Chapter 3:

He's Running Late

Natsu was pacing between his bedroom door and the dresser when his little sister Wendy who was visiting said, "Natsu, stop that pacing please and finish timing your tie."

Natsu sighed as he walked in front of the mirror and began to work on tying his navy blue tie that matched the red button up shirt with a light red dragon print on and black slacks that he was wearing. "God damn! Why am I so fucking nervous," Natsu whispered-yelled to himself.

"I can tell you why in three words fire farts," a familiar voice spoke from the doorway and Natsu turned around to see Gray standing in the doorway.

"Yeah, what is it then ice punk," Natsu responded and Gray smiled and he laughed, "Whats got you laughing ice freak?"

"You're all nervous because you love her," Gray spoke then Natsu stared at him in aw, "And boy do you have it bad."

"Why is that making me nervous," Natsu almost shouted, "Love should make me smile, make my heart do back flips, give me butterflies in the… Oh… I see now… Thanks Ice butt!"

"Hahaha, anytime fire brains," Gray replied, then Natsu's clock went DING eight times in a row.

"No… Fuck no," Natsu whispered-yelled, "I'm running LATE!"

Meanwhile over at Lucy's place, Lucy sat on the couch wearing a purple fit and flare dress and navy blue banana republic ashley bow ballet flats. Sting with Happy in his lap sat next to Lucy and he said, "Way for Natsu to make a good impression, being late for something he set up. He said he pick you up at eight right?"

"Sting, stop being so uptight," Lucy responded as she hit him on the back of the head.

"So Happy, we have it narrowed down to Cars and How to Train a Dragon," Rogue said as he held up both movies, "Which one do you want to watch first?"

"Lets watch them in alphabetical order," Happy answered with a smile.

"Ok, Cars, it is," Rogue spoke as he opened the movie case.

"Backwards," Happy shouted and Rogue's head dropped while Happy laughed.

A moment later, the doorbell rang and Lucy over to the door. "Bet you that it's Natsu," Lucy said with a smirk as she glanced over at Sting.

"Bet you that its not," Sting replied, then Lucy opened the door only to see Yukino standing before her, "I win!"

"Hey Yukino," Lucy spoke as she let the poor confused Yukino inside, "Go ahead and take a seat."

"Thanks Lucy," Yukino responded as she took a seat besides Sting while Lucy sat on the other side of him.

"So how long have you and Sting been dating," Lucy asked and Sting's eyes went wide.

"Oh he didn't tell you," Yukino spoke and little drops of sweat rolled from Sting's forehead as he slightly shook his head to try to tell Yukino not tell Lucy.

"Nope, he refuses to tell me," Lucy replied and Sting began to turn red.

"Since our senior year in college, so about three years," Yukino answered and Lucy became very angry as she turned to her little brother.

"You haven't told me for three years," Lucy yelled, then she began to attack Sting causing him to make a very girly scream.

"IT NEVER CAME UP!" Sting responded, but Lucy's rage was now completely out of control. In the next moment, Sting had figured out that he should never hide important things from his cousin.

Ten minutes later, Natsu pulled up in and turned off the car engine, but did not move a muscle to get out of the car which was his red dodge challenger convertible with two black stripes. Natsu was nervous, very nervous, and he knew it. "What the fuck," Natsu shouted, then he hit his head on the steering wheel, "I need to do this… I can't back out now, I'm here now… Here goes nothing…"

Natsu got out of the car and made his way to the door as he tried to control his control with each step. When Natsu reached the door, he raised his hand and just barely knocked on the door. Only a few seconds had passed and just as Natsu was about to knock again, Lucy had swung the door open and smiled brightly while she said, "Ready?"

"Umm… Yeah," Natsu stuttered and Lucy smiled got wider and brighter.

"Ok! See you later Sting, Rogue, Happy, Yukino," Lucy spoke then she ran out the door then closed it quickly behind her.

"You seem tension," Natsu noted as he held out his arm for her to grab on.

"My younger brother Sting was trying to stress me out," Lucy replied and she took Natsu's arm.

"Yeah, I thought Sting and Rogue lived in Corus," Natsu spoke while they head to the car.

"Well they moved back to Mongolia a few years back," Lucy responded, "They brought back a friend named Yukino who I just found out is Sting's girlfriend."

"Wow," Natsu said then he unlocked the car and opened the door for Lucy.

"Yeah, come to find they were dating the whole time and I didn't know," Lucy told Natsu and he snickered, "It isn't that funny."

"Yeah, whatever you say Luce," Natsu replied, then he slid across the hood of the car and got in on the driver side, "So you ready to go?"

"Yep! Where are we going anyways, " Lucy asked and Natsu smiled brightly.

"Our first stop is a surprise," Natsu answered and Lucy looked over at him.

"What about our next stop," Lucy asked and Natsu's smile grew wider.

"Also a surprise," Natsu responded and Lucy's lower jaw dropped.

"You don't have a plan do you Natsu," Lucy questioned and Natsu shook his head.

"No, I do," Natsu answered as he started up the car, "I'm just not telling you, Lucy Heartfilia. So relax and have a little fun, would you?" After that, Natsu laughed as he lowered the roof of the car and took off down the street.

Dear Readers,

So Chapter three! Natsu is nervous and you learn about Sting's and Rogue's relationship with Lucy which brought out some comedy. Yeah, I know you guys were hoping I go straight to the date but I didn't want to. Anyways onto the reviews:
~Jozanimelover- Yes, cute but the sad parts are mostly over, there might be more coming but I'm not sure. Anyways, thanks for reviewing and I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
~Centrux- I am glad to hear that you are enjoying the story! I do try to update as much as I can but it gets hard sometimes when life on the internet gets busy. Any who, thanks for reviewing and I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
~snowfairy65- I'm glad that you like it and that you too are a NaLu shipper but I think everyone reading this is. LOL! Yes, Natsu and Lucy are getting back together but they are taking it slow because of they're pass. Anyways, thank you for leaving a review and I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
~Guest chapter 1 . Aug 2- I didn't really think about using Jewels instead of Jews but you are right and I changed it. Anyways, thanks for leaving that review about that and I hope enjoyed chapter 2 and this chapter as well.
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Alright so that does it for all the reviews that I got between this update and last update. Anyways, I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter! Please leave a review telling me if you liked or hated this chapter and what you think might happen next!
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