Lucy's View
"Indian"
"No"
"Western"
"Too fattening"
"LADY WHAT IN BLOODY NUTCRACKERS DO YOU WANT TO EAT?!" Natsu yelled but still maintaining eye contact on the road.
"I don't care, whatever." Lucy had replied but she refused to face him as her head was facing the car's window.
"Well clearly whatever means something!"
"Well if you knew me then you should know what I want to eat!"
"WE ONLY SPENT 4 DAYS TOGETHER"
"Wow, looks like Mr Convenience finally noticed something." Lucy sarcastically said
Natsu growled in frustration at Lucy's attitude, "Fine then, we're having Mexican." He said as he side glanced, catching Lucy's eyeroll. He eyed roll backed, not like anyone is seeing hi.m. They both had sat in the car in silence after that, only letting the radio play.
After that day, both of their parents had insisted on them spending more time with each other to get to know each other better. Layla had made Zeref give Natsu a holiday to spend time with Lucy.
Ever since they made that agreement, their family was overjoyed. They had made Lucy move in with Natsu's penthouse. Before Lucy could even protest, she had gotten a call that all her things were already at Natsu's place.
Not being able to deny the demands of the woman in the Heartfilia family, Lucy was reluctant to be anywhere with Natsu. Fortunately she had insisted on working instead of taking a holiday, but Igneel had made Natsu to drop her off and pick her up from work, much to her dismay.
Lucy hated herself, well not blood hate but still can't really see herself as any main character of a story, even hers. She always liked to be the background character typed because it always attracted less drama and hectic events that Lucy would most probably act on impulse and regret it later.
But now Lucy is somehow stuck in this RomCon event, having her parents set her up and her 'fiancé' can't care less about her. Now what was going to happen? Another character forces itself in the her life and make the already hilarious event a love triangle? Lucy hopes not, it was one thing to deal with an irritating pinkette. She can't possibly deal with another fuckboy, especially when Lucy herself can't understand her feelings most of the time.
Lucy was brought out from her thoughts as Natsu parked the car but he had not unlock the door yet. Lucy looked at him questionably as he turned to look at her as well.
Natsu let out a sigh, "Alright Lucy, look I know this was not what you had in mind of an engagement and since we are going to live with each other and all, I think we should be on good terms." he explained.
Lucy slowly nodded her head, still confused on Natsu's actions.
"Ok so, let's start over. Here's take 2 of the first scene." Natsu said as he unlocked the door and got out by himself. He then shut the door, which lead Lucy confused to no end, was she suppose to go out too, with the engine still on?
A second later, Natsu had reopen the door and proceeded to sit back onto the drivers sit. He faced Lucy and let out a grin, "Greetings young maiden, I'm Natsu Dragneel, thy supposedly childhood friend and thy fiancé for this lifetime. Nice to meet thee."
Lucy wanted to laugh, that was his ideal? To restart everything? To replace a scene gone wrong and forget whatever problems we had with each other?
Lucy found it amusing.
"Why good day to you too Sir Dragneel, I must say, I'm a tad bit surprise to see you at this ungodly hour." Lucy said as she played along.
"What can I say? I'm a sir full of surprises. How about we receive some Mexican food before we starve to death?" Natsu had said as they both laughed once their conversation was finish. They got out and locked the car as they went into the mall for some Tacos.
During lunch, they had a decent amount of conversations going on. It was finally being a normal date. Once they had eaten, Lucy had decided to drag Natsu around the mall area for a 'bit' as they were slowly window shopping. An hour had passed since then, both Lucy and Natsu was utterly tired by then, especially Natsu and his arms full of bags.
"I think we better head home." Natsu said as he checked his phone and it was already close to 8pm. Lucy nodded in agreement as she slouched down on the mall's wooden chair, making Natsu chuckled at her tired state.
"Alright, how about you stay here and watch over the bags while I go get some cake for a midnight snack?"
"Cake?! Filled with Tiramisu, Chocolate balls, whip cream and everything?!" Lucy had cried in excitement as Natsu saw Lucy's eyes brighten and sparkle at the thought of the sweet.
He chuckled as he gently placed his palm onto Lucy's head and ruffled her hair.
"Natsu…" pouted Lucy, which made Natsu chuckle even more.
"Whatever you want, Luce." He said as he finally let go of her poor hair and left waving at her, all the while being able to see the blushing red on Lucy's cheeks. Well, he did say that he was going to nickname her something original and 'Luce' had won.
Natsu's View
As Natsu was in the middle of purchasing the cake. His phone had rang and saw that it was a message from Levy.
'Go back to Lucy now!'
With concern, Natsu immediately gave the cash and took the bag, telling the cashier to keep the change as he jogged back to the place where he told Lucy to wait at. However, he couldn't find her when he reached the place. He looked around the area and assumed that Lucy must have saw something she liked in one of the stores.
Not there.
Natsu then thought that perhaps Lucy had gone to the ladies room, so he asked one of the staff members near the area to check on any blond brown eyed woman.
No blond brown eyed woman.
Natsu was just about to go to another place, when his phone had once again rang, this time Levy had sent, 'Bunny girl's at the bookstore Dumbass!' So he turned to the bookstore, before making a mental note to beat up Gajeel later.
When he arrived at the bookstore, he went down aisle by aisle by speed walking but Lucy was nowhere in sight. He finally found her at the end corner of the store. What Natsu saw made him furious. Lucy was currently being surrounded by a black clothing guy, and judging by Lucy's expression, she didn't like it as well.
With quick thinking, Natsu had pulled out his phone and quickly went to the camera screen as he took the pic.
Snap
Both Lucy and the dude had turned to face the sound source.
"I believe this is called sexual harassment?" Natsu said as he flipped over the phone and revealed what he had just took.
The dude had glared at the intruder as he turned to Lucy once more, "This isn't over. I'll be back." he said. He then turned and walked out, not before purposely colliding his shoulder to Natsu's and slightly pushed him.
Once he was out of sight, Natsu had turn his attention to Lucy. He saw Lucy facing down her feet as her arms were holding one another. Not really knowing what to do in this situation, he rubbed the back of his head with one hand and holding up the other hand with the cake bag.
"Well, I got cake. Let's go home before the cream melts." He said as Lucy silently followed him back to the car while he had carried the bags that were messily thrown onto the ground.
They both had stayed silent for the whole ride even until they had reached back to the house, Lucy had not utter a word as she rushed back into her room and stayed in there for the whole night.
When Natsu had entered the room that night, he saw Lucy curling up at the edge of the bed as her oversize hoodie covered her figure and made her seem like a ball.
"Hey Luce…..want some cake?" Natsu said as he placed down the slice of chocolate on the bedside table with the fork next to it.
"I'm so tired, Natsu." she had whispered when she heard footsteps coming closer..
"Then go to sleep, Luce." He chuckled as he glanced at the bedside clock, 10pm.
Natsu heard Lucy emptily laughed back, "Maybe I should, a sleep that would last forever."
Lucy's head was still hidden by her lap but she could already feel the concern on Natsu's face. Funny, he used to never care for anything else but himself.
"Luce, what's wrong?" he asked as he climbed on the bed and sat beside her.
"Nothing really, it's just my usual night time breakdowns. You know when your brain decides to bring up all the horrible memories you done and regret."
"Luce…..you never told anyone about it?"
Lucy chuckled as she slowly lift her head and turned to face Natsu, "Unlike you, I'm not really one to share my whole life story."
Natsu chuckled as well. He formed a grin when he saw Lucy gave out a small smile.
"This is home Lucy, you can let out anything here and even if you can't, it's the perfect place to forget everything and relax." said Natsu.
Lucy smiled. They never broke eye contact as they just smiled and stared at one another.
"Well you always be next to me Natsu?" Lucy whispered.
"Always." He whispered back.
And just like that Lucy thought that this home wasn't so bad after all.