Night came quickly as Lucy and Fireball met at her apartment. At first they were just going to hang out there but something told Lucy that they should actually follow through with their plan. Lucy was wearing a cream colored sweater the hugged her curves nicely and revealed a small amount of cleavage through the v shaped neckline. He wore a pair of brown cargo shorts with brown knee high boots. She pulled her hair into the normal side pony tail as she glanced at her reflection in the mirror. Happy with how she looked, grabbed her keys and called out to fireball.
"Hey you ready?" She asked him. He nodded quickly and grabbed the basket a food that Virgo had brought from the spirit realm for their 'date'. Loke of course came out with Virgo and complained about it being Fireball and not him taking her on a date. She tried to explain the circumstances but he didn't listen.
They walked out the door and into the cool night air. The stars were shining, looking like glitter in the deep blue sky. They made small talk as they made their way to the sakura tree. Arriving under it, Fireball pulled out the blanket and candles that Virgo had packed with the food and lit them with the matches provided. They provided a low amount of light that seemed to make every that much more romantic. Once all the food was out of the basket, Lucy couldn't help but wonder how Virgo managed to cram all of it into such a small basket.
They ate peacefully as they gazed at the night sky. Lucy was really enjoying herself. There was no fighting, no destruction and no crazed dragon slayer to hyper to sit still. It was different, yet nice at the same time. Little did she know that both Ashley and Natsu were watching from a few bushes away.
"Can you believe this shit!" Ashley whisper shouted. She hated what she was seeing. This was more like a real date then them pretending.
"Yeah, I thought they were pretending to date?" Natsu asked her, not taking his eyes off the blond and pinkette.
"That's what they said but this definitely feels more like a real date. Do you think they planned that? To make us think that the dating wasn't real?"
"How would they have known that I wasn't really sleeping and that you were listening in on them?"
"Maybe they didn't know for sure. Maybe they figured that the chances were pretty high that one of us would have heard and then tell the other." Ashley stated. She had a point but Natsu really wanted to believe this was all a show. He didn't know what to do if she was really dating him. He wouldn't be able to handle it.
"But why would they say they are fake dating just to cover up the fact that they really are dating? Why would they need to hide it?"
"I don't know! It's all too confusing," Natsu stated as Ashley shushed him. They really had to watch their volume or Lucy and Fireball would hear them.
"I wonder how Natsu and Ashley are doing, do you think they are enjoying themselves?" Lucy asked Fireball. His eyes shot right towards the direction of Ashley and Natsu as they froze. Did he know that they were there. Fireballs eyes blazed with something like amusement before he answered the girl laying next to him.
"I would say they are enjoying themselves. It's not like they are sneaking around and spying on people in bushes."
"Crap he knows we are here!" Ashley whispered once more. They both were afraid of how Lucy would take that but neither moved.
"What?" Lucy asked Fireball. She was confused with why he stated something like that.
"Oh nothing, nothing at all." He propped himself up on his elbow, facing towards Lucy. A devilish smirk formed on his lips as he once more glanced towards the spies. Lucy did the same as Fireball, propping herself on her elbow and resting her head in her palm as she faced him. They were really close, too close. Natsu wanted to rush out there and push Fireball away from her but he knew that Lucy would be pissed and this plan wouldn't work anymore. They would have done all that for nothing.
"Lucy," Fireball whispered. He leaned down closer to her. His face inches from hers. Natsu was pissed, as was Ashley, What was Fireball doing? He better not be doing that! She shouted at herself in her head. She told herself that if he even attempted that then she would kill him. Put him in her worst punishment move ever. Fireball was now an inch from Lucy as he cheeks were fully red. She was frozen, unsure of what to do. Was he really going to kiss her? Fireball? That couldn't be true.
Fireball closed his eyes, as Lucy braced herself. Why was she letting him do this? She loved Natsu not him. But they are the same person when you think about it. Natsu and Ashley were fuming, they couldn't see Lucy's face from the angle but he could see the blush coating the back of her ears. He could tell that Fireball was way too close.
Fireball closed in another half inch, and to Natsu and Ashley, it looked like they were kissing. Fireball reached up and grabbed a petal from Lucy's hair that had fallen. He pulled back and tried his best to force a blush on his cheeks. Lucy's heart was racing. She couldn't believe what had just happened. She really thought he was going to kiss her but all he did was pull a petal out of her hair. Why did he get so close anyway?
Ashley clenched her fist in anger. Natsu had disappeared, where to she had no idea. Lucy and Fireball had started to pack up and Ashley could still see the blush coating her counterparts cheeks. Her heart ached, she couldn't believe Fireball did that. Would he really kiss someone that he was only pretending to date? And why would he claim that he loved her if it was truly Lucy he wanted? Was that some plot to get Natsu off his back so that he could swoop in and steal Lucy? Was he really that smart? Ashley couldn't take it anymore. She ran off, not sure where she was going to go. She just knew that she didn't want to see either Lucy or Fireball right now.
Maybe she could sleep at the guild. She just doesn't have it in her to face them tonight. Natsu stormed into his house. Slamming the door shut, he leaned against it with his head hung low. Pushing himself off the door, he plopped down onto his couch not removing his eyes from the door. He would wait until Fireball gets here. Then they would talk.