Sweat slowly dripped down her body as Lucy groaned into her pillow. Her fingers reached out to grasp at anything within her reach. The room was unbelievably hot; tendrils of vapor slithered around the open air like a snake. Another deep sigh left Lucy's mouth. It was all because of- the damn air conditioner is broken!, Lucy thought heatedly. She had already dialed the phone number for the electrician, but she was sadly met with a gruff voice saying that he was going to be out for a week. So all she could do was attempt to not move a single muscle at all, as beads of perspiration rolled down her face onto her pale neck, making her golden blonde hair stick to her skin. Finally, not being able to stand the sweltering weather, she reached for her phone, which sat on the white nightstand beside her bed. She checked to see who was online at the moment, and saw her petite, bluenette friend was on. Her fingers moved sluggishly across the screen.

'Help meeee I'm meltingggggg' Lucy watched the three blue circles move up and down before words popped up: 'Shrimp's a lil busy rn if u kno wat I mean gihee', and then Levy suddenly went offline.

Lucy face-palmed. She would need a whole gallon of bleach to wipe that scarring image from her mind. Ever since Levy met the fierce looking guy two months ago at their town's library looking for a book about black panthers, they never spent much time apart. At first, all Gajeel did was insult Levy about her height and passion for books, but soon Levy started to notice how Gajeel always hung around her, and decided to question him about it. He finally confessed to Levy with a romantic jazz song, and now, it seemed like Gajeel had replaced Lucy in Levy's life, and it left comical tears streaming down Lucy's face. Nevertheless, Lucy continued her conquest on getting someone to talk with.

'Juvia, do you have something to help me with this heat? I'm slowly dying in my room!' Lucy hoped Juvia had at least something helpful to say back.

'Juvia will never let you use my dear Gray to cool of your body! He belongs to Juvia and Juvia only!' Lucy read.

'What the hell?!' Lucy thought confusedly. Was it another one of Juvia's weird fantasies? She quickly typed back with, 'Um ok… I have no clue who your 'dear Gray' is and why he's related to cooling off, but he's all yours…' The icon showed that Juvia read the message, but did not say anything else. What in the world has Juvia gotten herself into?, Lucy thought confusedly.

Lucy's last closest girl friend was Erza. Erza had long, ruby-red hair. Although Lucy loved her dear friend, she found Erza a bit, intimidating to hang out with. Erza was very spirited about sweets, especially strawberry cheesecake. She even dressed up as a hulking strawberry (with two red swords accompanying her hands) for Halloween once, proclaiming that it was one of her 'armors', and that its "sweet smell of strawberries was enough to knock the opponent out!". Although Erza was a smart person, she took things very literally, almost getting herself in trouble as a consequence of what others said or did. But, since Lucy was out of friends to talk with, she had to resort to this. So, Lucy copied and pasted what she messaged Levy, and hit send. Right away she got two responses.

'What r u talkin bout? Ppl can't melt dummy, but if u rlly r then I wuld advis doctor, unless ur Ice Princess', Lucy read. The next message said, 'WAIT IS THIS ELSA? Why the hell r u named 'Lucy' in Erza's phone? Have u changed genders? No wait... I knew u wur a girl this whole time!1!1!'

Lucy gaped at the screen, not believing what she read. This was clearly not Erza, and why the hell was he/she spouting all this nonsense? Anger and concern flared up inside her despite the heat outside, and she furiously texted a short paragraph back to whoever the person was on Erza's phone.

'First of all, I was being rhetorical when I said that! I obviously know that people are not capable of melting! Secondly, you need to correct your spelling! Reading your text gave me a headache! Thirdly, I am not 'Ice Princess', whoever that is! Who the hell are you, and why do you have Erza's phone? Did you steal it from her? If you did, I'm calling the police right now!' Lucy huffed after she typed all of that in one go.

Like before, two messages popped up one after the other. 'Woah woah woah chill… I'll ans ur questions… If u wur being rhetorical y didn't u say so u weirdo? This is txting of course I'm gonna shorten the words it's faster that way!'

'Since ur not Ice Princess that's fine! I have Erza's phone cause I took it from her, and I'm not telling u who I am! What if ur a psycho killer who'll stalk me and take my life?'

Lucy couldn't believe her eyes. First this person insults her, and then acts all suspicious of her? She growled beneath her breath, and texted back, 'Excuse me, I'm a weirdo? If I'm weird then you're the strange one! And who the heck is Ice Princess? He's not some other weirdo is he?'

'Ice Princess is def weirder than me, he strips all the time everywhere!'

'You're associated with a stripper? That obviously proves you're the bizarre one!'

'Hey! I'm not friends w/ that stripper! He's my enemy and 1 day I'll def beksdalfhskaflavsn;:AHoi21e324dfser'

Lucy blanched at the nonsense letters. She quickly voiced her concern, texting: 'Umm, everything okay over there?'

A few minutes passed before she got a response back; 'Hello Lucy, this is Erza here. I apologize if Natsu here has caused you any inconvenience. He stole my device away from me when I was at my brief moment of weakness, but as you can see I have successfully gotten it back. Sorry, but I have something urgent that I need to attend to. I will see you later.' And with that, Erza was offline.

Lucy fell back on her bed with a huff, along with the heat from her anger. None of her friends were able to help her with her predicament, and a stranger (now known as Natsu) had made it even worse. Lucy rolled around in her bed in frustration grumbling about a weirdo before she stopped. A sneaky smirk slid onto her face. She would get revenge on this 'Natsu', and leave him not knowing what bit him in the ass.