Hello readers! I'm uploading this chapter pretty late Sunday night when I should be doing all the homework I didn't do over the weekend lol. But I really like this chapter and it's basically just a whole NaLu fluff chapter, so I hope you all like it:)
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Chapter 15
The school week went by fairly fast. Nothing too interesting happened over the past few days, but I guess it wasn't a bad week in general. I did talk to Cana a few times, and were actually meeting up this weekend, so I suppose I'm looking forward to that. But like usual, I have no idea what we're going to do. But that's Cana for ya.
When the last bell rung, all the students ran out the school like a herd of elephants. Everyone was just happy that It was friday and that it was finally the weekend. I was walking out of the school when someone practically jumped on me.
"Luce!" they yelled, and I knew who it was as soon as I saw their pink hair.
"Natsu." I winded. "Get off of me!"
"Come over to my house!" he said, taking a small step back, but still very close to me.
"Why?" I laughed, not knowing why he wanted me to come over.
"Because I want to hang out with you." he said. "We have not seen each other in forever."
"We see each other in school all the time." I sarcastically said.
"That's not the same!"
"I know, I know." I laughed. "Okay, I'll come over." I said as I looked over to him, and he had the biggest grin on his face that made my heart flutter.
"Great!" he said through his toothy smile. "Happy has really missed you."
"Really? Well I've missed happy as well."
"I've missed you too." He said normally, but his words caused me to blush.
"I've missed you too." he smiled at my words. "But I've missed happy more."
"What?" he yelled.
"I'm kidding! I'm kidding!" I laughed, which caused him to laugh as well. "Kinda."
Once we both settled down, we started walking towards his house.
"What do you want to do?" I asked.
"I don't know." he said. "We can do anything, really."
I shook my head. "Wow. asking me to hang out and you don't even have any idea of what you want to do."
"Hey! I asked you to hang out, that means you choose what we do."
"Who made that rule?"
"I did."
"Of course you did." I sighed.
"We'll figure it out when we get there." He said.
"Fine." I agreed. "So, how was school?" I asked, trying to keep the conversation going.
And of course, he sighed at the question. "It was as bad as it usually is."
"It can't be that bad."
"It is!" He yelled.
"It's just because you hate doing work."
"Because it's boring! And I'm not good at school!"
"Because you don't pay attention."
"Pft." He was obviously annoyed, but he did look kind of cute when his face looked like that.
'What am I even thinking?'
"Maybe if you help me study one day, I can actually learn."
"Huh? You actually want to study?" I asked, shocked that that word even came out of his mouth.
"Only if you help me study."
"Okay, fine. I'll help you study one day."
"Not today."
"Not today." I agreed, and we kept on walking towards his house.
It took us about 15 minutes to walk to his house. And I must admit, I enjoyed every minute of that walk. I guess I haven't really noticed how we haven't been hanging out as often until we actually were together. I did miss him a lot, so I was grateful that he wanted to hang out today.
I could almost laugh. Me? Missing someone? And I'm missing Natsu of all people. I really must be crazy, or going insane or something to be missing anyone. Especially him.
But I did. And I do.
I miss him. Even when he's around me, I miss him. Because I always feel that I can't be me when I'm around him. I can't show my feeling, but even a tiny bit of strong emotion I have for him, I must not show. He cannot know how much emotion I have for him.
Even though it hurts to not be able to really tell him, I know I can't. Because I know that it would never work out, and it would ruin our friendship. And I don't want to ruin what friendship we have over and irrelevant crush.
He would never like me like that, anyway.
"Hey, Luce." I heard something say. "Lucy!"
"Huh?" I said, breaking out of my deep thought, and was suddenly looking right at Natsu.
"We're here." He smiled, and I smiled back.
"Well then let's go in then, shall we." And so we went in and the first thing Natsu did was ask me to make him so type of food.
Of course he did. The boy has a black hole where his stomach should be. And he always asks me to cook for him. Which I didn't mind really, I actually quite liked cooking, and it always made me feel good to make something for him. But it does get annoying at times, since he's always hungry.
But I didn't even bother with really cooking anything right now, so I just made some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the two of us.
So we sat down on the couch, in front of the television and munched on our sandwiches. I only ate half of mine since I wasn't that hungry, but of course, Natsu ate the two that I made him plus the other half of mine.
"Lucy." He said, saying the y for a a few second longer. "Let's go do something."
"Like what?" I asked.
"I don't know, anything." He sighed.
I thought for a moment, and then spoke. "Come one, then." I said, getting up from the couch and saying to walk towards the door.
"Where are we going?"
"You'll see." I said.
"That's not fair!"
I laughed. "Just come on."
I knew where we were going, and it was going to take a bit to walk there, but since the weather was pretty nice, and I wanted it to be a surprise, I decided that we should walk. Besides, this is a small town so there's not that much distance from one place to another.
The weather was very nice, seeing as though it was the middle of November. But it was chilly, so I was wearing skinny jeans and a sweater that will hopefully keep me warm.
"Are we almost there?" I heard Natsu ask.
"We just started walking."
"Ugh."
"It's not that far, we will be there soon."
"This better be fun."
"Hey!" I yelled at him. "Firstly, it will be fun. And if it's not, even though it will be, then you shouldn't be lazy and you should pick what we do."
"Fine, fine!"
We walked in silence for a few minutes, just feeling the crisp fall weather, and watching some of the leaves blow through the wind.
"I love fall." I said, not knowing I said it.
"Me too." Natsu agreed. "What do you love about it?"
"I don't know." I admitted. "A lot of things. There's not just one thing that I like about it." I paused and then continued talking. "I love the crispness in the air, the colorful leaves the fall to the ground. I don't really have a favorite thing about fall. I just love so many things about."
"The weather starts to get cooler." Natsu said. "So that means you get to be closer to the people you care about."
And I swear, I saw him take a small step closer to me. Because now our shoulders are touching, causing my face to become warm against the cool stood there comfortably close together in a calming silence. Neither of us said anything for a few moments, but just stood very close to one another.
"We're almost there." I said, as I realized that we were going to be there any minute.
"So does that mean you can tell me where we're going?" he asked.
"Nope." I smiled.
"What? Why not?
"Oh come on." I said. "You really don't know where we're going?"
"No?" he said as a question.
"You really are dumb, aren't you?"
"No I'm no! I just don't know where we are going!"
"Your'll find out in a minute."
And as we walked around the corner, we finally saw the sign, and he figured out where we we're going.
Fairy tail bowling alley
"Bowling?" he asked.
"Bowling." I agreed, and we looked at each other and smiled widely as we laughed.
"We haven't been bowling in a such a long time."
"I know, that's why I thought it would be a good idea to do." I said. "Is it a good idea?" I was hoping that he would love the idea, and that we could play together. Me and Natsu used to go bowling all the time when we were younger, and like he said,we haven't been in a long time.
And I remember, when we were younger, we would go every Friday night, and we would have the most fun. We would play against each other, and whoever lost would have to buy the the other a snack from the snack bar. But we usually ended up sharing anyway.
Still though, I always looked forwards to those Friday nights. It was something that I looked forward too. But as time went off, we both just slowly stopped going, and then we just stopped altogether. I haven't even really thought of those old times in as long as I remember. I don't know what made me think of it, but once I thought of it, I knew that I wanted to go.
"I bet that I'll win." Natsu said.
"Oh you're on." I said smirking.
"Loser has to but the winner snack." we both said at the same time.
Once we realized that we said that same exact thing, we laughed, and I turned my head so he wouldn't see the blush forming on my face.
So we went inside, and already, so many forgotten memories flushed into my brain. And each and every memory caused me to feel warm inside, and they were all good and some of my favorite memories.
After we got in, we rented bowling shoes, and went to go get some bowling balls.
"Look, Natsu." I said, and he looked over to me holding a red and orange bowling ball.
"That was my favorite ball!" he said, coming over to me and taking it. "I forgot about this."
"I wonder if they have the ball that I used to use." I curiously asked.
"Sure they do! We just have to find it." he reassured me. And he was always like that. He always looked at the bright side of things, and never the bad. He always knew, or at least think he knew, that something good was always going to happen. And I always found that amazing. How he could always just know and think something good was going to happen. Even when something bad was happening, he would always look at the positive side, and make others feel better.
"If you say so." I said, and we started to walk around the place looking for my favorite bowling ball of my childhood.
"Luce!" He called out to me, I looked over into the direction of where his voice was coming from, and I saw him holding my light pink bowling ball that I so loved as a child.
"You found it." I smiled.
"I said that it would still be here." He said, handing the ball to me. "So let's go play!" and he started walking towards the lane we would be playing at. But I stood there a moment and wanted to look at my bowling ball, and see if it was still there.
N+L=BFF
This was scratched very tiny on the side of the ball, still there from when we scratched it in so many years ago.
And when I looked up to Natsu, he was looking down at his ball, and smiling. And I knew that his must have our initials still scratched in as well.
So I walked over, and we then started the game.
After a few turns, I realized that I was losing by a couple of points. And I must say that that made me pretty upset. Because I hate loosing. I always hated losing, and I will always hate loosing. Especially losing to Natsu, because I know that he would would start bragging about it and wouldn't shut up for a long while. And besides, I am not the mood to buy him food, I already cook for him way too often.
So it was my turn to go, and so I grabbed my bowling ball, and aimed for the center of the pins, and then shot.
And then it went right into the gutter.
"Ugh!" I yelled in frustration.
"Seems like you're getting a bit rusty." Natsu smirked.
"Oh shut up." I said, about too grab by ball, but Natsu grabbed it instead. "What are yo-"
"Let me show you." and he just walked up to the lane, and waited for me. He motioned for me to come over, so I did. "Stand right here." pointing to where he was just standing.
"What are-"
"Okay, and then hold the ball like this." he put the ball in my hand, and moved my hand into the right spot, our hands touching ever so slightly.
He pressed his body closer to me, and his arm around my body so he could place his hand on mine while it was on the ball.
"And you have to move your arms like this." and we motioned the moves together.
And i'm just glad that he couldn't see my face because it was so red from blushing so hard.
I wasn't even going to try and talk, because I knew that I wouldn't be able to form words.
We stood like that, and he helped me learn how to move my arms for few minutes. I think. Because I couldn't even begin to tell time.
"Do you think you got it?" he asked.
I nodded my head.
"O-okay." he said. "Why don't we do it together."
"Okay." I whispered, surprised that he could even hear me, I was so quiet.
I felt him move my arm along with his, and so we pulled back and then swung our arms and let go of the ball. And even though we let go of the ball, we didn't let go of each other.
And only once I heard the noise of the pins falling, did I realize that we knocked them all down.
We finished up the game, and surprisingly I actually won. I was happy and cheered once I found out, and I was sure that Natsu was going to make some type of fuss. But to my very surprise, he didn't. He just said congratulations and that I played good. Which was weird because he hates losing. And I mean really hates. But maybe this is him finally starting to grow and mature.
"I guess I owe you a snack." Natsu said.
"You don't have to, Natsu." I said. "It's fine."
"No, I'll get you something."
"But it's f-"
"Just let me buy you something. It's not that big of a deal."
I knew that he was going to keep on fighting me about it, so finally I just agreed. So we took off the bowling shoes, and we handed them back to the worker. After we paid and thanked them, I just let him buy me a cookie, and then I snapped it in half and gave him a half as we walked outside. It was much chillier than it was earlier, but it was too too cold. So we just pressed our backs up against the side of the building, and took a bite of our cookie.
"It was a fun game." I said.
"Yeah." he agreed, smiling. "We should play again soon sometime."
"Yeah, I would really like that." I said, and then looked around. It was pretty dark, and getting late, so I knew that we would have to go soon. "We should start heading back before it gets too dark."
"You're right." he sounded disappointed. "I guess we should start going."
And so I got up and started walking. But then something fell through the darkness making a huge bad, scaring both me and Natsu slightly.
"Who's there?" Natsu called out, his voice stern and demanding. But nothing answered.
"Come on, Luce. Let's go." He said.
I nodded my head, and then looked back for a second, and I saw something almost shimmer in the darkness. As Natsu was moving forward I stepped back and knelled down to the spot where we heard the huge bang.
And I held up the small item that was on the ground, and It was some type of piecing.
And I think I knew who's piercing it was.
And that's the chapter! And it was actually pretty long, so I hope you all enjoyed it. Don't forget to Leave a review, I really appreciate them! thank you for reading, and I'll talk to you all in the next chapter!
Also, sorry if there any spelling mistakes, I only had time to reread this like once after editing, so there might be a few errors here and there, so sorry if there are.
