Natsu's eyebrows shot up disappearing under his ruffled hair that fell slightly into his eyes. He gave Lucy a quizzical look, not believing his ears that his soon-to-be-girlfriend had just asked him to call his friends so that they could all hang out together god-knows-where, doing god-knows-what.
"Did you just… tell me to call my friends?" he queried, eyebrows still lost under his pink hair.
Lucy opened her mouth to tell him that it wasn't like she had planned to do a sleepover with them and bond over marshmallows and gossip or anything like that, (But who knows? Maybe they could have the potential to become fun people whom she could spend some time with. Also, they really needed to get their panties out of their knots.), but her phone chimed up signalling a text message. She read the text received from Cana, a wide smile appearing on her face. This was perfect. Not too dangerous (not that she preferred it this way, but for Natsu's pussy friends it worked just fine.) Interesting. Fun. Just perfect.
She turned that smile in Natsu's direction and nodded in answer to the question still present all over his face. Seeing his shocked expression, Lucy dropped the smile and narrowed her eyebrows. "We ain't gonna rob a bank or go on a rampage and murder people, Dragneel." she deadpanned.
Well, that's if plans wouldn't change in the meantime. She smiled to herself, remembering the many crazy things that she'd done with her friends, especially with the crazy-ass Cana. That girl literally had the craziest ideas sometimes.
Seeing that Natsu wasn't going to come down from his shocked state, Lucy wasn't going to waste any more time when she could be with her friends drinking some much needed alcohol right about now.
She got up from the couch and walked to the door, ready to leave when Natsu called after her, just now realising that the blonde sitting in front of him two seconds ago, was now putting on her combat boots and was ready to leave.
Sure, he was happy that Lucy wanted to spend time with him and his friends. But, even though he was used to the crazy side, his friends weren't. So he really didn't know how he was gonna convince them to come. Especially since he didn't know what Lucy was planning. Oh well, it can't be that bad… right?
Unless she had a dark agenda and was planning to kill them all tonight... Huh, for a second there he could almost imagine her doing that.
He walked towards Lucy smirking, making tiny dimples appear in each cheek, making the girl roll her beautiful chocolate-brown eyes. He really fucking enjoyed watching her reaction every time those dimples made their appearance.
Lucy crossed her arms over her chest protectively, trying to put some barriers between her and Natsu who was backing her into the wall, closing in the distance.
Seeing that he wasn't going to stop, and that her stomach was doing some fucking stupid flips, she finally spoke up "I have to meet up with Cana , but I'll text you the address. Just call those damn friends of yours and tell them to dress comfortably, there's gonna be a lot of jumping to do."
Natsu raised an eyebrow hearing about the jumping part, but one thing was way more interesting than that.
"So, you're gonna need my number for that, ain't that right?" He grinned cheekily and pulled out his phone from the pocket handing it to her.
Oh shoot! Lucy mentally face palmed herself. Now he's gonna have her number and he's gonna call and text her all the fucking time.
Sighing she grabbed the phone from Natsu's outstretched hand and jotted in her number and contact, returning the phone with a little growl.
Whatever, she could always block his number if he starts being annoying.
Oblivious to Lucy's little distress, Natsu happily called her number so she could have his and pocketed his phone. Before he could say anything else Lucy opened the door and left without a word.
Natsu's shoulders sagged a little bit in disappointment and he sighed, scratching the back of his head. Making Lucy acknowledge him, and accept him the right way, sure was gonna take some time. However, he's got nothing but time.
With that in mind he went back to his happy state and plopped down on the couch, inviting Happy to sit with him. He rubbed the back of the purring cat's ear and closed his eyes, a small smile growing on his lips as he remembered the kiss he had shared with Lucy earlier at school.
Lucy pulled out the cigarettes from the pocket, finally being able to smoke without having to take into consideration Natsu and his stupid crazy ass past, which she had to remember to ask more about. She really found it hard to imagine Natsu going all ballistic on booze or drugs or parties, or anything that had to do with that life whatsoever. Not that he was the perfect picture of a good boy, because she still could see tiny glimpses of what could look like a somewhat badass Natsu. Like when he gets mad about something and looks like he could punch a hole through a wall, or when she happened to assist a fight between him and Gajeel. The guy could really throw a punch.
Finishing her cigarette, Lucy interrupted her line of thoughts about Natsu (she noticed that she really had been thinking about him a lot lately) and dialled Cana's number, the girl picking up almost immediately.
"I was just about to call you, my little bitch!" Cana yelled through the phone and Lucy scrunched her eyes as if that would help with the buzzing she now had in her ear.
"You don't need to yell, you know right?" she mumbled but Cana didn't even pay attention.
"You have to get your ass to Elfmans', because I'm about to drink under the table all these little fuckers and you don't wanna miss it!" Lucy laughed, already hearing the commotion caused by their friends fighting amongst each other about who to place their bets on.
"On my way! Hold a spot for me." Lucy grinned and ended the call, taking off into a run to Elfman's house.
Elfman was one of their friends ever since they had joined the gang (well it wasn't really a gang, they didn't go around shooting people up or fighting all the fucking time, so it wasn't a gang. More like a club of fucked up people who really enjoyed a good party with lots of alcohol and some fighting from time to time), and had been their trainer for a long time. He had taught Lucy everything she knew. Cana was already more experienced in the arts of fighting, thanks to her crazy ass father.
Seeing the house in the distance, Lucy could practically feel the alcohol burning down her throat and setting fire to her insides.
Talking about setting fire to her insides… That Dragneel boy was really messing with her head. And heart. And making her fucking stomach do stupid flips.
Thinking back to the last conversation they had, she came to the conclusion that maybe he was right. Over-thinking had been one of the many things that Lucy had to deal with since forever.
She'd done it before and she was doing it now with Natsu.
But hell, what was she supposed to do?
It wasn't like she could just be his girlfriend and everything will resolve on itself. And it wasn't like she would just stop being…well, fucking Lucy… she didn't want to stop this fun and crazy life she was living at the moment.
And that wasn't fair towards Natsu. She couldn't string him along on the possibility that she'll eventually be his girlfriend. And she couldn't give in to her desires either and unwillingly pull him back into the "bad side of the city".
Reaching Elfman's enormous house Lucy interrupted her thoughts about Natsu, again, and rushed through the door grabbing the first bottle of beer she saw, which happened to be in Elfman's hand. He quickly pulled Lucy in a deadlock around her neck and Lucy stuck out her foot behind the enormous man's legs tripping him. He fell pulling Lucy along with him to the ground. Luckily Lucy made a scheme at the last minute and turned in the man's arms right before he almost fell on her.
They both laughed and got up from the ground with Elfman yelling something about him being a MAN and how you should never steal a MAN'S drink.
Cana waved her hand frantically at Lucy and motioned for her to come at the table where she was standing with a beer in her hand. Lucy walked to the table with Elfman close behind her and they sat down. Other participants in the drinking contest were Bacchus (runner up in any drinking contest, right after Cana who had never in her life lost), Elfman, Loke, Bickslow, Sting, Minerva and many other names she didn't bother to remember at the moment.
She sat across from Cana and waited as the drinks were being poured in front of them in differently colored shot glasses.
Lucy and Cana were the first to down them in one swift move, followed by the others, while the bystanders started cheering, placing bets mostly on Cana, Bacchus and Lucy.
Lucy slapped her hand down on the table once the burning liquid had made its way into her stomach and waited for the next shot with sparkling eyes.
She could feel her phone vibrating in the skirt's pocket but she couldn't give a fuck at the moment as their forth drink was being poured down.
By the fifth shot, she was already starting to feel hot and grabbed a guy's hand, that conveniently had a scarf wrapped around his wrist and she took it off, pulling her long hair up in a high ponytail. Satisfied with the air that was now cooling the skin at the base of her neck, Lucy downed the next three shots while never breaking the eye contact she had with Cana.
There had only been one single time when Lucy had come close to beating Cana in a drinking competition, but she had failed miserably, falling flat on her back with the whole house rotating around her. Soon after her followed Cana(after she had two more shots), falling face front though, to Lucy's amusement.
But that fucking phone kept vibrating and vibrating and being fucking annoying, so she took it out from her pocket to look at the screen where Jellal's name appeared. Taking advantage of this, Cana downed two more shots shouting in Lucy's face about how she was "going DOWNNN".
Lucy could totally fell all the shots taking a toll on her and she got up from the table deciding that she had enough for now, making everyone shout disapprovingly after her that she had to come back and that she was spoiling all the fun and making them lose the bet.
She waved them off laughing and walked away from the noise, dialling her friend back.
"Took you some time to answer Lucy!" Jellal 'greeted' her and Lucy rolled her eyes, looking back at the table where Cana had already drank under the table half of the guys.
"Yeah, had a bit of a drinking competition to win here. But now I'm all yours." She smirked knowing full well that Jellal could hear the smirk in her voice.
"Always and forever" he responded seductively but Lucy heard a slap and Jellal wincing. He most probably was with Erza because immediately after she heard Jellal mutter "sorry babe".
Lucy made a whipping noise "You've been together for like what, 2 minutes, and you've already been whipped ?" She laughed out loud making Jellal scowl and ignore her question.
"I called to know what was this about calling Natsu's friends to hang out. They're pretty much all scared and trying to find excuses not to come." And then she heard another slap. Damn, that Erza was quite the controlling bitch.
"Don't worry man, it's only going to be some innocent fun. Nothing dangerous… Unless we get caught." The blonde snickered and Jellal joined her, both remembering the many time when they had to run from the police."Just get Juvia and Gajeel to convince their scaredy-ass partners to come and you do your part with Erza."
Cana's plan was to go to the amusement park, open for the upcoming festival that was going to take place next week. But since things are always more fun when they are illegal, why wait another week until the park opens when they could just go now.
"Okay, I'll see what I can do. Bye blondie!" Jellal ended the call and Lucy scurried back to the table sitting next to Cana, cheering her friend up.
But then her fucking phone started ringing again. Glancing at the blinking screen Lucy saw Natsu's name. Getting up from the table for the second time, she answered and was surprised to hear the way his familiar and annoying voice sounded over the phone. Definitely not annoying any more. Her heart agreed as it skipped a beat.
"Hey Luce!" Natsu saluted, and Lucy rolled her eyes.
"Stop it with the 'Luce' thing." She scowled, coughing as her voice came out a little high pitch.
"You like it, no point in denying it." He grinned and Lucy was sure that if she were to roll her eyes more they would be stuck in the back of her head.
"Nope." She dragged with an annoyed voice. Truthfully, she wasn't that mad. She might like it when he calls her like that from time to time. Maybe. If she was in the mood. Yeah.
Lucy grabbed a bottle of something purple colored from a table and stalked to a nearby couch, slouching on it, propping her feet on the table. "So what it was that you wanted?" she could hear different voices surrounding him, one which resembled Gajeel's very much. "And is that Gajeel yelling like a fucking retard?" She narrowed her eyebrows trying to listen to what the idiot was shouting in the back. Something like "fuck you Heartfilia!"
"Oh yeah, it's Gajeel, making a lot of fucking noise." She heard Gajeel groan as Natsu punched him and then a fight starting between the two but Lucy interrupted "Put that mother-fucker on the phone" she demanded and waited as she took another gulp from the beverage. It actually tasted really good and strong and Lucy was surprised that she hadn't tried it before.
Gajeel's yelling almost made her choke and she cursed at him through coughs.
"Goddamn it Heartfilia, you'd better control this pink-haired bastard of yours or imma kick his ass real' bad." She could hear another groan from the black-haired man as Natsu threw another kick at him.
"He ain't my pinkie and you can kick his fucking ass whenever you want. Like, you could do it right now." She dead-panned and heard Natsu yelling about how she was heartless and why would she want to see his pretty face beaten up.
Lucy smirked "Go ahead Gajeel, beat his ass up." And that was all it took for Gajeel to end the call, but not before she heard Natsu curse and run off.
She laughed to herself without noticing the bikini-clad girl that sat next to her.
"Why you laughing? Was that pretty boy Natsu?" Cana asked wiggling her eyebrows and pointed to Lucy's phone.
Lucy eyed Cana's almost naked body and raised an eyebrow at her. Cana smirked and grabbed the bottle from Lucy's hand and answered her silent question "We're playing poker now."
Oh, that made sense.
"So? Was it Natsu?" Cana asked again and hugged the bottle to her chest. The damn thing really tasted very fucking good.
Before Lucy had the chance to answer, her phone rang again. Cana took a look at the caller's name and got up making suggestive moves with her hips. Lucy scowled and took off one shoe, throwing it at Cana's head, the latter dodging it easily even in her intoxicated state.
Lucy answered the call and got up from the couch to retrieve her shoe. "What now, Dragneel?"
"I can't believe that you took that metal's face side again." Natsu mumbled in between heavy breaths which indicated that he'd been running quite a bit.
Lucy smirked satisfied, hoping that Gajeel had made some damage to the pink haired boy. But not to his face. The dimples better be okay, or Gajeel fucking had it coming.
"Again?"
"Yeah." His breathing started to even out as Natsu sat down on a nearby bench, away from the other boys' prying ears and eyes. "You did it before at the hospital."
Lucy racked her memory trying to remember what he was talking about and then she remembered.
"Oh please Dragneel. You were not that important then. Of course I took Gajeel's side."
But then Lucy realised what she had just said. She shut her eyes tightly hoping that Natsu didn't hear her saying that he wasn't that important then.
But when the fuck had she been lucky when it comes to Natsu?
"Then.." He trailed off with amusement in his voice. "So you mean to say that now I am?"
Natsu was more than happy at that second. Did she just indirectly say that now he's important to her?
The grin on his face felt that it was about to split his face in half if it were to get any bigger. He ran a hand through his hair, ruffling it up and waited for her answer.
Lucy was damned if she was gonna admit that to his face. She wasn't drunk enough for this. Clearing her throat she opened her mouth to speak, but found her mouth dry as fuck so she cleared it again and got up from the couch, walking back to her friends, surrounding herself with noise and music and yelling. Hoping that the noise would be loud enough to cover up her answer, she took a gulp of beer and finally answered. "Maybe."
Natsu almost missed her answer as the music got louder and louder and he did his best to strain his ears and catch her silent answer. 'Maybe'. So yes.
He fist bumped the air, not even caring if his friends or anyone else could see him, and thanked the good for his amazing hearing.
But now he didn't know what to say back. He had fucked up every single time when Lucy made a move or said something relatively nice, so now he had to be sure he won't push her away again. He cleared his throat and sent a silent prayer to whoever was up there listening, hoping that she won't end the call.
"Good." He blurted out and closed his eyes, letting out a breath. Well, it wasn't that bad. Hopefully.
Lucy also let out a breath, happy that he hadn't said any shit like he had done every time before.
Lucy glanced up at Cana who was telling her to wrap it up because it was time to go.
"Listen Natsu, I have to go. Get your friends and meet us at the amusement park in half an hour." She ended the call, not waiting for his response. Hopefully by the time they meet up she'll be drunk enough and not affected by his sexy ass smile, dimples or anything else.
Sorry guys! I know that it's been some time since I had last updated but my stupid-ass slipped on ice and fell, breaking my arm in the process. So I had a hard time doing anything.
Also, I know this chapter is a little boring and nothing interesting happened, but next chapter we'll have some more action :)
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