"Cosplayer, where's my drink?" Bixlow yelled upstairs. I rolled my eyes at him and stuck my tongue out.
Mira, Master and I all agreed that I should help out Mira around the guild I wait for Natsu. It was going pretty good so far, except how I have no idea how Mira does this all day long.
"I'm coming, wait a second!" I called as I put a few glasses and mug onto a tray and made my way upstairs, carefully dodging the flying tables and chairs. "Here's your damn drink." I slammed my tray down in front of Bix, causing a drink to tip over and spill on Laxus who was right next to him. Laxus' death glare turned to me and I froze. I started to step away nervously. Laxus stood up and slowly walking towards me, "Please don't hurt me!" I screamed as I put my hands up defensively. He did nothing but walk past me into the bathroom. I sunk to the floor, thanking Mavis I hadn't just died. I heard giggling and chuckling from the table in front of me. I picked my head up to glare at the Thunder God Tribe.
"Scared, Cosplayer?" Bixlow laughed. I glared at him before getting up and Lucy Kicking him over the balcony railing. I laughed at hid mask that was dented into his face. I glanced back at Freed and Evergreen who were laughing uncontrollably, they silenced immediately. I stomped back down the stairs and went behind the bar.
"Never mess with a ticked off mother," I muttered under my breath. I smiled as I thought of how Natsu would react to Kazu. Then I started to get nervous. What would he think of Kazuma? What would Kazuma think of Natsu? Kazuma had only known of Natsu's existence since day before yesterday, when I told him and Loke. And Natsu, I was sure had no idea of Kazu's existence. "Oh goodness," I was starting to get a headache.
"Blondie!" I flinched as I heard Laxus call me from upstairs. I looked up to him, a look of fear on my face. I glanced at Bix who was unconscious on the floor and confidence rose slightly in me.
"What?"
"You owe me a new shirt," he held up a beer stained one.
"Okay, okay," I groaned.
I unlocked the door to the hotel room we were staying at and walked in. I sank down on the bed gratefully and kicked off my shoes. I was almost asleep when a knock sounded on the door. I cursed out loud through a groan and forced myself up and over to the door. I unlocked it and opened it.
'It had better be someone I want to see.'
I froze to the spot as I saw a man with pink hair standing there. He was staring at the ground, looking ashamed.
"N-Natsu?" I stuttered. The man picked his head up and looked at me with a confused expression.
"Mama?" He looked at me with his green eyes.
"Kazu? Why is your hair pink?" I asked, still shocked.
"Long story short," A certain lion answered for my son. "He was flirting with a girl in town and got a barrel of red wine dumped on his head by the girl's older brother." Loke snickered. I looked over Kazu, his clothes were stained red along with his skin.
"Go get in the shower," I crinkled my nose as the scent of alcohol reached my nose. He dipped his head again and walked past me to the bathroom. "Are you sure you saw right?" I asked Loke who also stepped into the room. I closed the door and looked at him.
"What do you mean?" he raised his eyebrows.
"My baby's much too young to be flirting with girls," I told him. Loke in turn laughed at me. I raised my eyebrows at him, "What's so funny?"
"Were you not watching in Hargeon?" he asked me, "He was flirting with the waitress the entire time we were there!"
"Shut up, Loke!" We heard Kazu shout from the bathroom. Loke just snickered.
I fainted. Luckily Loke caught me in his arms.
I grumbled to myself as I cleaned a glass. My mind still on Kazuma's apparent flirting.
"Mira?" I looked at the white haired mage next to me. She hummed in response.
"When do people usually start dating?" I asked her. She looked at me, her eyebrow cocked.
"I don't know, around fifteen, sixteen?" She said as handed Cana a glass of wine.
"No, no, no, no, no! That's too young!" I shouted, causing Mira to look at me.
"Why do you ask?" I was about to tell her when I remembered I hadn't told anyone about Kazu yet. I wanted it to be a surprise, and I wanted Natsu to be the first one to know.
"No reason!" I smiled at her a little too sweetly and went back to scrubbing my glass. Mira glanced worriedly at me before going back to filling orders. I sighed and put the glass down, my head next to it. "My baby's growing up!" I whined to myself. My grief was cut short by Mira.
"Lucy, would you be a dear and post these on the board?" she asked, holding a stack of papers in one hand.
"Sure," I lifted my head up off bar and smiled. I took the papers and made my way to the request board. I had half of the papers on the board when the doors blew open.
"Where back!" I heard a voice all too familiar shout. I dropped my papers as I saw a group of mages enter the guild. Several of the members of the group went straight to the bar and dropped down gratefully onto the stools. I stood there frozen. How do I go about telling my not-dead husband that I'm alive and now I'm back? I watched carefully as Natsu pulled what looked like a ring out of his pocket and present it to Lisanna, who was sitting on the stool net to him. I could hear my heart shatter as she squealed as soon as she saw it. She snatched it from him and flung herself on him.
"No." I whispered. Tears stung my eyes and started to run down my cheeks. "No, this isn't happening," My breaths started to become ragged as I watched Lisanna release Natsu and give him a kiss on the cheek. I saw Natsu go stiff as he smelled the air. His head jerked over to me by the request board and the doors.
"Luce," he stared at me and me at him through tears.
Without thinking, I turned around and ran out the doors. I used my stealth magic to cloak myself and my scent. I ran into an alley. I sunk against a wall. I noticed a staircase beside me going down into what looked like a basement. I looked at the sign above the staircase. It was a bar. I silently thanked Mavis and went down the stair case. I entered the bar to be greeted by smoke and the smell of alcohol.
Somehow, I found my way to the bar. I found an empty stool and sat myself down.
"Hey, are you okay?" The bartender asked.
"No," I sobbed.
"Here," He put a glass of some kind of liquor in front of me, "Wanna tell me what's wrong?" He asked.
"Well, you see," I told the barkeeper, whose name was Takaru, almost everything that had happened the last sixteen years through several glasses of alcohol.
"So then he proposed Lisanna," I told him through sobs, "Right in front of my face!" I leaned over the bar to demonstrate how close I meant. "And now I have no idea what to tell Kazu, or Loke." I laid my head down on the bar on my arms. I knew I was tipsy, but I also knew I was very sleepy.
'I'll just close my eyes for a second…'
A/N Hallo, Loves, how are you?
FINALLY! This string of events has been planned out since this story was imagined! And I really like Lisanna, I really do.
Go check out my new story 'Help Me Remember?' please!
ANYWAYS! Review 'kay? 'Till next time, Loves-
Ally-chan Ravenwood :-*