ExtremlyCreativeGirl: Hi again! This time, I'm not late. The one week school break is almost over and I haven't finished my homework yet... The only thing did these past few day was playing Assassin's Creed 3. I borrowed it from a friend and I want to return it on Monday. And today I decided I should update my story, then I don't have to do it in a school week. I hope you'll like it!

Merely an Attraction

Chapter 4

It's been one month since I moved here. Right now, it's December and it still hasn't snowed. However, it was freezing outside. But there were shittier things than having no snow: searching for a job in the coldest season of the year.

That's right, still no job. It's kind of funny: such a big city but nowhere an available place. There were times were I thought that I should start working as a stripper, but I shrugged that thought off. I was not that desperate.

We had still enough for a living. Maybe for few months. But still I must find a job as soon as possible.

I was sitting on the couch in the living room with Wendy. It was Friday evening and we decided to watch Frozen. We borrowed it from Gray and I swear, that man has every movie! I visited him yesterday because he said that I could borrow any movie I want. And since he lives alone, he used one of his rooms as a storage for movies. On top of that, his television was the size of the wall.

I should also pay someone else a visit, who knows what they have.

All of sudden Natsu came from the kitchen with a bowl. He sat in between of me and Wendy. "What did I miss?" He asked and took popcorn from the bowl. I rolled my eyes. Since when was he even here. I didn't invite him nor did I let him in.

"Not much, only the first song." Wendy answered. These two get on really good terms with each other. As I was in thoughts the door opened. Erza and Gray walked in. "Sorry that we are late." They said before sitting down on the armchairs.

I didn't invite them thought…

"What's with that funny look on your face Lucy?" Natsu asked me. As respond I smacked his head and turned towards the TV. "What was that for?!" He yelled while holding his head. "Shut up, Flame brain! Here are some people who want to watch a movie."

"I didn't talk to you droopy eyes!" Natsu said back. Gray shot up from the armchair and in that second he lost his clothes. Wendy covered her eyes while screaming. I took the now empty bowl from Natsu and threw it at Gray, "Put some clothes on!"

Natsu started laughing while Gray rubbed his head. "See! Lucy is on my side! High Five!" Natsu said while lifting his hand up. Instead of giving him a High Five, I smacked his head, harder than the first time. Now Gray started laughing.

All of sudden Erza rose up and started yelling, "Everyone shut up! Elsa is singing!" She looked angry and when she turned around she looked so mesmerized by the movie. I think Elsa is her favorite character because they share almost the same name.

The next day when I went to the bar, I heard an argument between Natsu and Gray. I didn't want to get involved in any way so headed towards Mira. "The usual?" she asked while wiping a glass. "No, do you have a milkshake or something?" I asked.

"I heard you'll go to the movies tonight." I nodded. "I'll tell you something." Mira said while handing me the milkshake. She leaned on her and said, "Since I know that Erza will choose the movie, I'll tell you this. If you ever get bored, start counting the number of people who give up."

I didn't understand what she meant. Counting the number of people who give up… Give up what? When I asked her that, she only laughed it off and said that I'll understand when we are there.

Suddenly I heard from behind me Natsu and Gray yelling, "Erza you're annoying!" My eyes widened while I turned around to watch the scene. Everyone in the bar got quiet and everybody was facing Gray, Natsu and Erza. Her eyes were covered by her bangs. Natsu and Gray were sweeting buckets and looked like they were pleading to God. "This is going to be interesting." Mira said behind me. How can she be so calm?

Erza lifted her head and charged at Natsu with a punch in his face, before she kneeled him in the gut. As Natsu was now covering on the floor, Gray wanted to take that opportunity to run. But Erza was faster. She threw a bear bottle at him and kicked him in the face. Both were now on the floor.

"Nobody gets away without getting that what he deserves. Do it one more time and I won't go this easy on you again." She said before sitting back down. She calls that going easy on someone?

Saturday evening, the day we decided to watch a movie in the cinema. It was only me, Natsu, Erza, Gray, Juvia, Gajeel and Levy. Wendy said that she had a test on Monday, and even thought I told her to learn on Sunday instead. But she said that she had other plans that day.

I was humming the Let it go melody. "What movie are we going to watch?" Natsu asked me as he paid for his popcorn. "Don't know. Erza choose."

We were standing in front of the room, waiting for the rest of our friends. Just then I saw Natsu shrink back and shudder. It seemed like my words scared him. "What's wrong?" I asked because of his sudden mood change. He cleared his throat and stuttered, "N-nothing." I frowned at his answer.

We entered the room the room and decided on our seats. I still couldn't forget about Natsu's sudden mood change outside so I asked him one more time. "It's because Erza chooses the lamest movies", Natsu said in a low tone. Just then Erza and the others entered the room. Erza took the empty seat on my left side, before asking what we were talking about.

I wanted to tell her the truth but then I reminded myself how scary she could be if you insult her, like today in the bar. I looked at Natsu giving him a pleading look for help. He only shook his head. Great. I looked back at Erza and lied, "Nothing important." She raised a brow at my answer and but shrugged it off. She turned to Levy, who was troubled by Gajeel's teasing. As soon as Gajeel saw Erza's head turn their way, he put his hand on top of Levy's head and ruffled her hair like nothing happened.

I looked at Natsu who sighed in relief. "Thank you, Luce. I owe you", he said. "Of course you do. If Erza finds out, then I would be dead as well!" I whispered back so that Erza wouldn't hear me. "Geez Luce. I thought you would say something like 'Don't worry, Natsu. I always help my friends if they are in trouble'", he said in a pitchy voice probably trying to imitate me. I raised a brow at his action and answered, "Oh, grow up! We are not in a movie."

Natsu pouted at my words. It looked kind of cute. Before I would start squealing or fall unconscious, I turned towards the big screen. From the corner of my eye, I could see that Natsu also turned his head, also not anymore paying attention to our conversation. He was now to busy arguing with Gray. Next to Gray sat Juvia, who tried to get Gray's attention. From my point of view, it looked like she failed.

The lights got turned off. This got our attentions to the screen. We watched the movie silently until I realized that the movie was actually really boring. It didn't make any sense at all. I turned my head towards my left. Gajeel fell asleep, Levy looked bored and Erza had a serious expression on. On my right Natsu was on the edge of falling asleep. Gray tried to pay attention to the movie but surely couldn't shrug off the creepy feeling that Juvia was staring at him.

I poked Natsu to get his attention. He flinched and looked at me. He surely saw my troubled expression which made him smirk. "Okay, I get it. You were right. We are quit I think," I whispered to him. It seemed like Gray heard me and said, "So Natsu told you about that." Juvia also joined our conversation, "That reminds Juvia of her first movie with you guys. Since then coming to a movie which Erza chose became one of Juvia's biggest."

Natsu started laughing really loud. That made Erza snap. She shot him an intimidating look, which made Natsu shut up. Wow. Now I know why she gets to choose the movie.

I stretched my feet and put them on the head of the seat in front of me. I took a full hand of popcorn from Natsu. I looked around for some other pathetic people who also made the mistake to choose this movie. And to my surprise there were around fifty people in here. But still not enough to fill all seats.

I came up with something. It took more popcorn from Natsu and shot it on someone a few seats in front of me. I looked back up as he turned around. The man scanned the back rows with a questionable look. It was dark but I could still see his handsome face.

I should've thrown a note with my phone number at him.

I continued my little game, when I saw Natsu also throwing popcorn at someone. It looked like he joined my game. I smiled amused at him. I remembered Mira's words: If you ever get bored, start counting the number of people who give up.

It made sense. Since Natsu joined the game, it means he gave up. Gajeel was asleep, so I considered it as also giving up. The others were still watching the movie. Well except for Juvia who was more watching Gray than the movie. So 4 out, 3 to go.

Natsu and I continued our little game. We even made a competition on who would hit more people with popcorn without being caught by them or by Erza.

"Prepare yourself to lose, Heartfilia!"
"You wish! You'll be the one losing, Dragneel."
"How about a bet? The winner can order the loser around for one whole day. Of course the loser has to listen to the winner even if the order is something stupid", Natsu suggested. The deal sounded quite legal so I approved. The contest will end when the movie finishes. We noted every point on my phone being sure that nobody cheated.

But we had to stop for a while cause Erza noticed us, "Stop with that shit and watch the movie! " Gray used that moment to say, "Come on Erza. This movie is lame. And you know that too."

Bad move Gray, bad move. Erza turned red at that comment. I didn't know if it was because of embarrassment or anger. He was lucky though because Natsu and I were sitting in between of them and she didn't bother to stand up and deal with him. She only shot him a glare and turned back to the movie.

Gray sighed I relief and leaned back on his seat, his arms behind his back and his feet stretched on the seat in front of him. He also gave up. Only Erza and levy were left. My attention was caught by Natsu's whisper, "Write down a point for me." He was smirking as he saw the score: Lucy= 15 Natsu= 18.

I could hear his snicker. He was leading. I had to catch up to him because I surely didn't want to be ordered by that perverted idiot.

All of sudden a high voice was heard, "I give up! I quit! I can't watch this movie! Sorry Erza but I can't take it anymore. It's driving me crazy!" It was Levy. Now it was only Erza left. A giggle escaped my mouth. I wonder how long it would take her to quit the movie.

I turned back to look at the front rows. There I noticed the boy from before, next to him probably his girlfriend. It seemed like she enjoyed the movie, but her boyfriend was bored. A good idea came up to me. I took some popcorn in my hand. I was about to throw it as Natsu said, "You're up to something, I just don't know what…"

"Just watch", was my respond before I threw the popcorn at the man. He turned around and scanned the room again. I smiled and waved at him. He pointed his finger at himself, not sue if the smile and wave was meant for him. A giggle escaped my mouth and I nodded.

Now the man looked interested and adjusted himself in his seat so that he could comfortably look behind. I heard a chuckle from Natsu. He was surely amused by my show. I changed my innocent look to a seductive one, which made the man shift in place again. I showed him to come up here to me but he only shook his head and pointed at the girl next to him.

I pressed my fingertips against my mouth, kissed them, and blew the kiss towards him. And to finish my work, I winked at him. The guy couldn't stop smiling, probably considering himself lucky that someone flirted with him.

Natsu almost broke out in laughers. Gray was also trying to hide the laugh. Even Juvia and Levy had a hard time trying not to laugh. Gajeel finally woke up. I didn't know when but it seems that it was long enough to see my show.

He showed me a thumb up and muttered, "Good job!" Heck, even Erza had an amused look on her face.

Looking back at the guy, I noticed that he still hasn't taken his eyes of me. "Don't worry guys, this show has just begun", I said as I leaned back and threw popcorn at the guy's girlfriend. She turned around and saw her boyfriend gawking at me. They were sitting maybe ten rows in front of us, but we could still see the furious look on her face.

Several comments came from my friends. "Uh oh." "Shit!" "This looks bad." "That guy can change his Facebook status after the movie." "He will be dead by that time."

"Enjoy the show", I said as I focused on the fighting couple.

The girl didn't shout. She was angry but not angry enough to yell at him. She tried to get as less attention drawled at them as possible. The guy pointed at me and said something to her. He probably tried to convince her that it wasn't his fault but mine. Of course, she didn't listen.

She raised her hand, ready to slap him. On one of her fingers was a shining diamond ring visible. "Holy shit! I think they were engaged!"

Natsu said sarcastically," Congratulation Lucy. You ruined a happy couple's dream!" Just then a slap echoed through the room. We all started clapping at the blonde girl's action. "The drink!" I shouted, which she understood. She took the bottle and spilled the whole thing at him. We started laughing our asses off.

"Popcorn!" This time it was Gajeel. She also took his advice and turned the popcorn bag over his head. I clutched my stomach. It started hurting from laughing.

"Don't forget the ring!" That came surprisingly from Erza. The blonde did as said and threw her ring at him. She threw it away so easily, I wondered if it even meant anything to her. Maybe it wasn't the first time that he cheated on her. Cheated is maybe not the right word, but I think you know what I mean.

After that she took her purse and headed to the exit, leaving her now ex fiancé dumbfounded behind.

That wasn't funny at all! Other people in the room only whispered to each other and I could still catch phrases like "I pity that guy" or "I feel sorry for them". It is actually really rude of us to laugh. But still we all laughed together. Even Erza joined in.

My new friends aren't like the people back in Crocus or the Heartfilia Estate. If it were the people from back then, they would have scolded me for doing this.

"You know, this is really rude of us", Levy said in between laughers.
"But you have to admit, it is also funny in some way", Juvia said, finally looking somewhere else and not staring at Gray anymore.

The movie ended shortly after that. I turned towards Erza and asked her, "How was the movie?" To be honest, I already knew the answer. I just wanted to be sure. "Horrible. Don't make me recall that shit. Please. Let's just go," she responded in a calm voice. I let out a giggle. I fully understood Mira now. In the end nobody was watching the movie, we all gave up.

We were now outside the cinema. Unexpectedly, the guy from before spotted me and came my way. I tried to hide myself behind Natsu. "You little bitch, come out!" The man said while coming closer. I tugged at Natsu's sleeve, "You owe me one for protecting you from Erza. So now protect me from this creep!"

He chuckled, "You didn't have to ask me. I would have done it anyway." I blush came across my face. The man stood now in front of Natsu. "Go away, I have some business with that girl behind you", the man said in a harsh tone.

"Just so you know, this girl behind me didn't know that you were engaged. It was your own fault for falling for her tricks", Natsu explained to the man. He sounded really calm. The man seemed provoked by it and charged at Natsu. He was about to punch him in the face, but Natsu stopped his fist in midair. He pushed the man back.

He looked so relaxed and calm. He showed a grin, "Is that all you got? Even popsicle over there is stronger than you." While saying that he pointed at Gray. He didn't look that pleased by the comment.

Just before the guy could punch again, Erza kneeled him in the stomach, "That's what you get for attacking my friend." As he was covering on the floor, I lifted u my arms. "My savior!" I said while running past Natsu in Erza's arms, "My knight in shining armor!"

Natsu pouted, "Luceee, I also helped you. Hug me too!" I furrowed my brows and said, "No!" After saying that I showed him my tong. He looked insulted. As the others around us were laughing at our childish behavior, Natsu turned around facing in the other direction. I must reward him for the cute act he put on. So I charged at him and hugged him from behind. I muttered a thank you, barely hearable. I could feel him ease up a little. Seems like he's satisfied now.

We decided to head to the Fairy Tail bar next. Gajeel and Levy were arguing in the front, Erza closely behind them and defending Levy. Behind them were Gray and Juvia, who had their first chat since the evening begun. I'm sure Juvia must be happy about it.

Me, I was walking behind them with Natsu, who tried to annoy me to death. "I can understand now why that guy was so mad at you. They were surely a freshly engaged couple and you managed to tear them apart."

"Shut up!" I yelled at him. I tried to make it intimidating, but he pinched my cheek and said," You look cute when you're annoyed." I rubbed by cheek while telling him, "I didn't know they were engaged. And besides, you found it funny, so why are you against it now?"

He showed me a cheeky smile, "Just to tease you. Could you give me your phone for a second?" I took my phone out, but before handing it to him, I asked why he needed it. He didn't answer my question and reached out to my phone. Even though I tried to get it away from his reach, he still took it because of his height.

"Hey!"
He didn't say anything. He just looked through my folders. No use, he won't listen to me. I sighed as I looked around a bit. This city was big. Here were many roads and big buildings. It wasn't as big as Crocus though. I recall visiting it when I was smaller. I would always sneak out of the Mansion when my father was here. But I always got caught by the maids and sometimes I could convince them to bring me here.

"Ah, there it is!" Natsu yelled. I stopped walking and looked at him. What was he even looking for? I took my phone and stared at the screen. My jaw dropped open. I was shocked. How did it turn out like this? This shouldn't be happening!

I looked up at Natsu, who was smirking again.

Shit.

Idiot Lucy! How did this happen?! I looked back on my phone. Lucy= 17 Natsu=18

For one point… For one fucking point!

"You can start tomorrow by making me breakfast in my apartment. I'd like pancakes, a lot of them. And Happy likes fish so don't forget to cook for him too. Wake me up at 9, when breakfast is ready of course. Oh, and come dressed up as a maid", Natsu said while smirking.

He stared walking again and left me dumbfounded back. Pancake? Fish? 9h00? Dressed up as a maid?

"You are the devil!" I yelled as I started running to catch up to him. He only laughed at my words.