12

Dominance


Because everyone would want to dominate at some point.


Chapter 12:


Why the fuck am I here? What the fuck was I even thinking for crying out loud? I thought I could just waltz in here and spy on her? Seriously? This is totally not my style.

I looked down on my swimming trunks, before slapping myself out of pure desperation and helplessness. Carefully entering the doorway to the water park, I glanced around to see if there was someone I knew here. Phew, not an enemy sighted. I walked over to the snack bar, and she wasn't there. Neither was the prick. So, I just decided to sit down on one of the chairs and wait for them to show up.

I looked around the water park, just to see why everyone thought it was so enjoyable, when I hated these sorts of things. Why would everyone what to come into a place that's filled with water and just jump around in a bikini—ooh I get it now! The dudes just come to watch the girls and the girls probably have fun here or something? I don't know. I'm really not into this shit.

"Lu-chan, look! Let's go on that huge water slide!" I heard a voice from my left, and turned around.

Oh… ooh…

It's Lucy! Motherfucking Lucy with that girl I met before at her place! They were really close to me, but, I decided to just lay low for now, and wait until the prick shows up so I can kick him where it hurts. Lucy and that girl were wearing t-shirts, and there were a lot of guys staring at them, and probably waiting for something to happen. Perverts.

I still didn't know why I was here. I had woken up at the sound of the alarm clock, took a shower and just came to the Sakura Resort. After I noticed that they weren't at the restaurant or the hot springs I thought they might've been at the resort's famous water park, and it looks like I was right. But something bothered me… wasn't Sting supposed to be here? And didn't I come here just to see what he was planning to do? Probably… no no no!

"Lucy? Is that you?" I heard the all too familiar voice of the prick I hated, and turned around to see Sting walking towards the girls, "Huh? What are you going here? Oh wow, I can't believe this coincidence that was totally not intentional because I didn't hear you talking about it the other day!" I'm so lucky he's not the smartest person I know.

"Oh? Hey Sting! Yeah, what a coincidence!" I'm so lucky she's not the smartest person I—scratch that.

"So, what are you doing here? Oh, and hello there, I'm Sting. Lucy's classmate." He said to the other girl, and the girl introduced herself as Levy. Oh that's right! Levy! I almost forgot her name. "Why don't we go get us some drinks?" Wow, classic anime scenario… Um, not that I watch anime! No! That's not my style.

"Okay, sure! We'll be at the white water slide." Lucy smiled, as she and Levy started walking away. Wow, I'm so glad they didn't notice me because if they did, I'd be in huge—

"Natsu? Is that you?"

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

"Lucy? Oh wow, I never thought I'd see you here! Do nerds like you even come to places like this?" I yelled out almost too quickly, and she glanced at me weirdly.

"I know, right? I just met Sting a few minutes ago, and now here you are!" She looked at me like she was expecting some sort of explanation.

"Well, I was just hanging out with some of my friends, and I got separated from them because I uh, wanted to try the white water slide and they thought it was too scary." Perfect excuse and I get to go with them. Way to hit two birds with one giant stone!

"Oh? Me too! By the way, Levy's here with me." She pointed towards the smaller girl next to her, and it might've been just my imagination, but I thought I saw her mouth 'stalker' and giggle. Okay, Natsu Dragneel might be a lot of things. He's handsome, awesome, gorgeous, amazing, cool, good looking, but he's not a stalker!

I just rolled my eyes and didn't respond with anything. I just came here because I was interested in what Sting would do.

"Natsu?" and the man I was just thinking about spoke my name. I was quite hesitant, but still turned around to face him. "Uh, hey Sting."

"What are you doing here?" he asked me like I was at some sort of interview for mass murder.

"Oh, I'm waiting in line for the white slide." He looked at me judgingly.

"No, I mean, what are you doing here? In this resort? In this water park?"

"Uh, can't a guy come at a pool to have fun without any ulterior motives?" I asked, and he just rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, whatever. I got us those drinks." He said, passing one of them to Lucy, and the other one to Levy.

"Next in line for the slide?" I heard the man in charge yell, and I looked at the girls. Levy was already sliding down by the time Lucy took her shirt off. And that's when I realized why guys like watching girls swim. I definitely get it now. Glancing towards Sting just to make sure he didn't die out of blood loss, I saw him scream with anger when I pushed Lucy onto the slide and got on after her.

He was shouting some gibberish I didn't even understand, as I laughed loudly. But, too immersed in my amazing actions, I was surprised when I hit the pool at high speed, my body going down in the water. I felt a stinging sensation on my upper body, I couldn't look pathetic now! No when L—Sting's watching! So, I swam out as fast as I could, but my stomach still hurt from falling on it. It even got a little red. Sting didn't ride the slide, but instead, came down from the stairs. "Too afraid to go on the slide?" I asked, walking out of the pool.

"Well, at least I didn't try to act all high and mighty and then almost drown like a total loser. Your stomach looks ridiculous." He laughed, and I just rolled my eyes. I guess I should lay down for a while, cause this seriously stings.

"Natsu, are you okay?" I looked to my right, to come face to face with a worried looking Lucy. "What? Are you kidding me? This is nothing!"

She then proceeded to touch my stomach, "OUCH!"

Everyone laughed, and I just stood there awkwardly, "See, this is why I hate you!"

"Yeah, yeah" she rolled her eyes.

I lied down on one of the chairs set up around the pools in the huge water park. The place looked awesome.

"By the way, um, Lucy," Sting started talking, and I could see him blush a little. Ew, he looks gross. "Are you um… like… seeing someone?"

"Yes?" she answered quickly, and both me and Sting stared at her with our mouths open. She was seeing someone? She had a boyfriend? Like, what? Since when? I don't remember knowing that about her! In all the time I spent with her the past few days, she didn't mention anything about it! Maybe he was some dude who lived far away and they had one of those long-distance relationships and shit like that.

"I mean, at the moment, I see you and Natsu and Levy? Are you asking about my eye sight or something? I don't really understand what you meant by that." she said, and I face-palmed. Sting let out a sigh of relief.

Okay, so she was single. That's okay. I mean, wait… why am I relieved by the fact that she doesn't have a boyfriend? I mean, uh, well it's not like I expected her to have one anyways. Nobody would ever date a girl like her.

"So… you're single?" Sting asked again, just to confirm.

"Oh, yeah, I am." She answered, and Levy giggled. "Well Lu, I'll go get something to eat, you guys wait for me here."

Lucy looked like she wanted to follow her, but just waved at her supposedly best friend, and turned back to look at us. I was still casually lying on the chair, and just waiting for Sting to say something stupid so I could have a reason to punch him.

"So, since you're single, I guess you probably wouldn't mind having a boyfriend… and you know… uh… I'm single too." Even a nerd like Lucy understood where this was going, and I saw her blush, "U-Uh… yeah…"

"So, um, if you wouldn't mind… I'd like you to start seeing me as a guy from now on… and—"

"So… what you're trying to say is that she's been seeing you as a girl this whole time?" I asked, laughing to myself.

"No. I mean, like… um… I don't know how to explain it. I just want her to notice me more! And you know, just uh, we should start as friends, and see where our friendship would develop…" he said with red cheeks.

"Like, that dumpster over there, maybe?"

"Damn it Natsu, shut the fuck up!" He shouted.

"Ah! There's that obnoxious rude jerk of a fake friend we all know and love!" I shouted loudly.

"Alright fine. I get it." He yelled, and started walking away from us. I did not expect him to leave so quickly.

"That wasn't nice Natsu…" Lucy whispered, watching his retreating figure. "I've… never been confessed to before, and I didn't think I ever would be. But I had just a spark of hope when I saw him here, and when he started talking to me. I don't even like him or anything, but I just thought about it for a while now and… it must be nice to be confessed to by half of the school like you are…"

This was not something I was really expecting to happen. I saw Levy wave at me, and leave through the door of the water park's gates. Guess she wanted to give us some space to talk things through, even though I had no idea what we should talk about. I watched Lucy fiddle with her fingers as she sat down on the chair next to mine.

"It's not as nice as you think," I suddenly started talking, and she looked at me in surprise, "I mean, it's all meaningless. They don't really have feelings for me. They just like me because I look damn good, and I'm popular. Well, I was. They just wanted to be with me either to gain popularity, or to just brag to their friends about it. It's not like they can't live without me because they love me so much or something. Their confessions are just empty words they say to make me date them. It doesn't mean a thing. People would give 100 of those fake confessions for just one real confession."

I don't even know how I thought about all of these things, but damn did I sound cool or what?

"Yeah, but at least there's something to like about you. Nobody would even look at me…"

"Well, I can't argue with that…"

She rolled her eyes.

And that's when I noticed something.

The past few days, I haven't been acting as mean and as rude as I was acting before. I've became nicer when talking to her, and it was really weird since I never spoke nicely to her. It was creeping me out. But somehow, when I look at her, I don't want to be rude? I don't know about this shit. I'd better go talk to Gray and have him help me out.

"Ah, I really thought Sting liked me…" she sighed, and I decided to give her a piece of my mind.

"Look here blondie, Sting would never become interested in someone like you. He's popular, and you're… you. I don't think he would've dated you out of love or any shit like that. Personally, I think he was bored, and knowing him, he probably wanted to date you just to look good in front of everyone else, by pitying you, and going out with you because he's sorry for you. I've been friends with him for a long time, and I know him very well. He did that to another girl once, back in middle school. And you wouldn't have accepted him anyway. You're not experienced in the least, so you wouldn't know what to do. You just wanted him to say he liked you so you can feel good about yourself."

To be honest, I half expected her to feel offended and yell at me or something, but she just smiled sadly and nodded. She was aware of that too. But geez, did this girl really want to be loved that much? Ugh, she always has such high expectations and it makes me sick. I still hate her.

"Well, yeah, thanks for the talk Natsu." She said, getting up and stretching. "Wanna go on another ride before I go look for Levy?"

"Ugh, I don't have to listen to you! Idiot!"

But I followed her nonetheless.


A/N: A new update just three days later! Yay!

Oh, I almost forgot: Next Chapter is a Lucy P.O.V. Special.

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End of chapter 12.