Hello my lovely readers!
It's actually thanksgiving in America, and since i'm celebrating it I thought I would update today. Not only that, its also 3000+ words! It's just about 3000 without the authors notes, so I hope you all like it.

Also, there might be some Nalu moments? you will just have to read to find out.

So happy thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it, and I hope you all have A nice day, and enjoy the chapter. Also, don't forget to leave a review if you did, thank you.

TRIGGER WARNING- there is also slight physical abuse in this chapter, although it is not too detailed. and I put the warning in the summery, so please don't read if stuff like that makes you uncomfortable

Disclaimer- I do not own Fairy tail or it's characters *cries*

Chapter 6

I got home after my night with levy, and was having mixed emotions when I saw that my father was home. Seeing as though it was a Saturday night, it was either a good thing or a bad thing that he was home. I was just hoping that it was going to be a good thing.

He works all the time, so him being home on the weekdays is rare enough, and he usually goes out doing who knows what on weekends, and stays out late. So it's unusual for him to be home. But as long as I don't have to talk to him, i'm good. The last thing I want to do is walk into him, and have him try and start some kind of conversation. I know that we live in the same house, but it's like we live in different worlds. We try to avoid one another as much as we can.

So, I opened the front door and walked in as quietly as I could, trying my hardest not to make any noise. I slowly and carefully walked in and then made my way to the stairs so I could go upstairs to my bedroom. As I was walking up the stairs, I cringed each time that the stairs creaked. Our house wasn't that old, but it was still making fairly loud creaking noises that I hated, especially in situations like this.

"Lucy?" I heard someone slur from farther down the stairs. I made it about halfway up the stairs, but not far enough. I tried to keep walking but my name was called out again. "Lucy… come here?" The words barely came out as a sentence. So I slowly walked down, and I saw the monster of a man in front of me.

I didn't say anything, but internally sighed as I looked at him.

His hair was a mess, his clothes were disheveled. His breath reeked of alcohol, but I was used to the stench, so it didn't bother me anymore. He was walking weirdly, barely able to walk straight. And his words were coming out in slurs, not even counting as sentences.

"Wherev have…yobeeen?" I'm so used to hearing drunk people speak, I'm somehow able to understand what he's saying.

"It's none of your business." I snapped.

"Whatdyou jusssy?"

"I'm going upstairs." I said and turned around. But he somehow had enough body control to grab my wrist and pull me around. He had strong enough force, and pushed me down against the wall. I whelped, more in surprise than in pain, although it did hurt.

"Donttalks tomes like that." His eyes were dazed. I quickly tried to get up and run somewhere, anywhere, but he was able to once again grab my wrist. He pulled it hard, really hard. I don't know how he was able to muster the strength, he probably didn't even know how much force he was using. Either way, he pressed down hard, and I couldn't help but screech in pain. I tried with all my strength to let go of his force, but he held on tighter.

"Let go!" I yelled. And I kicked him right in the gut, and that caused him to fall over. I didn't have time to really look at my wrist, but I knew that there was going to be some type of mark. I looked back down at him, and he was passed out. He was so drunk that he was going to pass out anyway, but my kick probably pushed his body to the limit.

Bastard deserved it.

So I somehow managed to make it up to my room, and I didn't know what to do. I would be lying if this was the first time something like this has happened. It's not, times have been better, but they have been worse. So I walked upstairs to my room and did what I always do.

I went into my special hiding spot, and pulled out my little box full of my saviors. I opened up the bag that Can have me a few days ago, and took some. I knew that this stuff would be good, given that Cana was the one who gave it to me. She always had the best stuff. And in just a few minutes I was transposed to my own peaceful, magical world.

This was the world that I wanted, needed to be in. It kept me alive. It kept me sane. It helped me get through this shit thing we called reality.

We all need a little something to get us through life. We need an anchor. And my little saviors happen to be mine.

I was in my room, and I felt loose, and dreamy. And overall felt better. I forgot all the bad feelings that I was having, a food, entered feeling came over me. This was my anchor. And without an anchor, you would just float away.

Waking up the next morning was a lot easier than waking up the morning before. Although, instead of having a major headache. The pain was somewhere else entirely.

I got out of bed, and the first thing I noticed was the pain in my wrist. And because of that, I remembered the events of last night. I looked down to my wrist, and was surprised by how it looked. It was a nice shade of purple already, and it hurt a lot. It looked as though It was slammed up against a brick wall a couple of times. I've had worse bruises, but this one was in a spot that anyone could possible easily see. But at least it was later october so I could wear a long sleeve sweater, and not have people question why. So I put on a basic Sweater, and some bracelets for she measure. I don't want anyone to find out about it.

I walked downstairs, and not surprising, my father wasn't anywhere to be found. He'd probably left to go somewhere, or maybe he tried to sober up before he had to go back to work. I'm just more then happy to not have to see him.

I was still feeling something from last night. It wasn't physically pain, but something else. Sometimes things like this happen. I try to understand them, I try to understand what I'm feeling but it hurts too much. So the first thing I do is go to my special cabinet and grab a bottle of some type of alcohol and take a few sips. Once I felt the warmth in my body, it was like the warmth of being home. A home that I don't have.

But as I was thinking over things, I got a phone call. So I went over and grabbed my phone and saw it lighting up with someone's name, a name in which made me smile.

"Hello." I said happily.

"Good morning, Luce." Natsu's voice was soothing, and familiar. "How's it going?"

"It's good." I smiled, lying through my teeth.

"Great. So, let's do something later."

"I would love to. I'll come over later."

"Luce. Come over now."

"I just got up, I need to get ready." I laughed.

He sighed. "You better get ready quick."

"I'll try not to keep you waiting. Bye Natsu."

"Bye Luce!"

And we hung up. I swear, he was like a little child. But that's what made him Natsu. He was sweet, and caring, and loving. He can be destructive at times, but that's something he needs to work on.

But I decided to shower and get ready, and was excited to be with him as always. It's true that we are together a lot, but we aren't always together. Levy was really overreacting. I mean, we're just best friends after all. And best friends and suppose to be together a lot. They are suppose to have some type of connection, and bond with each other. That's what makes them best friends after all.

I finally made it to his house, and knocked on his door and he answered quickly, like he's been by the door waiting for me to come all morning. He opened the door with a huge smile, and I smiled largely at him back, because his smile automatically made me smile as well.

"Luce!"

"Hello Natsu." I laughed, and we walked inside his house.

I always loved his house. It always smelt slightly like a campfire, and had this warmth in it. It felt more like a home to me than my actual let me sleep here whenever I wanted to, I even had some spare clothes here just in case. Including him and Cana, I have two homes. Although, he was a pretty messy person, he somehow always kept it clean. At least when I was over it was always clean. who knows what it's like when i'm not here.

As I was walking in his house, I felt something soft and fuzzy rub against my leg. I looked down to see my favorite blue cat.

"Happy." I smiled, and knelled down so I could pet him. "How's my favorite feline?" I got a meow in response.

"He's missed you." Natsu said, kneeling down as well.

"I was just here the other day. How could he miss me?" I said, rubbing the cat's belly.

"I think he likes you more than me." He laughed.

"No way! He's your favorite person. You two are like teammates."

"I think the three of us are teammates."

I smiled. "Yeah. I guess we kinda are."

We stayed there for a while, and we even got some cat toys for happy so we could all play.

"So," Natsu finally said. "Are you ready for the Halloween fair?"

"Yeah. We all have to wear costumes, right?"

"Of course! What's Halloween without costumes? It's the best part! Besides the candy, of course." Like I said, he was a child.

"You really are a child." I laughed.

"I am not a child! I am an adult!"

I laughed even harder at this comment. "You? An adult? I have to force you to do your homework everyday."

"Because homework is for kids!"

Happy meowed, which caused us to stop arguing. "See? Happy doesn't like it when we yell." I said.

"We weren't yelling."

"Of course. Just loudly speaking."

"Whatever." He whined. "Let's go do something. I do not want to even think about homework."

"Like what?"

"Isn't that Apple orchid open? They sell pumpkins and apples and such."

"We do need a pumpkin for Halloween."

"Then it's settled. We're going apple picking!" He said happily. We go apple picking all the time, it's a tradition. We've done it ever since we were kids, and we both loved doing it.

There was a whole bunch of things that we could do at the orchid. There of course was the obvious apple picking, which we loved. But there were also hayrides, pumpkin patches, horseback riding, and a lot of other fun things.

Natsu offered to drive is there, so we got in his car and left for the orchard. It's not too far, but it does take some time to get there. So we put on the radio and listened to some of our favorite songs on the rise there.

When we got there, there were already a good amount of people there, but we luckily got a good parking spot. So we parked and and to decide on what to do first.

"Do you want to pick apples first?" I asked.

"Sure." He smiled, and we went over and bought some apple bags. They were used so you can fill the whole bag with apples. We got two large bags, because we knew that we would be giving apples to our friends. I'm also known for making a delusions apple pie. Which I'm sure that Natsu is looking forward to. He loved my special apple pies, then again, he loved every type of food that I made him. He was a bottomless pit.

So we started walking around the orchard and tried to find a place to start. We figured that we should start with the apple picking, then go on from there. We started with the smaller trees, so we would be able to pick the apples easier.

"I swear," he said, "these trees get smaller every year."

"The trees don't get smaller, idiot." I sighed. "You got bigger." I smacked him on the head.

"What was that for?" he complained.

"For being an idiot." I said. "Now, lets just pick some apples."
So we stayed around the same area for a bit, and collected a good amount of apples. But then we decided that we should try and pick some from the bigger and taller trees. Although, we learned quickly that it was harder to pick the apples in the tall trees because they were so high up. But knowing Natsu, he will find a way to pick them.

"Luce!" Natsu said, grabbing my attention."I have an idea!"

"What is it?" I sighed, because knowing him, his idea was going to cause a mess.

"Get on my shoulders."

"Wh-"

"Just do it! We need to get the apples."

I sighed and got on his shouldered. "If you drop me, I swear, you are dead meat."

"Relax. I'm not going to drop you. Now, just grab the apples."

"Okay, okay." I could reach some of the apples, and carefully dropped them on the ground so that we could put them in the bag later.

"Hurry up, Luce. Your heavy."

"I am not heavy!" I yelled at him. And from the corner of my eye, on one of the branches, I saw that there was a perfect looking apple. Perfectly red and crispy looking. So I went up to grab it, but it was just out of reach.

"Whoa! Lu-" Natsu started to say, but my yelling went over his voice, and then we started to fall.

"KYAA!" I yelled as I started falling, trying to hold on to anything, but soon realizing that there was nothing to hold on to. "Ow!" I moaned as I landed on the ground.

I heard quiet mumbling beneath me, and noticed that I was on top of Natsu.

"Natsu?!" I said, slightly lifting myself off of him.

"Luce? Are you okay?" He asked once he could talk.

I laughed. "I think I should be asking you that."

"I'm fine." He said. "Now, can you get off me?"

"Huh? Oh sorry" I said as I quickly got off of him, embarrassed

"Now, I think we're done apple picking." He said, and I agreed. "are you sure that your okay? you took a big fall?" he leaned in closer to make sure I was okay.

"I'm fine,I promise. Besides, I'm the one who fell on you." I laughed
"okay." he said. "Let's go get something to eat." He said, and I swear both of our stomachs almost started growling.

We both looked at each other and smiled. "Apple cider doughnuts." We said in unison.

So we walked back to the entrance and we out the bags of apples in the car so we didn't have to carry them.

We walked up to the stand that sold the doughnuts, and we bought a few. After we payed for them, we sat down at one of the benches.

"Here you go." Natsu said, handing me a doughnut, and I quickly said thank you in return. We both spent a few minutes in silence, enjoying the taste. Then finally, we were done.

I looked over at Natsu, and laughed as he happened to get sugar all over his face.

"What are you laughing at?"

I scooted over closer to him, and grabbed a napkin. I got the napkin, and I gently cleaned his face. Once I was done, we both took notice of the short distance between our faces.

I took notice of his eyes. They were deep, dark, yet innocent. truly Beautiful.

I was looking right into eyes, as he was looking right into mine.

We stayed like that for a while, neither of us moving. Neither of us knew what to say to each other, we didn't dare ruin the moment.

If I didn't know better, I would have said that we both started leaning in. I could feel his breathe on my lips. I was going to do it. I need to.

No.

I can't. I quickly pull away, my face flushed in embarrassment.

"S-sorry." I said.

"No, no, it's my fault." Natsu said, embarrassment not his voice. We both sat there, too embarrassed to say anything. Until we finally decided to leave.

It was such a good day. Why did I have to ruin it? I just can't. I don't deserve it. Maybe I do like him more than I thought. But I can't do that to him. I'm too much of a mess. I can't hurt him like that.

So we drove home, the radio blocking out the tension between us, and what just happened.

"I'll call you later, Luce." He said as I got out of the car to get in my house.

"Okay. I'll get started on those pies." I smiled, and he smiled to.

"I want a whole one to myself."

I laughed. "Bye, Natsu." And we waved and I walked into my house, and went up to my room.

My head was a mess. What was I thinking? What was I feeling?

Suddenly, my purple wrist started hurting, or maybe I just started to notice the pain

I couldn't help it, I went up and I grabbed my little saviors.

And suddenly, I didn't feel the pain anymore.

End Of Chapter 6

Did they just almost kiss?! Almost, my friends, almost. Like I said, this is a Nalu story, so there will be some really cute Nalu moments. Because Nalu is beautiful and literally my otp.

I really hope you all enjoyed the chapter, and please, please review.

I don't know if i should continue this story or not, because like I have no idea if anyone is even reading it. So if you could just say if you like it or not would be great to know.

Thanks for reading:)