boy·friend
/ˈboiˌfrend/
noun
noun: boyfriend;
1.
a regular male companion with whom one has a romantic or sexual relationship.
Origins: "woman's paramour," from boy + friend (n.).
Lucy has made a few friends since she ran away. Girls that help her to pick out the short skirts and cleavage bearing tops that once upon a time she was forbidden to wear, who help her style her hair in the latest fashions and to bat her eyelashes just so to get whatever she wants. Girls who chitter and chatter about the cute boys in town and who they wish would be their boyfriends. Lucy joins in with gusto: she LOVES cute boys. She is also a quick study – in no time at all Lucy has half the boys drooling after her hot body. Lucy just loves it when cute boys love her too.
The girls are surprised when they hear Lucy has never had a real boyfriend (she conveniently leaves out the bit about the potential husband: she never asked for him anyways.). Lucy likes the idea of having a boyfriend, someone to buy her things and fawn over her beauty. Sometimes she tears out pictures from Weekly Sorcerer Magazine for her boyfriend book – Siegrain on the Magic Council is particularly dreamy. She imagines what life might be like as his girlfriend: modeling shoots and fast lacrima-cars and fun parties. But the boys in town always complain on dates that she plans on leaving.
It's fun to play at being a normal girl, but Lucy longs for adventure, to find more keys and maybe to even one day join the guild that seems like it has so much fun, Fairy Tail. She promises to stay in touch and moves to the next town.
Lucy still thinks it would be nice to have a boyfriend, if she had the time. Meanwhile, she hones the Lucy-kick on those who get a bit too fresh with her (just because she is sexy does not mean perverts have an all access pass), looks for keys and cuts out pictures of cute mages for her boyfriend book. Maybe, she thinks, she likes the idea of having a boyfriend more than she wants the real thing. Maybe a companion for an adventure might just be enough - it would be so much fun to join a guild and get better at magic.
The boyfriends could wait until she joined a place like Fairytail
... However, the boys should still want to be her boyfriend. It's not like she can't get a boyfriend, okay?! It's just that Lucy is currently, just for this little moment, waiting for her and Siegrain's (or other suitably magical boyfriend candidate) perfect meeting... But after she joins Fairy Tail, of course.
Notes: Do not own Fairy Tail. Did you catch the FT fun facts? All definitions / etymology may be slightly modified, and comes from the online dictionary and the online dictionary of etymology.