While making prank phone calls and text messages, Lucy finds herself becoming friends with some stranger she pranked.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima.
XOXOX
Buzz buzz was the last thing Lucy wanted to hear in the dead of night, pulling her out of her soft slumbers. She let out a muffled groan as she reached for her phone, patting around helplessly until she found the solid object she had been looking for.
The screen blinded her with a new message. Through squinting eyes she could just make out, "Hey, you awake?" a text read.
"I am now," Lucy replied as she sat up and checked the time on her phone. 2:00 am.
"Good. I need help with my English paper."
Anger swelled from her chest, like a burning oven, "You woke me up at two in the morning to ask for help on your paper?!"
"Yup. So have you read The Catcher in the Rye?"
"I'm going to kill you," she sent back, ignoring his question.
"I'll take that as a 'maybe'. So I need to write a paper on symbolism but I don't know where to start."
Lucy sighed, mentally slapping herself, "When's the paper due?"
"Today :D."
Face-palming, Lucy replied, "Fine. Talk about innocence. Like the snowball Holden holds in the beginning. The white represents something pure and then he is told to throw it away…" she continued on feeding her newfound friend information for his paper.
After a while, he sent her a picture of his paper for her to proof read. She pointed out a few grammatical errors, but other than that she found the paper to be decent.
"Thank you so much!" he replied. "You're a lifesaver!"
Blood rushed to her cheeks as she swiftly said back, "No problem. G'night, Natsu." She looked at the time on her phone again, 4:00 am. Damn it! she inwardly cursed before closing her eyes, trying to salvage any remaining hope of sleep.
Buzz buzz. Her eyes popped open, "SERIOUSLY?!" She begrudgingly grabbed her phone. "Sweet dreams, Weirdo," it said.
XOXOX
Lucy wasn't sure how this happened exactly. Well, actually, that is a lie…
She and her two friends, Levy and Juvia, were supposed to be hanging out just the three of them last Sunday, but then Juvia brought her boyfriend, Gray, along with them.
Lucy and Levy always wondered how the two of them met. They were very different. Gray was more of a tsundere with a cool, icy personality, while Juvia was very lovey-dovey and as sensitive as water. And besides, Gray attends Magnolia High, a public high school while Lucy, Levy, and Juvia attend Mavis Academy, an all-girl private school. So it was just a mystery how those two had met.
The four of them were eating at a diner together when suddenly Gray and Juvia left to go to the "bathroom." And for some reason Lucy and Levy decided it would be a great idea to prank some phone numbers from Gray's phone because what is more fun than pranking a stranger?
Lucy had chosen a boy called "Flame Brains" from Gray's odd list of contacts, while Levy chose a boy called "Gajeel."
The two girls texted their chosen person, mischievously messing around for a good laugh. For instance, Levy pretended to be Gajeel's girlfriend.
"Hey there bad boy," she texted.
The person replied back right away. "Who is this?"
Levy bit her lip and replied, "What? You don't remember me?"
"Maybe I would if you told me who the hell this is."
Lucy and Levy were both giggling like crazy, "It's your girlfriend, dumbass."
They waited a minute for a reply, but instead, Levy's phone rang. She let out a squeak, dropping her phone onto the table as though it had burned her. "What do I do?" Levy whispered-screamed.
"Answer it!" Lucy commanded with eager energy. "On speaker!"
Levy gulped before doing as she was told. "He-hello…" she stammered.
"Who the hell is this?" A raspy voice barked.
Levy was no longer nervous, instead the harshness of the stranger's voice awakened a fury in her that she hadn't known existed before, "I already told you! I'm your girlfriend, you idiot!"
Gray and Juvia had finally returned. Juvia's clothes were ruffled and Gray was missing his shirt, which seemed to give Lucy the very keen idea of what they had been doing.
"You know you're supposed to block your number when you're doing prank calls, right?" The boy called Gajeel snapped.
"Well this isn't a prank call!" Levy said, sounding very convincing.
"Fine," Gajeel exasperated, seeming to give into her nonsense. "If you're my girlfriend then tell me about myself."
Gray quickly pulled up a group photo of him and his friends on his phone. He pointed to someone in particular. A rather scary looking fellow…"You have a bunch of piercings. Long black hair."
"He sings," Gray whispered.
"You sing."
Juvia whispered, "He has a black cat named Lily."
"You have a black cat named Lily."
"Are you a stalker or something?"
"Nope," Levy giggled innocently, twirling a strand of blue hair around her index finger, "Just your girlfriend."
"Like I would date someone as stupid as you."
"Who are you calling stupid, Gajeel!"
"You!"
The two continued to bicker all night long, no longer on speaker phone since their arguments grew at an exponential rate.
Meanwhile, Lucy awaited a reply from "Flame Brain," though Gray informed her that his real name was Natsu Dragneel and even showed her a picture of the boy for her to study.
Lucy had only texted him a simple, "Hii!" in what felt like an hour ago. At last her phone buzzed.
"Yo! What's up?"
She stared at Natsu's photo, thinking of something clever to say. "Nothing much…Just wondering if your hair is naturally pink."
"It is -_-'," he replied.
"Why?" she asked.
"What do you mean 'why?!' It just is." he responded.
Lucy pursed her lips, "Weird."
"Pshh it's not weird. You're weird. Who is this anyways?"
"I'm not weird! And you don't remember me, Natsu?" she sniggered to herself.
"You are very weird. And how would I remember you if you haven't told me your name. Sheesh. Not very bright, are ya?"
Anger flooded through her fingertips as she pounded her answer back, "Well aren't you just a jerk! Who gives a girl his number and tells her to text him whenever and then doesn't remember doing so!"
Gray was nearly rolling over with laughter as his hand slapped the table, "Natsu giving his number to a girl! Like that would ever happen!"
"I haven't given my number to anyone!" Natsu sent back.
"Obviously you did, Natsu. How hurtful that you don't remember me! It really seemed like we were hitting it off."
"Lisanna, is this you? This is such a lame prank."
"MY NAME'S NOT LISANNA! JUST HOW MANY GIRLS DO YOU GIVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER TO? PERV!"
"Fine then who are you?"
"Nobody important apparently!"
"Jeez don't be so grumpy."
"Well sorry I'm upset that you forgot about me! And we were really getting to know each other that night…"
"Really? Then tell me what you know about me!"
Gray quickly whispered tidbits of information as Lucy typed them all out, "You have an oddly blue-haired cat named Happy and you have severe motion sickness, which is so uncool by the way. Your grades kind of suck and you go to Magnolia high."
A couple of minutes went by before she finally got a reply, "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?"
Lucy decided to really mess around now and she licked her lips, "Who is this?" she questioned back.
"Huh?"
"Huh?" she mocked.
"I'm so confused."
"Don't be ;)," Lucy laughed. This was just too much fun for her.
"WHO ARE YOU?"
"I don't know. Who is this, Natsu?"
"You just said my name so clearly you know who I am! But who are you?"
"Who am I?"
Gray and Juvia were practically in tears from laughter and warned, "Go easy on him, Lucy. It doesn't take much to confuse that idiot."
"I'm putting you in my phone as 'Weirdo' until I figure out who you are!" Natsu decided.
"That's not nice!"
"Then tell me your name!"
"NO!"
Natsu sent a screenshot of her added number with the name set as Weirdo.
And that was how the conversation went for the rest of the night. The two bickered back and forth just like Levy and Gajeel, except Natsu and Lucy kept it strictly in text.
XOXOX
Now it was a few days later and Natsu refused to stop texting Lucy. At first it was just constant asking of who is this and Lucy continued to mess around. Sometimes she would act like she knew him, other times she would act like she didn't and that seemed to get Natsu all fired up.
Gray was a big help. He would text Lucy stories about Natsu and she would tease him with unrelenting fire, like how Natsu almost burned down the school during chemistry—which, he tried to argue, was a complete accident, but Lucy had a feeling that one does not earn the nickname Pyro from just an accident.
Natsu continued to pester her for the rest of the week. But now this was something new; him asking her for help on homework…
She stared at the "Sweet dreams, Weirdo" text for a little while longer. She couldn't identify how this text made her feel. Her face felt warm and her pulse had quickened...
Maybe I am a weirdo after all, she pondered before drifting off to sleep.
XOXOX
Ahh should I continue?! Please let me know! Thanks for reading!