Summary: "I paid and now I think I deserve my kiss. I'm the one who is following the rules. It is you who has to meet the end of the bargain." He said, his warm breath fanning over her face as he spoke, thumbs rubbing circles on the exposed skin that made Lucy suck in her breath. "I am going to kiss you now." He announced, brushing his lips temptingly over Lucy's.

Rating: T

Note: I am so sorry for the wait everyone. But I'm back! I now volunteer at a Humane Society, but I'm not very busy so I have more time to write. I got a lot of closure after my aunt passed away, and I'm a bit better. Still working on Senior Project (can you believe I'm graduating next year? I remember when I was about 10-11 on this site, it's almost been 7 years!) Anyway I'm gonna be focusing on writing. Can you also believe I'm working to make a YouTube Channel? I love you all!


"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work."

—Neil Armstrong

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Kissing Booth

Chapter 3: Dunks and Prizes

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"Allow me to make it up to you...Luigi." He murmured on her lips.

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Luigi?

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Lucy opened her caramel eyes widely, realizing that she was once again kissing him. Lucy quickly pulled away, glaring at Natsu.

Natsu groaned from the loss of her lips on his, "Luigi..."

"I don't know what girl you're imagining of buddy, but my name is not Luigi." Lucy snapped, furious that he would call her a name that was clearly not her own.

Natsu stared blankly at her, before he slowly and quietly said, "...wait, so your name is not Luigi?"

"No!" She yelled, "What gave you the impression that my name is Luigi?!"

"I dunno, maybe because your friend called you Luigi!"

"No, no one calls me Luigi!"

"WELL SHE DID!"

"NO SHE DIDN'T!"

"YES!"

"MY NAME IS LUCY! L-U-C-Y, LUCY!"

"I KNOW THAT NOW!"

"I DUNNO MAYBE YOUR HEARING PROBLEMS ACTIVATED ON YOU!"

"I DON'T HAVE HEARING PROBLEMS!"

"OF COURSE YOU DON'T!" She yelled sarcastically, "YOU JUST HAVE LISTENING PROBLEMS!"

Their mouths both snapped into a frown—glaring daggers at each other. The silent pause only lasted for a few seconds, before Lucy huffed. "I can't believe you seriously thought my name was Luigi."

Natsu crossed his arms and adverted his gaze—mumbling something under his breath so the blonde couldn't hear.

"What did you say?" She asked threateningly but also out of curiosity.

"Nothing!" The pink-haired teen said quickly.

Lucy rolled her eyes, "Well you wasted enough of my time, I'm heading back to the booth." As the words left her mouth, she turned on her heels, about to make her way towards the crowd—hoping to get lost from her friends and the asshole behind her. Who am I kidding, I really don't want to go back to Mira's torture chamber.

Warmness surrounded her wrist, and soon Lucy was gently pulled back. "Don't go." He whined.

Lucy swallowed, completely under the spell of his puppy dog look.

"O-ok."

Damn those green eyes!

"What do you want to do?" she asked.

Natsu placed his hand on his chin—thinking. "We still have a couple of hours before the fair ends," he said, "let's go play some games!" He said cheerfully.

"Yeah, sounds fun!" Lucy said, perking up a bit. Natsu laughed grabbing her hand before he dragged her around the fair, weaving through the crowd. Lucy ignored how weirdly nice the boy's calloused hand was. It was rough but warm. Very, very, warm.

Natsu came to a stop. Still not letting go of Luigi's hand, he looked around the area to find some interesting games. Green eyes locked onto the ring toss. Natsu turned his head to see if she wanted to play that, "Hey, Luigi how about—" his voice trailed off, noticing that the blonde wasn't even paying attention to him, because if she was paying attention to him, he was sure that she would yell at him for calling her Luigi again.

But no.

Her eyes were set on the dunk tank, watching the varsity football team taunt the crowd.

"Hey."

Lucy looked away and caught herself in the gaze of Natsu and his green eyes. A large grin broke out on his face, "Come on." He said, pulling her closer.

"Where are we going?" She asked, even though she had a feeling where he was taking her.

"To the dunk tank, duh." Natsu said, confirming the feeling she had. The dunk tank was by far the coolest thing at the fair to her. It also was one of their biggest sources of income. Like come on, who would want to turn down knocking those idiotic jocks into freezing cold water?

There wasn't really a long line, in fact there was only about five people in front of them. The rest of the people had crowded around, hoping to see someone get dunked. According to the person in front of Lucy and Natsu, no one had been dunked yet.

That was sure as hell going to change.

Lucy got anxious, the people in line either missed tremendously, or barely missed the mark. It wasn't long before they were next to go.

"Come on, I'm tired of all of you missing!" The blonde sitting on the small board roared. "All of you suck!"

His eyes caught onto Natsu, "Look who it is, it's the pyro!" He laughed loudly.

Natsu rolled his eyes, "Nice to see you too, asshole."

"Here to try and dunk me?" He taunted, "Don't even waste my time, you'll just be wasting your money." He finished with a smirk.

Lucy bit her tongue—refusing to state that, that was the whole reason of all the games here, especially the dunk tank— was to have people waste their money so the school could be able to cover other expenses when it came to the sports teams and other clubs.

Then the blonde boy noticed Lucy, a flirtatious grin setting on his lips that made the girl feel uncomfortable. "Are you here to watch this sissy humiliate himself?" He asked, "How about when I'm done here you and I go get some food?"

Natsu opened his mouth to object.

One of the boys laughed, "Good luck, Sting, she's hard to catch."

So his name is Sting.

Well Sting didn't seem to care what the boys were telling him. "She just needs a real man." He said, blue eyes locking onto Natsu. Natsu growled, reaching in his pocket to find a few bucks, because believe him, he was going to knock Sting into the water repeatedly until he ran out of cash. How dare he call him a sissy. Oh, he was going to—

"Actually," Lucy cleared her throat, "I'm here to give it a try." Natsu paused.

Sting stopped, but then started laughing along with the guys. "Oh that was a good one." The blonde said wiping a tear from his eye.

"Are you done?" Lucy questioned, irritated.

Sting grinned, "Oh so you were serious." He hummed, "Let's make this more interesting. If you miss, I get to take you out on a date."

Natsu wanted to protest.

Lucy arched a brow, "And if I win?"

"Anything you want." On the inside, Lucy shuddered on how flirtatious that sounded. But instead she shrugged—

"Fine." She dug in her pocket and pulled out a small sum of money. The game was five dollars, so she handed the money to one of the boys who had laughed at her. "Here you go." The boy grinned, handing her one ball.

"Luce, are you sure about this?" Natsu asked, eyes still glaring daggers at Sting who continued to shout insults at the crowd.

"Yes." Lucy said confidently, tossing the ball and catching it a few times. It's been a while since she's had a baseball in her hands. "Now stand back." Natsu did what she asked, and stepped to the side along with the crowd to give her some space.

The crowd got bigger as Sting had shouted that a girl had decided to try and take him down, something that no one has been able to do for the whole day. A girl.

"Don't forget to wear something pretty on our date!"

Lucy took her stance far from the white line that the boys had messily drawn to keep anyone from having an unfair advantage. Lucy kept her right leg planted behind her, as she slightly turned her body to the side.

"Careful not to break a fingernail!" He broke out in laughter.

Lucy gritted her teeth together, loving nothing more but to punch him straight in the face—but for now, embarrassing him in front of everyone will have to do.

The ball was held tightly in her left hand, her right hand blocking it from the view. "HEY BABE—"

It was just like that.

Natsu didn't blink, because if he did he swore he would have missed the ball fly out of Lucy's hand. But he did miss the smirk she possessed when she released the ball.

Gotcha.

It happened that fast.

It happened so fast, Natsu was sure, a couple of people had missed it until the obvious happened.

Her right leg went up, her arm moved, and all of a sudden the ball had left her fingers and flew in the air at intense speed away from the target. Natsu thought Lucy had missed her target completely, but near the end, the ball curved towards the target in a direct line. It could have been his eyes playing tricks on him, but he could have sworn the ball pressed itself precisely against the small red circle that was surrounded by larger black circles.

The board flattened down in an angle and Sting slipped off it and fell into the deep, ice cold water. The bell rang, and the crowd cheered. Sting's head popped up, and he spit out the water from his mouth.

"Not bad for a girl, right?" Lucy said mockingly. She swear his face turned red in embarrassment. Sting didn't say anything. She walked away from the tank.

Natsu turned to follow her, but then his ears perked at the voice of Sting.

"She's so hot." He declared, "I'm going to date her."

For some reason that made Natsu's blood boil. He waited until Sting sat back on the board, and then he shoved a five at one guy's face and snatched the ball from the table. Natsu went back behind the white line, and threw the ball as hard and fast as he could. It wasn't as cool as Lucy's throw, but it was extremely fast. The ball hit the red circle and Sting went down again.

The crowd cheered and Natsu went towards Lucy who watched with wide eyes. He grabbed her hand and pulled her away from the dunk tank, the tips of his ears slightly red, but he felt better taking out his anger on Sting.


"So where'd you learn to throw like that?" Natsu asked aiming the rotating squirt gun in the clown's mouth. He watched as the balloon on the top of his clown started to fill up.

Lucy focused on her clown, "I was a pitcher for a selected fast pitch team."

"Was?" He asked.

"Was." Lucy confirmed. He didn't press.

Natsu's balloon popped a second before the other guy's who sat next to Lucy.

The bell rang and the operator, a parent who was a part of the volunteer program shouted. "We have a winner! Congratulations, sir! Which prize do you want?" he asked.

Natsu stared up at all the prizes, debating on which one he wanted. "Hey, Luce. Which one looks cooler?" He wanted her opinion.

Lucy looked up, and her eyes immediately set on the cute white stuffed dog. "That one." she said.

"It's ugly." Natsu declared. Lucy opened her mouth to retort but Natsu had already started talking to the older man.

"That one." Natsu repeated pointing at the stuffed dog. The operator used the rod to knock it down and handed it to Natsu. "Thanks." He said.

"Have a nice day!" The man shouted at them.

The two teens walked away from the booth, Lucy staring at the back of Natsu, wondering why he chose the stuffed animal if he thought it was so ugly. "Hey Na—"

He whirled around thrusting the stuffed animal in her face, "Here." She blinked.

"Are you sure?"

He nodded.

She took it hesitantly, but smiled nonetheless. "Thanks, Natsu." she said.

She watched how the tips of his ears turned red, "Uh, you're welcome." He then turned around. "I'm starving let's get something to eat!" He said, his shyness easily disappearing at the thought of food.

He told her to find a seat, while he went and got them some burgers, not before asking what kind of burger she liked and if she wanted any sides. Lucy hummed to herself, playing with the stuffed dog. It felt weird hanging out with Natsu, but it felt nice. Of course she argued with herself saying that she was only being nice and that this would never happen again.

But a part of her wanted to hang out more with him. She brought one hand up and let her fingers slide across her lips. She didn't forget about the kiss, it felt oddly strange, nice, warm, but strange. Just like Natsu in general. But, she couldn't explain it. Lucy laughed to herself, she wasn't an expert on kissing, maybe what she was feeling, felt like that to everyone.

Or maybe you liiiiike

"Did you just want that ugly thing to rip its head off?" Natsu's voice broke her train of thought.

Lucy looked down seeing that her fingers were digging deeply into the neck of the stuffed animal. "Oh...uh." she stumbled her words—having no clue on what to say. She eased up on it, and watched Natsu sit down, sliding her a tray of her own food.

"He isn't ugly." The blonde glared, realizing what Natsu had said earlier.

"Whatever you say, Luigi." Natsu said while stuffing his face with his burgers and fries. Lucy looked at him in disgust, slowly losing her appetite. "What?" He looked up, cheeks full, with food all over his face.

"You're disgusting." Lucy deadpanned.

Natsu ignored her comment pointing at her food, "Are ya gonna finish that?" Lucy didn't say anything, but slightly pushed her tray towards him, which he mumbled in happiness as he continued to eat, barely chewing his food.

Reminder to never eat with Natsu.

It's a one time thing, it's never going to happen. Lucy argued with herself.

Whatever you say~

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"How can you eat that much?" Lucy asked incredulously as she watched Natsu munch on the three alligator tails he held in his hand.

"I dunno." He said.

"Finish your food before speak!" The blonde scolded, still holding the prize he won her in her arms.

"Yes, mom." Natsu said mockingly, his green eyes flashing in amusement.

"Natsu!"

He swallowed his food and threw away the sticks in the trash can nearby. "Come on we have one more stop!" The blonde let herself be dragged around once more. The day was ending, and the sun was starting to set. No longer blue skies, instead a beautiful range or orange, red and pink.

It amazed her on how much beauty the sky could create. They stopped at the Rainbow Sakura, where most people decided to hang around. The glowing leaves were absolutely beautiful, it was absolutely breathtaking to Lucy. "It's so beautiful." she whispered.

Natsu looked at her, her brown eyes happily looking at the tree. He smiled, "Is this your first time seeing it?"

Lucy swallowed thickly, "I've seen it once."

"Once?" He repeated.

The blonde nodded, holding the stuffed animal tighter. "When I was little." The aura around them slowly became damp, and Natsu didn't know why. He wanted to know what she was thinking, but he didn't want to press her. There was only one thing Natsu was bad at, and that was dealing with crying girls. Especially, pretty crying girls.

Natsu decided to ask her something else instead. "Hey, Lucy." She tore her eyes away from the tree to look at him. For some reason he seemed even taller, and he looked...cute? The light from the tree reflecting on his green eyes, making them appear even brighter. "Do you hate me?" He needed to know.

Her eyebrows shot up, shocked at this question before she regained her composure. "No, I don't hate you."

He felt okay.

"Even though you kissed me multiple time without—but no, I don't hate you."

He grinned running his hand through his pink hair, "Good, I had a really good time."

"Me too."

He took a step closer to her.

Lucy adverted her eyes, squeezing her brand new prize. "I should probably go, Mira's probably looking for me." Mira was her ride home, so she wasn't lying. But Mira probably wasn't looking for her, she had Laxus with her, well from the last time Lucy saw her.

He leaned in closer, and she panicked. "Natsu?"

His head lowered and she felt his warm breath fanning her face. Before his lips could touch hers, she turned her head quickly, pulling back—his lips only grazing her cheek for a second. He stood back up, staring at her. Lucy could tell her face was painted red, "Uh...I'll s-see you l-later, Natsu." Lucy quickly turned around and disappeared into the crowd. He chuckled in amusement.

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Natsu tucked his hands in his pockets, a large grin sweeping across his face. Feeling slightly happy that she said "see you later" instead of "goodbye," he watched the blonde until she went out of his line of sight.

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"Bye, Luigi."

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(when she smiled,

it made his heart speed up)

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Note 1: Hey once again sorry it took so long!

Note 2: Any ideas for what I should do for my YouTube Channel? I'm at a lost.

Note 3: Sorry for any errors, I always write late at night.

Note 4: During prom in June I kissed a boy :O

Note 5: Thank you for being so kind and understanding to me! I'll never be able to thank you enough!

Note 6: Did you miss this story or me?

Note 7: I'll talk to you very soon my dudes (updates and new stories)

Note 8: I deleted my aunt tribute because I kept crying every time I tried to write it.

Note 9: Remember: YOU ARE LOVED!