Smiling nervously to herself, Lucy chuckled bitterly (and mentally).
No, she had no idea how she got herself in this situation, and no she had no idea why she was sitting in her bedroom with a male besides her dad.
Oh, someone please kill her now. The tension in the air was surreal, and Lucy was sweating buckets as she fidgeted uncomfortably while sitting on the edge of her bed mattress, her eyes darting around her room to look at anywhere but where Natsu was seated on the floor. She whimpered to herself, and fixed her glasses frames uncomfortably, taking note of the focused face of the boy, as Natsu glared at the sheet of paper in his hand.
"...Dragons." "E-Eh?"
"Dragons."
"A...Ano..." Lucy nervously scratched the side of her cheek in confusion. What did he mean?
"Fire ones."
"..." Her mouth plastered in a thin line, Lucy smiled nervously. What?! Why was this dude so confusing, not to mention, awkward?!
"With flying cats." He looked up at her cartoon-ishly, and gave her a blunt thumbs-up, satisfied with his statements. Lucy deadpanned, 2-D like tears streaming down her face as she played another soft bitter smile, completely giving up. I don't understand...
Coughing and maintaining her posture (c'mon snap out of it, Lucy. This isn't an anime), Lucy cleared her throat nervously with a few deep inhales before turning to him, a trembling fake smile plastered on her face. "U-Uh... Could you... Describe what you're..." Waving her hands in an "keep-going" motion, Lucy thought hard to find the right word to finish the sentence. "...Describing...?"
Natsu blinked once. Then twice. His gaze (awkwardly) continued to stare at Lucy, not looking anywhere but at her. And you better believe the tension and self-paranoia Lucy got from the action was overwhelming.
Why is he staring at me? Lucy nervously laughed as she rubbed the back of her head in hopes of covering up her question. It seemed stupid to ask... Was that why he was staring?
...Wait a se-
Realization dawned to Lucy as she froze, completely unable to move. He was staring at her. Her face. Through fake glass frames. The next thing that happened occurred fast, and Natsu himself later couldn't describe what the fuck had just happened.
It was all a blur.
Lucy let out a (rather loud) shriek, and her hands flew to her baggy shirt which she used to grab to cover up her face. While doing this, she leaped off the bed (in an un-worldly manner... This was all happening while her voice was still screeching in shock), kicked Natsu squarely in the face, while using that same head to propel herself at her closet, diving in head-first, slamming the white doors shut right after.
What it sounded like?
"KYAAAAAAAA," "What the fu-OW! JEEZUS CHRI-" "AAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhh..." "Woah! Are you oka-" "AAAHHHHHHHHHHH..." "..." "..." "..."
Natsu was now seated on the floor, rubbing his poor bloody nose, as he stared at the closed closet in complete and utter confusion, deadpanning.
He was about to go in to check if she was alright, but flinched (hard) when he heard a loud "bang", winced twice when two crashs sounded, and cringed to the sounds of hangers falling (on someone's head), and sighed to hear a small "owwwwwie...".
Chuckling to himself, he pulled himself off the floor to open the doors of the closet. "Uhhh..." He was met with a figure, dressed in a black hoodie, pulled way over her head, seated on top of a colossal sized, gigantic pile of clothes on the floor, which spilled out the moment he opened the entry way. Black and white hangers hung off of the girl, some hooked onto her shoulder and some to a few pieces of thread which had come loose off of the black sweatshirt she had so quickly threw on.
Natsu watched as Lucy visibly flinched, knowing that he opened the dark isolated place the moment the light flooded in. Natsu gave a sheepish smile (and another chuckle), when he saw the petite girl attempt to look around curiously (to no avail - her eyes were covered) and trying to listen to figure out where he was standing.
Okay. If he was being honest, she was acting cute. Incredibly adorab-Freeze.
Natsu slapped himself with both palms, as he shook his head and unruly hair out. Running his fingers through his natural locks he cursed under his breath. Bloody hell... Aw, heck naw. He can't afford to call his English project partner, cute. Natsu began a massive debate, right then and there, while Lucy (the poor girl) looked around in complete and utter confusion, still attempting to figure out what just happened, and why she over-reacted so.
"Ughhhh! No! Quite it! I'm such an idiot..." "Huh? Eh? U-Um... N-Natsu... S-Sannn, w-where are you... It's so d-dark.." (A loud slap was heard, as Natsu whacked himself in the cheeks again) "BAKA!" "E-Ehhhhh?!"
Natsu blinked before coming back to reality.
"Oh- No, no, no, no! I didn't mean you, Luigi," He had already forgotten her name... Natsu was just assuming it was 'Luigi'. "I-I meant me. I was calling myself, an idiot. You're not..." He winced, as he looked at the still flailing helpless girl. He cringed. "I... I think."
"What was that, N-Natsu-san?"
"N-...Nothing.."
Reaching out, Natsu helped her stand up, her knees buckling once, as she trembled, clutching onto his own black hoodie for steadiness. He smiled, and removed her clothing article. "Here, let me help you with this." Pulling the sweater down with a minor, tug, Natsu was glad to see her blonde head appear through the neck-hole soon after. Lucy? Not so much.
It seemed to happen slowly.
Lucy was completely unaware to it at first, but after a while, after she had cooled down and taken a few deep breaths of the much needed cool air, she had all but needed to take one good look at Natsu's shocked expression to have her cock her head in question. He was pointing at her face in disbelief, and she was even more confused then before. She placed her hands to her head in perplexed confusion, before realizing the weight of the object that was missing.
...Her glasses were off, and on the floor besides their feet.
A/ns: Sorry for the short chapter! 1,080 words, and still a-going. Thanks to the people who welcomed me back! I'll post again tomorrow (maybe) if I see people notice this (Notice me, reader-senpais! :') The much needed reveal has come, but in a different way then before! I actually don't think I'll re-write this, otherwise the whole plot might change, and no one wants that, anymore. Sayanora, till next time!