I shuffled my way back to my room and tried to settle back down and get some more sleep. But I just couldn't shut off my mind and I found myself laying awake in bed for the next 3 hours.
I'm still laying in bed when I hear a soft knock on my door.
"Come in." I say as I roll onto my side to face the door.
"Good morning Lucy!" shouts a certain pink haired someone. "I brought up some breakfast for you!" he says in an equally excited voice.
He flips on the lights and I sit up and rub my eyes as I adjust to the light. I look to Natsu and he is carrying a tray filled with food that smells so good it makes my mouth water. There's a variety of food sitting on it, including the small bird shaped rolls I saw Mary making earlier.
"Good morning to you too." I say while trying to cover a yawn, not having been able to fall back asleep has really worn on me and I thought to myself that a nap would be a good idea for later.
Natsu deftly sets up the tray, he easily pulls out collapsable legs from the bottom of the tray and he places it in front of me.
"I thought I would bring you breakfast so you could eat while you got ready and we could get an early start to the day." he says with an extremely cheesy smile.
"Oh, well thank you." I said, wondering what on earth we have to do today that would warrant not sleeping in.
"I'm gonna go and get ready, go ahead and eat and come downstairs once you've eaten and are dressed. The weather is supposed to be nice today so you can get away with jeans and a light jacket I bet." Natsu said without taking a breath and he smiled again before turning and closing the door.
Well that was weird. I looked at the food and I picked up the roll and took a bite out of it and then practically shoved the rest of it into my mouth. I quickly ate the rest of the food and made a mental note to tell Mary that she did a good job.
"Well, he said it was supposed to be nice for this time of year." I said to myself as I walked to the boxes still lying on the floor.
Despite the fact that I've lived like a princess for most of my life I do have some casual clothes.
So I threw on some jeans and a tee shirt and found a thin pink jacket and threw it on. I quickly brushed and tugged my hair into a ponytail and I grabbed a pair of barely used tennis shoes before going down stairs.
"Is everything ready?" I could hear through the kitchen doors.
"Yes sir. As soon as she comes down you two can be on your way." came another muffled voice.
I stepped through the door and Natsu and Reggie turned to look at me.
"Good morning Miss Lucy." said Reggie with a bow.
"Good morning Reggie." I said with a sweet smile.
I thought I could see the slightest twinge on Reggie's face when I said his name, but before I could say anything else, Natsu was already looping his arm through mine and leading me to the door.
"See ya, Reggie." Natsu said looking over his shoulder and I could swear I saw the same small twitch of his face when Natsu said his name.
Once we had made it outside and the doors had closed, I asked Natsu,"Does Reggie not like it when you say his name?"
"Hmm? Oh, Reggie? I don't know, his name is Reginald and when I was little he was constantly telling me to call him that, but it was such a stuffy name, so I continued to call him Reggie, and I guess that he eventually just accepted it and gave up."
"Oh, that makes sense." I said thoughtfully, and making a mental note to call him Reginald from now on. "So anyway, where are we going?" I ask, taking in the fact that we seemed to be aimlessly strolling through the orchard.
"It's a surprise." he said with a cheeky yet mischievous smile.
"Oh is it now?" I said mischievously.
"Yep, sure is." he replied cheerfully.
I slowed my steps and drug down on his arm childishly before whining, "Teeeeeellllllll meeeeeee."
He stopped before imitating my baby voice, "Nooooooooo," he cleared his throat before continuing, "Now come on, I don't want to be any later than we are."
"What are we late for?"
"I'm not saying." he said turning his nose in the other direction.
"Please tell me."
"No."
And we went on like this for quite some time before Natsu stopped and walked over to a tree.
"Do you want an apple? A peach?" he said before reaching up and picking a bright red apple of the tree next to him.
"Sure, I'll take an apple." I said and he quickly reached up and grabbed another and tossed it to me.
I caught it without fumbling too much. "Thanks." I said, taking a quick bite of the apple. It was surprisingly sweet.
We started walking again without saying much else.
"So now will you tell me where we're going?" I asked around a mouthful of apple about a minute earlier.
"We're going to town," he said, "there's a gate just up here so that you can go though and you will be right on the outskirts of town, and I thought that we could take a walk together through the orchard." he said smiling at me.
"It's been nice. And could you really not tell me that earlier?"
"I wanted to surprise you. What's wrong with that?"
"Nothing, I think it was sweet. Thank you." I said.
"Did you know that your smile is the sweetest thing I've ever seen." He said before stopping his walking and turning to look at me. " It's also one of the sweetest things I've tasted too."
He leaned down and gave me a quick peck on the lips before continuing on ahead of me.
I ran to catch up and I grabbed his hand before leaning against him gently as we kept walking our way.
Phantasma: Hi guys! Oh my, it has been a while. I'm sorry. Have a good day. I'll try to update soon. Hehehe. Yeah. Anyway, please review and follow and favorite and all that good stuff. Thank you for sticking with this story!"