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so first off, I'm sorry for my absence (again) But there was some serious stuff that happened in my life, so I really just had to take some time for myself. I'm not going into detail because I know it'll trigger people, but let's just say it was really sudden, so I hope you all understand.

Also, school started as well so that's been taking up all my time. Given, here's the next chapter which I'm super exited about:)
I don't wanna keep you all waiting so, I hope you all enjoy this chapter!

Chapter 24

"YOU DID WHAT WITH WHO LAST NIGHT?"

I heard Levys voice yell at me through the phone, causing my ear drums to cry out in pain.

"Wh-what?"

"AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL ME?" She yelled again. "I AM YOUR BEST FRIEND! WHEN WERE YOU GOING YOU TELL ME?"

"Uh…"

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU." She said, and then took a deep breathe. "I want to know everything."

"Wh-"

"Well, not everything. But, everything else."

"What are you talking about?" I said loudly to her, causing Natsu to look over to me.

"Who is it?" Natsu asked.

"It's Levy." I said.

"Is that who I think it is?!"

"It's just me, Levy." Natsu called out.

"I knew it!" Levy screamed. "It's Natsu!"

"Levy, Levy." I said."Calm down. Now, why did you call me?" I asked, but I think I had a pretty good idea.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about." And I could hear the annoyance in her voice.

I sighed. "So, do you wanna like, meetup or something?"

"Oh we are." She said. "Come to my place. I want to know everything, missy." And with that, she hung up.

I sighed loudly.

"I'm guessing that you need to go." He laughed.

"Yeah." I said. "But I can come back later if you want."

"I'll be waiting." He said, and he gave me a kiss, and I shrunk into the kiss. "I'll walk you to the door." He said, his voice soft, and I just nodded my head.

He walked me to he door, hand in hand, and I blushed at his touch. I felt like people were staring, even though I knew that no one here. But being this close to him is still so new to me that I don't know how to react to it.

He opened the door for me, and leaned against it so I could walk past. The first thing I felt was the cool November air, but it wasn't too cold, it was actually really nice. So me and Natsu said out goodbyes for now, and he made me promise that I would see him soon. I promised, and then left his all too soon I was walking to Levy's, and the walk to her house I had time to think. Maybe a little too much time.

l though it was a little chilly out, it was still beautiful.

Sometimes life really is beautiful, if you just stop to take a look.

Once I made it to Levys door, I put my hand up to knock, and my hand barely even touched the door before Levy opened the door and pulled me in.

"Lev-" I started to say, but stopped as she gave me a hug.

"I'm so happy for you!" She squealed.

"Huh?"

She giggled.

"You and Natsu…" she winked at me.

I blushed a bright color of red, and tried to think of anything that could convince her otherwise. "Don't even try and lie to me."

"H-how did you find out."

"He's in there." She said, and pointed to the living room. I gave her a look full of confusion, but followed her to the room. And there he was, sitting there with his eyes full of fear.

"Gray?" I asked, and it took me a moment before I actually understood why he was there. "GRAY! YOU TOLD HER?"

His eyes lit up with fear. "I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY!" I screamed. "IT WASN'T MY FAULT! SHE BASICALLY FOUND OUT HERSELF! DON'T HURT ME!" He begged, but I still gave him a look that made him yelp.

"He is right." Levy said. "Although, he said you were at his house, and then started to act all weird. So I just kind of put the prices together.

"Gray!"

"I'm sorry!" He apologized. "I didn't mean too. She just asked if I knew where you were, and then I just, I just said you were at Natsu's, and then…" He trailed off.

I sighed.

"Did you not want me to know?" Levy asked.

"No!" I said. "No, of course not. I wasn't going to keep it from you. I just, I didn't want everyone to know what happened." I sighed.

"What did happen?" She asked.

I sighed. "Stuff."

"Stuff?" Levy said in annoyance. "I am your best friend, and all you say is 'stuff?'"

"Well, what do you want me to say!"
She gave me a look which told me that she was very, very annoyed with me. But I don't know,I just, didn't want people finding out. At least, not like this.

"Can-can I go?" Gray's voice asked quietly.

"No!"
"No!" Levy and I both yelled.

"Besides." I said. "You are the one that had a big mouth. I thought you said that you wouldn't tell anyone."
"He really isn't good at keeping secrets, I guess." levy said. And I laughed, which then causes her to laugh as well.

There were a few moments of silence between us, the air still a little thick. "I was going to tell you. It's just, It just happened. I just needed time to be able to say it myself before I told anyone."
Levy smiled. "So does that mean… Is it true?"
I blushed, which was all the answer that she needed to confirm it for herself.

"Oh my god! Lucy!" she yelled, and gave me a huge hug. "I'm so happy for you!"
"Yeah, yeah." I said, awkwardly.

"Tell me everything.

"Please don't." Gray pleaded, causing me to laugh. "But congrats though. I'm happy that you two finally got together." He said, and seemed generally happy for me. "You two are together now, right?"

I hesitated. "I-I think so? I mean, we talked about it, and we both admitted that we really liked each other. I just don't think we wanted to really tell people yet. Just see how it worked out first."

"So you guys are official?" Levy asked.

"Yeah, we are." I blushed, and Levy smiled.

So of course, levy started asking me a bunch of questions, and I did my best to answer them as best as I could. Given that me and Natsu we really only official for a few hours, it's not like that much has happened. But it was still so surreal, knowing that I was actually real life.

Me and Natsu?

That's crazy. I never would have thought that that would have happened. But yet it did. And I couldn't be happier.

Of course though, my head started screaming about how it wasn't going to last. How it was all going to fall apart. How I would be heartbroken. That something bad is going to happen, and I'm not going to be able to stop it. And I couldn't help but believe it.

But I just tried to ignore it, and thought about all the good things that are going to happen.

Just focus on the good things.

Finally though, at one point, me and Levy let Gray leave, and he ran out of the house. But now, since he was gone, Levy felt like it was okay to just asking more… personal questions.

And I answered her, I just felt kind of awkward talking about it. I mean, what was I supposed to say?

But after talking about her, and her getting excited that we were together, she asked if I wanted to go out with her for dinner, swing as though it was already passed 5 o'clock. I agreed, and after a few minutes of getting ready, we were leaving.

And I don't know why, but I felt the need to text Natsu where we were going, so I sent him a quick text.

Me and levy are going to the dinner for dinner. I'll see you later.

~Lucy

In less than a minute, Natsu responded.

Have fun, don't stay out too late.

I miss you, see you soon:)

~Natsu.

"Is that Natsu you're texting?" She asked.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm just telling him that I'm going out to dinner."

"You two are adorable."

"Let's just go." I laughed, and then we went to the dinner.

Thankfully, the drive there we talked about other things in our lives.

We just decided to catch up on random things about our lives, since we haven't really hung out in a while since both our lives have been so busy. We just talked about the basic things like school, and random stories that have happened in our lives.

Once we got to the dinner, we walked in and we sat down out our favorite spot at the counter. We always sit here whenever we come, ever since we were kids. It's like a special seat for us whenever we come here.

And since we know this place so well, we basically know exactly what we want before they even hand us the menu. Besides, they have basically anything you want here, anyway.

So we sat down, and just ordered some drinks and a few slices of pizza and talked as we waited for the food to come.

"I can't believe she did that!" I said, in response to a story that levy was telling me.

"Me neither!" She laughed, and I laughed along with her.

As we were laughing, we weren't paying attention to the people that walked past us.

As me and levy were sitting and laughing, all of a sudden, there were hands on our shoulders and two people screamed at us.

"AHH!" We both yelled, and turned around to see two idiots laughing.

"Gajeel?"

"Natsu?"

Me and levy asked, but the two idiots didn't respond because they were too busy laughing. But me and levy did not find that funny.

"Natsu!" I yelled, hitting him hard on the head.

"Ow!"

"Haha!" I heard Gajeel, but didn't last long and levy hit him on the head as well.

"What are you two idiots doing?!"

"Surprise…" they said, still in pain.

"If you do that again…" I warned him.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I won't do it again!"

"Natsu." Levy said. "Apologize to Lucy."

"And Gajeel." I said. "You better apologize to levy."

"I'm sorry!"

"I'm sorry!" They both yelled, and then me and Levy couldn't help but laugh because they really were idiots.

After they finally got up from the floor, they sat next to us, and didn't wait to order food.

"What are you guys doing?" I asked.

"Were hungry." Natsu said.

I sighed. "Whatever." It's not like I was upset he was here, I was just hoping to have more time with Levy before I saw him again.

"How was your time with levy?" He asked, and he seemed generally curious.

"It was good." I said smiling. "We had a lot of fun."

"That's good. Do y-"

"Gray-Same!" A familiar voice yelled, and the four of us turned our heads.

"Juvia?"

"Gray?"

"What are you guys going here?" Natsu asked.

"We heard that you guys were all going to be here, so we thought that we would come along." He explained.

"Well, I guess it isn't just me and you anymore." Levy whispered to me.

"Can I get a slice of pizza, please." Gray asked the waiter.

"Juvia will get the same thing as Gray-sama."

"I wonder if anyone else is coming." I whispered back to Levy, although, I wasn't expecting an answer since I said it so quietly.

"I'm pretty sure Erza is coming to." Gray said, his mouth full of pizza.

"Don't eat with your mouth open, idiot."

Here we go again.

"What'd you call me, flame brain?"

"I called you an idiot, idiot."

"Do you wanna-"

"Will you two idiots stop fighting." A stern voice yelled, and everyone knew who it was.

"E-Erza?" They both squeaked.

She shook her head, obviously not wanting to waste her energy on them. Instead, she just walked over to me and levy and gave us a hug. She hugged levy first, and then hugged me and whispered in my ear.

"I'm happy for you and Natsu." And then gave me a quick wink before going over to talk to someone else.

"Hey Luce." I heard Natsu as he walked up to me.

"Hey, Natsu." And he smiled widely, and I laughed. "Why are you smiling so much."

"I don't know." His eyes looking at mine.

"Just kiss already." I heard a voice say, causing us both to blush.

"We already know, anyway."

"Wh-what?"

"Kiss. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss!" They cheered, and me and Natsu couldn't stop blushing. Ugh, how did everyone find out so quickly? I couldn't help but laugh at the fact that everyone was here, and suspended my people who loved me, and were happy for me and Natsu. It really was a good feeling.

And of course, me Natsu did kiss, although kind of awkward, but a kiss nonetheless, and everyone cheered and clapped. We then ordered some more food for everyone, and it was a night to remember

We all talked, and sang,and some of us even danced. It was possibly one of the best memories I have with these people.

But of course, the night ended all too soon, and we were the last group in the restaurant. So we thanked the waiter, and we all helped pay for the bill. After we hugged each other, and gave said our goodbyes, and said that we would all see each other at school, we were on our way home, and stepped outside to feel the cold kiss of air.

Natsu offered to help take me home, and the whole way we just talked about random things, but it was great.

Natsu held my hand as he walked me to my front door. We stood in front of it, and we both smiled at each other.

I didn't wait, and I leaned in and kissed him.
His warm moth on mine, sending warmth around my body.

"I'll see you soon, Luce."
I noded. "Yeah."
He was reluctant to walk away, but he soon did, and I felt a ping at my heart. I didn't want him to go. I felt almost unsafe without him.

"Wait." I called out, and he looked back at me. "I Like you, Natsu." I smiled.

"I like you too." He smiled widely. "We'll see each other soon, I promise."
"Okay." and I wanted to believe him.

So I walked into my house, and the all too familiar feeling whipped over me.

I never liked this house, and I don't think I ever will. So as I was about to run up to my room, I saw something that shocked me.

The kitchen light was on.

Did I leave it on?

I couldn't have. I haven't been here in a few days, and know that I shut them off.

I slowly walked to the kitchen, and when I walked in, nothing was out of the ordinary. It looked exactly like it always did.

But then I felt a presence.

I turned around, and I saw a man who looked all too familiar.

"Da-"
I felt something hard hit my head,hard, and then everything went black.

WHOA!
This is where things getting real dark(ish) so get ready. I'm so stocked that you all finally read this chapter haha.
What do you think is gonna happen next?