Chapter 2: Let's be friends
" I think you're on Natsu's 'interesting' list." The girl named Mira who Lucy had just met sang in glee. Lucy raised a brow at her and the other girls at the table just smiled knowingly.
" Huh? Why?" Levy, who Lucy had already made friends with in first period, nudged her shoulder playfully.
" Natsu never stands up for anyone, and if he does it's usually for a friend or it's very rare. He stood up for you though when Sting was getting on your case!" Lucy watched her cheer in excitement. She then looked over to the two boys that were getting separated from some teachers.
" No. I can already tell those guys hate each other, so maybe it was just an instinct?" Cana shook her head along with Lisanna.
" No. Because the other day, Sting was picking on a girl and Natsu didn't even notice." Lisanna smiled happily. Lucy pondered there words for a moment and looked back at Natsu and Sting.
" We just met each other. He can't be interested in someone like me." The girls all gave her a smug smile.
" Then why are you blushing Lucy?" Lucy stared at them curiously and put a hand to her face, and clear enough, it was burning. Lucy herself didn't know why she was getting so excited and actually dawned on the fact of any guy even being somewhat interested. It was probably because she never took it into consideration since she had previously been going to an all girls school.
" Could it be that... You've never had a boyfriend Lucy?" Somehow, Cana got it spot on and Lucy could only blush more and lower her head. The girls giggled.
" It's alright Lucy. I don't have a boyfriend either." Wendy tried to comfort the girl along with Juvia who nodded saying so too. Lucy looked up at her and Juvia and smiled. Levy turned her head and eyed Cana.
" Cana, you don't have a boyfriend either."
" shit, I've been found out." They all laughed for a bit and Lucy found herself really liking these girls. She liked how easy it was to talk to her new found friends. Erza then stopped from her laughing and turned her head over.
" Ah. They're going to the infirmary now." They all turned their head over to the boys and began to laugh, besides Lucy that is. She was still attached to her mother's rule to never laugh at someone else's pain. So she just smiled politely.
" Th-they look s-so ridiculous!" They laughed even harder when they watched the two boys pass by Natsu's group of buddies that started laughing too. A teacher walked up to Lucy and tapped her shoulder.
" Ms. Lucy. Since you pretty much initiated the fight and the nurse in out, you must care for their injuries." Lucy gaped at the teacher and pointed at herself.
" M-Me!? Why!?" The teacher smiled and shook her head.
" It's already been explained. This is how our school goes. Now get up and go!" The teacher cheered happily and sashayed her away. It finally hit Lucy that something was wrong with this school.
" OW!" Sting whined in annoyance. Lucy grumbled when she smacked a bandage pack onto his shoulder.
" Sorry! I'm trying to help! This is all your fault anyways." She grumbled at him, wrapping his upper arm up in a bandage.
" YOU'RE the one who started it!" Lucy ignored him and walked over to Natsu who sat on another bed shirtless.
" Shut up Sting before I make you." Natsu grumbled when Lucy applied some medicine to his back.
" How did you guys even get these injuries on your back!?" Lucy asked in serious shock but seemed to be ignored. She put a band aid over the medicine and Natsu winced slightly. Lucy gasped and rubbed his back in comfort.
" Oh, I'm sorry." Natsu turned his head and smiled.
"Nah. I'm fine." Sting growled at the two, still waiting for Lucy to patch the rest of him up, he crossed his arms in annoyance and turned his head away from the smiling two.
He then felt a weight shift on his bed and he turned his head back around to Lucy who sat there. She grabbed his face and inspected it, Sting felt his cheeks get a little hot. She then rubbed the red mark on his cheek.
" Sorry for slapping you so hard..." Natsu scoffed and crossed his arms.
" What are you apologizing to him for? He deserved it." Lucy sighed and gave Natsu a blank stare, trying her hardest not to stare at his toned body instead. It was her first day and she's already initiated some kind of fight somehow. She placed a small bandage patch over Sting's eyebrow that somehow managed to get bruised up.
How Natsu hit him so high up there? Lucy would never know and decided not to think how, guessing she'd just be ignored again. She then smiled in victory when she finished Sting. She patted his shoulder rather harshly which wasn't intentional, making Sting wince.
" Okay! I'm all done with you, you can put your shirt back on now and head to class!" Lucy sang rather cheerfully. Sting gave her a strange look before sighing and standing up, putting his shirt on in the process.
" Okay, whatever... Thanks Blondie." He said casually, giving Natsu one last glare then walking out the room. Lucy then wondered if Sting knew he was blonde too. The two watched him walk out until he was out of sight. Lucy then turned to Natsu.
His arms were still crossed and he had a pout on his face while he glared at the ground. Lucy rested her hands on her hips once she stood up.
" What's wrong with you now?" She asked in what seemed to sound like an exasperated tone.
" You're too soft." Lucy gawked at him while she sat beside him, rummaging through the first aid kit. But her stupid expression soon turned into an amused smile as she thought of what her new friends had told her about Natsu. Shouldn't be the other way around?
" I'm too soft..?" Lucy repeated with a hint of slight amusement. While she applied some healing cream to a cut up bruise ( Again she would not question ) on his arm, Natsu raised a brow at her, a small smile coming up to his face as well.
" What are you laughing at?" Lucy let out a soft giggled and stuck the last band aid onto his body. " Who said I was laughing?" Lucy stood up and closed the medical kit while Natsu put his shirt back on along with his beloved scarf from his father.
" You just did." Lucy's smile widened and she wondered why she was smiling in the first place if there wasn't really anything to smile about. They were silent for the rest of their short time together in the infirmary. It wasn't that they didn't want to talk to each other, it's just that they didn't know what to talk about since they didn't know anything about each other.
They both walked out of the room together and before Lucy could even turn around to get to class Natsu stopped her.
" Hey Lucy." Lucy turned her head around and raised a brow.
" What?" Natsu proudly rested one hand above his thigh while the other arm stretched out towards Lucy courageously.
" Let's be friends!" Lucy eyed him, staring at his wide toothy grin that she'd only seen him give to his friends a few times today. She turned around and gave him a wry grin. She extended her hand out to his and grasped it.
They both smiled and shook hands.
" Okay then!"
Lucy opened her eyes groggily to the sound of an alarm clock going off. She lifted herself up and rested on one arm, rubbing her eyes sleepily.
" Hey Lucy! Get the hell up- Oh. You're up."
Lucy nearly broke her neck falling off the bed. She shot right up and stared at the window by her bed. There, Natsu was perched happily on the window seal. Lucy could feel her face flare up.
" Natsu! How the hell do you know where I live!?" Natsu scratched the back of his head lamely and shrugged.
" I was walkin' by here yesterday and I saw you walkin' in here with groceries." Lucy growled and smacked her hand to her face.
" But what if it wasn't my place and I was just running errands for someone?" She asked between closed teeth. Natsu's grin widened and he rested both hands behind his head.
" I knew you lived her 'cause I saw you getting dressed in front of your window, I think you'd look better in red bras. Plus you should really get some curtains or something." Her face was almost as crimson as Erza's hair. She grasped the brush by her bed and threw it at Natsu, which he dodged with no effort. Outside, a yell could be heard about someone screaming: " AH! My head- What the hell!?" The two both sweat dropped.
" Get out of here!" She grabbed for something else. Natsu raised his hands in surrender, smiling some type of knowing smile though he knew nothing. He turned around on the window seal, about to jump off. Lucy's jaw dropped, how was he able to jump down from a two a two story apartment?
" Fine. Fine. But Lucy..." Natsu turned his head over his shoulder and gave Lucy a very intense and serious look making Lucy gulp softly.
" You should really look into getting red bras." He laughed and then jumped off the window. Lucy squealed and looked over, sighing in relief when she saw him land perfectly. The relief soon was flooded away with embarrassment.
" NATSU! I'm going to kill you!"
Author's note: Hey guys, I know it seems a little rushed and all but I need to be working on my other stories too and I have stuff going on making it harder for me. Anyways, I'll try to post new chapters regularly, hope you enjoyed!