Lucy was enjoying a Dragneel-free weekend in complete bliss but like everything in life, nothing ever lasts. When Monday came, she dragged herself out of bed to the bathroom.
She looked at herself in the mirror and sighed. New day, new story, Lucy said to herself. It had became a daily routine everyday, hoping that something might happen to break her out of the usual boredom.
She had recently moved back into her house. It still smelt like paint but Lucy was glad to be back home. She didn't feel comfortable bothering Levy about letting her stay over.
Lucy switched to her uniform and went downstairs to prepare breakfast. She was halfway through when a knock at the door interrupted her. She blinked in surprise. No one she could think of would visit her at this time. It couldn't be Levy. She lived on the other side of town and took a completely different route to school.
"Lucyyyyyyyyy! You in there?" someone called outside.
A tick formed on her forehead. Why? The world must hate her, making Lucy deal with him this early in the morning. She walked to the door.
"What do you want?" she said annoyed, calling through the closed door.
"Jeez, try to at least act happy," Natsu grumbled under his breath. "I just wanted to see my wonderful friend," he said sarcastically.
Lucy snorted and yanked open the door. She stood angrily in the doorway with a hand on her hip.
"Cut the crap. Just get to the point-" Lucy stopped as she saw Natsu. He was completely drenched. Water dripped from his clothes and hair. Mud stained his shoe and face. Even his schoolbag was dripping. And to Lucy's annoyance, also made a huge mess in front of her door.
She was immediately snapped out of her sleep driven state. "What the hell happened to you?!"
"I was doing my daily laps and I, um, kinda got into a fight with this weird blue-headed girl at the park. I-"
Lucy held up her hand. "I don't even want to know. Just go home to change or something."
"But Lucy," he whined, "It's all the way on the other side of Magnolia. It'll take too long to get there. I don't have any money on me right now to take a bus home. Besides, school's starting soon. I happened to be jogging around Magnolia and ended up close to here so-"
Lucy cut him off. "How did you even know where I live?"
"Levy told me," he said casually.
That traitor. Lucy sighed. She might as well let him in. "I'll go get the towels."
Lucy pointed him the way to the bathroom and tossed him the towels.
"I go to the store down the street to buy you some clothing," Lucy called to him. "Just try not to burn down the house."
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The house reeks of paint from the recent repainting of the wall but somehow Natsu could still get a whiff of a faint but intoxicating scent. Huh, vanilla strawberry.
He diverted his attention to his dripping clothes again. He stripped them off and toss them into the bathtub. When he had dried off, Natsu wrapped a towel around his hip and wandered around the house.
It seems like there wasn't anyone else in the house except for him. Didn't know Lucy lived alone, he thought. Everything was spotlessly clean and nothing seems out of place. He spotted the stair to the second floor and took it.
Natsu sniggered. Imagine Lucy's imagination if he found her room. Better yet, her diary. He knew that Lucy was the kind of girl that likes to keep a diary. He opened a random door on the left.
The decor was mostly pink and girly looking. Score! He found her room on the first try. Everything was still freakishly neat except for her desk. A scatter of paper was spread throughout the surface.
He picked it up and started reading. Usually he wasn't one for reading but it had really caught his interest. Natsu was so immersed in it that he didn't hear Lucy enter the house.
"Dragneel! Where are you?" she called. "If you touch anything, I'll kill you!" She stopped and saw that the door to her room was slightly ajar.
"DRAGNEEL!" she screamed and burst into her room.
Natsu looked up from his reading and gave her a wide grin.
"Hey Luce-"
"LUCY KICK!" she yelled and kicked him in the chest, sending him flying across the room. She clutched the fallen pieces of paper as if it was her baby.
Natsu groaned and rubbed his chest. "You care more about a couple piece of paper then my well being? That's cruel, Luce," he complained.
"Well it's your fault!" she shouted enraged. "You shouldn't go around looking through people's personal belonging!"
"I think you broke a few of my ribs," he groaned, doubling over.
"Oh, quit your whining," she muttered but had a worried look in her eyes. Lucy set the papers down gingerly on the desk and helped Natsu onto the bed.
"Damn, your legs have the power of an elephant," Natsu remarked.
A dark aura flared around Lucy. "What did you say?!"
"It was a compliment!" Natsu said quickly. He had remembered one of Gildarts advice. Never call or indicate that a woman is fat, he recalled. Natsu will very much like to stay alive. "What I mean is you could play soccer with us sometime, you know, with that kind of power," he stumbled making up a excuse.
She humphed. "Yeah right. Like I'm going to play soccer with a bunch of unruly hooligans."
Something struck Lucy suddenly. Her face turned bright red.
"D-Dragneel?" Lucy stuttered.
"Yeah?"
"You're naked."
"Oh crap!" he cursed. "If snow cone's stripping habit is contagious, I'm so going to kill him."
"You were naked because your clothes were wet!" Lucy said exasperatedly. She grabbed the clothes she had brought from the corner store and shoved them at Natsu. She turned away ready to leave the room but Natsu caught her wrist. He got up from the bed and wrapped his arm around Lucy in an embrace.
Lucy was too shocked too push him. He buried his head in her neck. Natsu's hot breath tickled her neck.
"N-Natsu?"
He suddenly broke the embrace and pumped his fist into the air. "Ha! Knew you smelled like Vanilla Strawberry!"
Lucy's face turned beet red. "Y-You pervert! You were smelling me?! That's sexual assault!"
Natsu's blinked at her, confused. "But we did nothing sexual."
Can't argue with that logic.
"Hey, just realized! You called me by my first name!" He smiled widely at her. "That's a first."
"Just get dressed!" Lucy said hurriedly and ran out of the room, shutting the door. Her face was red and heart was pounding a million miles per second. As much as she hated to admit it, Natsu did have a great body. She is a female after all.
Natsu is sitting on her bed. In her room. His pink hair, somehow wasn't weird but hot for that second. He turned his onyx gaze to Lucy's eyes and smiled. He opened his mouth and whispered Lucy's name warmly-
Snap out of it, Lucy screamed mentally, breaking her dirty thoughts. She has been reading too much romance novels. She rubbed her eyes tiredly. Lucy turned her gaze onto the clock hanging on the wall. Her eyes widened.
"Dragneel! Hurry up, you idiot! We're going to be late!" Lucy yelled hysterically.
Natsu opened the door, fully dress thank god. "Eh. If we're late, we're late."
Lucy grabbed the collar of his shirt and dragged him down the stairs.
"I'VE NEVER BEEN LATE A DAY IN MY LIFE! I'M NOT STARTING NOW!" she shouted at him. They ran out of the house(correction: she dragged him outside) and locked the door.
"I have a spare bike. You can use it," Lucy said hastily and threw a red bike at pedalled furiously towards school.
"Hey! Wait up!" he called.
Lucy looked over her shoulders and smiled for the first time that morning.
"See if you can catch up, Dragneel."
Natsu grinned widely in response. His competitive streak is showing, his heart racing with adrenaline.
"You're going to be eating my dust, Heartfilia."
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They had made it to school in time, just as the bell rang. Not surprising since they rode like a pair of lunatic. Lucy chained her and Natsu's bicycle and ran off to class.
He is now in his third period class, bored out of his mind.
"What is this class again?" he asked Gray.
"Get your mind out of the dumps, pyro. It's literature," he said. Gray frowned. "The teacher's late today."
Natsu scoffed. "Teacher's pet."
"I'm not a teacher's pet! I try in school and actually pass," Gray looked tauntingly at Natsu. "It's not like I'm the one failing so badly that I'm about to be kicked out of the team. You didn't even wear the school uniform today." He paused for a second. "Never mind. It's already a miracle that you actually attended school at all."
Natsu rolled his eyes. "You don't need to tell me I messed up. I'll try to pass," he grumbled reluctantly.
Gray's eyes widened. "Hm? What was that? I didn't fully get that. Can you repeat it again?"
"Oh, shut up ice princess!" Natsu yelled and swung his arm at him.
"Watch where you're swinging Flame-breath!" Gray said, rising from his seat. Several girls in the classroom squeaked in alarm seeing how Gray was naked again.
"Put some clothes on, pervert!"
"Who are you calling a pervert!? You're the guy who intruded on the girl's locker room!"
"That was your fault!"
"You're the one who's so gullible. And what's with releasing a wild badger in my room?!"
"Revenge, you exhibitionist!"
A fight exploded between them. Most classmates just sat there minding their own business, ignoring their argument. Some of the new students stared at them like they were crazy (they probably were) and edged away from them.
"Is that normal?" one of the new students asked someone nervously.
He didn't even look up from the book he is reading. "You mean them? It happens all the time. You'll get use to it sooner or later."
The girl stared at him, dumbfounded. Everyone in this school are weirdos.
The door swung open and a girl stepped in. Everyone's chatter in the room stopped in a way that no teacher could cause.
"Will you two please stop? Save your bonding with your boyfriend till later," she said coldly.
Natsu and Gray opened their mouth to complain and was stopped dead in their tracks.
"Lucy?" Natsu asked.
She stood behind the desk with a straight back and blank, stern face.
"I'll be your literature teacher for this session. Your current teacher is sick and is unable to attend class. I expect everyone to be disciplined," she said. Normally all hell would've broken loose by now with a substitute teacher but this is the infamous Coldhearted Princess of Fairy Tail High. Everyone felt the chills run down their back.
"Hey Lucy!" Natsu said cheerfully, breaking the tension.
Her cold gaze swept over him. She scowled at him.
Natsu guessed that she was still mad at him for hugging her and almost getting her late, huh?
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
I apologize for this lame chapter. I wrote it hastily and finished it in a day. It took longer then it normally takes for me to update because I had major writer's block. I was going to do a completely different chapter from this one but the words didn't come easily so I thought I should do something different instead. Thank you to everyone who read, favorited, commented, and followed my story. I'm sorry for any grammar errors.
P.S Did anyone see the hint when Natsu got wet? He said he fought with a weird blue headed girl. Juvia is definitely going to appear in my story soon!
