_ Chapter 3: Happy? Deserve? _
"What's a deal bunny girl?"
Before Lucy could even direct herself to the curious voice. A bolt of blue bounced on her, covering her sight of vision. Lucy's back hit all the way down to the chair, as slim arms sneaked around her waist. Bewildered for a split second, she looked down at her chest seeing a bluenette hiding in between her breast.
"L-Levy, you are back" Lucy voiced tremble as the heat of her neck raced to her cheeks.
The petite glazed up calling out. "LUUUU, you are so pretty!" The words came out as a purr. Then an aroma hit Lucy, the intoxicated smell of alcohol over powered her nose. So, she's drunk! She thought.
The glee of a devilish snort came out of Gajeel as he witnesses his girlfriend drunk behavior. A compose young lady acting rambunctious and childish, was a sight to behold. Levy was wailing her arms around screaming over to waiters and shrieking at the fact there were "flying colors everywhere" as she would put it. While his blonde friend was supporting Levy from falling back to the ground.
Lucy's eyes sharping to the raven "What did you do Levy?" she commanded.
"Gihee, shrimp can't handle her alcohol" Gajeel teased as his hand sank inside his pockets. As they continue to discuss on the blunettes condition. A split sharp pain rang into blonde's ear. "WAAAH! LUCYY, COTTON CANDY LEFT"
"Huh?, cotton… candy?" Was she that out of it that she was imagining candy in the club? No that couldn't be, she's drunk, not delusional. What was she talking about? Then, a flash of pink came in to her mind. NATSU!
She completely forgot about him. Lucy turned to where he was sitting at and just as Levy said, he was gone.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Pay up, Gray!" Natsu strut over to the bar, his lips were curled up with the confident on his completed dare.
"Tch, don't be so cocky, I'm pretty sure something was wrong with her to talk to you for so long" The white skin raven reached over his wallet laying down 30 dollars on the table. The pink hair grabbed the reward, pumping his fist up in the air overflowing with triumphed. He peered over to his friend, a woman with long scarlet hair. She was sitting on the bar table shaking her head at the sight of her friend's game.
" I can't believe you guys bet, if the girl would dance with Natsu."
"I knew she would, Erza" He showed off his canine smile. Heck one way or another he was going to win this bet. Last time, Natsu lost 60 dollars on Gray dressing up as a girl and taking Lyon on a blind date with Gray. Yeah, Gray pulled through and Lyon came back that night to punch Natsu on the face.
" I swear, she was going to leave you. Seeing someone ugly like you" the raven was carefully examining a glass cup when a BANG was heard. The hit cause a tremble to the align cups on the table to fall.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY ICE PRINCESS" Natsu's nostrils were flaring. His hands closed into fists and his torso leaned over the bar, challenging him to repeat once again.
"WHAT? YOU CAN'T HEAR NOW, FLAME BREATH?" Gray gripped tightly at the neck of the bottle that he had in front of him, ready to launch if he threw a punch.
Before any of them could start a brawl, a firm pulled from Natsu's back collar caused his butt to kiss the ground. The pure shock of the contact got him gawking up to the tall red head. At the same moment, Gray was being hit in the back of the head.
"Stop it you two! Another 2 bottles break and I will break both of your heads" her face was stern as in her voice. Nothing was more scary than an angry Erza.
"AYE!" they both exclaimed.
Natsu heard a loud chuckling coming from the far end of the bar table. He turned to see a spiky blonde taking a shot, eyes finally locking on him. Natsu studied him, he looked very familiar but wasn't sure where he saw him. The man got up thanking the bartender across from him. He paced close to the group making a small stop to adjust his arms around Yukino's waist.
"Come on Yukino, I bet Lucy and the others are waiting" flashing a grin to the boy sitting on the floor as he strolled away.
"Lucy? Isn't that the name of the girl you were talking to?" Gray asked as his eyes followed the blonde to the table.
" He kept looking over at Natsu direction when they were alone" The white hair bartender named Mira came over to Natsu lending him a hand to stand up.
"Craaaap" he groaned sliding his fingers across his hair. He won the bet which was now a bonus to his wallet but he really did enjoy the girl's company.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Where is everyone else?" Lucy asked.
Levy took a sit next to Lucy, as Gajeel leaned back to the chair across from her.
"Droy and Jet were failing badly at picking up girls. So Hibikki, Rogue and Virgo went to show them how it was done, gihee"
"V-virgo?" Lucy's eyes widen. Virgo was known to be quirky and usually to be the one getting asked out but never on the other end.
"Yeah, you should have seen it, it was priceless. The crazy purple head got more number than Hibikki." He laughed at the rerun of all the numbers she was getting. What was great about that story it wasn't only guys she was getting but the gals too.
Levy lean in whispering. "He was kind of cute Lu"
"Levyy shush" Lucy knew exactly who she was talking about.
"You are back Sting" Gajeel spoke up as the couple sat down, stopping the conversation between the girls. Lucy stomach sank as her whole body stiffing up. I forgot they were here still.
She couldn't face him; she didn't want to see him. Talking to Natsu made her forgot momentarily but reality was that Sting was still around.
"LUCYYY, he was soo cute! Call him ooverrr" the petite slouch over the table pouting.
"What happened? What Happened!" she jumped on her sit.
"We just talked cause I looked … weird.. dancing by myself…" she sighed.
"So he used that approach, huh, hmm." Sting spoke up causing everyone to focusing on him. "But you should call him over, you were having fun right?"he raised an eyebrow at her.
Lucy quickly turned to face him. Her eyes meet his calm blue ones with a small smile spread across his face. How easy and reasonable that question sounded. She did have fun with her new friend but what difference would it make? A heavy weight sank in her chest as she broke the eye contact. Is that how he did? she wondered. Is that how he met Yukino?
"I guess so" She mumbled.
"Lucy you deserve to be happy, you know" he smiled.
His words echoed in her mind. Happy? Her body shivered at the word. DESERVE? She turned back around hiding her hands under the table. Her knuckles were white from the fist she formed. She couldn't process all of this, her eyes were glued to the table. Right now, she wanted to scream what an idiot he was. Just a few days ago they were together and now… he was encouraging her to go out. Like nothing mattered. She wanted to scream on the top of her lungs… Breath in. Breath out, she told herself.
She lifted her head up, lips curled up softly looking directly to him.
"You know, All I want is what I believe will make me happy, only me" she spoke, saying this to the man she was in love with but in reality those words were for her.
Somehow as simple as this sounded, it was her declaration to the storm in her heart, not for him.
A howl announcement roared in breaking the atmosphere.
''SPECIAL ORDER FOR TABLE 2"
Then to everyone's amazement tall beautiful red head women came in with a line of 2 waiters with piles of food. One with long white hair danced towards Levy placing 2 bottles of wine in front. " We heard you loud and clear for your order" she winked. " THANK YOU" levy cheered hugging on the drinks.
Astonished at the chaos of the three waiters were adding on the table. Lucy was sure this time she didn't order anything "B-But, we-"
" A full plate of steak, spaghetti and wings" the dark hair man laid all the plates in front of them and then a small delicate fudge cake in front of Lucy "And a chocolate lava cake for the beautiful girl" he smiled. Lucy tried to thank him but stutter in the words. This was completely insane. The red head beauty pulled out a microphone and stared at the group intensively.
"Now for a special occasion, we heard there was a wonderful talent among you guys" she pointed out to Gajeel who all ready had his face stuffed in with steak. "You!"
"Sir, can we get you to come up and sing for us?" The two waiters stood next to her, clapping their hands for encouragement, chanting sing sing.
Without a hesitation, he stood up "I'm going to rock your world"
In the mist of distracting with Gajeel as he "warmed up" with the sounds of weird gargling. Lucy felt a warm hand on her wrist pulling her off the chair. Lucy quickly turned her head to meet two onyx eyes inches away from her face. She noticed strands of pink hair. "Natsu?"
He placed a finger on his lips. "Sssh, believe me you don't want to hear him. Let's go"
Usually Lucy wouldn't leave her friends alone but seeing his boyish grin inviting her out, wherever it is he was taking her she wanted to go.