Hello, readers! here is chapter 7. I hope you all enjoy it. I don't have much else to say, so lets get on with the chapter.
Rayan0068- You begged me for a new chapter today so here you go. I hope you like it haha.
Disclaimer- Fairy Tail is not mine
Chapter 7
Natsu's POV (17)
Why can't she realise how much she means to me? She should be with me. Laughing with me. Having me drive her to school. Spending time with me. Going to prom together. But instead she's doing all that with Gray.
Why him? Why would she choose him over me? I still don't understand why that is. Juvia doesn't understand either. That's why we're working together to be able to get them to go out with the right person. Although, it's kind of getting more and more difficult as the day goes on. Pretending to be with someone when you're not gets really difficult. But overall I would have to say that our plan is working well. I know that Gray must be getting Jealous of not being able to be with Juvia.
Of course, the both of us were unsettled about what we saw earlier this morning.
I'm also confused on why Lucy was angry at me. Did I do something to upset her? Did I say something? I don't remember saying anything to her.
Maybe our plan was actually starting to work. Maybe she was actually getting jealous. That would be a long shot, but I'm going to hope for the best and say that it's true. Maybe if the plan still world she'll get really jealous and do something about it.
When we walked out of the class Juvia came up to me and said she saw the envy in Lucy's eyes.
"Lucy is defiantly getting jealous."
"You really think so?"
"Juvia knows so."
I was happy that our plan was finally working. I hoped, at least.
"I can say the same thing for you. Gray looked really jealous earlier."
"Juvia's and Natsu's plan is working!" She said happily.
"It really is."
Then we said goodbye and we left to go to our next classes. I was excited that I would be seeing Lucy soon since the class we have together again is coming up. Hopefully she'd be in a better mood by them.
I found out very quickly that she was in fact, still is a bad mood.
"Luce. What's wrong."
"Nothing." She said in that tone of voice that means that she's lying. I know when she's lying, she is my best friend after all.
"I know you're lying." She looked up at me and replied.
"Even if I was, it's none of your business."
"You're mad at me, aren't you."
"No I'm not." She didn't even look at when she spoke.
"You two! Be quiet." The teacher yelled at us.
One the teacher turned around I went back to trying to uncover the mystery.
"Lucy, just tell me what I did wrong." She didn't respond. "I'm sorry if I did something to upset you." Again she wasn't speaking. The silent treatment. Great.
The class went on like that. Even when we had to work together in class she barely talked, and didn't look at me when she did. Something was definitely up. Finally, like Christmas bells, the bell rung signifying that the class was finally over. Lucy didn't even wait for me as she left the class. That's when it hurt.
She never left the class when we had it together. Not once in our whole school life, has one of us walked away without waiting for the other. And the only time we went alone, we would tell the other first. No matter what argument we were in. Now I know something is wrong.
I decided to go down to the cafeteria anyway.
The walk down felt like the walk of shame. When I went down, she wasn't there.
"Where's Lucy?" Levy asked.
"I don't know." I said sitting down.
"You guys had last class together."
"Yeah."
"You guys always walk down together."
"Not always."
"Don't even deny it, Natsu."
"Okay so we walked down alone. Nothing wrong with that."
"Doesn't look like she walked alone." I heard Gajeel say, he probably heard our conversation. Like me, he had powerful hearing compared to everyone else. He pointed to the cafeteria entrance and I saw Lucy walk in. But not alone. But with Gray. She walked down with him. Him? And not me? Is that why she left without me.
"Looks like you got some competition there." Gajeel laughed.
"Gajeel!" Levi hissed, and gave him a death glare. She punched him quickly, and that shut him right up.
"Why are they walking together?" Levy asked me.
"How should I know." I looked away and sat down, so that they wouldn't see my upset face. But I could tell that Levy knew something was wrong. I could tell that the two of them were already at the table because levy said hello to the both of them.
"Natsu." Gray said to me, although there was anger in his voice, but only enough so that I was the only one who could. I didn't say anything but I nodded. He sat on the other end of the table, thank god. I did not want to sit near him. There weren't anymore open seats, so Lucy had to sit across from me. I looked up but she still wouldn't meet my eyes.
Sadly, most of lunch was spent in an awkward silence.
"What put all of you people in a bad mood?" Cana said loudly. "You all need to liven up."
"I don't think they are in the mood."
"Pft, whatever."
When lunch was over, the rest of the day was dreading. The day seemed to take forever to end. I wanted nothing more than to go home and sleep. When I heard the last bell ring, I was the happiest person. But still, I took my time packing my stuff.
As I was walking out the building, little ways in front of me, I saw her. Lucy was walking on the sidewalk. She must have been walking home today. Without even thinking, I ran to catch up to her.
"Lucy!" I called, and she stopped to look back and saw that it was me. I couldn't read her expression so I had no idea what she was thinking when she saw me.
"Natsu?" She asked quizzically
"You're walking home?" I asked
"Yeah. I walk home all the time. Nothing unusual." That is true but Gray had been driving her places like he's her chaperon.
"I'll walk with you." I said, giving her a smile. I could see her checks went slightly red.
"Oh you don't have to, really, it's fine." She said as she put her hair behind her ear in a way that I always found cute.
"I want to. Besides, it dangerous for someone to walk home alone." She didn't say no, so I took that as a yes. We walked in silence for a bit. It wasn't a bad not good silence. Just silence. As we were walking we walk past an old playground, and a flood of memories of us down there came to mind of us when we were younger and playing in the park.
"Remember when we would play here when we were kids." I said.
She looked over to the park and smiled. "Yeah, I do."
An idea came to mind. And it was either going to work very well or very bad. I'm just hoping for the best.
"Let's go."I said.
"What?" She looked at me confused.
"To the park. Let's play."
"Natsu, where high schoolers, we can't be playing at a kids p-" I grabbed her hand mid sentence and we were walking down to the park. I walked us into the playground and climbed up to where the slides were.
"Natsu! What are you doing." We were the only people at the park. Probably because the younger students don't get out until later on in the day. So we were sitting alone at the slides.
"The slides were your favorite." She said.
"Yeah." I smiled. She sat herself on one of the slides and I sat on the one next to her.
"Race you!" We both said, and laughed at our game we played when we were young.
"On the count of three."
"One."
"Two."
"Three!" And we both slide down and when I got to the bottom I heard her laugh.
"I won!"
"What?" I said. "I was way faster than you."
"No you weren't! I totally got down before you."
I was going to keep arguing with her, mainly because I knew that I won. But instead I did something else. "Fine. You might be faster on the slide. But I'm totally faster on land!" And I started chasing after her. She noticed and ran away, but I was closing in on her.
"Natsu!"
"I'm going to get you!" We both laughed. I was just inches behind her, my hand just out of reach. Suddenly, I tripped over some type of rock or something small on the ground. That caused me to fall forward and knock Lucy down. Before I knew it I was on top of Lucy.
Our faces inches apart. Noses just about touching. Our eyes looking deep into each other.
Neither of us moved for a few moments and we just layed there. There were so many emotions in both of our eyes that we had no idea what the other was feeling. I didn't even know how I was feeling, let alone what she was feeling.
Once I realized how close we really were, I felt the rush of heat go to my cheeks, and she probably saw it because then she started to blush too. I quickly got up, and she got up slowly after me. Now we're sitting next to each other, both of us probably very embarrassed. I was, at least.
"I'm-I'm sorry Luce." I said as I embarrassing rubbed my hands through my hair.
"It okay." She laughed. "It was fun though." She said as she leaned back towards the grass she hands stretched back, leaning on her hands. "Brought back old times."
"Yeah. It was was fun." I agreed.
She got up and started started to walk over to somewhere else.
"Where are you going?" I asked, sitting up.
"Come on." She smiled, and pulled her hand towards me. "Let's go."
I grabbed her hand and we walked towards the swings. And I remembered that the swings were her favorite. We went over and say in the same swings that we always did when we went on.
"I bet I can go higher than you." She smirked.
"Oh, you're on." We both laughed.
So we were on the swings for a while, and we ended by agreeing on ending it on a tie. But I totally went higher than her.
"We should probably get going." She said. "We have homework to do."
I nodded sadly, not wanting to leave, but we were going to have to leave sooner or later.
I still decided on waking her home, and the walk there was more cheerful. And it felt lik how it normally is. I hadn't realized how much I just like being with her. Just hearing her voice. When she was waking, looking forward, the sun made her hair and skin shine. She looked beautiful. But she was always beautiful in my eyes.
We finally got to her house and she unlocked her door. She looked at me and said. "Do you want to come in for a minute?"
My smile grew "yeah!"
She laughed and walked in, I followed.
So I sat down on the couch, and she wakes into the kitchen and brought out our beloved cookies and some drinks.
"Thanks, Luce!"
"We should do homework." I sighed as a response. We were having so much fun, why did she want to ruin it with work.
"But Luceā¦"
"Natsu." She gave me the 'you better do what I say.' Look. I hated that look.
"Okay, fine."
So we studies and did homework for a while, and I got tired really quickly. Luckily, Lucy was there and she helped me on the things that I didn't know. I honestly probably would be passing school if it weren't for Lucy helping me. Finally we were done, and sadly, I had to leave. But this was the not fun I've had in awhile. I've missed just spending some time with her. Probably because she's been sled if a lot of time with that Ice freak. But I can't worry about that now. I just need to focuses on Lucy and prom. But how am I going to get her to go with me?
Lucy's POV
The time I spent with Natsu was actually really fun. I know that I was hard on him earlier in the day, but I just didn't want to deal with it. But going to the park, even doing homework with him was really fun. I really do love spending time with him. Even if he can get quite annoying sometimes. Especially when it comes to doing work.
I just hope that everything works out well, and it goes as we plan. It is true and me and Gray have been spending more time together, but so have Natsu and Juvia. And we need to look more like a couple. None of us has made a 'move' on the other, or signifying that their together, but all the clues are there. I wonder if anyone else in our group has notices the tension between the four of us.
Levy said that she wanted to to talk about it with her but I don't even know what I'm suppose to say.
'Oh yeah so I'm going to be going to prom with Natsu, by the problem is that he seems to be going with Juvia when Juvia is suppose to be going with gray. So me and Gray are praying to be a couple to get the other two jealous of us and we all get to grow both who we are suppose to.
Yeah, so it's kind of complicated. This isn't exactly and 'normal' situation for us. But if it's the only way that we can go to prom with who we want than so be it. Because people have said that Natsu likes me. But, what if that isn't true anymore. What if I missed my chance with him? Then what do I do?
I can't think like that. But Natsu, and me, together. In a relationship. Sounds crazy. But crazy enough that it sounds like something I want.
End of Chapter 7
And there we have chapter 7, I hope you all liked it. I feel like this chapter was kind of boring... I don't know. I think I could have written it better, but whatever. But I did like how I started it (it connects to the last line of the last chapter haha) but not much really happened, but there was some nalu in there so I hoped you all liked that. Thanks for reading. Don't forget to review if you liked it!
