notes: I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE FANGURLSWEG SO HERE IS A VERY SHORT BUT LOVELY ONE-SHOT FROM THE LATEST CHAP.

It was quick and sudden.

They packed up and left. They come back and start a huge riot. It was just like that. And she missed that. She missed it. How can she miss all the loud hellos? The stupid jokes? The crazy hot fire? The obnoxious job requests and the constant barging into her apartment? How can she miss that? She cried for Mavis' sake! They were her best friends and they left her. How can they just do that?

She searched for them, looked through almost every book and newspapers for them, but it always ended up the same.

No signs of Happy or Natsu.

It frustrated her since she had nothing to do but do this because everyone went their separate ways.

She had no choice.

So when she was at her usual place and she freaking sees the stupid challenger who burns down the entire place, of course she's super glad to see him but that emotion was quickly washed away by anger.

How. Fucking. Dare. He?

He had no right to suddenly disappear for a year with just a stupid hand-written goodbye letter and then suddenly come back stronger and even more crazy.

He had no right.

He had no right to suddenly leave like that. He had no right to just leave a stupid sloppy handwritten goodbye—which she still has pinned to her wall—like that. He had no right to suddenly come back as if nothing happened. And he certainly had no right to leave her for a year, by herself, with her chest aching to see them again.

It was unfair!

She spent every ounce of energy and power just trying to find them again but then, 365 days later, they come back bigger and stronger than ever.

She fucking hated it.

"Lucy," he let out a breath of sigh as he finally registers the golden beauty. "long time no see."

He offers that cheeky grin which she missed so much and immediately, she doesn't know what to do.

She loss of words and she felt like somebody punched her in the gut as the air is sucked away in a single breath.

And he's there. Living flesh and blood, heat and muscle, just walking towards her as if nothing happened for the past year.

Just like that.

"I'm home," he says.

And the tears fall one by one as a trembling smile brushes against her lips and her arms are already wrapped around his bulk figure.

"Welcome home... Natsu."

notes: I promise I'm still alive... just super busy and super confused. I hate boys. can we just like take a moment to say that I have fallen for a fuckboy and it's killing me?
notes2: sorry about all the inactiveness...
notes3: leave me a review if you want to beat me up for all the inactiveness and if the latest chapter got you in your feels.