"What!?" Natsu yelled. Married to Lucy? Hell no!

"I'm sorry Natsu but this is good for the company and who knows, you may end up liking her." His mother said.

Natsu screamed, "Like her? Like her? I hate her. I always have and I always will! She's Lucy!"

His mother Grandine looked at him with sad eyes. Then her face brightened a little. "I know," she said, "how about this? For two months you spend time with her and at least act like you're on love and going to be married, and if you decide then that you still don't love her then we won't force you."

Igneel looked like he wanted to protest, but didn't say anything. Natsu thought for a second. This was his best bet and he knew it. All he had to do was prove to them how much he disliked Lucy and they could never be together and would let him be!

"Fine," he said, still not too happy about it.

"Thank you Natsu," his mother said, "And you may be surprised." She added with a wink.

"Mom!"

…...

"No!" Lucy shrieked, "You can't do this! I should be able to make my own choices!"

Jude just stared at her with those empty eyes she had learned to hate and responded coldly, "You are doing this for the Heartfilia company whether you like it or not. Goodnight!"

Two things were on Lucy's mind now. 1. She would NEVER marry Natsu. 2. Goodnight? It's 4:30.

She grabbed her hair in frustration and trudged back up to her room. How could he do something like this? She has her own choices! And yet…She wasn't 18 yet. She couldn't make her own choices, according to the law. Lucy thought for a moment. I know! She thought, once we are m-married (she shuddered at the thought) I can just divorce him! Yeah! That will work. In the mean time I just have to show everyone how much I hate him! Perfect.

After another hour and a half Lucy figured her father would be in his office working by now. He usually worked from 5:45 to 10:00. She should be safe. Lucy knew that if she saw her father right now she would probably throw a tantrum. She slowly snuck down the stairs, just to be careful. The coast was clear with the exception of Aires, the cook.

Lucy smiled at her and asked politely, "How are you?"

Aires looked up and smiled sheepishly saying, "G-Good. Would you like something to eat?"

"No thanks, I'll make it myself."

"Oh, okay…sorry."

Lucy giggled a bit. "No need to say sorry!"

Lucy made herself a sandwich and sat at the huge table alone. She sighed. Tomorrow was going to stink. She would have to see Natsu and his parents no doubt told him already too. Oh no. A daunting thought loomed over her like a storm cloud. Oh no! She was never going to live this down. How would her other friends react? Erza would probably have Lucy's back but what about Cana? Mirajane would be no help what so ever. I guess I'll see tomorrow she thought bitterly. Here we go.

….

Natsu woke up early that morning in a good mood. Then he remembered yesterday. He groaned as he literally rolled out of bed and onto the floor. He was getting married to LUCY.

"Hey Natsu I-" His little sister Wendy stopped as she opened the door to his room.

"N-Natsu? Are you alright?" She asked

"No," He responded, his voice muffled by the carpet, "I'm getting married."

"I know! You still have to tell me what she's like! Is she pretty? Is she nice?" Wendy asked.

"She's a stuck up little-" He paused and sat up. "Err I mean, She's not really my friend or anything."

He couldn't say anything rude around Wendy! She was only 13! And she was such a sweetheart.

"Oh, okay," Wendy said, obviously not believing any of the crap that was spewing out of Natsu's mouth.

Half an hour later Natsu left the house to walk to school.

"Hey flame brain! What's up?" Somebody yelled from behind him.

Natsu turned around to see Gray, his best friend since 4th grade. Natsu wasn't exactly in the mood.

"You really want to know? I'm getting married!"

Natsu ignored Gray's look of confusion and continued, "My parents are making me marry somebody! And guess who, Gray? Guess who?"

"Umm-"

Natsu didn't let him finish. "Lucy! I have to marry her and I don't have a choice in the matter! So you know what, Gray? Nothing is "up" right now! Everything is down! Any questions?"

"Erm…No?"

Natsu suddenly felt a little bad.

"Sorry," he said. "I've been wanting to get that out for a while now. The thing is: it's Lucy. I've never liked her and I always thought I would get to choose the big decisions in my life and I didn't get to decide on the biggest one yet and that's frustrating."

Gray just smiled sadly and walked with him in silence to the school.

….

Lucy walked into History class that morning and pulled her friends out of it in silence. Despite their curiosity at this her friends said noting and Lucy dragged them around a corner and into an empty classroom. They all looked at her like she was about to hulk out on them. She only had 10 minutes before class started so she would have to be quick. Lucy looked at Levy, Erza, Cana and Mirajane and began to tell about what happened last night. They were her friends and they deserved to know. When she was done she got a lot of silent, surprised looks.

Then Levy broke the silence by saying, "I'm sorry Lu-chan."

Erza joined in, "I will kick his ass if it would make you feel better."

Cana stared Lucy down for a second then added, "Do you like him? Even a little bit? He's hot, I'll give him that. Can't you just try to like him?"

"No!" Lucy yelled, blushing at the "hot" comment. "It doesn't work like that!"

Mira squealed and stared saying something about how cute we were and Lucy heard her mention the word "babies."

"Mira!" She and Levy said.

"Sorry, it's just so cute!" When all the other girls gave her blank looks she continued, "Wouldn't it be adorable if you two went from something as silly as enemies to something as cute as lovers?"

"No," Lucy yelled, her cheeks getting red, much like Erza's hair.

"To be fair Lucy," Mira continued, "Nobody else on this entire planet can make you blush like that."

Lucy just put her hands to her ears and screamed quietly. "No! I don't like Natsu, Okay?"

"Okay," all of them repeated but they all had small smirks on their faces.

Lucy headed back to class letting the girls follow her quietly. As she entered class she saw Natsu. After the conversation she just had she couldn't stop the faint tint of pink from rising to her pale cheeks.

….

Natsu, Gray, Gajeel and Jelall all sat in the back corner of the room as they finished discussing Natsu's engagement. Natsu looked up as Lucy entered the room. She saw him too and- and did she just blush? Lucy gave him a glare then quickly looked down. I guess she was told last night too, he thought. Just wonderful.

Mr. Gildarts walked in and asked everyone to take their seats before explaining their next project.

"Now we are all going to get new seats for after spring break, but you will sit in them today also."

Natsu had a bad feeling about this.

"In the back will be Gajeel and Levy, then Erza and Jellal, Gray and Juvia," He started. Natsu saw all six of them blushing and couldn't fend off a smirk.

"Next," the teacher continued, "Will be Natsu and Lucy, then-"

Natsu stopped listening after that. His head whipped around to look at Lucy, who was banging her head against the desk. He found that funny and laughed a little without realizing it. Lucy looked up at him with a warning look. He stopped then turned to face the front again, although he could feel her eyes burning into the side of his head. He realized everyone was moving now and got up to find his new seat. Next to Lucy. Could this day get any worse? He thought as the two of them sat there with a mix of anger and awkwardness.

After school he got a text from his dad saying to bring Lucy home today for a "surprise." He groaned and walked up to Lucy's locker.

"My parents just texted me that-"He started.

Lucy cut him off with a sharp, "I know."

Fine then, smartass, he thought. She grabbed her back pack and looked at him expectantly. Oh right, he had to lead the way. Duh.

They walked in awkward silence for a while until Lucy said, "Look, I don't want this, and I'm willing to bet you don't either. I know your 18 but I'm not. I can't legally make my own decisions. The second I do turn 18 I'll make sure we get divorced. Got that?"

"Yup," he responded. He promised his parents he wouldn't tell anybody about their deal. That included Lucy.

They walked up his driveway and as Natsu opened the door he saw his parents and Jude Heartfilia standing there. Uh oh. He looked over at Lucy and saw the raw hatred and hurtfulness she had in her eyes as she looked at her father. He instantly didn't like him. Wait…huh? He shouldn't feel bad for her! She was a brat anyway. But seeing her look like that made him almost angry. That was weird, it had never happened before. They both stood there awkwardly until his mom started.

"We have decided that for spring break the two of you should spend some time together!"

The two of them just stared at her blankly. "You two are going to go to Rio, just the two of you!" she clarified.

Natsu looked down at Lucy and wrinkled his nose, and noticed she had done the same. Her cheeks went a light pink and he knew his mimicked hers. Why did he do that? He hates her! This was going to be an interesting two weeks.