Chapter One - Meet the Heartfilias
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Natsu P.O.V.
After a hellish car ride, my family, Lucy and I arrived at Moon Temple Hotel. It was a tall building with a very airy tropical lobby. We unloaded from the car and made our way over to the front desk to check in.
"Hello. How can I help you?" a man whose nametag read Bobo greeted us.
"Hello yourself! We are here to check in for the next week and a half. Two rooms for Dragneel," Dad said to the man. Their conversation continued but I spaced out in favor of checking out my beautiful fiancee who was standing next to me.
Her pale cheeks were flushed due to the humidity and heat while her sunny blonde hair was pulled back into an elaborate braid. I continued to check her out with a rather perverted smile on my face, I mean can you blame me, and soon after I felt a glare being directed at my back. I whipped my head around and saw a tall blonde man who looked like he was going to kill me. I made a rather unmanly noise and jumped behind Lucy to shield myself from this man. Lucy squeaked, startled, but soon saw the person who made me lose a good amount of my masculinity.
"Daddy!" Lucy exclaimed and pushed me off of her and hugged the man who was most likely going to be the cause of my death, "Mama!"
I turned to see Lucy now hugging a woman who looked almost identical to her. They were both smiling the same sunny smile which made me relax just a little.
Luce pulled away and said, "Natsu, this is my Mom and Dad. Mom, Dad, this is my fiancee, Natsu Dragneel."
"Um…hi," I choked out rather awkwardly. Mr. Heartfilia's glare just got worse and the awkward silence ensued until, "Oh wow, sweetie you got yourself quite the looker," Mrs. Heartfilia exclaimed. "You can call me Layla, we're family now right Jude?" she said as she glared at Lucy's dad. Oh jeez, Lucy's mom has the same glare as Lucy. However, she dropped the glare and gave me a hug.
"It is great to meet you after all this time Natsu. I've heard so many great things about you and your family… Speaking of your family, where are they?" Ms. Heartfilia asked me.
"Uh, they are at check in. We just got here." I shifted my eyes to my father who was joking around with Bobo, the check in guy, and sighed. Igneel Dragneel was nothing like Mr. Heartfilia. Where Lucy's dad was stoic and to the point, my dad was boisterous and childish. At least Ms. Heartfilia seemed to somewhat resemble my mother. My belief that this was the worst idea that I have ever agreed to grew astronomically.
"I'll go get them so we can all meet each other…" I said. Lucy stayed behind to catch up with her parents as I made my way over to mine.
"Oh Natsu! Are those Lucy's parents?" my mom asked me excitedly and I nodded in return, "Why her mother looks just like her!"
"Yeah, yeah," I nervously said to my family and lowered my voice, "Look, her family doesn't seem like they are like us, like at all. Please just try to act normal. Please don't joke around too much or push too many buttons, okay? Especially you Dad."
"Hey!" my dad shouted indignantly, "Don't worry about us son, it's you that we should be worried about. I mean Lucy's pretty, rich and smart and you are well…you" my dad stated and I made a face at him. "Jeez Natsu I'm kidding. We will be on our best behavior," my dad said jokingly as he playfully saluted me. I sighed and led my family over to the Heartfilias.
"Mr. and Mrs. Heartfilia, this is my father Igneel, my mother Grandine and my little sister Wendy."
"Oh my goodness!" Mrs. Heartfilia exclaimed, " Lucy didn't mention that you had a little sister Natsu! My oh my, isn't she just the cutest thing Jude?" To which Mr. Heartfilia responded with a grunt as Lucy's mom hugged my little sister. Wendy smiled the "Dragneel Smile" with a pretty blush on her cheeks which made my soon to be mother-in-law swoon.
"Hello, I'm Jude Heartfilia, founder of Heartfilia Railways, and this is my wife, Layla Heartfilia." Mr. Heartfilia said as he shook my father's hand in a very professional manner. To my embarrassment and horror, my father took Mr. Heartfilia's hand and brought him to a hug, "No need to be so formal Jude, we're family now."
I looked over at Lucy in horror and saw her laughing awkwardly and looking rather uncomfortable. I made my way over to her. "Oh my gosh, Natsu, why did I not listen to you? This is awful. We have been here for what ten minutes and I am already ready to book an early flight home."
As much I wanted to tell her I told you so, I just pulled her into a side hug and kissed the top of her head. "Too late now babe… let's make of this what we can." We both directed our gaze at our interacting parents.
Lucy's mom and my mom were chatting like long lost friends, which was odd since they never met. Our dads on the other hand we standing next to each other silently. My dad looked super uncomfortable while Mr. Heartfilia stayed stoic and powerful. Wendy was looking around scoping out our home for the next week or so.
Thankfully the family meet and greet ended and we began to make our way up to our rooms via elevator. Though to every positive there is a negative. Unfortunately for us, we were at the top floor which ensued a long silent awkward elevator ride. Around floor 11, Mr. Heartfilia's phone rang.
"Hello? Yes, I see. Is that necessary? Tonight? Fine, we will fix our accommodations to make him comfortable. Is that all? Hm, goodbye." Mr. Heartfilia hung up his phone and let out his happiest expression yet, exasperation.
"Well it seems we have another member joining this business trip" Mr. Heartfilia began but was cut off by Lucy, "Family vacation dad. This is a vacation…"
"Yes. Anyways, it seems as if my closest business partner's son will be joining us on this "vacation" due to his ill mannered behavior. His father is holding a large meeting, which I happen to be missing, so his son will just get in the way and cause a disruption. He will be staying with us until we return home and he will be arriving tonight."
"Romeo?" Lucy asked with a mischievous grin on her face. A facial expression I have yet to see and honestly one I would like never to see again. Her father nodded "yes" in response. My pretty fiancee's grin grew significantly.
"Ha. I haven't seen that little bean sprout in ages."
"Lucy!" her mother chided, "Actually now that I think of it, that works perfectly for us. Romeo should be around Wendy's age! Now Wendy will have a friend to hang around with!" Layla seemed genuinely thrilled at the idea.
"A boy? With bad manners? The same age as my innocent daughter Wendy? I don't like this." My dad complained causing an unusually silent Wendy to flush bright red.
"Don't worry Igneel," Lucy's mom smiled, "what could go wrong?"
Lucy and I shared a look…
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Yeah, what could go wrong?
Chapter One of Meet the Parents done!
Sorry for the long wait, I had a load of work and I was kinda lazy but shhhhh don't mind that. I am leaving for vacation tomorrow morning and have like a 7 hour flight by myself so I am going to try to write a lot.
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