Natsu was the first to turn and Lucy followed Natsu's gaze. Though there weren't many people out, people slowly began to circle around Natsu, Lucy, and this new intruder. The problem was that he wasn't a stranger, at least not to Lucy.

"What do you want?" Lucy didn't even try to hide her annoyance toward the boy across from her. And as for the boy next to her, well he had a smirk on his face once the words left Lucy's mouth.

"Yeah, who are you anyway?" Natsu didn't even get mad, he as a little curious of who the kid in front of him was. If anything he could easily handle the kid in a matter of minutes, heck Lucy could handle the stupid jerk.

"Sting, just leave." Lucy looked annoyed and slowly was getting more annoyed by the minute.

The newcomer named Sting did the exact opposite, in fact he took two steps closer to Lucy. Causing for Natsu to hold Lucy tighter, he never had let go of Lucy's hand. "Get your nasty paws off my girlfriend, you shit," Sting exclaimed with a scowl.

Natsu didn't know what was more funny, the fact that this Sting kid thought he would let go of Lucy's hand just because he had said so, or because he just had called Lucy his girlfriend.

"You must be out of your mind kid." Natsu's voiced held so much humor, showing he wasn't scared, but rather entertained,

"I am so not your girlfriend Sting, we are nothing close to that in fact I don't even know why I ever agreed to go out with you. Hopefully you'll treat the next girl you date with more respect." Lucy had to admit that yes they had gone out, but for like two days, but the worst part is that she also knew why she'd gone out with Sting. She cursed herself because it wasn't any romantic reason, but rather it was because she was lonely and just miserably wanted someone to be there for her. Someone who would give her limitless attention and if she was honest to have someone to make Natsu jealous with. And even though Sting and her had only gone out for two days, they've never once had kissed the closest they even got to was hugging. She mentally face palmed herself.

While Lucy was over-thinking her past decisions, Natsu was actually caught in a state of surprise. Lucy had actually gone out with this weakling standing before him. The thought bothered him more than it should have, but of course it was that protectiveness he always had over his friends when they dated jerks nothing more. He quickly got over it, and smirked at the guy, afterall Lucy had said he didn't even know why she had gone out with this Sting kid.

"You heard her Sting," Natsu's words were emphasized with a smirk.

"Lucy what the hell, stop being a slut and get away from that ugly shit." Sting tried reaching for Lucy, only to have her smack him.

As for Natsu, he was ready to pounce, his blood boiling over that nasty word that the mediocre Sting had used on Lucy. He would have acted immediately if it weren't for Lucy holding him tightly even more than before. He looked over at her and raised his eyebrow, "You wanna beat his ass? Cause I have no problem doing so." Natsu knew Lucy could beat the piece of trash without even blinking, and he hoped she would let him go so he could have a little fun.

Lucy looked at Natsu disapprovingly, but a part in her was satisfied. Yet she didn't want to create a scene and possibly get suspended, so instead she turned to Natsu and said, "He really isn't worth it."

Natsu was a little disappointed, and made a pouting face. They didn't even bother to answer Sting, instead they began to walk pass him. Natsu made sure Lucy wasn't watching and he went and very keenly gave Stung a punch on the back. He then hurried over to Lucy's side, hoping she didn't notice.

As for sting he stared at the empty space in front of him, surprised on how fast Lucy had moved on. He didn't actually want to break up with her in the first place, but rather it was meant to make her hurry and put out faster. For goodness they never even kissed, she didn't even seem to want to hold his hand, how was he supposed to have sex with her when she didn't even let him touch her. And when he saw her with that pink haired idiot, he got so heated, and he knew he'd broken up with her, but she wasn't supposed to move on. He stayed put where he was, kind of hurt emotionally and physically. The stupid pink haired shit had hit him really hard, and something told him that the punch wasn't delivered at full force.

As sting was left to sulk, Lucy and Natsu were walking towards Lucy's next class. Natsu had class in the same building, so he followed right after Lucy, surprised at how flawlessly she walked. He caught himself looking over casually, watching as her bangs bounced and her smile didn't even falter. He laughed to himself, he wanted to punch the Sting guy, but he was happy with just walking Lucy over to her class. They got some looks, both from boys and girls. He wondered if girls were jealous of Lucy for her... well her everything, maybe that was why they looked over at them intently. As for the guys, they were obviously hypnotized by everything Lucy, and he gave so many dirty looks. He was Lucy's best friend and he had to look out for her wellbeing and everything else. He made a mental note to himself of what a good friend he was for keeping off all these jerks away from her. He grinned at himself and kept on walking.

Lucy on the other hand obviously noticed the looks that they were getting, both from the guys and girls. The guys always looked over at her, she wasn't oblivious to their perv ways, but it bothered her that the girls were giving Natsu some obvious and well deserved attention. He was hot, like-super model-I-want-to-do kind of hot. He had on a white t-shirt with blue jeans, making a good contrast against his tanned skin. His bed head hair complimented the whole bad boy look. His biceps pushed against the white t-shirt, yeah the whole bad boy image. Natsu gave a different image of what he really was, because he was actually the nicest guy she had ever met, but she didn't complain because he looked so oh so good in his t-shirt and blue jeans.
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Lucy and Natsu had agreed on meeting up around 8 in the night since they both had something to do before then. Lucy throughout the whole day tried not to think about Natsu at all. She instead tried to focus on the amount of activities that she had to do; she had volleyball try outs around seven, and before that she had to go to try and sign up to any clubs she was interested in. It was her second year in college but everything was still chaotic, nothing new there. Finally it was seven and she made her way to the gym, where the volley ball try outs were being held. She had changed into her volleyball shorts and a white tank. She met up with some of the girls from last year on her way there. She knew most of the girls trying out since she had been on the volley ball team last year, so she wasn't really worried. She still needed to try out, but she hoped it wouldn't take long. When entering the gym she attempted not to bump into any of the guys coming out, it looked like basketball try outs had just ended, and the gym was full of sweaty and nasty smelling men. She made her way to a group of girls she knew, and began to talk to them.

"I hope there aren't a lot of new good players, I want everyone from last years team to stay," said one girl next to Lucy. Lucy nodded, agreeing on the idea. They were all chatting until one girl looked past Lucy and said, "Oh my god, check out that piece of ass. I've been seeing him all day, I have him in one of my classes. I think he is a sophomore because the class was offered only to sophomores, but I swear I've never seen him before till today." Everyone turned and looked over to where the girl was looking, Lucy was the last to turn her head. At the other end of the gym there was a grinning boy with a full head of pink hair. Lucy wanted to just crawl under the benches. The hot piece of ass that they were talking of was Natsu.

She nervously giggled, hoping the girls wouldn't notice. Then as if he knew they were talking about him, Natsu turned his head at their direction. The girls almost swooned out of their shoes. Without missing a beat Natsu noticed Lucy, and waved. The girls all looked at each other in confusion, trying to figure out at who he waved at. Natsu slowly and almost shyly waved back. She hoped that for the sake of Natsu he stayed where he was at. She knew the girls could be vicious when they wanted, and she didn't want him to have multiple girls trying to pull on him for his attention.

Natsu turned his whole body and began walking to her direction. Now the girls were looking at Lucy, and she knew she was going to have a mob of girls asking her to introduce them to Natsu. They didn't know that Natsu was completely oblivious to the opposite sex, especially when it came to anything remotely romantic.

"Lucy! Hi!" Natsu greeted her with his usual smile that showed his fang looking teeth. He had one of his hands up waving hi at her and the other at the back of his head. For a moment she allowed herself to think of how adorable he looked.

"Hi Natsu," her voice came out as a whisper.

"What are you doing here Luce?"

"Oh well, I'm trying out for the volleyball team," her voice full of pride now. She smiled up at him.

"Oh, but Luce you Have horrible coordination." He looked a little confused now, and Lucy wanted to call him out on the idiot he was.

The girls around Lucy snickered at Natsu's comment. One of them even said,

"You know, now that you mention it, it was because of Lucy that we lost a game once."

Lucy's jaw almost dropped to the floor, she actually got along very well with the girl who made the comment. She cursed the girl in her head and then very red she turned to Natsu and said, "Yeah? Well atleast I don't destroy everything in my path. I mean how many balls have you popped back in highschool?"

Natsu looked a little embarrassed, but he hadn't meant for his comment to make Lucy feel bad. "Geesh Luce, I was just saying." After that he hugged her and then began running towards the group of boys he was talking to before. "See you later Luce," he screamed as he made his way across the gym.

Luce could only guess that Natsu had tried out for the basketball team, and he had obviously made it in. Stupid Natsu and his stupid athletic abilities. She didn't have much time to mentally insult Natsu because as soon as Natsu left, the girls crowded her with questions and requests.

"You know him?"

"Lucy oh, can you please introduce us?"

"Do you guys have a thing for each other?"

"Lucy I didn't know you knew so many hot guys, I'll let you have Natsu, but hook me up with one of his friends."

They didn't stop until the coach entered and started the try outs.
When the tryout were finally done, she had a place in the team. She mentally high fived herself, and began to make her way to the cafe she was supposed to meet Natsu in. She had only changed into her jeans but she still had a white tank, she didn't really mind because the night was hot and humid.

When she finally made it to the cafe, she saw Natsu sitting in front of the window. She had never been in that cafe, since it had just opened a month ago, but she was excited to see the place. She had heard they had a library where you could either borrow a book or buy one. Books were her first best friends, so she loved anything related to books.

Once inside the cafe she was caught of guard at how beautiful it was. There were two floors, and upstairs was a full wide library. There was a large spiral staircase that lead to the second floor, but there was not much space, instead it was left open with only space for the bookcase and a few small tables here and there. She instantly fell in love with the place, in the back there were more tables and even more books. There was a huge gap in the middle but it gave a beautiful view to the upstairs floor, and the grand ceiling.

"It's beautiful right?" Natsu asked in a quiet voice, he was inches away from Lucy.

Lucy was caught off guard, but she didn't need to turn around to know it was Natsu. "Yeah, it is amazing."

Natsu pulled Lucy by her wrist and brought her to their table. Once Lucy had sat down, he pushed a cup of green tea to her. "I got you tea, because I know you're trying to lay off the coffee."

Lucy smiled at his comment and gladly took the tea cup. "Have you been waiting long?" She gave him time to answer as she sipped her now warm tea.

"Nah, jus about fifteen minutes. Enough time to get a job here." He smiled with all teeth, and put his hands behind his head.

Lucy almost spat her tea. How had he already gotten a job, he just got here. "I want a job too," she said as she pouted.

As she said that a girl with white long straight hair had passed their way. The girl turned over to Lucy and walked over to her. "Would you like to work here?"
Lucy was a little surprised at the girl with strange white hair, but she was too excited over what she had heard that she didn't even care if she didn't know the girl. "Oh I would love to!"

"Oh that's great, were looking to hire people. I have a tight schedule, I work here and have classes so I can't work in cafe all the time. Me and gramps are looking for help in the place, we already hired your friend here to cook, but we still need two baristas and another cook. Would you like to work as a barista here? You'd just need to serve coffee, work at the cashier and you know all that basic stuff, we'll try to work around your classes if you have school." Her face was so happy, and her wide eyes held hope.

As much a s Lucy wanted to work in the cafe she didn't have any experience. Sulking she answered, "I don't think I can I don't have experience as a barista or a cashier."

The girl with white hair gave a small laugh and said, "That's alright silly, I can train you. So what do you say?" Once again the girl held so much hope in her eyes, it was almost heartbreaking.

Lucy almost jumped off her feet, but before anything she nodded and squeaked, "Yes I'd love to!"

"That is great, you have no idea how much weight you just got off my chest." Lucy now smiled at the girl. "Oh how rude of me, my name is Mira," the white haired girl extended here hand to Lucy.

Lucy shook Mira's hand and introduced herself, "Lucy."
Mira smiled at her and told both of them to pass by tomorrow when her grandpa Makarov would be at the cafe and they would work on their schedule. Then she left Natsu and Lucy alone to bask in their happiness over finding a job in the same place.

"Wow Lucy it looks like were going to see each other twenty four seven," Natsu pointed out.

Lucy smiled at Natsu and nodded, it seemed like they were going to make up for all that time they had lost together. Everything was so exciting.

They finished their drinks waved goodbye to Mira, and finally made their way to Lucy's apartment. On their walk they didn't talk much, there were a few words about how nice the night was or how pretty the stars were, but the silence was comfortable that neither of them dared ruin it. There were moments when Lucy caught Natsu sneaking glances at her, for a moment she thought there was something in her face, and she began to aimlessly wipe her face. There of course was nothing, the reason for Natsu's glances was his genuine like of her face.

Lucy was a nice sight, in every way. People thought he was too dense to look at a girl and to appreciate the sight oh her, and at times he was. Yet when he had seen Lucy in her short volley ball shorts, he had loved the way her legs looked to extend forever. The best part was that she looked just as good in jeans. Her bust was incredibly huge. He kind of felt sorry for her because he'd heard that having big breast hurt girls back, but they looked so good on her. He'd seen them before, he had even touched them, of course both times earning him a well deserved slap in the face. In truth Lucy looked good in everything, but that was just a Lucy thing.

He was a little disturbed by the fact that he was thinking of Lucy in perverted ways, but he let it go thinking it was just his hormones acting up. He stopped when he felt Lucy stop in her tracks. "Why'd you stop Luce."

"We're here, this is my building." She turned her whole body to the white townhouse. She took out her keys, and opened the first door into the building. She made her way up the stairs, with Natsu right behind her. He was carrying a duffel bag which she guessed were his clothes, and she was astounded at the fact that he managed to fit all his belongins into one bag.

"It's pretty in this house," Natsu commented as his eyes scanned his surroundings.

"Yeah, the best part is that there are only three apartments in this building, so there aren't a lot of neighbors." Lucy didn't mind people, but she also tried to distance herself from any drama that people could cause.

Finally they were in front of her apartment door, as she opened it, Natsu was caught off guard by the nice smell that the apartment gave off. Once in he noticed how spacious the place was. There was a large living room, and it went on to the kitchen. On the other side there were two doors. One to be Lucy's room, and the other the bathroom, or so he guessed. The walls were white, with only pictures to decorate them. Natsu guessed Lucy wasn't allowed to color the place, otherwise he was sure Lucy would have already colored the walls. There was a baby blue couch in the middle of the living room, then a white vintage looking coffee table in front of it. There were two love seats at each side of he couch. Everything was so neat.

Natsu threw his leather jacket at one of the love seats, and then threw himself at the couch. Lucy disapproved, and picked up his jacket to hang on the coat rack stand. "Natsu you need to be organized, you can't just throw everything everywhere!"

Natsu was too comfy on the couch to answer back to Lucy. After a long day he just wanted to sleep. He mumbled something incoherent but didn't move.
Lucy went and sat next to him, having to move his body that didn't even fit in the couch. She knew he was tired, because she was tired too. She poked him and he grunted, and the noise was more exotic than it should have been. "Uh Natsu, you don't have to sleep on the couch." The sentence seemed to have caught Natsu's attention, he turned his face towards Lucy.

"Are you suggesting we sleep on the same bed Lucy?" He smirked up at her. He really wouldn't mind, he was very open to the idea.
Lucy jumped off the couch, with her face a dangerous red. "Natsu! Don't be a pervert!"

"Well then what did you mean Luce?" Luce walked over to one of the doors and opened it, she motioned for Natsu to follow. Once inside the room, he saw what she meant. At the edge of the room there was a bunk bead.

"I sleep on the top," Lucy said. Then she took something from some drawers and left the room. Natsu took the opportunity to undress. He only left his boxers on, not thinking of how Lucy would feel about it.

When Lucy got back she found an almost naked Natsu laying on huge bottom bunk, with his hands behind his head. She squealed and covered her eyes.

"Why are you naked Natsu!"

Natsu looked at himself and then at Lucy. His eyes staying a little too long on Lucy. "I'm not naked Lucy, don't be weird."

Lucy stood her ground, "Natsu you're naked!"

Natsu went to stand up infront of Lucy, "Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Natsu yes you are!"

"You want to see naked Lucy? This is naked!"

Lucy couldn't help but stare as Natsu reached for the waistband of his boxers and began to pull