Sorry this is late and really short! I've been really bust with college so I've had barely any time to update. Hope you like it although, not a lot happens.

Natsu couldn't believe it. Lucy. This blonde that he met just today actually lived downstairs from him. What were the odds of that? Natsu was sat on his couch, still in shock after he had met his neighbour and didn't even know that he lived in the same apartment block. He decided to go and lie on his bed. His head was too full up with confusion about why he hadn't seen her before. Before he knew it, he had drifted off to sleep.

Lucy had felt somewhat the same. Natsu lived near her? Heck, he pracically lived next to her! After that coffee incident, she thought that he wouldn't want to see her again but the coffee cup with his number on it showed otherwise. She was in bed, lying awake and staring at her ceiling. What was to become of this? For some reason, she felt a special connection with Natsu and she seemed instantly comfortable in his company. She didn't know what it was that made her feel this way around him but she was sure that it was a good thing.

The next morning, Lucy woke up feeling even more tired than usual. She did her usual morning routine and headed straight to work. However, as she rushed down the stairs to exit her apartment block, she ran into a familiar face.

"Sorry sir- Natsu." She stared, slightly surprised that she saw him this early in the morning.

"Oh." He said as he turned around before giving her a huge toothy grin. "Hey Luce!"

Her chest tightened but ignored it. "Good morning." She greeted him with a smile.

"Morning! You on your way to work?"

"Yeah and I'm kinda late so please excuse me-"

"You want a ride?"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I just need to get my motion sickness pills and then we can get going!"

"Alright then. Thank you, I really appreciate it. By the way, motion sickness pills?"

"Yeah, I have motion sickness but I drive a car. Go on, make fun!" He chuckled.

"Pfft!" Lucy giggled and Natsu stared at her, letting her enjoy the moment. After a few minutes, she calmed down. "Okay I'm done- NO WAIT I'M NOT! Hahahaha!"

What Lucy didn't notice was that Natsu had already gone to the bottom of the staircase to wait for her to stop laughing after he had gone inside his place and gathered his belongings.

"Come on Lucy, you're going to be even more late if you don't hurry!" Natsu called from the bottom of the stairs. Lucy hurridly ran after him.

Once she arrived, her co-workers loaded her with tasks and files to report. It was as if they had each gave her a one kilogram bag of sugar to carry around all at once. Trying to hide her weary state, she gave a small smile to all of her co-workers and headed to her desk to begin her shift.

"Good morning Lucy!" Juvia's voice echoed through the office. Lucy broke her concentration from the computer screen in front of her to smile and greet Juvia.

"Hi Juvia."

"Are you okay Lucy?" Juvia's voice had a tone of concern. "You don't look so good."

"Oh thanks Juvia!" She replied sarcastically then continued. "Yeah, I've just been thinking..."

"About what?"

"Yesterday, I met this guy..."

"YOU WENT ON A DATE WITH GRAY-SAMA?!" Juvia screamed. Lucy had to make her shut up otherwise they would get in trouble for disturbing the other workers.

"Juvia! No! I would never do that to you and it wasn't him. It was someone else..." She mumbled, nervously.

"Tell me about him!"

"Well" She began, recalling Natsu's appearance. "He's quite tall, has strange pink hair which surprisingly looks really good on him and he wears this white scarf that looks like it was made out of the scales of dragons. I went to his place last night and it turns out that he lives above me in my apartment complex!"

"Oooh! He sounds hot! BUT NOT AS HOT AS GRAY-SAMA!"

"It's more like Gray's too cool."

"ARE YOU TRYING TO STEAL GRAY-SAMA AWAY FROM JUVIA?!"

"I just said no Juvia..." Lucy sighed. She was used to Juvia going into crazy mode whenever Gray Fullbuster was mentioned and he was mentioned A LOT! So, to save herself a lot of trouble, she turned back to her computer and began to drown Juvia's squealing out while she continued to work.

Just when Lucy thought that she could get on with work, Aquarius stormed over to her desk and slammed her hand down onto it. Lucy shuddered.

"LUCY! Why didn't you get these papers finished last night? Leo's really angry with you! He wants to see you in his office!"

"I had a date..." Lucy murmered, praying that Aquarius couldn't hear what she had said.

"You had a date? AHAHAHA! You? A date? I refuse to believe that!" Aquarius cackled. Lucy frowned and looked down.

"Why? Do you think it's that impossible for me to get a date or boyfriend?" Lucy scowled. Aquarius huffed.

"Just get these papers done now and see Leo in his office when you're done"

"Fine."

Once Lucy had finished getting the papers done, she made her way up to Mr Leo's office. She knocked on the door.

"Come in"

Lucy opened the door to find Loke Leo smirking at her. "Hi Miss Heartfilia."

"Uh... Hello sir." She replied and Loke shook his head whislt clickig his tongue in disapproval.

"No no no. Call me Loke."

"You're my boss, Mr Leo-!" She protested.

"Uh Uh Uh? I just told you to call me Loke, beautiful" He winked at her, making her feel incredibly uncomfortable.

"O-okay then L-Loke?"

"That's better princess. Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask a favour of you."

"What is it? And please d-don't call me princess."

"Oh, my apologies Lucy. Anyway, would you care to have dinner with me tonight?"

"HUH?! Dinner? With you?"

"Yes! But don't worry! It's not a date! Hahaha! Its just to discuss your future in the business. So, what do you say?"

"Well, if it's to discuss my job, then yes of course." She gave him a small smile and exited his office.

"WAIT!" Loke called making her rapidly twirl around to face him again. "Seven o'clock tonight, at 8Island?"

"Uh yeah sure."

"I'll see you tonight."

Lucy went back to her computer but as the day went on, she was beginning to regret her esicion to have dinner with her boss. He said it wasn't a date so it should be okay. However, she had a feeling that it wasn't just to discuss her job...