"I never would have thought we lived in the same area." Levy said as she walked side by side with Lucy as they walked down the street towards the area they both lived.
"I know," Lucy smiled. "What street are you on?"
"Blueberry Avenue." Levy said.
"It's suits you," Lucy smiled, "Your hair, it's the right colour. I live on Strawberry Street," Lucy said.
"No way there's some amazing houses on that street." Levy breathed.
"Well it's not that nice," Lucy sighed. "My parents both work most of the time. They leave early and come home late, so it's just me and my brother, you can come by for a while if you want, Sting will love to meet my new friend."
"Really you wouldn't mind?" Levy asked.
"Of course not, I want to know if we have the same interests in books." Lucy smiled "And my house has a library."
"You have a library?" Levy asked eyes wide.
"Sure, that's what our family call it anyway, but some may just call it, Lucy's room." She shrugged "But that's too boring."
Levy laughed as they turned into Strawberry Street, every house was detached and perfectly immaculate and white washed. Lucy walked to one of those whitewashed homes and pulled out a set of keys, but when she pushed on the door it opened. She rolled her eyes and pushed it fully open. "HEY IDIOT!" she screamed though the house, hearing a crash from the kitchen she smirked, "You didn't shut the door properly, we could have been burgled.
"Oi Lulu don't suddenly scream at me when I'm cooking!" Came the shouted response.
Levy looked a little nervous but Lucy threw her bag down at the bottom of the stairs as she led Levy out of the large entrance hall and into the kitchen. "What did you do?" Lucy screamed seeing the mess spread across the kitchen floor. It seemed to be some kind of tomato sauce and the pan was on the floor, the contents was on the floor and Sting was looking guilty at his sister who stood in the doorway with her arms crossed.
"Well I thought I'd cook you some dinner," he said, "and I was carrying the pan across, when you screamed at me, I jabbed my toe on the side of the island and dropped it… it was your fault." He pouted.
"Of course it was," Lucy replied sarcastically.
"Oooooh!" Sting suddenly noticed the blue haired girl looking over his sister's shoulder. "You brought home a friend!"
"Sting stay back." She warned her brother stepping in front of Levy, "Levy-chan is shy so no idiocy."
"Idiocy just what are you insinuating?" Lucy raised her eyebrows. "Fine, Hello Levy-chan, I am Sting, the amazing older brother of Lucy."
"Like I said, Idiot." Lucy rolled her eyes, "We'll be in the Library."
"Ok sis," Sting replied turning to the sink to attempt to clean up.
"If you blow anything up, I'll kill you." Lucy voice drifting back though the door to him as Lucy led Levy upstairs, he grinned and then got down on his hands and knees to clean the floor.
Lucy took Levy to her room and opened the door with a flourish. Levy gasped. Lucy's parents, to make up for their lack or presence had allowed Lucy to have her room anyway she liked, so she had created her dream room. Her bed was by the wall opposite the door, the nearest wall had two more doors, one to the en-suite bathroom the other to her walk-in wardrobe. At the end of Lucy's bed was a beautiful carved wooden desk and desk chair, next to it a large window and then, the thing that made Levy gasp… Along the whole wall where that door was and the other side wall was covered from floor to ceiling with bookshelves. "Lu-chan its…"
"A secret." Lucy said, "Levy-chan I don't really want other people at school to know, my parents have this kind of money."
"You can trust me Lu-chan?" Levy asked her eyes wide.
"Sure, because I think you're like me, I think you see the books, not what it cost to put them there." She smiled. "So have a look around, is there anything you like?"
Levy stepped into the room and browsed along the shelves, running her small gentle fingers along the spines. "Oh, I love this book." Levy said stopping, "May I?"
"Go ahead." Lucy nodded. Levy pulled the book from the shelf and turned it over in her hands, Lucy glanced at what book she had pulled from the shelf, 'Midnight Moon'. A fantasy romance novel, her favourite two genres.
"I love that book too." Lucy nodded, "Did you know she wrote a second one I just finished reading it."
"She did?" Levy asked, slipping the book back before turning to Lucy, "I didn't hear about it, I must have missed it."
"Here, read it." Lucy lifted the book of her desk and handed it to Levy.
"Midnight flowers," Levy red the title, "You mean I can borrow it?" she asked with wide eyes.
"Of course silly." Lucy laughed "I'm not going to make you read it here."
"Thanks Lu-chan." Levy smiled.
The two friends settled down chatting. Levy sat on Lucy's bed and Lucy sat on her desk chair slowly spinning it around as they fell silent for a moment after laughing over a funny story. "hey Levy."
"Yes Lu-chan." Levy replied laying back on the bed.
"I noticed something earlier and wondered if you know anything about it, I didn't want to say in front of everyone else." Lucy said, "And in reality I forgot about it almost as soon as I noticed it, but I just thought of it now."
"What is it Lu-chan." Levy asked.
"Earlier I noticed that there was a bit of material sticking out of Natsu's bag, it look kinda scaly." Lucy said, "Does he always have that?"
"Of course, that's Natsu's scarf." Levy said, "Apparently his dad gave it to him, hates to take it off, so keeps it in his bag at school because we can't wear scarfs in school."
"Oh I see," Lucy nodded, "I wonder why he wants to wear it all the time though, is his dad not around much."
"I don't know, I don't think anyone does, not even Lisanna, though maybe Grey would know, but he wouldn't tell. He and Natsu fight a lot but they're close friends and he wouldn't do that to Natsu."
"Ah well," she spun around again, "I wonder how I'll annoy him tomorrow." She said thoughtfully, "I'm not a bitch so I stay away from the scarf, I prefer to use words, the thing with Gajeel, I knew that was the best way to get through to him but Natsu isn't as dense as he seems, words work."
"What was it you said earlier Lu-chan?" levy asked, Lucy spun to face her, she cocked her head to one side unsure what her friend meant. "When you leant forward and whispered to Natsu, what did you say because he got all annoyed and flustered?"
"I said, be careful or your limpet might become a leech, or something like that." Lucy waved her hand casually, "I saw he looked kind of uncomfortable when Lisanna got too close, he's just too nice to tell her to stop and to push her away." Lucy sighed "I don't know about him you know."
"What do you mean Lu-chan?" Levy asked.
"Well he's the popular guy so of course trouble follows him around in the form of a hoard of jealous and easily angered girls. Most guys get cocky from that kind of treatment and start acting like complete asses but Natsu seems to still be a nice kinda guy at times, like not telling Lisanna to leave him alone."
"I see what you mean." Levy nodded "But Natsu was always like that, even before. I went to lower school with him and he was always really protective of his friends and he's good at sports as well." Levy smiled "It wasn't a surprise he was popular in high school."
"But he never turned full popular boy dick head." Lucy observed. "Impressive."
"Well Lu-chan," Levy stood up as she saw the sun sinking lower in the sky, "I should go now, my parents will worry."
"Ok," Lucy got up, "I'll show you out, and you ok getting home?"
"Sure Lu-chan," Levy said as they walked down the stairs "I'm only around the corner."
"Ok, see you tomorrow then Levy." She smiled and hugged her friend at the door.
"Bye Lu-chan." Levy left and Lucy went to check on Sting. Surprisingly the kitchen was clean and dinner was cooked with too wrapped meals now in the fridge. She ate with her brother telling him about her day and the people she had met. He listened and laughed with her and her antics, he was happy his sister had made friends but it had been a long time since she had made such close friendships in only one day. What if they moved again?
"I'm going out for some air." Lucy said standing up.
Lucy went out the back door and around to the bit of garden along the side of the house where there was a bench. It was against the wall, and stretching between it and the fence between her house and next doors garden fence was a small flower garden with gravel paths crossing between the garden patches. Lucy leant back against the bench and closed her eyes. Without realising it she fell asleep.
"No fucking way!" Lucy opened her eyes with a start and looked around, there was no one around but she was sure she had heard someone.
"Dammit," she said rubbing her eyes, "I must have fallen asleep, and I'm hearing things." She ran her hands though her hair, pulling the pony tail out and brushing it free with her fingers.
"Not hearing things." Lucy looked around, but still no one in sight, but she was sure she'd heard something and she thought she recognized the voice.
"Geez," Lucy sighed, running her hands though her hair and rolled her neck, "I'm either dreaming or waaayyy too tired."
"No I'm here." Lucy sighed as again there was no one in sight. "Look up, window… opposite… urm a library; you have a library in your house?" Lucy looked up, leaning out of the window was none other than Natsu Dragneel.
"Yeah, we have a library." Lucy nodded.
"You live here?" he asked.
Lucy rolled her eyes, "Really what kind of question is that?" he shrugged "Yes I live here."
"Who'd have thought it." he smirked, "The new girl that managed to piss of a lot of people on her first day… my new next door neighbour."
"Well, it's just going to be easier to annoy you now isn't it." she smiled.
"Anyway, I'm going to go to bed now." Lucy stood up. "I have a lot of things to do tomorrow, and I want to be at the top of my game."
"Really what have you go to do tomorrow?" Natsu asked.
"Well there's a PE lesson tomorrow and that is something I'm good at, well I'm good at most things," she flashed him a smile "And you know… more annoying behaviour."
"Of course." He nodded.
"Night Natsu." She turned away to walk around the back of her house.
"Good night Luigi." He called. She stopped at the corner and shot him a look. "Two can play your game." He said.
Lucy turned away and smiled. She walked into her house and called goodnight to Sting who was watching TV in the living room. She went upstairs and turned her light on. She went into her wardrobe an changed into her night wear. When she came out there was a rattling at her window. She wrapped a cardigan around herself and opened the window. Natsu was still at his window, he had been throwing something at her window.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"You said you were going to bed, you're in the library."
"Natsu," she frowned at him. "This is my room, I'm a bookworm, get over it and let me sleep."
"Oh ok." Natsu shrugged.
"And never throw anything at my window ever again!" with that she shut her window and swiftly drew her curtains. So the popular kid was her neighbour and he wasn't bad at annoying her back. Tomorrow would be interesting.