"Luce? I haven't seen you since we were 16. God. You grew up." Natsu said as he continued to pull his pants on. Everything dropped from my hands and I started to cry. Natsu ran over to me and gave me a hug.
"Sorry for not saying goodbye in person," he said.
"Is it really you?" I muttered. Tears were still running down my face. Natsu traced his fingers along my tears and grabbed my face with his hands.
"Yes, Luce. Its me, here in the flesh and blood. If your having trouble remembering me, my name's Natsu Dragneel, my father's name is Igneel, and I love dragons," he said with his signature, lopsided grin.
"How could I forget you, Natsu? The first day we met, you were five, and you ate my snack because you thought it was dragon food!" I said, remembering the cookie that my mother had delicately piped a flame on.
"I didn't forget you either Luigi." I groaned and rolled my eyes. "So Luce, whatchya been up to?"
"I won a contest, so I'm staying in this hotel room. What about you?"
"Contest? I won a contest too? This awesome company that I work for said that I got a month off-"
"From work." I said cutting him off.
"You work-"
"For Fairy Tail? Yes. And I'm assuming you do to," I said. He nodded. We stood there awkwardly for a few seconds before we decided to break the silence.
"I work in the marketing department!" we shouted in unison. We stared at each other for a few seconds before laughing.
"We both work at the same place, in the same department, yet, neither of us met the other one?" I asked.
"Apparently," Natsu said.
"Do you live in Magnolia?" I asked.
"No, I live in Crocus." he said.
"That makes sense that we haven't seen each other now."
"Yeah, I know. I think Happy would have questioned my sanity."
"Happy?"
"He's my cat. He's blue. He also is a very good listener. I accidentally hot glued wings onto him. He likes listening to my voice. He's a cuddler. And finally, he's got style and totally has it for my cousin Wendy's cat Carla."
"You're so strange."
"Coming from a weirdo." I gently shoved Natsu. He grabbed me by the waist and threw me on the bed and then started tickling me.
"Natsu. I. Cant. Breathe," I said in between breaths. He stopped and laughed.
"Luce," he said, pointing at me, "You look like an idiot." I stood up, matted my hair down, and gave him a real hard Lucy kick in the groin.
"Luce! What the hell was that for?"
"For ruining my hair!" I shouted. He stuck his tongue out at me.
"So, what are we supposed to do about the room situation?" he asked.
"There's a couch and a bed, so I guess we can rotate each night. You can have it tonight," I said. It was seven o'clock, and assuming that this was the Natsu I knew, he would sleep early and wake up early.
"You just got here, right?" I ndded my head, "I need to show you around, Lucy. It'll be fun!" I rolled my eyes and folded my arms across my chest.
"Didn't you just get here too? Anyways, you have the worst sense of direction. The only direction that you know is towards food," I argued.
"Everybody does that!" Natsu shouted in defense.
"No they don't."
"Please Luce. It's so much fun!" Natsu's face contorted into a pout.
"Alrighty, fine, I'll cave, just give me fifteen minutes in the bathroom." I walked out of the room and gently shut the door to the bathroom. I silently clutched the wall as I slowly fell, bawling my eyes out. This was the same idiot that I fell in love with in high school, who was my first boyfriend, he gave me my first kiss, and he took away my virginity. My sobbing must have turned into screams because somebody was banging on the door.
"Luce! God dammit! Open the door!" Natsu shouted. I wiped the tears from my eyes and made myself presentable before I opened the door.
"Is there an emergency, Natsu?" I asked. He assessed my physical state before shrugging.
"I thought I heard you screaming. Must have been somebody next door. If there's anything bothering you, then you can tell me because even though we aren't a couple, Luce, I'm still here for you," he assured me. He gave me a quick hug before resuming his unpacking. I locked the door to the bathroom again and got in a cute light pink sundress with Hawaiian flowers and Palm Trees and a pair of matching flip flops. I fixed my make up and exited the bathroom. Natsu was sitting on the couch, using my phone.
"Natsu, give it back!" I shouted.
"No," he said. I grabbed the nearest pillow and chucked it at his head. He chuckled and grinned.
"Nice try Luce," he said, "I'm going to impress you when I show you the pool."
"Oh really?"
"Really!" He grabbed my hand and yanked me out the door.
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"Natsu!" I shouted, "You ruined my hair!"
"It looked fine anyways." I rolled my eyes. All of a sudden, my phone started going off.
"Do you mind if I take this?"
"I'll meet you at the bar in ten minutes," he said. I pulled out my phone and answered.
"Hello?"
"Hi mommy!" shouted a little girl.
"Hey Nashi. How are you?" I asked.
"I'm good mama. Auntie Mira gave me crayons and I drew a portrait of you," she said. Nashi's cute grin burned into my mind.
"I'm sorry that I'm not with you right now honey," I said depressingly. I heard her laugh.
"Auntie Mira said that I'm coming to stay with you next week," she replied. My heart began to race.
"Really sweetheart. That's wonderful. I can't wait to see you. Tell Auntie Mira I said thank you. I love you."
"I love you to mama. I'll face time you tomorrow morning," Nashi said before hanging up. I met Natsu at the bar, and we ate and drank, but the only thing I could think about was Nashi. As Natsu shut the light off and I slept on the couch, only one thing played through my mind.
'My daughter will find out that Natsu is her father.'
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If anyone did not notice, I decided to rewrite the story, because the other one was way to fast paced.
I feel so nostalgic because we had to pick the thing we would remember most from our time in the eight grade. It just goes to show you that I get over emotional about stuff and that life moves at a fast pace.
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