HIII! I know…the chapter is late but I finally met my worst enemy. Writer block… Anyway, I was away for a few days and I couldn't bring my laptop with me so I couldn't start on chapter 4. Honestly, I didn't think I would be able to continue till chapter 4 but here I am ;D Anyway, Nalu is in this chapter. When I was away I was thinking of how the story should progress and I have a rough idea I guess. The Nalu in this chapter isn't a big thing so…it's just a warm up.

IMPORTANT! STORY CHARACTER AND EDITING MISTAKES

And IM SO SORRY BUT I FORGOT TO ADD GAJEEL INSIDE! I've edited the 3rd chapter where Natsu and the guys appear so that Gajeel would be included but in case you don't want to look through it all over again, Gajeel is a guitar player! Fairy Star is a acapella group I guess but Dragon Force is a band.

Natsu – Lead Singer

Grey – Bassist

Jellal, Gajeel – Guitarists

Romeo, Laxus – Drums

Moving on to the story!

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Walking away from her last class, Lucy was deep in thought as Levy and Juvia chatted animatedly. She couldn't get the lead singer out of her head as she directed herself to the music room, where both bands will be briefed on the competition. Opening the door to the music room, Erza was there with a glint in her eyes.

"Oh good, you guys are here. You're 30 seconds early." She gave them a smile as she continued to wait by the door, her smile turning into a frown.

"Thank goodness we weren't late again but what's up with Erza?" Lucy asked Mirajane, who was sitting down and talking with Wendy.

"Oh, she's waiting for Natsu and Grey, who are the only ones left. They're late already so I think Erza's quite angry at them" Mirajane answered them, smiling as the other girls shuddered at what Erza will do to them.

"Shut up, Popsicle! We're late already."

"If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be late, Flame-breath!"

"Shut it, both of you!"

"Is there anything you would want to say to us, Natsu, Grey, Gajeel?" Erza glared at them as they opened the door, bickering.

"Er-Erza! Nice to see you. W-We are sorry we are late. It won't happen again." Grey started, his knees shaking.

"A-Aye! It won't ha-happen again!" Natsu stuttered, sweat trickling down his forehead. Gajeel snickered at the two pathetic boys, walking away from the scene but not before dropping a letter from the nurse, excusing him.

Erza gave them one last glare as she made her way to Mirajane, who was holding a plate of strawberry cake.

"Here you are, Erza. Jellal and Laxus said that they won't be coming in and they brought this for you as an apology. Well, Jellal did anyway."

"They did? It's fine. I'll tell them later that they should have informed us earlier." Her mood changed drastically as she ate the cake. Grey and Natsu looked at each other, silently agreeing to bring cake every time they did something stupid. Three minutes passed and the door opened again.

"Hi guys! I'm Mavis, Fairy Star's manager and this is Zeref, Dragon Force's manager! Well, we're going to brief you guys later but now, we will talk about how much you've progressed and so forth." Mavis started as she opened her laptop and a chart appeared. Zeref stood beside her silently, glancing at her every now and then.

"Well, so far you guys have 1265 followers in Instagram and for Dragon Force you have 1287 followers! This is great considering you just had your first performance. Anyway, most of the school have followed you, I think." Mavis concluded from the graph.

They had barely started and Lucy was starting to feel sleepy. She shook her head and tried to keep herself awake. Feeling a tap on her shoulder, she turned around to come face to face with the guy she couldn't keep out of her head.

"Hey, you want to skip this? I'm kinda hungry so do you wanna follow me to the cafeteria? We'll come back later." Natsu whispered in her ear. Lucy blushed at their close proximity but thought about this idea. This presentation was boring and she is feeling peckish…

"Okay! But how are we going to get out?" She questioned the boy as his face turned into a look of concentration, thinking of a possible escape route. After 10 minutes passed, his face lit up as he grabbed her hand.

"We run!" Shouting that last word, he took off towards the cafeteria with Lucy in tow.

"You took so long just to think of that?! You idiot!" Lucy screamed, feeling as if her hand would be dislocated.

The others stared at the spot that Natsu and Lucy once were. After a few minutes in silence, Mavis spoke up.

"Well, does anyone want to get pictures of them together and post it up in the internet?"

Everyone hands shot up.

Stopping at a vending machine, Natsu took out some coins and popped them in the machine.

"You want anything?" He asked Lucy, his finger hovering over a button.

"Grape juice, please." Grimacing, he pushed the buttons as juice boxes came out.

"How can you drink that? It smells weird!" Natsu said as he handed her the juice box.

"It tastes good! You should try it." She replied as she poked the straw into the hole. Giving her a weird look, he glanced at the juice box in her hand.

"Okay." Leaning forward, he drank from the juice box that was in her hand. His hair touching her chin as she blushed madly, again.

"Snap!" The sound of a camera click resounded throughout the empty cafeteria hall. A curse and sounds of mumbling could be heard. Lifting his head up from the straw, Natsu looked towards a pillar while Lucy glanced around the room, looking for the source of the sound. Natsu caught a glimpse of light blue hair that seemed to resemble Lucy's best friend as well as dark blue hair that looked like his rival's. Smirking, he grabbed Lucy's hand and led her to a table.

"Come on, let's get some food before Erza comes after us!"

Levy, Grey, Mirajane, Erza, Wendy and Mavis heaved a sigh of relief as they hid behind the pillar. Zeref stood to the side, a small smile appearing on his face.

"Luckily Natsu-san didn't see us. Or else they would be questioning why we're here." Wendy whispered to the rest. Nodding their heads, they took out their phones.

"Keep your phones on silent and Levy, send me the picture later, okay?" Mirajane said, her eyes glinting in amusement, her smile widening at the thought of the couple. Nodding her head, Levy and the others continued to stalk the couple.

"Wow! Natsu, look at that rose!" Lucy cried out excitedly, pointing towards a pink rose on top of a bush with a tall stem, giving it an appearance of a tree. "Isn't it pretty? Too bad it's high up and has thorns." Sighing gently, she continued to walk around.

They were at a garden that Natsu had discovered earlier in his school year while wandering around the school. It was hidden behind by vines and he had stumbled by it by accident when he was finding a place to sleep while skipping his classes. Glancing up at the rose and again at Lucy, whose attention had been directed towards a bunch of dandelions, he began to climb up the tree. When he reached the top-most branch, he tried to pry the pink rose away from the thorny stems. Cursing silently as the thorns scratched his skin, he finally got the rose and jumped back down, all while Lucy was admiring dandelions. Taking out the rose, he walked behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, the flower in his hand, facing Lucy. Lucy gasped at the sudden contact but smiled as he saw the rose in front of her, already knowing who was behind her, snuggling into her neck.

"Hey, Luce."

"Hey yourself. Thanks, Natsu. But, you're hands are really scraped up. Let's go to the nurse"

"No prob. I think Erza is going to kill us if we stay out any longer so let's hurry to the nurse." He grabbed her hand and led her out. Agreeing with him, she followed Natsu all the way to the infirmary.

Meanwhile, the group had been behind the vines, sneaking pictures of Natsu's great feat and videos of them together. Hearing their footsteps coming closer, they ran off in a panic towards the music room, waiting for their friends' to arrive.

"I think that's enough sneaking around for a day. But we sure got a lot of pictures! Should we post them up?" Levy asked the group, her finger hovering over the social media application.

"Yes, we should! The school was already so hyped up when Natsu caught Lucy, I bet that with these pictures they will be over the moon!" Mirajane squealed in delight at her new OTP.

Silently agreeing amongst themselves, Levy began to post the picture of Natsu giving the rose to Lucy while Grey posted the picture of Natsu drinking out of Lucy's straw onto their respective band accounts. It had been hardly a minute before their phone got spammed with the likes and comments on the pictures.

"SO CUTE! THEY ARE MY OTP"

"AH I wish my boyfriend would do that to me!"

"Natsu + Lucy = #RelationshipGoals"

"I didn't know they were dating! Nalu for life!"

"NALU OMG"

The comments continued coming and the likes continued to increase. When 10 minutes passed, FairyStar's picture had gotten 879 likes and 700 comments plus 126 new followers. DragonForce's pictures had gotten 856 likes and 798 comments plus 120 new followers. Staring wide-eyed at the amount of likes, comments and followers they gotten through one picture, Mavis and Zeref started to smile.

"I think we just found our new ship for the school."

While this was all happening, Natsu and Lucy were walking back to the music room after Lucy patched Natsu's fingers up. His hands were covered in plasters and he had a few on his face, God knows how he managed to get cuts on his face. Opening the door to the room, they came in to see Mavis and Zeref with excited and devious smiles and the rest with equally scary smirks, except for Wendy, who looked terrified at her friends' faces. Holding up a box, Lucy said nervously. "Sorry we ran off…but we brought strawberry cake?" Natsu and Lucy were hoping that would appease the red-haired demon from killing them and focus on the cake instead.

"No, no its fine, Lucy, Natsu. Just don't do it again. We are announcing the pairs and how the first round of the competition would work out." Zeref said, the rest nodding in agreement. Walking towards them and sitting down cautiously, the couple looked at each other warily. The group had been so calm about their escape that it was unsettling.

Picking up a piece of paper, Mavis began to read out the pairs.

"Laxus and Mirajane, Jellal and Erza, Grey and Juvia, Gajeel and Levy and finally, Natsu and Lucy!" The pairs looked at each other while Mirajane wondered how Laxus looked like and Levy and Erza thought about their partner. Wendy excused herself from the meeting and went back home, saying that she had homework to do.

"Yay! We're partners, Luce! We're gonna crush the rest." Natsu cheered, slinging his arm over Lucy's shoulder. Lucy merely hummed a reply, a pink hue forming on her cheeks.

"Anyway, all of you will be preparing a video to put up on the school webpage. Both of you would be singing a song, with or without instruments, and you also have a choice to make a video out of it if you want. Only the top four would continue in the competition and we aren't the judges. This time, we will be basing it of whose video had gotten the most likes! So the pair with the least number of likes will not continue. It's a simple competition. No questions? Okay. The deadline of the video is by next week and the videos will be posted up at the same time. All students except you guys and Wendy and Romeo, will be required to vote for one pair. We will tell you the winner in two weeks' time. So you better prepare the video! Bye!" Mavis and Zeref walked out of the room as she chatted with him. The rest packed up their bags and proceeded to go back home.

"Hey, Lucy! Let's go back home together! We can work on the song and video on the way to your house and I need your number. We can meet up soon to do the video, okay?" Natsu said excitedly, his grin making Lucy melt.

"Okay, I'll see you guys later. Bye." Walking away with Natsu, they started to talk animatedly as the rest had on knowing smirks.

"Kay! This is my place. I'll see you tomorrow after school like we said, okay? Here's my number, by the way." Lucy smiled as she wrote down her number onto his wrist. Humming a sound of agreement, Natsu looked at her number.

"I'll meet you at your locker. Text you later, Luce!"

Waiting for her to unlock her door and go in her house, he then started to go back home.

"Idiot...your house is on the opposite side. Liar." Lucy whispered as she saw Natsu walked away from her apartment and towards the other direction. Looking at his back, her lips gave a small smile as she clutched the pink rose in her pocket.

And chapter 4 ended! This is longer than the rest of the chapters, maybe because of Nalu AHAH! Anyway, I'm thinking of making a Christmas one-shot for Nalu when Christmas is nearing! Oh and Happy Birthday, Laura Marano! If any of you guys know who she is :)

Thanks for reading till here and reviewing! Thanks especially to IndigoWolfie for reviewing twice :3. We reached two digit numbers for the number of favourites, followers and reviews! YAY! This is some serious achievement considering I've never written till chapter 4 and gotten so many reviews, follows and favourites so THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Until the next chapter :D

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