After deciding to end Everyday Lives, I think it'll be easier to find certain chapters this way. I hope you don't mind :)

Fairy Tail and it's characters belong to Hiro Mashima.

Summary: Every Thursday morning Lucy is awakened by the noisy garbage men. One day she has enough, but she doesn't count on the good looking garbage man who actually smells… nice?

It was a peaceful evening in the beautiful city of Magnolia. Young Lucy Heartfilia had already taken a relaxing bubble bath and settling down in her comfy bed for a good nights rest.

Unfortunately, it didn't last long.

"Ugh! Not again!"

Just outside, she could hear a noisy truck. Unmistakable, a garbage truck.

"Unbelievable!" Lucy yelled as she walked across the hall from her bedroom to the large window that overlooked the city.

There, she saw a truck had already left her house and was at her neighbors two houses down.

Lucy was livid, it was 4 o'clock in the morning. She had to be up in an hour so what was the point in going back to bed?

"I'll get them next time," she mumbled as she headed to her kitchen.

That day at work, Lucy could barely keep her eyes open. She was a teacher, and her Literature classes were so slow in their lesson plans that day. At lunch she thought about going to the lounge to sleep on the nice big lumpy couch they had.

"Did Lucy not sleep well again?" Juvia, the biology teacher and close friend of Lucy's inquired.

"No. I woke up because of that loud garbage truck again. I swear, every week it gets louder and louder."

"Would you like Juvia to ask her darling to do something about it next time?" Juvia's husband was a police officer who often worked the early morning shifts.

"No. That's OK. Thank you though, Juvia," Lucy smiled. Gray often helped their friends with little things like that.

"If you change your mind, please let Juvia know," she glanced down as her phone rang, "Oh it's Cana!"

Juvia answered and talked quickly for several minutes. And then she squealed, "Yes, yes! Put him on!"

Lucy quirked her eyebrow at her friend, even more as she began to make baby noises.

"Oh Lucy! Listen!" Juvia put the phone up to her ear, she heard giggling and gurgling.

"Baba. Ba, da.. dada-dada.." a tiny voice then spoke on the phone.

"Aww! Hey there little Storm," Gray and Juvia's 7 month old son had just started to talk. His mother was beyond happy.

"Isn't Juvia's baby the most adorable!" Juvia took the phone back and told her little boy she loved him over and over before she put her phone down,

"He definitely is. But are you sure it's a good idea to leave him with Cana? And where's Gray?" Imagining their alcohol loving friend with a baby brought on all kinds of images to her mind.

"It is only for a few hours. My love had to go run some errands today and Juvia didn't want her little Storm in this cooler weather."

Juvia then told Lucy everything that her baby did the previous evening. Including getting his rice down daddy's shirt. His stripping habit was actually helpful this time. Laughing with her friend made her mood lighten and she even forgot about the rude wake up call she got this morning, until next week that is.

The following Thursday morning, right on time, the garbage truck woke Lucy up.

"You must be joking," Lucy didn't even bother getting up, her class had run her ragged yesterday, she wasn't ready to face the world just yet.

BOOM!

A loud crash was heard down the street followed by some screaming. She pulled her pillow on top of her head and groaned. Looks like she wasn't getting any extra sleep tonight either.

"That's unfortunate," The art teacher, Jellal, gave her a sympathetic smile after hearing her sob story. They each had free time during 4th period and more often then not spent that time in the lounge having coffee together.

"Yeah, I don't even know what happened after that, my neighbors took care of it probably, they don't even like it when I walk Plue. I always get yelled at," Plue was Lucy's white Shih Tzu. He was a shy little thing.

"Perhaps next time it won't be so bad, or you could call and complain. Erza has done that on many occasions about the city mowers," raising his coffee to drink to rid the image of her yelling at the people across the street. His wife could scare a bear if she wanted.

"She wouldn't have a problem with it. But I don't want to cost someone there job just because I'm losing an hour of sleep."

"I see," he glanced at his watch, "well before I forget, Erza wants to know if you would like to join us tomorrow night? We're going to Laxus' bar that just opened."

"You mean Mira's bar?" They both chuckled. Laxus was the toughest, meanest man they knew, until he started to date Mirajane that is. The bar was even called She-Devils. That was Mira's nick-name in middle school, high school, and college when she was on the softball and volleyball teams. Laxus says he named it after her cause he loved her, simple as that. Everyone else knew that since they were getting closer and closer to the Dryer-Strauss wedding.. well, she was the she-devil..

"Yes, precisely. You are more than welcome to join us. I believe Levy and Gajeel are coming as well," Levy was the librarian here at the school and Gajeel was the welding and carpentry teacher. It was quite the pair.

"I'll think about it," She said as the bell rang and they parted ways.

"Maybe I should. A good night out with friends might be just what I need! Plus it's been a while since I've seen Mira. It's decided then, I'm going!" Lucy though and fist bumped the air as she walked to her classroom.

"Isn't this great, Lu!" Levy yelled as much as she could over the loud music as they reached the center bar.

"This is so awesome!" Looking back to the dance floor she giggled, "But I bet they're having an even better time." Levy looked at what Lucy was pointing at and the giggling began anew.

On the dance floor was Jellal and Erza. She was wearing a tiny black dress and was almost using Jellal as a pole as she wrapped her arms behind her around his neck and moving her hips to the beat of the music. Jellal had his hands on her hips holding her tight as he sucked and kissed on her neck. The way they moved together was so perfect, if not a little arousing.

"Huh, must be nice," Levy sipped on her drink as she found her boyfriend talking and laughing with Laxus across the bar and glared at him.

Lucy watched them with wistful eyes, "I wish I could meet someone as dedicated to me as Jellal is to Erza."

"Maybe you can."

Lucy jumped at the new voice and turned to see a grinning man sitting next to her.

"Oh, um.." he was looking straight at her eyes, but she couldn't help but give him a once over under her bangs. He was wearing loose but nicely fitting jeans that just barely let his boots peak out underneath. A tight black shirt was seen under the pink button-up that was completely undone with the sleeves rolled up half way. Through both shirts she was able to see well defined muscles. The strangest thing he was wearing was a white muffler tied around his waist like a second belt. A confidant grin was on his face when she finally looked at it. His hair was bring pink and spiky. It made for a delicious combo.*

"See something you like?"

Lucy blushed as she snapped her eyes to his, they were a forest green. He leaned in closer so only she could hear him.

" 'Cause I know I do," he had moved his hands next to hers on the bar so he could rub her hand as he talked. He didn't seem like a player. He looked at her face the whole time. He seemed pretty genuine. Nothing like the number one players from her high school and college, Loke and Sting.

Lucy glanced over to see Levy who had joined Mira, Laxus, and Gajeel. The girls and Gajeel gave her a thumbs up and Laxus nodded to her. She glanced back over to his smiling hopeful face. She giggled.

"I'm Lucy, it's nice to meet you," his grin got wider into a boyish smile, she could his sharp canines.

"I'm Natsu. Wanna dance?"

Over the next several weeks, Natsu and Lucy began to see each other more and more, until their relationship became official 3 weeks after they met. They had now been dating for 4 weeks.

Natsu was absolutely wonderful . He was caring and considerate. On every date, he brought her flowers, all kinds of flowers. When they reached the one month mark of their relationship, he bought her a candle and a gift card to Yankee Candle to get even more. She always noticed how clean his truck and apartment were, he wasn't a neat freak, but he liked to be clean. She was in love with his cologne. The couple times he stayed at her place shes taken the bottle while he was in the shower and sprayed it on her pillows. It was that good. Natsu did tend to let his boyish side get the better of him sometimes, which Lucy found adorable. He always kept her on her toes. She knew he worked for the city, but he didn't tell her what he did and she didn't pry.

It wasn't until the 6th week that they had been dating, that she found out with a..

BANG!

"No! Not now!" Lucy jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs, determined to end this. It was the first time it had happened since she met Natsu. And she didn't want it to start again.

Without even grabbing her robe or slippers, she marched outside wearing a pink tank top and blue pajama pants that she bough thinking about Natsu's cat, Happy. They had little blue cats all over them.

Walking toward the truck she saw that a garbage can had fallen out of the trucks claw. A purple haired boy was picking up the trash that had fallen everywhere and another person was kicking the truck.

"Stupid piece of shit!"

All of a sudden, she got a whiff of that strong cologne she loved so much. She came to a stop when she reached the end of her sidewalk. It couldn't be..

"Miss, can I help you? I'm sorry if we woke you. Our truck is old and doesn't work properly.." This young boy looked familiar somehow..

"Yeah, it's woken me up a few times. I just wanted to know what was going on.."

"Damn piece of metal.. Luce?" Lucy turned around and saw her lovable goofy boyfriend holding a ripped garbage bag.

"Lucy! Hey, what are you doing up so early?" it didn't escape her notice that a blush appeared on his face.

"Your truck woke me up. It has been for months now," she saw his face get darker even with her limited light source.

"Oh, sorry babe, like he said, it's an old truck. I've been waiting a while for a replacement, it's just not here yet," his blush hadn't disappeared yet. He had even taken to looking at the ground rather than her face, and he was scratching the back of his head.

"Hey Romeo! Pick all this up, will ya? I'll be back in a minute!" Natsu yelled at the purple haired boy, pulling Lucy back toward the house.

"Sure, just don't take too long!"

"Romeo? Do I know him? I swear I've heard that name.." Lucy looked back at him.

"Yeah, that's Wendy's boyfriend," Natsu had an adorable little sister who had just started college. She found out quickly that he was super protective of her.

Natsu stopped when he reached her front door. He smiled at Lucy, his blush was lighter, but still there.

"Why are you blushing? And why didn't you tell me you worked down my street?"

Natsu looked down at the 'wipe your paws' floor mat she had. He scrunched up his face before he turned back to look at her.

"Cause it's embarrassing."

"Huh? How is it embarrassing? You have a good job, Hun," Never mind the fact that just a day before she met him she wanted to strangle her garbage man.

"Come on, Luce. I work with trash all day. Hell I never leave work without showering first, I don't wanna smell this shit when I get home," his boyish side came out when he pouted like he was.

"OK, fine. Good answer. But why didn't you tell me? Did you think I was going to laugh at you? "

"To be honest, I didn't think you'd agree to a second date if I told you," when Lucy just stared at him confused he continued, "Do you really wanna tell your friends and family that you're dating a garbage man?"

"It's a good, honest, hard working job. I still don't see what's so embarrassing about it," Natsu stared at her funny, almost like he didn't believe her.

"For real? It doesn't embarrass you?" he asked as he stepped closer to her.

"No silly. You could never embarrass me, unless you wanted to," she poked him on the nose at his pout.

"Is that why you didn't tell me? You thought I wouldn't approve?"

"Well, yeah. How many girls do you think would want to date a guy who spends most days digging in other peoples trash?"

"Natsu," she pulled him into a hug, "you are so sweet," she pulled away and kissed his cheek, "Is that why you always bring me flowers? And always like to have candles burning?"

His face turned bright scarlet, "Yeah.. you could.. say that.."

Lucy laughed. He was so full of surprises.

"Hey Natsu!" they both looked back to the street where Romeo was, "we need to get going or we'll never finish!"

"Yikes! Sorry man, I'm coming!" He grabbed Lucy's arms and held her tight as he kissed her, "Sorry we woke you. And get back inside! You're gonna get sick, weirdo!"

Lucy huffed as he started to run back to his truck, when she finally remembered!

"HEY! DON'T YOU DARE WAKE ME UP AGAIN WITH THIS STUPID TRUCK! NEXT TIME YOU DO, YOU'RE GONNA PAY!"

"No prob, babe," Natsu replied hanging out the window, "If it happens again you can punish me as much as you want," He grinned as she started to yell to stop being a perv.

As the truck went down the road, she finally noticed how cold it was. Running inside she wrapped her arms around her found out that she smelled like her boyfriend. Hugging him, even while in his work uniform, he still smelled so wonderful. Maybe his job was the reason he liked things clean and that smelt good. He loved staying in Lucys bed even after they had woken up. He said that he loved whatever it was she used to wash her sheets with.

It was funny, she loved his strong cologne. And he loved the simple smell of her clean linen sheets.

*delicious combo. This is exactly the kind of man I want in my life. I want him to dress like that. I want him to have Natsu's personality. I would say I want Natsu but I want to be realistic..