"You know, you're supposed to ask if I'll go to prom with you." Lucy stated, quickly taking the box of chocolates with "Ready for prom?" written on them from Natsu.

Natsu laughed, pulling himself onto Lucy's roof without struggle. "Just be happy that I got you some chocolate, I could've just repeated your third grade agreement what you called the 'Dragneel Promise' and made a dumber pun."

Lucy cut the small pieces of tape with her nail, placing the chocolates between Natsu and herself. "I'll bring out that stupid agreement we wrote in crayon, it's still in that little treasure chest on my dresser!"

Natsu cringed, remembering all the stupidly embarrassing things he'd written on yellowed piece of classroom notebook paper. "Now I'm kinda regretting my beautiful moonlight promposal thing, even after I knew exactly when you'd be on the roof!" He exaggerated, faking a hurt expression for added effect, dropping it when Lucy gave him the "I'm not buying it" look. "Alright, you caught me, I've been checking for you for over a week now…"

Lucy grabbed one of the chocolates, refraining from pointing out that prom was already less than a month away, and everyone else had asked as soon as tickets were on sale. "Are you sure you'll be up for it? It's only a few days before the anniversary of you know what…"

Natsu's face fell for a moment as he remembered the day he lost his brother, smile quickly returning but failing to fully mask the sadness in his eyes. "Of course I'll be okay! A Dragneel doesn't break his promises, no matter how old and stupid it may be!"

"Are you sure you're up for prom?" Lucy asked, there were only five days to the dance and Natsu still hadn't shown any signs of backing out.

Natsu was never the kind of person to dwell on things, he loved living in the present rather than crying over the past, the longest he'd been upset over something was a week, even two years ago when Happy died…

But Zeref was different.

Natsu's face fell, his usual grin turning into a slight frown. "Of course I will! Zeref died almost a year ago, I...I'm over it now…" His voice faltered as he finished speaking, the remaining sparkle in his eyes fading at the mention of his brother. "Besides, I told you I wouldn't break our promise."

Lucy smiled softly, reaching into her pocket and pulling out a partially ripped, folded piece of yellowing paper. "That may be true, but I read the agreement this morning, and your third grade self is contradicting your words." Lucy unfolded the paper, dramatically clearing her throat as she found the paragraph. "'I, Natsu Dragneel, agree to be Lucy's date to prom in eleventh grade, the only way this promise can be broken is if something super duper bad happens before the dance that makes us feel really not good!', those are your exact words, so you can change your mind at any time."

Natsu scrunched his nose in disgust, sending a glare to the piece of paper. "C'mon, Luce, why'd you have to quote it like that?" He whined, considering whether he should destroy the paper or not. "And I already told ya, I'll be fine, I even got the tie you told me to get!"

"The fuschia one?"

"Okay no, it's not 'fusion' or whatever that word is, the color is a pink-purple

-red combination!" Natsu stated strictly, a tinge of sass in his voice. "And yes, I got the fabric of death."

Lucy awoke on Saturday to the blaring noise of a calendar event on her phone, screen lighting up with the words "PROM" and all the information that came with it. She groaned, picking up the device and getting rid of the notification, shooting up when she saw there was a voicemail from Natsu.

"Yo, Luce, sorry for calling so early, but I got some bad news…" Natsu's voice came through the speakers slowly, the unevenness hinting that he was on the verge of tears. "You were right about the Zeref thing, I know it's still a few days away, but it just...really hurts, I don't wanna be around a bunch of people right now, I'll talk to you later."

"Just listened to your message, I'll be over within the next half hour." Lucy texted to Natsu, turning off her phone as she got dressed, grabbing her keys on the way out the door.

Knowing Igneel was at work, Lucy used the spare key she was given to enter the house.

Natsu was slumped down in his favorite recliner, arms crossed as he glared at the wall, a slight pout adorning his features. "I told you not to come…" He murmured, gaze shifting to Lucy.

Lucy sighed, holding out the grocery bag to Natsu as she tried not to think about how cute he looked when his eyes widened, curiosity showing. "I didn't want you to be sad and alone today, so I brought some of your favorite things!"

Natsu took the bag and searched through it, becoming more confused the longer he looked. "So...why are there dinosaur chicken nuggets?"

Lucy laughed, taking the bag of chicken nuggets and heading towards the kitchen. "You told me a while back that you used to love making them fight to the death, so I figured you'd want to do that again."

"Luce, we're almost seniors, I'm not playing with the dinosaurs…"

"How do you still have three dinosaurs!?" Natsu yelled, grabbing his last T-rex chicken nugget to fight Lucy's. "I've been mo- wait, you haven't been eating them when you should, you're cheating!"

Lucy lifted her current dinosaur off the table, smacking it into Natsu's. "I've been eating them when I should, you're the one taking huge bites no matter how small the damage." She stated as they dipped the front of their dinosaurs in ketchup.

Natsu aggressively set his dinosaur back on the table, slightly squishing its feet. "My dinosaurs are just trying to protect their babies!" He yelled, pushing a small pile of torn up chicken pieces further away.

Lucy gasped, dramatically placing a hand over her heart. "So you're the one who stole my children!?" She yelled back, reaching over to steal back the pieces of chicken.

"Hey, you're gonna squish my last dinosaur, cut it o-"

"What the hell are you doing!?" Igneel yelled from the doorway, causing the two teens to jump up from their seats.

Natsu and Lucy frantically tried to explain, finally realizing the mess they'd made across the entire table. There were condiments all over, plastic bags strewn across the floor and on the counters while dinosaur chicken nuggets seemed to have been thrown about the room. Different drinks sat about the table, half of a stegosaurus smushed into one of the glasses.

"You know what?" Igneel finally said, cutting off Natsu and Lucy's rambling. "I'm gonna take a shower, I don't know what I'll do if this mess isn't gone by the time I'm done, but it's gonna be bad!" He sighed, running a hand through his hair before calmly looking at the two. "At least you two are happy…"

Igneel listened closely as he neared the kitchen half an hour later, ready to tell his son off if there was still a large mess. Turning the corner into the living room, he froze at the sight in front of him.

Most of the couch cushions had been placed into a large square in the middle of the room, a blanket covering half of it to block out the small amount of light still streaming through the window. The Lion King was playing on the television, the only sound being the current song despite the fact that the volume was quite low.

Natsu and Lucy were sleeping in the middle of the little fort, Lucy's head resting on Natsu's chest while he pulled her closer by the waist, his head resting on top of hers. There was a light lipstick mark on Natsu's cheek as Lucy's hand loosely grabbed his scarf.

As much as Igneel wanted to see how the two would react upon waking up, he left the room as Lucy began to stir, suppressing a laugh when he could hear her yelp from down the hall.

Sorry for the super late update, I kept redoing the plot for this chapter, and I decided on this one, like, a day before I started writing it. It's also sinking in that there's only one grade left to write, and I'm really not ready for this fic to end!

That in mind, senior year will be two parts, part one won't be too long, but it'll be setting up for the second part. As of right now I'm planning on writing an epilogue, it won't be very long, but it'll wrap up the story.

Remember that reviews are always greatly appreciated!