BlackLynx17: I know it took me longer to post this up, it's hard to though now that school started for me again. It was a nice two week vacation while it lasted. Oh well.
I've been working hard on the future chapters of this story and hope I'll be finished soon. Believe me when I say A LOT happens in the future, an unbelievable amount. It seems like every time I write a story I really love, it gets longer and longer. Hopefully this doesn't end up as long as Issues or Mythical Creatures, hopefully. I'm sure all of you are wishing it will be longer though, huh? Lol.
Anyways thanks for my reviews everyone and I hope you'll enjoy this new chapter. It makes me happy to know how you all feel about my stories. Thank you.
AAA Chapter 9
"Hey Lucy, wait up!"
I paused and turned around, strands of hair getting in my mouth. I quickly brushed them behind my ear and looked up, seeing Natsu running towards me. My heart skipped when he stopped in front of me, scratching the back of his head. He remembered my name though he only heard for the first time a few minutes ago, and actually ran after me. My mind started replaying all the animes I've seen this in and I felt myself get weak in the knees.
"So, you walk this way home?" He asked.
I nodded.
"So do I, want to walk together?"
I pinched my elbow as I nodded again.
"Great!" Natsu grinned and started walking with me.
I nodded again, it taking me a second to realize he didn't ask me a question just now. I turned around and caught up to him, this time the two of us walking side by side down the road. I clenched the strap to my bag so hard my hands started to hurt, it was reminding me this wasn't a dream so I kept squeezing harder and harder.
"I'm so happy you joined the club, it's all Wendy ever cares about. Well that and anime, has she told you about herself?" He asked.
I shook my head. Natsu began the long explanation of how the anime club came to be, how he used to be in the club, how Wendy made the club because she wanted friends, how he joined, how everyone else joined. It was so heartfelt, so happy, so-
"This sounds like the beginning of an anime." I cried wiping tears from my eyes.
"Doesn't it? I thought the same thing. I always wanted to try rejoining the anime club, even though I never admitted it, and well Wendy helped me realize I should. She cares so much for the club and for us, it makes me happy when she makes new friends. That girls deserves them, I have no idea why she can't make normal friends." Natsu said.
I giggled lightly, "it sounds like you really care for her."
"I do, as a little sister though. Or maybe a big sister because she's our president. So Lucy, did you ever think about joining anime club?" He asked.
I shook my head, "no. Never."
"Why not? Do you have people to talk to anime about?"
"Yeah."
"You do?" He asked.
"Yeah, but they don't watch anime. My friends will just listen to me rant all the time and let me get everything out then would change the subject. I've never really talked to a person who knew what I was talking about before though." I said.
"Well great! Tomorrow we can talk all you want about anime, or maybe you can do that with Wendy and Juvia because I don't watch romance that much... at all actually. Well I have seen Sailor Moon but like who hasn't? That's like a starter anime."
I giggled.
"You don't talk very much, do you Luce?" Natsu asked staring at me.
I took a step back, "what did you call me?"
"Luce, are we not that close friends yet? Lucy is already a short name but Luce sounds cooler. It could be your alias if you want."
"Alias? Are we going to be committing any crimes anytime soon Natsu?" I teased.
"You tell me Luce?"
I giggled again, feeling like I was walking on clouds. This was a dream, this had to be. No way that I was actually talking to Natsu like this, actually became his friend after meeting him and he was actually walking home with me. The statistics of this happening is-
"I want to say I've seen you around school, but I can't say I have. It's weird, you think I would have remembered a girl wearing a pink bow like Aerith. No one really wears pink bows at school." Natsu said.
I hummed, "I've seen you around a few times. I've watched some of your games too."
"Really? Hopefully you've seen the games I've won."
I started laughing, Natsu laughing along with me.
"So, how often do you have your cooking classes?" He asked.
"Everyday, but this is my second year going there so I sometimes skip the classes I've already taken or the food that I already know how to cook. What about you with your club?"
"Well I kind of got kicked off the team for a while since I got detention. I've served all of them though and just forgot about going, I'm going to go tomorrow though. We have practice every other day so I'll only be able to go Tuesdays and Thursday and on days that coach lets us off early... which is probably never." Natsu sighed.
"You sound sad?" I asked.
"Well, yeah. The first club I ever wanted to join was anime, but when that failed I joined football and I've been there ever since. I mean football is great and all but... I love anime." I said.
"And you don't love football?"
"Not as much as anime."
"Then why don't you just quit football?"
"Because... just because. I like football."
"But you love anime."
"All my friends are football and sport players-"
"And you think they would care if you quit and joined the anime club? Are you calling what we love dorky?" I asked, furrowing my eyebrows a bit.
"Ugh, you make me sound like Gray." Natsu groaned running a hand down his face.
"Like Gray?" I asked.
"He didn't want to join because he didn't think he'd make any friends, I don't think that though. I don't have friends like that, I just enjoy playing football. I would like to do both and I probably will be able to but... it seems I won't be with you at your first day of anime club tomorrow." He sighed.
"Oh well I'll see you there another day. I'm sure we're going to be seeing each other a lot now that we're in the same club." I said.
"Yeah, that's true."
"Well um, my house is right down this block. I think this is were we part." I said staring across the street.
"Really? Well then, see you tomorrow at school I guess?" He asked.
I smiled and nodded.
"Thanks for walking me." I said.
"No problem Luce, see you tomorrow." He waved.
I turned around and waited for the light to turn red. I didn't hear footsteps leaving and peeked behind me, flinching a little when I saw him staring at me.
"Uh, okay. Do you remember the episode of Sailor Moon when Serena was making cookies for Darien?" He rushed out.
"Um... yes?"
"Cool, now if I was Darien and you were Serena does that mean you were giving me cookies because you felt like Serena felt about Darien?"
... "Huh?"
"What I'm asking is if the reason you gave me cookies was because you liked me?" He asked.
I blinked, my smiling freezing on my face.
"Look, I barely know you but... you seem like a really nice person and an anime lover. I'm sure we have a lot of things in common and plus you bake wonderful. Would you like to go out?" He asked.
I opened my mouth, words seemed to fail me though. Instead I shortly nodded my head. Natsu grinned and chuckled.
"Great! Well um, I'll meet you here tomorrow morning to walk you to school, that's what couples do right? Yeah. Bye Lucy." Natsu said, leaning over to kiss my cheek before walking off.
I blinked, pulling out my phone from my bag.
"Hello? Hi Kagura, I just want to thank you so much for making me bump into Wendy at the first day of school... the girl with the blue hair, remember?... Yeah. Thank you so much."
I couldn't think at all as I walked home and squealed into my pillow.
For the first time in your life you have a boyfriend Lucy. A boyfriend. And it's with a really nice guy! A really, really, sweet, funny, nice guy. I stared at myself in the mirror, brushing my hair. I always thought I'd look different when I'd get my first boyfriend and I guess I did a little. My cheeks look filled with more color, my eyes brighter, my hair bouncier. I wiggled my nose and brushed my hair into my side ponytail, placing the pink ribbon around it.
I hummed lightly as I reached for some red lipstick, placing it on my lips. I also added some mascara and blush, giving myself a small make-over. I blinked at the new me and pouted, rushing to the bathroom to wash it all off. This was all ridiculous! So ridiculous, aw, I didn't know. I sighed and instead of giving myself the makeover, placed on a light gloss of pink lip gloss. There. I was beautiful, I didn't need all those things to make me even more beautiful. Natsu asked me out yesterday and I wasn't even wearing any make-up! I would have though if Wendy gave me a heads up.
Alright Lucy, you're about to be late to school. I sprayed on a little perfume, brushed my teeth, then ran out of my home because I couldn't waste time eating breakfast. I jogged my way down the street and spotted Natsu standing across from it. He looked at me and waved, holding up his burger in the air.
"Morning Lucy!"
I blushed and waved back, happy there was some distance between us so he couldn't see it. I waited for the light to turn red so I could walk over to him.
"Morning Natsu." I smiled.
"Morning again... wanna bite?" Natsu asked holding out his burger.
My stomach started growling right when he said it and he started laughing while I hugged my stomach.
"I was almost late so I had to skip breakfast." I said.
"No, it's fine. That's happened to me hundreds of times. Here." Natsu said handing me his hamburger.
"Thanks." I whispered grabbing it.
"Pass," he said reaching for my bag.
I let him grab it and we started walking off to school together. I looked at the hamburger and licked my lips, taking bite out of it, moaning as an explosion of flavors hit my tongue.
"What you get on this?"
"Everything, it's called a monster burger."
"It's delicious." I said.
"Yeah, I'm such a well known customer they always give me extra special sauce."
I took another bite out of it, looking over at Natsu. He looked down at me and smiled.
"Are you sure I can finish this?" I asked.
"I had two before meeting you here, go right on ahead."
"If you say so." I mumbled finishing the burger off.
"So, how was your day yesterday?" Natsu asked.
"Good. Did some homework, read some manga, practiced cooking then went to sleep." I said.
"Really? I did the same things! Well except homework and instead of practicing cooking I ate cooking, but yeah." Natsu grinned.
I stared giggling at him.
"So, what made you like me Lucy?" He asked next.
I tripped and fell down on the ground, ouch.
"Oh my God, Lucy are you alright?" He rushed to my side and helped me up.
"I'm fine, just fine."
"Wow. I've only seen that happen in animes before."
"Me too, never thought it would actually happen." I said dusting my skirt off.
"Well sorry, I was just wondering and all if it was love at first sight since we've never met before and-"
"We have."
"Excuse me?"
"We have met before, I have some classes with you when I was a freshman and we've even have classes together this year too." I confessed.
"We do?! Oh my God Lucy, I'm so sorry."
"No, no, it's alright."
"No it's not! You think I would have noticed because you have Aerith's ribbon and your beautiful, I'm such a idiot."
I blushed at beautiful.
"I'm sorry Lucy, we're starting off as a lazy couple. I promise I'll start noticing you more often."
"No Natsu, it's really alright! It's not like we were friends or anything." I said waving my hands.
Natsu frowned and I smiled.
"Thanks for caring though and I guess it could be called love at first sight because um, alright. You probably don't remember but you actually got me this ribbon." I said softly touching it.
"I did?" He asked.
"Yeah! It was at-"
My voice was drowned out by the sound of the warning bell ringing.
"Oh! We better hurry Natsu if we don't want to be late!" I said picking up my pace.
"Wait! Lucy!" Natsu said jogging to keep up with me.
"Sorry, I've never had a tardy or been absent before and I don't plan on starting now. Let's go!" I said.
It sucked that my first period wasn't one of the classes I had with Natsu, he made up for it by walking me to class though. Natsu was so kind, he smiled and told me to have a good class before leaving. When I walked in my girl friends immediately bombed me with questions. What could I tell them though? I was in love. They all wished they were dating football players, but I told them that wasn't the reason I was dating Natsu. I could careless if he was a football player, I cared more that he was an Otaku.
"So this is one of the classes we have together." Natsu said looking around.
I giggled into my hand.
"Juvia?! Hey! What are you doing here? Why didn't you tell me we had this class together, I thought we were friends?" He asked.
"You're always asleep in this class Natsu, there was no point." She said.
I giggled harder into my hand.
"Oh, yeah this is one of my boring classes. Hey what's so funny over there Lucy?" He asked.
"You." I smiled.
"Really? Am I that amusing?" He asked flashing me a grin.
I gulped and felt my cheeks heat up.
"Hey Lucy, did you read the new chapter of Taiyou no le?" Juvia asked.
"Did I?" I said turning away from Natsu.
Oh stop acting so nervous Lucy, this is your now boyfriend you're sitting next too. I peeked back at Natsu and saw him dozing off, I sweat dropped or at least imagined myself doing so.
"Impressive, he usually knocks out right when he comes into class." Juvia said.
"Really?" I asked.
"Yeah, so what's the deal? Are you dating him now or?"
I blushed, "yes."
"Really? So he was in love with you too?"
"I think in love is going to far, he said he liked me and asked me out. Actually, he asked if I liked him like Serena liked Darien and did this whole Sailor Moon thing." I laughed.
Juvia laughed with me, Natsu snoozing away on his desk.
"If only Gray was like Natsu, then maybe he would have asked me out." Juvia pouted.
"Aw, I don't know Gray very much yet but I'm sure he likes you." I told her.
"He does and will. We're talking about you though, why Natsu? Why anime? Why wait so long to move?" Juvia asked.
"Well um anime I discovered when I was in middle school, I wasn't that into it and then all of a sudden posters and figures are decorating my room." I said.
"It happens to the best of us." Juvia nodded.
"And then why wait so long? Well I hear Natsu liked eating, and noticed it as well, so I joined cooking class in hopes I could make something delicious for him. I've always wanted to give him my cooking but never had, always chickening out. When Wendy and Romeo came that day and said his name, I saw my chance. I did it. Then when you came along I just... you two helped me find my feet by talking me into like none of my friends had before."
"By using anime, of course. Now why Natsu?"
"Well because, Natsu's Natsu."
"Is that all Natsu is?"
The two of us started giggling.
"Really though, him being super hot isn't a huge thing to me." I said.
"But it is a big one."
"It's because he's him Juvia, that's all I know how to describe it as. Natsu's the type of person, so sure he isn't so bright and he talks with his fists and thinks with his stomach, but he's the type of person I always wanted to end up with." I said staring at his sleeping face.
It was so cute, so peaceful, so completely unaware that we were talking about him right in front of him that I giggled.
"He makes me laugh Juvia, that's why I like Natsu." I said.
"Ah, so you were the type of girl who likes guys who make them laugh. Now I'm the type of girl who likes guys who make me feel warm inside and Gray's just the type of person for me! Gray!" Juvia cheered.
Natsu woke up and started looking around, "what? Where?... Oh." He said realizing where he was.
I giggled, "morning Natsu."
He chuckled, "sorry, I fell asleep didn't I? So what did I miss?"
Juvia and I shared a look, "nothing."
You committed to this Lucy. Actually... you only joined the club because you realized Natsu was in it, but everyone's so nice and kind in there. That's not the point, even if Natsu isn't in the club right now that doesn't mean you shouldn't go! At least give it a try! Try to see it from their point of view, none of them ever had anyone to talk about with anime while you did but those people just didn't understand you... and poor Wendy.
How couldn't she have friends?! She was such a kind, sweet, innocent girl! I shook my head and turned the corner, walking down the halls to the anime room. I nearly bumped into a senior who was rushing down the halls, his green hair hitting me in the face when he turned his head. I spat out hair and rubbed my mouth off, planning to yell at the guy but he had already vanished. As I walked down the halls I noticed someone just staring inside a classroom, once the person heard my footsteps without even looking they started walking away.
I didn't recognize the student, he seemed to be in Natsu's grade though because of the patch on his shoulder. When I passed the door I looked inside to see what he was looking at and saw Wendy and the gang. Was he- did he- I kept this secret to myself. Sure Wendy would have been excited about hearing that someone was secretly interested in All About Anime club, but I didn't get a good look at his face. He could be anyone. Then two... I didn't want to raise her hopes up.
Well then, I peeked inside the window again and saw Wendy smacking Gray with a rolled up newspaper, Gray taking the blows rather dramatically. What were they doing? I wondered with a smile as I entered. The battle was put on pause as everyone looked to see who came in.
"Lucy!" They cheered.
"Hey everyone, um, what were you guys doing before?" I asked.
"We were fighting!" Wendy cheered.
"Um, fighting?"
"Don't knock it off until you try it Lucy. I thought the same thing when I first joined." Gray said handing me his ruler.
"Um... okay." I said taking it.
"Yeah, I think Lucy should fight one of us as her welcome party. It really is fun Lucy, loads of fun." Wendy cheered.
I couldn't say no to the cute girl.
"Alright, who will I be fighting?" I asked.
"Me." Juvia said walking up.
She glared at me and I had no idea why she was doing- oh. Because Gray gave me his ruler. I tossed the thing at Juvia and reached for, for a book! Yeah! I could fight with a book.
"Okay, the two of you can pick the setting and everything and we're going to watch! Good luck!" Wendy cheered.
"Settings? What are you-"
"Just close your eyes Lucy and imagine it." Romeo said.
Close my eyes and imagine. I closed my eyes and imagined, imagined... Natsu. That wouldn't do right now so I closed them even tighter and saw... saw... a forest. Not just any forest though, a- a- a forest full of fairies! I opened my eyes and saw that forest full of fairies, bright and vibrant colors everywhere, fairies with tails on their backsides. This was amazing! I looked over at Juvia and saw her dressed in some blue battle armor, holding a staff in her hand.
"Hey, I didn't know you wore Card Captor Sakura's staff." I told her.
Juvia smirked and raised her staff, I think that meant we were about to battle. I looked down at my weapon and saw a manga, no! I saw a spell book! Awesome! I've never done this before with my friends, no way would they have ever done such a thing.
"Hiyaah!" Juvia said running up and swinging her staff at me.
"Einsester, Shield!" I casted, a barrier coming over me.
"You think this is strong enough to stop me?!" Juvia asked, her staff head becoming bigger and bigger.
I kneeled down on one knee and squinted my eyes, the pressure was too much. I jumped out the way and saw my barrier crush into shards.
"Hmm, you're stronger than I thought." I said dusting myself off.
"You'll be surprised at my real strength, that's nothing compared to it. Gray's love fills me with passion!" Juvia started glowing.
"Don't bring me into this." Gray said from the background.
"Ram of the Aries! Ox of the Taurus! Come to me!" I called out my demons.
My spirits popped out of nowhere and landed in front of me. Juvia's eyes widened and she blinked, I smirked.
"Vanish! Oh wonderful stone full of light. I invoke thee!" I casted.
My spirits stared running up to attack her, Juvia tried her best to dodge and hide behind the trees, casting stupid little hearts at me.
"Slave arrows!" She casted.
"Einsester Shield!"
Her arrows were blocked. The blood in my veins started rushing as Juvia and I started getting more into our fighting. Wow, this was actually really fun. I smiled and closed my book, raising it into the air.
"Enough games." I glared evilly at her.
Juvia gulped and I smirked.
"Oh flame burning bright." I whispered hugging myself.
"Oh no!" Juvia said setting up shields.
My eyes turned golden and my sprits turned into bright lights, golden spirits that were mine to command at the palm of my hands.
"This is it." Gray laughed.
"How exciting!" Wendy giggled.
"Lucy, it's over now." Juvia cowered.
"Too late for that Juvia." I spoke.
"I'm serious, game over."
I giggled.
"I'm sorry!"
"Turn into a storm of wrath!" I called.
And now it was game over.
"Hey, are you sure you don't want to walk with us?" Wendy asked.
"Yeah, I've forgiven you for nearly killing me." Juvia said.
I started giggling, "thanks Juvia. I think I'm going to stay here for a little longer though, besides I live that way." I told them.
"We don't mind, that just means more adventures for us!" Wendy cheered.
I giggled and Gray placed his hand over her head.
"Right, if the girl doesn't want adventure Wendy then don't make her. We'll see you tomorrow then Lucy." Gray said turning Wendy around.
"Bye Lucy! It was a pleasure seeing you fight!" Romeo waved.
"Bye Lucy." Juvia said with a small smile.
I watched them leave out the school then sighed, turning around. I started walking over to where the PE field is or more specifically, where the football players would be practicing.
"Lucy, you're late." My friends told me.
"Sorry, sorry. I was hanging out in another club, remember?"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. You missed the coach cursing out your boyfriend." She snickered making space for me.
I sat beside her and stared out into the field, trying to spot Natsu. This has been my secret spot since I first discovered Natsu was in the football team, me and my friends had came here nearly every practice to watch them. It was no different then how the guys would watch cheerleaders basically. I stared and watch Natsu run long and catch the ball.
"I can't believe you landed yourself a football player Lucy, how'd you do it?" My friend sighed.
I sighed out with her, "I wonder the same thing myself."
How was I able to land myself a football player? Oh yeah, that's right. Because that football player happened to love anime and my cooking. I bet if I told my friends about that part they'd all start watching anime, I giggled to myself.
"Well you missed one good practice Lucy, looks like it's over."
We watched as the football players started to scatter across the field, some of them continuing their practice while others walked over to the gym. The girls and I all stood up and started making our way out of our secret watching spot.
"Well I'll see you guys tomorrow." I said waving them off.
"Lucy? What are you talking about? We always go buy some cake afterwards and talk about- oof!"
"You're forgetting Crystal, Lucy's dating one of them now. She doesn't need to talk and daydream about one of them because she always has one."
"Oh yeah, so you're waiting for Natsu. Hehehe, see you later Lucy."
"Yeah, see yeah later."
The tone of their voices made me feel embarrassed, just what were they implying?! I huffed as I waited for Natsu to walk pass... what if he left the school a different way though? My eyes widened and I face palmed, I should have been waiting in front of the gates. There's only one way to leave school after hours this late. I turned around and started making my way over to the front gate, hoping that he hadn't left yet, when a hand on my forehead stopped me.
"Hey, what are you doing here?"
I looked up and saw Natsu with a smile on his face, sweat or water glistening on his forehead and in his hair. His hands were damp and cold so I figured he took a shower before coming out here.
"I was waiting for you." I said.
"You were? How come you were leaving then?" He asked cocking his head to the side.
I turned around and faced him, "because I didn't know if you passed me or not so I was going to wait in front of the school."
"Oh, well you didn't. Come on, I'll walk you home." Natsu smiled.
I smiled back at him and the two of us started walking out of school together, him taking my bag and holding it for me like this morning.
"What made you want to wait for me?" He asked.
"Well my friends and I used to watch you guys practice all the time and anime club only ended a few minutes ago so I met up with them and saw the end of your practice." I explained.
"So you didn't see the beginning? Good." Natsu sighed.
I giggled, "I take it your coach was mad?"
"Mad doesn't even begin to explain what he was. I've never seen him that furious before, ever! I couldn't believe it! In front of the whole team too! He-" Natsu began to explain how his practice went I watched him.
His eyes were bright and his smile was wide as he explained. He really was handsome, really handsome. Maybe that was what attracted me to him, his smile. That wasn't all though, I would be a shallow person if that was all. His personality was nice too, his passion was amazing whether it was about anime or football and his heart... it was big. He hasn't changed at all either, hasn't succumb to peer pressure or changed his ways. Maybe hiding his anime side was a little peer pressure, but he wears it proudly now.
"Lucy? Lucy? Hello?" Natsu asked.
I blushed, "sorry, sorry. Lost in thought."
"In what thought?" He asked.
"I was just thinking about you and well um... you haven't changed at all." I said, hearing how uncool that sounded a little too late.
"How I haven't changed? Did you know me before? I mean, you said you knew me when you were a freshman but I don't remember so maybe you didn't know me and maybe stalked me like Juvia did with Gray, and Gray warned me you were a stalker but I told him you weren't so maybe I was wrong and please don't tell me I'm wrong Lucy."
I zoned out, trying to determine if his hair turned pinkish orange in the sunlight or reddish pink. "Huh?"
"Did you know me?" He summed it up.
"Er, well-"
"I just remembered, when we were walking to school together you said I got you your ribbon you wear. If that's true then we do know each other, I don't remember at all though. Care to enlighten me?" Natsu asked.
I gulped, my cheeks heating up.
"Oh, is it embarrassing? You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, I just feel bad that I don't remember. I mean I'd be mad if a girl I liked didn't remember anything about me." Natsu said scratching his cheek.
"Yes it's embarrassing, I don't mind sharing it with you though." I mumbled.
"Cool, then share away."
I stared at my shoes as we kept walking. Gosh Lucy, why did I have to say that? He was going to let it slide! Now I had to tell him, tell him how my stupid younger me followed him to this school.
"I'm really smart." I started, praying this wouldn't scare him off.
"Really? I knew you were smart because you can cook well and that takes smarts, but really smart?" Natsu asked.
I nodded.
"This is nice, I'm learning about you know. Keep going." He encouraged.
I nodded again. "I was the smartest child in my middle school for gifted children, scored the highest scores, and was recruited into several gifted schools. I refused all of them and chose this school though because you were going here."
It was silent on Natsu's side, I continued.
"I never went to a co-ed school before and this school was holding a festival. My friends took me here, we were in our second year of junior high and they wanted to check out all of the schools and well, I was really awkward around the guys who tried to pick me up. I mean sure I've been hit on before, that was once or twice though and I had my friends to protect me. Well I got separated from them and remembered us talking about going to the maid café. While I was heading there though this guys came up to me and wouldn't leave me alone... I started crying." I laughed.
Thinking back on it, it was so stupid of me to cry. That would have solved nothing, I didn't know any better though.
"I cried and then, a big enormous teddy bear came to my rescue!" I cheered.
I recalled the memories in my mind like it had just happened yesterday. We were in the second level of the building, near the stairs with streamers and posters decorating everything. They trapped me on the stairs in a corner, I was leaning up against a power ranger show poster. I never saw those boys when I started going to the school, I guess they were just visiting as well.
"This big, brown and fluffy teddy bear came running down the stairs like a demon and punched all the bad guys away! I was scared, but happy that the teddy bear saved my life. Now that I think about it he looked like the teddy bear from Soul Eater, Tezca Tlipoca without the suit or crazy smile though. Anyway the teddy bear helped me up and dusted me off, handing me a ticket for a free ice cream at a stand in hopes I would stop crying." I smiled.
I never spend that ticket and keep it safe in my room, as a reminder of Natsu's kindness.
"I kept crying, though it wasn't as loud, and the teddy bear grabbed my hand and started showing me around the school. I started laughing and smiling, the teddy bear never talked to me for some reason though. We were at a gaming stall, one where you had to throw a ball and knock down the bottles. Hahaha, he couldn't throw the ball because of his outfit, hahaha! He couldn't even pick up the ball!" I laughed.
"It was so funny, finally he sighed in frustration and spiked the ball like a volleyball into the bottles, knocking them all over. I didn't want a prize, I think he played the game for fun though he probably used up all his money trying to win. He motioned for me to pick something, I told him he won so he should chose, so he did. He picked a pink ribbon." I whispered touching the one in my hair.
"He handed it to me and I thanked him, putting it in my hair. He told me, 'wow you look just like Aerith'. Those were the only words he said and then he soon left, I didn't know what he meant by those words. Later I looked them up and found anime, but before that, before I left the festival, I had forgotten to thank the teddy bear for the ribbon. I went searching for him and found it's head, a person sitting next to it drinking a soda. I saw you Natsu and I guess I sort of, fell." I said.
I look up at him and saw his face blank, focusing on the road ahead of him.
"I started visiting the school more and taking tours, trying to see if I could spot you anywhere. I came to this school because of a childish crush and soon realized, you were the type of person I wanted to end up with. I tried to talk to you, it ended in failures though, and then one day this anime loving girl bumps into me. She noticed my ribbon, calls me Aerith just like you did and I thanked her. Who would have thought months later she would appear again and be the bridge that brought us together." I said.
"I-I'm so sorry Lucy, I don't remember any of that though." Natsu finally said.
"It's alright Natsu, it happened years ago. You were a freshman back then, I didn't think you'd remember."
"But your story made me sound so awesome, so cool! Like I was a hero and I can't remember it?!" Natsu panicked.
I giggled, "maybe one too many hits to the head in football made you forget."
"That must be it, football is a dangerous sport."
"You are just now realizing this?!" I laughed.
Natsu chucked and pushed my shoulder.
"Damn, so you were a stalker. Gray was right, I owe him an apology." He muttered.
"What?" I asked.
"Gray, he told me you were a stalker because you baked me cookies and cake. By the way I haven't thanked you for the cake, thank you. It was delicious. My mom wants to meet you so she can steal all your recipes, I think she knows I love your baking more than hers." He whispered.
I giggled and leaned against Natsu's shoulder. This was so nice, so simple, so easy. Why was I ever scared of being friends with Natsu before? What kept me back?
"I like you Natsu." I whispered to him.
Natsu leaned into me a little, "I like you too Lucy."
He walked me the rest of my way home, leaning into me. At the stop light he kissed my forehead this time and waved me off with a smile. I walked home and collapsed in my bed, shoving the pillow in my face. Relationships don't last long if they're built on lies.
How I wish I could have met Natsu that way.
*All About Anime Club Status*
*By Wendy Marvell*
Club Authorization:
OFFICIAL!
Members Have:
President- Wendy Marvell
Vice President- Romeo Conbolt
2nd Vice President - Natsu Dragneel
Treasurer - Gray Fullbuster
Secretary - Juvia Lockster
Personal Chef - Lucy Heartfilia
Side Notes:
Things are going so well, so well! I told me things would start looking up if I worked my hardest. Thank you my animes friends for being my friend and loving anime. Anime for life!
Friendship Level:
Acquaintances
Real Names Rank:
1st) D _ ? _ ? _ ? _ ?
2nd) ? _ ? _ ?
Animes Used:
Sailor Moon - Mentioned
Taiyou no Ie - Mentioned
Cardcaptor Sakura - Mentioned
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai - Move
Inuyasha - Move
One Piece - Move
Soul Eater - Mentioned
