*Okay so this is my first fanfic. Please tell me what you think and how I did! Reviews, tips and pointers would be appreciated*

Chapter 1: Day off

It was a normal morning like any other. Lucy awoke in her bed to the sounds of birds, and the people of the beautiful city of Magnolia getting reading for the day. As to her normal morning routine, Lucy got a shower, made herself some tea and breakfast, and decided on an outfit for the day.

Most of her guild mates knew her for always looking pretty and having a great sense of style, but she had been with Fairy Tail for almost 1 and a half years now (8 if you include the 7 years she spent sealed on Tenrou Island) so she didn't really feel the need to impress anyone with her looks and fashion sense as much.

So today she decided to throw on a simple pair of black leggings and a white tank top. She tied her usual bow in her hair, grabbed her celestial spirit keys and made her way to the guild.

On her way to the guild she thought about the missions that her, Natsu and Happy might go on.

"Maybe we'll search for lost treasure! Hmm... no... I'll probably end up somewhere I shouldn't be or it'll be guarded by some monster and Natsu will have to save me. Maybe well fight some bandits... which Natsu will probably end up taking them all out himself. Or maybe well fight some wizards from a dark guild... which I'll probably need Natsu's help with at some point..."

Lucy couldn't help but see a re-occurring pattern in almost all of the missions they went on together. In almost every mission they've been on, Natsu has saved her.

She began to recall all the times where she needed him and he was right there beside her. She knew that if there were one guy she could always count on, it was Natsu. A small smile began to creep up onto her face and her cheeks started to blush a light shade of red.

Then she realized what she was thinking and quickly shook her head clean before any more blush-inducing thoughts made their way into her mind.

She then began to remember all the times he made her angry with him. The times when he would break into her home uninvited, the times when he would destroy everything while on a mission, resulting in them not getting paid, and the times he accidentally burned her.

"He's an idiot..." she thought "But still... he's the best.".

After a short walk she was at guild. She made her way through the doors only to be hit smack in the face by a snow cone.

"Hey! I was gonna eat that you ass-hole!" Gray shouted, no doubt at Natsu for smacking the snow cone out of his hands.

"Then next time before you go to eat something, make sure you're not sitting in my spot!" he shouted back at Grey.

"Since when is this your spot?! I don't see your name anywhere!"

"I carved it under the chair!"

Natsu lifted the chair to prove to Gray that he had indeed carved his name under it but there was nothing to be found.

"Huh? It was here yesterday." Natsu said puzzled.

"You ever think that the chair you marked might be in a different spot that it was yesterday, hothead?!"

"You wanna go, snowflake?!"

"Bring it on, fire breath!" And just like that the two mages were fighting as usual.

"Yup..." Lucy thought while sighing "Just a normal day..."

She walked around the cloud of dust, fire and ice that was Natsu and Gray's latest brawl to the request board where Happy and Erza where standing watching them duke it out.

"What are dumb and dumber fighting about today?" Lucy asked Happy.

"I don't know. Something about Gray sitting in Natsu's spot?" The blue cat replied.

"So the usual pointless stuff?" Lucy sighed.

"Aye!" said Happy.

"Shouldn't you probably stop it before it gets out of hand, Erza?" Lucy asked the scarlet haired mage.

"I'll let them fight it out this time. It's been pretty boring around here lately, and their fights can be kind of entertaining sometimes." she replied with a smirk.

Lucy gave a nervous chuckle and smile as her reply.

She turned her attention to the request board to look for a fitting job for Natsu, Happy and herself. "Hmm... not many high paying jobs here today..." Lucy said with a tad of disappointment in her voice.

"There haven't been many good requests lately." Erza said to Lucy. "That's why things haven't been to interesting."

"Well dammit..." Lucy said feeling slightly frustrated. "I was hoping that me, Natsu and Happy could of went on a job. My rent will be due in 2 weeks and there was this really cute dress I was hoping to buy."

"I wouldn't be able to go anyways" Happy said. "I promised Carla and Wendy I'd help them with their job."

Lucy, who was now slightly jealous, looked at Happy. "And what would that job be?" Lucy asked with hopes that she could ask (or invite herself) to accompany them.

"The job is to catch some rare fish for this guy. Wendy asked me to come because I'm sort of and expert on fish." Happy said proudly.

"Sure you are..." Lucy said under her breath.

"I'd ask you to tag along too Lucy, but the pay isn't high enough to split between 4 people."

Lucy signed "Well great! What am I supposed to do all day now?"

"Why don't you take the day off and have some fun?" Erza said to Lucy, trying to relieve some of her disappointment.

"Hmm... well I did just get back from a long unsuccessful job the other day... and rent isn't due for 2 more weeks so that's plenty of time to make some money. Yeah, I could use a day for fun!" Lucy said feeling in much more high spirits now.

"Only question now is what am I gonna do for fun?" Lucy thought out loud. She turned to Erza "Hey Erza! Wanna have a girls day?" Lucy asked

"Sorry" she replied "I'd like to but I have matters to attend to."

"Awww... you're no fun." Lucy said disappointed once again.

"Where's Levy?" she asked "Maybe she'll want to have a girls day."

"She's gone on a mission with her team." Erza replied

"Why don't you and Natsu do something today? With Happy gone he'll be looking for someone to keep him busy today. And I doubt Grey would be up for that."

"Hmm I've hung out with Natsu in towns while we were on jobs, but we've never just hung out here in Magnolia." Lucy thought."Well... I would of preferred a day of just us girls but I suppose a day with Natsu could be fun too."

"Good" Erza said. "It'll give you two some time to bond."

Lucy's eyes widened and her face blushed a light red for some reason. Erza looked at Lucy and noticed this.

She smikred and said "Oh, so you like the idea of bonding with Natsu do you?" she said teasing Lucy.

Lucy's face blushed an even deeper shade of red after Erza's remark. "W-what do you mean?" Lucy said panicked

"Well I'm sure if you and Natsu had a whole day to yourselves, you could get to know each other a lot better."

Lucy hid her face from Erza to hide her even deeper blushing cheeks. "W-why would I need to get to know Natsu better? We're already best friends!" Lucy replied.

"There are more ways you can 'get to know someone'" Erza teased. She knew that this was getting to Lucy and Lucy herself didn't know why this making her blush so much.

"Speak of the devil." said Erza which practically made Lucy jump up from where she was standing.

Natsu walked over to the two mages, rubbing the top of his head. "Damn that Gray! I bet he hid the chair I carved my name into just as an excuse to fight me!" He said.

"You two dolts never need an excuse to fight." Erza said crossing her arms. Natsu gave a nervous chuckle and then looked at Lucy who was trying her best to hid her blushing face from the dragon slayer.

"Hey Luce! I seen you looking for job requests while Gray had me in a headlock. Not very many good requests though." Natsu said.

"Uh y-yeah... too bad huh?" Lucy said with a very nervous tone in her voice that Natsu didn't pick up on, but Erza did.

Erza didn't know why but she was feeling very devious today.

She smirked and said "Lucy was just saying that since there are no good jobs to take, she was going to take the day off and needed someone to spend the day with."

Lucy shot a glare at Erza.

"Yeah." Natsu said "Happy is going on a job with Wendy and Carla so I've got nothing to do either." Natsu looked at Lucy who then tried to look as normal as possible and said "Hey Lucy! Wanna spend the day together? It'll be relaxing!"

Lucy gulped "Um..." She had no reason to say no. Or to lie. She looked at Natsu "Sure. It'll be fun right?"

"Right!" Natsu said.

Lucy glared at Erza who just simply smiled back at her. Then Natsu grabbed Lucy's hand and began to walk towards the exit which forced her to walk with him.

"Today will be great Luce! We can can have all kinds of fun here in the city! We can grab lunch and-"

Lucy wasn't paying any attention to the suggestions Natsu was making.

She couldn't stop looking at her and Natsu's hands and how their fingers were intertwined together.

She could feel little butterflies in her stomach and the warmth in her reddening cheeks. She wondered why she was feeling so strange and nervous around Natsu today. Was it because of what Erza said? Or because of what she was thinking on her way to the guild this morning? Or both? Either way, if this was how she was gonna be all day, then she had a long day ahead.