Ah Homecoming week, always busy and everyone so excited for the football game at the end and the dance. Except for us nerds and losers of course. For us it is a time of regret and lonliness and it is no different for me. But the gang was more than excited for it. Erza was asked by Jellal, (what a "big surprise") Gray asked Juvia, (more like forced by Erza) and Gajeel asked Levy because as he put it was so he fit in when he had to go with them. Then there was Lucy, being a cheerleader she was asked by many, many guys however she of course turned all of them down saying she wasn't looking for anyone. When I just believed she just didn't want to go but it wouldn't look good for a cheerleader to not show up to the homecoming dance. The day went by like any other though wandering to classes barely paying attention, carefully watching Luce and glaring at anybody that looked at her wrongly. Same old, same old. That is until after school and Gray joined me like usual when I was walking home.

Out of the blue he just said, "you should ask Lucy to homecoming" that one made me choke on my own spit.

"You do know that requires me to pick her up, dance with her, and a bunch of other things that would make her find out who I was," I replied.

"Not neccisarily ask her through like a note or something, she would be elated knowing that at least her 'dragon' would be at the dance looking over her and keeping her company. We both know Lucy, she wants to go to the dance but she wants either Natsu or Dragon and I'm guessing she only wants Dragon because well you two are kinda the same person!"

"Yeah, yeah I get it stop talking so much you're hurting my eardrums!" I stated that furiously but it did peak my interests. 'Asking her out like that would give me an excuse if she or anyone else caught me at the dance and started asking questions it wouldn't be a bad idea so I wouldn't stir up too much trouble…

"And you could end up falling in love or something gross and mushy like that during the dance and you don't have to continue this bullshit of a disguise and…"

I cut him off, "I'll do it."

"Come again?"

"I'll do it, I'll ask her" I barked at him.

"I'm sorry could you repeat that, I don't think I heard you right. You meant to say Gray is amazing and right, right?" He asked greedily

"… Thanks… That's the best you're getting ice stripper… By the way look down." He did to see once again his shirt was missing.

"What the! How does this happen every time!" I sighed. You're lucky we're out of school and that Erza isn't here. We both shuddered at the mention of his name. "Jellal is a brave man, a brave, brave man."

"Indeed" I agreed. That was the end of our small talk for the rest of the walk. Just walking getting the usual odd looks from bystanders seeing the shirtless man walking with the bundled up to all hell man in the middle of this cold weather.

(The Next Day!)

I still can't believe I'm doing this… Ugh just remember it's for Lucy. I suddenly felt like all those other gross guys that did this with her. But I stuck the letter I wrote into her locker. It took me nearly fifteen minutes to write such a small letter. All it said was, "

To Lucy,

Would you like to go to homecoming with me so neither of us are alone and so this mysterious creep can keep you safe in his love gaze."

That's what it would've said until I realized how lovey and mushy it sounded for the supposedly cool Dragon. So I wrote something new. This one several times writing super slow to have my handwriting look nice so it didn't look like my chicken scratch handwriting that she probably would recognize. It actually said this time,"

Lucy

Homecoming? You know where I'll be

~Dragon

As I shoved it in her locker I heard her voice around the corner so I quickly and quietly sprinted away. I looked around the corner staring at her intently.

(Lucy's POV)

I opened my locker hearing slight footsteps rushing in the distance. But pushed them to the back of my mind as they were just a normality now a days. As I talked with Erza I finally opened the locker seeing the comical sight of letters to me falling out. Ten, twenty, maybe even thirty or more letters fell out but one caught my eye. It wasn't in a pink envelope, or had a heart or anything like that. It just looked like poor cheap partchment with a slight bague color. All it said was Lucy and a picture of a crudely drawn dragon. I picked it up and quickly ripped it open immediately after seeing the dragon. As I unfolded the paper Erza sighed picking up my mess of letters shoving them back into my locker and taking out my backpack to go home. I then read the simple paper quickly then chuckled to myself lightly. So simple and stupid like Nat… No Lucy he's gone… But I can enjoy myself. Maybe I'll have fun with him. Now that I think about it though… He does seem a bit like Natsu… Hmm. It's probably nothing anyways I need to respond quickly I got other things to worry about Homecoming's tomorrow! He's lucky I already got a dress and everything picked out! But I then looked around knowing he'll be nearby. Where though? No clue, as if on cue I saw his red hoodie for a brief moment around the corner. I chased him down in case he was leaving. But just my luck as I turned the corner and we collided falling on our butts.

"Ow!" I shouted standing up and lightly patting my butt. I then quickly shook it off remembering what I was going to do. "You! I didn't think I would catch you so fast but…" I hesitated then I looked at him. "I say yes. I'd be glad to go to homecoming with you. If!" I added this stipulation without even thinking. If you show me your face by the end of the night! I heard a silent sigh then saw a slight ruffle under his bandana which I guessed was him smiling.

Then I heard his gruff response, "Sure" I was so shocked he actually agreed that I kinda squealed a little smiling. He chuckled a little in a deep tone before starting to walk away. I was going to let him as he usually dissapeered quite quickly but something came over me, something I haven't felt since I was with Natsu. I still don't know what it is but it did force me to do this.

"Wait! I shouted. He turned and I quickly kissed his forehead standing on my tippy toes. "Thankyou Dragon! I'll be waiting for you at the dance tomorrow" I smiled at him. I could tell he was smiling pretty big as this time I let him walk away, as did I with Erza holding my backpack. All I could think as I walked away was, 'am I going to look good enough for him!'

Oh Lucy you'll look fine! And god it has taken a long time to update this. This obviously doesn't make up for my lack of upload. I am so sorry! But I hope this quenches your thirst for a little while. Some real life stuff here, some school stuff there, and some stuff in general has been stopping me from uploading and writing again though no excuse I apologize! However hope you enjoyed some of this fluff and hopefully next time is sooner than this time. But! I shall see you next time whenever that is so remember to read, review, favorite, follow, and all that jazz and most importantly of course to ship Nalu for days!