Title: Falling Off Of Roof Tops

Summary: Because love is like jumping off of roof tops. Despite what people may think, the leap is the easy part, the thrill of the fall makes up for the initial fear. It's the time period after the jumper is caught that is scary, because who really wants to be dropped?

Rating: T

Genre: Angst/Drama/Romance

Pairing: Natsu/Lucy, Lisanna/Natsu

Status: Part one (All chapters done) Part Two (Not started)

Disclaimer: I've always thought that this little thing is unnecessary because if we owned the series, why would we be writing fanfiction for it when we can make it cannon. I think the actual authors look at these and laugh at us, and mock our hopes and dreams of romance. With that being said, I do not own Fairy Tail T.T

Author Note: Today's my Best Friends Birthday, and Tomorrow is mine. So you guys should be extra nice and review because common, I don't turn 18 every day!

Additional Info: :) I'm in a good mood today!

II.

"Natsu," Mirajane paused in her cleaning to glare at him, "You can't expect us to cover for you much longer. It's been close to a month now. Either you tell Lucy about Lisanna, or you stop sneaking around behind her back. You and I both know it's wrong." She whispered because Lucy sat not ten feet away talking with Erza and Gray at a table.

Natsu couldn't meet her eyes. It seemed like he couldn't meet a lot of people's eyes since this started. Lisanna, Happy, and Gray were the only people he could have a normal conversation with. Anyone else he would either end up talking about stuff no different than what he and Mirajane were talking about now, or the other person ended up being Lucy.

Grimacing, he fisted his hand around the half empty glass of fire whisky. He left in the middle of breakfast for the guild, and he felt downright rotten for it. It wasn't that the food tasted bad. Truth be told, t she never failed to impress him with her cooking. It wasn't that her chatter bored him. No, the chatter was quite amusing, it was her voice and smile that made him leave. He couldn't deal with knowing he caused those happy expressions when in all honesty, she should be smacking him instead.

He felt sick, and he feared that if he stayed there much longer he might vomit. He knew the guilt stirring in his gut could be blamed for the sudden illness. Natsu remembered how jerky his joints moved as he stood up. It was like they didn't want to leave, or at least without Lucy by his side. Like a robot, he leaned over the table, and kissed her on the forehead.

He pretended to miss the hurt frown that pulled her lips down as he made a big deal of being 'filled to the max'. It was ironic because he never felt so empty, especially when he walked out of her front door. He forced himself not to look back, because he didn't want to see the expression on her face that he knew would be there.

"…are you alright, Natsu?" Mirajane leaned over the bar. Her face positioned so close to his own that when he looked up their noses touched.

"No, I'm not, alright. I don't know what to do. I can't have fun with my friends like I used to before this happened. I can't even look Luce in the eyes anymore. I feel like Gray took a shit on me!" The last part of his sentence rose in volume so much that he yelled it.

He glanced up to see the majority of the guild staring back at him. His eyes darted the Lucy's, and when he met them his instantly fell to the floor. He cursed himself because that was not how a boyfriend looked at his girlfriend. In fact no one looked at Lucy like that, except for him. Wow, there was no doubt it; not only did he become the world's worst boyfriend, but best friend too.

"Natsu-kun?" The small blue haired bookworm turned on her bench, and put a tiny hand on his shoulder. Worry evident in her brown eyes, she looked at him with pity, "You should keep it down, Lucy already looks suspicious that something's up…"

Natsu stiffened, mystified that he'd been so caught up in his own thoughts that he didn't notice that both Levy and Gajeel took a seat on either side of him. He shook his head, running a hand through his already mused hair.

"I find it hard to believe that you haven't figured anything out yet. Unless you're that much of a dumbass." Gajeel rasped, irritated. It irked Natsu that it sounded like Gajeel knew something that he didn't.

So he voiced just that. "Like I said before, I haven't. Do you know something that I don't?" He growled low in his throat.

Gajeel shrugged, "Apparently I do."

"Then why haven't you told me anything about it!" Natsu stood up, eyes narrowed into menacing slits.

"Because it's so obvious the entire fucking guild knows it, hell, I'm pretty sure Lucy even knows a little bit about it. You're the only one stupid enough to not know—"

"Is everything alright?"

Natsu spun around, eyes wide. "Yep! Everything's fine Luce!" He stretched his mouth into a wide smile, hoping it would at least resemble that of a real, genuine smile.

The look on Lucy's face worried Natsu. "I don't know if I believe you…" She stepped closer, "You've been acting real strange Natsu. Is something bothering you?"

"N-No!" He answered her like he answers Erza when she's angry with him; his words cut short and his voice squeaky.

She narrowed her eyes at him. "Alright then, wanna have dinner at the new restaurant down the street from my apartment. I heard they make good fire food!" She smiled at him, and he averted his gaze to the ground.

"Uhh…." He didn't know what to say. He knew it would be painful for him. He could barely look at her now, and she had her normal attire on. She didn't dress to impress, which she will be doing for dinner, "Well…I have things…."

Lucy crossed her arms, her narrowed eyes glaring. "Things? Are you going to hang out with the guys again? That's all you've been doing all month Natsu! I've barely gotten to talk to you since Lisanna got back!"

Natsu gulped down a gasp. If her train of thought keep in this direction she would find out in front of everyone. He wanted to be alone with her when he told her about his…misdeeds. He didn't want this to be public. He didn't know how she would react, how he would react.

"Luce, it depends on what t-time you want to meet. I have to…pick something up for Happy later tonight."

"Oh, well I was thinking around sixish. Will that work?"

He smiled again. This time it felt a little less fake to him. "Yeah, I'll meet you at the restaurant."

A stunning smile lit up her face, and Natsu felt his lips uplift. Her happiness had always been contagious. "Cool, this little date is well overdue, don't you think?" She closed the space between them wrapping her arms around his neck. Her eyes looked up at his, innocence brewing in their depths. His heart constricted on itself again. It took him a couple seconds, but he moved his arms to her hips. His hands burned.

She leaned forward on her tippy-toes. Kissing him on his chin, then the side of his mouth, and finally straight on his lips, she hummed to herself blissfully.

For his part Natsu froze, his hands lifting off of her hips and clenching. Squeezing his eyes shut, he imagined he looked pained. In reality that's not too far from the truth. His system alight with fire, it was physically grueling to keep himself in check. If he didn't know any better, he might have though his body could rebel against his mind.

After a moment of lingering, Lucy backed away and he relaxed. Exhaling a breath he didn't know he'd been holding, he opened his eyes to look at her. He regretted doing that.

Lucy looked close to tears.

Before he could say anything she turned around, blonde hair flipping out behind her. She then walked back over to Gray and Erza. She didn't look, or speak to either of them.

He looked beyond her, catching eyes with Lisanna. The white haired girl also had a frown on her face. Her eyes were distant with what Natsu assumed to be thought.

Dear Lord, he didn't know how he got himself into this, but he did know that he didn't like it.

XxXx

After she talked to Natsu, no one approached her. It didn't matter that she sat across from Erza and Gray. She didn't want to talk to them, and they seemed to know that. She didn't need comfort, she didn't want their sympathy, or at least verbalized. She sat across from her friends, content with not being alone, and silently thanking them for the unwavering support.

Above all, she thinks they know that she needs time to think, and thoughts like these are thoughts better done with company. Even if she spoke to no one, anything beat doing this outright alone.

Even as a child she hated being alone, because after her mother died she always felt like that. Alone. Forgotten. A nuisance. That was all she ever was to her father.

And now? She didn't know. She thought she had everything figured out, but after what just happened with Natsu…..

She shook her head. What did happen with Natsu?

Why was he acting so strange, could he be hiding something from her?

Lucy didn't want to think like that, but he left her no choice. She knows Natsu, and something is bothering him. Something big. Something bad.

A tingling sensation bit at the back of her neck. She'd grown used to being watched. Ever sense she joined Fairy Tail, people have been watching her. Something's different this time though. The usually unnerving feeling bitter this time around, it forced her to turn and look.

Brown eyes met blue, and Lucy's heart fell into her stomach.

TBC