Playlist: Made in the USA-Demi Lovato; Mine, You Are in Love, Enchanted-Taylor Swift; Nobody-Selena Gomez; 400 Lux, Ribs-Lorde

College AU

It was Magnolia's annual winter festival, which meant that the fairgrounds were open. Natsu loved going there, not particularly for the rides, but for all of the food and spending time with friends. This year he was going with Lucy, just the two of them since it was their first time going together as a couple. Natsu knew Gray, Juvia, Erza, and Jellal would be there but he hoped they wouldn't run into them. It would kill the mood for Natsu and Gray to be in a brawl. He had picked Lucy up and, at her insistence, took motion-sickness medicine so they could go on rides together. Surprisingly Natsu loved roller coasters, especially ones that scared Lucy because it gave him an excuse to hold her hand. Of course, that was before they were dating, but he was still looking forward to it.

Now they were walking hand in hand and before they were going to eat, Natsu had wheedled Lucy into going on at least one roller coaster that she considered scary. The one they were going on was one that Natsu loved. It was called "Dragon Fight" because of all the corkscrews, drops, and loops. Just by looking at it Lucy started praying in her mind that she would be ok. Lucy knew that Natsu wouldn't do anything if he thought it was dangerous but still…she was torn out of her thoughts when a warm hand was on her shoulder.

"Relax Luce, it'll be fine," he comforted her. "We can get off line if you want," he suggested and Lucy shook her head.

"No, I'm doing this. I'll probably hate you, but I'm doing it."

"That's the spirit. It's only a minute long, not too bad right?" The closer they got to the loading platform the more nervous Lucy got.

"When we're done with this, you owe me going on the teacups got it Dragneel?" she spit out through clenched teeth. Natsu laughed and nodded, throwing an arm around her shoulders. Absentmindedly he rubbed his thumb over her arm in an attempt to soothe her.

"Are you boarding next?" one of the attendants asked as they finally approached the cart they would be riding in. Of course it looked like a dragon. This one, to Natsu's delight, was painted red. Ever since he was little he had been fascinated with dragons. And people seemed to think it was funny, since he was, and still is, a pyromaniac.

"Yeah, the two of us are together." Being able to say that made him burst with pride. Lucy was an amazing person and she, he felt, was out of his league but yet somehow she had fallen in love with him. He knew that there had been countless guys that had asked her out, that had looked at him with jealousy for being Lucy Heartfilia's best friend. Now he got to throw that in their faces. He liked showing her off, and he knew she liked showing him off too. Lucy truly was an amazing person.

He looked over at his amazing girlfriend and saw that she had her eyes squeezed tight and her head tilted back, almost like she was praying. When she felt the ride lurch forward she squealed and grabbed his hand so hard she could have cut off circulation. The other hand was clinging to the bar strapping her into the car like a lifeline. Natsu chuckled softly and allowed her to squeeze his hand through all of the loops and corkscrews. Whatever words of comfort he wanted to offer her were lost in the wind but he gave her hand a tight squeeze. When she squeezed back Natsu knew she would be fine.

Lucy was dizzy when she got off the ride and when she straightened she glared at her boyfriend. "You're already dizzy Luce. Are you sure you want to go on the teacups?" he teased.

"Natsu Dragneel if you don't bring me to the teacups I will throw you out the window you always seem to use to visit me." He laughed and even Lucy gave a warm smile up at him. She loved the teacups. They were so whimsical and she didn't care if others said it was childish. Deep down, she knew Natsu loved them too. He might think he was lucky dating her, but Lucy knew she was lucky to be dating him.

She and Natsu had met in school when she was volunteering as a tutor and he just so happened to be there that day. Eventually they started meeting each other for coffee or lunch every day and they became closer ever since. Natsu was sincere, selfless, and knew, despite his lack of experience with dating, how to make her feel treasured. He let her know almost every day that he was so lucky he had an amazing girlfriend like her and Lucy reciprocated the words, never not being genuine. As they walked, Lucy noticed that small lights had been crisscrossed over the walkway, almost like stars and just like that, it also started to snow. The weather forecaster had predicted it last week but there was something magical about seeing the white flakes landing in Natsu's bright pink hair and black jacket. She knew from the way he was looking at her that he was thinking the same thing. Natsu gave her his megawatt grin and brushed a lock of hair out of her face.

"You're beautiful," Natsu murmured as he pulled her into a hug. And just then, with the snow falling and the twinkling lights above them, it felt something like out of a fairy tale.

If anyone was curious this was based off of an actual experience I had this summer when my friends made me go on a roller coaster with them.