I smiled as I snuggle up closer to him, trying to envelope myself in more of his warmth. The wet grass is slick behind our backs, but we don't care. His hand threads itself into my hair, causing me to sigh in pleasure. This was what Sundays were about. Hanging out with your pink-haired best friend, and watching the thousands of stars that lay on the sky.
"Lucy"
I mumble a yes in response, yawning, due to the fact that it's 12 am and I have school tomorrow.
"I think I'm gonna ask Lissana out…" Natsu's gaze penetrates my skull "will she say yes?"
"Natsu…" I let another yawn ripple through me. My heart clenches in pain, but I make my voice neutral. See, this is the pain of loving your pink-haired best friend. But, as they say "love hurts." And now, I'm experiencing that. Although it is painful, it is still pleasurable. Sure, you crave the one you love even more, as if you were a pregnant women needing a type of food. I turn my body so the side of my face rest's on his tan arm. He turns over so he is also laying on his side, but facing me. He then throws his right arm around me, and his left one is a pillow for my head.
"Lucy…" He mimics my voice. I pout at him and stare into his deep green eyes, almost black. His eyes always hypnotized me, as well as his silky voice.
"Do as you wish…I mean you're Natsu Dragneel, the boy who rocks pink hair—"Natsu pouted causing me to giggle "fine salmon hair, and plus you have that whole bad boy look, with your motorcycle and leather jacket."
"That's because I am a bad boy!" Natsu said in protest, while he buried his nose in my hair.
"Natsu, when we first met you carried an injured baby bird back to her nest, which was high in the tree, and you fell earning you a sprained ankle."
"But, I always skip class and have detention"
"That's because you're an idiot!"
I felt him pout against my head, another yawn escaped my lips. "Are you tired Luce…"
"Yeah, but…lets…stay…here" with that I fall into a deep slumber.
X-X-X-X
I woke up with a light shining on my face, I turned over and yawned—checking the time on my clock. Didn't I fall asleep outside with Natsu? I ask myself as I try to remember the previous night's events. His heat that filled me with warmth both inside, and out. Yes, I was completely smitten with my idiotic best friend. However, fate doesn't want him to love me, and so it pushes him towards the ivory haired beauty.
Yes, Lissana is indeed one of my closest friends, but I can't help but to think like this. People wanted Natsu and I to go out at first, but then when Lissana came back from volunteering at a school in Africa, they all shipped them. The clock read 5:32, I still had two hours before school began and an hour before Levy and the other girls came to pick me up. I wonder how I woke up so early though….
I, Levy, Erza, Juvia, and Cana usually carpooled, well I always carpooled since I could barely afford my rent with my job. They didn't want me to go on the bus since well…cue in shudder…it was horrific. Nobody wanted to go on the bus, hell I doubt the bus driver even did. The students were atrocious, completely barbaric. Sure, Erza could calm them down but even she didn't want to go on it.
Natsu dropped me off from school, where as the girls took me. I put on my school uniform which consisted of a black button up shirt, with a black skirt—that stopped at mid-thigh—that had white trimmings, and a white blazer, with a white tie. My socks were white with black trimmings and stopped at the middle of my calves. The shoes could be any kind, but it had to be black. So I stuck with my black converses. I made sure to fill a plastic bag with my gym clothes, and grab that.
I got to the bathroom and brushed my teeth, grabbed my body spray—obviously strawberry flavored—and sprayed it all over my body. I decided to change up my hair style today, and so I braided my golden hair, and it reached my lower back. My bangs framed my face, and so I grabbed to cute blue clips and clipped some of them to the side. So, only one part of my bangs were loose.
"Cute"
With a wink I walked towards the front door and headed down the stairs, I walked out of the building saying a goodbye to the receptionist. I smiled when I saw Erza's red jeep, I walked towards it and sat in the back with Levy, and Juvia. We all greeted each other before Erza drove off.
"So what time will we leave for the game?" Erza asked, referring to the soccer game that we were heading out to— Sabertooth vs. Fairy Tail—our school usually held games on Mondays; something about "an excitement to get you through the week" yeah, our school is weird like that.
"Eh, we can just stay at the school, since school ends at 2 and the game begins at 4" I replied, voicing in my thoughts.
"Plus I can use the gas money for strawberry cakes!" I could tell that Erza's eyes were glowing even without look at her.
Before I knew it we were already parked at our high school, parking lot. We all hopped out when a sleek black truck, with flames painted the sides, came parking next to us. Just a nanosecond after a blue SUV came to the other side of us, this one with white snowflakes painted on the sides.
"YOSH I WON!" My idiotic best friend shouted hopping out of the black truck.
"YOU FLIPPIN' CHEATED YOU ASSHAT!" My close friend Gray shouted.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, ICE-PRINCESS?"
"YOU RAN A RED LIGHT DUMBASS!"
"IT WAS ABOUT TO BE GREEN STRIPPER"
"WELL IT WAS STILL RED ASH-FOR-BRAINS!" And his last comment led to a brawl behind Erza's jeep.
Oh, snap, hell would sure visit them—in the form of Erza. Erza walked over to them, and smacked their heads together loudly, causing a smacking noise to be heard…and was that a cracking sound? Natsu was the one to recover first from Erza's attack, he looked at me whilst rubbing his forehead.
"Luce…" Natsu said stretching out my name, as he walked closer to me, by the look of his eyes I knew where this was going. Without a pitying look I grabbed his hand and we walked inside the school, then to the roof of the school.
This rarely happened but when it did, I was always there for Natsu. He was a strong boy and I love him for that, but what I love even more is to know I'm the only one he opens up with like this. His grip on my hand tightened, causing my body to feel weird. The heat traveling rapidly but lingering in every part it touched. Each time Natsu touched me, the heat that he unknowingly spread always lingered for a while, but left me cold when it vanished.
I led him near the metal fences where we saw our friends running to class. I already heard the chiming of the bell, signaling us to go to class, but it didn't matter—not as much as Natsu. We sat down our backs leaning on the fences. He rested his head on my shoulder.
"He left…why did he leave us" Natsu had certain days where his past would hit him like a bullet train. I encouraged him to talk to me about it, after I found out. So now, each time this happens we go to the school roof and I listen to him.
"I loved—I love him. But, it's getting harder, sometimes I wonder if he really is dead? Igneel Dragneel dead" he scoffed at what he said "but maybe…he is…maybe when he left me in front of this school 10 years ago, he died the day after. All this…was for waste…searching—"I couldn't take it, where was the optimistic kid I loved so damn much? Sure when we did this he usually sounded like this, but this time he sounded hopeless.
"Natsu, I love you"
"I love you too Luce" Natsu sniffled, my heart throbbed knowing he only meant it as a best friend kind of way.
"Igneel is coming back for you, don't you trust me—"
"With my life" he said as he took his head off my shoulder, and stared at me with such seriousness."
"Then, trust me when I say…he's coming back" I said while I held his cheeks in my hands.
"Thanks Luce…"
X-X-X-X
I slowly entered the lunchroom, my bones aching from gym. I limped up to the lunch line when my mind simply said "screw it" and so I went to the lunch table me and my friends owned.
Yes. Owned. Makarov said if Gajeel, Gray, and Natsu didn't fight in the school building for the rest of our freshman year then we could have it. And they didn't fight in the school building. But, let's just say that we got banned from 3 different stores in our freshman year.
I noticed everyone was already there—Erza, Cana, Levy, Mira, Lissana, Juvia, Gray, Laxus, Gajeel, Freed, Bickslow and Natsu. Usually there was Evergreen and Elfman but sometimes they made out under the stairwell because according to Elfman it's "manly,"
I slumped down in the seat between Levy and Cana, across from me was Lissana. I sighed quietly, and nobody noticed, I sighed once again only for it to have the same affect. I sighed one more time as loud as I could, and everyone's eyes were on me.
"Anything wrong Lucy?" Mira said with a giggle.
I sighed again and repeatedly slammed my head on the table, hoping they'd take that as a hint, and understand what happened. But, to my displeasure they hadn't understood. And, kept asking if I was in danger, or doing self-harm.
"GYM, PEOPLE! GYM!" I shouted, my blood rising to my cheeks, and my hair coming out of its pony tail.
"You could've just said so…" Gray muttered.
"What's wrong with gym, I personally love it!" Natsu announced, his signature grin plastered on his face.
"Well…some people aren't flippin' athletic!" I snapped, causing Natsu to roll his eyes, but still carry that smile. He went back to devouring his meal, I wonder how that boy stayed so fit.
"So what happened" Levy asked me, and so I replayed the horrendous tale of me in—dramatic gasp—gym
Flashback
I personally hated gym, not only was I not athletic, but this was the one class where I didn't have any of my friends! I walked past the chatty seniors whom were in the same class as I—although I didn't bother memorizing their names seeing as how they wouldn't associate with me and vice versa. We didn't hate each other nor like each other, we just had never talked.
The long journey from English to Gym ended when I entered the girl's locker room it seemed as though everyone had already stripped off their uniform, and into their gym clothes. I walked in front of an empty locker and started to strip off my clothes—
"Can you go into detail on that?" Laxus asked.
"Shut up!" I shouted at him.
After I stripped off my clothes I realized that the clothes in my gym bag were my PJ's. I frowned and sighed, knowing that it could be okay-is. I mean they were simple shorts—or a belt—and a tank top—maybe a cop top—so it could be okay right? I gulped and stripped into my PJ's, my cheeks flushed as I walked into the gym room…
OKAAAAAY SOOOO IM GOING TO TAKE A BREAK FROM DEAR JOURNAL MEH LOVES! AND DO THIS THREE-SHOT! Is it even called a three-shot?
PRAY FOR MEH! PLEASE I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL TOMORROW I HAVE TO DO MY BENCHMARKS AND FITNESS TESTING! Don't you hate it when your teachers make you fitness test although your not fit? Yeah same here!
DANGIT! HERES LAST YEARS SCORES!
PUSH UPS-12
SIT UPS-27
SHUTTLE RUN- I DON'T KNOW I SLIPPED AND FELL HAHAHAHA!
MILE RUN-15 SECONDS BABY WHOOOP! YEAH I NEVER MADE IT BELOW 20 SECONDS! THIS IS WHY I RAN WITH MY TRACK LOVING BFF! (Although she complained that I "slowed" her down!)
FLEXED ARM HANG-0.95 seconds
WHOOOOOOOOOP HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS LITTLE MY FAIRY TAIL FREAAAAAAKS!
