Okay, so you already read the summary, so you should have a general idea as to what this story is going to be about. The main pairing is going to be; Nalu, obviously, but there will be huge hints of Gruvia, and GaLe…just so you know!

Enjoy!

-BookBearer

Chapter One: The Fight

Another mission completed another unsuccessful job in terms of getting compensated. The hurt emotionally—and physically—stellar spirit mage had just returned from a mission with nothing to show for it but cuts and bruises. Her teammates' knack for destroying just about anything in their wake left a fuming client who refused to pay outright.

And since Fairy Tail rules explicitly states that beating clientele to a pulp was strictly prohibited, Lucy, the calmest and most rational one in the team, managed to coax the more hotheaded members to just pack up and leave.

Her muscles cried out in agony as she dragged herself upstairs. With every step she took toward her 70,000 jewel apartment, she imagined lounging in the tub for a good three hours, making herself a nice cup of green tea and then sleeping in until noon the next day.

In what seemed like forever, once inside, she goes straight for her bed, but quickly decides against it, and makes a 'u' turn towards the bathroom.

"On second thought, I'd rather not get my bed dirty," She says out loud to herself, throwing her keys on the small brown coffee table, and throws off her shirt into whatever corner of the room it decided to land into, not caring where it went at moment.

Yawning, the tired mage stretches her arms high in the air, and walks into the kitchen, reaches in the cabinet, and takes out a pouch of green tea. Then, getting out a small, fragile item, she sets the tiny tea cup on the counter and proceeds to turn on the pot filled with hot water on high.

Walking back towards the bathroom, the blonde passes by her mirror, as a result, making stop, and just…check herself out in the mirror.

"…Hmm," Starting from the very top of her head, to the very tip of her toes, her eyes scan her body, and try to find anything wrong with it. The recent missions had done her well, considering before she joined the Fairy Tail Guild, she—in all honesty—wasn't the fit type. Sure, she was slim, but now muscle showed, and was outlined flawlessly.

Glancing down at her legs that were still scuffed up and dirty, she knew that they were long, but was that the attractive thing now-a-days? Don't guys like girls who are short and fragile? And Lucy Heartfilla wasn't short or fragile-at least she figured.

Hopefully, even though they weren't perfect, they caught the attention of a certain pink haired idiot, but she knew deep down that that wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

She then looked up towards her large bust. Keeping in mind that girls from all around would kill to have a pair as perfect sized and rounded, but Lucy just didn't know exactly what to feel about them. Was that a good thing, or a bad thing?

Sighing in defeat, and covering her hands in front of her face, she felt ultimately saddened. Up until now, she felt so…secure. So full of herself, and confident! But tonight, at that right moment; the feeling of shame washes over her like a river.

"He'll never go for a girl like me. What am I thinking?" She softly whispers, and slumps down against the wall tears threatening to fall.

"Don't say that Luce," The deep voice that she fell madly in love with says, "you never know, you may be wrong."

Startled, Lucy jumps up and blushes a deep shade of red, and her eyes widen. "N-Natsu! W-What-How did you get in here?"

He grins mischievously, and sticks a hand out for her to take, and gestures towards the window with his free hand. "I got in just how I always do; the window."

Mentally making a note to lock her windows next time she leaves the house, Lucy takes Natsu's outstretched hand and stands up, wiping any signs of tears that were leaking out. "I-Is there something that you need Natsu? You know it's been a long day, and-"

Interrupting, he moves in close-like close enough that she could feel his warm breath on her lips and she could look straight into his onyx-colored eyes.

"N-Natsu…" She whispers weakly and points downwards, "If you didn't notice…I don't have a shirt on…m-maybe if I just go get it and throw it on, then we could-"

"No," He growls, and stops her by gently placing a few kisses on her collar bone, nearly making her legs give out in the process, "I like it off. Here, to make it even," He drops his red sleeveless vest, and exposes his rock hard chest, creating a gasp from the nervous blonde.

The blondes face erupts in red fiery flames, and shivers as he gently touches her bare stomach, setting his hands on her waist. "Lucy," He continues to say, every word rumbling deep within his chest, with no doubt turning her on in every way possible.

"I actually do need one thing…" His lips make their way to her ear, whispering his mesmerizing words, "and I think you know what that thing is, Luce."

Her eyes darken as she gets what he's implying, but resists the urge with everything she has. "N-Natsu…" She starts, but unwillingly, her eyes betrayed her and examines his body. She immediately notices he has that 'v' shape along his waist, and then traveling even further up; washboard abs, that she wishes she could just rake her fingers along. Finally looking up to his pink soft hair, she runs her hand through his hair, pulls on a random piece, and the sound of a low rumble like an earthquake coming to life emerges from within Natsu, making Lucy grin with satisfaction. Then, as if he was restraining himself, he was biting his lower lip.

Finally to compete her tour of 'Natsu's-sexy-body-tour', she stared into his beautiful onyx colored eyes, and noticed they were filled with two things;

Lust…and…love?

Now it's Lucy's turn, and she bites her lip, and nods signaling that she's on board with the idea he has in mind. He grins and dives for her neck, but she slickly doges from his grip, and slowly moves her way towards the bathroom, sexily moving her hips with every step she took, a wave of confidence suddenly taking over her-despite the insecurities she had felt moments ago.

"I still need a shower, though." Natsu pouts at this, and crosses his arms in disappointment, but Lucy only smiles. "You can join me if you want…but turn off the stove…we don't want any interruptions do we?"

Natsu's disappointed face quickly disappeared, and he ran over to the stove turning it off, then running back to the bathroom to join the young blonde.

By the time he enters the bathroom, the hot water from the shower facet is already running. Lucy is already in a towel, her long blonde flowing hair cascading down her back. And so far-the world couldn't get any better for either of them. Turning to the eager Natsu, Lucy's brown eyes shines with excitement and her smile only grows as he slowly inches towards her.

"Thanks for the invitation," He says as he succeeds in backing her against the cold white tiled wall, exciting a gasp from her at the sudden feeling of bare skin touching something so cold, "I intend to use it to its full extent." He growls, and attacks her perfect pink plump lips with his own, finally claiming what the both of them had been waiting for, for months.

The stellar mage moans loudly at the roughness of the kiss, and Natsu only smiles within it. He then hooks his index finger on the tip of her soft white towel, slowly tugging it downwards, attempting to take it off-

"Lucy, Lucy dear are you alright?"

"Mm…Nat…su…ooh, stop that…you're such…a tease." The blonde mumbles as a response, with no notice that the nice middle aged woman was standing right above her. The lady giggles, and gently shakes the blonde girl currently on the floor kissing the outside of her bedroom door.

"Honey, wake up, you're in the middle of the hallway, and you look exhausted!"

Lucy doesn't stir, but only continues to make out with her brown front door, "Ooh...mmMm..." She giggles, and moans even more. Finally, the woman rolls her eyes and gives one last final shake before Lucy finally comes to her senses, blinking rapidly.

"M-Mrs. Dabney? W-What am I-Oh…" She looks around, and notices she's still outside her room. The realization starts to dawn on her that she was so exhausted that she fell asleep in the hall, and she laughs awkwardly, rubbing the back of her neck. Then shakily standing up, she quickly rummages through her brown pouch, in search for the little sliver key that unlocked her apartment.

With a red face, she tries to come up with an apology for her long time neighbor. "-I'm so embarrassed-I mean, you shouldn't have had to see me like that, especially sense I was drooling on the door…although I'm glad that you were there instead of someone else, THAT would have been bad, heh, ugh, why won't this key work?"

Mrs. Dabney only chuckles to herself and pats Lucy on the shoulder before continuing her walk down the hall towards her own apartment. "It's alright dear; you have a nice night now."

"Alright, you too!" Lucy waves, and then within a few awkward minutes, sighs resting her forehead on the wooden door. Grumbling, she finally opens the door, walks inside and shuts it, walking straight over to her window; only to find it locked and sealed tightly shut.

Flopping on the soft bed, memories flood back to her and Natsu and what would have happened. A blush starts to creep its way up her face. If only Mrs. Dabney hadn't interrupted-wait. "That was a dream." She says out loud to herself and groans.

The entire thing was a dream! It was just another damn stinkin' dream!

Yet, this time it felt so real. She could remember his touches and how it made her shiver in ways no one else could. His bare chest and that 'v' his waist made before it disappeared down his baggy pants. His soft pink hair-

Hold on a second, she shouldn't even be thinking these thoughts right now! They just had a fight, and she's already thinking-those-types of thoughts about him! Why was it so hard to stay mad at him? It's so frustrating!

Standing up, Lucy walks to the bathroom and turns on the hot water, filling the tub with strawberry-scented bubbles too. Then shutting the door, she takes off her clothes, and-dipping one toe in first-slowly lowers herself into the hot water, sighing in bliss at the feeling.

Shutting her eyes and letting the water wash away all the dirt and scum from today's work, her thoughts wander back to only a few hours ago.

During the mission Natsu and Lucy had a fight about how to take down the enemy at hand. Even though it was kinda…one sided-it still stung! At first, it was just a silly bickering, nothing much, but it really made her start to think.

"Natsu, we can't just punch and kick everything until it decides to stop what it's doing and leave ya' know!" I state, crossing my arms across my chest, looking the pink-haired idiot straight in his onyx colored eyes.

He punches his fists together, and throws his hand behind him dramatically, pointing towards the raging monster, and debris of the current attack. "Lucy! This monster is beating the crap out of the town, and what we know for no good reason! He deserves a good thrashing! Don't you think Happy?"

The blue cat flies above Natsu, with a stupid wide grin on his face, "Aye!" He agrees, and nods. I scoff, and put my hand on my hip, and raise my eyebrows. "Oh come on, Happy will agree to anything you say!-here, Happy, don't you think confrontation comes before conflict?"

He thinks for a few seconds, and is about to answer before I cut him off quickly. I smile at the annoying blue cat, and say in a sing-song voice, "I'll get you a nice fish once we get back to Fairy Tail if you agree..."

His head pops up, and he quickly flies over to my side, smiling proudly, "Aye, Aye captain! Suddenly confrontation sounds like a better choice than conflict to me!"

Natsu was left shocked on the other side, arms crossed and with a pout on his face. "Happy! How could you, I thought we were friends!"

Happy whined and smiled apologetically, "Sorry Natsu, but you know what fish does to me." Smiling in victory I cross my arms and raise my eyebrows, a cocky emotion written all over my face. "Sorry Natsu, two over rules one. Now we need to reason-"

Natsu groans loudly, and turns around, completely ignoring my instructions. "Yeah, well you 'reason' with the monster as soon as I'm done pounding its face in." Glaring, I speed walk ahead of him, turning around and tilting my head upwards to get a good look at him.

"Excuse me, first; that was rude! Second, obviously you don't like listening to instructions so here's what we'll-"

Natsu interrupts once again by putting both his hands on my shoulders, silencing me. "Luce. Just stay here, Happy and I will take care of the monster." Happy flies over to him and lands on his shoulder smiling widely. "Aye! Don't you worry Lucy, we've got this!"

I blink in amazement and growl, "What, you expect me to sit here and do NOTHING? And wait for my two heroes to return? If that's the case, hell no!"

Sighing, Natsu quickly walks over to me and puts his hands on my waist, making a blush appear on my face. "Not exactly…This monster looks pretty tough, and I really don't want you getting hurt. Here just think of it like this; you're cheering for us on the sidelines, where you're safe." He then gives me a cheeky smile, turns and starts running towards the direction of the monster. "We'll see you after the fight, Luce!"

Huffing and puffing, then stomping my foot angrily on the ground I call out after him. "I can do this! I can take him! I'm not so weak you know! Ugh! You-You guys are idiots, you know that?! And-And sexist pigs!" But I knew it wasn't worth wasting my breath because they were already so far up ahead.

Realizing that there was no point in sitting there and being angry, I decide to walk back to the town, and make sure everyone and thing is alright- cause' I sure as hell wasn't going to wait there for Natsu like he ordered me too…you can't order around my ass, not uh.

Feeling refreshed, Lucy slipped on her hello-kitty (don't judge) tank top and white hello-kitty short-shorts and exits the bathroom, shivering when the cool air of her apartment rushes over her. Then walking back to the front door, she locks it, and makes her way to the kitchen humming a random tune while setting everything in place for the next day.

Once everything is alright, she turns off all the lights in the house, with the exception of her small bedside lamp; she also shuts the blinds before climbing into her awaiting bed.

After reading a few chapters of her book, Lucy sets the book on her bedside desk, and shuts off the light, and snuggles in her pillows, ready for a deep sleep. Shortly after, slowly the room begins to get colder, but that tends to happen at night, so she tries to pull up more of her blanket to get warmer.

After a few minutes to no avail, Lucy groans and shifts uncomfortably in her bed. About to get up and turn up the heat, but an unexpected heat source attracts her from the left side of her bed, and wraps itself around her, instantly making her shivers disappear.

"Mm..." She says softly, snuggling deeper to the heat source, attempting to get as close as possible and to no longer be cold. The scent of mint overwhelms her nose and only sooths her more to fall asleep. She then feels a soft pair of lips kiss her forehead, and a chin softly resting on her head before a familiar voice whispers, "Goodnight Luce."

That was all that was said before silence and sleep consumed both of the tired wizards.

LUCY'S POV:

The sound of the chirping birds outside and the sun shining in my face awakens me from my sleep. I sit up from my bed, and outstretch my arms, and yawn softly. Rubbing my eyes, I try to imagine what's on my agenda for today.

First, I gotta take my shower; brush my teeth, apply makeup, the usual. Then maybe I'll try this new colored nail polish that I bought a few nights ago with Levy, and it's a light-light sky blue, and I'm in the mood for it this morning. After that, I'll probably read the paper, make myself a cup of tea, and cook some bacon! I smile to myself and murmur, "Ooh, Mm…bacon sounds nice."

Sniffing the air, I imagine the sweet-sweet smell of bacon cooking in the morning with a side of eggs, and-mint? Frowning, I sniff the air again, and I smell mint-I like it-but I don't know where it's coming from.

I hear ruffling and moving behind me, followed by a tired yawn. "Mm, you're up, finally…I think its twelve o'clock, we must have worn ourselves out last night huh?" I jump, startled and fall out the bed with a squeal.

Natsu immediately turns around and looks over the bed to see if I was alright. "Lucy! It's just me, are you okay?" I could tell by the look on his face that he wanted to laugh badly, but he was restricting himself in doing so. I give him a cold glare, and blow some of my hair out of my face.

"What do you mean by, 'worn ourselves out last night…we didn't…-what are you doing in my house-in my bed?!" I yell at him, making him snicker. This only infuriates me more, "and what's so goddamn funny?" Standing up, I cross my arms over my chest, most likely looking like a wreck because-let's face it-I'm not such a morning person.

He finally regains his composure and gets out of my bed facing the other way, and stretching his arms, "I didn't know you were a hello-kitty fan; man wait till' I tell Happy." My eyes widen, and my face blushes as I look down, remembering that I was wearing my small hello-kitty outfit.

Quickly covering myself up with the fallen bed sheets, I try to think of a quick comeback, "Oh yeah, what about you buddy-"I start, only to cut myself off as I realize he's shirtless. My blush deepens, as I stare at his well-defined back. Only god knows how much I wanna-No Lucy! Bad thoughts, bad thoughts!

"What about me?" He asks, and turns back around to see me staring at his-amazing- body, and he grins widely. "See something you like Luce? If so, just tell me."

"I-I mean…" I was at a loss of words! I mean, I sure as hell won't tell him that I ENJOY looking at his fit…unbelievably sexy body-that would only make his ego inflate even more! So, I come to a conclusion on what to do. I throw the blanket that I used to cover myself with at him, and I make a bee-line for the bathroom. Hopefully, this distracted him enough so that I could make it to the bathroom, but unforchenatley that wasn't the case.

I know I am fast at running, but Natsu is faster. I run into the bathroom, and quickly grab the door to shut it, but his hand quickly lashes out, holding it open. I try my hardest to shut it-I even used my leg! But when it comes to sheer strength against Natsu, I'm bound to lose.

He gives a certain strong push, finally I just give up and the door swings open; only to have me fall backwards, and Natsu put two hands right above my head, catching himself before he crushes me.

He chuckles lightly, and flicks a piece of blonde hair out of my face, and smiles. "Well huh. What a situation we've found ourselves in." I roll my eyes, and push his chest to try and get him off of me.

"Natsu, get the hell off of me."

"Make me."

"You know I can't!"

"Why not?"

"Because you weigh a ton!"

"Ouch! That hurt."

"Get off of me Natsu! I'm warning you!"

"I'll get off if you admit you were checking out my abs a few minutes ago."

"What?! I-I was not!"

"Uh huh!"

"Not huh!"

"Uh huh!"

"Not huh!"

"Not huh!"

"Uh huh!"

"Ha! I knew you were! You were SO checking me out!"

I groan, and with my free hand, pinch the bridge of my nose. "Natsu. You swear that if I say it, you will let me get up?" He gives a cheeky smile, and nods his head. I sigh and say, "Oh Natsu. I was totally checking you out. Happy?"

His grin gets even wider, and he hops up, with a hand extended out for me. "See Lucy, that wasn't so bad, now was it?" I roll my eyes, and take his hand, standing up, and grumbling. "You have no idea." Then I put my hands on his shoulders and push him out the bathroom. "Now GET OUT, I'm pretty sure you don't wanna see me take a shower."

He leans back, and makes it even harder for me to push him out, "Hmm…is that an option? Be-cause I'm pretty sure I-"My eyes widen, and I quickly put my hand in front of his mouth, to quiet him.

"Up bup-bup! On second thought, I don't want to know the answer to that!" He mumbles beneath my hand, and I knit my eyebrows together in confusion.

"What was that?" I ask him, trying to make sense of his mumbles. After a few seconds of nothing, I squeal loudly and let my hand go off his mouth, clutching it like my life depended on it. "Oh my god Natsu, you're so GROSS!"

He laughs, and sticks his tongue out at me. "I warned you Lucy, if you didn't let move, I would lick it." I give him an evil glare, and push him out the bathroom finally.

"You're SUCH a childish idiot!" I say through clenched teeth to him, and he only gives me an innocent smile.

Shrugging, and leaning against the doorway, he says, "Yeah, but I'm your childish idiot, and you looove me!" I blush, and look down at the mentioning of the words 'love' and 'me' in the same sentence. Then I take the door, and slam and lock it so he couldn't come in anymore.

"Lucy," He says from outside. I roll my eyes, and say in an exasperated tone, "What is it now, Natsu?" I could hear shifting from outside, followed by a, "I like that hello-kitty on your butt. I've always had a thing for the one with the blue bows-just so you know." He snickers outside, and my face burns a flaming red.

Did he just say he l-liked my b-butt?!

I turn on the shower, and start off my morning with a frown.

Ugh, what am I going to do with that pink haired idiot? Maybe throw him off a cliff and see if the kid could fly. Possibly 'lose' him in the desert, and blame it on a tragic accident.

Maybe snatch him away, and move far-far away and we could live happily ever after.

I like option number three…

"Hey Lucy, can we go by a shop-I'm hungry! The bacon you made was good, but I'm still not full!"

If I ignore him he'll stop talking.

"Oh, can you smell the fresh cooked bread coming from that bakery across the street? Yum!"

Just hold out for a little longer.

"How's your morning going so far? Is it good?"

Maybe he'll get distracted and leave.

"Lucy…is you alright? Are you sick-are you ignoring me?!"

Don't snap Lucy, he has to stop eventually.

"Yo Luce, I was wondering if we could go fishing! I could teach you if you want! Happy could too!"

Breathe in…and out…in and out-

"What shampoo do you use-you smell like strawberries! Mm, strawberries!"

Okay, creepy. Is he touching my hair?! Just swat it away!

"Oww! That hurt! Do you need a therapist or something? Oh wait, never mind, no one is available."

Why is Mirajane just SITTING there smiling? Do something!

"Hey Luce, lets sleep together again tonight, last night was awesome."

The whole guild immediately stops what they're doing and gasps were heard all over, because of what Natsu just said. Everyone's heads snaps towards our direction, eyes widened and jaws dropped.

Gray and Gajeel stopped bickering and looked at us like we were crazy, Ezra set down her fork and raised her eyebrows, while Mirajane gasped and dropped the cup she was currently cleaning out; the smile she once had, replaced by a shocked expression. Cana put down the jug of alcohol she was chugging, and a huge grin appears on her face, even Master Makarov opened his eyes, and looked at the two of us, with a questionable look upon his face.

From my seat at the bar, I swirl around to look at Natsu, sweat dropped and glared. "Natsu!" I hiss at him, and hit his arm as hard as I could, "what the hell-"

I was rudely interrupted by Gajeel shouting, "Man! Dragneel FINALLY got LAID, and by Bunny-girl!" The whole guild erupts into chaos, people hooting and hollering, cheering and high-fiving, I even heard; "You owe me fifty dollars! Pay up!"

I try to scream above everyone, and tell them that's NOT what happened, but it's not working. My face erupts into a red tomato color, and I glare at Natsu for being so…so stupid! He smiles apologetically, and scratches his neck nervously. "So…is that a yes?"

"What do you think?" I hiss at him, and stomp over to the request board, grabbing one off, and shove it into my pocket, then storm out of the guild hall angry, pissed, and frustrated all rolled in one. Basically you don't want to mess with me right now.

After a few minutes, I hear a; "Lucy! Wait up!", and I turn around, and see Levy running to catch up with me, and immediately some of my stress washes away and I smile. When she catches up, we walk side by side in a comfortable silence.

"Let's go to the Library huh? Have a little chat." She suggests, and I nod, following her to the nearby library. Once we are inside, we walk to the book isle, and pick out a few interesting books and walk over to an empty table, and just read.

After about fifteen minutes of peaceful silence, I look at her. "You know-it's nice to just sit and read with a friend. All this stress is just…piling up on me-thanks for being here Levy, I really appreciate it."

She smiles and nods understandingly, "No problem, I'm here anytime you need me." I just smile back at her, and look back down at my book, continuing to read.

"So, you and Natsu, huh?" She asks, still looking at the pages in her book. I look up at her, and sigh. "No, Natsu and I are not a thing, Levy. Never were; never will be."

She closes her book, and sets it down gently, eyebrows raised. "Oh? But I thought you guys slept-"I interrupt her by putting my hand up, and shaking my head as a 'no'.

"No, we didn't sleep together-I mean, we didn't sleep-sleep together, but I'm pretty sure we slept together…as in SLEEP, because when I woke up this morning he was next to me…but I mean-it's not like we haven't done it before-wait! I mean, we've slept together in the same bed at my house-well because Natsu finds his way inside-but that's not the point, uh…I'm a wreck aren't I?" I groan, and put my head on the brown wooden table, and groan.

Levy only chuckles, and sighs. "I'm going to go out on a limb here, and I'm going to sum up what you've said; you and Natsu have shared a bed before." I nod my head, my face still on the table.

"And you are…eh…about 50% on board with the whole 'sharing a bed with Natsu' thing." After a few seconds, I realize it's pointless to lie to her, so I nod.

"And you're having mixed emotions about how you feel about Natsu." I nod again.

She clicks her teeth, and smiles. "It's perfectly fine to be having these emotions Luce! Heck-I'm surprised you didn't have it earlier." I send a small frown at her, and groan. "And you know about this love crap because…"

She only smiles and whispers in my right ear her 'secret'. My eyes widen, and I gasp.

"You're DATING Gajeel, as in Gajeel Redfox?!" I squeal, and she nods, a huge smile present on her face. "Why haven't you told me, what-where-how-when did this happen?! And why didn't you tell me-or anyone for that matter?!"

She hushes me and replies, "I'm telling you now aren't I? And it happened about a year ago-it was so romantic. It was the fourth of July, and we were sitting up on the hill, lying on a picnic blanket watching the fireworks explode. Then, he turned his head, and softly said my name, making me look at him and boom-he kissed me."

She smiles, and looks upwards as she recalled the pleasant memory and giggles. "I could tell he was nervous; he's so gentle whenever he's like that. But what I didn't know was that, that was his first kiss. He had saved it for someone special-he'd told me. And apparently that special person was me."

I see her smile then sigh, and I could tell that she really liked him. "And the reason why we haven't gone 'public' with our relationship yet, is because you know, everyone is still kind of 'if-y' about Gajeel being apart of Fairy Tail and we don't want to set anyone off just yet."

She then looks at me, with her eyes filed with love, and she raises her eyebrows, "Listen to me Luce. I felt the same way that you're feeling right now about Natsu. You get butterflies whenever he's around, you smile when you guys touch-accidently or on purpose-I've been there, and believe it or not, I'm still going through that." She giggles and grabs my hand, giving it a reassuringly-friendly squeeze. "You're my best friend, and I'll tell it to you straight up; you need to go for it."

After a few seconds of me thinking, I slowly smile and we both stand up. "Y-Yeah, I guess you're right." I sigh, and nudge her gently with my shoulder, and we walk side by side first putting our books away, and then heading towards the door. "As long as you do not-under any circumstances-tell anyone I admitted this to you."

She giggles, and puts her right hand in the air. "I swear it."

I put a finger on my chin. "Now, I think we are late for our appointment with the shopping mall…It's not good to be late, right?" She smiles excitedly back at me, and nods her head, "Your right! Being late is always a bad thing, so let's hurry-I heard there was a HUGE blow out sale at Forever 21!"

Happy, we both link arms and walk out. "You know Levy," I start to say, "I think your right…I do think I have a shot! He might actually like-"I stop in my tracks, and stare straight ahead.

Levy's smile disappears when she looks at me and she frowns. "What'd you stop for? Blow out sale-remember? We need to hurry-" She stops, and follows my line of eye sight, then gives a small squeak.

Straight ahead of us, sat Natsu at the front desk, and some-ugly-red-headed girl. She was sitting on top of the desk, legs crossed while Natsu sat on one of the chairs talking to her. Her-nappy-red hair was pulled tightly into a pony tail and she whipped it to the side softly as she attempted to be sexy.

She wore a-ugly-grey mini skirt, and a-cheap-gray crop-top. Her heels were blood red, and one foot was right in front of Natsu's face. By the way her-disgusting-lips were curled back into a smile; I could tell she was flirting with him. And he wasn't doing a damn thing about it! I knew I hated this chick when I first laid eyes on her.

"Yeah," I say through clenched teeth, and narrow my eyes at the two of them. "Red-Heads," I finish my sentence. "He might actually like red-heads." Clenching my fists, I take a deep breather to keep myself from exploding.

"Lucy you know that's not-"I interrupt her, by just pointing at them. "Look at them Levy!" We both look at the pair again, and this time, she somehow ended up sitting on his lap, laughing like a witch; with her claws for nails on his chest. And what's Natsu doing? Sitting there, and scratching his cute pink, stupid hair! That should be me-wait, cutting that thought right off.

I angrily push a stand of my hair behind my ear, look down and just groan. "I knew I was right-he doesn't like me." I say quietly, "He likes girls that are pretty, and-and tough, and like her! How am I supposed to compete with that?"

Levy looks at me with sympathy, and she links our arms together once more, a supportive smile on her face. "Lucy. You never know…"

I look at her, confused, but she only gestures outside. "Enough about boys eh? Let's just get to the mall. I don't know about you, but I wanna get to that blow out sale."

I nod silently, and follow her out the second door, away from that red-headed bimbo and my stupid-adorable-but still stupid-crush.

AAAAAAANNNNNDDDDD I'm going to stop there.

I warn you-there will be some drastic changes…decisions made…things said…lips kissed…teehee!

BUT that's all in the next chapter!
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