Jeez I'm sorry guys, but heyy I'm alive! Anyways its been like six months since ive posted a new chapter for this story. Ill be able to write, read, and watch oh so much more anime because I have no social life and honestly don't try at school. Anyways I've missed you all and here is the next chapter!
"Happy!" I opened the door to my, way smaller than Lucy's, house. The yard was messy, covered in overgrown grass and rusty yard furniture. I felt slightly embarassed at the fact that this was probably the cleanest part of my house. I scolded myself in my head as a million thoughts of what she would do when she saw my messy house clouded my better judgment. But by the time I even opened my eyes from where I had been freaking out, we were already inside.
With unease I looked over to see Lucy looking around for something, "Happy! Come here cutie I want to meet you!"
My house was not very big and was kind of in a forest. It had a kitchen, living room, and two bedrooms down a hallway past the living room. Once you walk in the door you're in the living room, then the kitchen is tucked away in a corner towards the back of the house. Next to the kitchen is the hallway where the bathroom and two bedrooms are.
"Ahhhhhh!" I jumped and looked over to see Lucy fall over, right onto the dusty couch in the middle of the living room.
"Luce! Are you okay? What happened?" I ran over to see a mass of blue hair crawling onto her face, muffling her laughter. "Happy! Thats not how you treat guests! Get off of her!"
"Meo-umph!" I picked up the blue cat and held him in my arms, of course he was still curious about Lucy because she was a stranger. "Luce...?"
I looked down to see beautiful Lucy with a red swelling scratch on her cheek. But despite the wound she was laughing with her eyes glued to the curious feline in my arms. Without any warning she grabbed my hand and pulled me onto the couch next to her and grabbed Happy from my arms. "So you're a cat Happy! You are so cute I could eat you up! And I've never seen a blue cat before!"
Happy sniffed her as she snuggled him close to her and pet his head. After a minute Happy gave her an approving meow and purred, rubbing his head against her hand. It was an adorable scene like something you'd see in a movie or in a book, but unlike the main character of said books and movies, I wasn't smiling and thinking "Oh she's too cute!" I was worried about the now bleeding cut on the blonde's face.
"Oh Natsu I love him!" She turned her head and held him close to her face. I reached to pet his head, but of course during moments like these my brain only concentrates on one thing and messes everything up. Instead of smiling and petting my cat's head, I practically shoved my hand against her injured cheek and got as close as I could to her.
"Oww! I guess he got me earlier didn't he?" She laughed nervously while I examined her cheek. I was really close to her face trying to see how deep her cut was, I could hear her breath and feel the heat growing in her cheeks. When I looked over to her eyes I found myself blushing and jumping to the other side of the couch.
"Umm I'll go get a bandaid just umm... make yourself at home!" I jumped up and sprinted to the bathroom and slammed the door. My heart was pounding out of my chest and my face burned.
She looked so... beautiful! When I looked over at her eyes, she had been blushing and her eyes... her eyes were the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I guess I've just never noticed the gold flecks in her chocolate colored orbs. Just looking into them closely is like staring at a river of chocolate with golden dreams flowing with it, it puts a warm and comfy feeling in your very soul. And...
Nope. Thats it. I'm done. No more talking like that. No way am I going to fall for her! She is not only my only friend, which makes her my best friend, even if I wanted to love her she's too out of my league for anything to happen! She's practically- no scratch that, she IS a princess, and I? I am a dragon. Dragons don't get the princess, we get killed. Unless we can avoid that and live alone in our treasure filled caves, forever. Actually it doesn't sound that bad frankly, I could avoid people and just stay here with my TV and internet. The real world can kiss my ass.
Yosh, after this month with Lucy, I can be alone. All I have to do is play along with this couple project and not fall in love with her. It can't be that hard since I decided to never fall in love. I gave myself an encouraging smile in the mirror and found the bandaids, which I didn't remember having because I don't wuss out and fix my injuries.
After taking a breath I walked back into the living room where Lucy was. "Hey Luce I've got the bandaids." I looked at her where she was laying on the couch petting Happy, who was snuggled happily into her chest. She looked at me and her cheeks reddened a bit. Not too much, but enough for me to tell that she must have been having similar thoughts to mine.
Except she probably wasn't thinking about how beautiful I look with a blush staining my face. Goddammit! Stoooppp you evil thoughts! This isn't some manga or anime where everything is mutual and leads to love and all that shit. How many times have we been over this? LIFE IS NOT A FAIRY TAIL. Especially yours!
While I was having a mental argument with myself, Lucy was watching me shake my head and whisper under my breath. It wasn't until she called out a slightly concerned, "Natsu...?" That I noticed I had probably looked pretty stupid.
"Oh hey sorry about that I've... got a little bit of a headache. Don't worry about it." I'VE GOT A HEADACHE ALRIGHT IM ARGUING WITH MYSELF!
I flashed her a smile and walked to her side. I stood over her and looked down on her since she was still laying back down across my couch with my cat snuggled into her generous chest. We made eye contact fora few minutes before she blushed a bit and said, "What?"
I just looked at her as though she just asked me why humans breathe. "I was waiting for you to sit up so I could put on the bandaid."
She looked down to the blue cat that was purring happily as she stroked his back. "But Happy looks so happy..."
I just stared at her and internally facepalmed. Universe, are you trying to make my life into one of those cliche rom-com animes that I accidentally watch a lot? Is that was this is? Cause I don't want this. If this keeps up I'll fall for her..
Apparently, I said that last part out loud.
"What did you say?" Lucy looked up at me a little wide eyed.
"Umm I said if this keeps up Happy'll fall over! You know if you sit up he'll fall off. So I'll just put it on and leave you to get acquainted."
I peeled the wrapper of the bandaid and hovered it over her delicate skinned cheek with the red scratch plaguing it's beauty. My heart started beating like crazy and I was staring to lean closer to her face, dangerously close. Her eyes were squeezed shut and she was waiting for me to gently put the bandaid on and leave.
But of course, me being a healthy teenage boy, my mind had other better plans!
So, in response to my feelings, I pushed the bandaid roughly on her face and smacked it down with my palm.
"Oww! What was that for?" She day up abruptly, which by doing so made Happy fly across the couch and land with a loud meow.
Me being the messed up person I am, here was my response. "I thought there was a bug, but it was just a zit!"
"WHATTT?!" Lucy ran to the bathroom and quickly examined her face for the zit, which after a few minutes she realized was not there. I had started to tiptoe down the hall to get to my room before she grew devil horns or something.
I was only ten steps from my room, a mere TEN steps when I felt a fiery aura appear behind me. "Natsu~." She said my name in such a scary manner that I squealed a bit before reluctantly replying, "Yes Princess Luce?"
I needed no explanation to know why she was mad.I know how girls are about zits and weight and all that. I had dug myself a grave and made my own headstone.
"Why would you say such a thing about zits when my face is flawless? Hmm? Is there something funny about that?"
I gulped and slowly turned around to face her. "Umm..."
She slowly raised her leg in the air. "Lucy..." I tried to run. I honestly did. But this woman knows how to flying ninja kick people. "Kick!"
"Ahhhh!"
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About an hour after me sitting terrified in my room with a large bump still on my forehead and a bruise on my ribcage, I slowly opened the door and looked outside. Across the hall I saw a light in the other bedroom, which meant Lucy had been able to find her way to her room. I felt kind of bad though, since a good host is supposed to show a guest or roommate or newlywed high school science partner thing to their room and hero then unpack and make themselves at home.
Ugh why do I suck at life. Then again she did ninja kick me.
Without realizing it I had walked across the hall and slowly opened up the door to look inside. Lucy was sitting criss-cross on the floor looking through her bag she had picked up from her house earlier. She was mumbling notes about how to arrange the room in a louder whisper voice.
I knocked on the open door, she turned around quickly and sighed in relief. "Oh its just you"
"First of all, who else would it be? Second, JUST me? Haven't we established that I am the ultimate ruler of awesome?" Lucy laughed and rolled her eyes.
"Really? I don't recall such a conversation. I remember you as the dork with no sense of delicacy." She pointed at her cheek where her bandaid was.
I shrugged with an apologetic smile on my face. She was really easy to talk to, I could be my normal awesome self around her. And just the other day I thought I would never get to talk to her, oh wait, that was just this morning wasn't it? Time sure does start to blend when you're having fun huh?
"So Princess, in apology of my earlier disrespects, can I help you arrange your room? Nice Dragons like me want to keep you feeling like home when you're in our cave."
I held out my hand to help her to her feet. She looked at it and laughed, taking my hand like a princess takes a prince's hand when he asks her to dance. I pulled her to her feet and she landed against my chest. She slightly raised her hand to my ribcage and pulled up my shirt right there.
"Oh wow! I'm so sorry!" She poked at where the bruise she had left me was and I winced a bit. Was it that bad?
I looked down and saw a vague purple, blue outline of a foot. "Holy crap! Princess how are you so strong?"
"I had to practice being able to penetrate through dragon scales didn't I? Self protection. Jeez I'm sorry this looks really painful." She was squished tight against my body, and I had unconsciously put an arm around her waist while the other held my shirt up. I was totally fine with this.
"We'll that's good I guess but jeez! If it scars over, it's a battle scar from when I saved you from a band of delinquents, okay?"
She laughed and poked at it again. "Okay. Did I get you anywhere else?"
She lifted my shirt a bit more and whistled when she saw my abs. She immediately dropped the edge of my shirt she has been holding and covered her mouth. I laughed at her and then smirked, "So, you like what you see?"
She shoved me away and made a 'hmph' noise. "I just wasn't expecting you to be that ripped."
"Hey, but since you admit my abs are amazing, I'll let you feel them if you would like." I lifted my shirt to tease her and she just smacked my bruise.
"Owww! That fucking hurt!"
"Payback for the cheek." She smirked and then pulled my hand to the center of the room. "Now let's get arranging shall we?"
