Title: Status: In A Relationship
Paring: NaLu
Setting: AU
Genre: Romance and Humor and whatever comes
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail.
A/N: I am not really that good unlike the others here in fanfiction that is why I am so thankful to those who read and appreciate my stories. This is going to be my first planned chapter story. Yep, first. I have another chapter story but it has no sane plot. Haha. So I'm asking for your support. Please be kind to me and excuse all the wrongs that you will notice. But then, I always appreciate constructive criticisms and kind reviews at the end of the chapters.
Lucy Heartfilia clicked the last button that will surely change her life for who knows how long. As she was reaching for her ringing phone, her eyes are busy reading all the comments that flood her sudden change of status.
Yep, she changed her status.
Her current status: In a Relationship
When a certain someone just commented on her life-risking move, she groaned as she softly rubs her aching temples.
'I'm so lucky my girlfriend is so proud of me! 3 3 3' – Natsu Dragneel
Darn this man who was her best friend and her boss. She got her phone only to read a text from Dragneel.
'Thanks for doing this.' - Natsu
She smiled. At least he knows how to behold gratitude. Then she suddenly rolled her eyes. It's not definitely the point here! She slammed her laptop shut as she jumps over her bed which is just beside her desk. How did she manage to get in this situation again?
XOXOXOXO
"Lucy! I need your help!" Natsu screamed as he hovers on top of her desk making it impossible for Lucy to finish her boss' works.
She just raised a brow at him not being surprised by her boss' sudden scream of help. Duh! He always needed her help! This lazy man who knows nothing but to pass his work to her ALWAYS needed her.
"What is it? If it is work, just leave it there."
He frantically shook his head in disagreement.
"No, no, no. That's not what I meant this time."
"Then what?"
She knows she should be sorry for her manners but Natsu insisted it. He wants them to act like friends despite of her protests when she was still new to work. They only act appropriately like what a boss and employee should do when they are outside their office.
"I need a girlfriend. NO! Not just girlfriend. I need a fiancée!" He slammed his hands on her desk. Lucy snorted at his 'problem.'
Seriously? He acts like his problem could kill humanity!
"Then propose to your girlfriend. Look, SIR! I have a lot of work so if you would please excuse me. I don't have time to listen to your 'problems.'"
Natsu looked at her from the couch as she types something on her laptop. Meanwhile, Lucy can't work effectively because of the eyes that kept on watching her for about - she looked at her watch - for about twenty minutes now.
She chose to ignore it as her hands crept from the drawer to get some crackers. She opened it, got one, munch it, and then gulped.
"Darn it Natsu! Fine! What's your problem again?!"
He smiled a relieved smile and pulled her from her work-chair to make her sit beside him on the couch.
"I heard my father and the Vice President talking." He paused for a moment. It seems like he's having a hard time saying what he had heard. Lucy snickered for not knowing this side of Natsu. Oh no, not the having a hard time part! She meant the side of Natsu being an eavesdropper!
"My father is contemplating whether to pass this company to me or not. He says I'm lazy-"
"Yes."
"He says I'm an easy go lucky guy-"
"Yes."
"I'm too young-"
"Yes."
"I'm not that responsible-"
"Yes."
"Lucyyyy!"
"Sorry."
He sighed.
"And then the Vice President said that maybe I will learn to get serious in life if I got myself a girl. If I got myself into a serious relationship. She probably knows that I always fucked up with relationships so she suggested that. Geez. Can you believe that? She thinks that I will learn the value of everything through a girl." His hands were sweating badly so he has to grab a towel and wipe it off.
"So you need me to help you find a girl who will pretend to be your girlfriend just to prove them wrong and have this company? Is that it?"
"No. Well, a part of it is right. But yes, I need your help about that not to prove them wrong but to be sure that I will have this. You agreed that I'm lazy, easy-go-lucky, young and irresponsible, but I can learn. I need to have a secured future."
Lucy snorted. She leaned her arms on the armrest of the couch.
"You suck at acting. Fine, I'll help you." He gave her a big smile for her words. He always knew he could rely on her.
"Thank you Luc—"
"But I don't like the idea of you lying to me."
"Sorry. I won't do that again."
And so, after that, they held a secret audition. Yes! A fucking secret audition of actress wanna-be's!
It was a success though because one of Natsu's classmate back in middle school auditioned and he said that she was pretty reliable with secrets and that she is likely to be believed as his fiancé because she's beautiful. No doubt, she is really pretty. With her silver hair, emerald eyes, small yet pointed nose, plump lips, skinny body with a fair skin, nobody will NOT take her seriously. She's too good just to be trashed.
Her name is Lisanna Strauss. Lucy has already made a research about her to make sure that she's really reliable. They can't mess this up. If Sir Igneel would know what they did, she will surely be fucked up- INSTANTLY!
Until she's sure she's safe, that's the only day that Natsu will introduce her to his father. But fate has never been good to Natsu. Gah KARMA! Of all the days to get revenge for Natsu's ill-manners, why now?!
She knocked at the President's door, hands slightly shaking. She was so relieved that Natsu was the one who opened it up.
"Lucy? What's up?" He asked in a cool way while grinning like there is no problem at hand. Ha! Let's see if you can smile after this.
"We have a problem." She whispered, leaning into his ear to make sure no one will hear.
"Wait. First, where's Lisanna? My father's been waiting for so long I swear he'll gonna throw me out if I make him wait for another minute."
"That's the problem. She's horribly sick now."
He felt like time stopped when he heard the news. The only thing that made him go back in time was the loud shout of his already impatient father.
"NATSU? IS SHE ALREADY HERE?"
Natsu shot him the worried look, unable to utter a reply from his waiting father.
Lucy suddenly felt a shiver shot right through her spine. She doesn't like the look Natsu is sending her now. He's eyeing her thoroughly from head to toe and it does not help that she's not in her usual uniform today. She's wearing a formal, half sleeved, fitted, white dress with blue linings at the neck and every ends.
"Well, I do not have all the time to wait for her."
After that, all she knew was Natsu forcing her to enter the shitty door, pushing her hard. But because she's practically fragile because she's just a girl, Natsu succeeds on bringing her in front of her father.
"Pa, I want you to meet Lucy."
"Yes I know her."He took a cup of coffee, sipping right through it.
"You see, she's my fiancée." He literally spit the coffee out, choking himself in the process while Lucy's eyes almost fall out of its sockets, her jaws apart, looking wildly shocked at Natsu's sudden confession.
He stood fast and walked towards them, shaking Lucy's hand and hugging her in the process.
"Lucy! I'm so glad it was you! Thank you for taking care of my idiot son while I'm on my back! Thank you! Congratulations to the both of you."He cried as he tapped Natsu on his shoulder.
"I'm so proud of you."
Natsu smiled at him. You can't trace any hint of guilt from him for fooling his own father. But what his father did was beyond Lucy's expectation.
She groaned at the memory. She grabbed her laptop to read other people's comment. And currently, the leading comment was owned by his 'fiancé'
'I love you Lucy! 3' – Natsu Dragneel
Her heart skipped a beat upon reading that. Suddenly, Gray's name appeared.
"Yo Lucy! Aren't you gonna answer him back?'
Right. Now that they were pretending, she just couldn't do things that will possibly reveal their secret, right?
She mustered all her strength to type those words.
'I love you, too, Natsu.'
She was still contemplating whether to add a heart on it or not. Gah! Whatever!
'I love you, too, Natsu. 3 3' – Lucy Heartfilia
Thank you for reading!
-A.L.-