This was incredibly awkward. The silence that filled the halls, except for the few occasional moans that could be heard through the thin walls, was almost deafening. Lucy was sitting by her door staring at the ground, anywhere but near her neighbor. Levy would kick her out of their apartment because she and Gajeel needed some 'alone time'. Yeah she wasn't fooling anyone, and Lucy would have been fine with leaving but it was one in the morning now and she kinda wanted to go back to bed

Natsu wasn't doing much better. He knew Gray and Juvia could go at it for hours, but they normally had sex at Juvia's place not theirs. Juvia didn't have a roommate that they had to kick out. He was contemplating just falling asleep in the hallway. Glancing over at his neighbor, he couldn't help but feel sorry for her. She looked really embarrassed based on her red face, and looked about ready to kick down the door and just go back inside.

Now that he thought about it, it seemed like a good idea. Resting his head against the wall he let out a sigh, it was going to be a long night.

When Lucy heard Natsu sigh, she snuck a peak at him. He had his head against the wall and his eyed seemed lidded. She also noticed how with the short sleeved shirt he had given her a nice view of his, amazing in her opinion, muscles and the tattoo of flames that went up most of his arm. The moonlight seemed to be making him glow, and don't even get her started on his hair.

You could say that she had a bit of a crush on him.

The minute he looked up, Lucy quickly moved her vision back to the ground. But she could feel his eyes staring her down.

"Hey, uh, so" he said before scratching the back of his head "I have no idea how to start a conversation in this situation."

"How about we both just continue staring off into space and pretend that our roommates aren't having sex?" Lucy asked.

"Sure, but I mean, just sitting her in almost complete silence is awkward, not to mention boring" Natsu whined.

"Well then I don't know what to tell you. Just find something to talk about if it's bothering you so much" Lucy answered.

Natsu quieted and the hallway became quiet again for a few moments. Lucy was getting used to the silence again when she nearly jumped out of her skin when Natsu asked "How's your job? I know you're a teacher at the high school, but we haven't talked in a while."

"Uh" Lucy said completely off guard before answering "It's fine, the students I have are pretty good and I was given a pretty decent budget this year."

"Cool, cool" Natsu said before the hallway went back to silence.

"So how's your job? You're still a police officer right?" Lucy questioned, breaking the silence.

"Great, y'know just the normal stuff. No murders or serial killers on the loose or anything so the town is only threatened by drug dealers and petty thieves" Natsu joked.

"Yeah" Lucy said in response before the halls went quiet again. Clutching the sides of her face Lucy exclaimed "UGH, I hate them. Why did they have to have sex in the middle of the night and kick us out while at?! God this is really awkward!"

"Hey, hey, hey, calm down" Natsu hurriedly said "It'll be fine, just watch one day we'll both get back at them for this and make them sit out in the hallway awkwardly."

"You think?" Lucy asked.

"Yeah sure" Natsu said sending her a smile, god she was too cute for her own good, maybe he should use this opportunity to ask her out for coffee or something.

He was about to open his mouth when Lucy's apartment door sprang open. A head of messy blue hair popped out.

"Hey Lucy, you can come back inside" the blue haired girl said, slightly out of breath.

Rolling her eyes Lucy mumbled "About time."

"Just remember" Natsu said "We'll get back at 'em." While he wasn't sure, he though he saw her smile.

Neither would have guessed that they would have gotten revenge together.