"Geez, I really shouldn't have stayed for that extra hour" Lucy mumbled as she walked back to her dorm. Her good friend Levy had thrown a party, well it was more like a booze fest, at her dorm and had demanded that her 'bestest friend in the world' come. Lucy had tried to deny, she had a ten page essay due the next day and really couldn't go. But Levy had made her feel guilty by saying how Lucy never came to her parties, which was kinda true, but only because she was busy.

While she had drunk a bit she was nowhere close to intoxicated, unlike most of the guests of the party had been, so she planned to write her essay tonight and live on coffee tomorrow. Really she should just have said no.

Sighing she continued her walk home, completely undisturbed until she noticed the drunk man swaying around ahead of her. Drawing closer she noticed that he seemed to have a scarf wrapped around his forehead as he sung some drunken tune. He looked familiar; Lucy guessed that he must have been at Levy's party since she knew of no other party on campus.

"Hey, you" the man said pointing at her.

"Huh, what, me?" Lucy said in confusion while pointing at herself.

"Yea, you. Can ya, can ya take me shomwhareeee?" he slurred at her.

"Huh, oh yeah sure. Where to?" Lucy asked, hopefully he didn't turn out to be a manic.

"I don't know, take meee anywhareee!" He cried throwing his arms up in the air.

"Where's your dorm?" Lucy asked, hoping he would be able to remember.

"The BIG brick one!" he said moving his hands far apart as if to emphasis big.

"Okay but umm, all of the dorms are pretty big and made of bricks" Lucy pointed out.

"Oooooooh yeah I kinda furgot" he said before looking around. "I think it's dat one" he said pointing at one of the dorms "No wait I think it's dat one" he said pointing at another "No wait."

Seeing where this was most likely going Lucy stepped in and said "How about you come back to my dorm?"

"Uh yea shuuuure" he said before slinging his arm around her shoulder.

Huffing from the extra weight, she half walked, half dragged the stranger to her dorm. When she reached her dorm room she shrugged him off her and when she heard the thud she looked over and saw him lying on the floor.

"Whoops" he said with a glazed look in his eyes.

"Geez you're an idiot" she mumbled as she opened the door. Looking down at him she wondered if it wasn't worth the effort to get him up and into her room. Maybe she should just leave him out here. But she did have an extra bed since her roommate seemed to spend most of her life now at her boyfriend's apartment.

"Can you get up?" she asked with her hands on her hips.

"Yea" he said as he continued to lay on the ground.

"You gonna get up?" she asked.

"I am" he said.

"Okay" she said before grabbing his arm and beginning to pull on it to hopefully pull him into the room. It was proving fruitless when after a few minutes of her pulling she had only managed to get his head through her door, he weighed a ton!

"Gerroff me" he demanded "I can do dis by myself."

"Uh huh, sure you can" she said rolling her eyes as she let go of his arm. This time though he did get up and walk into the room. "Ok, you can sleep on this bed" she said pointing to her roommate's bed. Without a word he fell onto the bed and promptly fell asleep.

Sighing she decided to turn all of her attention to finishing her essay for class tomorrow. Looking over at the stranger one last time she noticed for the first time that he had pink hair. "Huh, what an odd color" she thought. But she had no time for thinking about a stranger that she had never talked to; she needed to finish her essay.

"Finally, I finished it" Lucy sighed as she leaned back in her chair. Resting her head on the back of the chair she closed her eyes for a second. She had been able to finish her essay, and with an hour before class started. Maybe she could take a thirty minute nap, it sounded like a rather good idea to her.

"Where the hell am I?" came a groggy voice from behind her. Opening her eyes, Lucy turned her head over to the bed that the drunken stranger she had found last night resided. The man was sitting on the bed clutching his head muttering "Damn, I've got a killer headache. What the hell did I drink last night?"

"You're awake" Lucy said out loud without even moving.

"What the-?" the guy said jumping a foot in the air before turning around and finding Lucy staring at him. "Oh, um, sorry. Am, I intruding or something, did I do anything stupid or something. Please don't tell me that I just stumbled in her last night and fall asleep on your bed or somethin'."

"No" Lucy said keeping her eyes trained on the man; she was finally noticing what he looked like. Now that the scarf seemed to have fallen off his head, she saw that he did have pink hair. She also noticed that he looked very nice. With the way he was built he had to be an athlete or at least in some major that required come kind of exercise.

"So, um how did I get here?" the guy asked looking around the room.

"Oh, well I kinda found you drunk and wandering around campus. You asked me to take you somewhere and when you couldn't tell me where your dorm was I took you back to my room" Lucy said shrugging her shoulders.

"Well thanks, I hope I didn't bother you" the guy said rubbing the back of his head.

"Other than your loud snoring, you didn't bother me that much."

"Oh, uh, good I guess" the gut said running his fingers through his hair. "Oh wait" he said his eyes widening slightly "I haven't introduced myself, I'm Natsu Dragneel and you are?"

"Lucy Heartfilia" Lucy answered before smiling. Now she had a name to go along with a face, and what an interesting name it was.

"Well Lucy, I think I should thank you for your troubles. According to my friends I'm not a very fun drunk to take care of" Natsu said with a smile.

"Oh it's no problem, besides you could've been worse."

"No, I insist really. I can take you out for coffee or something" Natsu said obviously not planning on taking no for an answer.

"Well, I guess coffee sounds good" Lucy said with a shrug, though after she finished with her classes today she really didn't want to do anything but sleep.

"Cool" Natsu said with a grin "What time would be good for you today?"

"Today, you mean like later today?" Lucy asked, she truthfully was hoping if she was going to go out somewhere with him it could be tomorrow.

"Umm yeah, what else would I mean when I say today?" the guy asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I was just hoping we could do it tomorrow, I kinda stayed up all last night" Lucy explained.

"Did my snoring keep you up?" Natsu asked cocking his head.

"No, I had to finish an essay" Lucy said shaking her head.

"If you had to finish an essay, why were you out on campus?"

"My friend had insisted on me coming to her party. So when I was walking back I found you" Lucy explained before pushing her chair out and getting up. Stretching her arms she turned around to him and asked "So umm can you leave?"

"Huh, oh yeah sure. You probably have class soon right?" Natsu asked scrambling to his feet and heading towards the door "So coffee tomorrow at six, at that one close to campus, how does that sound?"

"It sounds fine" she responded. Waving at her before her left, Natsu quickly left the room. Sighing Lucy decided that she better start getting somewhat ready, it looked like she wasn't going to be able to take that nap after all.