Chapter 21

Natsu and Lissanna were in dangerous territory.

They both knew the risk of being caught by the vigilant hall monitors that stood guard in the school. Math class was their only savior.

However, he was placed in the principal's office and Math was on the third floor.

The only area where there are no monitors were the three staircases that slid through the school.

And that worked out advantageously for them.

They climbed so softly with such care until they reached the third floor and blocked their entry.

"Natsu, I swear to God... if I get caught in your mess..." Lissanna anxiously mumbled

"You were screwed the moment you came Liz, don't blame me" Natsu snickered back

She groaned aloud but immediately regretted it. The groan echoed through the stairway and whistled into a monitor's ears.

Lissanna quickly turned around and pinned him to the wall; behind the door, with a finger on his mouth to silence him.

Natsu was held captive in her arms, both pale slender poles of flesh captured him. He didn't know if he should say something or not but decided to keep quiet.

A few seconds passed as the old lady's heels clicked away while Natsu and Lissanna sighed quietly and slumped to the floor. Natsu was pretty much straddling the bodacious woman on his hips and he felt his temperature getting hotter and hotter yet he couldn't even let out a squeak. Her thighs left his legs paralyzed and he knew that he had to say something before something else starts getting hotter

"Liz... my legs.. " he nervously exhaled.

Lissanna snapped out of her haze and crawled out of his lap pretending she didn't know his... predicament.

She looked down flirtatiously and swept back a wisp of white hair in its place, nodded and stood up "Let's go, Princess"

Meanwhile, Lucy had been tasked by Cana to give in a note to a gym teacher, but what Cana did not know was that Lucy did not know exactly where the gym was. She was sent out with no partner to accompany her and absolutely and utterly lost.

"How big can a school be that I can't even find the damn gym?!" her voice rasped angrily

After walking upstairs and downstairs with the curse of "introvertness" possessing her brain to ask other people.

She walked back upstairs, but in the corner of her eye, she was startled to see a figure so compressed into the wall that it looked like a human had attempted to become another part of the wall. As she came closer the figure looked familiar, the pink lush poof stuck out like a peacock 'Natsu' she hastily thought beginning to stride towards him. But by the time she made it to him and could say another word. He turned around, grabbing her by the hand and tried the doors around him.

"You f-" Lucy began but his hand which was only holding hers wrapped around her parted lips to shut them up

He opened one of them and yanked her in with him.

"Hey! What the heck are you doing!" Lucy angrily whispered

He let out a long sigh and looked dismayed "Long story short, I escaped and lost Lissanna so I'm trying to play camouflage"

"Can you at least move a little to the back? You're pinning me"

He moved back and she moved forward, but she quickly slipped on a stray plastic bag, falling backward. Lucy let out a sharp gasp, flailing her arms as Natsu tried, and failed to catch her, crashing into her bosom. He opened his eyes to be cushioned with two peaked pillows resting against his face. Natsu unaware, slowly reached towards them; completely forgetting his current situation, thinking they were some sort of soft pillows. However, when he heard a soft moan-gasp he embarrassingly got up.

Lucy was redder than the rosiest fruit you can find though, she couldn't move due to the shock.

Natsu was leaning so close to her face and was so placed uncomfortably on top of her. They both might as well be shaking right then and there. His face flushed with a pink hue, and he mumbled sorry multiple times. He decided to stutteringly explain the events that had happened before this newfound predicament.

Lucy listened carefully, nodding in all the right places.

"But why did you bring me into the closet?"

"Behind you, there was a monitor... if she turned around I- we would get caught"

Her mouth parted softly as if finally understanding.

She stared at him for a while, his face seemed to glimmer and she tried to look closer Why did he look so devilishly handsome? Why did something crave his warmth? In a trance, her eyes seem to stare into his soul but soon they traced around his figure, then his face, and then it fixated on his lips. Her eyes marveled at how beautifully his mouth curved and formed. For some time she could see nothing but his lips and her mind dared to do things to those pair of lips that scared even herself.

Natsu soon noticed her burning gaze and soon enough found out what she was looking at so intensely. He blushed even harder.

"Why? do you want to... kiss them?"

Lucy snapped out of her haze and looked at Natsu's burning face.

"Wh-What? Are you stupid? K-k-kiss you- n-no way-"

She straightened up and he backed away almost seeming a bit hurt.

"You're looking like you want to," he whispered under his breath, embarrassed and maybe even a little annoyed.

"N-no I don't! Shut up idiot!" she growled, steaming in humiliation.

Both of them, unable to move, sat uncomfortably for the rest of the period. The bell rang and soon enough, they had an excuse to leave so stammering and stumbling; they both left, physically gasping for air. Lucy ran to her locker twice, she met her locker once and after still feeling the adrenaline pumping through her bloodstream; she ran once again, sprinting at full speed, twice.

Once collecting her things, she blasted the doors to the Girl's Washroom and locked herself in one of the stalls to think about what in the actual fuck had happened.

I must be crazy! she thought, her fear soaring I MUST BE CRAZY! and then clamored out of the building