Noticing the way she smiles. Remembering the way he laughs. Feeling things like happiness, embarrassment, jealousy, pain. These are all syptoms of a thing we feel in our hearts. What is this thing you ask? Well to put it simply, it's something that makes the world go round. A thing that when returned; you feel like you can do the impossible. This my friends, is what we call love.
-I'm in Love with You-
Rated T for: Contains things I'm pretty sure only teens can handle reading.
PREVIOUSLY ON I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU:
As Natsu went to get off the train, I still sat there and placed my hand on where his was earlier. This is bad, the heat in my cheeks aren't cooling down, and I bet if I looked in the mirror I'd still be as red as a tomato. Why is this happening now? He's done stuff like this plenty of times, but it never made me react this way.
At this rate...
I'll...I'll...
Fall in love with him.
Chapter 3: The Job
Lucy P.O.V
The situation I'm in is absolutely terrible, well at least for me anyway. I'm walking with Natsu to the place where we're supposed to discuss the mission with the client. Usually though, when I'm with him alone I'm pretty cool with it. But now I feel really uncomfortable. My cheeks are still warm from earlier. I'm trying to walk with a distance behind him, but it's not helping at all. Infact, it's probably making it worse without me realizing it.
"LUCY!"
Hm?
"What is it Natsu?"
"Jeez, I've been calling your name for at least five minutes."
"Really?" I must have been so distracted with my thoughts that I didn't notice. "What were you going to say?"
"I wanted to tell you that we've arrived already."
I turned around, and sure enough I see the house.
"This whole walk you've been acting weird Lucy. Your cheeks are still red, you're walking behind me, and you aren't talking much for a VERY talkative person. Are you sure everything's okay?" Natsu asked.
He's right. I am not doing peachy right now. but still I reply " No, it's nothing. I'm fine"
"Hmmmm..." his eyes are still staring at mine to make sure I'm not lying. Dammit, I'm going to get all flustered again.
"...if you say so." he replied
Whew, that was close.
.
"Hello, my name is Anna. Thank you for accepting my job."
Well this was surprising. I thought according to the job description that the client was going to be the mayor of a town or something. She doesn't even look like she's seen a monster in her life, and she's probably no more than my age. "Nice to meet you Anna, I'm Lucy and this is Natsu."
"Lucy and Natsu right? Ok got it. Now for the job, like it says on the poster I would like you to take care of a certain monster for me. I've been trying to take with him for weeks now, but it's been a hassle."
I'm a little bit confused, honestly she doesn't look like the type to take care of monsters. "Wait, you've been trying to fight this thing on your own."
"Hmm... well I guess you can say that. I mean, I am a wizard."
"You are?!" Well that cleaned things up a little bit.
"Yeah, I feel embarrassed for asking for help but..."
That's when I felt this sudden heat surrounding me. Wait, heat?
"Just show me this monster already; so I can take care of him. I'm all fired up!"
Natsu. As I roll my eyes I look over to Anna to see her just sitting there ... laughing. She finds this funny?
"Hahaha, if your that enthusiastic about it then I'll show you two to him now... Here"
Here?
You mean the monster's here right now. Natsu and I both looked around but didn't see anything. Is this supposed to be a joke?
"No, down here sillies."
We both looked down to find a small green,
"NICOLA!" "PLUE!" Natsu and I said simultaneously.
What's a Nicola doing here?
"I'm a celestial wizard, and managed to get a Nicola key to adopt this little fella. His name is Sunny."
Even though it's green? Wait, does this meant that, "the monster you want us to take care of is..."
"Yep, Sunny's the one. He's been a real hassle lately. I need help from somebody to look after him for a while; so I can take a break."
"...so basically you want us to babysit him."
"Yeah."
"I see..."
"Is something wrong? I made sure to describe this in the job poster."
That's when I turned my attention to Natsu. "Is there something you want to explain Natsu?"
"Hehehe... well um, I must've zoned out after the "Take care of the monster" part. Sorry."
Typical, but I still got irritated, "Don't give me that! We weren't prepared for this!" I turned to Anna and bowed down in apology. "We're sorry it seems that we thought we were going to fight a real monster. Looks like there was a mistake."
"Ehhh...well I guess if you two can't do it then I'll just take my 500,000 joules cash award somewhere else..."
Crap, I forgot about the huge reward. "We'll do it." I say quickly
"Glad to hear it. Here's a list of things you need to do. I have to run a few errands, but I'll be back."
Anna grabbed her stuff and left leaving only me, Natsu, and Sunny behind. "So let's take a look at the list shall we."
"Mm, I wanted to fight a real monster." Natsu whined.
"Well your the one who made the mistake; so pay for it. Besides we're only babysitting a Nicola. How hard could it be?"
"SUNNY! GET BACK HERE!"
"How can this guy run so fast?!"
I have to take my previous statement back. Taking care of Sunny was like taking care of the devil himself. There were ten things to do on that list. It's been four hours and we haven't even reached step three yet. Right now we're supposed to let him take a nap, but as soon as he heard us say the word sleep he took off. We've been trying to catch him, but jeez this guy can run. Can all Nicolas do this?
"I'm back."
I turned to the door to see Anna entering with a bunch of bags.
"How's it going?" she asked.
"Oh, we're doing fine." Of course that's a lie. I just didn't want her to feel bad.
"Hey, Lucy."
I see Natsu heading towards my direction. "What's wrong?"
"I think I have an idea on how to catch Sunny."
"Really, what is it?"
"Just keep chasing him like you were doing before. Anna, we'll need your help with this too."
"Ok" she replied. I hope Natsu knows what he's doing.
Like we were instructed, Anna and I kept chasing around Sunny. It's been ten minutes though, and we're starting to feel tired due to the speed we're running at. Whatever Natsu's doing, I hope he hurries up. We finally ended up in the hallway when I heard a loud shout.
"Time to reveal my new technique!"
New technique? What's he talking about? Wait, is he planning to use magic on the thing.
"FIRE DRAGON'S!..."
"Wait Natsu, you can't use your-"
"Mousetrap."
...huh?
"Hahahaha... Did you see that girls? Am I a genius or what?"
"Haaaa..." I sighed.
I can't believe that move actually worked. Well at least Sunny has been captured. "I'll call Lyra to sing a song so he can be put to sleep."
.
"I'm so sorry for the trouble you two." Anna said bowing down.
"It's alright Anna, this is all part of the job." I replied back.
"Still... oh I know what to do. Why don't you two stay for dinner? I'm sure you guys are hungry."
"More like starving." I hear Natsu say,
"Then it's settled, you must stay. Oh! I also forgot that there's laundry to do. How am I supposed to cook and wash clothes at the same time?!"
I guess I don't have a choice. "Um, I'll help if you need it."
"Are you sure your okay with that?"
"Yeah, I don't see the problem."
"I can help with cooking I guess." Natsu chimed in.
Anna smiled with great joy.
"Thank you very much."
.
"Let's see now..." I started sorting clothes between dark and light. I've seen Spetto-san do stuff like this all the time in the mansion; so this should be a breeze. ...hopefully.
"Um, Natsu-san?"
Anna?
Well the kitchen and the laundry room are right next to each other. I guess I can't help myself from eavesdropping.
"Just Natsu is fine, Anna." he replied.
"Alright then Natsu, is it possible that you could be a dragonslayer?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, I knew it. I've always wanted to meet one of you people."
"Seriously?"
"I'm actually pretty interested in dragons, myself."
"Really?! You know dragonslayers like me are raised by dragons. My dragon's name was Igneel. He..."
And just like that, Natsu went on to talk about Igneel while Anna stood there laughing and smiling to his story. I wish I was in her position. Not because I'm jealous or anything, this laundry is just really boring...
really...
really...
boring...
...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
.
.
"Lucy..."
Natsu?
"Oi, Lucy wake up."
"Maybe we should just let her be."
Anna's there too. I slowly rolled my eyes open to see both of them in my view. "Natsu? Anna? What's going on?" I asked rubbing my eyes. "Did I fall asleep?"
"You sure did. But seriously, who falls asleep doing laundry?"
Well when you put it like that, it makes me look like some idiot. "It's not like I meant to, I was just really tired today." I lied.
"Aha!" he strangely said after my statement.
What was that supposed to mean? "Nats-" I was suddenly interrupted by him when he placed his forehead on mine, the action causing a tint of pink to light on my cheeks.
"I figured it out. The reason you were acting off the whole day."
He removed himself from me and pointed his finger to declare, "It was because you were sleepy."
And of course he comes up with a theory like that. But the way he said it, I just had to let it out. "...hehe...hahaha. Ahahaahaha!" Natsu's confused face just made it ten times funnier.
"Lucy, what's so funny?" he questioned
"You are."
"...oh."
When I finally caught my breath I spoke up. "You know Natsu, you're a really good person."
"...w-what's with you." He stuttered turning his gaze away from mine.
You know, he's actually kind of cute when you see this kind of side to him. I poked my finger on his nose to get his attention to me again. When he looked back towards me I finally managed to tell him,
"Thank you for worrying about me Natsu."
"Now it was my turn to act embarrassed. As if I hadn't already today.
"...um..."
Oh crap. I forgot that Anna was still here. Great, now my cheeks are really red now.
"Dinner's ready; so if you want to eat..."
"You now what, that sounds like a great idea. Let's all eat guys." I quickly say back to prevent the situation from getting anymore awkward.
After we ate, the sun setted so Natsu and I decided it was time for us to go.
"Wait Lucy." Anna called walking to me.
"What's wrong?"
"...Is it okay if I ask you a question?" she asked.
"...I don't mind." Is it that personal that she needs permission to ask me.
"Well...um..."
"...hm?"
"do you possibly... have feelings for Natsu?"
This question. AGAIN?!.
"No..."
"Oh. Is that so?" she started saying happily. "Ah, Thank goodness."
Thank goodness? Why did she answer that way? Even during dinner, she wsn't acting like her happy self, but now it's back. There's something going on.
"Hey, Anna..."
"Lucy! I'm going to leave you behind." Natsu called out to me.
"I'm coming! See you tommorow, okay Anna."
Looks like I'm asking in the morning
-To Be Continued-
A.N: Guys... I feel awful. I freakin missed three weeks of updating just because I was tired. What a stupid excuse? I even made a huge typo in the previous chapter (which is fixed now btw.) that I haven't noticed until now. So not only do I feel bad, I feel stupid too. And yet I'm still wanting reviews from everyone *sighs*
Sincerely
chocolatehater123
P.S: I bet some of you noticed how the chapters are getting longer. Yeah it might be like that for a while. Sorry for the inconsistency. I'll do some editing to make it feel normal.
COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: EVERYTHING BESIDES THE FANFICTIONESS BELONGS TO THE AUTHOR OF FAIRY TAIL, HIRO MASHIMA.