Chapter 2
As Natsu left he looked back to find Lucy no longer looking at him through the door. That's too bad, he thought. I guess not as into me as I thought she was. I can't be distracted though, I have to go to Bixlow and tell him my idea. Hopefully he'll be at the studio. As Natsu arrived to the studio he went to find Bixlow. As Natsu went around from room to room looking for his producer he ran into Lisanna, or more like she ran into him.
"Oh hey Natsu, I didn't see you there. What're you doing?"
"I'm looking for Bixlow. Have you seen him?"
"No but I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tomorrow evening, if you don't have any plans that is. How about it Natsu?"
"I-uh-I already have plans tomorrow night. Thanks though Liz. If you don't mind now I've gotta get going before this new idea for a song leaves my head."
"Oh, okay then. See you around Natsu." Lisanna sighed. What was she doing wrong? She always tries so hard to get Natsu to notice her but it's like he doesn't even know what a girl is! Wait, what are his plans for tomorrow night? I'll ask Mira, she'll probably know. With that Lisanna left for the bar her sister worked at to ask if she knew anything about Natsu's plans.
"There you are Bix! Took me long enough to find you."
"Yo! Natsu! What's up?"
"I've got a great idea for a new song, and I want you to hear it."
"OOOOOOHHH STOP THE WORLD! NATSU has got an IDEA?! Does this mean that I won't be the one to write all your songs anymore?"
"Honestly Bix it's not as if I'm without a brain. Yeah, I've got an idea. And you'll be getting help soon remember? Someone from Crocus is supposed to be coming in. Apparently he's really good. Anyway just shut up and listen for a second."
"Whatever you say boss man. Shoot."
"And don't judge either, it's…kinda a love song-"
"Even more unexpected, but okay."
"This girl she came 'round the corner
Looking like a model
Magazine figure
She was shaped like a bottle
Long straight hair
She was fly as a bird
First time ever
I was lost for words
Felt so right
Just couldn't be wrong
Love at first sight
If that exists at all
I couldn't move
Felt like I was stuck
And then baby girl looked up"
Bixlow looked at Natsu like he was from another dimension.
"What?" he asked.
"Nothing, it's just that…that was pretty unexpected coming from the most dense rock head to ever exist."
"Hey! It's not like I don't know what a girl is or anything!"
"Well you certainly don't act like it. I like it though, you can work on it with the new guy that comes in in a few days. It does however raise a question."
"What question?"
"Who's the girl?" Bixlow asked with a precarious look in his eyes
At this Natsu blushed slightly and he looked away quickly in hopes that Bixlow wouldn't see it. "She's uh-she's new to Magnolia, and she um-she-her name is Lucy…she's beautiful, and smart, and interesting, and funny in an amusing kind of way."
"When did you meet her?"
"Uuuhh…what time is it?"
"4:40"
"So about an hour ago."
"An hour ago?! Bro did you even have a legit conversation with her before you came up with those lyrics?"
"Uh-maybe? I mean I came up with them the instant I saw her, but I did have a "legit" conversation with her."
Bixlow let out an exasperated sigh. "As long as you know what you're doing man. Just don't let Lisanna find out okay? She's got a thing for you."
"Huh? Lisanna? A thing?."
"She likes you, but you seem to be the only one that doesn't know. She can be a jealous bitch. I would know." He shivered at the memory as he thought about his own fling with the girl.
"I don't think she'll give me any problems, but I'll make sure to look out for her."
"You will literally have to watch all the areas around you if you go on a date with this Lucy girl and make sure she's not just "randomly" in the crowds or at a table somewhere else in the restaurant."
"Okay Bix, I get it. I'll make sure Lisanna doesn't interfere with Lucy and I."
"How adorable. You talk as if you guys are together already."
"I'm leaving now. Bye Bix. See you tomorrow"
"Bye lover boy!" he yelled as Natsu left the studio room. "He's got it bad already," Bixlow snickered.
Elsewhere Lisanna was just walking into the bar. "Hey Mira." Lisanna called out.
Mira looked over and smiled, "Lizzy! What a surprise. What are you doing here?"
"I came for the daily gossip and pairings." Lisanna said with a grin that didn't reach her eyes. Not that Mira noticed though, she was long gone with hearts in her eyes.
"OH! Well there was this major thing that almost any guy in this bar could tell you about, but I'll tell you my point of view. So there's a new girl that came into the bar today and nearly every guy in here gathered around her. Guess who even joined in and actually stole the girl away for himself?" Mira said with a sickeningly sweet look in her eye.
"Who?" Lisanna asked.
"NATSU!" Mira said.
Lisanna faltered at this. What? Natsu….was…into…a…girl? A girl that wasn't her? Who was she? Where did she come from? What's her name? Was she more beautiful than her? Was that it? Was she not beautiful enough for Natsu? Maybe it was her hair, it was white not some pretty blue or brown. Are his plans tomorrow night with this girl? Who is she?! She didn't voice her worries though. All she said was: "Oh really?"
"Yes! He bravely dove into that crowd of men surrounding the young girl and dug her out with is bare hands. He took her to a booth in the corner. I'm assuming it was to prevent people from seeing her because of the way they reacted the first time. They spent a long amount of time over there. I don't know all of what they talked about but I do know that they made plans for tomorrow night. They'll be meeting here at seven."
At this point Lisanna feigned interest and stopped listening. She had gotten the information she had wanted. How could he? Didn't he know that she loved him? Of course he didn't, he was as dense as a rock. Everyone knew Natsu didn't take notice to girls so why would he take notice to her? Then again why did he take interest in this girl? She still didn't know her name, but that didn't matter. What mattered was that Natsu had a date with some new girl tomorrow night at seven, and she was going to do everything she could to make sure it turned out as un-datelike as possible. If un-datelike is even a word, but that didn't matter either because she knew what she meant and this was all in her head so no one else could hear her but her. Dammit she was rambling again. I really need to stop talking to myself like this. I don't want to destroy another relationship, she thought. Lisanna decided that it was time for her to go and plan on how to ruin this girl's date tomorrow.
"Hey Mira?"
"…and then-yeah Lisanna?"
"I've gotta get going but it was nice catching up with the gossip. Tell Elfman I said hi. I'll see you later okay?"
"Okay, bye Lisanna. I'll let Elfman know."
As Lucy got home she put her bag down and took off her shoes. "It's already dinner time. Guess I'll make something." Lucy made herself some spaghetti with meatballs from scratch, and boy did she love the taste of it. "Definitely worth the wait." She mumbled to herself. As she went to go put in Jurassic World to watch whilst she ate there was a knock on her door.
Who could that be? I don't know anyone yet except Natsu and Levy, but I didn't give either of them my address.
As Lucy opened the door she stood looking at a girl with white hair like Mira's except this girl's hair was short. "Hello. Uumm, do I know you?" Lucy asked.
"No. I'm Lisanna, Mira's sister. I just wanted to welcome you to Magnolia and was wondering if you would like to hang out tomorrow?"
"Uuuh…sure? Do you want to come in, I was just about to have dinner. Would you like some?" Lucy was thoroughly confused as to how this girl had gotten ahold of her address, but she seemed as sweet as Mira, and on top of that she was Mira's sister so she decided to trust her for now.
"I would love to. I'm starving!" Lucy moved so Lisanna could walk in. Lisanna observed the apartment as she walked in.
It's actually pretty nice in here. Damn. She had found out the girls name, address, number, and where she lived before this, among other things, in her research about the girl. Her name was Lucy Hearfilia, her address was 1623 Strawberry Street, apartment number 7 and her rent was beyond expensive. She lived in Crocus near the royals before she moved here. Her parents were the famous singers/songwriters Jude and Layla Heartfilia. Her mother passed away when Lucy was seven in a terrible plane accident on her way to one of Jude's concerts in Australia, the plane and most of the passengers were never found. Her dad soon fell off the deep end and stopped singing, for he "couldn't do it without his partner". Not that the man would struggle with finances anytime soon, he was set for the rest of his life actually. He struggled with his emotions though, and because of that Lucy more than likely suffered not only through his depression but her own as well. Currently, Jude is immersed in writing songs for the princess to sing in her free time. For that he is paid quite handsomely for, almost as much as he made when he was a performer. As Lisanna went over all of this in her head she looked at the girl named Lucy and saw that she was indeed pretty, beautiful even. Of course Natsu is into her. Look at her. She looks like a god or something with that long blonde hair, those bodacious curves, and especially those shimmering brown eyes.
"So Lisanna, are you good with Jurassic World?"
Pulled out of her thoughts Lisanna focused on Lucy. "What?" said girl asked.
"I asked if you were good with watching Jurassic World while we eat dinner."
"Oh, yeah that sounds good. I haven't seen it yet actually."
"What?! Haven't seen it?! We are definitely watching it. It's one of my favorites because of the dinosaurs. They kind of remind me of dragons, you know? They're both scaly and are reptiles and are huge in size. Lisanna?"
Lisanna was pulled out of her thoughts once again. "Huh?"
"What were you zoning out about?"
"Oh nothing really. Just how alike you are to one of my friends is all."
"Oh really? Do they like dinosaurs too?"
"Dragons actually. He likes dragons. He's pretty obsessed with them. Quite the fanatic."
"Oh that's great! Maybe I could meet him sometime?"
"Yeah sure. Maybe when we hang out tomorrow."
"That sounds like a plan," Lucy smiled, happy at the thought of meeting someone else who also likes dragons as much, if not more than, her.
Oh great, Lisanna thought. She's probably thinking about him now. Wait, no she's not. How stupid of me, she doesn't know that it's Natsu that I'm talking about. DUH LISANNA! I should probably at least act like I'm watching the movie. I should also prepare the plans with Lucy tomorrow. Not that I'll tell her that I plan to slightly run into her date time or prevent her from having the ever so desired date with my Natsu. Yeah I called Natsu mine and I won't deny it or be ashamed of it because I love him and almost everyone knows it, except for him. Damn that dense idiot! Wait did she say something?
Lisanna looked over at Lucy to find Lucy staring at her as if expecting her to reply to something she said. "I'm sorry, did you say something Lucy? I was so wrapped up in the movie I guess." She faked a smile to the point of her believing she looked "fake" as the younger people called it these days.
Lucy smiled back. "It's fine. I asked if you had any idea about what you wanted to do tomorrow. I don't really know of any hotspots around here since I just moved here, so I figured you might already have an idea as to what you had wanted to do tomorrow."
"Oh! Yes! I have plans to take you to see all the sights of Magnolia! Quite literally almost everywhere. The bake shop, the book store, the ocean, the farmers market, the central fountain, and so much more! We'll end at the bar Mira works at around seven-ish."
"Sounds like a lot of fun! How did you know that I've met Mira?" Lucy asked slightly confused.
Lisanna chuckled. "Mira told me she met "the new girl" earlier and so she told me all about those guys flocking around you. So sorry about that by the way. Some of those guys just don't know when to quit!"
Lucy laughed. "I could tell, although there was one guy who helped me out of the crowd. I think I'll be forever grateful considering I could hardly breathe with all of the testosterone surrounding me." The girls both fell over laughing at that. I really do like her, Lucy thought. I hope that we become great friends. Lucy smiled inwardly at the thought of becoming friends with the girl in front of her. I really do like it here.
As the night went on and the movie ended Lisanna decided it was time for her to go. "Well, I've got to go. It was really nice meeting you Lucy! Want to meet up outside your apartment at six tomorrow morning?"
"Why so early?" Lucy asked with a rather reluctant look on her face.
"Because silly! The first thing I want you to see is the view of Magnolia at sunrise, so we have to go to the outskirts of the city to see it all, and as I'm sure you've noticed we don't really drive around here."
This was all part of Lisanna's plan, wake her up early and get her tired this way she won't have the energy for a decent date later on in the evening. "So? How about it? Outside your apartment at six?"
"Sure, I guess." Lucy said hesitantly. "I'll see you tomorrow at six then." Lucy got up to show Lisanna out, as she was taught to do when company was leaving.
"Bye Lucy! See you tomorrow." Lisanna said a little too enthusiastically.
"Bye Lisanna." Lucy smiled at the girl. As Lucy shut the door she thought: She sure is a lively one isn't she? I guess I'll find out just how lively she can get tomorrow. She must have a lot seeing as to how she wants to show me around for over half the day. Now that I think about it she'll be dragging me around for thirteen hours! I hope I still have energy to go on that date with Natsu tomorrow. With those final thoughts Lucy laid down to sleep, not entirely looking forward to the day ahead.
As Natsu laid down in his hammock to go to sleep he couldn't stop thinking.
"Flamebrain thinking?!" His rival/ best friend Gray would say. Funny. He was thinking about Gray of all people when he was thinking about Lucy.That's right, Lucy! I can't believe what I did today! So much fake confidence and I actually made a DATE for us! Where is all of this coming from? Did I pick all this up from the bar? From the other guys with their girls?
As Natsu thought more and more he realized that he couldn't have gotten it from any of the guys. Ice Princess is too dumb to know how he feels. Gajeel is to rough and seemingly uncaring, which Natsu is not. Laxus hides his feelings, although everyone knows he's got a thing for the barmaid. Bix is too much of a playboy for Natsu to even want to pick anything up from him. Freed seems uninterested in girls period. Sting is also overly confident, which Natsu also wasn't, he was just a little more confident than usual. Rogue doesn't seem too interested in girls either, and Elfman is a completely different story altogether that Natsu didn't even feel like thinking about. Maybe he picked it up from one of the girls? Nah, that'd be dumb.
I wonder if Lucy is thinking about me right now, he thought. I hope so. I wonder what she's doing right now. I wonder what she's going to do during the day before our date tomorrow. I wonder if her lips are soft. Wait, what?! Stop it Natsu, you're not together just yet! Where did that even come from anyway? You never think about things like that. "Maybe it's because she's different." Natsu said out loud.
"Who's different?" His cat, Happy, asked.
"What?! Oh, no one. Just a girl I met earlier today. A very pretty girl." He mumbled the last part.
"A what girl?"
"Nothing Happy, don't worry about it. Try to get some rest. Don't you have to meet up with Wendy and Carla tomorrow?"
"Oh yeah! Goodnight Natsu." And with that the cat laid down in his bed and went off into fantasy land to dream of delicious fish with Carla's scent.
Natsu chuckled at the behavior of his partner and friend. He had it as bad, if not worse, than Natsu did when it came to girls, even though Happy had known Carla for a few years now.
Natsu sighed.
Would she enjoy the date? Where will she want to go? Maybe the bell tower? Yeah. I'll set something up for us at the top this way she'll get to see the view of Magnolia at night.
With his plans set and some anxiety released Natsu slipped into a slumber filled with illustrious chocolate colored eyes.
Thanks to those that followed, favorited, and reviewed or PM'd me! This is my first fanfic and I really like it so far. I have so many more ideas to write down in the future, but for now I only want to focus on one because I have a lot of school work. Thanks for understanding. Leave a review and let me know what you thought please. Thanks guys!