Lucy had been minding her own business, honest. She had been walking through the school's parking lot after a study session with Levy in the library when she accidently noticed it, the crime. Well it wasn't exactly what you'd call a crime but still what she saw would definitely get the individual in heaps of trouble, at least a week of detention.

Now she could have just walked by and ignore the crime being committed right in front of her but she did a double take when she saw, what she figured was a prank, who it was being committed against.

"Hey!" Lucy shouted as she made her way towards the car "What do you think you're doing?"

The pranker in question shrinked down when he heard her screaming at him. He tugged the black beanie further down his head as if it could hide him

"I know you heard me" Lucy said as she stared down at the man crouched down by the principal's car.

"Don't you have eyes?" the boy mumbled, barely audible.

"I do and they're perfect twenty-twenty vision so I know what it is I'm seeing" Lucy said as the suspect placed his spray paint can on the blacktop, not like the damage had already been done.

"Well than" the boy said as he held his hands up, still hiding his face from her "You caught me red handed. What are you going to do, snitch? See if I care, it's just some detention plus I can have this all cleaned up before you could even get someone out here to see it."

"Is that so?" Lucy said as she whipped out her phone, snapping a picture of the crime scene. The suspect right next to the car with the words "dick muncher' spray painted on the car in black.

"Shit" the boy said as he looked up at Lucy with anger in his eyes "What the hell did you just do?"

"I just got myself some photographic evidence" Lucy said as she waved her phone at him "I think this would be enough to convince anyone at this school that you did this."

"Damn, what do you have against me you goody-goody?" the boy asked and Lucy was finally able to get a good look at him and when she did she felt her stomach drop. The pink hair and green eyes were a dead giveaway, it was Natsu Dragneel the school's so called resident bad-boy and unfortunately for Lucy, her long time crush.

"N-Natsu Dragneel?!" Lucy cried as she felt her face heat up, she would end up making her crush hate her "What-why-"

"Oh I know you" Natsu said as he rested his chin in his palm "Your Lucy something, were in the same chemistry class right?"

"Uhhh, um, yes" Lucy managed to squeak out, overwhelmed that he knew her name and that they shared a class.

"Hey do you think you could do me a big favor?" Natsu asked leaning forward slightly on his heels, his expression all friendly now.

"Umm, maybe, what do you want?" Lucy asked, she was cautious, she did just find his defacing the principal's new car that he had been talking to anyone about for weeks. She didn't want to get involved in a huge scheme to get Natsu out of it but those eyes were making her weak kneed, really she needed some sort of self-control.

"How about you and I pretend this whole thing just didn't happen, you didn't see me spray painting the car and you never took an incriminating picture?" Natsu asked with the best puppy eyes he could muster.

"I don't know" Lucy said "What do I get out of this?"

"Umm nothing? The peace of mind that you didn't see a minor crime?" Natsu offered with a shrug.

"I don't know, it would really be a shame if this picture just so happened to get sent to the principal" Lucy said waving her phone at him.

"Okay, what do you want?" Natsu grumbled as he let out a loud sigh.

What did she want, that was a good question, she was top of her class so it wasn't like she needed help with work, and she didn't have enemies that he could scare off or something. What she did have was a crush the size of Jupiter on him, so why not ask something a little selfish and self-indulgent. "Buy me dinner."

"Dinner?" Natsu asked "You want me to buy you food?"

"Something nice, no McDonalds or anything like that, something decent and edible" Lucy said as she waited for his response. It was a nice way to get herself a kind of date with him and how knows, maybe after spending more than five minutes with him she could get over this ridiculous crush of hers.

"Ooookay" Natsu said "So if I take you out for food, you'll delete the picture and not snitch, right?"

"Yep" Lucy said as she slid her phone back into her pocket "That's all there is to it."

"Fine" Natsu said with a huff, pushing his hands off his knees as he stood up "I'll go take you out to eat."

"Great" Lucy said as a large smile broke across her face "What are you in the mood for?"

They ended up at some pizza joint that was on the corner of street, smack dab between a gas station and laundromat that had went out of business years ago.

"So" Lucy said as she sat in a booth across from Natsu "Do you come here often?"

Natsu shrugged as he said "It meet all the points on your little checklists, the pizza's good though."

She really did hope so since Natsu had ordered them an entire pizza "Well I just thought I'd ask since we have some time until the food got here, why were you defacing the principal's car? I mean you've surely heard him talk about it the past week about how new it was."

"Honestly that was one of the reasons I did it" Natsu said as he swirled a straw around in his drink "And also because I swear he has it out for me!"

"Really?" Lucy asked "I mean, you don't have the best reputation."

"What do you mean by that?" Natsu asked as his brow rose.

"Nothing" Lucy said, waving her hands "I just meant that you do kind of have a not so good reputation at school."

"Okay first off, it is really over exaggerated the main reason I get stuck in detention is because I don't do my homework or because I show up to class late. I've only been in like three fights ever at school and all of them were started by the other person but does anyone believe me?" Natsu said as he banged his fist down on the table "It drives me crazy that everyone seems to think that if I look at them without a smile or something that it means I want to fight them or something!"

"So you're saying ever rumor about you being some kind of bad boy is false?" Lucy asked feeling that everything she knew about Natsu was false.

"I might be a bit of a delinquent or rebellious or whatever but it's not like I'm an aspiring criminal, hell my father is a police officer does anyone think about that?" Natsu said exasperated "The worst things I do is spray painting shit I guess, which I've only done like two other times."

"So what exactly are you confessing to me?" Lucy asked as she placed her hands on the table "That you're really just a normal guy that has a resting bitch face or something."

"That sounds about right" Natsu grumbled "Hell, the last detention I got was cause I was late to English since on my way to school I saw a cat stuck in a tree, I couldn't just leave the little guy there you know?"

Lucy tried to muffle her laughter at that but failed tremendously.

"Eh? What are you laughing at, it's the truth I swear" Natsu said as his ears turned red.

"I just find it so hard to see since everyone talks about you like your some kind of gangster or something" Lucy said as she covered her mouth in an attempt to muffle her giggles.

"Well now you know the truth" Natsu as he crossed his arms "I'm just a misunderstood cat lover."

"I see" Lucy said as she rested her head in her hand "I'll make sure to tell everyone that the next time I hear them calling you a punk."

"Like they'll believe you" Natsu said as he rolled his eyes.

"Oh I'm sure I can convince them" Lucy said.

"I don't know if I want my reputation spoiled yet, it does keep people out of my way when I walk down the hallway" Natsu said with a small chuckle and Lucy was beginning to feel herself falling in deep, this was definitely not good.

"Honestly though, to think all you wanted from me for your silence was food. I was half expecting you to ask me to beat up all your enemies or do all your homework for a month, though that might not have been a good idea since I'm crap at chemistry" Natsu said as he shook his head.

"Really, I think chemistry is pretty easy, if only I could see the board it might be a little easier" Lucy said with a sigh, she had perfect vision so it's not like she needed glasses, she just didn't need to be on the other side of the classroom.

"You should come up and sit by me" Natsu offered.

"Huh?"

"Yeah, on the first day I sat at a seat near the front and no one would sit near me so the seat next to me is empty" Natsu said "It has been pretty nice sitting by myself though but hey if someone is sitting next to me it's easier to cheat on the tests."

"I hope you didn't just offer me a new seat so you could cheat on a test?" Lucy said.

"What, I'm helping you out since your helping me not getting suspended for insulting the principal and messing up his new car" Natsu said "I owe you more than food to be honest, but I'm going to settle at this."

"Is that so?" Lucy asked as a smirk crossed her face "Maybe I should make you get me food for the rest of the month."

"Hey, don't push my charity" Natsu said as he turned his head away from her.

"Don't push mine either" Lucy said as she took out her phone again "I do know the principal's email."

"You wouldn't" Natsu said as he glared at her.

"Try me" Lucy taunted as she waved her phone "I'm the one with the incriminating evidence."

"Fine I'll get you food for the rest for the month, sheesh" Natsu said right as the waitress brought out their pizza "You're lucky your fun to be around or else I would just take your phone with how you're waving it around so much."

"Uhhh" Lucy said, feeling her face start to heat up at his one comment, he thought she was fun to be around "W-well your lucky you're cute or else I would have already sent the picture." Okay that didn't come out the way Lucy had planned.

Natsu just stared at her for a few seconds before a large grin split across his face. "I didn't realize you felt that way Lucy" Natsu teased as she felt her face heat up even more.

"I-I didn't mean it like that, don't twist the meaning of my words" Lucy stuttered as she tried to figure out some way to talk her way out of this embarrassment.

"Oh it's fine Lucy, you're pretty cute yourself" Natsu said with a toothy grin before taking a bite of pizza. Lucy was now royally screwed, and she had a feeling there was no coming back from this crush now but at least he had called her cute and fun to be around, that had to count for something right?

At least they had a secret between the two of them, no one needed to know that Natsu was the one who defaced the principal's car, and no one needed to know that Lucy never did delete that picture out of her phone. Well it did end up getting deleted, but by Natsu not her.

"I can't believe you didn't delete this picture" Natsu said as he stared down at her phone. He had stolen it from her at lunch and had managed to unlock it "What if someone saw this?"

Rolling her eyes Lucy made a grab for the phone. "Come on Natsu, don't delete it, you're making a cute face in the picture" Lucy begged as she reached over his shoulder for the phone.

"You can take other pictures of mean that doesn't incriminate me; you know he's still pissed about what happened to his car even after two weeks!" Natsu said as his finger hovered over the delete button.

"Come on, please don't" Lucy pleaded. Natsu ignored her and deleted the picture. "That was a nice picture I can't believe you!" Lucy cried as she grabbed her phone back and began to mourn the loss of her picture.

"Oh come on, you can take other pictures" Natsu mumbled as he felt eyes on him. Everyone probably thought he was harassing Lucy or something. Patting her on the shoulder he said "Calm down before someone comes over here and asks you if I'm harassing you or something."

"Oh please save me from the big mean cat lover" Lucy fake cried, peeking at him from the corner of her eye "I think he's going to threaten that I can't come over and see his cat who obviously loves me more than him."

"Okay that crosses the line, Happy loves me most okay" Natsu said as he shook his head "I was the one that saved him when he was floating down the river in a box."

"But who's lap does he curl up in?" Lucy asked with a smirk.

"He sleeps in my lap when you're not there!"

"See, case closed, between the two of us he would pick me" Lucy said as she placed her hand on her chest.

"I swear-"Natsu mumbled before he heard someone come up behind him.

"Is he bothering you miss?" came a voice that Natsu figured belonged to a teacher.

"Yes he is" Lucy said as Natsu looked at her betrayed as she guested at him "Can you believe that my boyfriend thinks his cat loves him more than me?"

"Wha-" the teacher asked, obviously confused on what she had just waked into.

"Can you believe that my girlfriend thinks that my cat loves her more than me, his owner?" Natsu exclaimed, two could play this game.

"Oh, umm I think I'll leave you two to decide this among yourselves" the teacher said before backing away from them.

"Must you be this way?" Lucy asked as she put her head down on his shoulder.

"You started it."

"You deleted my picture."

"That whole thing is supposed to be a secret; secrets don't have any tangible evidence that they happened."

"You're just bitter that I had a cute picture of you."