Hey Guys. I'm a little new to writing this. Nalu is my one OTP. Please leave a review or any ideas you want me to input into the story later on.
It was 10 a.m. and Lucy was quietly sitting at a table, waiting for a certain someone. She and Natsu shceduled to meet at 10:30 a.m, but Lucy has a habit of arriving places half an hour early.
Ring! The doorbell sounded.
Lucy looked up, hoping to find the goofy male she met yesterday. Thinking about him already made her heart flutter. She stayed up all night reliving the memory of his warm and calloused hands. His hands were warm yet gentle but at the same time, big and rough. Something about the way he held her hands in his just made her feel safe. His hands are so welcoming and they fit perfectly around mine. A faint blush could be seen on her face at the time. She decided to take another book from Natsu's series out of her purse and start to read it.
Just then, a shadow hovered above her, and Lucy smiled. "Hey Nat-"
"OM MY GOSH! I LOVE THAT BOOK!" a tiny petite little blue haired girl squealed, causing Lucy to jump in her seat.
"Huh? Oh. Sorry I thought you were somebody else," Lucy was a little disappointed but amused at the same time.
Completely ignoring the blonde's statement, the girl picked up Lucy's book and continued to ramble about the characters and the plot, claiming how the idea of the dragon ending up saving the princess was so romantic."I gotta say, I'm a real sucker for plot twists."
Lucy couldn't help but join in on the girl's thoughts and discuss her favorite subjects. "Me too! I was thinking that the prince was going to swoop in like a knight in shining armor, when a dragon popped out of nowhere and just burned the whole place down," Lucy was already warming up to the girl. The two shared a few more laughs when a familiar voice interrupted them.
"Ahem."
In one swift move, Lucy turned her head to find Natsu standing in front of her with the same scaled scarf again. Only this time, he wore a black t-shirt that says Bad Boy. Lucy couldn't help but giggle seeing how different his personality is.
"Hey Luce!" the pink haired maled beamed.
"Oh, sorry. Are you here on a date? My bad, I'll leave you two to it." The blue haired female smiled apologetically and turned around without letting the blonde or the pinkette say anything.
"Hey Natsu," Lucy said.
And just like that, the girl was back."Natsu?"
"Ye-"
"As in like, the Natsu Dragneel?"
"Ye-"
"Like, Natsu Dragneel, only the most amazing writer of all time?" Hope was gleaming in the girl's eyes.
Natsu sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. It's one of those fans again. "Yep. That would be me."
"EEEEP! I can't believe it. I finally get to meet him." By now, the blue-haired girl was spinning around in circles, hyperventilating, attracting the attention of a few other customers in the cafe.
"Hey, shrimp. Would you keep it down?" a buff man with piercings on his face said.
"Shrimp? Who in their right mind called me a shrimp?" the girl barked. The only response she heard was a low Gihi.
"Anyway…" the petite girl snatched the book and said, "Would you pretty please sign this for me?" She was trying to put up her best puppy face. She'd been practicing this exact moment for a year now.
"Sure. Who should I make this out to?" Natsu dug in his pant pocket to retrieve a pen.
"Levy Mcgarden."
"And...done." Natsu finished signing his name in one fell swoop.
"Thank you so much!" The girl was bear hugging the book to her chest, as if someone was going to snatch it away, and started jumping up and down.
"Anytime." Natsu didn't think twice about his answer.
"Anytime? You're saying that we're going to meet again?"
Natsu and Lucy both groaned but it went unnoticed by Levy. Starting to notice the situation, she said a small goodbye and skipped to the door but not without yelling a, "This is not the end!"
"Finally," Lucy and Natsu both said at the same time.
"She was so bubbly, my head was starting to hurt." Natsu started to rub his temple.
"You must get a lot of fans now and then, right?" Lucy asked
"Yeah, that's why I try to keep my profile low. You know, with school starting and all?" the pinkette sighed.
Lucy decided that she didn't need to leave the book she was reading out and decided to put it away, directing her attention toward her… her date? No. Crush? No.
Natsu on the other hand was admiring Lucy's thinking face and how she would scrunch up her nose a little, thinking 'Cute,' when all of a sudden...
"That little-" Lucy began.
"What?! Did something happen?" Natsu began freaking out thinking that he somehow messed this meeting up already, knowing himself.
Only one word came out of Lucy's mouth."Levy."
"W-what ab-about her?" Natsu was a little afraid.
"You know the book she gave you to sign? Well, that was actually mine. When I was waiting for you to come, I was reading that book and that was the last copy in the store and-and." Lucy shed a single tear because she had lost her only copy of the book.
Natsu absolutely could not stand seeing any girl cry, and random stuff started coming out of his mouth. "Uh… I'll just give you the first copy. U-uh you know, the one I own for myself?" He didn't even realize what he just said. But seeing the reaction of happiness and the way her face lit up made it worth it somehow.
"Really?! You would do that for me?" Instantly, the tear disappeared and her facial expression changed in a split second.
Natsu, amazed by how the girl in front of him could change moods so fast just said,"S-sure." When he noticed how Lucy's eyes became bigger, if that was even possible, he laughed. "You look like a fish with your eyes bulging out. Weirdo."
"Hey! Don't call me that." Lucy puffed out her cheeks, only to resemble a fish even more.
"What. A fish?" Natsu asked.
"That too!" Lucy fumed, red tainting her cheeks.
The two of them started teasing one another, with Lucy throwing in something about Natsu's hair color to which Natsu immediately put his hand to his chest, faking being hurt. Natsu also noted something about Lucy's huge rack… and learned that that probably wasn't a very good idea… Let's just say one side of Natsu's face ended up red for an hour.
"Excuse me. Would you two like to order?" Mirajane Strauss finally came over after watching the two bicker like a married couple. She has put both of them as number one on her list of OTPs.
Lucy and Natsu turned their attention to the beautiful white hair woman with faces showing recognition.
Natsu pointed at the woman and said,"You're the person who bumped into me and told me to get a haircut not too long ago."
Lucy, looking at the said woman's lost expression just facepalmed. "No, you idiot. She's the one who wacked us on the head yesterday with the cafe menu."
Natsu just oh-ed. Lucy sighed. He's hopeless.
"I'm Mirajane Strauss, the person in charge of this cafe. But you can just call me Mira." Lucy couldn't help be feel a little jealous of Mira for looking like a model. "I'm here to take your order.
What can I get for you lovely couple today?"
Natsu and Lucy both stiffened and blushed hearing the term couple. As if Mira expected it, on cue, they both shouted simultaneously, "We're not a couple!" Mirajane stood there laughing at the cute couple.
"I would like to order a strawberry crepe and a vanilla milkshake," Lucy said.
Mira nodded while scribbling down the order on a notepad.
"I would like to order a nutella crepe, chocolate croissant, fried chicken wings…
5 minutes later
and a cookies n' cream milkshake."
Lucy stood there, jaw almost touching the floor at everything Natsu just ordered.
Mira looked like her hand was about to fall off, and Lucy noticed a bead of sweat trickling down the side of her forehead.
"Would that...pant… be all for you?" Mira was out of breath trying to keep up with Natsu.
"Wait!"
What do you mean 'wait?' You can't get anything else! You practically ordered the whole menu. Lucy thought.
"Do you have any extra hot sauce?" Natsu asked hopefully.
"Yes we do." Mira said. Lucy could hear her mutter the lines of "well not after today, we won't" and started to giggle.
"Great! Give me all the hot sauce you have!" And with that, Natsu closed the menu and took Lucy's too, to hand over to Mira.
"Hey, what's so funny?" Natsu wondered why Lucy was smiling to herself.
"Oh Nothing. It's just who eats hot sauce with everything. Let alone, who eats everything?!"
Natsu took that as a compliment and puffed his chest out a little bit like a superhero.
"How come you didn't hold back on ordering food like you did yesterday?" Lucy was curious.
"Well, I was a little bit nervous. And like, I really really really wanted to be your friend and was kind of worried that I would weird you out in my own way." Natsu scratched the back of his head, looking anywhere but at the blonde wth a blush coating its way onto his cheeks.
"I would never! You're one of the sweetest guys I've ever met. Wayyy better than… Sting."
Natsu felt a strange squeeze in his stomach at the mention of Lucy's ex, but didn't pay any attention to it. Probably just hungry. Yeah. That's got to be it. And, who would be so stupid to hurt Lucy like that? That Sting guy is really stupid to give up someone as good as Lucy
"Natsu? Hello?" Natsu was snapped out of his thoughts as Lucy started to wave her hand up and down in front of his face.
"Did I say something wrong?" Lucy started to frown.
"What? No, why?" Natsu realized Lucy's sad expression.
"Because you seem to be angry, and your knuckles are turning white from gripping the table," Lucy said, concerned.
"What?" Natsu looked down to see that his hands were indeed death-gripping the table. "Oh. It's nothing." Natsu turned his attention back towards Lucy and smiled.
"Alright. If you say so. Just know that I'll be here if you need someone to talk to." Lucy smiled brightly.
Natsu immediately calmed down and thanked the gods for creating an angel.
After Natsu and Lucy finished eating, they split the bill. Like hell Lucy was going to pay for that idiot's food. Lucy thought Natsu would add least take home a bunch of leftovers, but she was dead wrong. On their way out, they said their byes to Mira and Lucy apologized to Mira that she had to deal with Natsu.
Natsu walked out first and held the door for Lucy and teased her by saying, "Here you go, m'lady."
Lucy giggled and curtsied, "Why thank you, fine sir." Natsu held out his arm signaling for Lucy to link her arms with him, and she did. They two never seemed to have any awkward moments and chatted away, the other walkers looking weirdly at the two and loudly grinning fools.
I could get used to this. They both had the same thought.
Not wanting to head back to their apartments, they both agreed to take a stroll in the park. It wasn't until night when Lucy shivered. Natsu noticed and wrapped his arms around her shoulders, squeezing Lucy tightly to his side.
"How are you not cold?" Lucy whined and then sniffed.
"Don't you mean, why am I so hot?" Natsu joked.
Lucy rolled her eyes and smacked Natsu's chest playfully. Wow, does this guy work out a lot?
"Geez. I know I'm sexy and all, but you could at least pretend to not stare at my muscles like that." As if to add emphasis, Natsu temporarily let go of Lucy to stretch, flexing his muscles while Lucy stared, bewildered. Natsu chuckled and put his arm back around Lucy, her face being scarlet at the time.
"I was NOT ogling you." Lucy scoffed and turned away, pouting.
"Sure you weren't." Natsu didn't mind when Lucy looked at him like that. In fact, he liked it.
The two continued to walk and eventually it got pretty late. Lucy did her best to stifle a yawn, knowing exactly why she didn't get that much sleep yesterday. But, she couldn't hold it anymore and eventually gave in. Natsu took notice of how Lucy looked like a baby bear when she yawned and laughed a little.
"What's so funny?" Lucy asked.
"Nothing. You're just a weirdo." Natsu responded.
"Hey! I told you to stop calling me that." Lucy flushed.
"What are you going to do about it?" Natsu stuck his tongue at her.
"You know, for a college student, you sure act like a 5 year old." Lucy said.
Natsu could not find anything to counter that, so he just suggested that they end the night here since it was getting pretty late. The two started to head back to their apartment.
"Wait, are you walking me home, again?" Lucy asked, surprised at just how sweet this guy could be.
"Yes, and no. You see…" Natsu was debating whether to tell her that he lived right next door to her.
"Yes?" Lucy asked as they neared the apartment complex.
"You know how someone new moved in next door recently?" Natsu was hoping that she got the hint.
"Yes. So?" Lucy was lost. By now they were right in front of her door.
"That new person is actually me!" Natsu smirked, unlocked his door, and rushed inside his apartment room without saying good bye.
"Wait Natsu! Why didn't you tell me before! You know, I actually thought you were some creeper stalker when you walked me home yesterday after we just met!" Lucy was banging on the door.
"You're close, but not quite. I actually burned down my other apartment," Natsu said while putting some fish into Happy's bowl.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN-!"
"Would you keep it down out there?" shouted no one in particular.
Lucy squeaked and muttered a quick sorry before deciding to head into her room. What have I gotten myself into? Althought, Lucy knew she would probably be forced out of her boundaries hanging out with Natsu, she can't help but look forward to it. She went to sleep without thinking of anything romantic she did with Natsu, just how excited she is for the rest of the summer.