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CONTINUED FROM CHAPTER 1:
"Okay..." Sighed Erza "Let's talk this through, this is Fairy Tail, we deal with our problems, we don't run away from them!" Erza said clenching her fist as she talked confidently. "You're right Erza." Lucy said as she took a deep breath. "Okay, to start off I want everyone to divide into groups of 2, basically whoever you, well, got 'involved' with last night and yourselves to pair up and talk this through, ok?" Erza said looking around at the assembled Fairy Tail members. "Okay Erza, we understand." They all replied as they stood up and got into pairs of two and walked of to go talk to each other in private.
Over at a separate table in the guild hall Natsu and Lucy went and sat down. After a few minutes of silence Natsu began to talk. "Lucy, I uh..., just want to say, I'm really sorry..." Natsu said putting his hands on the table clenching them into fists as he looked down at the table solemnly with a bit of anger because of what happened. "No, Natsu, it's really ok, I'm not mad at you." Lucy said putting her hand on Natsu's. "But, Lucy..." Natsu said as he relaxed his hands and looked up at Lucy with worriedly. "Natsu, really it's fine, I'm ok." Lucy said trying to convince Natsu that she was ok even though she really wasn't she wanted to avoid the conversation because she was afraid.
In all truth Lucy wanted to talk it through with Natsu but she was afraid to because she had no idea what to say. She was also afraid she might say something that she'd regret later on. Especially since she was finally realizing the truth about how she felt. You see lately Lucy had been thinking a lot about things because she was confused by some feelings she was having. Not long ago Lucy realized that she was in love with Natsu.
"Don't say that Lucy, I know you're lying, I can see it in your eyes." Natsu said looking Lucy right in the eyes. "But Natsu..." Lucy said looking at Natsu with a look of sadness on her face. "Lucy, you don't have to hide anything from me, I want you to talk to me, be honest, I want to help you." Natsu said looking at Lucy with a serious expression on his face. Lucy had never seen Natsu look this serious about something. "Natsu, thank you." Lucy said looking down as she struggled to fight back tears. "It's okay Lucy, I'm here for you." Natsu said as he smiled at Lucy. Lucy then took a deep breath and wiped off her face gaining her composure.
"Okay Natsu, let's talk." Lucy said smiling back at Natsu. "Ok, first thing I want to say once more, I'm really sorry Lucy, I'll do anything I can to make it up to you." Natsu said as he began the conversation looking at Lucy. "Thank you Natsu, for apologizing. I forgive you, to be honest, I'm really scared, but even though I'm scared I won't let that stop me from getting through this." Lucy said looking at Natsu sincerely. "Thanks Lucy, it means a lot to me, honestly I'm scared as well, but I don't want to ruin our friendship because of this, so I'm glad you're talking to me right now. Natsu said smiling solemnly.
"Of course, I don't want to ruin anything for us either, what happened was an accident, so I don't think anyone is to blame, honestly, knowing our crazy guild, we won't let this change anything. If it does change anything it will change things for the better not for the worse." Lucy said smiling brightly like usual. "I'm really glad you think that way Lucy, honestly I couldn't agree with you more!" Natsu said grinning from ear to ear."Hahaha, I figured you would Natsu." Lucy said laughing at his big grin. "Oh, another thing, what you were saying about things changing for the better...there's...something I've been meaning to say for a while now, but, I wasn't sure how. I guess now is as good of a time as any." Natsu said looking a bit nervous now.
"What is Natsu talking about? What could it be that he wants to tell me? It sounds important..." Lucy thought to herself as she looked at Natsu inquisitively. "What is it Natsu? You can tell me." Lucy said looking at Natsu a bit puzzled. "Uh, well, this isn't quite how I imagined this to happen but..." Natsu said taking a deep breath preparing to tell Lucy what he had to say. "Lucy...I'm in love with you..." Natsu said barely managing to speak the words because he was so nervous about what would happen once he said it. "Your...what?" Lucy said as she stared at Natsu shocked. Lucy then began to feel light headed as everything began to fade to black. "Lucy!" Was the last thing she heard Natsu shout as she fell unconscious.
A while later Lucy woke up to find herself in the guild's infirmary laying on a bed with a blanket over her. When Lucy woke up and saw where she was she looked and saw Natsu sitting in a chair that was pulled up next to her bed and he was leaning on the side of her bed with his head down facing Lucy while fast asleep with her hand placed in his. Lucy looked at Natsu and smiled taking his hand and holding it in more of a grip than just having it lay there. As soon as she did Natsu slowly opened his eye's and looked at Lucy. "Oh, Lucy you're awake...I'm so glad..." Natsu said smiling gently grabbing her hand in return. "What happened to me Natsu?" Lucy replied to Natsu looking at him confused.
"You passed out after what I said." Natsu said sitting up not letting go her hand. Lucy then remembered what Natsu had said. "Oh...yea, I remember now..." Lucy said looking down feeling a bit embarrassed. "I want you to know I meant what I said to you, it wasn't a joke or anything." Natsu said smiling at her. "So you really...you're really in love with me?" Lucy said looking down. "Yea, I know it took me a long time to figure it out, honestly I don't get why I didn't realize it sooner." Natsu said laughing. "Oh Natsu..." Lucy said as she started to cry letting out the tears she had been holding back. "Lucy what's wrong?" Natsu said as he stopped laughing looking at Lucy concerned. "I love you too Natsu." Lucy said through her tears as she leaned over and hugged Natsu tightly.
"Don't cry Lucy, it's okay now." Natsu said hugging Lucy back smiling because he was glad that she felt the same way about him as he did about her. He wanted to stay with Lucy for the rest of his life. He would do anything for her he would always be there for her.
A LITTLE WHILE LATER BACK IN THE GUILD HALL...
"Oh there you are!" Mira said as Natsu and Lucy approached the bar looking especially happy. "Hey Mira." Lucy said smiling happily as she and Natsu sat down to talk to Mira. "I'm glad you're awake now lucy, I was starting to worry about you." Mira said smiling cheerfully as she wiped some dishes. "Thanks Mira, but I'm okay, Natsu looked after me." Lucy said smiling back at Mira. "Yea, speaking of which, you too seem really happy, is there something I should know?" Mira said smiling mischievously. "Uh, well, now that you mention it...me and Natsu are gonna be dating now..." Lucy said looking at Mira a little bit embarrassed although she was smiling while she talked.
"Oh I'm so happy for you!" Mira exclaimed smiling excitedly. "Hahaha, Thanks Mira!" Natsu said joining in on the conversation. "Your welcome guys, are you going to tell the others?" Mira asked curiously. "Yea, we will, we were planning to in a little bit, but first I was wondering how the others were doing." Lucy said curious about what she missed while she was unconscious. "Oh not too much, the other pairs have been talking for a while, I think some of them might start dating as well." Mira said smiling excited to see what would happen.
"Yea, I couldn't agree more Mira." Lucy said grinning as she looked at all the pairs sitting and talking together happily. "Hahaha, yea, even I agree with you guys." Natsu said laughing as he looked around the guild hall. "Yea, well it's starting to get close to lunch now, I'm starting to get kinda hungry." Lucy said putting a hand on her growling stomach. "Yea me too." Natsu said agreeing. "Well, you're in luck, I'm starting to set things up for lunch right now so it shouldn't be long." Mira said as she took out some clean dishes and ingredients for making food.
"Hey Mira, is it hard to cook?" Natsu asked looking at Mira curiously as she took things out of the cupboards. "It can be, but with enough practice it becomes like second nature." Mira said as she began to mix different ingredients in a bowl. "Hey Mira, do you think you could teach me how to cook sometime?" Natsu asked Mira as he watched her. "You want to learn to cook Natsu?" Mira said looking at him a little bit surprised but at the same time happy.
"Yea, I mean, it might come in handy sometime right? So can you teach me Mira?" Natsu said smiling excitedly. "Sure, want to start learning now?" Mira asked Natsu bursting with joy. "Sure!" Natsu said as he went around behind the counter with Mira as she began to teach him while Lucy watched smiling to herself.
TO BE CONTINUED...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey guys, Hiriko here again. How did you like the second chapter? It's a bit shorter than the first, but I tried my best. I'll be writing chapter 3 soon but for now I need to rest and get some sleep. Hope you liked this chapter and I hope you'll like the next one too. See you next time!