A PRINCE AND HIS MATE-chapter 8

Lucy's POV

I just finished my shift at the cafe and right now I am exiting my work place

"Bye Juvia and Levy" I say to juvia and levy obviously

"Bye Lucy, see you tomorrow" They both respond to me at the same time

Yesterday was really fun, I spent the whole day with Natsu. I still don't know how I feel about the whole mate thing, although I'm sure about two things, the first is that it makes me happy that I'm such an important person to Natsu and the second is that I like spending time with Natsu and that I really like him.

Me and Natsu are planning to meet at my place in an hour, after that we are gonna go eat lunch outside, then watch a movie at the cinema, then have a walk at the beach and finally have dinner at my place. I'm really glad that Natsu has so much free time, but it makes me wonder if being a prince is so easy.

Natsu's POV

Right now I'm at the throne room with my parents because they called me. I'm just hoping that this won't take long because I have to meet with Luce in an hour.

"Natsu, I see that you finally came" My mother said while sitting at her big throne

"Yeah, so what did you want?" I asked them

"We wanted to ask you where you have been going lately, I mean you go out a lot in the day and one night you didn't even show up" my father says with a serious tone, trying to read my expressions. So they are wondering where I've been going, what should I tell them, oh right, Gray!

"Uh, lately I've been hanging out a little with my best friend Gray, and about that one night, it was getting late, so I decided to stay at his place since I was already there" I added the 'best' to make it convincing.

"I see, are you going to see him today too?" My father asked a bit convinced

"Um yeah, we're going to meet in an hour at his place" I answered him

And that's when Lisanna gets in.

"Oh Natsu, I haven't seen you in a while since you were out often or closed in your room, what are you doing here?" She asks me happily

"Oh Lisanna, I was just called by my parents for what you just said. Anyway, I'm going now, bye"

"Ah, bye Natsu" she replied and I started my way to Luce's place

I'm supposed to be there in fifty minutes and until then I'm going to look around some shops with girly stuff, because I wanna buy Luce a present. I wonder what I should get her, maybe a necklace...yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

While I was looking around the shops, I came across a jewellery shop and went inside to check it out. At first I didn't see anything interesting, but when I was ready to leave, something caught my eye. It was a golden necklace with a little star in the middle. It was a little simple, but it was beautiful at the same time and it would totally suit Luce perfectly.

I bought it and then looked at the time, I had only ten minutes, so I left the shop with the small box in my hands and headed to Luce's place. While I was on my way, I realised that I should probably give her the present at the beach or during dinner, so I quickly hid it in my pocket.

A little after that I was standing outside Luce's apartment and I immediately went up the stairs and got ready to knock on her door.

Lucy's POV

I just finished my bath and right now I'm wearing the clothes I picked before my bath.

I had picked to wear a short dress, it was light pink and it was tight against my chest, but it was opening up when it came to my legs. I wore it with white sandals and I let my hair down freely.

I had around ten minutes before the time Natsu should be here, so I grabbed my white purse and waited for him.

After some time I heard someone knock on my door and of course it was Natsu, so I went to open the door, and there he was grining big at me.

"You ready to go?" he asked me and with a smile on my face I nodded at him and we both went downstairs so that we could begin our little date, which definitely was a friendly one, though who am I kidding, I like this idiot and I he likes me too, so it is not a friendly one. We just name it 'friendly' since we're not yet in the stage to call it 'non-friendly', if you know what I mean.

We started off our little date with lunch in a fast food shop and Natsu was a little funny with his disguise on, and I couldn't help but giggle a little. He was wearing a black hat and every strand of his hair was hidden in it, although I'm not sure how he managed to do that. He was also wearing black glasses and regular clothes, in particular jeans and a white t-shirt that said 'Don't let anything stop you' with big blue letters.

We sat down at a table beside the window and a woman came to take our order. I ordered chicken nuggets and french fries and Natsu ordered a really big hamburger.

"That hamburger is a little big, are you sure you can eat it all?" I asked him wondering

"No worries, I can eat ten of those if I want to" Ten!?, is he crazy?, but now that I think about it, he had quite the appetite at my house too.

"You must be insane" I said

"No, I'm not, I'm just hungry" he looked at me with a pout on his face and I decided to drop the subject

"So, I was wondering how come you are a dragon slayer since they are supposed to be raised by dragons?"

"Oh, that, My great great great great great great grandfather was a dragon slayer raised by a dragon named Igneel, that's where the name Dragneel comes from, and the dragon slayer magic has been passed on to his child and his child's child and so on since it is really strong magic. So here I am, a dragon slayer that hasn't been raised by a dragon, same as my father and my grandfather and I think you get the idea. It's actually something like a tradition" He explained it to me with details

"So you're supposed to have a child with dragon slayer magic with Lisanna, right?" I asked, not really understanding I just said that out loud.

"That's what they want me to do, but there's no way I'll ever marry Lisanna and have kids with her, if I'm going to marry anyone, that'll be you!" He said full of emotion and I could feel that he meant it, though at the last sentence we both blushed so hard and our faces turned crimson red.

"O-Ok" was all I could answer to what he said

"Anyway, are you done with your lunch?" he asked me, trying to change the subject

"U-Uh, yes I'm done" I answered him and looked at his plate to see that that big hamburger was all gone too

"I'm done too, shall we go?" he asked me and I nodded at him with a small smile forming on my lips

He then left some money at the table and I was ready to do the same thing, but he said it was fine, and by that he meant that he was going to pay for both of us and he did, since I didn't bother to object and I simply blushed a light pink.

We exited the shop and headed for the cinema, since the movie we decided to watch was starting in twenty minutes. The movie was called 'The Garden of words' and it was romance. Natsu didn't seem excited to watch it, but last time he was the one that picked a movie, so it was my turn now.

We bought some popcorn and cola and went to our seats to wait for the movie to start. When the movie was done, Natsu surprised me by saying that the ending was a little sad, since the protagonists couldn't be together. I felt the same too but that's just how it had to be, they couldn't do anything about it.

"But overall you liked the movie, right?" I asked him

"Yeah, it was good, but I've seen way better ones" He answered trying not to make a big deal out of the movie

"Well, next time if you want, we can watch a movie that you'll choose" I said with a smile on my face and he smiled back to me

"Sure" he answered me

By then it was afternoon and the sun had already started to go down. Next up was the walk at the beach. We chose a beach that wasn't regulary too crowded and when we arrived it was empty and we were the only ones there.

It made me happy that we could have some alone-alone time. So far me and Natsu have had a lot of fun on our little date and I got to know him a little bit more too. I just can't wait for the rest of the date!

Author's note:

Hi guys, I just want to thank you all for your support, it makes me really happy to see that you like my story! Just so you know, I have big plans for the next chapter and I'm going to update as soon as I can, bye for now!