3rd Person's POV

Saturday, 10:30 am, Location: Magnolia Suburbs - Natsu's home

"Oh Lucy, what's up? What are you doing here?" Natsu asked as he opened the front door to his home.

"Just visiting. Wanted to give you some company." Lucy stepped past Natsu in her pink trench coat. She looked back at the pinkette who was only wearing a towel around his waist.

"Company? But I've got Happy, so I'm good." His pet cat Happy purred as the small mammal rested itself on Natsu's couch.

"Also I don't have any food for you so you can stop where you are." Natsu said as the blonde was making her way to his kitchen.

"Tch. You don't deserve my warm company then if you have no food here." Lucy looked back with disappointment.

"Don't be so angry Lucy, I got canned tuna in the fridge." Natsu waved his hand back and forth.

"I'M NOT YOUR PET, HAPPY, YOU KNOW!!" She shouted in response.

"Hehe." Natsu chuckled.

"What's with the towel?" Lucy sat down on the couch and pointed at Natsu's flame patterned towel.

"Oh. I just got done doing some things." Natsu looked down at his towel then back up at Lucy - quickly.

"Bathing?" Lucy raised a brow.

"Yeah... YEAH! That's it! I was in the shower." Natsu pointed at her.

"But your knees are ashy, so you couldn't have just jumped out of the shower." Lucy grew more suspicious.

"Ugh..." Natsu was dumbfounded, he couldn't believe that he went for that option rather than coming up with something else.

"Have you been doing it again?" Lucy squinted her eyes at the pinkette.

"Doing what?" Natsu looked away from her glaring eyes.

"I knew it." She folded her arms, followed by a pout. "Who is she this time?"

"..." Natsu had his hands behind his head. He looked away from her once again and pouted. "And why are you so worked up about it?"

"I'm not! I just want to see who my best friend is hitting up this time." Lucy crossed her legs as she petted Happy who was purring in his sleep.

"No one special, just Evergreen..." Natsu plopped himself down right beside Lucy.

"Evergreen?! But doesn't one of your guy friends really like her?" Lucy gasped.

"Yeah, big ol' Elfman likes Evergreen and I mean, really, really likes her. Haha." Natsu smiled with a toothy grin.

"All the better reason. You shouldn't have hit on her when Elfman wanted her." Lucy lightly tapped Natsu's head.

"You snooze, you lose. He shouldn't have been so carefree about it. That Evergreen has a plump butt, so of course, I couldn't resist" Natsu continued to smile.

"Pervert." Lucy muttered.

"I heard that." Natsu lightly flicked Lucy's forehead.

Lucy put her hands to her forehead and pouted at Natsu. "Jerk."

They remained quiet as they heard light high heel steps coming down the stairs.

Natsu and Lucy flicked their heads to the right and saw Evergreen with her handbag and coat that was draped over her forearm. She walked from the stairs, behind the couch and snaked her arms around Natsu's neck.

She kissed Natsu on the neck and nibbled on his flesh for a bit.

"I really enjoyed last night, such amazing technique you have Nats... oh silly me, Daddy Dragneel." Evergreen fixed her glasses and opened the front door. "Call me when you want some more fun."

The front door closed shut and the light high heeled steps could be heard in the distance before the sound could no longer reach their ears.

"Bet you $5 you won't call her ever again." Lucy sat back comfortably on the couch.

"Yep." Natsu grabbed his wallet off the coffee table beside him and handed Lucy a $5 note.

Lucy took the note and put it in her coat pocket.

Natsu took a cigarette from the table and lit it. He raised it to his lips and inhaled deeply. Then exhaled.

"Fuck man. I needed that." Natsu relaxed as he put the cigarette to his lips once more to hold it there. He grabbed the remote and turned on the television. "Messing with all these girls who have nothing good about them is getting annoying."

"None of them have matched your requirements yet?" Lucy asked as she rubbed her head. It may have been a light flick but the pain still hurts.

"Nope. Just a bunch of girls that only care about sex. I thought the girls at the tavern would be girlfriend material but all they do once they get invited to my home is open up their legs and then it kicks off from there." Natsu took another puff from his cigarette.

"Keep your head up Natsu. You'll find the right one some day." Lucy looked down at her trench coat and unbuckled the belt. She clutched onto it. "Speaking of which... what is your special requirement again?"

"Beautiful body, beautiful personality, likes games, like tv, likes long walks on the beach, likes manga. That's pretty much it, haven't found anything else to add to that." Natsu said as he continued to flick through the channels.

"Okay." Lucy stood up from the couch. She stood in front of Natsu who was slouching on the couch at this point. "Prepare to be amazed."

"Hmm." Natsu looked up at her, unbothered.

"I'M EVERYTHING YOU'VE BEEN HOPING FOR!" Lucy pulled off her trench coat to reveal her naked body that was glistening like she had just rubbed some baby oil on before coming over to Natsu's home.

Natsu looked up at Lucy with a straight face, just before straightening himself up and leaning his face on his fist that was resting on the arm rest. This made him able to see from the side and continue flicking the channels.

"Oh. You wanna be a nude model, you got the body for it so go ahead." Natsu commented as he continued to flick the channels.

"Gah." Lucy's jaw dropped. She threw her trench coat to the floor and posed in front of Natsu.

She decided to try again.

"Oh Natsu~! I've been a naughty girl, come and teach me a lesson~." She blew a kiss at him.

"You wanna be a nude drama actor? That's cool, go for it!" Natsu continued to flick the channels.

"You can't be serious!!!" Lucy said surprised.

She went over and sat on Natsu's lap, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him into her chest.

"His warm breath is making my heart beat so fast." Lucy thought happily to herself.

"Your boobs have gotten bigger, but the last thing I want on my gravestone is that I suffocated because my bestfriend pressed her boobs on my face. Get off." Natsu said with a muffled tone as he pushed Lucy off him lightly.

Lucy rubbed her butt as she went for her trench coat again.

"That's kinda ballsy what you did there Luce. A trench coat with nothing under, didn't you get scared that the flap at the back would've moved away for other guys to see your butt?" Natsu put out his cigarette.

"N-N-N-No! I-I-I just forgot to bring my clothes that's all..." Lucy stuttered as she fiddled around with the belt.

"And who forgets to bring their clothes out in this day and age?" Natsu laughed.

"..." Lucy scrunched up her face as little tears appeared in her eyes. "Stop laughing! It took me a long time to agree to doing this."

"Agree to what? Did the girls at the tavern dare you to do something stupid again?" Natsu calmed down from his high laughter.

Lucy's face scrunched up as the little bit of pride she had was hurt. She buckled up her belt and looked up at the pinkette once more, with a nice bright smile on her face.

"Yeah! It was a dare that the girls dared me to do, so now I'm going to go back there and wring Cana's neck. Haha! See you there Natsu." Lucy ran to the door and opened it.

She looked back at Natsu who gave her a toothy grin as she made her way out.

"Lucy is pursuing new things, right Happy?" Natsu turned to his blue cat who purred in response.

"Hmm. Aye to that one Sir. I should tel her that the whole nude things isn't such a good idea though." Natsu looked at his door as he went to lock it.

Once doing so, he stretched.

"Alright! Come to the kitchen Happy, so I can serve you your tuna, I'm going to the tavern today to hang out with the guys, so don't go running out the window looking for me." Natsu marched over to the kitchen.

Saturday, 10:50 am, Location: Magnolia Surburbs - Lucy's Home (10 minutes from Natsu's)

Lucy entered her apartment as she dropped her keys on the mantlepiece.

She went to her fridge, pulled out a tub of strawberry ice cream and went to her room.

She took off her trench coat and threw on her blue PJ's.

"All of that for what?!" She muttered to herself.

She put on her red glasses and grabbed the tub of ice cream and dug her spoon into it as she took big scoops from it.

She grabbed the remote and turned on the tv.

The TV instantly changed to Netflix as it was the last thing Lucy was watching. The recent show that she was watching came up.

She was up to the part where the antisocial girl had finally kissed the boyfriend that she had always wanted.

Tears dropped from Lucy's eyes.

"It's about time! I've waited 4 seasons for this moment. Nice one, Gretchen!" Lucy cheered as the credits rolled on the screen.

Her face showed no signs of happiness, just more tears.

She was supposed to be happy, so why wasn't she?

"It didn't work, it didn't work, it didn't work, it didn't work, it didn't work." Lucy said in her head.

"I've tried and tried and tried and tried. And still..." She held on tightly to the spoon.

Across her room, laid papers that had the title, failed attempts.

150 attempts counting.

Attempts where she had tried to win the pinkette's attention and heart.

Tears began to flow out of her eyes once more. "Still... he never looked my way..." Tears dropped on her lap.

"... just like he always does." Lucy mumbled.

-To Be Continued