuggles with Happy and closes his eyes, letting sleep wash over him.

A/N: I was listening to Let Me Be With You by Round Table the entire time while I wrote this among with a bunch of their other songs. X3 I usually don't listen to music when I write, I only do it when I draw, but Round Table has such good fitting music for this story I don't know why. Anyways this story, that was actually meant to be a one shot, is for MissyPlatinum's birthday. ;w; She's my number one writing inspiration and idol so I decided to write this along with drawing her something.

A/N #2: Alsooooo I can't remember if Book Land was just a book shop or a library too so I kinda just did a combo of both~ Not sure how long this series is gonna be but we shall see. c: I meant to have this done on her birthday but my wisdom teeth have been preventing me from doing anything in life. :"D I just got some medicine to last me a bit hopefully I can get them out asap. I feel bad I couldn't give this to you sooner Missy so please forgive me. Dx

A/N #3: The Natsu in this fic is basically Edo Natsu as if you couldn't tell already. XD Regardless he will most definitely have our regular Natsu's quirks here and there so hope you love him. X3 I just wanna cuddle him in this he's too darn adorable. I can say he will definitely branch out and become confident overtime! Also, the glasses he wears are basically those hipster-ish ones. May alsooooooo have totally not gotten inspired to give Lucy braids based off one of Mashima-sensei's postcards. :D Can you guess which one? ;)