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Love and Business

Re-edited chapter 1: Prank

"Out! Out until you can pay the rent!" The old lady shrieked as she tossed Lucy out on the porch. Lucy landed on her butt.

"Okay, okay! I'm going to get my pay check!" Groaning, she muttered "ouch..."

"You should be running!" the lady said as she slammed the door in Lucy face.

Lucy scowled, she wouldn't have been living in this apartment if she hadn't run away from home. But then again she chose to live her own life, to be the one making the choices.

To be free.

Lucy started to run.

Drip Drop.

It slowly began to rain, harder and harder until Lucy finally reached her office building. She let out of a breath of air as she reached finally reached the office building in the middle of the city, where the rain couldn't touch her.

As she went inside she shivered. The AC made Lucy colder than she already had been.

As she walked to where her desk was located, she was immediately put on alert. It was quiet, and Lucy had been working long enough to know that it was never quiet.

She glanced everywhere and then bumped into her beautiful white-haired friend Mira.

"Did you hear?" she said excitingly

"wha_did the boss get fired!?" Lucy asked

"no.."

"damn it..."

"The CEO of Dragneel Enterprise is coming to meet with our boss! I hear he's hot!" Levy said cutting in while hugging Lucy.

Lucy scanned her brain for any information on the CEO of Dragneel Enterprise.

"Nope, nothing..." she said "oh wait! The person with pink hair!"

"It's salmon!" Levy said. Levy was Lucy's smartest friend, and the person to go to for awesome book recommendations. "He's our age!" she said squealing.

Lucy sighed, rolling her eyes at her excited friend. "I'm just here for my paycheck.."

Mira put it in her hands.

Lucy moaned, "please say he'll relocate our boss somewhere far, far away from here!"

Lucy, and her friends hated their boss. He was a perverted, womanizing freak, that would try and touch all of the woman that worked there, especially Lucy.

Lucy glanced at her watch and her eyes widened.

"Shit! Gotta run, and pay the cranky landlady! See ya!" She ran out the door in a hurry.

Lucy was undoubtedly beautiful. Large, doe, caramel eyes, with blonde hair brighter than the sun, and a curvy body.

She reached the apartment building. Panting, she handed her paycheck to the landlady, she took it with a grunt and waved Lucy away. Lucy trudged up to her room.

She wanted a warm shower, and food.

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Natsu yawned. The man in front of him drowned on and on about something, Natsu tried to listen but it so boring Natsu shifted his attention to the window.

Thankfully Erza wasn't there, so there was no one to kill him since he wasn't paying attention.

The man held out an greasy hand Natsu stared at it.

"-D-deal?" he said

"sure..." he said in a lazy tone.

"Thank you! You won't regret it!" He said triumphantly

"yeah, yeah" he said waving his hand as he stood up, and stretched. He took one last look at the room and walked out the door.

He walked outside to see Grey, and Loke.

"Where's Gajeel? Let's go, I'm so bored!"

"I don't know, talking to some tiny blue-head I think" Grey said

"man that was boring!" Natsu complained "I think I have a headache"

Loke smirked "nothing some alcohol and a good game of truth or dare can't cure."

"Anyway let's go! I'm hungry! Ice princess hurry up!"

Loke groaned. "Come on guys, we should go Erza gonna kill u-"

"What did you call me?" Grey said menacingly

"Ice princess, why? Does it disturb you Ice princess?"

"at least my brains aren't filled with tabasco sauce!"

"Well, I don't put ice in everything I eat!" Natsu replied in Grey's face.

"You put tabasco sauce in everything you eat!" Grey yelled.

By now, Gajeel had come, and was watching amused at Natsu, and Grey.

"Stop!" a voice boomed.

Natsu and Grey gulped and looked behind themselves in fear.

The one and only Erza Scarlet stood behind them.

"Natsu, Grey, Unless you want a beating. Get. In. The. Car." They had never run faster in their lives.

"Stop here" Erza's voice commanded, and the car stopped in front of a office building. "Grey, Natsu, I have business to attend to. If I hear from Loke or Gajeel that you guys were fighting, I swear. You two won't see the light of tomorrow" and with that she left.

The car started up again towards Natsu's hotel.

"Anyway, who's the blue-haired girl you were with Gajeel?" Loke asked

"leave it to you to start talking about girls as Erza leaves, Loke" Grey said

"oh shrimp? She was helping me find my way around when I got lost"

"oh? Nicknames already?" Loke inquired

"it's not like that damn it! Curse your perverted mind Loke" Gajeel huffed out.

"Anyway let's go to the apartment and play our annual truth or dare" Grey said mischievously


"Natsu, I dare you to go to a random apartment and start hitting on the person that lives there...boy or girl" Gajeel said while everyone hi-fived him.

"What!? No way in hell!" Natsu said a disgusted look on his face.

"you have to do it Natsu, or else you lose...to me."

Natsu stood up "you guys should prepare to go to hell" Natsu said grimly, while sticking his tongue out.

"Don't worry!' Gajeel said. He then smirked,

"We're already there."

Okay~~ The next chapter will be a very long chapter, about 3,000 words maybe? And then_finally I will post a new chapter that I have been working on!

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-SOFD