Chapter 2: Couples

And yes, today is the start of Lucy's challenge, to become a good girlfriend. To be a good girlfriend, of course they have to observe what do girlfriends to with their boyfriend. Like going out on a date, taking care of the guy etc. so, Lucy and Natsu decided to take a walk to see what girlfriends do.

"Alright! Let's do this" she said

"I'm all fired up!" he said in a hyper mood.

Lucy turned to Natsu with a frowned face and crossed her arms and said

"what's up with that energy?! Do you think you can beat me?" she said

"whatever, Lucy! Let's just go and see what girlfriends do" he said. "I wonder if you can become a good girlfriend." Natsu said, trying to tease the blonde. Lucy didn't say anything and just sighed.

The two decided to take a walk at the park and saw too many sweet couples hanging around. Lucy paused for a while and stared at the sweet couples. She saw some couples, holding hands, she also noticed couples who sits so close with each other. Lucy sighed and murmured

"can..can I do this?"

Natsu heard what Lucy said then burst out laughing. Lucy glared at Natsu and shouted

"What's funny?!"

"I knew it! you can't become a good girlfriend!" he said, starting to tease a blonde.

"I can do it!" she yelled then, hold Natsu's hand really tight.

"Oi, Lucy, do girls hold their boyfriend's hand really tight?" he said.

"stop complaining will you?!" she said in a loud voice then let out another sigh. Natsu just laughed at Lucy's reaction and face expression.

Lucy and Natsu heard a sound of the ice cream's bell and yes, a man who sells ice cream is coming. Natsu pointed at the ice cream, just like a little child, Natsu grabbed Lucy's hand and runs towards the ice cream man.

"Hey, Lucy! Treat me some ice cream!" he said

"no way!" she answered. "use your own money to buy your ice cream!" she said.

Natsu frowned and said "girlfriends are the one who should spend money for a date right?" he said.

Lucy suddenly laughed when Natsu said that the girl will spend for the boy.

"no Natsu, a guy should be the one who will spend money!" she said then crossed arm "so now, YOU should treat me… you're the one who should buy that ice cream" she said then grinned.

"Fine then" he said then bought two ice cream for them. One for Lucy and one for him. Lucy didn't expect that Natsu will treat her. It is the first time that Natsu spend his money for her.

"well, because this is a challenge.." she thought then started to eat her ice cream.

While the two are eating ice cream, a running child bumped into Natsu and that what made Natsu's ice cream dropped to his scarf.

"Ah! Igneel's scarf!" he said. The kid bowed and apologized. "it's fine, it's fine" he said then the kid continued running. Lucy sighed then laugh a little when she saw what happened.

"what's funny?!" Natsu reacted while frowning.

"sorry, don't mind me" Lucy said simply. Lucy brings out a clean handkerchief out of her pocket and slowly wiped it to Natsu's scarf, trying to remove the ice cream. While Lucy is cleaning up Natsu's scarf, Natsu stared at Lucy's very beautiful face and remained silent. Lucy noticed that Natsu suddenly keeps silent so, Lucy looked at Natsu.

"you're too quiet…" she started "is there anything wrong?"

Natsu quickly looked away when Lucy looked at him, trying to avoid eye-to-eye contact.

"n-nothing's wrong" he said

"are you sure?" she asked with a puzzled face, wondering why does Natsu suddenly acts weird.

"I told you nothing's wrong!" he said then Lucy just nods and continued cleaning Natsu's scarf.

"there it's done" she said then gave him a bright, beautiful smile.

"t-thank you" he said.

It's now 12 noon so, Lucy started to feel hungry. Lucy holds her tummy and said

"geez.. I'm hungry, it's already lunch time" she said.

"well, I'm feeling hungry too" Natsu said "let's go and eat lunch at that restaurant" while pointing at the restaurant not far away from where they are standing.

"Let's go!" he said then, take Lucy's hand and started to walk towards the restaurant. When they got in, the pairs started to look for a vacant table. Lucy saw one near the window. Lucy pointed at the vacant table and said

"there, let's seat there Natsu"

"okay!"

Then, they started to walk towards the vacant table and sit there, face to face. The waitress gave them a menu and Lucy started to choose what food should she order and eat.

"hmm… the foods here are delicious…which one should I choose?" she said.

While Lucy is choosing a food to order, Natsu can't stop looking at Lucy's beautiful face. Natsu shook his head

"what's up with me today?" he thought. "why can't I act normally?! I hate this"

Lucy noticed how Natsu acts today then again, Lucy got curious, confused and really puzzled about it.

"what's up with him? He's acting weird since we went to the park earlier" she thought then sighed.

She now continued choosing a food to order and finally found one. After she give her order to the waitress, Lucy gave the menu to Natsu

"here, it's now your turn to choose" she said while handing over the food menu. While Natsu started to choose his order, Lucy looked outside the window, watching people walking on the street. She can also see some couples since they are near the park where some couples are hanging out.

"heh, couples… girlfriend…" she thought. "but honestly, I wonder when can I get a serious relationship…not a game, or a challenge…"

Finally, Natsu finished ordering his desired food and noticed that Lucy is so quiet.

"Hey, Luce" he called "you okay? You're too quiet"

Lucy nods and said "I'm fine don't worry" then sighed "it's just that…" she said but didn't continue then tilted her head. "hmm~ never mind…" she said then smiled.

"Okay, if you say so" he said. "so, how's your first day being a girlfriend?" he asked, starting to tease Lucy again.

"I can't say that I am officially a girlfriend of someone you know? This is just a challenge… remember?"

"well, okay…fine…whatever you say" he said.

Once again, the two remained silent. Lucy broke the silence by asking

"Natsu, do you like someone?"