"Do you ever find it odd that Natsu doesn't have a boyfriend?" Lisanna asked as she sat by the lake at camp, watching the kids in her group swimming.

Gray glanced at Lisanna sideways, an odd look on his face. "What do you mean?" he asked. "Natsu's got tons of girls after him, even if the dense idiot doesn't recognize it."

Lisanna frowned slightly. "Yeah, but think about it! I mean, You and Juvia are together, and Erza has been going out with Jellal for, like, three months! Even Natsu's little cousin has a boyfriend!"

Gray blinked. "You mean Romeo? Yeah, Wendy and Romeo have been going out, but that doesn't mean Natsu wants a girlfriend," Gray pointed out. "Why, do you want to date him?"

"No!" Lisanna said immediately, her cheeks reddening slightly, but in embarrassment. "I mean, when we were kids, I might have wanted too, but I'm over that now." she paused, sighing, and pushed her white bands behind her ear restlessly. "But this isn't about me. You remember my friend Lucy, right?"

Gray nodded. "You want to fix her and Natsu up?" he realized, blinking. "You sure about that? Flame-brain can't really take a hint, you know. He's hopeless." the raven-haired teen blew his hair from his face, glancing at the lake momentarily. He frowned. Lucy and Natsu? It seemed like a stretch to him; then again, he didn't even know the girl very well. All he knew was that she went to the same school as the rest of them and that she was good friends with Mirajane and Lisanna.

Lisanna nodded, smiling brightly. "Think about it! It would be sooooo cute!" she gushed. "And I know that when Mira gets here, she'll come up with a plan. You know how she is."

Gray had to agree with lisanna on that one. Mirajane was the one who had gotten him and Juvia together in the first place, and while her ideas were a bit… strange, they were certainly effective. "Well, let's see what Mira has to say before we jump to conclusions. I don't even want to remember all your failed attempts to find me a girlfriend."

Lisanna pouted and shoved her friend off his lawn chair. "It's your fault for being so picky!" she accused.

Gray yelped as he tumbled from his chair, landing on his butt on the sand beneath him. "Ouch. That was uncalled for," he grumbled, but Lisanna wasn't listening anymore. She was too busy scheming.

-

Lisanna groaned and covered her face with her pillow, sighing loudly into the soft material. It had been hours, and she still hadn't come up with a plan to get Lucy and Natsu together. Maybe Gray was right, maybe she should just give up…

"Now what could have my baby sister looking so upset?" Lisanna's eyes widened at the sound of a very familiar voice, and she threw the pillow off her face and sat up quickly. "Mira!" she squealed excitedly, jumping up to hug her older sister.

The white-haired beauty smiled kindly and hugged Lisanna back. "Hey, Lis," she greeted, and after a moment she gently pushed her younger sister back so she could see her face. "Now tell me why you're so frustrated. I could practically feel it as soon as I got to camp."

Lisanna sighed. "You remember Lucy from school, right?" she said. Lisanna had introduced Lucy to her older sister right before summer. "Well, she's a counselor at camp this year."

Mira clapped her hands together, smiling that beautiful smile of hers. "Oh, how fun! You must be excited," she said.

Lisanna nodded. "The problem is that she doesn't have a boyfriend, or even a love interest," she continued. "I introduced her to Natsu, and well, sparks flew." she smiled slyly at the memory. "But I need your help. Natsu is way too dense to see it."

Mira thought for a moment, and a smile stretched across her face, her eyes twinkling mischievously. Then she gasped, clasping her hands together. "Oh, I can see it now!" she swooned, in a manner not unlike her sister. She closed her eyes. "I hear wedding bells~"

Lisanna sweat-dropped at her sister's behavior; Mira was even worse than she was.

-

Lucy sighed as she headed back to her cabin. Today was quite possibly the longest day of her life, but it was also so much fun. She had Natsu's cousin Wendy in her group, who was simply adorable and nothing like the pink-haired man she had exchanged a few words with. While Natsu was loud and boisterous, Wendy was much softer and very shy, and also very polite, insisting on dubbing her 'Lucy-san' despite the blonde's argument that honorifics were not necessary.

Lucy hummed as she sat down on her bed in the room that she shared with Lisanna and their small group of campers. All of the counselors were put into pairs and assigned a group of ten to twelve younger kids to supervise, and she had ended up with Lisanna, to her relief. She didn't want to be paired up with a stranger. Slowly, her group trickled into the room after her, all of them looking quite tired, save it were Romeo, Wendy's boyfriend. His eyes were bright with excitement. Lisanna came in last, counting the kids to make sure everyone was there, and sighed contentedly as she collapsed on her bunk next to Lucy.

"That was great first day!" the white-haired young woman commented with a smile, turning to face her partner. "Sad that we didn't get to see the other counselors much today, though. Usually there's time set apart for the counselors to mingle, but they didn't have anything today."

Lucy nodded. "I was looking forward to meeting everyone, too," she sighed.

Lisanna smiled slyly. "I think Natsu is going to really like you," she commented, and to her glee, the blonde counselor's cheeks tinted pink at her words. "But then again, Natsu likes everyone," she added.

Lucy shrugged, leaning against the wall. "He seems nice," she replied, looking down.

Lisanna sat up, leaning her head on her hands. "We've been friends since we were little," she sighed nostalgically. "He's a little rough around the edges, but I think once he meets the right girl, he'll settle down a bit."

Lucy glanced at Lisanna, somewhat surprised. "Natsu doesn't have a girlfriend?" she said. "That's odd. He seems like he'd be a ladies' man."

"He is," Lisanna answered with a grin. "But he's also super clueless. Girls flirt with him all the time, but he doesn't even realize it. It's actually kind of sad."

"I see," Lucy murmured, blushing lightly. Perhaps this camp could be a chance for her?