"It's okay Lucy, your dancing around completely compensates for your lack of beach ball skills." Natsu said laughing as Lucy fell on the sand trying to dive for the ball.
Smack.
The ball hit Natsu straight in the face as instead of serving to the other side Lucy threw it right at him.
"Ha!" Lucy laughed triumphantly. "Looks like I have good aim after all."
"The enemy is on the other side of the court though." Happy commented from the sides.
"Well, guess we lost that point." Lucy didn't sound repentant at all.
The guild was out on the beach again, and they were playing beach volleyball in pairs.
Despite what Natsu said about Lucy's skills, they were actually a good team. They even beat Juvia and Gray. In fact, if they win this round, they would be at the finals against Mira and Laxus who had just beaten Loke and Erza.
They were two points behind but it was finally Natsu's time to serve. Natsu's eyes glittered with excitement. "Here I come."
It felt like his arm was powered by rockets as he spiked the ball to the opponent's side. But Ark managed to save the ball with a dive despite its speed. And as the ball went up, Lisanna ran from her position at the back and spiked the ball straight into Natsu's face. Again.
Lucy couldn't hold back her laughter. "Seems the ball really loves your face." She had to hug her abdomen because of how hard she was laughing.
Ark got up and went to give Lisanna a high five. "Just one more point and we got this."
"When did those two start working well together?" Natsu complained as he rubbed his face.
The match ended with them loosing. But neither seemed to mind as Lucy continued to tease Natsu about the red marks on his face and Natsu reciprocated by threatening to pull on her bikini top.
Levy passed by them to offer juice drinks which they both accepted. "You two seem to not have changed at all. Are you even dating?"
Natsu and Lucy's eyes met before they started laughing. "We have decided that it's better not to change much." Lucy finally told Levy when she finally could speak. Then she grinned mischievously as she bent down to sip on the straw of Natsu's drink and gulped it down. "Except that I have now authority on food."
"What?" Natsu was incredulous. "When did we decide that? And that was my juice."
Before Lucy could evade, Natsu bumped his forehead into Lucy's and as she gasped in surprise Natsu quickly bent and fused his lips into hers. It was only a few seconds. Then he grinned at Lucy who still had not moved in surprise. "That tasted better than my juice."
As Lucy recovered from her initial surprise Natsu started running. Lucy quickly ran after him. "Come back you idiot, who said you can do that."
But Natsu continued laughing as he ran with Lucy chasing after him.
Levy's eyes followed them until they were no longer in sight. She still had not completely recovered from the surprising scene she just witnessed.
"Well that was definitely different."
And that it was.
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The End