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Chapter 11

There was a fair on in town that weekend, and Natsu, Lucy, Wendy and Romeo spent the day there.

The girls wanted to go on every ride – much to Natsu's displeasure. Lucy had a couple of motion sickness patches, but there was probably only enough for one ride, so they had to choose wisely.

As Lucy promised, she bought them all pizza for lunch. As he had said, Natsu chose the spiciest pizza on the menu – and then asked for double of everything spicy. Lucy and Romeo watched him in horror – Wendy was used to it.

"Okay," Lucy suddenly announced, late in the afternoon. "I will wait here with Natsu while you two go on that ride!" she pointed to a boat ride decorated with pink hearts.

"'The Love Boat'?" Natsu read in confusion as Wendy and Romeo blushed furiously. "Why that one?"

"Because we haven't been on it yet," Lucy said, pushing the blushing middle schoolers to the entrance. "We said we would go on every ride, and since this is one that you need a partner for, I'll wait out here with Natsu," she smiled innocently.

"Are they feeling okay?" Natsu asked when Lucy had successfully got them onto a boat. "They both look kinda red,"

"Natsu, you are so dense," Lucy sighed.

Lucy was practically jumping up and down as she imagined what was going on inside. What if they confess to each other? They could come out holding hands as a couple if they played this right!

"Luce, you're really weird, you know that?" Natsu said, watching her.

"No I'm not!" she sang, the comment not affecting her like it usually did. She was too busy matchmaking.

Lucy felt like Mirajane, and that made her feel slightly guilty. But this was different – Wendy and Romeo actually liked each other.

Lucy was disappointed, but not really that surprised when the two came out silently, and still bright red.

"Let's go get some food now, I'm hungry," Natsu whined.

"Okay," Lucy agreed, skipping ahead and dragging Natsu with her, so that Wendy and Romeo could have a little privacy. She couldn't help but sneak glances back at them. So far, nothing happened besides blushing.

After they had eaten dinner, Lucy decided to put her next plan into action. The last rays of sunlight were visible as they headed towards the Ferris wheel.

"We are all going to ride that," she declared.

"Even me?" Natsu asked, looking at it in terror.

"Yup! I have patches!"Lucy grinned. "Now, you two go in that cart, and we'll be in the one behind," Lucy smiled.

"Luce, you're really weird," Natsu said again when they were in the cart.

Lucy was kneeling in her seat, trying to spy on the young couple.

"Shut up," she told him. "The patches working?"

"So far," he grinned.

They sat there in silence for a little while, Lucy watching the other cart and Natsu watching Lucy.

"Luce?"

"Yeah?"

"Something really weird happened before," he admitted.

"What do you mean?" Lucy turned to face him. He was looking down, thinking very hard.

"Well, at dinner, when me and Romeo went to get the food, he said some really weird stuff," Natsu told her.

"U-um," Romeo stuttered.

Natsu turned around. "What's wrong?"

"I really like your sister!" he blurted out, turning red. "Would it be okay if I asked her out?" he bowed.

Lucy gasped, grinning. "What did you say?!"

"I told him he was weird, then said 'do whatever you want'," Natsu shrugged. "What was I supposed to say?"

"Natsu, you do understand what he was asking, don't you?"

"Yes," he mumbled. "He wants to take my sister somewhere,"

"Natsu, he wants to date your sister," Lucy told him, watching his eyes go wide. "He's going to be her boyfriend,"

"But she's too young!" he cried, jumping up.

"I think she's old enough," Lucy shrugged. "Love doesn't care about age or anything like that, Natsu,"

The pink haired boy sat down, mumbling grumpily.

"What do you think of Romeo?" Lucy asked him.

"He's a good kid," Natsu shrugged. "He's nice to her, seems pretty smart, strong and focused,"

"So you like him?"

"Yeah," Natsu agreed slowly.

"Then there should be no problem," Lucy smiled. "The fact that he asked you first shows that he's going to be good to her – I've never heard of a guy asking the brother before," Lucy mused.

"He better be good to her," Natsu mumbled.

"He will," Lucy assured him. "You watch, this will make Wendy very happy – why do you think they were blushing so much on the love ride?"

"Is that one of those signs you were telling me about?" Natsu groaned.

"Yes," Lucy giggled. "Now don't worry, it was going to happen sometime – and Romeo's a good kid," she pat his shoulder before turning back to the young couple's cart.

Lucy's eyes went wide when she saw that Romeo was on one knee. She screamed when after a few seconds of talking, Wendy jumped up and hugged him.

"Ouch, Luce," Natsu grumbled. "You don't have to be so loud!"

He came over to see what she was screaming about.

"Did it happen? Are they together now?" he asked stonily, watching the two hug.

"Yes!" Lucy squealed.

Just then, the fireworks started.

"So pretty," Lucy whispered, watching. "And it's so romantic for those two!" she cried, holding her cheek.

Natsu rolled his eyes and sat down again. Lucy noticed that he still watched the fireworks.

"Now you be good to our Wendy-chan," Lucy told Romeo, smiling. "You don't want to bring out 'Demon Lucy', as Natsu likes to call it,"

"You really don't, that is scary," Natsu cried, shaking just thinking about it. "But she's right – if you hurt my sister, I'll come after you," he added.

Romeo nodded, face serious.

They had just reached the middle school to drop them off, back at school.

Wendy jumped forward and hugged Lucy. "Thank you, Lucy-nee," she whispered.

"You're welcome," the blonde smiled softly down at her.

"You too, Natsu-nii," she said, hugging her brother now.

"Yeah, yeah," he mumbled.

They said goodnight and left the new couple alone. Lucy couldn't stop grinning the whole way back.

"It's not that exciting," Natsu grumbled, holding the back of his head while he walked. Lucy didn't bother to respond.

They reached the fork in the path; the boys' dorms were to the right and the girls to the left. They didn't even pause as Natsu headed to the left with Lucy.

"You know, you don't have to walk me all the way to the dorm," Lucy said quietly. "It's out of the way for you,"

"I don't mind," he shrugged.

"It's not like I'm gonna get lost or anything,"

"I know," he told her, turning serious. "But I would hate myself if I left you and something happened. This is when all the creeps like Laxus come out,"

Lucy smiled at her best friend. He was so caring.

"Thanks," she told him.

The next few days went by without anything new. It wasn't until Wednesday that something interesting happened.

Lucy was at cheerleading practice as usual, but was surprised when the football team came over to the girls, instead of straight out onto the field as usual.

"What's going on?" Lucy asked as Natsu and Gray came up to her and Juvia.

"Coach told us to come here to talk about this weekend," Natsu shrugged. "We have an away game,"

"Oh," Lucy replied.

"Listen up!" Erza called suddenly. "As you all know, this weekend we have an away game. Jellal is passing out all the information you will need. The school has already booked our accommodation – we will be staying the night, as it's a fairly long trip," she said.

Jellal reached them, handing Lucy the sheet of paper. Her eyes widened when she read it.

"This is my home town!" she whispered to Natsu. "I get to see my friends again!"

"Now, we will all meet at the front gates on Saturday morning at eight o'clock for the bus. If you are not there in time, we will leave without you," she warned. "We will be catching the train there, and another bus will be waiting for us to take us to the hotel and then the game. We will stay the night, and then on Sunday we have some spare time before we leave in the afternoon – but don't be late, or you'll have to find your own way back!"

Natsu turned greener every time Erza mentioned the train or the bus.

"Now, your roommates have already been chosen for you, and the lists will be up in the dorms," Erza continued. "Obviously, girls room with girls and boys room with boys,"

There was a lot of groaning at that, especially from Loke.

"That is all," Erza concluded.

"This is so exciting, Natsu!" Lucy turned to her best friend. "I can introduce you to my friends back home, and I can see how my old squad is doing!"

Natsu chuckled. "You're gonna be bouncing in your seat all day again," he sighed. "Are you gonna be like this every game?"

Lucy smacked his arm.

"Leave my girls alone! We need to train!" Erza screeched, at the lingering players.

"Bye Luce!" Natsu called, running off.

"Now," Erza sighed, when all the boys had gone. "Where were we?"

That night, Lucy called Michelle to tell her the good news.

"Oh my God, seriously?!" she cried.

"Yep!" Lucy replied. "Although, I thought you would've known who you're playing, seeing as you're Captain," she added.

"Well…"

"Michelle," Lucy said sternly.

"I couldn't handle it, Lucy!" Michelle wailed. "I'm not a leader!"

"What happened?"

"Well, first of all, I couldn't even get them to stop talking, then I couldn't even think of a routine for two weeks, let alone teach it to them! I kept stuffing up and making a fool of myself!" she cried.

"Who's Captain?" Lucy asked tensely. She already knew the answer.

"Flare," Michelle whispered.

Lucy sighed. "That bitch. I bet she planned this!" Lucy was angry now. "Oh, I am going to give her a piece of my mind this weekend!"

"Lucy, it's okay, I didn't want Captain anyway,"

"But you don't want her as Captain!"

"Well there isn't anything I can do about it,"

"She's been treating you fairly, hasn't she?" Lucy asked, suddenly worried.

"Surprisingly, yes," Michelle said, her tone coloured in disbelief. "Although it's from pity – and I think it's just a show for the other girls,"

Lucy sighed. She couldn't wait to rip into her.

"Okay, new topic," Lucy said, before she got too angry. "How are things with Hibiki?"

"I – I don't know w-what you m-mean," Michelle stammered.

Lucy sighed. "Not as good as I hoped, then,"

"Lucy,"

"Well, I have some free time on Sunday, how about we go have lunch? I can introduce you to my new friends!" Lucy said.

"That sounds lovely!" Michelle cried. "You've told me so much about them, I can't wait to meet them!"

The girls chatted for a bit longer before they got tired and finally went to bed. Lucy couldn't wait for this weekend.

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