SO OMG WE HIT 4K REVIEWS! AND IM LITERALLY JUST SCREAMING!
SO PLEASE ENJOY THIS SUPER QUICK UPDATE AS A PRESENT BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL AMAZING!
XOXOX
"Finally home!" Lucy cheered as she lolled her head back against the tub of her bath.
Her father had arrived super early—early as in 4 a.m.—to the hospital to surprise her with her discharge. No more scratchy IVs, no more prison food, and no more annoying nurses poking her with strange objects every hour.
And she finally got to bathe.
She spent a good half hour scrubbing every inch of her body, even though it hurt still to move a lot and she ended her shower to go take a nice, lavender scented bubble bath.
It was terribly painful for her to lay down in the tub, but Lucy trucked through it because nothing can stop her from taking a bath.
The climb out of the bath was a real struggle. Her injured stomach muscles let out a stabbing cry of pain every time she attempted to sit up. Giving up on that, she instead placed both of her hands on the edge of the bathtub, attempting to push herself up.
Tears dotted her vision as knife-like pain dug deeper and deeper into her abdomen. Her teeth grinded and her arms quivered as she put more energy into it and somehow, she managed to stand up, but the tears streamed heavily down her cheeks.
Maybe she should hold off on the baths for a while after all…
Shoving on baggy gray cotton shorts and a loose-fitted light pink tank top, that seemed to reveal her lacy orange bra, she carefully crawled into her fluffy bed for the first time all week.
"So much better than the hospital," she sighed, pulling her laptop onto her lap.
With nothing better to do, she went on her lovely blog and checked her activity. She noticed she was tagged in a photo by LokeTheLion so with bored curiosity, she clicked on it.
"Eek!" a squeak escaped her lips as her eyes took in a shirtless photo of an outwardly handsome guy with very toned abs. Her eyes traveled up the six pack to see a self-absorbed smile with smoky, hazel eyes peering through square-rimmed glasses. And with meticulously spiked up orange hair to top it off, his entire look seemed to say, I know I'm good-looking.
Lucy rolled her eyes in response, not liking cocky men like that. Her eyes darted over to his caption which read, "I dedicate this selfie to my lovely waifu, CelestialMage. We will forever be the hottest Tumblr couple to ever exist."
"I still don't get when we became a couple…" she muttered to herself as she reluctantly clicked the heart button and without helping it, she clicked on the notes to see if there were any comments.
DropsOfRain had reblogged it and wrote, "Juvia is so happy Love Rival found someone who isn't Gray-sama!"
IceMakeMagic reblogged from Juvia and said, "Oi! I told you not to call her that anymore!"
"Force of habit! Juvia is sorry! Only DragonSlayer gets to be called 'Love Rival'"
"NO! THAT IS A DEFINITE NO! WE WENT THROUGH THIS ALREADY! And don't go tagging him! Last thing I need is him adding a dumb comment like always -_-."
Unwillingly, Lucy laughed knowing very well that pain would jab her in the gut—and it did, but she managed to smile through the pain.
"Juvia knows, but Juvia is still suspicious because Gray-sama said DragonSlayer couldn't be in love with him because DragonSlayer's URL was HopelesslyInLoveWithLucy. But now it's back to DragonSlayer and LokeTheLion declared Love Rival #1 his waifu, therefore, Love Rival #2 is still a threat."
Lucy's smile fell right off her face. She had forgotten all about Natsu changing his URL right after they confessed to one another. What was she supposed to make of that exactly? She had no idea, but it made her heart feel heavy, like someone was stepping on it with their steel-toed boot.
"Oooh, DropsOfRain," SatanSoul joined in, "I like the way you think! You are so right! Gratsu stands proud now that LoLu is canon!"
"JUVIA DOESN'T WANT TO BE RIGHT ;-; ."
"MIRA," Gray wrote, "YOU AREN'T HELPING!"
"Hehe, sorry, Gray!" Mira apologetically messaged back.
"It's true though. LoLu is very canon," Loke confirmed, to Lucy's vexation.
"LOLU ISN'T CANON!" she frantically typed as her body seemed to fluctuate from cold, clammy sweat, to sweating-like-in-a-sauna kind of sweat.
"Shush now, bae," Loke replied. "We don't have to keep our love a secret."
Her eye twitched, "I'd rather keep it a secret, to be honest." Her mind drifted back to Natsu. Did he want to keep their confession a secret? Is that why he hadn't told anyone? What if he said it out of pity because she was in the hospital?
No! She indignantly shook her head. She couldn't let herself think like that. Besides, Natsu said all that heart melting stuff about her to her father so that's something…But she wanted answers so badly… "Ugh! I'M PATHETIC! I mean who gets scared to ask their possible boyfriend if they are dating?!"
A thought crossed her mind.
What if she sent Natsu an anonymous message asking if he were single?
Or why he changed his URL?
Or if he likes anyone?
"NOOO THAT'S EVEN WORSE, LUCY!" she pulled her hair from the roots, so hard that it hurt a bit.
She really needed a distraction from her daunting, paranoid thoughts…So with a deep breath, she returned back to her virtual life.
"Yay for LoLu and Gratsu for being canon!" Mira cheered.
"JUVIA IS CRYING!" Juvia wrote.
"GRAY IS CRYING!" Gray wrote.
"LUCY IS CRYING!" Lucy wrote.
And then someone else joined the party, "GRRAYY, FIGHT ME! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO ADDS DUMB SHITTY COMMENTS TO EVERYTHING!"
"Of course he would be focused on Gray's comment about him," Lucy face-palmed, though her pulse still managed to jump.
"Great, Natsu's here -_-," was Gray's reply.
"AND YOU, DROPSOFRAIN!" Natsu continued. "DON'T GO CALLING ME LOVE RIVAL #2! I WANNA BE NUMBER ONE!"
"AND HE'S FIGHTING FOR GRAY'S LOVE?!" Lucy screamed, cupping her cheeks, completely awestruck that Natsu ignored the whole LoLu posts or the fact that Loke tagged her a shirtless photo.
"JUVIA IS CRYING HARDER!"
"NATSU, YOU'RE ACTUALLY AN IDIOT!" Gray exclaimed.
"My, my!" Mira typed. "This is so exciting!"
"OI, I AIN'T AN IDIOT!"
"YES YOU ARE!" Gray countered.
"I am glad I'm no longer a part of this," Lucy decisively added.
"Juvia is glad too," Juvia replied.
Her right eye twitched, "Right…"
"LoLu's love is so strong that we don't need this kind of barbaric flirting," Loke stated. "Come, Lucy, let's go continue our conversation of love elsewhere. What's your Skype?"
Her eye twitched some more, What conversation of love? They weren't even conversing!
"Loke, what are you doing here?" Natsu asked.
"What do you mean what am I doing here?" Loke asked back. "I should be asking you that! This is my selfie!"
"It is?!" Natsu typed. "I didn't know you were a cat."
"Excuse me?"
"OH WAIT!" Natsu quickly amended, "I TOTALLY THOUGHT THIS WAS A PICTURE OF A CAT DRESSED UP LIKE LION! My bad :D ."
"See?!" Gray commented. "You are an idiot. How do you mistake a human for a cat?!"
"Oi! It's an easy mistake!"
"I agree," A new URL joined in, BlackSteelGajeel. "I mix up humans and animals all the time. Like CelestialMage looks like a bunny to me."
Lucy ogled blankly at the screen.
Bunny?
I look like a bunny?
"WHATTT?!" she cried on the top of her lungs. "I DO NOT LOOK LIKE A BUNNY!" And then she gasped; this was the first time she had seen Gajeel write anything. Sure she followed him back when Levy told Lucy his URL, but Lucy hadn't seen a post from him, like ever. This was so strange…This was the boy who Levy was crushing on…And he thinks Lucy looks like a bunny…
"See!" Natsu wrote after. "My point exactly! Thank you, random dude."
"No problem, Salamander."
A giggle erupted from her throat as Lucy mischievously commented, "Does that mean you think Natsu looks like a salamander?"
"WHATTTT?! ARGGG, YOU STUPID METAL HEAD! CAN'T BELIEVE I THOUGHT YOU WERE COOL FOR A MINUTE THERE! COME FIGHT ME!"
"Now that you mention it," Gray wrote, "I can so see the resemblance."
"GRRRR, SHUT UP, GRAY!"
And here goes another big fight…
A chilling message appeared, "I know you all aren't messaging while in class because that would be very irresponsible."
Lucy stared at the clock on the wall, 9:30 a.m. They would all be well into class right now…
"Of course not!" Gray wrote, clearly lying. "Gotta go, class is starting!"
"I'm home," Natsu explained. "And oiii, aren't you messaging while in class, Erza?"
Erza never replied back.
"HAH! GOT YOU THERE, PSHHH MS-RESPONSIBLE MY ASS!"
"Ahhh Natsu totally has a death wish…" she pinched her nose, shaking her head. But still, there was something about his careless nature that made him more attractive…
"Soo anyway, Lucy, what's your Skype?" Loke asked.
"FUCK OFF ALREADY!" Natsu replied. "LIKE HELL SHE'S GONNA GIVE IT TO YOU! YOU'RE TOO ANNOYING!"
Natsu…Her heart palpations increased immensely as she went back to her main dash. As though it were fate, the very top of her dash was an anonymous ask Natsu had just answered.
"Do you like anyone?" the person had asked.
"Nahh, but I like-like someone."
And that was the only answer Lucy had needed to see.
She exhaled in relief, Thank you, anon. And her heart felt a thousand times lighter, as though that steel-toed boot had finally let her go free.
And on the bottom of her screen, her Skype lit up with a new message.
"You ready to video chat?"
Oh right, she had a Skype date today.
XOXOX
Hehe next chapter won't be as fillerish!
AND OMG THE NEW MANGA CHAPTER! AHHH NATSU AT THE END! I'M JUST SCREAMING BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA WAIT ANOTHER WEEK TO FIND OUTTT! AND AHHH THE GAJEVYY! I'M JUSTTT AFDFFDSGFHS
And thank to Desiluff on Deviantart for the really cute pic of Gray and Natsu meeting irl!
desiluff. deviantart art /Gray-and-Natsu-s -first-encounter-IRL-557747316
As always, thank you for reading! And I hope you all have a wonderful day while I spend it writing two essays because I stupidly waited until last minute (story of my life :'D )
