Chapter 4

She hopped off the last stair of the yellow vehicle, her feet landing on the sand-colored sidewalk. She looked up to scan the beautiful town that the black haired guy lived in.

Of course it wasn't as beautiful as her neighborhood. With beautiful trimmed bushes and perfect marble houses, nothing could possibly go wrong in-

"Ya comin' blondie?"

Turning to her right, she saw the Stud guy watching her with an impatient expression a couple of yards away, the pink haired dude already skipping ahead to the direction of what she hoped was the park.

Should she?

"Yes! Of Course!" She answered, increasing her speed to reach the boys.

Stud guy turned around and walked slowly so she could catch up.

"Name's Gajeel by the way." He said when she was across from him. He turned his head and his glaring red eyes gazed into her, he smirked.

"Lucy." She smiled back.

"NATSU!" A distance voice yelled, and they all laughed.

And as weird as it was, Lucy kinda felt at home.

"Sooooo, we good now?"

She glanced up from her feet to look at the pin-Natsu.

"Hmm? Oh uh yeah, we're good."

"Good." He grinned, hands folded behind his head as he looked off into the golden sky. "Good."

Gajeel had already left, saying he had to take care of something, so It was just them. Natsu then reached into his pocket and pulled his phone out. Pressing the home button, the screen lit up, revealing a blue kitten and the time written above.

4:15

She opened her mouth he question the blue cat but decided against it, deeming the question to be too personal for their relationship.

He probably showed a lot of people a random portal in a random park.

"This year's gone by pretty quickly huh?" He spoke randomly, eyes still on the sky above.

"Yeah. I guess so." She answered

She looked back at her feet. Feeling the need to make more conversation, she turned to look at her beautiful almost-friend.

"Are we there yet?"

She mentally smacked and kicked herself simultaneously, softly groaning at her stupid question. Of all the questions she could've possibly asked. She just had to ask that didn't she?

Now he's going to hate me. She thought. Now senpai's going to hate me and never talk to me again and then I'll have no friends and I'll never get married and then I'll have to live with a thousand cats and-

"Yup." He answered, popping the 'p'. "Top of the hill"

That seemed to put her brain at a pause as her head jerked up to see the park she'd been waiting so desperately for.

"What are we waiting for then? Let'sss goooooooo!"

She grabbed his hand and tugged him toward the playground, intent to drag him off, but was pulled back to him when he didn't budge, she tugged harder, squeezing his right hand with both of hers. His lips twitched into a smile, his body suddenly unmoveable.

"The Portal can only be opened with calm souls."

"I highly doubt you are what people would consider a calm soul." She retorted, hands on her hips.

He shrugged, and walked past her, hands in his pockets."Portal's delicate." He told her when she caught up."Dunno why, just is."

Thirty seconds of walking later she stepped over the tiny border surrounding the playground.

They were here.

She looked around. Swings and monkey bars filled her vision and her heartbeat quickened, sweat gathered at her palms, and an old thought re-entered her mind.

He probably showed this to everyone he meets. She thought in attempt to calm herself. I can't possibly be special in any way.

Her eyes widened, and she unknowingly took a few steps back

Right?

"Hey, you're not going to bail on me now, are ya?" A voice called. Her head shot up to see an impatient Natsu tapping his foot on the mulch of the playground. "I doubt you would have wanted to walk all this way for nothing."

"N-no." She stuttered. "I will not."

"Good, 'cause I'd hafta kill you if you did." A deep chuckle followed his sentence, and he sat on the end of a yellow slide, flipping out his phone.

"I'm kidding of course." He said after a couple of seconds of scrolling, but that did nothing to erase her fear.

She meekly sat on the wooden bench next to her, glancing at her golden watch. 4:25. Gazing up at the fiery-colored sky, she could only hope this day wouldn't be her last. She shakily exhaled.

What did I get myself into?

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