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Chapter 21

The rest of the week went the same as usual. Waking up, going to school, taking notes. Going home. But unlike usual, I noticed myself going more towards my little saviors. And since I haven't been talking to Cana in the past week, I have not been able to get a new supply.

But I at least have my whole cabinet full of drinks, because it seems as though my house will never get empty of those. But everything else I got from Cana, so I don't how else I get i'm sure that if I really need it, I'll find a way to get it. And worse comes to worse, I always got what's left of the pack of cigarettes. Which for some reason, I'm kind of afraid to get attached too. But maybe that's just because Cana always told me to never have those.

Thinking about Cana, I know that I should probably just suck it up and talk to her again. I mean, It's already been over a week since I've last talked to her, but I'm just still mad. Maybe mad isn't the right word, more like disappointed. And it's not like we haven't ever kept secrets from each other. I always knew that she kept things from me, and she knows that I keep things from her. We all just have personal things that we don't necessarily want to tell everyone.

But the fact that she knew one of my friends, my friend from my school life. Something this big, I should have known. Given, me and Gajeel aren't the best of friends. But the fact that they both knew each other, and both decided not to tell me just makes me upset.

And I've noticed that throughout the week, that it seems like Gajeel has been following me. Well, not really following me. More like, just making sure that I'm not dead or dying. I've just noticed him doing little strange things, like texting at random times after I do something, or say something. Or even when I leave the lunchroom at random times, it's like he knows exactly where I'm going, and what I'm doing.

And I know what he's probably doing. He's probably texting Cana and telling her random thing. I mean, she has called me a few times and left me messages, but I just haven't called her back. So she probably just has him check on me and then tell her what's going on. And if she really wanted to apologize, she would come to me in person and say it. Either way, I'm still not in the mood to talk to her or any one of them.

Another person who has been acting weird though, Is Natsu. And that's saying something because he always acts weird. It just seems like he's more clingy. Which once again is saying something because he's usually always clingy. But lately, he has just been begging me to hang out with him more. Which I never complain about, because being with him just makes me happier. And it's a good feeling knowing that he wants to hang out with me too. Even if it's just doing something stupid, or lazy like just going over to his house to watch a movie. Although, he usually makes me cook him something to eat, which actually doesn't bother me as much as it used to.

But I really don't mind cooking for him. Also because whenever I cook, he seems to get a little more touchy. Like he will just randomly put his arms around me as I'm cooking on the stove, so that the front of his body is against the back of mine. And then we just have this beautiful relaxing moment.

And ever since that one moment when he did that, ever since then I get all tense for a moment whenever he does.

What was that moment?
If i didn't know better, I would say that it seemed that the two of us were going to kiss. And every time that I think about it, which is more times than I would like to admit, I get almost sad that we didn't kiss. Because what would have happened if we did? Where would we be? What would we be.

But neither of us have brought it up, so I'm not planning on being the one to.

Yet, it still bugged me. And I wanted to know what that moment really meant. And what that moment meant to him. But I couldn't just straight up ask him. That would be too weird. And Knowing him, he wouldn't have any idea what the question meant.

And if he did, the moment probably didn't mean the same for him as it meant for me. It probably didn't mean anything to was just caught up in the moment. That's all.

It didn't mean anything to him.

But it meant everything to me.

Since it was Friday, everyone was just waiting to go home after the bell. So like every day, and especially every Friday, and soon as that bell has rung, the students raced out of the school to get home and start their weekend.

I wasn't one who liked to bring unnecessary work home with me, so I always stopped at my locker and put all the stuff that I didn't need away. And besides, I usually had my jacket in there, since it's getting cold out.

And as I was walking down the hallway, a smile started to form on my face as I saw who was there waiting for me.

"Natsu." I greeted him as I got to my locker.

"Good afternoon, Luce." He said, giving me a friendly smile. "How'd your school day go?"
"It went fine." I said, failing at holding back a smile. "You?"

"Boring as ever." He sighed. "So let's get out of here so we can go do something fun."

I nodded as I closed my locker, and we walked down the hallway to get to the front door so we could leave.

As we were walking down I heard someone call my name, and I stopped to see who it was.

"Lu-chan!" As I looked back, I saw Levy running to catch up to me.

"Levy." I said, as she caught up to me. "Hello."

"Lu-chan." She looked at me. "Oh hello Natsu, you're here too."

"Yeah, me and Luce were gonna go do something."
She smiled mischievously. "Well, sorry to disturb you, I hope you two have fun."

"Wait," I called out to her. "Did you want to tell me something?"

"I'll call you later." she winked at me, and then she walked away.

"That was weird." Natsu said awkwardly.

"Yeah." I agreed.

"Not as weird as you are, though."

"Hey!" I yelled at him, and then punched him in the arm, but he just laughed.

"Come on, let's just go."
"Are we going to your house, again?" I asked him out of curiosity, not that I really cared where we were going if I am being honest.

"Yeah." He nodded. "And it's Friday, so maybe we can go catch a movie tonight."

"Sounds good." I said.

And so we went into his car, and he drove us back to his place. We would walk, but it's nearing the end of November, Therefore, it's getting chillier each day. And I love fall, so I told him that I don't mind walking, and that I would actually love to. But he said that he didn't want me not him to get sick.

So we sat in the car, and it only took a few minutes to get to his house since he loves so close to the school. And once we went in, I went straight into the kitchen to make some hot chocolate.

"Natsu, do you want any?"

"Yes please! And our extra whip cream on mine!"

I laughed. "Sure thing."

I heard him walking around the living room as I was in the kitchen. But I didn't bother to ask what he was doing, because I was too focused on making sure that the hot chocolate was going to turn out perfect.

So once the water got hot enough, I poured in the chocolate mixture in, and then went to the fridge to get the milk and the whipped cream.

And almost as if he knew that I was done, Natsu walked right in.

"You're done?" he asked, like he didn't already know that I was.

"Yeah, where do you want to sit?" I asked, as I started to pour the milk into my hot beverage to cool it down.

"Let's go sit on the couch." he said, once we were done making our hot chocolate.

But of course, be brought the whole can of whipped cream, because knowing him he would never be done with it.
So we just sat on the couch, and wrapped ourselves in a warm blanket as we drank our hot chocolate. We just turned on the television, and flipped to a random show that was on. And before I knew it, and heard the whipped cream being sprayed from the nozzle, and I looked over to see Natsu with his head back, and the tip of the can right in his mouth.

"Natsu, what are you doing?"

"Doyouwantsome?" He tried to ask, but his mouth was overflowing with whipped cream, and I couldn't help but laugh. After he finally was able to swallow it all, a smirk landed on his face, and suddenly he basically threw himself onto me.

"NATSU!" I yelled.

"I know you want some whipped cream!" He said, squirting the bottle, and whipped cream was getting everywhere.

"Natsu!" I yelled, but this time I was laughing so hard that I bet he could barely understand what I was saying.

Finally he stopped, because he was laughing so hard as well. And so we both say they're on the couch, covered in whipped cream and and laughing so much that our stomachs started to hurt.

"I guess I made a mess." Natsu said, and he nervously scratched the back of his head.

I looked over to him and giggled. "Yeah you did." as I looked over to him, I saw that he had some whipped cream that was all over his face. So I scooted over so that I was over him.

"Luce.. what are you doing?" he asked, quietly.

"Here." I said, and I got my finger and I whipped it over near his mouth, maybe a little close, and clean up the cream. "You had some on your face."

"Oh." he said, his face getting slightly red, but that could have just been the light. "Thank you."

I smiled to him, and then stood up. "Can I go get cleaned up in the bathroom?"
"Ye-yeah, yeah, sure. Go ahead."
"I'll be quick." I said, and I went into his bathroom, and I turned the faucet on, and started to wash my face as best as I could. Luckily, most of the mess was on my face, so it didn't take too long for me to get clean.

So I just splashed my face a few times, to make sure that it wouldn't stay so sticky. After I was done, I just quickly took a look at myself in the mirror, and before I even knew what I was doing, I was fixing my hair to make it neater. And making sure that my cloths were in order, and that I overall didn't look like a mess.

I took one last deep breath, and then walked out, and back into the living room. To my surprise natsu was not there. And I had no idea where he had gone off to.

"Natsu?" I asked.

"Luce," he called out. "I'm in my room."
"Okay, coming." so I walked over to his room, and his door was already partially open, so I walked in.

"Hello, Natsu-" I said, but stopped short because of what I saw. Just for a second, I could see Natsu's, muscular, shirtless back. I guess he was just putting on a shirt as I walked in, but it caught me by surprise, and I couldn't help but stare at it. But after a moment, it was gone.

"Oh, hey, Luce." he sad as he turned around and saw me.

"Hey." repeated, and then just walked in, trying to act like I didn't see anything. "Your rooms clean, again." I noticed.

"Mhm? Yeah, I guess so." he said.

"I think this is the longest that it's been clean."

"Probably." he said. I smiled at his comment."Hey, Luce-" He began to say. But my phone rang, and I grabbed it out of my pocket, and looked at the glowing scream.

Message from: Sting.

I looked at it a moment too long, but then quickly shut it off. I turned back to Natsu. "I'm sorry, what were you saying?"
"Who was that?"

"It was no one." I said.

Natsu didn't say anything, and an awkward silence drifted through the air. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure…" I said, unsure of what he was going to ask.

"Well, remember that time when that guy called you? You said his name was sting. And it seemed as though you were mad at him?"
I nodded my head.

"What did he do to make you so mad?"
I paused. I didn't say anything for a few moments. I was trying to carefully think of something to say that wouldn't cause me to just spill out everything.

"He just lied to me." I said without really thinking about it.

"Lying isn't good." he said.

"No it's not."

"You taught me that."
"What?" I asked, confused.

"You taught me to be good. To always be nice to people. And lying is not nice."
"Natsu…"

"And I wouldn't lie to you. Not on purpose,at least." his voice was shakier than usual. "But I think I have been."
"You've been lying to me?"

"No! I mean, not a straight up lie. I actually didn't notice myself until a while ago."

I didn't say anything. No, I couldn't say anything. I just could not even form proper thoughts in my head at this point.

He continued. "I don't like lying to you." he took a deep breath. "And I don't want to any more." I nodded my head, because that's all I could do.

I thought that he was going to continue talking, but he didn't.

Because before even I could say anything thing. He leaned in closer, and his lips were on mine.

I was frozen for a second, his warm lips covering mine. But then I started kissing him back, and before I knew it, we were on his bed.

Getting some Nalu up in here haha. Anyways, I do have a smut chapter (nalu smut, obviously) I just don't know if I should post it or not?
So that's what I want to ask. Should I post the sexy chapter or nah?