Lucy was walking home after a mission she did alone, without Natsu – her best friend, and her crush. After their first mission, when Lucy first joined the guild, she madly fell in-love with the dragon slayer.

'But to him I'm nothing more than a friend' Lucy thought and sighted. She continued walking her way home with only Natsu on her mind…

Lucy opened the door of her small apartment and the first thing she saw was a sleeping Natsu on her sofa. She left her bags on the floor and quietly walked to the sleeping dragon slayer.

'He looks so peaceful when he sleeps' Lucy was just about to lie next to the pink-haired boy when he woke up.

"Oi, Lucy! You're finally home!" He sat and smiled at her.

"Why did you break into my house again?" the stellar-spirit mage looked around the room, "And where is Happy?"

"Well, he's with Charle and Phanterlily. Only I am here…" Natsu looked away rom the blond girl, a light blush flashing through his cheeks.

Lucy's face quickly became red with this 'only I am here' from Natsu. The dragon slayer looked back at Lucy and saw her red face.

"Are you okay, Lucy? Your face is red.." she could hear in his voice how worried he was.

'Only if you knew' she thought and then said "I'm fine, I just need some fresh air.."

" We can go on a walk, if you want.." Natsu's cheeks were soft crimson at the moment and he couldn't take his eyes off of Lucy.

'Did he just say "we"' Lucy blushed even more but then she nodded and both of them let the house.

They were walking in the forest. Lucy was step-ahead of Natsu, who was staring at her soft blond hair.

When they reached the waterfalls and the lake, Lucy and Natsu sat on the rocks.

"Are you sure you really are okay, Lucy?" He spotted that her face was even redder that before. "Your face is even redder than when we were at your house."

"Don't worry, Natsu, I'm fine.."

But the pink-haired dragon slayer kept staring at the stellar-spirit mage. And she could feel it, which made her blush even more.

"Lucy, your face.." Natsu started again, but was cut-off by an angry Lucy,

"It's because of you, idiot! Don't you realize it? You make my face that red when you are close to me! You always make me blush that hard only with your presence.." Here she was cut-off by Natsu, who was kissing her. For Lucy this was like a dream came true. His lips were just like she was imagining them – hot, soft and, somehow, wet. They tasted like fire. Lucy answered the kiss by letting Natsu's tongue inside her mouth. He explored every spot of her mouth and broke the kiss for air. He was blushing madly, it looked like his face was on fire. It was even redder than Lucy's.

"Natsu, you.." Lucy was the first to talk but she couldn't come up with anything, so they stayed in silence for a minute when Natsu broke the silence,

"Lucy, I love you! I've loved you from our first mission together! But I didn't know you feel that way for me, too. I always thought you liked Gray. That's why I was always fighting him. It was all for you, always."

The stellar-spirit mage was shocked from his words. Then she smiled and tears of joy started to fell from her eyes. She then kissed the dragon slayer once again and whispered,

"I love you too, Natsu! And I always will.."