Chapter 2

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Lucy and Levy won tickets to the Flame Boy Band (a spin off of the Zac Brown Band) and when getting their picture taking Loke photobombed it and invited them backstage. Once backstage they were introduced.. in a way- they were tripped by a cord when Erza pushed them- to the members of the band.

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"Natsu! You two better be behaving." "AYE" Both of them grabbed each other around the shoulders and looked happy to be next to each other. "Good now you guys need to be ready in 20 minutes. Make sure everything is ready. Hi. I'm Erza and the woman in the corner is Juvia. You girls probably already know who everyone is already," they both nodded, "good. Now go." Erza pushed them toward the group of guys and as they were stumbled forward they tripped over a cord. Lucy landed on her bottom next to the instrument cases and Levy landed on the couch with her head in the guys lap. It was so quiet until Natsu starts laughing and sits next to Lucy on the floor. She looked at him with her faces blushing a crimson red and puffed out her cheeks at him.

"Um, excuse me..." Levy opened her eyes to see a pair of green eyes with flecks of red in them, hovering over her. Gasping she rushes to sit up and pumps heads with the face.

"Ow. I am so so sorry." groaning slightly Levy bows her head and stares at her hands.

"Hey no big deal, got a thick head." turning slightly she looks over at the guy sitting beside her.

"Uh.. I'm Levy... Levy McGarden." She smiles brightly at him as she extends her hand toward him.

"Gajeel...Gajeel Redfox." he grabs her hand gently and then lets go.

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Still smiling Levy looks down at her hands as she says, "Yes I know who you are. You play the guitar and you also sing. You sing wonderfully, and you are just awesome on the guitar."

Gajeel smiles slightly at the compliment and wants to know more about this fascinating creature in front of him that smelt like old books (which I believe is an AMAZING smell) and strawberries. So intrigued by this girl he breaks out from his rough gruff self and starts to talk to her to find out more about her.

While this is going on Natsu finally calms down and introduces himself to the blonde chick next to him, "Hi, I'm Natsu Dragneel," He smiles his charming smile as she stares at him for a few minutes.

Opening and closing her mouth a few times Lucy finally closes her eyes and takes a deep breath to calm her beating heart. Finding her voice she starts again, "Lucy. Its nice to meet you. I can't believe I am actually able to meet THE Natsu. You are Amazing. You started here in Magnolia didnt you? Oh my goodness, did you ever believe you would now be loved by thousands of girls and woman? Do you always destroy your chairs and the guitars? Where di-"

Natsu interrupted her when he places his finger against her lips "woah there Lucy," He chuckles, "Only a few questions before we go on stage. Yes I started out here when gramps took me in at the Fairy Tail Academy. I nevered realized I would become as famous for something I love doing. I enjoy singing and found the others at the school. And what are you talking about destroying chairs and guitars? I do no such thing."

"Bullshit Flame head, you're always destroying things, on stage and off stage. I cant tell you how many times gramps has to pay for new ones so that we can continue with this gig." Gray says to him as he leans back in a chair next to Juvia.

"Oh yeah? Then why don't I remember any of that droopy eyes?" Natsu gets heated up, Lucy can feel the heat rolling off of him, and throws the wooden stool that he was sitting on toward Gray, who grabbed it before it could hit Juvia, who was leaning towards Gray like she was going to say something.

"Watch what you're freaking doing flame brain. You almost hit Juvia and you about broke another stool." Gray let go of the stool, having head back toward Natsu when Erza yelled out for both of them to stop. Lucy watching all of this transpire in a dazed state, didn't realize the stool heading her way until it was almost too late. Lucy screamed and covered her head waiting for the inevitable. But instead of the wooden crashing against her she felt herself pressed firmly against a warm hard item. After a minute she opened her eyes and looked toward the the item, it was a well toned torso that was tanned just right and on top of the torso there was a white scarf loosely hung around the neck. Lucy looked up at who the body belonged to and her stare got locked into place when she met the night sky blue( I know Natsu has black eyes, at least according to Fairy tail WiKi, he does but I thought it sounded more beautiful like that) with a sparkle throughout them making them look like she was staring off into the galaxy and could see the universe. She melted into those eyes and everything around her became silenced. A few moments passed by until she got yanked from the warmth of the arms surrounding her and the eyes that seemed to just go on forever, blinking back into reality she turned to look who was yanking on her and realized that it wasn't quiet but actually pretty loud and the one sounded the most concern was her best friend, Levy.

"Lucy... Lucy.. Come on Luce-chan answer me. Are you ok?" Levy asked with concern filling her eyes while she ran her hands over Lucy's head and body to see if there was any cuts or bruising.

"Uh... yeah.." Looking over her body then glancing over to where she was sitting she say the stool was no where near it, then she looked around to see where it was at. Erza was placing it on the other side of the room.

There were questions filling her head when all of a sudden the door was opened by a tall man with a brown thin curly mustache, he was dressed in a brown suit and a hat with a point on the top that also matched his clothes. He pulled out a pocket watch and said in a loud voice, "It is time for the concert to start, he says" putting it back into his pocket looked up at the members, "You need to get in position, he says."

"Oh alright, guys come on." The guy with the red tattoo spoke up as he got up from the stool and ran his fingers through his blue hair before shaking his locks into place. Once he was about to walk out the door he looked over at Erza winked and walked out. Loke soon followed mumbling a 'See you ladies later' while keeping his distance from Lucy. Gray got up also and Juvia yipped out loud when he somehow lost his pants and blushed a bright red as he snatched his pants up and placed them on. Now the only ones left to leave were Natsu and Gajeel. Natsu was still sitting on the floor dumbfounded and Gajeel was starting at the bluenette who was helping her friend up. Erza finally getting her emotions under check stared back at them and yanked Natsu off the floor and threw him through the door, she was about to pull Gajeel who instead pushed himself up and started walking out the door himself.

"Hey Lucy and Levy want to join us on the 'sidelines'?" Erza looked at them and smiled as they were readjusting themselves.

"Um... actually would it be okay if we just go out into the V.I.P. section and watch from down there?" Levy asked.

"Yeah you can," Erza stated sweetly, "But make sure you keep you're backstage passes close to you." She ended sweetly.

"Thanks." This time it was Lucy who answered and the girls walked out of the room and out the exit doors.

After Lucy and Levy left backstage they went to the restroom to fix themselves and then went to stand in front of the stage as the opening act was doing their last song.

"Oh my goodness Lucy, what our luck to be able to go backstage to meet them. But it turned out we only talked to mostly just Natsu and Gajeel." Levy smiled with a slight blush on her face.

"Oh I know and I would never have believed that THAT was how they acted. i thought it was all an act." Lucy smiled back at her friend. "Any way what did you and mister dark, tall, and gruffy talk about?"

"Oh you know, normal questions you would ask when meeting someone new." Levy looked up to the stage as the stagehands were moving around for the band to come on stage.

"So are you aren't scared of him?"

"No why would I?"

"Oh I dont know... maybe because everything that is said about him is bad. Like hes very cold and mean. He only tends to himself and that he doesn't-"

"Oh no. He isn't like that at all." Levy turns to her friend and stares at her like she has lost her mind. "He is very quiet thats true but I believe its because he doesn't know how to act around a lot of people. He is some what mean, he kept calling me shrimp, and making fun of me being short..." she smiles gently "But I think he was just teasing, just to get my reaction."

"Oh. so you," Lucy slides up against her, "Liiiiikkkeee him." She teases Levy.

"Uh... What...And what about you and Natsu" Levy stutterers and smiles at Lucy.

"What are you talking about? We were just having a conversation."

"Mhm. What about the whole stool incident?" Levy teased her friend.

"He saved me from getting hit." Lucy blushed a deep crimson when she remembered opening her eyes seeing his naked chest.

"Mhm." Levy left it at that as the lights dimmed and a fog machine started up rolling fog over the stage.