Big brown orbs stared directly into near black ones. Each pair glancing over the owner of the other. The girl looked him over, the boy looked her over. Their friends watched them, except for one who was locked in the arms of her jealous boyfriend.

"So... you're Natsu."

"And you're Lucy."

There was a major awkward feeling in the room, everyone was waiting for Natsu and Lucy to hit it off and start acting like friends, aside from Levy who was struggling against Gajeel's arms and complaining through one of his hands. Gray and Erza glanced from the blonde to the pink haired male, waiting for conversation to occur, Gajeel didn't care about anything but keeping his girl from molesting his old college pal. Lucy just awkwardly scratched her arm, while Natsu was looking her over.

"So umm, it's nice to meet you. Though I didn't know we had the same friends." Lucy looked at him then at the floor, ceiling, wall, anywhere that didn't involve his intense stare.

Natsu tilted his head slightly, "Really? I heard too much from Levy about you. She and I video chat a lot, though I'm sure metal-face over there isn't too happy about it. I can't believe Levy didn't open up her mouth before." Gajeel looked down at the bookworm, who shrugged and laughed nervously.

"You look different than I thought you would." The pink haired idol finished his examination and looked her back in the eye .

"Um yeah... likewise." Lucy had NO clue how to act in this situation. Is there a specific way to talk to a celebrity?

Natsu put on an amused expression, "So there are girls like you in the world."

"What do you mean...?"

He laughed and smiled like it was obvious. "Girls who aren't obsessing over me! Everywhere I go I have this big group of, beautifull but crazy girls screaming my name and yelling to marry them, but then there's you. You look like you want to run for dear life right now. You're the first who hasn't even looked at me. It's amusing."

Lucy's jaw would have dropped if she didn't clench her teeth. He's just another cocky bastard with a good voice and nice body. Any 'good guy' wouldn't look at her and laugh because she hadn't offered to swap spit.

"But as I say that, I know girls too well. You'll fall eventually, probably sooner rather than later. Every girl does unless there head over heels for someone else, and even then, I've had married women flash me while I was singing. You just met me, so you have an excuse, but give it some time, you'll be jut like everyone else. And maybe, since we share friends, I'll accept you. From now on, we'll be seeing eachother very often."

This time Lucy's jaw dropped as far as it could.

"Excuse me? I will not ever like you! You're nothing like Levy described! Just another guy who looks at women as toys is what you are, and I DESPISE boys like you! Guess what Mr. Bigshot, I'm not joining your toy box of desperate girls! You're just a pink haired narcissist who slept his way to fame!" Lucy didn't know if that was true, but it brought out a reaction.

His face turned angry, his eyes burning like a fire, to which her words added fuel. She was watching flames flicker in his black eyes, while he watched her eyes shine like stars, sending judgement upon him one constellation at a time. Their friends sweatdropped and stepped back. This was not part of the plan.

"Oh yeah? Well, aren't you just a little expert on love! You're just another girl with a broken heart who judges every guy based on your twisted logic, aren't you? Poor little Lucy, did your boyfriend dump you? Or did he shoot himself first?"

"Dan did not shoot himself! And what would you know? Girls throw themselves under you, what would you know about getting dumped? You've got anarmy of obsessed bimbos ready to bear your children! I bet no one ever loved you for you, not the 'perfect pop idol'!"

Natsu flinched and turned his head to the side, all their friends winced.

"What's wrong Pinky? Run out of excuses?"

Erza took a step forward, a mix of sadness and worry evident on her face. "Lucy, you shouldn't have said..."

"There was one." Everyone whipped their head to the pinkette, who was looking at the floor with strands of pink hair hiding his eyes. "There was a girl who loved me. And I loved her, with all my heart."

Lucy wasn't convinced. "Oh yeah? Where is she then? Levy screams to me about how you're single all the time, so she's not with you anymore."

Natsu cringed, everyone except the blonde turned sad. His voice croaked, "She's... not here anymore."

"I can see that, so she dumped you? Then we're in the same boat PAL."

"She didn't dump me, I didn't dump her."

Lucy paled, "Then..."

"She died. She's dead. Gone forever." Even as he tried to sound unfazed, his voice cracked. The words were bitter as they left his tongue, it was like dumping salt on a wound he had tried to cover for years.

And now the blonde felt like a bitch.

"I'm sorry... I just assumed you broke up..."

Natsu scoffed and looked back up, she could see the fire dim and get put out by the tears forming in his eyes. He held them back, Lucy felt like crying now. "Are you sure this Dan guy didn't kill himself? I've known you for what, five minutes? Ten? And you've already made me want to jump off of the nearest bridge."

"Uh! The nerve! Why does every girl love you!"

"Because I'm awesome. Why does Gray secretly have a crush you?"

"Hey!" Gray awkwardly yelled while everyone gave him a 'for real?' look. "You weren't supposed to tell everyone!"

"Ok then... didn't need to know that... But anyway, I'm awesomer than you, and way nicer."

"Doubt it. You didn't even consider poor stripper's feelings right there. Look at ice brain blush, awwwwwwwwww!"

"You wanna fight flame head?!" Gray jumped out of the crowd with an embarrassed blush carved into his pale complection.

"Anytime ice freak!" Natsu and Gray shoved their heads together and argued. You could see orange and blue auras surrounding them while they swapped insults.

Erza stepped forward to break it up, and pound some sense into the two morons, but the frustrated blonde beat her to it. "Gray! I was going to beat him up first! Get in line!" She smashed their heads together as hard as she could, causing Gray to get knocked unconscious, and Natsu to almost join him.

"Ow! Luigi!"

Lucy growled and picked him up by his oddly colored hair. "It's Lucy!"

"Ow! Fine then, Luicy!"

She leaned down to his face to look him in the eye directly. "LUCY."

He just smirked at her, "Hey Lucy, when you lean down like that, I can see up your shirt."

She slapped him and they continued arguing. "Pervert!"

"Hey, you practically asked me to look."

"Why am I even bothering talking to you?"

"I don't know, most girls who come back here ask for photos, I've had two kiss me. One of them was Levy."

Gajeel looked down and picked up the bluenette. "We need to talk about what you are not allowed to do." Everyone watched him leave backstage.

Everyone sweatdropped. "Ugh, whatever. I don't want to be here anymore. We can share friends but I don't want anything more than aquaintances between us, got it?" Lucy sighed and looked him straight in the eye.

"Likewise. Bye Lushee~." He blinked innocently and kissed the tip of her nose.

"Yuck! I'm gone..." Lucy followed to where Gajeel and Levy were, forgetting that there were three other people back there who she actually were friends with. Immediantly after Lucy was out of sight, Natsu shed a tear.

Erza walked over and punched him, lightly in her book, but it successfully knocked him onto his back. "Ow! What the hell was that for."

She glared at him and he started sweating, "Lucy is our friend too! You were supposed to be nice and then we could all be happy as friends!"

Normally, he would yell Aye in a voice an octave higher than normal, but today he got some confidence. He stood up and walked directly in front of Erza, looking her dead in the eye while he said, "She brought up... her. If that's your guys' idea of a friend then leave me out of it!"

He walked to his dressing room and slammed the door, the sound of a lock clicking echoed through the room. Erza rubbed her forehead and mumbled, "This is going to be very hard to solve, but I can do it. They will be friends."


Natsu pulled up in front a normal looking white house about an hour and a hallf after his concert ended. Levy had told him this was the place that he'd be staying at, and his little possession was here too.

He hopped out of his car and jogged to the front door, now wearing black jeans and a white T-shirt. He knocked a couple times and waited outside the door. He heard shat sounded like footsteps walking over to the door, followed by a lock unlocking and the turn of a doorknob.

He was greeted by the girl he had not wanted to see again, Lucy yelled, "What the... why are you here!?"

Natsu yelled back, "Hey! This is where Levy told me I was staying! And you've been taking care of Happy?"

"You're the friend she asked me to take care of? That little... Wait, Happy's yours?"

"Yay! Where is he? I haven't seen him in forever..."

"Meow!" A little blue cat ran down the stairs and jumped to the door, immediantly rubbing against Natsu's legs.

Lucy gawked as she watched Natsu pick him up and pet himall over, cooing into his cat ears while Happy responded with purrs and meows. It was actually an adorable sight.

"So he's your cat, did you dye him blue?"

"Hehe, it sounded cool at the time, and now its awesome! Right buddy?"

"Meow!" That meow almost sounded like 'aye'.

"So umm..."

"I'll go get a hotel room, can you keep Happy here? I'll stop by and visit him, ok?"

Lucy grabbed his arm when he turned to leave. "No! I mean, Levy made me promise to help, I made up the spare room. Stay here, you don't have to go blow your money on a crappy hotel room, besides Happy wants you to stay."

He turned his head surprised, "Ok! Happy, let's eat!"


That turned out differently than I had in mind, but I like it. Hope you guys do too!