It took every ounce of my being to start this chapter. I'm in or rather I was in such a cr*ppy mood that I didn't even want to watch anime. Bad right? So as for this story I am very unsure how long it'll be but I'll make the promise that it'll be over 30 k. I really hope I can make it more than 50 but only progression can tell.

I like to give thanks to those who followed, favourited and reviewed this story, it is still such a fresh story I didn't expect a lot of response. Thank you all again!

Oh and as you probably noticed is that the name changed from "It takes two to tango" which was a temporary name because I was lazy. So with a new name I hope to see some new followers and etc.

It had been several days since the accident.

Things only just declined from there and Lucy for one wasn't trying to improve the situation. When she had returned from the hospital that day she cancelled her morning appointments to sit and mope in her room. Loke had to drag her out eventually and tell her that she had to keep working hard for her own sake.

It was just like him, he always pushed her in more ways than one. Back when they first met each other in high school he pushed her into an uncomfortable bubble when he flirted with her. Several times he would hit on her and constantly wanted to butt into her life. He gave up on her when he found out her past, not for any shallow reasons but he figured she needed a friend more than she needed a boyfriend. After that he pushed her into doing more things to help her self-esteem up or to just plainly have fun. She overworked herself to better herself and he lightened her load so she could push herself even further.

Lucy is grateful for him and felt overjoyed when he got married to his childhood friend Aries. Now that she thought she made progression on looking after herself, Loke shows up again and helps her yet again. She finished her classes that day and the days after that. She visited her father often even though they hadn't said much to each other for each visit. And they certainly didn't open up to another.

It was five days since her father's accident and with the crappy mood she was in this Saturday she wanted to finish this day as fast as possible because tomorrow was her day off. Her morning lessons were exhausting with the tiny screaming girls trying to grasp the concept of ballet. And then she moved onto several couples which made her highly annoyed by the constant bickering between each couple. Loke didn't seem bothered by it since he was such a level headed person.

It was coming to 3 in the afternoon and Lucy was getting restless. Her leg was aching too with the colder weather approaching. Winter was coming fast which meant snow which meant hell. She remembered how painful her leg was recovering during winter and all the winters after that the pain would dull but never leave. She ignored her leg and went to the front desk where Kinana was.

"Kinana what's my next class?"

She smiled sweetly to her as usual and looked down at her book. "A gentleman named Na-tsu? Natsu." She repeated to get the name right.

Lucy's mind clamped up. That's right she forgot about him since Tuesday and well the reminder of him made her anxious. She sucked in a big breath and looked at the clock which told her she had five minutes left. She walked over to the balancing beam to stretch her annoyingly sore leg. She winced but eased up which will last her the rest of the lesson. She heard the door open and she instantly straightened. Her eyes observed the young pinkette and how he had dressed before he arrived which saved a lot of time in her opinion.

He looked her way and smiled a goofy toothy smile which seemed very contagious but she wouldn't budge a smile. His smile died when he noticed it too. She waved over to him to come to the next room, he obliged though confused. He followed her and abruptly stopped when she did, she spun on her heel to face him.

"We'll do some minor stretches because we're going to be working a little harder to meet the deadline you have." She said in a monotone voice. She took a few steps back from him to start "Just do what I do." She said in a monotone voice again.

Natsu frowned slightly but she didn't seem to notice since she started on her stretches. He followed her suite but got lost in his own thoughts from staring at her. Her milky white skin giving off a healthy glow of exercise, her sunny blonde hair tied up neatly in a bun and how it held its place despite how often she moved today. Her eyes fixated on what she was doing at hand and how he remembered how it shun the other day at his first lesson, but today it looked dull and tired. He couldn't stand and bear the lesson if she was like this, I mean he didn't know her that well but he noticed she was a hard working person and with a nice personality and something was clearly bothering her and leaving a bad taste in her mouth.

While she continued to stretch he looked to his kit he brought and remembered he brought an mp3player with him. He stopped his stretches and ran to his kit and scrolled down to a song. She noticed he stopped and went to his kit.

"Can't you wait till after class to text?" she asked annoyed.

He walked to the mp3player console and plugged it in to play the tune he wanted. She stared at him and huffed. Guitar strings plucked in the studio, the familiar tone filled the room. She recognised it straight away when the first sentence came up- "When life leaves you high and dry I'll be at your door tonight if you need help if you need help"

Lucy let a small smile form on her lips as she watched the pink haired man lip sing and dance to the tune. He stepped closer and closer to with every beat given and with every lyric sinking in. He was trying to cheer her up, it was slowly working until he grabbed her hand as the chorus came and he spun her around and he danced with her. She couldn't hold it in anymore, she laughed and giggled and chucked her lungs out. Her feet were dangling off the floor and he danced some sort of waltz and a cliché tango move where he outstretched his arm with hers and walked the direction their arms pointed. Loke poked his head at the creak of the door frowning at the fact an engaged man was shamelessly flirting with his friend. He watched them dance and heard Lucy's laugh, the laugh that he didn't hear much in the studio lately. Watching them made his lips move on their own accord into a smile. He sighed of what seemed a sigh of defeat and he closed the door properly.

As the music faded out Natsu set the giggling blonde onto the floor and ran to his mp3 and took it out of the console. He turned to see the bright smile he missed from Tuesday.

"What was that all about?" Lucy asked smiling.

He smiled back "I couldn't stand seeing you sad."

She giggled again "Sorry I didn't want to worry you or to waste your lesson"

Natsu put his hand in front of her to make her stop talking. "Wasn't it me that forced you to dance?"

She smiled shyly and nodded a little. They stared at each other for a while before Lucy had to snap out of her haze and cough awkwardly. He chuckled and scratched the back of his neck nervously.

"Um… I don't mean to sound creepy but would you like to hang tonight? There's a bar like down the road from here called Fairy Tail Cabin and I'm meeting up with some friends later. Be great if you'd join"

"Oh Kinana that works at the desk here works there for extra money." Lucy chirped.

"So whatcha say?"

Lucy thought about it and internally her mind was screaming at her. It kept telling her how wrong it was to flirt with this man or even to let him flirt with her. Another part of her mind told her he might just be overfriendly like that. She was replaying the problems of the situation and putting together a good excuse to say no but her mouth went on its own accord.

"I would love too."

He smiled so brightly her thoughts seemed to fade away… Oh the lesson!

Sunset was approaching and Lucy had finished her day with a bang although she could've done without the over bearing brotherly Loke telling her it's a bad idea to go out tonight. It took a lot of convincing but she won the conversation by reminding him she was his employer and he had no say in her social life. He shut his mouth and gave up knowing he couldn't convince her.

She was told by Natsu to meet him and his friends at 7:00. At closing time she immediately ran (let's say she walked fast because we have to take in consideration of her leg) upstairs to get in the shower. She couldn't help but to linger in the warm rejuvenating water and refresh her sore muscles and joints.

Once out the shower she almost out of habit twirled her wet hair into a bun. She had to remember where she placed her hairdryer. She plated her hair and dried it to get the curls she wanted. That took 30 minutes of her time which panicked her. Her bedside clock read it was 6:15pm. She hurried to her closet to decide what to wear but she groaned at herself for not having the clothes of a young woman should. The cupboard was full of tights, sweats and dancing dresses. She rummaged through and eventually found an off the shoulder top and a pair of black fitted jeans (which she prayed still fit her)

It was 6:50 now and she had finished her face and grabbed her back heels and tried not to trip down the stairs. She began walking but hailed a taxi because of the lack of time she had. The taxi abruptly stopped in front of the bar and Lucy's stomach twisted, only realising now that she was nervous of meeting the pink haired man and his friends and possibly seeing his fiancé too. Oh gosh… what. was. she. thinking?

She entered the buzzing building and notice the size was pretty big for a bar. The building had too levels and the top level consisted pool tables and dark boards along with a smaller bar next to the bar games. The huge bar was packed and she felt uneasy of not knowing a single person around her. It was too late to go home now and she has to find Natsu soon amongst all these people.

"Lucy! Oi Lucy!" she heard a familiar voice.

Natsu budged past some people to get to her. Lucy blushed at his appearance. With his dress shirt buttoned down far enough to see his toned chest made her heart flutter. And from what she could see he looked flustered too, she thought most probably from the heat inside the bar. He grabbed her hand and dragged her past the crowd.

"W-wait Natsu! Slow down!"

They came out the crowd and Lucy huffed from Natsu pulling her. She rubbed her calf and glared at the hyper pinkette.

"Soooorry Luce didn't mean to hurt ya."

The nickname caught her off, not even her friends called her that. She heard someone call Natsu's name behind him and she saw a long table of friends looking at the both of them. Natsu put his hand on her back to nudge her to that specific table. He stood a little in front of her to introduce her.

"Guys this is Lucy. My dance teacher"

Everyone's eyes shifted to her and he had no words to say to them, feeling a tad embarrassed she let out a bashful 'Hi'.

A woman stood up from the table and Lucy really felt inadequate from how pretty she was. Her hair was the best aspect of her. Long and a crimson red and it flowed in the wind without there being wind. She had brown eyes like Lucy's and beautiful features.

"Nice to meet you I'm Erza. Erza Scarlet"

Her voice was a bit deeper than most girls; this made her sound more mature and intimidating.

The boy next to her had no shirt on revealing his toned abdomen and a pendant hung around his neck. His sudden shirtlessness made Lucy hot in the face and look away.

"Dammit Stripper keep your clothes on!" Natsu yelled at him.

The raven haired man seemed cool and collected but as soon as Natsu insulted his his forehead creased and his eyebrows repositioned to an angry expression. The man stood up and walked to Natsu giving him a head butt. They intensely stared at another waiting for the other to hit. Until Erza intervened.

"Behave we have a new friend here!" she scolded

Before Lucy could blink the two were shaking hands and being all buddy buddy. Lucy sweat dropped slightly.

"Anyway I'm Gray Fullbuster." The raven haired man spoke up.

Lucy nodded at the half-naked man who now currently didn't have any pants on!

"Gaah!" Lucy yelled.

Natsu punched Gray straight in the face yelling for him to put on clothes. Erza this time didn't interfere since she would've knock Gray too for the display of nudity.

Natsu puffed out hot air of annoyance and grabbed Lucy's head and turned it to the bar which gave her a fright. He pointed to the bar and more specifically to a white haired woman serving the men there. "That's Mira. She co-owns the place and she's Lisanna's sister."

Lisanna… right…. She'd almost forgot about her.

"Where is she?"

"Coming in later, she works a night shift working as a vet"

Lucy nodded understanding that she wouldn't have Natsu for long. It did feel a little awkward that Natsu's friends were giving him smirks while she was around. It just seemed a little inappropriate in her opinion.

With that in mind Lucy also was still on edge by the group and she hasn't even met the rest. Natsu tugged her to the others at the table. She noticed straight away a couple sitting together and the almost look like polar opposites. The girl was so small and cute with such a happy look on her. She had such petite looking facial features and her hair was blue, short and wavy. Lucy couldn't get over her small size and her boyfriend who seemed to have a protective grip around her waist was huge in comparison to the girl. He was wearing black and grey and had many face piercings and even arm piercings? Was that possible? His look was finished with his long jiggered jet black hair.

"Lucy that's Levy and the big ape who's with her is my cousin Gajeel."

"C-cousin?" Lucy stuttered. I mean she was just thinking of the great comparison between Levy and Gajeel but Gajeel looked absolutely nothing like Natsu. Like no family resemblance at all.

"Who you calling an ape Salamander?!" Gajeel growled in his deep voice which Lucy thought suited very well with his looks.

Natsu let out a laugh to mock his cousin with "Geeez Metal face take a joke."

Gajeel growled again. Levy tried to pry out of his grasp to meet Lucy "Nice to meet you Lu-chan!"

"Lu-chan?" Lucy repeated.

"Think of it as a nickname." She winked.

Lucy giggled "It's not really a nickname since Lucy is actually shorter but I like it Levy-chan." Levy giggled with her.

Gajeel sound annoyed behind them and seemed to mumble something like "Bunny girl."

Natsu grabbed her hand and introduced her to some of the other people at the table. Until Lucy felt someone staring at her. She turned her head to look behind her and just saw the crowd near the bar. She shrugged the feeling off until Natsu spoke up

"You feel someone watching you don't you?"

She blinked at him "How did you know?"

He chuckled and pointed at Gray "Go to him and say hi then look to that pillar near the bar."

She looked at him sceptically and slowly walked to Gray. She stopped by him and gave out a forced hi. Gray looked at her weirdly and said hi back. Lucy looked to the pillar and saw a beautiful blue haired woman glaring at her dangerously. Gray looked in her direction and groaned loudly.

Lucy sweat dropped "Who is that?"

Gray's face was covered by his hand and ignored her question. He got up from his seat to go to the woman who had spying on the group. Natsu chuckled his way to Lucy and the two sat down.

"Who is that?" she asked again.

"Gray's on again off again girlfriend Juvia. They're currently off."

Lucy looked to her new friend speaking to the blue haired stalker. She seemed smitten but Gray's expression was questionable in the least. Lucy looked back to the group of friends and joined in the conversation. Gray decided to join after he spoke to Juvia, who hopefully wasn't still staring daggers into Lucy's back. Lucy was getting along with everyone better than she thought, all that worrying was for nothing. Although her worries had just begun nearing midnight.

"Natsu-san!" A voice yelled across the bar

Natsu let a huge smile rip across his face. "Over here Sting!"

A blonde boy emerged from the opposite side of the bar with a matching grin to Natsu. Lucy looked to the boy and saw some resemblance of Natsu and thought maybe he was family. The two boys shared a brotherly hug thereafter Sting had noticed Lucy.

"Hi, why is someone as pretty as you doing around my cousin?" He flirted

Bingo he was his cousin too. But she had to not think about that she had to deal with Natsu's flirtatious cousin. Well Natsu beat her too it and pushed him hard and growled at him. Sting just laughed at his cousin's actions and waved him off.

"Where's Rouge?" Natsu asked.

"He's fetching his fiancé. He'll be here in ten minutes" Sting said blowing his hair out of his face.

Lucy looked slightly confused of who this Rouge person was. Natsu nudged her out of her dreamland to tell her.

"Another cousin. His brother."

Lucy laughed nervously "I'm being a tad overwhelmed by all these people you're introducing me too." She admitted

Natsu shrugged and waved off her confession assuring her that it's nothing to worry about. Sting tried to hit on her again but Natsu kept intervening and giving his blonde cousin a scary look. Lucy for one was confused since Natsu shouldn't be so overprotective of her, for one they still don't know a lot of another so you couldn't really call them close friends. Nor was she his girlfriend or fiancé because he already had one. If Sting was single it wouldn't hurt to get to know him but Natsu wasn't giving her any chance whatsoever.

Sting kept laughing at his cousin's reactions and being a little over cheery. Lucy sighed and took a sip of her drink until she felt the table bump hard. She almost spilled her drink over and let out a loud gasp. She turned her head to the source and saw Sting and Natsu trying to catch someone's attention. She gazed up and focused on the figures coming towards them.

The one figure she made out was a man near Natsu or Stings age and had dark black medium hair. His pale skin contrasted his skin and dark clothing that matched his hair. He brought a woman with him and was holding hands with her… she looked familiar…

It was Lisanna.

Take yours and I'll take mine, on the right hand side. I'll rest and you'll find that you take rest in wine. So take these words and make them right. So one day you and I will right our names in the sky, We'll confide.

Who wants to kill me for the cliffy? I know I would but I need to stretch his mother fluffer out.

I was really supposed to post this yesterday but my friends dragged me out the house and were determined not to make me a loner yesterday. Nice friends but eh… I like spending my Fridays reading or writing. I know I'm not a loser at all, in fact I'm the Shit! Or as my cousin would say 'Sugar Honey Ice Tea'. Gosh… ANYWAY!

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