When Lucy opened her eyes, it took her a second to realise where she was. She got up from Natsu's lap, not even surprised that he was still there with her.

He was still asleep and Lucy had half a mind to draw something on his face, but decided against it. Instead, she reached out to touch his ruffled hair and her eyes widened in surprise when she felt how soft his hair was. From the spiky and ruffled look of it she'd been sure that it'd feel a lot different.

Glancing at her phone to check the time she saw that it was lunch time and her stomach agreed with that with a loud growl. She turned to look at Natsu's sleeping face and without even realising it her face got closer to his, taking in all of his attractive traits and inhaling his insanely delicious smell. She had a sensibility for boys with a nice smell. You know, that feeling when a boy passes by you and an amazing cologne lingers after him.

But this… this was purely addictive.

Her lips got closer to his and she felt herself eager to feel those lips on hers. But she also felt like a pervert, kissing him in his sleep. But he had kissed her before without her consent too, so it should be fine, this will only even out things between them. More than that, she was Lucy for god's sake. She could do whatever the fuck she wanted.

But then again, it wasn't right. And what if he wakes up and makes fun of her…

As if… she would Lucy-kick him into the middle of next week if he teases her about this.

While Lucy was debating whether or not to kiss the boy in front of her, whose lips have gotten millimetres from hers, Natsu woke up without opening his eyes and he could feel her hot breath fanning his face. He cracked open one eye as subtly as possible and saw her staring at his lips with her eyebrows furrowed in confusion. Without a second thought, he grabbed the back of her head and crashed their lips together, captivated by the way her lips and her body felt pressed against his.

Lucy's eyes widened realising that she'd been caught in pervert mode, but at the moment she couldn't care any less. The kiss felt electrical and it sent tingles thorough her entire body, as she couldn't deny any more the fire that had started in her heart and stomach.

What started as a soft kiss turned into an intense one as Lucy put her arms around Natsu pulling him even closer, feeling the need to fill the little space between them.

Natsu smirked into the kiss and stopped it abruptly, looking at her with a fake-shocked expression.

"Dear God, Miss Heartfilia! Is that what just-friends are supposed to do?" Natsu asked mockingly.

Sure, trust Natsu to say some dumb shit at a moment like this. Lucy rolled her eyes and got up from the ground in a swift move, brushing the dirt off her skirt. "Yes Natsu, you are totally right." She smiled devilishly at him and went on "We are SO friends. Better remember that the next time you want to kiss me and stop yourself from doing so." Lucy taunted, flipping her hair in a sassy, girly move and started walking away.

Natsu laughed at her reaction, it being exactly what he'd expected from her and jumped up from the ground calling after her "Where are you going?"

Lucy waited for him to catch up before answering "I don't know where I'm going, but I'm going. Are you coming with me?"

Natsu's grin widened hearing her question and answered enthusiastically "Any time!"

Lucy did in fact know where she was headed, but simply wanted to see if Natsu was willing to follow her even though he didn't know where to.

She strolled to the lunch area, with Natsu close behind her, extremely happy seeing that they were going to eat. She was getting ready to set some food on her tray when Natsu's whole group of friends joined them.

Shit. Natsu was annoying enough. She really wasn't feeling the mood so she quietly left without saying anything to Natsu.

But of course, Natsu being Natsu, ran after her, picked her up and carried her over his shoulder. He placed her down on one of the many chairs at the table that his friends were sitting at and took a sit next to her grinning like an idiot.

"It won't kill you to stay with us Lucy, ya know?" He smiled at her and winked.

Lucy lifted her arms in the air in slow motion and said in a very obvious fake-enthusiasm "Awesome." Jellal, Gajeel and Juvia all chuckled at her antics, while the others looked a little offended. Except Erza, she kinda liked Lucy, but still preferred to keep her distance as much as possible since the girl was still bad news, even though she had helped her and Jellal get together.

Lucy took a better look at everyone sitting at the table. Starting from Natsu, because he was closest to her. He looked like a little puppy, wagging his tail, happy that she was sitting with him and his friends for the first time.

Lucy couldn't believe what those dimples could make her do.

Her eyes landed next on a tall, dark haired attractive guy, who had Juvia's entire attention. The girl looked like she was undressing the black haired boy in her mind. Lucy smiled, happy that her friend had finally found a guy that she likes. Now, he'd better return her feelings, or Lucy was gonna beat those feelings out of him.

Then, next to Juvia was Gajeel and next to him was this tiny little girl with blue hair, that was pretending to read from a book, but Lucy could see her glancing from time to time up at Gajeel. So she was the bookworm that Jellal had told her about. Lucy looked back at Gajeel and smirked. Gajeel blushed and narrowed his eyebrows, realising that his feelings had been found out by Lucy.

Lucy looked at Jellal and Erza, Jellal had his arm wrapped around the girl's shoulder. So they did get together.

Jellal winked at her, while Erza gave Lucy a small smile.

So everyone was well and happy, she concluded.

Lucy looked back at her phone to check the time and got up. "Okay, I think I've stayed here enough, my dear dearest Natsu, I'll be taking my leave now." She saluted him militarily and spun around, but as expected Natsu couldn't just let her leave like that. He just had to know every fucking thing. (also, the fact that she had just called him hers, did not escape his ears).

"Where are you going Luce? We still have classes."

Lucy scoffed. They still had classes? Was she supposed to care about that?

"Oh I didn't tell you where I'm going?" she asked and Natsu shook his head.

"Must of been none of your fucking business then…" Lucy stated with a bored expression and strode off.

However, Natsu really wasn't gonna let her have it her way today. He sprinted out of the lunch area after her and Lucy face-palmed herself when she saw him next to her, again, for the millionth time that day. She was really getting tired of his ass, following her around.

"Why won't you leave me aloneee?" She cried out throwing her arms in the air desperately.

He shrugged and smiled "I just wanna spend more time with you."

Lucy looked at him sideways, half wanting to slap him across the head, half wanting to kiss him again (not like she would admit that out loud). "Yeah, well you're annoying."

Natsu's smile didn't flatter even for a second. "Nahh, you love it."

She scoffed. "Yeah, I'd fucking love for you to leave."

"Not gonna happen Luce." Natsu grinned and put his arm over her shoulders, pulling her closer to his body as they walked side by side.

Lucy didn't mind it at all, she actually liked it. A lot. It felt extremely different from when Jellal, or Laxus or any of the other guy friends in her life had done it. This felt intimate, it felt good, it felt inviting. It made her want more. More closeness, more of him, more of those mind-blowing kisses of his.

"Soooo" Natsu trailed off waiting for her to tell him where they were going.

Lucy grabbed her pack of cigarettes from the skirt's pocket and lit one up, enjoying the feeling of smoke invading her lungs. It surprised her to no ends that she had resisted so long without a cigarette.

Natsu scrunched up his nose as the strong smell of nicotine surrounded them, hoping that it won't awaken his long forgotten cravings for cigarettes.

Unfortunately, it did. He reached out to grab the cigarette from between Lucy's lips and placed it between his own when Lucy grabbed it forcefully from his hand and threw it on the ground, stomping the bud with her feet.

"Na-ah!" She shook her head at Natsu, remembering him telling her how he used to be a smoker, amongst other things, and that he had tried very hard to quit. She wasn't gonna pull him back into that world.

Natsu smiled softly, appreciating the fact that she did that, but it was a little bit late. The taste already lingered on his lips, and his insides felt like they were on fire and screaming for a drag from the cig.

Natsu tried his best to suppress the urge and concentrate on something else.

"Where are we going Lucy?"

"To your house to watch a movie and eat crappy food." She announced nonchalantly, making Natsu's eyebrows shot up in surprise.

"We're- What?" She had to be playing a bad joke on him. No way did Lucy just say that, he thought.

"You heard me." Her expression remained bored, not giving away anything.

When in reality, her insides were shaking up, even though she kept her poker face (because no way in hell was she going to show Natsu any girly emotions or reactions).

Well this definitely worked on making Natsu forget about the sudden urge to smoke. "Well, I mean sure… If that's what you want." He finished with a huge grin on his face and kissed her cheek, quickly dodging the elbow that was meant to hit his stomach and laughed, ruffling her hair, This time he did not see on time Lucy's foot planted in front of his and he made contact with the ground.

Now it was Lucy's turn to laugh as Natsu let out a string of cuss words.

Her laughter. Another thing he decided he loved.

They walked to Natsu's house quietly, this time keeping their distance from each other. He really wasn't a fan of kissing the ground.

Natsu grunted remembering the fall and how Lucy laughed at his misery.

Once they arrived at his house, Natsu hurried to clean things up a little bit. Like grabbing all the dirty clothes thrown around in the living room and placing them in another room and covering the dirty plates from the sink with a wash cloth that he'd found laying around.

Lucy looked around the small house, which felt more inviting than hers could ever be. She noticed a photo, placed carefully on one of the cupboards. She walked to it and saw what looked like a tiny version of Natsu, with his hair as spiky as ever, next to a well built man with dark red hair, and strong features.

Natsu came next to her and a sad smile appeared on his face. "He is my father." He answered the question visible in Lucy's eyes.

She nodded. "Is he around?"

Lucy placed the photo back as Natsu walked to the couch, throwing himself on it. "Nope. He hasn't been for a long time."

Lucy could feel the sadness in his voice and decided not to press the matter any further with stupid questions. She approached the couch and a comfortable looking Natsu who was laying on his stomach, and jumped on his back. Natsu gritted his teeth, feeling her weight pressed on him, but couldn't help the smile that crept on his face.

"You're heavy Luce! Like, you weight a tone!" He joked and covered his head with a pillow ready to receive some well deserved slaps or punches, but he only felt her weight lift from him.

He uncovered his head and looked around him for Lucy but he was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly he heard his cat's desperate meows and he sprung up from the couch, running in the direction of the cat's meows. When he entered in the kitchen he saw Lucy holding the cat in the air, studying it very carefully.

"Lucy?" Natsu called out her name and Lucy turned around slowly to look at him, not putting the cat down.

"Why is your cat blue?" She asked, strongly believing that she was on some trippy shit somehow, because she had never seen a BLUE cat in her entire life. Not even when she took those happy pills from Jellal that had made her see some fucked up shit.

"Oh" Natsu laughed realising why his soon-to-be-girlfriend (yeah he was calling her that in his mind, don't judge. A boy can dream.) was so shocked. "Happy is a rescued cat. Some fuckers painted him and many other cats like this and were betting on them, which can resist longer in fights with dogs." Natsu's look darkened remembering the stupid little shits who had done that to the poor cats and the severe beating that he had given them. "So I adopted him and have been taking care of him ever since." Natsu took the cat from Lucy's hands and gave him a little peck on the head before putting Happy back on the floor to feed him.

Even though Lucy was fucked up herself, she still could not understand how some people could do cruel things to animals. Sure, you can fuck up a little bit with a human, since they can protect themselves. But a kitten? What the hell?

Natsu pulled Lucy back in the living room and they both sat on the couch, closer than necessary, not that it bothered any of them.

"Hey Lucy" Natsu broke the silence. Lucy turned her head slightly to look at Natsu.

"Kiss me." He continued smirking, bringing those dimples back to mess up with Lucy's heart.

She crossed her arms and tried her best not to look at his sexy smirk. "Now why would I do that?" she quipped.

"Because you love me." he responded, the smirk still present on his face.

Lucy shook her finger, denying it. "I most certainly do not love you. I don't even like you!"

Natsu placed a finger on his chin pretending to be in deep thought. "Okay, I'll admit that much. But you do hate me marginally less that you hate everyone else."

Lucy nodded "The key word there being marginally."

Natsu really liked this Lucy. She was starting to warm up to him and it was clear as the light of the day that she enjoyed being in his presence. If only she'll just give him the chance to be more than more-than-just-a-friend-less-than-a-boyfriend.

Lucy could also feel herself growing fond of him. But that was more of a scary thing than anything else. On one hand, she really did not need another person in her life that she could lose at any given time. Even though she played the tough façade all the time, there still were moments when she felt sad and lonely and wishing that the most important person in her life, her mother, could still be with her.

On the other hand, she was not good for Natsu. He had the courage, strength and determination to leave the fucked up life in the past and live a clean and somewhat normal life. She would really hate herself to be the one to pull him back to the dark side. And she wasn't ready to put it all behind her either. She still wanted to party and drink and do stupid shit.

Natsu could see the multitude of emotions flashing through her eyes and tried his best to recognise them, although he was pretty sure what she was thinking about. Something around the lines of "I want this, but it's not good. I'm not ready. I don't want to drag him after me.", or close enough.

He touched her cheek softly, bringing her back from her streak of thoughts. "Stop over-thinking. You're only creating problems that are not there."

Lucy leaned her head into his hand and they both stared into each other's eyes, thinking about the same thing, but at the same time having different thoughts.

Suddenly, Lucy's phone started to ring and she hurried to answer it, breaking the link between her and Natsu.

"Yeah Cana, what's up?" Lucy answered her friend, but glanced back at Natsu, wishing that the phone hadn't rung when it did.

"You up for some fun and bad decisions tonight?" Cana just got released from the hospital (which felt exactly like a prison to the girl) and was already planning their next "Sexcapades" (as she'd refer to them, even though there was never any sex involved. She just really liked making everything sound dirty)

Lucy laughed and thought of something that could either turn into something really fun, or really bad. "Text me the details. Also, I'm bringing some friends along."

Lucy ended the call and turned to look at Natsu with a devil grin on her face "How about you call that group of friends of yours and we all go have some fun?"

Hey theeeeere! Here's the new chapter :) Things between Lucy and Natsu are starting to become more serious don't you think?

I want to thank you all for reading this story and for giving it a chance, even though I know that in the beginning it was kinda bad.

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