AN: Sorry this update took so long, I really want this story to be good so I'm trying to make it as interesting as possible XDD it takes me a bit longer to write it wah! please bear with meee and enjoy chapter 2! Natsu is in this one. Thank you guys for reading :D

Chapter 2

"Don't let Erza scare you Lucy!" Levy said sweetly as she led her back out to the main floor. Gray and Loke waved at them and Levy waved back, but Lucy noticed her focusing more on the bar rather than the two shirtless men. "Nothing is as intense as she makes it out to be." Levy pulled out a chair for Lucy gesturing for her to sit down.

"Thanks," Lucy mumbled.

"Just enjoy the show! I can meet with you tomorrow to help you learn stuff if you want!" Levy offered sweetly. Lucy nodded.

"Ok! I think that would be really helpful."

"Yeah no problem, but I've got to go get ready now, so I'll see you after the show!" she said. Lucy really liked Levy and for the first time since she had moved to New York she felt like maybe she had found something exciting in her life. She glanced around the bar and was surprised to see people filling up the place quickly. She was happy to see that the once lifeless bar was now busy and bustling.

"Can I get you something to drink?" Loke asked sliding his arm around Lucy and sitting down next to her.

"Should you really be sitting down on the job?" she asked raising an eyebrow at him.

"This is Fairy Tail," he said pushing his glasses up. "I will do anything you ask. If you asked me to kiss you I would do it, if you asked for more...well we'd have to go to a back room but I'd do it." Lucy blushed. What the heck was Loke talking about. Back room? No one had told her anything about that. A spotlight shone on the middle of the stage and a man with a bowl cut emerged on the stage. Loke stood up, blew her a kiss and twirled around, disappearing behind her.

"Good evening everyone! I'm Max, your host! Welcome to Fairy Tail! Where our girls make all your dreams come true!" The audience cheered loudly and Lucy glanced around feeling a bit uncomfortable. "Should I bring them out to you?" The audience hollered one more time and Lucy clapped a bit. Max began to introduce all of the girls. "They're sexy and they're sisters! Lisanna and Mirajane are here with their sister act tonight!" The two girls entered wearing sexy bikini tops and long flowing skirts. They matched almost perfectly. A group of men in the corner screamed out that they loved Mirajane and she waved at them cutely. "She'll take you to the best gun show you've ever seen in your life, it's Bisca!" He announced as Bisca entered wearing a bikini top, booty shorts and a cowboy hat. Lucy watched him introduce the rest of the women as they all lined up on stage. The crowd cheered and clapped for all the girls, but Max suddenly shushed them.

"Everyone is here! So we can get started..."

Levy stepped forward a bit.

"Max! How silly of you, we're not all here," she teased.

"Oh! You're right Levy, how could I forget the magical, the beautiful, the sexiest!" A spotlight shone near the back of the bar where Erza entered. She ran her hand along the edge of the bar sexily and she danced slowly to the stage, while the music played. Lucy had never been one for this style of dancing. She had studied ballet and modern styles of dance, but she had to admit that Erza looked beautiful as she moved slowly to the stage. All eyes were on her. It was impossible not to look. She ran her hands over a few lucky guys' shoulders and made her way onto the stage. Her dress was revealing and pushed her breasts up perfectly. Lucy blushed just watching her move with such grace and ease. She walked up onto the stage.

"Ok, now everyone's here," she said keeping her voice deep. The crowd went wild the second she spoke, especially the men. "I can take it from here Max," she said as the music started to play, Erza began to sing. Her voice was low and sultry, Lucy couldn't stop staring at her. The girls made their way to the audience and danced while Erza sang, some of them danced by the bar and some of them danced in front of specific men. Juvia danced by Gray, which Lucy was pretty sure defeated the purpose of both their jobs.

Lucy's heart began beating as she imagined herself doing these dances. There was no way she could actually pull it off. This wasn't what she had expected. She figured it would be a cute cabaret style show, but this, was a lot more sexual than she realized. Plus the idea of back rooms was making her wary. Levy hadn't said anything about that. Was Loke teasing? Lucy wasn't sure she could do this anymore. The show ended and Lucy dashed out of the club. She didn't want to talk to anyone.

Once she arrived at her apartment, Lucy sank down on the ground.

"I'm just going to quit, Mom," she said holding her journal out. "I'm just going to go in tomorrow, tell them it's not for me and be done with it!" she said. There was no way she would ever be able to dance like that.

Lucy made her way to the club in the early afternoon the next day. She paused holding her hand over the door handle. Was she really going to quit? She really needed the money...but was this really what she wanted to be doing? She yanked the door open and entered the club. Gajeel was standing in his usual position behind the bar, cleaning glasses. Levy was sitting at the bar smiling at him. Lucy's heart leapt into her throat. She wished Levy wasn't there. She had liked the girl and she was one of the first people who had actually been nice to her in the city. Luckily, Levy seemed to be wrapped up in whatever conversation she was having with Gajeel.

"Hey, Gajeel! Is...uh Makarov here?" Lucy asked approaching the bar.

"Oh! Lucy! I didn't see you come in, hi!" Levy said happily.

"H-hi Levy!" she said trying mask her nerves.

"Did you wanna learn some of the dances today?" Levy cheerfully grabbed Lucy's hands.

"Well, maybe I just wanted to talk to Makarov first-"

"OI!" A loud slam was heard as the door slammed opened. "Gajeel! Grab me a beer!" A voice called out from the the entry way.

"Oi! Natsu! Are you gonna pay for it, gi-hee!" Gajeel teased opening the bottle and placing it on the counter.

"Very funny, Gajeel, very funny," Natsu said grabbing his beer off the counter. The boy had bright pink hair and a white scarf on. He smiled at Lucy and held out his hand. "You must be new? I'm Natsu!" Lucy blushed as he smiled at her, she shook his hand.

"I'm Lucy and yes, I'm new but-"

"That's great! It's always awesome when the club gets new staff! Just adding people to the family," he smiled. Lucy was surprised to hear him call the club members his family. They were just dancers, high class strippers really. Natsu sat on the bar stool.

"So where are you from?" Natsu asked.

"Nowhere special, a really really small town in Ohio," she said.

"I bet that was cool though! Everyone probably knows each other well," Natsu said. "I grew up here and you kind of get lost in how many people there are."

"It's not always the best having everyone know you," Lucy said turning away. Natsu leaned in close to her looking at her face.

"Well, you're pretty cute, so I can see why Gramps hired you," he smiled. Lucy blushed. Back home she had steered clear of boys, mostly because she didn't want to get attached to anyone when she knew she would leave eventually. not that some boys hadn't tried.

"T-Thanks?" she questioned and backed away from him.

"What a pervert," Gajeel scoffed.

"Oi! Gajeel, I'm much less of a pervert than you. I don't come here to watch the girls!"

"Neither do I, this is my job," Gajeel retorted.

"Well, whatever," Natsu shrugged and turned back towards Lucy. "Let's be friends, Ok?" he asked nicely. Lucy couldn't bring herself to do anything but nod. "Don't let these fools scare you! Everyone here is really nice and will help you out. Right Levy?" Natsu said giving her a thumbs up and Levy joined in. Lucy's heart sank, they were all so nice and welcoming, but she couldn't work in this place, she just...couldn't. She didn't come to New York to be a dancer for a sleazy nightclub. She came to be a dancer, on a large stage with a huge audience, sold out. She came to be like all the classy girls...but...everyone did have to start somewhere right? She returned Natsu and Levy's thumbs up.

"Do-do you work here?" Lucy finally managed to ask.

"Nah, but Makarov is my grandfather, so I stop by a lot to see him and hang out with my friends...like Gajeel!" he said gesturing to the bartender.

"Tch."

"Great! Now that that is all settled, where is Gramps! I gotta ask him a question," Natsu said. Lucy snapped out of her momentary lapse of judgement.

"Me too," she said. "I need to speak with him too."

"I'll go grab him," Gajeel said and disappeared behind the bar. He re-emerged not too long after, with Makarov in tow.

"Oi! Gramps!" Natsu called out happily.

"Natsu? You're here again? Didn't I tell you to go away?" he said with a smile on his face.

"Gee, thanks old man, I just figured I'd stop by to say hello to my favorite people."

"Well get outta here! No one wants you around! I'm just kidding, come on and give me a hug," he said pulling the pink haired boy into a hug. "It's good to see you. How's school going? When are you going to finally decide to work here, instead of that silly little museum?" he asked.

"Gramps, I need to work at the museum so I can get into the archeology program I want to," he shrugged. "Don't worry though, it's the summer, which means I'll be here practically everyday anyway! I know you all miss me." Lucy watched them bicker lightly and she smiled. Even though it wasn't the best place, it would be nice to have friends, and it wasn't like she was going to stay forever.

"We don't miss you at all." Gajeel said. "In fact, it's much quieter when you stay away." Makarov turned to Lucy.

"I see you've met my grandson, Natsu, he's always around. Sorry he's so noisy."

"No, no it's fine," she said waving her hands frantically.

"Gajeel said you wanted to talk to me?" he asked.

"Oh! I just..." she glanced at Natsu wrestling with Gajeel and Levy laughing. "I...just wanted to say, thank you for hiring me and I'm looking forward to learning the dances with Levy," she quickly responded. She was surprised at the words that ended coming up out of her mouth. In span of 20 minutes, just one person had completely changed her mind.

"Wonderful!" Makarov said. "Glad to hear it!" Lucy guessed she was going to stay.

"Hey! Lu! You wanna start learning the dances?" Levy called out.

"Y-yeah," Lucy stammered, still shocked by her previous response.

"Great! But maybe we should go somewhere a bit more private," she suggested glaring at Gajeel and Natsu. Lucy blushed imagining them watching herself and Levy dance.

"That's a good idea," she responded. "My place is just up the street and I don't have a lot of furniture so we'll have lots of space." Levy nodded and followed Lucy out the door.

"Wow, Lu, you were not kidding when you said you didn't have a lot of furniture," Levy said as the two entered her small apartment.

"Well all my money has gone to rent so far, so having a job will be helpful," Lucy rubbed the back of her head awkwardly, embarrassed at how bare her apartment was.

"Yeah, Makarov pays well. Plus if you do a good job, most people tip," she winked. Lucy blushed. She looked around Lucy's apartment some more and tilted her head. "This is actually a great space to practice. You should leave it like this!" Lucy sighed.

"I wanna fill it eventually," she said. "So how long have you been at Fairy Tail?" Lucy asked trying to get the subject off of her apartment.

"About...a year now," Levy said. "It's so great there. To be honest I was a little wary at first cause it seems like, you know, a typical night club, but...I don't know it's really great. I was a little nervous you wouldn't stay." Lucy nodded.

"I guess I contemplating leaving last night," she admitted.

"I thought so, since you didn't stick around after the show," Levy said. "What changed your mind?"

Lucy placed a finger on her chin. "You and Natsu to be honest. You both seemed so happy, I just...really wanted to be friends with you guys." Levy laughed.

"Natsu is so funny! He'll be around a lot now that he's on break from school!" she said. "It's funny he's not really into the dancing or girls, he just likes being friends with everyone. Though Gray and Loke keep trying to convince him to be a server. I don't think he'll ever go for it though!" The two girls laughed. "So why did you move here Lucy?" Levy asked.

"I want to be a dancer. Like...on a huge stage...maybe on Broadway? I don't know, I just know I love to dance," she said.

"Me too," Levy said. "You picked a great place to start. To be honest, when I moved here, I wanted all that too, but I'm actually pretty content here," she said. Lucy was surprised. She Fairy Tail would be a great place for her to start, but she couldn't imagine ever being...content here. Plus she still had so many questions...

"Levy, Loke mentioned something about...back rooms. What is that all about?" she asked. "Is it like...one of those trick the new girl things?" she laughed. Levy blushed.

"N-No, there are back rooms. Sometimes guests want to do more...private stuff. But It usually only happens with the older guys and Makarov doesn't make us do anything we don't want to. Also It seems like its usually the older girls. Myself, Juvia and Lisanna I don't think have ever been back there, so I wouldn't worry. Just tell Makarov you don't want to do anything like that," she said. "Well, let's get started! A lot of what we do is just feeling the music and interacting with people, so I can't really teach you that, but there are a few things that are a bit more choreographed. I'm sure Makarov will want you to start tonight, so we have 3 hours," Levy said. Lucy had always been a fast learner when it came to dance, so she had no problem picking up the steps that Levy showed, though she still felt a bit awkward.

"I feel like I look ridiculous," Lucy sighed, when they stopped for a short break.

"You really don't," Levy shook her head. "Plus you have great boobs." Lucy blushed and covered her chest.

"Thank you?" she questioned. "I feel weird, I've never been very..." Lucy trailed off.

"Very what?" Levy asked.

"...Sexual?" Lucy whispered. Levy laughed.

"Me neither!"

"What!?" Lucy said surprised.

"Jeeze, don't look so surprised," she frowned. "Just because we're dancing like this, doesn't mean we have to be sexual people. Dancing is a form of acting," Levy said. "You're not going to make people feel anything if you're not acting well."

"Well I'm not sure I want people to feel something while we're doing this," Lucy admitted. Levy stretched out, pulling on her leg.

"It's really not a huge deal, half the time you won't see the people again anyway," she shrugged, pulling on her arms to stretch some more.

"So Natsu doesn't work at the club then?" Lucy asked, suddenly changing the subject.

"That was random!" Levy poked her shoulder. "Did someone fall in love at first sight?" she teased.

"N-no! I was curious is all. He was so nice," she said. Levy nodded and stood up, swinging her arms around.

"Yeah! He's a really nice guy. It's funny to me because he's really not into the whole club scene, but he comes in all the time just to see his grandfather and hang out. Loke and Gray try to get him to join their serving team every time and him and Gajeel are really close."

"I see. It seems like everyone is close," she said.

"It's true, a lot of us aren't from the city, so we've all kind of bonded together," Levy said, pulling Lucy up.

"Where are you from?" Lucy asked as she started following Levy's lead as she twirled her hips and kicked her leg up.

"No where exciting! Just a bit upstate, near Albany," she said.

"And how long have you been here?" Lucy questioned curiously.

"Almost 2 years!"

"And how long have you been into Gajeel?"

"W-what!?" Levy blushed bright red and almost tripped over her own foot. "I-I'm not...into him. We-We're just friends."

"Oh really? You guys just looked so close today," Lucy said poking fun at the blue haired girl.

"I-I mean I guess we DO talk a lot," she said rubbing her hands together nervously. Lucy shrugged. "You really don't have a boyfriend back home or anything?" Levy said.

"No. There's not much for me back home," Lucy responded turning away from the girl. Levy tilted her head, wanting to ask more, but Lucy didn't seem willing to share.

"I see," she said. "Well, Natsu's a really nice guy and it's rare he calls a girl cute when he first meets her," Levy said. Lucy blushed and she could hear her heart pounding in her ears.

"Well I-I'm not really interested him like that! I just met him!" Lucy responded, flustered. Levy poked her side.

"There's always Loke too. He seems to really like you," Levy winked.

"Levy! I'm not interested in anything like that!" she yelled. Although she had to admit, she was having a hard time not thinking about the pink-haired boy and she hoped he would be there tonight when her and Levy returned to Fairy Tail. She blushed, remembering how sweet his smile seemed and how he had leaned in close to her.

"We should probably finish up! We only have an hour!" Levy said hurriedly.

"Oh, right," Lucy said snapping out of her daydream. She was here to dance and she wasn't going to let any boy get in her way of that.

AN: Thanks for reading guys :) Hope you liked chapter 2 :D Thank you to everyone who reviewed chapter 1, I feel like this idea is SO random, so it makes me happy people actually like it!