Lucy was lying next to Natsu in his bed, her head turned into his chest. She had barely slept, most of the night was spent listening to his heartbeat and wondering what that kiss was all about. Her mind was plagued with what could have been, what may have happened and of course the why. Why it happened in the first place, why he stopped it. She couldn't pinpoint anything.

She knew a few things though; she was happy it happened and she didn't want him to stop.

There's no way he did that because of the bet. Natsu wouldn't do that…or would he?

Lucy already knew how she felt about Natsu, but so afraid of ruining a completely perfected friendship she pushed her feelings down to the pit of her stomach. It was easy to say he wasn't boyfriend material, not because she didn't believe it, but because their friendship was more important to her.

So when he goes on to prove to her in some ways that he is boyfriend material and then kisses her like that, it was enough for her to rethink everything. Because he could still be her best friend. And she was realizing this after the few days of this stupid ass bet.

She was still confused about it. If he only kissed her because of the bet, did he actually care about her in that way?

How would she figure this one out? No one could kiss like that and not have meaning behind it, but would he know the meaning behind it? That was her question. And even if he knew, would he admit it or keep her lingering?

She felt his arms wrap around her and nuzzle her.

"Mornin' Lucy." He said groggy, pressing a kiss to her forehead.

"Good morning Natsu." She responded feeling some sort of warmth. Natsu sat up and leaned up against the headboard. He pulled lucy on top of him, keeping his hands placed firmly at her hips.

"So did you enjoy our date?"

"Yeah, even if it was crazy, it was fun. It's what imagine a date with you would be like. Just, I have to know Natsu…"

"I didn't kiss you because of the challenge, Lucy I kissed you because I wanted to."

Well that was easy.

"Really?"

"Yeah, sorry."

"No – don't be – it was a good kiss." Lucy blushed again, feeling incredibly awkward.

"Really?" His eyes shot up in wonderment , a nice little smile on his face.

"Yes, you goofball. So it wasn't part of the challenge then?"

"Of course not, I wouldn't use you like that."

"So, if the kiss wasn't part of the challenge you haven't actually really proven to be boyfriend material then have you?" Lucy smirked at Natsu, giving him a quick kiss.

His hands slid up her sides, keeping their lips attached. He took a nip at her lower lip, moving his thumbs under the swell of her breasts.

She doesn't understand. She doesn't understand why I need to win. Why I need to hear her say it.

"So, I'm not boyfriend material." He murmured against her lips.

"Nope. Not yet." She said, pulling his hair through her fingers.

"Well that's cool." He pulled back and smiled at her. "I had other things planned for the rest of the week to win this bet."

"I know."

…

"Shoot! We're out of soda!" Lucy announced ,slamming the fridge door.

"I can go get you some." Natsu said sweetly, causing the blonde to perk up.

"Really?"

"Nope cause I'm not your boyfriend."

Strike one Dragneel.

"Has anyone seen Gray and Juvia?" Erza announced walking down the stairs with Levy who looked worried sick.

"No, but look we made a sand blanket for Gajeel." Natsu said pointing at Gajeel who wa covered in some sort of sand mermaid get go.

"His boobs are nicer than mine." Levy muttered, walking past him. "You guys haven't seen Gray or Juvia like at all.'

"Well, Natsu and I saw them last night in town. Did they not come back?"

"No! and speaking of that when the hell did you two come back."

"Uhm like at midnight ish…" Natsu was now cowering behind Lucy, as Erza looked down at the both of them with some sort of look to kill.

"And you didn't think to bring those two back – " She was stopped abruptly when Gray and Juvia came walking through the door, looking ashamed and dressed in the same clothes. There was a sort of dead light in their eyes, neither of them looking directly at anyone.

"Where have you two been!?" Erza yelled. Levy immediately shushed her because of course, Gajeel was still sleeping.

"I'd rather not talk about it. You'll know when we get back to the guild."

"yes, Juvia just wants to sleep."

"Wait you two can't just – " but they ignored her, knowing how costly that was and continued up the stairs to their rooms. Natsu and Lucy, staring at each other knowingly, holding in their laughter.

Erza stormed up the stairs and followed after them, levy chasing her, to try and calm her down.

Lucy was still in the kitchen though, trying to juice a grapefruit, when she felt rough, rugged, hands against her thin, white, tank top. She smiled, halting her movements and leaning back into his chest.

"What is it Natsu?" she said looking up at him curiously. His hands moved upward and his arms wrapped wrong her chest, hugging her from behind. This wasn't new for either of them. Lucy has stopped her cooking many times, because of Natsu hugging her from behind. He would ask a million questions about what they were eating, stopping the process of her cooking. She always complained, but she loved it and he knew she did.

"We never finished our date last night?" he said backing her away from the counter completely.

"What? There was more."

"yeah – I didn't just want to eat. I wanted to do other stuff like dancing."

"What."

"I wanted to take you out dancing. Like ballroom dancing I know how you like that kind of stuff."

"You're so ridiculous. I thought you didn't like to dance."

"No, but it was fun when I danced with you, you know until I got motion sickness."

Lucy blushed a little bit as her turned her around to face him. He grabbed her hand and placed another at her hip.

"So, let's dance." He said with that toothy grin of his. Natsu lead the way as he danced her through the kitchen, in his own way. He was silly of course, dipping her at times, giving her fake historical information about the dance itself.

"Oh really Natsu, invented by pirates?"

"yeah they thought it would help make peace with Vikings."

The blonde laughed at her friend who she found to be downright adorable. He even hummed music so they weren't dancing to nothing. They were dancing to his hums.

She couldn't help but giggle sweetly at him.

After about 15 or so minutes of Natsu spinning the blonde around the floor, he had her stopped against the refrigerator. Natsu had placed his hands centered at the small of her back. His head pressed against hers. Lucy looked up at him with those beautiful, wide, brown eyes.

"Natsu…" Lucy whispered, asking him an unknown question with an unknown answer. Natsu poked his tongue out and pushed it through her parted lips. His lips slanted against her, as he implanted a wet and forceful kiss like the one from the night before. Lucy responded hungrily, pulling at his scarf to bring him closer to her. His body began to grind impatiently against hers. His knee pressed in between her leg.

Natsu pulled back and buried his face into her neck. He placed nips and kisses against her neck, each ministration causing the woman to buck subconsciously. And making a certain region throb excitedly. Natsu moved down her down until he got to a certain spot that made her body convulse. He sunk his teeth into that spot on her neck, and began to suck, attempting to leave some sort of love bite. His hands moved up the curve of her hips, gliding over her clothed breasts.

Lucy had to cover her mouth with her hand to keep from moaning out his name too loudly.

Natsu removed his teeth from the spot on her neck and moved down to her collarbone. His thumbs rolled of her clothed nipple, teasing her.

"Lucy?" Natsu questioned innocently, pullng back from her. "You smell…different." He said releasing a growl from his throat. "Good…different."

He moved his mouth back to her body, when they both heard it.

"My sand tits look amazin'"

Natsu immediately pulled back from her, Lucy keeping her hands over her mouth. Natsu stared at her, looking petrified and humored at the same time.

"Anyone here – oh you two." Gajeel said standing up and staring at the both of them who looked extremely guilty. "What the hell is wrong with you two?"

"Nothing!" Lucy squeaked. "We were just getting ready for the uhm beach, but we were gonna ditch everyone." Natsu just stared at her, and that outlandish lie.

"Doesn't sound like either of ya, but whatever. Sounds like a plan I'll join ya."

"Oh- yes okay. Can't really think of a reason as to why you wouldn't…join us."

"Cool. Why they yellin' upstairs"

"Gray and Juvia are both incredibly stupid." Natsu said, chewing on his bottom lip. His eyes were trained on Lucy still, watching as her fingers rubbed over the bruised skin of her neck.

"You guys are right to leave. Fuck all this noise."

…

"I love the smell of ocean breeze."

"you sound like Juvia. Besides all I smell is fish."

"Well your smell is better than mine."

"My smell?"

"I meant nose."

"What is wrong with you?"

"Shut up Natsu. We've been out here for hours, it's actually nice. Gajeel is actually a lot more fun than I recall."

"Well we could deduce that from Levy the past few nights."

"Yeah, when do you think that started?"

"You know Lucy, I like not knowing when people start doing weird things with each other."

"I can hear ya, ya know. But look!" and they did. "Dug me a hole." Gajeel said from inside a 6 ft, grave sized hole.

"That's amazing Gajeel – really somethin'."

"Thanks Salamander. Too bad no one else can see my amazing feat."

"Like Levy!"

"Shut up Bunny girl! But yeah it'd be cool if she could see it."

"Don't talk to her like that!" Natsu roared, causing Gajeel to stare at him curiously. Lucy pulled on his arm, giving him that universal 'what the fuck' stare. "It's…rude."

"If you say so Salamander." And gajeel smiled, smoothing out the edges of the hole.

"Relax Natsu." Lucy whispered, curling up to him.

"Well he was being an asshole."

"He's always like that."

"yeah I know." Natsu looked at her, pushing some of her hair behind her ear. "I had something planned for today Lucy, but…"

"What was I supposed to do? You mauled me in the kitchen. The kitchen!" She whispered at him, peering in the hole to make sure Gajeel wasn't paying attention.

"You're fun to maul." He whispered back, looking at her innocently.

"IN the kitchen!?"

"I feel like it'd be fun anywhere."

"Well, we can do what you planned later."

"Yeah."

The tide then came in filling up Gajeel's oversized hole, which o course upset him greatly. Lucy leaped up, screaming out in miserable pain.

"OH my god! My foot, my foot I can't – my foot." She screamed over and over again, leaning onto Natsu for support.

"What the hell happened to her salamander?" Gajeel said leaping out of the hole.

"I have no idea."

"I think it's jellyfish sting. Ohmygod oh my god – it hurts so bad!"

"Well, we gotta get her out of here, take her back to Wendy or somethin'."

"Too far salamander. I have an idea. I was readin' one of Levy's books and there's this thing about like jellyfish stings and stuff. You're gonna have to pee on yourself."

"WHAT!? That's disgusting."

"No I think he's right Lucy. Something about the ammonia – it kills the pain."

"No way – it doesn't hurt that ba – a –ad." Lucy squealed as she tried to put her foot down.

"You can use my hole."

…

"You're not gonna tell Makarov about this are you?"

"I don't know Gray maybe I should, I can't believe you two got arrested! How could you destroy that aquarium!"

"We didn't, we just got blamed for it! I don't know how it happened."

"Well I'm going to let Makarov know and we should honestly cancel the trip."

"Whoa Erza, don't do that. C'mon I've been arrested before. It's not that big a deal."

"jellal that was different and yes this is fun, but not if these two can't – " she paused and stared at him, worried a little bit. "Are you wearing Lucy's cardigan?"

"It's flattering!"

"What a delightful day this has been." Levy said eating a bag of chips.

Natsu and Lucy came slugging in through the front door, Gajeel following behind, his head looking down at the floor.

"Hey guys!" Levy said happily. "How was the beach?"

"Nothing, I don't know." Lucy immediately responded as the boys ignored her. "I'm gonna take a shower."

"me too." Natsu said with his finger in the air.

"Me too…" Gajeel followed, all three of them going up the stairs.

…

Lucy was in bed, her hair dripping wet, still covered in her towel. Natsu had left the shower and sat down next to her wearing his boxers. This was a very perplexing situation he had found himself in. His feelings for his friend had grown exponentially and he knew it and did nothing about it. And now that he was doing something about it, he didn't know what to do about it.

He felt as if he was crossing boundaries, maybe even upsetting her.

Plus the day had gone terrible and he may have screwed everything up.

What the fuck am I gonna do?

"You're my best friend you know." she spoke as if she could read his thoughts.

"I know."

"So, what did you have planned for us today?"

He smiled at her, laying on his side to look at her. "I was going to take you to that little bakery in town. And go on the tour. You know cause you like sweet things."

"Yeah and you would have gotten overexcited and eaten everything."

"You would have gotten mad and called me an 'idiot.' And I would have retaliated by throwing some sort of food at you."

"We would have ended up in a huge food fight, destroying the bakery in the process. And my hair would have been covered in chocolate."

"yeah and you would have said that you need to shower for hours to get the ridiculous smell of baked food off of you and shove some of the cake from your clothes into your mouth."

"And then you would have said, that I smell sweet so it shouldn't matter."

"And you would have said that wearing cake and smelling sweet aren't good things. And that your clothes are ruined."

"And you would have said that I didn't need clothes and that even if I do smell sweet it's because I am sweet."

"you are sweet."

She giggled at him.

"And you would have laughed just like that."

"Yeah and I'd be mad that I couldn't stay mad at you."

"And then you'd be stubborn and say that boyfriends don't throw food at their girlfriends."

"And you'd respond with 'that's why there's more for us to do! I'm all fired up!"

"And then we would have come back here and you would snuggle up to me and moan my name in your sleep."

"Shut up, that doesn't happen."

"It always happens."

They smiled at each other as his hands slipped around her torso and pulled her into him.

"Even though today turned out to be absolutely disgusting, I'm still glad I got to spend it with you." she said, feeling him squeeze her. "Just don't tell anyone okay."

"About the jellyfish or what you just said?"

"Both."

…

I hope you guys like it. And like I said it's loosely based off of mondler because mondler is nalu I swear by it I will go to my grave with it. Next chapter will be much steamier I promise. also i didn't bother to edit this one so yeah my bad on that. R&R