A PRINCE AND HIS MATE-chapter 12
Lucy's POV
One month has passed since the incident with Lisanna in the amusement park. Since then Natsu has been forced to leave me for a little while every now and then. Fortunately Natsu is with me today. It's monday, so I had to go to work today even if that meant leaving Natsu alone in the house.
When I returned from work I found him sulking in the couch, doing nothing, that's Natsu for you. When he realised I returned he seemed really happy. Right now we're just lazing around the house.
"Luce! Come check it out, there's a knowledge quiz in the TV. I bet I can get a better score than you!" Natsu said his challenge loud enough for me to hear from up stairs.
I went to sit on the couch with him. "Yeah right, there's no way I can lose to you" I stated logically.
I mean there's no way for me to lose to Natsu in a knowledge quiz, right?
"How can you be so sure about that?" He asked
"No offense Natsu, but I know more things than you" I said and he smirked
"We'll see" was all he answered. Just then the questions started.
By the end of it I had answered all the questions correctly and Natsu hadn't even answered one correctly. Not that I'm surprised though.
"I won!" I announced while happily bouncing around.
While I was celebrating my victory and Natsu was sulking, the presenter decided to announce something much to my dismay.
"Alright, time for the last question. This question is super difficult and if you answer it correctly you get even more points than if you had answered all the other questions correctly" He stated from the TV.
Wait, what? There's one more question? I didn't know that! But wait, even if I don't know the answer there's no way Natsu will, so I win anyway.
"Ok, and the question is: What is the middle name of our beloved king Igneel Dragneel, Which he has managed to hide pretty well. Only someone who truly admires the king can answer the question!" The presenter said and if I could I would have struggled him right there and then.
Of course I didn't know the answer, but Natsu obviously did. As stupid as he can be, he knows his own father's middle name. When Natsu heard the presenter's statement, he grinned teasingly, leaned to my ear and whispered "H-A-R-U" and seconds after that the same name was announced as the answer. Sometimes I really regretted the choice to have Natsu as my boyfriend.
While I was thinking over my life choices, Natsu stood up and happily bounced around screaming that he won while showing me his tongue playfully every now and then. Of course I got super angry.
I stood up and kicked him, which made him fall down to the floor. "I hate you, that was totally infair!" I screamed at him pissed off.
Natsu didn't get the message to stop. "No you don't, you loveeeee me!" He said while rolling his tongue.
"You're dead!" I yelled and kicked him again which made him wail on the floor.
"Ok, I'm sorry, please don't kick me again" he pleaded.
"Only if you don't do that again, otherwise-" he cut me off.
"Ok, ok, I get it. I won't do something like that again" he promised.
"Whatever" was allI I answered and just then I heard a knock on my door.
I looked at Natsu worried "who could it be?"
Natsu stood up with a serious look on his face. "I don't know, let's go take a look"
We made our way to the door and I looked through the peephole only to see Levy. Wait, what? Levy is a friend from work, but she never visits unexpectedly. She didn't inform me she would visit or something, so why the heck is she here?
"Natsu, it's Levy, a friend from work, but she didn't tell me she would come" I whisper-shouted at him panicked and I could see he had panicked too.
Levy continued knocking and I didn't know what to do.
"Natsu, go hide somewhere!" I whisper-shouted again, making sure that Levy couldn't hear me.
"Like where!?" he asked.
"I don't know, anywhere, just go!" I quickly answered him and with that he dashed off to find a place to hide. He particularly went up stairs.
Lu-chan, it's me, Levy. Are you in there? I came to visit you!" She said loud enough for someone who was deep inside the house to hear. I couldn't open the door yet, because I had to give Natsu time to hide, but Levy had other plans.
Just then I heard my phone ringing, and damn, it was Levy! Since I was standing right beside the door she probaly could hear my phone ringing.
"W-what!? Lu-chan, why aren't you opening the door if you're there?" she asked angrily and disappointed that I was opening the door.
I decided it was time to open the door and when I did I was met with my blue haired, short friend, who had an offended look on her face. She came in and closed the door.
"Why weren't you opening the door?" she asked angrily.
"You see Levy-chan, I was sleeping, and I just woke up when my phone ringed. I was just about to open the door" I lied to her, but felt bad I did so, since I made her feel guilty for waking me up and suspecting me.
"W-what? Lu-chan, I'm so sorry I woke you up and thought you didn't want to open the door" She said with an apologetic face while bowing her head.
"You don't need to apologise, it wasn't your fault" I said with an awkward smile, feeling guilty that I lied to her. Levy stopped bowing and looked at me.
"Lu-chan, I'm sorry for visiting unexpectedly, but I wanted to see if you were all right since you have been looking a little down at work lately" Levy said and I immediately understood what she was refering to.
She was right, lately I've been appearing to be sad in my job, either because Natsu was forced to leave me, or because even if he was with me, I had to go to work and leave him alone in the house. So basically lately I've been sulking at work bacause I miss Natsu.
"Levy-chan, you don't need to worry, it's nothing" I assured her but she didn't seem convinced.
"I understand if you don't want to tell me what's wrong, but at least let me stay and cheer you up, ok?" I couldn't say no, I didn't have an excuse to do so.
"O-ok" was all I answered.
"So what do you want to do Lu-chan? I actually rented a movie, do you want to see it with me?" She asked but she had already made her way to the dvd player and soon enough the movie started playing.
She sat on the couch and after I brought some snacks I did too. The movie was pretty funny but I couldn't quite focus on it since I knew Natsu was still hiding up stairs.
About half way through the movie, Levy asked to go to the bathroom. She had only visited twice before so she didn't remember where it was.
"It's upstairs, first door you'll see when you turn left" I informed her and she started to make her way there.
I was watching carefully where she was going from down stairs and damn, she turned right instead of left! She was heading staight to my bedroom, what if Natsu was hiding there!?
I quickly went up stairs to stop her, but when I made it up stairs, she was already opening the door to my bedroom. I was praying to God that Natsu wouldn't be there.
Let's just say God wasn't hearing my prayers today.
"Levy, wait, that's not the-" I tried to tell her but when I went closer she had already opened the door and was facing a shocked Natsu with a just as shocked as his expression on her face.
"Aren't you the-"she said shocked as realisation hit her.
"Levy! Let me explain-" I said as she turned around to look at me.
"Lucy, w-what is...t-the prince d-doing here?" she practically murmured the question, but I heard it. I also heard just how shocked her tone was.
"Did you know h-he was here?" She asked once more a little calmer this time.
"Y-yes, I kinda did" I answered looking down, worried that she'll run off and say something to someone else.
"Lucy, how do you know the p-prince? I mean he is the prince, what is he doing here?" Levy wouldn't stop until she got an answer.
Natsu saw that I didn't know what to say. He made his way to me and put his hand around my shoulder.
"You see, Levy, I am here because me and Lucy are together" Natsu answered simply, with all the shock and worry gone away.
"T-together? M-meaning?" she asked once more while I continued looking down.
"I mean that we're a couple!" He said smiling at her.
"Lucy, is that guy harrassing you, I mean he is the prince, but he still is a guy" she asked worried while looking at me.
I finally got the courage to look at her.
"No, Levy, he's telling the truth. I met Natsu a while ago and started hanging out with him. We fell in love with each other almost immediately and we're now together. Even though I don't know him for very long, I trust him and I love him and he loves me too. So Levy, please, I ask you to not tell anything to anyone, because if you do, we'll be forced apart!" by that point, tears where running down my cheeks at the thought of that happening.
"Lucy, are you sure about this, is it really a good idea?" she asked not knowing what to think.
"Yes, just please don't say anything, please" I pleaded
"Levy, please hear her and don't tell anyone" Natsu said as well with a serious look.
"Ok" Levy sighed as she said that.
Natsu and me immediately beamed with happiness that she wouldn't say anything.
After that I tackled Levy with a hug, while thanking her.
"Thanks" Natsu thanked her too.
"No problem, just take good care of Lucy for me, ok?" she answered Natsu and Natsu nodded at her.
"Come on Lucy, let's go see the rest of the movie with Natsu, ok?" she said while patting my head to make me feel better.
We actually ended up watching the movie and laughing our lungs out, since it was a comedy, and what a comedy.
We ordered pizza and Levy stayed over for the night. We really had a good time. From then on, Natsu and me weren't the only ones who knew about our relationship. And who knows, maybe there will be even more people knowing soon.
Authors note:
Hello to you all! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. The original one actually got accidentally deleted and I had to re-write the whole thing! I will update soon, so please keep supporting me, it really helps me. Please also consider leaving a review to let me know what you think so far. By for now!
