My Chemistry Partner
"Yeah," Lucy nodded, "So how come your friend hasn't figured this out yet?"
The pinkette gave her a sheepish smile before looking ahead of them, "He's kinda dense. She is too though."
Disclaimer: Hiro Mashima wrote FairyTail, but you already knew that.
"I should probably tell you something before we go in." The pinkette said to Lucy as they stood in front of the door to a charming house. The house was easily nicer looking than Lucy's, you could tell from the outside that whoever lived inside was a warm person. Kinda like Natsu, Lucy thought before shaking her head.
"Ha?" Lucy asked, "Don't tell me your a serial killer."
Natsu's face broke into a grimace, "Eh? No!" He shook his head in denial before speaking again, "It's just... My family is a little, well-"
Before the pinkette could finish the front door swung open, revealing an older and taller version of Natsu.
"Ha! I thought I heard yapping out here!" He laughed loudly before his eyes landed on the blonde next to Natsu, "GRANDEENEY GET OUT HERE!" He shouted over his shoulder upon seeing the young woman. Turning back to Lucy he stuck out his hand, "Hi, I'm Igneel Dragneel, this brat's father. I approve."
Lucy tilted her head confused as she shook his hand, He approves...? However next to her, the younger pinkette groaned.
"Dad no it's not..."
He was once again cut off, but this time by an older female. Her hair was a soothing baby blue and her eyes were a kind and twinkling gray.
"Oh my!" The older woman exclaimed, wiping her hands on her apron, "Natsu brought a girl home! And she's so cute!" The blue haired woman turned to Natsu, "Does this mean you moved past Lisanna? Have you two made up like I told you too?"
Natsu groaned and Lucy felt herself blushing, "Mooom." The pinkette whined, "I told you to drop it and this is Lucy. She's my friend."
"Nice to meet you." Lucy said politely, bowing her head.
Grandeeney clasped her hands together with joy, "Oh and she has good manners too!" The older woman swooned.
Natsu groaned again before grabbing the blonde's wrist and pulling her into the house. To both of their surprise Gajeel was sitting at the dining table next to a small junior high aged girl with dark blue hair.
"Gajeel?" Lucy wondered aloud the same moment the black haired male spoke "Bunny girl?"
Instantly the blonde's face broke out into a smirk, "You don't plan on leading on my best friend do you?" She asked with a sickly sweet voice, sending chills down the males back.
Gajeel paled, "N-No.."
"Good." The blonde smiled warmly.
"Er.." Gajeel scratched the back of his head, "But what are you doing here? Salamander confess or something?"
Natsu sputtered, "No you metal eating idiot!" He shouted, "She came here to work on a project with me. What are you doing here?"
"Grandeeney invited me and Metalicana over for grub."
The pinkette sighed, "Great."
"Uhm... Hi, I'm sorry for interrupting but my name is Wendy. I'm Natsu-nii's little sister." The blue haired girl spoke timidly to Lucy.
The blonde only returned with a smile, "Hi Wendy, I'm Lucy a friend of his. You seem really sweet, I hope we get along."
Wendy's cheeks became flushed with embarrassment as she smiled brightly, "Yes, me too!"
"Cool, so everyone's met?" Natsu butted in, "Good, let's go work on the project Luce."
Lucy sighed, "How is your little sister so much more polite than you?" From the table she could hear Wendy giggle and Gajeel snort.
"Not you too..." Natsu whined as he dragged away the blonde.
"Heh, just kidding." She laughed, following him up the carpeted stairs and into his room. "Your house is really nice." She complimented
Natsu laughed, "I guess. Once dad got back it was kind of his way of saying sorry."
"Once dad got back?"
"Yeah, he left for a year back when I was in Junior high." He paused before, "Gajeel's dad, Metalicana and him went somewhere... or something. Came back with a lot of money and a billion apologies. I'm just glad he's back, ya know?"
Lucy stared at the pinkette, "Aren't you angry?"
"I was... but Lisanna told me I should accept his apology and move past it. She was there for me when he was gone."
"Natsu..."
"She really used to be different you know?" Natsu sighed, "Sometime this year something changed, the beginning of the year she always wanted to go out and hold hands... but then suddenly she was fine with how we usually were again. Didn't even think about... well you know."
Lucy closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Re-opening them she spoke slowly, "Natsu, I know I'm the last person who should tell you this... But she really did like you and... She wishes you the best." The blonde paused before adding, "She's sorry Natsu."
The pinkette gave the girl next to him a strange look, "What? Do you always defend people who punch you?"
Lucy laughed lightly, "Jealousy makes people do crazy things, I guess. No but... She apologized to me."
"I see... So could we talk about something else?"
"Yeah sure. I didn't know you had a sister."
Natsu laughed this time, "Yeah she normally doesn't come up in conversations."
"She's super cute... What happened to you?"
"Pfft, whatever I know I'm hot." Natsu scoffed
"Mhm sure, Natsu."
"H-Hey!"
"You believe whatever you want."
"Your mean, Lucy!"
The blonde let out the laughter she was holding in, "I'm kidding, I'm kidding."
"Natsu, we got dinner ready down here!" Grandeeney's voice called from downstairs, snapping the two teens out of their current project. Teaching Natsu bad words via the periodic table.
"Alright!" He yelled back before turning back to the blonde who was standing up, "So just once more-"
"Fluorine uranium carbon potassium is-"
"Fuck." The pinkette cut her off with a sly smile.
Shooting a glare down at him she nodded, "Yes, if you want to be blunt."
Natsu laughed and stood up as well, "Hey why are you packing your stuff up?" He asked noticing as she put her books back in her bag.
"Hm? I'm going home." She answered simply, not understanding where he was coming from.
"But..."
Lucy shook her head, "I don't want to impose or anything."
"I don't think my mom will let you of the door unless you eat here..."
That turned out to be true. Lucy was currently being guided the the dinner table, her backpack in the hands of Grandeeney.
"I-I don't want to intrude-" The blonde sputtered
"Nonsense! I already made another plate for you, plus when will my son bring another pretty well-mannered girl to my house?"
"Hey!" The pinkette wasn't far behind them, his hands behind his head as he followed them into the dining room.
Wendy too seemed to want the blonde to stay longer, "Lucy-san, you're staying for dinner?"
"I-I..."
"Of course she is!" Igneel butted in, a wide smile on his face. Next to him sat an older male who bared similar features to Gajeel.
"Y-You must be Metalicana." Lucy spoke after Grandeeney managed to per-sway her stay.
"Yes I am, why? Do you know my idiot son here too?" That earned a 'Hey!' from Gajeel who was seated next to Natsu.
Lucy let a small smile play on her lips, "As a matter of fact, I do. You should ask him about a blunette girl named Levy."
Gajeel just so happened to choke on his food at the blonde's words.
"O-Oi Bunny Girl how 'bout you tell us about you and Salamander."
This time it was Natsu who choked on his food, causing his parents to smirk and his little sisters eyes to grow with excitement
"Natsu-nii you're dating Lucy-san? Really?" Her face baring a hopeful expression.
"N-No!" Lucy spoke up, "We're just friends."
"Yeah..." Natsu agreed in a quiet voice.
Grandeeney peered at the two, "But your going to date, right?"
"MOM!"
"Thank you so much for having me over." Lucy said for the tenth time, bowing her head again to the older woman.
"Oh nonsense, please come anytime." Grandeeney laughed, handing the blonde her backpack, "If you'd like you could even stay the night!"
Lucy choked on her spit, these people were too nice. "S-sorry but I have to be getting back home now."
"Maybe next time!" Igneel chimed in from the kitchen, his face stuffed with freshly baked cookies.
"Please take these!" Wendy added, handing Lucy a small container of the cookies they had made.
Lucy smiled at the girl, "Thank you so much Wendy! It was nice to meet you," She moved her head up to look at the other people in the house, "All of you."
"Ah, thanks for telling me about Levy," Metalicana said, placing a firm hand on Gajeel's shoulder.
"No problem." She grinned, "I'll be going now, thank you again."
"Shouldn't Natsu walk the girl home?" Metalicana added as Lucy walked towards the door.
Natsu paled as both his parents towered over him, "Yes, your very right Metalicana!" Grandeeney smiled, pushing Natsu towards the blonde.
"R-Really it's fine-"
"Nonsense!" Igneel laughed, "Natsu can walk you home, he needs to take Happy for a walk anyways."
As if on que, a blue cat ran over to the pinkette boy. Wait, why was the cat blue? And why should Natsu walk a cat? Lucy sweatdropped at the thoughts.
"They aren't going to take no for an answer." Gajeel piped in, his eyes not leaving the television. Natsu sighed and opened the door, letting Lucy walk out first.
"They really aren't." He confirmed when the blonde gave him a dubious look.
"O-oh, well er, thank you then." She said as they walked down the front porch.
The two walked in silence, not sure if it was awkward of comfortable, for the next ten minutes. Both of their minds re-thinking the past evening. Eventually Lucy spoke up,
"I like your family, they're nice."
Natsu nodded, "Yeah, but they're pretty annoying sometimes too."
"That's what family is for, to annoy the living hydrogen out of you."
This caused the pinkette to laugh before, "Hey... can you tell me more about your mom?" He could feel the blonde stiffen next to him, "Not if you don't want to I mean."
A few moments of silent passed before the blonde spoke.
"She was an astronomer. You see back then, before I came here, in Junior High and Elementary school my family was well off. We lived in a big house and she used to take me to the garden at night and teach me all about the stars.
"But when I was in the seventh grade she got really sick, and then she passed away. After that my dad lost the business and we had to move with whatever money we had left. That was around the beginning of freshman year when we moved here, I joined a different school but... Things happened, and then I joined FairyTail Academy around the middle-end of the year.
"My mom... she was really pretty, really nice and well-mannered too. She always had this smile that just made you feel..." Lucy trailed off, unsure of how to phrase it.
"Enchanted?" Natsu said, his eyes staring directly at the path in front of them.
"..." Lucy nodded silently, her heart beginning to beat rapidly. "When she passed away I guess it was hard for my dad to look at me. I've been told I'm her spitting image. So for a while my dad would avoid me, but that didn't work out very well, just a lot of fights. Then when this thing happened at my old school and I moved to FTA, well he just started drinking and crying. He'll just sit on the couch and stare at the television, he's like a child when he drinks. He really loved my mom. I know he cares about me too. He's just a little broken."
"What... What happened at your old school?" The same feeling he got when he first went to her house suddenly washed over him. He felt like he was suddenly walking on eggshells, like this topic wasn't supposed to be brought up.
"I, uh, don't really want to talk about it." Her response was different than last time. Maybe it was because she was growing used to Natsu and didn't mind him trying to know more about her. Her voice was low and soft, kind of bitter sweet.
"Sorry, never mind that." He realized they had reached her house once the words left his mouth. He hadn't realized how long they'd been talking, and he'd forgotten about the blue cat that was walking silently next to him. "Hey I don't think I've introduced you to Happy."
"... You named you cat Happy?" She asked, remembering Igneel telling him to take the cat for a walk. "And why is he blue... and why does he go for walks?"
"Yes I did, I dyed him blue because he's special, and he has an abundance of energy so we take him on walks."
The blonde bent down to pet the feline, who in return, rubbed it's face into her hand purring.
"I think he likes you." Natsu stated to fill the silence,
Lucy looked up at him with a smile, "He must have good taste then." She joked playfully.
Natsu spoke without thinking his mind lost in her unreadable eyes, "Yeah he must."
Some type of emotion swirled in her chocolate colored eyes for moment, Natsu realized that had happened before many times. It felt like he decoding the lock to figure her out.
The blonde coughed awkwardly, shifting her gaze away from his. She wasn't expecting THAT as a reply.
"So... I should go." She mumbled, standing up. Natsu suddenly was brought back to the reality they were in front of her house.
"Right." He said, "I should start heading back too."
Neither of them moved.
"I... Uhm, thanks. For inviting me over I mean." Lucy said, her cheeks with a tint of pink.
"Yeah, I think my family likes you more than me." Natsu joked causing the blonde to laugh slightly.
"Bye Natsu." She said waving her hand before turning around and walking up the driveway to her house.
"Bye..." He said quietly, watching as she opened the front door and stepped in. Once the door shut he slowly turned around and began the walk home. Next to him the blue cat meowed.
"What is it, Happy? Did you like her?" The cat meowed in response. Natsu chuckled softly, "Well, that makes to of us."
Ugh you guys are nice. Like you all ate spoonfuls of sugar for breakfast I swear. So let me just lay down how my morning went yesterday
(Cause it's currently 1:37am)
Basically I didn't go to bed until 7am that day, and I was hungry so I ask one of my friends "Cereal or Oatmeal?" And then it all just ended up with me trying to make oatmeal (I suck at cooking) and failing. (I don't even like oatmeal) So basically I eat this crappy oatmeal while half dead and then walk back upstairs and crash. I remembered none of it, my friend ever so kindly told me all about it thought ; - ;
Anyways hope you all enjoyed the chap. See ya guys next time.
~R