Hey guys! I am very sorry about the late update. I was trying to do every other week, but that didn't happen! I currently have two jobs, so that is going to be a lot of hours in the day and I'm going to be exhausted. But I'm going to try to be better and more on point. So fyi, how I am going to write my story is the first chapter was an overview. This one is a flashback, and any other chapters that are in italics are also flashbacks. I'm going to try a past, present, future thing. That is my intent, it may not happen that way. A little backstory on this story. I am loosely basing it on my past experiences. Loosely. (Please don't ask what is true and what is not!) And I was trying to finish this while I was sick. But enough about me, I present to you the second chapter.
(disclaimers: I do not own Fairy Tail or the characters. All rights belong to Hiro Mashima.)
It was the weekend so no one was at school and most teens were at home relaxing, Lucy excluded. Recently her and her parents moved into a new house so she had to reorganize her belongings into her room. Fortunately, all of her furniture was moved by the movers into the house, so she didn't have to do it herself. She also had the fun experience of choosing what color her room was going to be painted and it was none other than a pale rose pink. It was her and her mother's favorite color, and what is a girl's room if not her favorite color?
Sherry, Lucy's childhood best friend, helped a lot with moving some of her stuff from the moving trucks without too much complaining. Though, unfortunately, she had work to go to soon after. Lucy had to do the rest by herself because her parents were at their business working on a project. Besides putting things away, she had her dog to take care of, Plue. He was a white Husky puppy with an orange snout. Usually she would call him Carrot because Plue was a rather weird name her mom gave him.
Lucy was doing the temporary finishing touches when she received a text. She picked up her phone and it read from Natsu. Smiling to herself she opened the message.
"Yo, Luigi. How's the move goin'?"
She gritted her teeth at the nickname. He never fails to poke at her nerves. When they first met she just transferred to Fairy Tail High in the middle of freshman year. She was introducing herself to the class and instead of asking what her name was again because he didn't hear correctly he automatically assumed her name was 'Luigi' instead of 'Lucy' and asked very loudly in the middle of her introduction if that was really her name. To say the least, she was annoyed. She replied to the text:
"When are you going to stop calling me that name, it's been 3 years already. And it's going well. About to start relaxing for a bit. Why? What's up?"
While she waited for Natsu's reply, she finished hanging up her clothes into her closet so they are not in baskets or on the floor. Before the move she got rid of the stuff she no longer wore anymore or the stuff that didn't fit and donated them. So now she has significantly less clothes but more room to buy new things and add to her collection. Now with all her clothes on hangers and her shoes on her shoe rack, she steps back and looks at her handy work and is thoroughly pleased with herself. At the same time her phone notified her that she has a new text.
"What? It's kinda funny. You can call me Mario and it would be Mario and Luigi. But anyway. Me and Lis are wanting to visit you, would that be cool? And I would get to play with Carrot. Don't tell Lis, but I really want to see your dog again. I love Happy but Carrot is also very important to me. One true dog love! Lol."
Laughing, Lucy replies almost immediately.
"Yeah, you guys can come over. And my lips are sealed. Here's my address: 445 Strawberry Street. And Happy is my true cat love. And I'm not calling you Mario unless you beat me in Mario Carts©. Text me when you get here."
After she sent send, she got up from her bed and got changed out of her sweaty clothes and washed her face in her bathroom. She didn't put on anything special, just a pair of shorts and one of her marching band t-shirts. When she looked in the mirror she noticed she had dark circles, nothing a little concealer couldn't hide. She heard Plue start barking and then her phone notifying of her of a text. Looking at it and it said Natsu like she assumed, she walked downstairs to open the front door to let Natsu and Lisanna in.
Walking to the front door, Lucy could see Natsu and Lisanna looking through the windows on either side of the door grinning. She laughed as she opened the door. As she did, they walked in like they owned the place. The first thing Natsu did was walk straight to Plue to play with him. Lisanna raised her eyebrow at this but said nothing. She probably knew this was going to happen, Lucy thought.
Lisanna walked up to Lucy to give her a hug. She stepped back, "hey, sorry for barging in without saying anything. Natsu wanted to see if you were good because you were basically unpacking everything on your own. I agreed," she shrugged, "If we are being annoying, I'm sorry."
"No, you are perfectly fine. The only thing that is annoying is A: being called Luigi, or B: being ignored by my best friend because he wanted to play with my dog instead," Natsu perked up at this, "but besides that, you guys are a good distraction."
Natus decided to get up at the obvious instigation. He had his stereotypical grin stuck on his face as he walked up to the girls. "Hey! I told you my true intentions over text. Carrot. And I told you," to put emphasis, he used finger quotations, ""hey" over the phone. And it's not like I can hug you, you usually kick me into the wall when I do." Lucy and Lisanna laughed at this because it was somewhat true.
"When will you ever indulge me? For like five seconds? I should be allowed to hug my best friend. I have rights, ya know."
Lucy snorted at this. She glanced at Lisanna for a split second and saw that she was shaking her head and smiling. Looking back at Natsu, she exaggerated a sigh and rolled her eyes.
"All right, you big goof. You have five seconds," she opened her arms wide, ". . . five. . . four. . ." Natsu caught on and ran up to give her a hug. She tensed, kind of not expecting him to hug her, if he noticed, he didn't say anything.
To Lucy, the hug seemed to last forever and yet not long enough. His smell permeated her nose; His back muscles under her fingertips; His chest against her's, and then. . . it was gone. Like a wisp, a fleeting moment, a fading memory.
When Natsu let go he looked at Lisanna who was tapping on top of her left wrist. Turns out Natsu and Lisanna were only staying for a couple minutes to say hey, to know where Lucy lives, and so Natsu could say hi to her dog. Lisanna had work soon after so they had to leave in a hurry. When they were gone, Lucy let go of a sigh she didn't know she was holding. She was exhausted, yet relieved. Lisanna knows Lucy's feelings for Natsu, but she also knows Lucy wouldn't cross boundaries that would hinder their friendship.
But there was one thing that still perplexed Lucy was that her and Natsu were going to start dating, then all of a sudden he has a girlfriend, and she was left to the side lines with no explanation.