"Y-you're standing too close." Lucy brought up her hands between her and Natsu, whom was currently scrutinizing her face with crossed arms.
"Are you sure everything's okay, Luce?" Natsu asked his blonde friend with a semi-worried look. Lucy replied with a stuttered yeah, trying to reassure her dragon-raised friend that she was fine. Natsu arched her then let out a sigh as he slumped back down on the couch. "Well, if you say so," he said. Seeing that Natsu would no longer pester her into admitting that something was indeed wrong, Lucy let out an internal sigh. There was just no way she could tell her best friend what was bothering her. Knowing his character, he would end up becoming too worried trying to help her and end up doing something catastrophic. Besides, Natsu had other, more important things to worry about.
"So," she stretched her arms behind her back, "are we going on a mission anytime soon?"
Natsu looked up at her. "Oh, that's what I came here for. Erza already picked a mission for the team. We're supposed to meet at the station in about an hour."
"Ah, okay!" She smiled. "Well, I have to start packing, so if you two will excuse me." She moved away from the couch and towards her wardrobe.
Happy, the blue feline that until now had been quietly sitting at the opposite end of the couch, Perked up and directed his attention to the blonde stellar mage. "Lucy, Lucy, bring me fish, okay?"
"Uh, yeah, sure." She answered moving her hand in a shoo-shoo manner towards him without looking behind her, still busy pulling clothes from her wardrobe. Content with her answer, Happy flew atop his partner's head and laid there as Natsu stood up from his spot on the couch. He made his way to the window and spoke back to his teammate, "well, see ya later."
Lucy turned around to wave goodbye to her teammate. "Oka-Hey! Use the door!" And with those final words, Natsu was gone. "Geez, they'll never learn," she said to herself. She closed the window behind him and sat on the edge of her bed. A melancholic look took over her face. The truth is, she was still bummed about her father. To think that after they had finally made up, she just had to go and disappear for seven years. She picked up a letter that had been lying on her desk. She had gone through every single letter her father had written to her during her absence and it made her wonder whether somewhere along the way she had failed her father as a daughter. After being lost in thought for a while longer she decided on taking a bath before meeting up with the team. She had the bath running and she sat down at her desk to add to her novel while the bath was filling, but she didn't feel up to writing at the moment and ended up falling asleep.
When she woke up, there was paper stuck to her face and it took her a while before her senses all woke up too. She looked out her window. It was getting pretty late. It finally hit her, "the mission!"She jumped out of her desk chair, grabbed her gate keys, her suitcase, the packed fish for Happy and ran out the door paying no attention to the water seeping out from under the bathroom door.