This was definitely not awkward at all.

Others might have thought it was a rather cute date but not to Lucy, nah ah. Here she was stuffing down food in her mouth because she was ever so hungry, while Natsu over there can't seem to shut up and let her enjoy her meal in peace. What was worse that he expected her to answer back, with FOOD IN HER MOUTH! Lucy would rather be stabbed than let him out of all people see her talk with bits of food still being chewed in her mouth.

"Is everything alright so far?" asked the waiter, and look who it is, Ren from primary.

Both Natsu and Lucy had the shock of their lives when they found their primary classmate working in Blue Pegasus's main company branch. The hotel had two sides to it, one for a business company and the other a hotel. He had told them that he was working as a part time waiter when he was free from work stuff.

"Who knew my primary friend would have gotten together with my primary crush." Ren had grinned as both Lucy and Natsu blushed at the statement while Lucy had yelled, "It's not like that!"

"We're good Ren, you don't have to check up on us every 10 minutes you know." Natsu chuckled as he ate his hash browns.

Ren shrugged, "Sorry can't help it. It's not everyday you'd see your primary acquaintances who both weren't even friends at that time, now having a lunch date."

Now Lucy wished she had listen to her rational side instead of her curious one. When she had woke up that morning, the first thing she saw was Natsu's chest. Thank heavens, he was fully clothed or else she might have screamed bloody murder.. Of course being the stupid Lucy she is, she had decided to stay so that she would find out what Natsu wanted with her instead of calling a cab and go home.

'Dear God, please let me survive the rest of the day.' Lucy had mentally prayed, as she finally finished god knows the number of the plates. It was weird, it had been a long time since Lucy ate this much, it was usually just one half plate and she'd had enough.

Once they were done eating, they had went back to the room and Happy had immediately jumped on Lucy.

"He never did that to me." Natsu said in jealousy as he saw Happy snuggled into Lucy's chest even closer..

"Maybe I'm more likeable." Lucy giggled

"And more annoying." Natsu grinned at her while she had small blushes on her cheeks and a pout formed on her face.

How cute.

After that, Lucy and Natsu settled on the couch as Happy happily curled on Lucy's lap. The TV was on with minor conversations here and there. Lucy found it weird that Natsu was asking a lot of questions that he used to have no interest in, like her favourite food, drink, hobby, etc.

"You know when I went to college, I kind of missed the fun back when we were in High School." Natsu spoke as they both had mindlessly stared at the screen, both not even paying attention to it.

Lucy had remembered, Natsu had only traveled to Edolas after finishing in Magnolia College, where most of the High School grads had went too, where as Lucy had gone to Hargeon College and she was the only one there.

"But your gang was with you there, weren't they?" Lucy said, remembering that Juvia had told her, Gajeel, Gray, Bickslow, Romeo, Lisanna and a few more others were there.

"They were but it didn't feel the same when everyone had split into different courses."

"Well, at least you got to see them on campus." Lucy said as she gave a small smile at the memory of her college days.

Her first day in college had her shivering scared. She knew no one there in her thick glasses, thighs, simple shirt, sneakers and hoodie Lucy remembered, she had 9am classes back then and she was lost in the school's compound. She breathed with anxiety as she asked around for the classroom, she had been very bad at directions back then and still kind of is now.

She had been alone for the past few weeks since she started classes, though it was normal for her so she had expected herself to be already used to it when all she did was sit in the library during lunch time. Though, she couldn't help be jealous when she saw all the posts of the others being together. Natsu had seemed to have fun in the pictures.

"But I guess we got to make new friends right? We got to know more people and all."

"Friends huh…" Lucy whispered. She never really did had true friends in college, all she knew were acquaintances. Back then her roommate and classmates were either party all day or isolated by books, both which Lucy didn't fit in with. Lucy was a kid at heart but she didn't want to draw attention to herself, so she would never had approached people first, she was….a rather unconfident person.

Meanwhile, Natsu had noticed Lucy was being silent longer than usual. Had he said something he wasn't suppose to? Now that he thought about he, he had not seen Lucy with any new people during their college days, well considering it was Lucy and she herself rarely posted anything but he knew that she would post about events that she went to. Everyone knows that Lucy would quickly get bored in an event and when she does, she usually would post the place that she was in.

Both of them weren't particularly geniuses but they would notice things about other people pretty well, especially when it had things to do with one another. Of course, both of them didn't know why.

Just then Lucy's phone had rang, which caused both silent partners to jump a bit. Natsu had smiled when he had heard Lucy's ringtone, it was one of the old Animes that Natsu had heard off when Lucy and him were talking about music while waiting for a match in game. Natsu himself had suggested some K-pop to Lucy while she wasn't too interested in it, she knew what type of music he liked, so she had recommended hers. He was glad that Lucy hadn't change much.

"Hello?" Lucy said

"Lucy honey? Can you come over for dinner tonight? We have a surprise for you!"

"Sure. Bye Mom." Lucy said as she closed the call and turned to Natsu with amusement in his eyes. Why? Lucy couldn't bother to ask.

"I have to go now, family dinner later." she said as she glanced at the clock and saw that it was already 4 in the evening. She had better get home fast because her parent's place was an hour away.

"Sure, I'll drop you off." He said as they both stood up, causing Happy to jump down from Lucy's lap.

"It's fine, I'll call a cab."

"No, really it's o-"

Natsu's phone rang. He took it out from his pocket and let out an annoyed sigh when he saw the caller ID.

"Yes Mad Geer?" He grunted but soon pulled the phone away from his ear when a huge scream went through the audio.

"WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?! YOU'RE 5 MINUTES LATE FOR THE INTERVIEW! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH SHIT YOU'VE PUT ME THROUGH JUST NOW?! THE DIRECTOR IS SO PISS THAT I CAN SEE STEAMS COMING OUT OF HIS EARS! GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE!" with that the call ended before Natsu could do anything.

"Looks like someone's busy." giggled Lucy as Natsu sigh.

"I'll walk you to the entrance." He grumbled as he took his things and headed for the door.

"See you later, Happy!" Lucy said as she turned down and waved, then following the frustrated pinkette.

Natsu had smiled when he had heard her say 'see you later' instead of 'goodbye'. It gave a sign to Natsu that she would come back.

They both stood silently as they secretly stared at each other. Lucy couldn't help but thought back of her actions during the whole thing, she had blushed thinking of last night, it was her first time being so close to a guy like that. While Natsu was just plain looking up and down at Lucy, admiring her growth and changes, and let's just say they were major changes.

Ding!

"Hey Lucy, do you want to marry me?" Natsu had asked all of a sudden as they stepped out of the elevator.

Lucy stopped walking and she quickly turned to face him, "...I'm sorry, what?" Did Lucy hear that right? Was she just hearing things?

They both had stayed silent for a while until they heard one of the hotel bells ring. Then they both had realized what Natsu had said, so they turned as red as cherries.

"...Nothing, just forget what I said."

"But….."

"Forget it ok? See you around." Natsu quickly said as he quickly turned back and rush back into the elevator, leaving the dumbstruck Lucy standing at the hotel entrance.

"W-What's going on…." Lucy was sure Natsu said that he was engaged…...was he lying? Lucy was tempted to follow him back up and demand what he meant by that but she figured he needed time, well both of them needed time to sink in what they both heard.

Besides, Lucy had a dinner to go to and not being late to a family dinner is way more important than confronting Natsu and whatever shit he had said. No one ever wants to see Grandma Anna upset.

Lmao, how did my mind end up here. Oh well~