Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
Warning: This chapter contains a lot of lemonz. If you don't like it, then please, skip.
Chapter 3 : Lemons
It was Saturday morning, pretty early actually, because the sun was only rising from the horizon. The sky was pink, like Natsu's hair, Lucy thought. The birds were flying, like Natsu's hair, she thought. The cars were driving fast, like Natsu's hair, she thought. Lately, she's been thinking a lot.
''Okay! I've got work to do!'' said Lucy to no one.
She lived by herself, in a small flat in suburbs. Compared, to her previous mansions, it was nothing, but it was her own and she paid for it with her own money. She was working on weekend and on Wednesdays. Saturday mornings, she was selling home-made food. In the afternoons she was babysitting. On Sundays she worked in a restaurant, in a neighbouring city. On Wednesdays she was giving tutoring lessons, because she was in fact, very smart.
Lucy jumped over to her fridge to get out all the ingredients, she needed for today's home-made food sale. She took out two lemons, one in each hand. She had two hands. She was a normal girl.
At that moment Natsu came in through the window (After all he was rebellious). He looked at Lucy holding them lemons, really tight now, because she was surprised. He really is as fast as them cars, she thought.
''Whoa, these are some BIG lemons you got there, Luigi'' he said disturbed, ''are they even real?''
''Of-of course they are, I'm against GMO*'' Lucy replied, pointing to the wall, which had shit load of campaign posters, each from either Greenpeace** or GMO organisations ''and my name is LUCY, LUCY HEARTFILIA''
''Why are you holding them?'' asked confused Natsu, ignoring her rant.
''I'm making lemonade''
''Why?''
''To sell it''
''To who?''
''My customers''
''Oh, I thought that we could hang out or something''
''Well, if you want to, you can help me, but I'm not sharing money, you can like taste some of my lemonade, but that's it, I'm not that easy''
''suuuure'' he replied distressed. He sad. Dad. Mad. Lad. Cat. Happy. Where happy? Not here? oh. Okay. Lol. Yolo. Swag swag swag. Natsu's mind was crazy indeed.
He took Lucy's lemons in his hands. When he was the one to hold them, they didn't seem as big as in her small hands. There was a moment of silence as they stood so close, staring at each other.
''Well, what am I supposed to do with those?'' asked Natsu.
''Uhm, I never made lemonade, today will be my first time'' she replied blushing.
''You're pretty unexperienced. Luckily, I made lemonade in seventh grade with Lisanna'' he said proudly.
''Who the fuck-''
''Oi, language, Heartfilia'' warned Natsu. He didn't want to recall Lisanna; it would only bring him down.
Right, lemonade.
They put them lemons in the blender. Lucy insisted on peeling them first, but Natsu refused to do so, saying ''I know my shit, stay out of this, woman, it's between me and this blender''.
He stood in front of blender, took a combat position, shouted ''FIRE DRAGON'S FIST'' and pressed 'on' button gently. Lucy was (sweating) wet. That was very intense.
Five minutes passed with both of them looking at the blender blending lemons.
''Natsu… I think that's enough, it looks finished''
''I will tell you when it's finished'' he replied archly.
She didn't dare to question him. This was a new experience for her.
After another fifteen minutes, Natsu finally pressed 'off', looked at the contents of the blender and grinned at Lucy ''NOW it's REAL smoooooooth, look at it and feel it''
Lucy walked closer to Natsu holding the blender. She didn't look at the machine though; she stared at Natsu from up close. He had wild, jungle green eyes, full of excitement.
''I think we should add water and some ice to it, although I hate the idea of ice, that bastard talks about getting this stupid ice machine all the time, yelling ICE MAKER or whatever, he's really pissing me off'' concluded Natsu, turning his face to Lucy, who was still staring at him. Now their faces were only few millimetres away (or metres, Lucy wasn't good with measurements. Even though she was smart, she had her weaknesses).
''I think we should mix the water and lemons manually. This blender is not compatible to fit that much in, unlike us'' he smirked seductively (wink wink).
''I'll do it, it's MY lemonade after all'' declared Lucy, not noticing his sly joke.
She found a huge bowl and poured blended lemons and water in it. After ten minutes of mixing she added ice and announced that it's ready to sell.
They both went outside and sat on the pavement, waiting for clients (just like prostitutes at night).
A tall man wearing black trench coat, with moustache and sombrero embraced them, gave them one fat envelope without a word, took all of their lemonade and ran away into the sunshine.
''Damn, that was quick !'' cheered Natsu.
'' Huh ? it happens every Saturday morning'' Replied Lucy, ''Well, I guess I have few hours left before my next job, so… we can hang out, if you want to''
He did want to.
*GMO- A genetically modified organism is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
**Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues.
