Chapter 4:

Love at Wizard's Grill

It had only been 20 minutes when Natsu rounded the final corner and pulled up to a restaurant called Wizard's Grill, and Lucy's eyes went wide and she covered her mouth in surprise. "Yeah, I thought I surprise you with our favorite place since college," Natsu said with a laugh and a smile while he rubbed the back of his head.

"Oh Natsu, you really know how to pull at the heart strings," Lucy spoke as tears of joy filled up her eyes, "You know this place is much more than that."

It was many years back and Lucy was third weeks of her freshman year of college, Lucy along with her friends Levy, Erza, and Cana meant at 50's style building called Wizard's Grill. Wizard's Grill was a round building with an extended roof and a 20 foot canopy for cars to park under. The outside of Wizard's Grill was painted bright red and white trim with a neon sign with Wizard's in purple and Grill in Blue. "Sure is busy tonight," Erza said as she looked around.

"Yeah… Oh look there is that guy I told you about," Levy spoke as she pointed to Gajeel, Natsu, Jellal, and Laxus, "Hey Gajeel!" After that Levy grabbed Lucy's hand who in turned grabbed Erza's hand who tried to grab Cana's hand but Cana was just out of reach.

"Cane!" Erza yelled and Cana laughed as she watched and followed the rest group who was being dragged by tiny but amazingly strong Levy.

"Don't worry Erza," Cana shouted while she snickered, "I'm right behind you guys!"

It was minutes later, when Levy finally stopped to catch her breath, then she smiled and said, "Everyone this is Gajeel, he asked me to meet him here."

"Geez shrimp, I didn't think you bring others with you," Gajeel spoke as he glanced at Lucy, Erza, and Cana but locked his eyes on Levy.

"Sorry, may I introduce my friends, Lucy, Erza, Juvia, and Cana," Levy spoke as she made hand gestures to each person while she said their names.

"Yeah, yeah, these numskulls are Natsu, Jellal, Gray, and Laxus," Gajeel responded as he pointed from friend to friend while he listed them off.

"Nice to meet you all," Levy said then Gajeel grabbed Levy's wrist.

"We better go, they've got a couple's special going tonight," Gajeel spoke with a blush, then he ran off with Levy being pulled behind him.

"So Jellal… It's been awhile," Erza said and Jellal smiled.

"We were in the same middle school right," Jellal asked and Erza nodded, "Why do we go so place to catch up. I'm sure a lot has changed since then yeah." Then they went off somewhere and they weren't seen the rest of the night.

"As much as I love greasy food, I rather get a drink," Cana spoke and she began to walk away, "If anyone needs me, I'll be at the bar down the street!"

"Mind if I tag along," Laxus asked and Cana laughed and she turned to face him with a mischievous smile.

"As long as you can hold your liquor Sparky," Cane replied, then she turned back around and she started walking away with Laxus chasing after her.

"Looks like it's just you and me," Natsu said with a nervous smile as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Yeah…," Lucy responded then a chilly wind passed by causing Lucy to shiver and rubbed her arms to warm back up.

"Oh, yeah fall breeze can bite," Natsu spoke while he took his red leather jacket off and put it over Lucy's shoulders, "You can use this."

Lucy blushed a dark red as she said, "Um… Thanks…"

"So… Um… You want to order," Natsu asked with slightly relaxed smiles he tried to break the tension, "It'll be my treat."

"Sure," Lucy replied and Natsu hit the red button on a nearby speaker.

"Yeah, I know," Natsu spoke with a smile, "It's the place where we first met and I let you use this." After that, Natsu reached back and pulled out a somewhat worn out red jacket.

"You still have it after all this time," Lucy spoke with surprise.

"Well yeah, it holds some special memories," Natsu responded and a chilly breeze passed by, and Lucy shivered, "Looks like you'll need it again tonight."

"Yeah sure does," Lucy spoke then Natsu put his jacket over Lucy's shoulders and Lucy smiled.

"So shall we order," Natsu asked and Lucy pulled the jacket forward.

"Yeah," Lucy responded and she smiled up at Natsu while he pushed a red calling button a speaker mounted on a metal pole that was next to the driver side door.

"Hello, welcome to Wizard's Grill," a female voice spoke through the speaker, "I'm Cana and I'll be right out to take your order."

"Cana works here!" Natsu and Lucy shouted in unison which made them both broke out in laughter.

Meanwhile two guys in a black Lincoln Town Car watched Lucy and Natsu from a distance, those two guys were Bickslow and a mysterious man with black hair wearing sunglasses.

"So you really want the kid," the man asked.

"Yeah, he has a lot of the money that Lis had," Bickslow replied, "I'll ship him off to a boarding school once I get him. I really only want the money and I don't care about the kid."

"Interesting," the mysterious man said, "I'll do anything that might eat at my brother."

"Then do we have a deal," Bickslow asked and mysterious man smiled then took off his glasses revealing his jet black eyes.

"Yes, we do, Bickslow," the mysterious man answered and Bickslow smiled back.

"Thank you, " Bickslow responded then they shake hands, "Zeref."

"No problem," Zeref replied, "I'll start on the paperwork tomorrow."

"Sounds like a plan to me," Bickslow said then he started up the car and drove off, all the while Natsu and Lucy order they're dinner completely unaware about Bickslow's and Zeref's villainous plan.

Dear Readers,

So its been 12 days, I did tell you I wouldn't be updating on a regular bases because of my life off the internet. Anyways here in the nest chapter, I hope you like the twist at the end. Anyways, on to the reviews:
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