These first three drabbles were all fairly new ones to lure you in;) hehe, but I think the next few will be some of my older writing so it doesn't get progressiviley worse with every update as I continue this Drabble Compilation, but hopefully the other way around. :'D I hope you'll still like them, haha.
So, this one's an AU! I combined the writing prompt with this other one I found on tumblr and it went like this:
my friend can't stop talking about how they want to set me up with their other friend so we start texting each other and they're hilarious but shy about meeting and ALSO there's a cute bike delivery guy who brings my mail at work and winks at me whenever i sign for a package AU
sussurant - softly murmuring, whispering
I'm eating chocolate chip cookies right now. I bet they'd taste better if you'd share them with me. -D
Lucy dropped her phone onto the table with an exasperated sigh.
"Why?"
Her best friend, who had been quietly slurping on a mango smoothie while she studied Lucy's blushing face, leaned forward with a slightly amused expression. "Why what? What'd he write?"
"No. Not him. Why did you have to give me this guy's number? Why?"
"Ohoo, Lucy, sounds like you really like him." Her grin only spread further.
"Levy, you're a horrible friend."
Smugly, the petite woman leaned back into Lucy's comfortable vintage couch. You could get lost in there if you tried hard enough. What had once been red was now a faded pink, but blended in with the rest of Lucy's cozy little flat perfectly. Her favourite piece of furniture by far.
"Mhh, you know you love me. Imagine if it would've been Cana who-"
"Ok ok, I admit it. I like him. This guy- ugh. He's- Levy- are you sure Gajeel is not playing a trick on the both of us?"
"One hundred percent. Believe me, I've met the guy before. Also, Gajeel wouldn't dare. Ever."
What sounded like a threat was a simple fact for both Levy and Lucy. They knew how head over heels Gajeel was for the little bluenette. A mutual feeling, after all.
"Levyyyy." Lucy sunk further into the couch as she drawled out her best friend's name. "He seems…perfect. It's just too good to be true. He's hilarious, and nice and from what you've described he's handsome too and ahhh."
Levy chuckled. "So, why have you not met him yet?"
The blonde's face fell. "Dunno." she mumbled. "He always seems to avoid the topic.. but he keeps texting me, and I just don't understand…ah, it's frustrating. But hey! Who cares if he doesn't want to meet me! Actually-" her eyes started twinkling mischievously. "He's not the only one who seems to have noticed me lately There's been this delivery boy…"
Within minutes, Levy knew all about the cute guy who had recently taken over the duty of delivering packages to Lucy, always a big grin on his face and a cheeky aura in his wake. To her shame, she admitted she had taken to do a lot more online shopping than she had used to…
"..and oh wow, his body. I mean, even with the uniform, I swear, he must be carved by Michelangelo or something."
"But what about his face? Come on Lu, I need more details. Actually, you know, that other-"
She was cut short by the doorbell. Their eyes met, growing wide in unison as Levy discovered in her friend's eye something that could only be conjured up by-
"Is it him?"
"I- I think so! I ordered…" she faltered, a little embarassed by the dephths into which she had sunken. "I ordered some books."
Levy snorted. "Lucy, if I'm not mistaken then your favourite bookstore is just around the corner?"
"Shut up." she hissed as she jumped up and disappeared from Levy's view on her way to the front door. But the little pixie had no intentions of keeping her view on the balcony door. As inconspicuously as possible, she craned her neck and caught Lucy opening the front door to what was undoubtedly the delivery guy.
"Yo!"
"Oh, hi, it's you! Uh. Haha, thanks for walki- uh, jogging all the way up here."
Lucy tried to keep her eyes on his face, she really did. It wouldn't have been hard under normal circumstances: The messy salmon hair, those lips that looked oh-so-kissable, the dark pools that were his onyx eyes…
But something else demanded her attention. His body was attractive enough as it was, but right now, his shirt was clinging to his heaving chest, and there were these distracting, small beads of sweat that travelled down his left collarbone, disappearing under his shirt, right where the yellow END logo was emblazoned into its fabric. He really had jogged, it seemed.
"Yeah, I, uh, wanted to deliver it on time? It's really important, apparently." He ruffled a hand through his damp hair, and Lucy suddenly had to fight the urge to reach out and brush the unruly strands back out of his face.
Why did he have to be so irresistible? And why did she have to meet him now, when that other guy was always at the front of her mind aswell? Life was truly cruel.
"I just need a signature, right here." With a wink, he handed her the form. He always did that. It drove her insane. Trying to fight the slight tremble in her fingers, she reached out and grabbed the pen out of his hand, not missing the electric spark as their hands briefly touched.
"Alright, thanks! I'll be off then, don't wanna keep you from your, uh, guest?"
"Oh, no , L- " Lucy turned her head back around towards the couch, but her friend was nowhere to be seen. "- huh? Must've gone to the bathroom."
Slightly confused, she turned back towards the door, but her delivery guy was already at the stairs. With a last grin flashed her way, he started dashing down the stairs.
"And don't forget to open the package! My friend said it's important! For his girlfriend or something. She's here apparently? Bye!"
"Wait, wh-"
But he was gone. Now curiosoty gripped her, and she eyed the small package in her hands. From his friend? For..Levy? What was going on?
"Hey, Levy.."
Lucy jumped when her friend's head of hair reappeared from her hiding spot behind the couch's backrest. "Levy, what the-"
"Lucy! That was him! That was the guy!"
"Uh, yeah? I just told you about-"
"No! The other guy!"
Realization slowly dawned on Lucy's face. "What?!"
But Levy was already in front of her. "I heard everything. Give me that package! This can only mean one thing - Gajeel knew I was here, so maybe he figured out that Natsu was delivering things here, and- oh my!"
Her tiny hands fumbled with the adhesive tape, but finally she managed to get it off enough to rip open the cardboard.
"What the hell?"
Inside was a stone.
"Levy, your boyfriend is-" - "No, wait!"
Triumphantly, Levy pulled out a little note.
He doesn't know, so you better go after him because he's a shy-ass loser.
"Does this mean what I think it means?"
"Lucy, you have to stop him! Now!"
"Uh, but, I mean, how, and-" Lucy's head was spinning. There was no way she could run down the stairs in time, they were to many. And she knew he always arrived by bike. Her only chance was…
She dashed past Levy frantically, ripping open the sliding door to the balcony within seconds.
"Hey, you!"
It felt like a weight lifted off her chest when she made out a tuft of pink hair, and when the breaks squeaked slightly as he came to a halt and looked upwards, her heart gave a leap of insane courage. She would not let him go. Not her two-birds-with-one-stone-guy.
"Could you come back upstairs for a second? There's, uh, something wrong with the package?"
And he did.
When he arrived back upstairs, he was even more out of breath than before, and it most definitely seemed to come to a complete still stand when his eyes fell on the girls standing in the door frame.
"Ah, Levy! So you really are here. Haha, I thought Gajeel might've pranked me, the idiot. He was acting a bit strange."
Wordlessly, his friend handed him the note she had read out to Lucy moments ago. His eyes were wide when he lifted them back up.
"I don't know what?"
His eyes fixed themselves on the blonde behind Levy yet again. Somehow they always did. And he was surprised to find her blushing furiously, fumbling with her smartphone. Hesitantly, she stepped towards him with the shining screen pointed at him. Huh?
I'm eating chocolate chip cookies right now. I bet they'd taste better if you'd share them with me. -D
"No waaay!"
The joyful smile that spread across his face made Lucy forget all about her doubts or nervosity. And her responding, delighted yet shy grin also made him forget about any or all inhibitions he had had.
"I can't belive this. So you…damn, that bastard! I'll have to give him a piece of my mind, or better yet, my fist, as soon as I-"
"Uh, Natsu."
His head reluctantly turned back to his best mate's girlfriend.
"Maybe not now? Maybe now, you should… ask her out?"
"Levy, you can't just say that! What if he doesn't want to! What even is going on here, I can't believe this is happening. Natsu, I'm so sorry, you don't have to, uh, do this?"
But he was too mesmerized by how his name had rolled off her tongue. However rare the occasions, he loved it whenever she spoke it out loud.
"But, wait. Your name is Natsu, right? Why the D then?"
"What? Oh, you mean the signature? It's my last name, Dragneel, and also-" He beamed. "It could stand for dragon and other cool things!"
The boyish joy on his face all but made her heart melt. She grinned at him as her heart gave a little leap.
Levy inched closer and closer to the entrance.
"I'll be back inside."
Neither of the two heard her.
"So…" the boy called Natsu Dragneel grinned brightly, and had to clear his throat as his hand sheepishly ruffled through his hair yet again.
"What she said."
"W-what who said?"
"Levy. You know, about that- Ah, scratch that." He straigtened his upper body and stepped closer.
"Lucy."
Oh dear. The sound of her name on his lips was enough to make her knees buckle. It was only a soft murmur at this point. When he noticed her reaction, he seemed much more confident all of a sudden.
"You wanna go on a date? I still have some of those cookies left."