Sorry this is up late guys, I had a major brain fart =.= or ya know, the technical term, writer's block.

Then the document I saved with the chapter had ended up messing up, so when I opened the file, it was blank :o

I cried internally for 30 minutes. ;~;

But here it is now ^-^

I hope you aren't mad it's a few days late D:

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail- she said begrudgingly, I'm getting tired of saying this ;-;

Anyways...

Enjoy.

Chapter 4: Cafes and Feelings

Normal POV

"Uhm, can I have a chai latte?"

"Anything else miss?" A feminine voice rang out.

"No thanks." Lucy smiled politely in the direction of the waiter's voice.

"For you sir?" She jotted down Lucy's order then looked up at Natsu.

"Yeah, I'll have one of everything for the food portion, and just give me a black coffee as a drink."

"O-kay?" She looked at him shocked and took their menus slowly, making her way to the back.

"You sure do eat a lot, are you fat or something? Then again, girls like her wouldn't be ogling over you if you were fat."

"No I'm not fat! Besides, if you can't see, how would you know she was…whatever you said…over me?"

"Puh-lease, she was stuttering like a little girl when she asked for your order."

"I didn't hear her stutter."

"Well yeah, because you're stupid. You were probably too busy looking at the menu to notice."

"I am not stupid!"

"Yeah, you are."

"Are not!"

"Okay then genius. What's the capital of…hmm…Canada?"

"Uh, isn't that the one that sounds like a Pokémon name?"

"That's Oshawott and, no, that is not even close. It's Ottawa."

"Psh, I knew that. See, it started with an 'o'."

"Riiigghhhttt."

"Food's here."

"That fast?!" Lucy leaned forward in shock.

"Yup."

Several waiters came with trays of food in their hands. After they all finished, the whole table was covered with so much food, not just where you didn't have enough elbow room, but it was cluttered to the point of Lucy having to hold her drink in her hands because there wasn't any room left for it on the table.

"Jesus Natsu, did you have to order their whole inventory?!" Lucy glared in his general direction.

"Come on- ish nut thaff mush." He defended while eating his heart out.

"I don't see how Lisanna would ever want you." She looked disgusted every time she got food to the face because of him.

"Pleash everywun wansh meh, uf coursh she'd dwate meh." He was almost done with everything.

"Not with that eating." As the plates started being taken away by the waiters, Lucy laid her elbows on the table and propped her chin on the palms of her hands.

Natsu took his last bite of food, "Besides, you're supposed to be helping me, not judging me, remember Lucy?"

The blonde almost fell out of her seat when she heard him say her name.

"What did you just say?"

"I said you should be helping me, not judging me."

"No, the last word. What was the last word you said?"

"Lucy?"

"Holy crap! You said my actual name!" She threw her hands up in the air.

"Well, now that I've said your name, you should start saying mine."

"Huh?"

"Say my name."

She had a determined look on her face, "N-at-su?"

At this, Natsu felt awkward, he was shocked by the way she said his name. It was all new to him, and he thought it was adorable- wait, what?!

No, he thought it was cute- shit!

No, it was just, weird, like her.

There you go, it was weird.

Just weird.

"Natsu?"

"Wha-?"

"You okay? You were spacing out for a second there."

"Uh, yeah, I'm fine, I was just thinking."

"Pft. Thinking, that's a good one." Lucy held in her laughter.

"I'm serious!"

"Sorry, sorry, what were you thinking about then? After all, it made you stop talking for a whole minute."

The pink-haired teen felt his mouth become dry.

Obviously he couldn't say he was thinking about her.

Maybe he could say he was thinking about Lisanna?

Yeah, the plans for getting the girl he wants, not the girl he thinks he may sort of want, BUT HE DOESN'T!

"I was thinking about ways to get Lisanna."

Smooth Dragneel, you got it all under control.

"Oh, what did you have in mind?"

Shit.

"Well, um, maybe, erm, I could buy her something. Yeah! Her birthday's coming up soon and I was thinking of getting her a gift."

"When's her birthday?"

"It's in like- 3 days?"

"Maybe we should head to the mall and get her something then."

Way to point out the obvious Lucy. She wanted to smack herself for saying something so stupid.

"Let's do it today." Natsu mumbled.

"Why today?"

"Because I have basketball practice tomorrow."

"On a Saturday?"

"Yeah, it's normal to have practice on the weekend sometimes."

"Guess I was just use to people having practice after school then." The blonde thought. "I have to go to the mall with Erza tomorrow anyways."

When the boy heard her say the name Erza, he paled instantly.

"E-e-erza?"

"Yeah, why are you stuttering?"

"She's evil!"

"No she is not."

"She slammed my head into a wall when I knocked over her cake, on ACCIDENT!"

"Good ol' Erza." Lucy sighed.

"Besides, I've known her since I was 6."

"How?"

"Her parents had a deal with mine for the company."

"What company?"

"Our companies are just business industries, pretty basic."

"You never told me you were rich!"

"What about you?" He just brushed off her comment.

Lucy thought about Cana and sweat-dropped. "I'd rather not talk about that. I mean, I used to be part of a rich family, but I won't get that inheritance till I turn 18…" The blonde covered her mouth after she said that.

"Inheritance? What do you mean? What happened to your parents?"

She took her phone out of her pocket and was about to hit the caller ID. "You know, I need to go, Loke must be worried, and I really shouldn't let him-…"

Natsu snatched her phone out of her hands, "Lucy. Tell me."

"They died." Lucy felt the tears well up in her vacant eyes, and she felt them cascade down her cheeks. It burned, it stung, and it just hurt. She hadn't cried since that day…and she hoped she wouldn't have to cry about this same topic.

"Lucy! Oi! Don't cry! Stop crying!" Natsu tried to help, but he feared he'd make it worse, so to put it into words, he didn't know what to do.

The girl couldn't help it, she tried wiping the salty tears, but it was no use, they just kept reappearing. Quietly, Natsu got up and sat next to her on the other side of the booth. He slung his right arm over her shoulders and hugged her, trying to at least comfort her.

"Sorry I asked." He felt guilty for making her cry.

"It's fine, I just don't tell many people about that."

"I think it's safe to say we're a lot closer now, right?"

"Y-yeah." She wiped her dried tears and wondered when her walls fell down, making her reveal her sensitive side.

Natsu let out a sigh of relief once she finally calmed down.

"Ready to go to the mall Blondie?"

"I thought you would start calling me Lucy!" She punched his arm.

"I never said I would, but I guess I can try, only if you call me Natsu though."

"Ugh, fine."

"Ready to go then, Lucy?"

"Yup, Natsu."

'Wow… that was like a cheesy chick flick…' The pink-haired teen thought.

Did you like it? :3

I made this one emotional, or at least, as emotional as someone like me could make it.

It was kinda just innocent fluff ^~^

And I love fluff *-*

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