Hello my friends! This story is slowly getting better by the second and I loooove it. I haven't had this much fun writing in a while. Over the weekend I went to the mall (First time in two years, yay introvert life) And there was enough drama to last a lifetime, and persuade millions of fanfictions. No, but really. Fire alarms went off, things broke, I got free Teavanna. You know, usual mall stuff. Thanks for reading! ~Hana
"Hey Lev, want some lunch?" Lucy asked, her head halfway into the fridge. Although it was three in the afternoon, Levy wasn't much of a morning person, so it was more like a breakfast for her.
"Hmm.." Lecy said, staring at her laptop screen.
"Levy?" Lucy looked over to her friend who was thoroughly submerged into her computer.
"Hmm." She mumbled.
"Levy." Lucy repeated louder.
"Yeah." She continued to stare at her screen.
"Lev..." Lucy said again.
"Cool." She clicked some buttons, typed some things, and continued.
"LEVY!" Lucy screamed in her ear.
"What! What..." Levy looked at Lucy with wide eyes.
"Do you want some lunch?" She asked.
"What are you making?" She asked.
"Something that's nutritional-" Lucy grabbed the bag of Cheetos nestled between Levy and the couch. "And not Cheetos."
"They're a main food group!" Levy grabbed for the bag, but Lucy took it away before she could grab it.
"Sandwich..." Lucy said. "Tuna sandwich"
"Okay." Levy said as she got up. "I'm going to grab my charger, and check my email. Be right back." She walked towards her room.
"I think that you're the only person on Earth that still uses email..."
"Not true! I get icanhascheezburger cat pictures." Levy yelled.
"Mhmm..." Lucy said as she went back to the kitchen.
Levy plugged her laptop into the charger before plopping back down on her bed. She tapped a few buttons on her screen, before bring up her email.
"Lets see..." Levy said talking to herself. "Junk, junk, bills, junk, email from mom, junk, junk, Netflix, junk." Levy sighed to herself. Nothing good today. Levy was about to sign out before something caught her eye. "Wait a second..." She enlarged it. "No way..." Her hand subconsciously was brought her her mouth as the breathed lightly, her heart stopping. "No." She deleted the email, logged off and shut her laptop. "Never again." She said as she walked out of the room.
"Levy! Sandwich is done!" Lucy screamed from the kitchen.
"Kay!" She said back, her voice cracking slightly. She cleared her throat, slapped her cheeks, and skipped to the kitchen, hoping Lucy wouldn't notice anything off about her.
"Here you go, one tuna sammy with a side of Cheetos, and a pickle." Lucy said, knowing her best friends favorite lunch meal.
"Yes!" Levy smiled as she climbed up on the tall chair. "I love you Luce!" She said as the sanwhich melted in her mouth. "You're the best friend I've ever had..."
"Its just a sandwich-" Lucy laughed, "But you're right, I'm the best." She said as Levy devoured the sandwich. "But I have to get ready for my date tonight!" She squealed, wiping off her hands on a dish towel.
"Go with light pink." Levy said before Lucy could ask her advise on outfit choices.
"Okay." She said before skipping down the hallway, leaving Levy to enjoy her Cheetos in peace. Levy listened to Lucy rush around her room, jump (Probably to pull up some tights) and scramble clothes hangers in her closet, while she washed her plate in the sink.
"How about this?" Lucy asked, coming down the hallway. She was in a light pink baby doll dress, with while tights, and gold flats.
"Where are you going?" Levy asked.
"A lantern festival." Lucy said,
"Hmm..." Levy thought to herself. "No dress, it could get messy, or maybe blown up by the wind."
"That only happens on Netflix." Lucy joked.
"That's what I thought too, but my high school graduation day begs to differ." Levy crossed her arms, shifting her weight to one leg.
"Oh, that was rough." Lucy remembered Levy's dress flew up during her valedictorian speech at their graduation.
"More like mortifying." Levy held up a finger, correcting.
"Shorts and a shirt it is." Lucy said.
"Or you could just-" Levy grabbed a pair of yellow shorts from Lucy's closet. "This. See you can wear the babydoll as a dress, but have the shorts there. Tights are optional, but highly recommended. Then the cold flats and purse accent nicely. Its more playful chic."
"Is What Not To Wear back on Netflix?" Lucy raised an eyebrow.
"Project Runway was on TV yesterday. Marathoned the whole season." Levy said as a matter of factually.
"Of course you did." Lucy rolled her eyes. "Hows that gym membership going again?"
"Oh, look at the time." Levy looked at her wrist which was clearly watch-less. "Time to get ready!" Levy ran out of Lucy's room, giving her privacy.
"Okay Lev! I'm off!" Lucy said as she smeared on some of her favorite lip gloss. "Are you all set?" She asked.
Her response was a muttered "have fun" and a waving of the hand from behind the couch.
"Wish me luck!" She said, rather rhetorically as she didn't expect a response, before rushing out the door.
Driving to the date was nervous, and fun at the same time. The thought of turning around and pretending something came up came across Lucy's mind more than once. I never get this nervous... Before she could make up her mind, she found herself parking. Oh god I'm here. She realized as she looked out her car window.
There was a large green colored pond, with a light brown dirt dose surrounding it in ts entirety. There were striped colorful booths with games and snacks everywhere, and a small wood-chipped picnic eating area by a green and yellow jungle gym for kids.
Taking a deep breath, Lucy opened her car door. She shut it quickly, silencing the insistent beeping. Ive been on tons of dates before, this is just another one, just another festival. Lucy put her pink Iphone in her purse as she walked on the dirt road that lead from the parking area to the festival.
Calming her beating heart, she looked around. It wasn't that hard to spot a pink head, yet Lucy was having some trouble. How many people have pink hair? She asked herself. More importantly, everyone here is a brunette, or blonde or something. While colorful hair was a fad that Lucy clearly didnt understand- even thought Levy had explained it thousands of times- it was just as popular as normal colored hair. Although the colors really were more popular with the younger crowd, that was for sure.
"Luce!" A voice said as a hand was laid on Lucy's shoulder.
"EEP!" Lucy visibly tensed as she felt someone touch her. Wait, that voice. "Natsu?" She questioned as she whirled around.
BOOM.
There goes all chances of calming her heart. Lucy's heart raced faster and faster as her eyes danced up and down his slim yet muscular frame. He looked... hot. Like something out of a TV series, the perfection was unreal. Who knew he was so... so... so fashionable?! Lucy couldn't help but wonder. He wore simple bulky black sneakers, like any other male would, black cargo shorts with a few chains hanging out, perhaps for a wallet of some sort, a black muscle shirt with a pink plaid hung on his arms loosely, and a black flat-billed baseball hat. The hat was backwards, causing his little bangs to poke through the snap-back clasps.
They were normal clothes... yet... It was enough to make Lucy's heart pitter-patter.
"Luce?" Natsu asked.
"Yeah?" She asked, accepting his use of her nickname. It was weird to hear anyone other than Lucy or Mira use it...
"Lets go!" He smiled and held out his arm, which Lucy wrapped her own around. "So I come her all the time, usually with my friend Lisanna, or Happy."
"You have a friend named Happy?" Lucy asked, giggling a little bit.
"Yeah, he's great." Natsu smiled. "Hes about seven, this tall-" Natsu held his hand just above his waist. "-and has bright blue hair."
"Hes seven and has blue hair?" Lucy giggled.
"Yeah, he wanted to match the COOLEST PERSON HE KNEW!" He grinned widely as he pointed to his own hair.
"Your hair is pink! Not blue!" By now Lucy's 'girly' giggle, the one all girls play off as their real laugh to impress a guy or make him think that they're cute, turned into a full blown laugh as she clutched her stomach before whipping away a tear. He broke her shell so easily, yet they were together less than five minutes.
"Yeah well he looks up to me, ya know?" Natsu rubbed the back of his neck as he turned away, unsuccessfully hiding a blush.
"Yeah, yeah." Lucy said. "Lets go play games!" She smiled as she tugged on his arm.
"Here you are sir!" A man with a hat said as he handed Natsu a pink teddy bear.
"They always give me the pink stuff." Natsu sighed. "Its the hair, isn't it?" He asked.
"That, and pink is a great color." Lucy said as she chewed on some popcorn.
"Well if you like it so much, here." He said as he thrust the teddy bear towards her. "I don't need another teddy bear, I mean I already have this one at home." He winked.
"Well thanks." She said. "Here, you can have the rest of this." She offered her popcorn.
"Awesome!" He smiled as the lights flashed.
"Whats that?" She asked, looking around for the reason.
"Oh! They're going to start lighting off the lanterns! C'mon lets get a cook seat!" He grabbed her arm before she could process his words.
"Woah!" She said as they started running down the slope to the green pond.
"If we sit here, we can watch the lanterns and their reflection is perfect!" He smiled as he ushered her to sit next to him under a big tree.
"Listen Natsu, thanks for inviting me out tonight." Lucy said, making small talk. "I really had a fun time tonight."
"No problem Luce!" Natsu smiled. "And maybe next time you can meet my son!"
That was it.
The deal breaker.
Lucy could practically feel the arrow strike her heart as the lump in her throat returned.
He was married.
He had a child.
This wasn't a date, he wasn't even interested in her.
This was just a trainer, client relationship after all. What did she expect?
"Oh, totally!" Lucy smiled, talking through the lump in her throat that threatened tears.
"Oh, its starting!" He smiled as he leaned forward.
Of course someone like this would have been snatched up you know that. Stupid! But in his twenties, that was pretty early. If I had him I would snatch him, so I cant blame her. I bet she's wonderful. Lucy sighed out loud.
"Its beautiful isn't it!" Natsu beamed into the sky.
"Yeah..." She said, not caring to actually look up at the lanterns. She'd seen millions of lanterns before, after all they have a lantern festival every year. Although she never actually went to the festival, but she could see the lanterns from her house. Not to mention they land everywhere.
Lucy was taken out of her own thoughts as people clapped and whistled.
"That was awesome!" Natsu smiled at the sky. "We have to come back next year!" Natsu smiled.
"Yeah, maybe!" Lucy smiled through her teeth. "Anyways Natsu, its getting really late I should go." She shrugged.
"Oh, you don't want to stay for a little longer? There's a raffle and more games..." He trailed off as Lucy shook her head.
"No, I've really got to go." Lucy smiled lightly. "I'll see you at the gm, alright?" She asked.
"Yeah, see you." He smiled that smiled that once filled her heart with love, now pained it to see.
"AUUUUUGH!" Lucy sighed loudly as she slammed the front door. "That was a disaster." She said as she threw her keys into a bowl by the door. "Levy?" She asked.
The living room was dark, yet illuminated by the paused Netflix home screen. The red cast eerie shadows over the couch, which to no surprise, housed a sleeping Levy. "Of course you fell asleep watching." She looked at Levy, she lay on her back, her mouth open as drool hung out, her hand on the TV remote, while the other hung off the side. "You even had your laptop on." Lucy sighed, she felt like a mother. She picked up Levy's Macbook off her lap, closing the tumblr tab before going to shut it.
Before something caught her eye.
"One new email." She said to herself. "This is from-" Lucy's eyes nearly popped out of her head at the name.
Oh the cliff hangers! So this was going to be two chapters, with more date details BUT I didnt wanna do that so this happened. SO. How do you like it so far? There are a lot of ghost followers here, meaning you read it.Potentially love it.Then DONT TELL ME.Y U DO DIS. I just want you to tell me if you loved, or hated it... ;-; I will never know if you don't share. Anyways, I don't want to FORCE you into reviewing if you really don't want to for some reason. Although I promise I don't bite. I just read them, and "awe!" I swear. BUUT. Nonetheless, I love you and thank you so much for reading my stories and reading my long, rather pointless, authors notes. STAY AWESOME! ~Hana
P.S. Ive been going through a rather tough time with the series Naruto coming to a close. Those who have followed me for a while, and you know read all my authors notes, will know that I love Naruto. It was one of the first animes i ever watched when i started (Three years ago) It brought me out of my shell and really influenced my life like nothing had before. The loss of it hasnt quite registered in my brain- because the anime still goes on and its all over my facebook newsfeed. But its really been rough. I cried at least four times today just at the thought of it, and only two of those times was i in public. PEOPLE THINK IM CRAZY, WHOOPS. So if youre sharing these post-Naruto feels with me, just stay strong! Im here for you if you need a metaphorical shoulder to cry on.
I know im crying. Because. NaruSaku forever.