Chapter 11

In a clean white bedroom, a gentle and warm sunlight came to seep in between the ajarred curtains and slowly crawling inside the room. A blonde actress was softly snoring in the bed dreaming about a man with pink hair, though the dream seemed hazy. As the morning continuously came, the ray of the gentle sunlight finally reached the face of the blonde and made her wake up in a calm manner. Opening one eye, the actress gave a restful sigh as she stared at the white curtains.

"It's morning already?" Lucy mumbles to herself as she fully opened her eyes to stare at her motionless curtains trying to keep the sunlight out of her eyes while giving her a small view of the blue sky. Slowly prompting herself with her elbow, she looked around her room and found it empty beside her.

"What time is it?" She asked to herself once again, as she finally sat up and turned to look at her nightstand to check on her clock. The time showed it was passed 8 in the morning already and that she has missed her morning jogging, "I guess missing out one jogging morning won't be too bad…"

Lucy then drags her legs out of her bed and stood to head towards her kitchen. As she was leaving her room, she has noticed that she was still in her clothes from last night but didn't mind it at all.

"I guess I was so tired last night with all that happened…" Lucy says as she stood before her coffeemaker and starts preparing it for her. Standing before it, she mindlessly waited for the coffee to be ready until she started remembering that she was with Natsu that night, crying herself tiredly as she expressed her sadness about the end of her show. She recalls how she told Natsu that she felt bad for the team because of her stupid rumor and that their show had to be cut short after receiving bad comments and ratings. But with all those turmoil, she also remembers how Natsu cheered her up and felt grateful to find a new friend, even a best friend if she would consider.

"Huh…" Lucy sighs while leaning to one leg as she snaps out of her recollection, "I guess, Natsu could be a really good friend…after all he's not a bad guy. Not just some acquaintance anymore…" Lucy realized and slowly, she found herself smiling, knowing that she liked the idea of Natsu as being her new friend.

Soon, the coffee was ready and Lucy happily got herself a mug of coffee before heading to her living room to look for her handbag. Slowly approaching her couch, there she sees that her bag was placed on her coffee table with a small note under it.

"What's this?" She utters as she sat down on her couch and exchanged her mug of coffee for the note on the table. Looking at the note closely, her smile began to form once again as she repeatedly read the note.

Have a good morning,
Luce.
-ND

"I am now…" Lucy answers as she felt her cheeks warm up, knowing how thoughtful Natsu's message was for her. Suddenly feeling ecstatic, she grabbed her bag and looks for her phone. Taking out her mobile, she sees that her assistant has texted her, Levy gave a missed call, and Mirajane gave both a missed call and message. However, all of those were ignored when she just exited those notifications and went straight to her contacts app and looked for Natsu's number.

When his number came up, Lucy was about to press the call button when she suddenly hesitated, "Wait, maybe Natsu is in the office doing some work…" Lucy unconsciously bit her lower lip as she tried to weigh her choices, "It will be just a short call…" Lucy says trying to convince herself, "But he might be busy…
"No-no-no…this will be just less than a minute…but then again…AHHH!" Lucy then throws her phone to the coffee table as she fumed in annoyance, "Why can't he be the first to text or call?! Does it always have to be me?!" Lucy then drops her back to the couch as she crosses her arms under her chest and starts to glare at her phone. When minutes past and nothing happens to her phone despite the wish that a text or call would come, she ended up sighing as she wearily reaches over her phone.

Staring at her phone wallpaper, she furtively hopes that Natsu would at least call her but as minutes went by with no calls coming, she exasperatedly sighs as she drops her hands to her lap. Biting her lips, she continuously stares at the screen while she contemplated if she should just call him and give up her pride. Soon enough, she pressed the contacts app and called Natsu's number.

As she places her phone to her ear, she was surprised to hear that the line was busy at the moment. Pulling her phone away, she madly glared at it and irritatedly said, "Huh! Unbelievable! You won't call me but you call other people?!"

Lucy furiously presses the end call then throws her phone to the couch as she crosses her arms again. Glancing at her phone, she says, "I can't believe that he wouldn't even check on me after giving a sweet note…I mean if he cares, he would call at least right?"

At that instant, instead of a person answering her, her phone did as it rings. Without control, Lucy leaped in her couch and quickly grabs her phone to answer the call, hoping it would be the person she was wishing to call.

"Hello?" Lucy beams as she accepts the call
"Luce?" a man's voice spoke, which made Lucy even happier
"Natsu?" Lucy replies with an octave higher in her voice
"Uh, yeah…Hey, are you alright?" Natsu concerningly asks
"Yes! Of course," Lucy helplessly smiles to herself as she hears how Natsu was concerned about her, "And you?" She asks back
"Yeah, I'm good too…are you sure you're okay? You sound weird…Well, you always sound weird but today you sound weirder…" Natsu said and this made Lucy drop her smile after being called weird again
"Excuse me? F.Y.I., I do not sound weird. People actually say my voice sound so sweet that they could fall in love with it," Lucy then proudly smiles to herself but quickly fades when she hears the man chuckle at the other end of the call
"Who said that? Damn, whoever that is, is one prankster" Natsu said with amusement in his voice
"Shut up!" Lucy scowls despite knowing Natsu was just teasing, "Tsk, why'd you call?" Lucy annoyingly asks
"Call?" Natsu suddenly sounded surprised, like he was caught red-handed and this made Lucy raise her brow, "Well…uh…ju-just felt like I-I needed to check on you…after what happened last night…"

Slowly, a genuine smile appeared on Lucy's face as she looked down to her lap and saw her fingers fumble with the hem of her blouse, "I'm good…thanks for the concern…" Lucy replies before looking back up and ends her gaze to her open curtains, "Are you busy?" Lucy suddenly asks
"Me? Not really…I actually just finished my jogging since it's my rest day," Natsu answers, and this made Lucy smirk all of a sudden, "Oh, is that so…" tapping her chin, Lucy then relaxes her back and crosses her legs as she continued, "Well, then I guess you have the time to come to my unit…"
"Why?" Natsu curiously asked
"Well, isn't that what boyfriends do? Come and visit their girlfriend?" Lucy teasingly asks as she smiles to herself inwardly
"Wait, are you saying that there are media in your building? Are you being watched by some paparazzi or something? You should sue them!"
Natsu shouts in alarm thinking that the blonde was actually being stalked
"May~be…" Lucy teased, assuming that Natsu would be concerned, "Why don't you just come over and scare them off,"
"I'm coming over," Natsu sternly said before dropping the call

When the call ended, Lucy still had a smile on her face. Pulling the phone away from her ear, she giddily hugs her phone to her chest and mumbles, "He's coming over…oh, my god, he's coming!" and with that, Lucy dashes out of her seat to head back to her bedroom to start changing in her home clothes. Within a few minutes, Lucy was back at her living room, wearing a peach tank top with a faded denim shorts.

"Okay, when he gets here…what should we do?" Lucy asks herself as she looks around her living room. When her gaze ends at her curtains, she suddenly claps and leaps in her position as she says, "I know now!" then runs off to her laundry area and rampages her cabinets. As she searches the cabinet, she mumbles to herself, "No wonder I have been staring at my curtains since I woke up," Lucy then giggles at the thought then soon she finds the bag she is looking for.

Pulling out a plastic bag, she drags it out to her living room before she begins to untie the knot of the bag. It revealed a teal blue curtain, which she has bought in the province of Medallion, years ago when she had a shooting before. Ever since she has wanted to change her beige curtains to a different color but then she never really had the time to make some rearrangement. But now that she has a break from work, she decides to start this change.

So, happily pulling out the curtains out of the plastic, Lucy laid the teal curtains to the floor to give a short admiration for the new curtains that she will be putting up, "Ah! This will be cooling in the eyes…" Lucy said as she lovingly admires the curtain. Soon then, she walks up to her dining room and took a stool to climb over so that she could start unhooking her beige curtains.

Slowly but surely, Lucy was able to take out the hoop rings of her curtains to the curtain rods when suddenly her door opens. Startled at the sudden opening of her door, Lucy yelped in surprise and her stool started to wobble, "Ahhhh!" Lucy screeches as she felt the stool wobble. As a reaction, she tries to stabilize herself by pulling the curtains to pull her up but then the stool loses its balance and was now falling down. Unable to hold her up, the remaining of the curtains slips out of the curtain rod making Lucy follow after the stool, "Ahhhh!" Lucy shouts even louder knowing that anytime soon she would hit the floor. When suddenly,

"Ooff!" a manly voice came to Lucy's ears. The feeling of falling off the stool made Lucy shut her eyes and let the curtain draped over her. But when she felt like she was no longer falling, she opened her eyes first and glanced around. Seeing herself under the beige curtains, she shakily pulled the curtains off of her and instantly she sees pink hair and a very concerned look from a man.

"Are you okay Luce?" Natsu worriedly asks as he searched all over her face for any bruise
"Me?" Lucy speechlessly asks back while pointing to herself, "Didn't I die or something? Why is the place so bright? Am I in heaven?" Lucy mumbles while keeping her gaze at the man carrying her. Instead of answering the questions of the blonde, Natsu let himself laugh, throwing his head backward before glancing at the blonde actress again, "Okay, you're good…" Natsu says with a grin on his face.

When he is about to put Lucy down, the blonde wraps her arms around the neck of the pinkette and nervously asks, "Am I really? How did you know?"
Chuckling at the worried look Lucy was giving, big brown eyes and almost pouting lips, Natsu found the blonde cute. So letting oneself stare at the blonde for a moment, he then answers, "Well because you're back to yourself…your back to being the overly dramatic actress," Natsu then lowers down his arms as he slowly let Lucy's feet touch the ground. With what Natsu said, Lucy then gasps at the pinkette as she let the man lower her down.

When Lucy was standing by herself, she shakily stepped back but kept her arms rested on the shoulder of the taller man, "I am not dramatic! You never know that I might have some concussion due to the fall, or-or internal bleeding!" Just laughing at her, Natsu tried to contain his amusement with the actress but the blonde was just too much adorable. Gently taking the hands of the blonde, Natsu gave it a soft squeeze before leaning his face close to the blonde, he said, "I doubt that…" and with that Lucy pouts at the man.

Standing up straight, he steps back from the blonde and glances at the bare ceiling to floor window. Inspecting the view, Natsu didn't seem to find anything peculiar. But then again, media were a good player of hide-and-seek. So, coming closer to the glass window, he looked around the place again yet still found nothing odd. Sighing, Natsu then shoves his hands to his black Nike sweatpants before turning around to look at the blonde.

"No media seems to be around…" Natsu states tilting his head in confusion, "I thought you said there are some paparazzi stalking you,"
"No, I didn't…I said maybe," Lucy then smiles triumphantly as she crosses her arms under her bust. But her smile quickly falters when Natsu shook his head and started walking away from the glass window and walked past her, "Hey, where are you going?" Lucy alarmingly questions as she followed the descending figure
"I'm going home…" Natsu said turning around to face the blonde again, "I guess there are no stalker media around to scare off"
"Oh…" Lucy then depletes but immediately perks up again as she thought of a new reason to make the pinkette stay, "Then help me instead!"
"Help you? with what?" Natsu asks in perplex
"The curtains!" Lucy then skips towards the laid out curtain and pulls it a bit to show the pink-haired man, "Since I just fell from the stool, I don't think I will able to stand over that again. I need to put this up for my own privacy, so could you do it for me?" Lucy then drops the curtains as she flowingly walks towards Natsu with her hands behind her back, secretly crossing her fingers.

"Do I really have too? I mean, can't you just call someone else?" Natsu asks, slightly taken aback with how Lucy was looking at him. The blonde was giving a look of innocence but at the same time, she was like teasing him to take the sweet and dangerous bait. Suddenly feeling his dry throat, Natsu tried to swallow as he kept his attention to the blonde.

"F-fine…" Natsu replies defeatedly, making Lucy leap in her position to wrap her arms around the neck of the man and pull him down a bit due to their height difference.
"Thanks," Lucy sweetly mumbles before pulling away to grab the new curtains again. Soughing, Natsu shook his head as he thought that he couldn't say no to the woman no matter how much sometimes he finds her tiring to be with or annoying with her endless rants about anything.

"Alright, did you hook the curtains already?" Natsu asks without looking at the blonde for he went over to the stool to stand it up again
"Nope," Lucy replies, popping the letter 'p'. Abruptly looking back at the blonde, Natsu widens his eyes as he answers, "What? I thought…"
"Well, you thought wrong…come on, help me," Lucy then sits down to the floor as she reached over for the hoop rings and start placing it to her new curtains. Despite the instruction of the blonde to help, Natsu just sat down at the other end of the curtain and patiently waiting for Lucy to finish.

"So, what made you decide to change your curtains?" Natsu starts to make a new conversation
"I don't know. I just felt like changing the beige curtains," Lucy then gives a short glance to the man before looking down again to her task, "And besides, I have had that color for two years already and seeing it every day makes my life a little boring. I guess, I just want to add some color in my life…like the way you do," Lucy ends before slowly looking up at the stunned man. Natsu didn't expect the sudden compliment and in all honesty, he was quite confused to what Lucy meant by him giving color to her life. So he thought to hide his growing curiosity and surprise by quickly showing his grinning face and changing the topic, "Ha, are you saying Loke never made your life exciting?"
Softly smiling, Lucy shook her head as she continued her work, "Believe it or not, no. He appears to be the exciting one, the explorer, the risk taker…but the truth is he likes sticking to the stereotypical dates, traditional hobbies…"
"Huh…" Natsu sighs, feeling skeptical about Loke, "He always looked like he's into things that are quite risky. I guess it's all thanks to his charms…" Natsu then shrugs before he notices Lucy chuckling at his comment, "What, it's true…" he defends
"I know," Lucy said, trying to stifle her laughter, "I can't believe I actually fell for his charms. I mean, from the start I knew Loke was a ladies' man but I thought, if we dated, he'd stop…" Lucy's smile moments ago finally disappeared as she stops doing the hoop rings and just fumbled with the curtains, "I guess I'll never be enough,"
"Who said so?" Natsu immediately asks since he did not like where Lucy was heading to. As the blonde looks up, surprised to the man, Lucy was just left baffled unable to make any reply. Natsu, meanwhile, just kept his gaze at the brown-eyed woman. He wasn't really expecting any reply, heck, he's even thinking Lucy would change the topic. It was just that, hearing the words of Lucy, Natsu couldn't help but feel somehow mad that she would think like that because he knows that Lucy was a great woman. He might not have known her for so long, but he knows that at this point, he has seen her at her best and worst. And he couldn't deny that Lucy was indeed one unique woman.

"Luce, you're a great girl…Loke's just a jerk to cheat on you," Natsu said before he stood up and sat next to the blonde to reach over for the hoop rings to start what Lucy was doing moments ago. With the way Lucy was staring at him, he decided to help and made it as an excuse to avoid eye contact because he felt like he was embarrassing himself already. Lucy still didn't reply but her eyes were following Natsu and watched him struggle with opening the hoop ring. Gently taking the hoop from him, Lucy softly said, "Thanks Natsu…I'm happy to hear that from you,"
Looking up at the blonde, Natsu then lets himself show his signature grin as he replies, "Of course! Who wouldn't think you are?"

Instead of replying back, Lucy just smiled at the man before leaning her head on his shoulder. With Lucy's gesture, Natsu was then taken by surprise and before he could understand what was happening, Lucy sat up straight again and claps her hand.

"OK! All done," Lucy happily glances at the pinkette, "Now, put this up!" and with that, she stands up and tries to pull Natsu along. When the two were back to their feet, Lucy picks up the curtain and shoves it to Natsu as she slightly pushes the pinkette to the stool.

"Come on, the sun is getting too hot and the house will be too warm…" Lucy said nudging Natsu to start climbing the stool. Throwing the handed curtains far enough, away from the stool to keep it out from being stuck, Natsu said, "Alright-alright…you know sometimes I wonder if you're bipolar. I mean, one moment your like about to cry, then next thing your happy and pushy," Natsu then turns to look at Lucy, who was surprised with his sudden turn, "Are you sure your not sick?"
"I'm not!" Lucy then slaps Natsu to his arm, making him rub it due to its soreness
"OK! Goodness, such a violent woman…" Natsu mumbles to himself as he turns to climb up the stool
"What did you say?!" Lucy retorts back as she plants her hands to her hips while watching Natsu step up the stool
"Nothing! Just pass me the curtains," Natsu then extended his hand as he waited for Lucy to hand over the curtains
"Hmp!" Lucy then pouts as she turns around to pick up the whole curtain. As she squats down to gather the whole cloth, Natsu suddenly said, "The suns really up…I'm sweating like hell already,"
"Well who wouldn't sweat so much if you're wearing a sweatshirt with a scarf on?" Lucy replies

As Lucy stands up and turns to hand over to Natsu the curtains, time suddenly slowed down for her. It felt like it did when she steadily watched Natsu take off his sweatshirt. It revealed his toned abs, chiseled chest, and sweaty and tanned body. His body was like glistening under the sun rays that hit his body and Lucy suddenly felt hot all over her body. Unconsciously, Lucy bit her lower lip as she felt the desire to run her hands down the sweaty chest.

"Oi, Luce!"

Lucy jolted as she snaps out of daze after hearing his voice. As a reaction, she turns around to hide her face, knowing that she resembles a tomato already. And the fact that she realized that she had the sudden urge to run her hands and feel Natsu's body, Lucy couldn't help but feel embarrassed. It was too early to fantasize about a man.

"Luce!" Natsu calls again, "Oi, are you going to hand that over or not?"
"I will, I will! Just wait for a moment…" Lucy trails off, trying to calm down her heart, "My eyes just burned with the sunlight…"
"Did the sunlight really burn your eyes or did my body amaze you too much?" Natsu teased, knowing how Lucy watched him take off his sweatshirt and how her eyes looked like she was devouring him. Hearing the tease of the pinkette, Lucy's blush even reddened, now that she knows that Natsu actually saw her ogling him. Despite being red-handed, she decided she wouldn't let the man forever tease her. So, she countered back as she turns, "What?!" Lucy shouts in astonishment, "Me? Be amazed in your body?!" Lucy then gave a surprised look despite her mind saying, Yes, I was really stunned with your amazing body physique…

Laughing at the comment of the man, Lucy holds her guts, pretending that this was hilarious when all her mind was saying, Oh my god, his body is too much for me…should I get him a towel and help him wipe his sweat…oh my goodness…

"Well yeah…" Natsu suddenly felt embarrassed for assuming, "Not everyone has this toned body as mine…I mean, this is all because of workout and stuff…"
"Yeah right," Lucy exclaims before tumbling in laughter again, "I've seen better body than yours!" Lucy then slaps her thighs as she continued to laugh, Oh I'm such a liar…If there is one body I found the hottest and most arousing…it's yours Natsu, believe me! Oh my, did I just say he arouses me? Ahhh! I'm so shameful…

Lucy then grips her thighs before she gives another slap to it and stands up straight. Wiping her eyes, she finally calmed down and smiled at the man before her, "You made me laugh…thanks for the good joke,"
"Tsk! whatever…" Natsu then turns to look away before extending his hand backward to ask for the curtains without looking at the blonde. He was too embarrassed already and Lucy was grateful enough that they have cut their eye contact because she could feel her heart popping anytime soon.

Slowly handing the curtain, Lucy couldn't help but glance up and see how Natsu's back are flexed as his arms were extended backward. She knew now for a fact that Natsu has a godly body.

"Oi, Luce, where is it?" He asks waggling his hand to search for the curtain. Panicking that she might get caught again, Lucy abruptly places the curtain ends to Natsu's hand and soon it was being hoisted upward. Stepping back a bit to see how Natsu would do it, she almost tumbled over the other end of the curtain when Natsu suddenly instructed her, "Luce, bring the other end in front of me so that it wouldn't be too hard to pull it up. This thing is quite heavy…"
"I thought you were strong…" Lucy softly mumbles as she picks up the end of the curtain to place it in front of Natsu. Thinking she was not heard, she kept her gaze down to her feet, making sure she wouldn't trip but to her dismay, Natsu heard her, "I am strong and this is not heavy for me. I'm just concerned for you…"
"Me? Why?" Lucy then looks up and suddenly realizes her spot. She was right below him, in view of his glorious body and he was looking down at her with concern
"I need you to stay there," Natsu says and Lucy thought, Yes, I'd love to stay right here, "You don't have to carry the curtains, just make sure that the next hoop would be passed on to me, OK?"

Natsu then waited for Lucy to reply but then the blonde was just staring at him as if she was daydreaming. And so, to snap the woman out of her fantasy, he snaps his fingers in front of the blonde and immediately made her fall out of her daze, "Okay?" He repeats
"Y-yeah, got it…" Lucy replies looking down to her feet now

As Natsu and Lucy did the curtains, the two just kept silent. Natsu was focused on placing all the hoop rings to the curtain rods, while Lucy was struggling not to look up because the view she would see is something she has now considered sinful. But every time Natsu would cuss, Lucy would look up and she would see the frustration in Natsu's face. But when he starts smiling, Lucy's eyes would begin to trail down his body and she would snap at herself for being such a pervert. The silence went on, and Lucy was already getting tired standing, while Natsu's arms were getting numb.

Letting himself rest, he drops his arms and squats down to have the same eye level as Lucy. When Lucy was taken by surprise to the sudden view, she quickly saw the smile of the pinkette, "Can we rest a bit? Your curtains are so long and heavy, plus the fact that the hoop rings would always fall off, it's annoying that I have to do the job all by myself…"
Sheepishly smiling, Lucy sweetly replies, "Sorry…do you want some water?" Lucy was then about to run off when Natsu grabbed her arm and made her stop. Looking back at the man, Lucy questioned him and just waited for him to speak up, "Stay, this won't take long…I just need to rest my arms," then Natsu drops himself to the stool and sat down.

Unconsciously, Lucy steps forward and stood in between Natsu's thighs. Natsu, on the other hand, didn't notice their sudden short distance as he just kept his gaze at the woman's eyes. Soon, Lucy lifted her hands and gently dabs her fingers to his sweat on his face. Lucy was too focused on wiping his sweat that she didn't notice Natsu was intently staring at her. When she finished, she smiled at the man and said, "It's the least I can do…"
"…thanks," Natsu finally answers after admiring the woman in front of him. He was about to smile back when Lucy started brushing off some of his stray hair that tries to cover his eyes. Feeling so much affection from the blonde, Natsu suddenly leaned back his head and cleared his throat as he prompts one leg to the stool, "I uh…better get this done," and with that, he stood back up again on the stool. As for Lucy, she immediately steps back and takes the hanging curtain to help the man. Despite her calm façade, she felt her heart racing again and this time, she was really bothered by the rapid beat of her heart.

Soon enough, Natsu finished and the whole living room looked different to Lucy. Happily jumping in her place, Lucy continuously thank the man for helping her out, and Natsu didn't mind the gratitude because it just felt right to help the woman. When he has stepped down from the stool and walked away from the curtains, he was amazed how a simple teal blue curtain changes the whole room and makes it feel like it was a new place, a place that really resembled the blonde.

"Thank you so much, Natsu!" Lucy twirls around to face the pinkette, "I like my new living room, it feels alive all of a sudden,"
"I know and it suits you..." Natsu said as he gently nudges the arm of the blonde who just laughed at his gesture
"Thanks," Lucy says before she turns to face her curtains again and walk up to her window. Slightly opening the curtains, Lucy looked out Magnolia city. Sighing in content, she said, "I love this city..."
"Me too," Natsu adds as he walks up to the blonde. As he was about to step to the side to widen more the curtains to view Magnolia as well, he unexpectedly tripped over his discarded sweatshirt. Right when he was falling forward, Lucy suddenly turns and was stunned to see that Natsu was falling towards her.

Lucy's back hits the window as she tried to avoid being tumbled over by the man. She was immediately trapped by Natsu when he caged her with his arms to stop himself from crushing her. But unexpectedly again, Natsu's hands slips in the glass, making him fold his elbow, and now his distance to Lucy was overly short. Their faces were half inches away and breaths were fanning each other.

Their eyes were locked at each other, trying to read one another's' thoughts about what was happening. The two were afraid to make any movement, scared that it would just cause them to brush their lips to one another. But not thinking thoroughly, Natsu began to speak, "Sorry," and their lips brushes making Lucy hold her breath after feeling Natsu's lips move against hers.
"Shit, did our lips just touch?" Natsu continued to speak and Lucy was growing impatient
"What do you think?!" She shouts and this made their lips, even more touch, "ump!" Lucy shrieks inwardly as she felt, even more, the warm sensation
"Sorry...do you mind pushing me? My foot is stuck and my forearms are starting to slip again..." Natsu said trying to ignore how their lips would continuously brush one another. Soon, Lucy's hand slowly run up Natsu's chest and ends to his pectorals.

"I'm not trying to be a pervert here, so don't you dare tease me..." Lucy mumbles when she noticed the way Natsu was looking at her. Soon enough, Natsu laughed, tilting his head to the side. As Lucy was about to push him backward, Natsu suddenly notices a flash coming from the back of the blonde. And so, squinting his eyes, he suddenly realized those flashes were coming from a camera. And that is when it hits him that he and Lucy were being taken a photo my some paparazzi.

Without warning, as Lucy was halfway pushing Natsu, he took the opportunity to slide his arms to the back of the blonde and turn them so that he would be the one against the window so that he could block the blonde.

"Kyaa!" Lucy yelps in surprise as she and Natsu switched position, "What are you doing?!" Lucy then slaps the man by his arm but Natsu just ignored it as he says, "There are some camera peps at the other building...I think they caught us in our position awhile ago..."

Gasping, Lucy brings her hands to her lips as she widens her eyes, "Oh my...do you think they would write that we were making out or worst, having sex?", slowly the cheeks of the blonde lighten with a dust of pink as she realized what she said.

Completely ignoring the words of the blonde, and just groaned with the dramatic mind of the blonde, Natsu runs down his hands to his face before he pushes himself off the window to close the ajarred curtains. Stepping away from the window, he pulls Lucy back to the living room then sarcastically said, "You are one drama queen...you know that?"

"I'm not overreacting!" Lucy defends, but then the man just gave her a skeptical look. Getting annoyed with the pinkette, Lucy added, "Trust me, media would make up any story about actors. Now they've seen me with a guy in my condo, they could make up any story they want,"

"Well, isn't that what you want? To make the media make a story that would make people believe you're over with Loke?" Natsu asks as he crosses his arms over his chest while he watched the blonde pull up her hair and tie it in a bun
"Well yes, but I'm keeping an image of a conservative relationship...so, no, I don't like media to make up a story about me making out with a guy I'm dating..." Lucy then walks out on Natsu as she headed to her bedroom. When the blonde disappeared inside, Natsu was left dumbfounded as he scratches the back of his head.

With the way the blonde reacted, Natsu doesn't know if he was in great trouble. But more than that, he has been feeling confused with how Lucy was acting around him. He knows that Lucy could be sweet and be a she-devil if she wanted to be but right now, she is in between the two kinds of personality.

"What is up with this woman? She has been saying and acting weird since this morning. First, telling me that I add color to her life, then she would look at me like she'll devour me…then now she's saying she wants a conservative relationship with a guy she's dating? Is she pertaining with me?" Natsu then just sighs before he picks up his sweatshirt to wear it again, knowing now that maybe it was time to leave.

"I think should just get going…Lucy might not be feeling well,"

Since Natsu didn't know if Lucy was mad at him because the woman technically just walked out on him, he decides it was time to go home. He one by one took his wallet, cellphone, and keys on the coffee table when suddenly a sound of a door opening was heard. So looking ahead, Natsu was surprised to see Lucy has changed into a white v-neck shirt, black and pink floral kimonos with the same denim shorts she wore that morning. She was wearing a white birko flor sandals and a small brown satchel bag hung on her shoulder. Curious to the new get up of the blonde, Natsu asks, "Where are you going?"

"We have to step out of the condo now..." Lucy states not directly answering the question of the pinkette. When Lucy walked pass him, Natsu immediately shoves his belongings to his sweatpants' pockets and runs after the leaving blonde.

Soon, the two were out of the building and was walking the streets of Magnolia, heading south. As Natsu looked around, he started wondering what the real plan of the blonde actress was. So again, he asked, "Can you tell me where we are going?"

Lucy glances at Natsu with a smile on her face, which takes the man by surprise thinking that she was mad. Seeing how stunned the man was, Lucy didn't stop herself from chuckling and like it was a habit she then wraps her arms to Natsu's bicep.

"Don't worry Dragneel, I'm not mad..." Lucy then smiles wider, "I just had to act quickly and make a diversion...I don't want the paparazzi to think we are having a steamy morning,"
"Umm...OK?" Natsu confusingly stares at the blonde woman, "So...this is just a short walk?"
"Nope, we're heading to the grocery!" Lucy cheers before she starts pulling Natsu to a fast pace.

To be continued...