Hey guys, sorry there was such a gap in chapters, but I didn't have all the chapters done in time, so I wanted to finish them all before editing and putting them up. While I was doing that, I kinda got sidetracked plus life wanted to be hectic for me. Anyway, all the chapters are now written and I'm in the process of editing them all, so hopefully they'll all be done soon.
But enough about that, enjoy the chapter and all the rest that'll be put up soon.
A few months after seeing her father again, Natsu was going to spend the night at the blonde's apartment. The couple was taking the elevator up to the top floor where her and three other tenants were. As they took the elevator, the pinkette noticed how tense the blonde was, especially with how she was holding one of her arms.
"You okay? You seem kinda tense." Natsu spoke, worry in her tone which caused the blonde to force a smile. "Luce, you know I don't like it when you force a smile." Natsu remarked, causing the blonde to sigh at how good Natsu was at noticing when she was forcing a smile.
"Sorry. I just don't like being in my apartment at all. Plus if my neighbors see you, I don't know what they'd say, especially since at least one is a child of one of my father's partners." Lucy frowned, knowing that most people who were her father's partners would go and tell him if they found out about Natsu.
"Don't worry. If your father does something, we'll figure something out." Natsu assured the blonde. Lucy smiled at the pinkette before the doors to the top floor opened and they walked to the apartment. Once they got inside, Natsu let out a gasp at the sheer size of the place.
Natsu's place was considered to be a good size for a one person with a guest bedroom, but Lucy's was freaking huge. It had to be at least three times the size of her apartment with a living room the size of her living room and kitchen combined. "See, told you it doesn't suit me at all." Lucy sighed as Natsu tossed her bag to a free chair.
"Maybe, but it does have a sense of you." Natsu remarked. "Sure, it doesn't suit you at all, but at least you're able to have furniture you want. Though I can feel what you were talking about. It feels almost as if you're still a child." Natsu remarked, slight amusement in her eyes at the feeling she felt.
"It's kinda hard not to when he has so much control over my life. I'm honestly scared of what he'll do whenever he finds out about us." Lucy shuddered at what he could do. "I mean he could force me back to the mansion and not allow me any contact with my friends and you. And even if I didn't comply I'd be left homeless because of his threats and I have no idea how I'd be able to get a place. I mean-"
Lucy shut up immediately as Natsu's lips crashed into hers. Lucy felt the pinkette's lips twitch into a smirk before she spoke against her lips. "You really need to learn to stop letting your thoughts over run."
"Why'd you kiss me?" Lucy asked, their lips still against each other.
"It's the best way to shut up someone who won't stop talking." Natsu spoke before separating. "But you're the first girl I've dated that I've had to do it to. I've seen Jellal and Gray do it before, so I had a feeling it would work on ya." Natsu smiled as she moved to rest her head on Lucy's lap, her feet hanging off of the arm of the couch.
"That's good to know." Lucy spoke, turning on her TV as her girlfriend rolled over onto her side with her back to her girlfriend. "In a little bit I'll start dinner. I'm making your favorite." Lucy smiled, hand running through the soft pink locks. Natsu just hummed, loving Lucy's fingers run through her hair.
It was after dinner and the couple had decided to spend the rest of the evening and night in Lucy's room. The two were watching a show on Netflix, both sitting up on the bed, though Natsu was sitting between the blonde's legs, the taller girl's arms wrapped around her middle and her chin resting on the crown of her head as the pinkette had her head resting against the blonde's chest.
"Hey Luce? Mind if I ask ya a question?" Natsu asked as she tilted her head up, casuing lucy's chin to rest against her forehead.
"Sure. Is something wrong?" Lucy asked, causing the pinkette to move her head back to where it was before. Natsu wasn't one to ask if it was okay to ask I question, so she was admittedly quite curious.'
"Nothing's wrong, I was just curious on when ya wanted to go on an actual date again." Natsu spoke before continuing. "It's not that I mind just spending time in one of our apartments, but we haven't gone on an actual date in a couple months."
"So, you'd want to have a date night at least once a month then?" Lucy asked, moving a hand to play with her girlfriend's long pink hair.
"Yeah. I'd just like to do more than just watching movies at my place or yours." Natsu explained as she slid down the bed so that Lucy could move to sit on her legs and allow Natsu to rest her head on the blonde's lap.
Getting into a comfortable position laying on her side with her face resting in her lap, Natsu sighed in content as the sound of a now forgotten show played in the background while Lucy ran her fingers through the shorter girl's hair.
It was moments like these that Natsu would never tire of. Just relaxing while laying in bed with her girlfriend, as her girlfriend ran her fingers though her hair. Even though she was known to be a hothead and always full of energy, she wasn't always like that.
When it was just Natsu and Lucy, she was more calm than when they were with any of her friends. There was just something about the blonde that had a calming affect to her. Natsu didn't understand why, but it wasn't like she cared. All she cared was that she was happy with Lucy, and the blonde was happy for the most part.
Lucy, for her part, had picked up on the fact that her girlfriend seemed to be calmer when it was just the two of them, though there were times when she was just as hyper as when they were with their friends. Lucy had been trying to figure out a different word to use for how hyper Natsu was, but nothing seemed to work as well as just hyper.
Even though Lucy was a calmer person and she'd always dated calm people in the past, dating a hyperactive person like Natsu helped her be happier than she was before. There was just something about the hyper woman that made her constantly smile.
It was something even their friends had even commented on. She'd known since the day after her and Natsu had officially started dating. Lucy had spent the night at Natsu's and had met with Levy, who had commented on how much happier the blonde seemed and it hadn't changed in the months since.
Lucy smiled down at her girlfriend as she shifted so that her face was pressing against her stomach. This was something Natsu would do when they were relaxing and the blonde definitely didn't mind it. Being in such a relationship with Natsu was was something she'd never thought she'd be in with anyone, let alone another woman. Just being near her girlfriend filled her chest with a warmth she had never felt before.
As she mused over her relationship, Lucy started putting braids into the long pink locks. Surprisingly, Natsu just rolled over so that her face was against the blonde's lap, giving her better access to her pink locks.
After fifteen minutes, Lucy stopped braiding her girlfriend's hair, the pinkette rolled over onto her back to look at her girlfriend. "You know, my hair's going to be a tangled mess when we wake up tomorrow, right?" Natsu questioned her girlfriend with a risen brow.
Lucy smiled as she moved her hands to one side of her face where some of her hair fell down to her shoulder and started braiding those too. "Then I can brush your hair if it gets that bad." Lucy spoke once she got done braiding her hair. "You really are pretty." Lucy sighed, moving her hand to the woman's cheek.
Natsu sighed as Lucy fingers trailed over her ear before she used a finger and trailed around her eyes, touching the bangs that fell to her eyes. and over her nose before trailing over her full lips and settling her thumb over her lips. Smirking, Natsu opened her mouth and nipped at her thumb, earning a light gasp from the blonde. "And you're damn beautiful." She smiled up at her girlfriend before yawning.
"Think we should go to bed?" Lucy asked, arms wrapping around Natsu's back and pulling her to her.
"Definitely." Natsu yawned as they they got comfortable with Natsu laying her head against Lucy's chest while she was sitting between her legs while Lucy had an arm wrapped around her middle as she pulled a blanket over them. "G'night, Lucy." Natsu yawned, hands resting over the blonde's own hands that were on her stomach.
"Night, Natsu." The blonde yawned, smiling as her girlfriend shifted in herarms while they slowly fell asleep to each other's slow, calm breaths.
Natsu groaned as she slowly blinked her eyes open. Looking around the room, she realized she was in Lucy's bedroom. Feeling warm breath against her neck, the pinkette sighed as she snuggling into Lucy, accidentally waking up her girlfriend in the process.
"Ngh? Natsu?" Lucy questioned, looking to her girlfriend. "Why are you up already?" "I just woke up." Natsu spoke, hands running though her hair and realizing that the wide braids Lucy created were still mostly there. "Totally surprised the braids didn't come totally undone." Natsu remarked, continuing to run through her hair to get the braids out of her hair.
As Natsu got all the braids out of her hair, Lucy giggled at how messy it looked. "Hey, wanna get us something to drink? I don't want to get out of bed and it's only 7:30. We could watch something for a little bit?" Lucy suggested, smirking at the pinkette as she got of bed.
"Fine. But you gotta fix my hair first. I may not be that girly, but I still care about my appearance a little bit." Natsu remarked as the two sat up in bed.
"Fine." Lucy murmured against the pinkette's cheek as said woman grabbed Lucy's hairbrush that was on her nightstand. "I swear you're sometimes like a child." Lucy chuckled against her cheek before leaving a kiss to it.
"You still love me." Natsu remarked, looking up at her girlfriend with her head leaning back, causing her hair to fall back.
"That I do. Now move your head back to normal so I can make sure your hair isn't a mess." Lucy spoke, wrapping her legs around the pinkette's middle to hold her in place. "Now, I can already see tangles in your hair from how you undid the braids, so this might hurt a little." Lucy spoke in a cautious tone. As she looked at how tangled her hair was, she knew she'd accidentally hurt her just by brushing through it.
"C'mon Luce, it can't be that b-ow! Fuck!" Natsu yelped as the brush got caught in her hair. "Okay. I take that back." Natsu sighed, rubbing her head where the hair that got pulled was. "That hurt." Natsu whimpered, having a feeling she'd be feeling her hair pulled multiple times.
"Well yeah, your hair is pretty long, so getting it pulled will hurt more than if mine did." Lucy reminded the woman as she started brushing through the long locks of hair. "If you can bear through the pain, I may reward you." Lucy suggested, causing Natsu to raise a curious brow at what Lucy said.
"You better not be lying. Would it be my choice what my reward would be?" Natsu questioned, hopeful tone to her voice.
"Definitely." Lucy remarked with a smile on her face, slowly brushing through her hair to try and make it as painless as possible. Even still, the pinkette's hair still got snagged more than a handful of times. Thankfully, none of her pink hair got pulled out.
It took nearly a half hour, but Lucy finally got her girlfriend's hair back to it's normal self. "That feels so much better." Natsu sighed playing with her hair now that it was back to what she remembered. Once she made sure it was fine, the pinkette got out of bed. "Is coffee good?" Natsu asked, earning a nod as she fixed her sleep shorts and sleep tanktop before walking down the hall and into the kitchen.
Knowing where the blonde kept her stuff for her coffee maker, the woman knelt onto the floor and searched the cupboard until she heard the door to Lucy's apartment open. Hiding where she was, she stayed as silent as possible until she head what sounded like a paper being unfolded.
Finding it odd, the pinkette slowly moved so that she could look over the counter to see a man in a business suit reading a paper. Noticing the scowl on the man's face as he mumbled something, the pinkette realized that he was her girlfriend's father.
Gulping, Natsu hid back behind the counter as she tried to figure out how to get back to the bedroom without her father finding her. Taking her chances, the woman crawled to the edge of the counter and poking her head out, noticed that he wasn't paying attention and got ready to head to the bedroom before he set down the paper.
"I know you're there. There's no reason to hide. I'd like to know who you are and why you're here so early in the morning." Lucy's father questioned in an annoyed tone, causing the woman to fall forward halfway out of the kitchen.
After a few seconds, the pinkette quickly got up and dusted herself off. "I'm one of Lucy's friends. I'm her cuz my place is getting new walls put in so Lucy said I could stay here." Natsu spoke, looking at the man to see if he thought she was telling the truth. "Anyway, I'll go tell Lucy that you're here." Natsu spoke before walking to her girlfriend's room, hearing the man click his tongue as she walked away. "Great job Natsu, that's the lie you though of?" Natsu mumbled to herself, annoyed that she made such a dumb lie that didn't make much sense.
Once she got into the bedroom with the door closed behind her, Lucy turned to see Natsu with a worried expression on her face. "Natsu? Is everything okay?" Lucy asked, worried for her girlfriend as she'd never seen such an expression on her face.
"N-no." Natsu Gulped as she stood in front of the bed, right next to Lucy. "Y-your dad is here. He doesn't seem happy with me being here." Natsu explained as she looked at her girlfriend who went white as a ghost.
"What? Why?" Lucy whispered, confusion going over her features. "No, no, no, no ,no. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck ,fuck." Lucy had fear written over her face, not knowing what to do. She kept repeating those two words while she thought of what she was going to do as her hands going through her golden locks.
After a good few minutes passed, Natsu grabbed her hands and pulled them from her hair before running her thumbs over the back of her hands, trying to calm her as she pressed her forehead against the blonde's own. "Luce, Listen to me. If he's here, it's obvious he found out something that he's not happy about. I'll go out there with you, but you have to promise me that you'll try and hold your ground against him." Natsu breathed a sigh of relief as the blonde took a shuddering breath, glad she was listening.
"Natsu, I don't think I can. You know he's controlled me all my life." Lucy whispered as she moved her hands to hug her girlfriend, taking comfort in the smaller girl's warmth as she buried her face in her neck.
"You can, you're a stong person. I believe you can stay your ground, but if you want me to say anything, all you need to do is look at me, okay?" Natsu spoke, though it was muffled by her face being in her neck while her hands were running over her back.
"Okay. I will." Lucy sighed as she composed herself, knowing that the longer she waited, the harder it would be to confront her father. "Let's go." Lucy spoke getting up and steeling her nerves before the two headed down the hall and into the living room. "Father." Lucy spoke, causing the man to look up at his daughter.
"Lucy."