I'm so sorry for the delayed chapter. it's hard writing when black outs happen before I even saved the chapter, so i had to create another one. And school is another problem. sorrryyy I hope you'll like this one though.

Chapter 4

"Edward! Please, come back to me in one piece!"

"I will my love! I promise my dear Isabella.."

"why did you say that to Isabella? You do know we're heading to the most dangerous part of Tartaros. We expect much of death, yet you're lying to her."

"I am not lying to her, I will go back to her. I may die in this battle, but I promise I will return even if it's just my soul."

"EDWAAARD! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Sweat beads streamed down my face, I was breathless for a moment there, I found myself staring at nothingness. A comical sweat formed on my temple. I checked the clock on my side table. It's still 1:12 am.

"d-did I just yelled? I hope that was just my imagination yelling eheh..hehe"

I found the book I read earlier in the evening, sprawled on the pillow next to me. "I better stop reading before going to sleep, I might get hyped for the next chapter." Sheesh.

I was about to return to sleep when the doors burst open.

"WHO'S EDWARD?! WHERE?!"

Startled at the sudden outburst, I saw him with his all his manliness and courage ready to bust out anyone called 'Edward'. But realization hit me when I found him without a shirt on.

"WHY ARE YOU NAKED!?" I threw a pillow directly at him and immediately covered my eyes with the bed covers.

"ARE YOU INSANE? IM HALF-NAKED! AND WHERE'S THE FUCKING EDWARD?"

Shit. I don't know how to explain to him that I just had a false awakening from a dream. And he barged in abruptly with all his naked glory..

"I don't know, I think he jumped off the window?"

"seriously? I guess he could jump from this height."

I laughed inwardly, he just had to have that serious look on his face. But my conscience wouldn't take it.

"Really Natsu, I was just dreaming about the main characters of a book I read earlier before I slept. I'm so sorry for waking you up."

His expression had annoyance written all over his face. I guess anyone who would hear someone shouting this late would obviously jolt up to the rescue. I felt sorry and bashful at the same time. He's still a stranger for me you know? And as his wife, I seem so unladylike. I heard him sigh, I knew it, he's mad again. Sigh..

"Do you need water? It's not because I'm concerned with-" his question regained my attention to his dark onyx eyes. Is he concerned about me? It's like the question was the only thing that highlighted in my thoughts, the rest he said were rubbish. And I couldn't take my eyes off him. He just stood there half naked in front of me. Asking me if I needed water..

"water.." I absentmindedly said aloud.

"uhh sure." And so he went downstairs to get some.

Is he finally taking my idea seriously? Will he try to court me and sweep me off my feet? Just thinking of the possibilities of 'us' made me blush.

He returned with a glass of water and handed it to me. And before I could even say thanks he just had to squander my good thoughts of him with his 'nice' comments.

"You bookworms are a hassle, the next time you shout at this same hour, I'll never bother giving you an aid. Even if it's for real. "

His eyes had that spark, a spark of death and hate. I knew it, his anger was still there. I gulped a lump of water. He is this kind of man, why would I even trace any possibilities of us being all lovey-dovey? Sigh.

He went back to his quarters, which is the living room. Since the guest room was locked and he refused to sleep beside me, so? To make it fair, we settled it into a rock paper scissors game which I obviously won and had the room all to myself, I felt proud of my prize of course. Just one thing that he doesn't want me to 'make over' is the wall color. He prefers if his room is still intact with the same color and furnishings he had. And even if I'm dying to change it into pink, I still had no right to change it, since it was his room, originally. I just had to live with it.

The night went silent again, I recovered from his temperament issue and went to sleep. The night's short, I had to make up for the minutes I lost.

"Lucy-sama"

"wake up Lucy-sama"

…

"I'm not a child.. I have no work nor school so why am I still being waken up so early?"

"Natsu-sama woke up minutes ago and he requested you to prepare yourself for incoming visitors."

"geez. Just for visitors? I'm not even gonna come down, tell him not to worry."

"but the visitors are your friends, a girl named Mira and Levy called earlier and Natsu-sama was the one who answered them-"

I jolted up and swiftly went into the bathroom, I nearly forgot that I had to talk to them after the wedding, but unfortunately, my wedding crashed and burned.

"miss supetto you can have a day off or something today, I'll be asking virgo to take your place tonight alright?"

"but Lucy-sama, Natsu-sama wouldn't allow it"

"don't worry, I'll talk to him okay? now go enjoy your day off!" I hurriedly locked the door and searched for my wardrobe. I cant miss this opportunity to see them of course.

I went down the stairs finding Natsu watching something on the flat screen. He noticed me go down and gave me that quizzical look he has.

"what's with that outfit?"

"oh this? Is my favorite street look, you like it?"

"I'll puke on it"

"tch. No sense in fashion" I walked near him and laid myself on the sofa next to him. He was eating pop corn and his legs crossed on top of the coffee table. He glanced in my direction and then went to his screen. I gave him a side long glance, found his shirt wrinkled plus with zero appeal and also his mess on the table. His popcorn spilled in every direction, on his newspapers, some important documents with bold letters of red in watermarks of 'top secret' which is I think should have been kept inside a safe or office perhaps? Hi phone even got water spilled on it, or is it beer? On top of all his mess, the only thing I can clearly recognize is the remote control for the tv. What a mess this guy is? What will my friends react when they see him?

I stared at him for a while and saw that he checked his watch and asked if I would like to have some of his popcorn. I guess he realized that he needed to share his food with me?

I took it gently and sat there looking at the screen. The main door then opened revealing my friends who wore shocked expressions, though I grinned at their entrance. That's when it clicked me.

"I know right? Lucy turned into a pig, and that's so unfortunate of me."

Natsu was giving them a pouty face pointing towards me. And with regards to his wrecked appearance a while ago, he suddenly turned into the neatest guy around! He's now wearing some plain red polo shirt and dark trousers. How the hell did he changed so fast?

"Natsu.. you blame your mess on me!?"

"oops, she gets mad when she's caught bye!" Mira and Levy giggled at his antics.

"don't listen to that idiot, you both know me well right?"

"you two look cute together!" Mira clasped her hands on mine

"And he looks handsome too!" levy added

"let's talk about both of you shall we?"

Sigh.

And he's not even the very first topic I'm excited to tell them..