From the looks of things, the boys had already beaten us to their hotel rooms. Mira told us that we had the floor to ourselves and the boys I think, took it literally! All of their doors are currently wide open, there is food EVERYWHERE and in the first door on the right, we all found the boys sitting on chairs and sofas playing video games! We had to giggle at the boys since they were acting like kids. You wouldn't guess that they were in their twenties and in the most successful band in the whole of Magnolia!
"Hey guys!" Levy shouted walking into the room, clearly wanting to join in the fun. The guys greeted us as we all walked into whoever's room it was for the night.
"Levy! Erza! Luce! Juvia! Come join us! You guys are about to watch me kick Gray's ass at this game!" Natsu said thrashing his fingers at the controller he was holding onto as if to encourage the character he was playing to beat us Gray's character, who to be honest was not looking good.
I give him a confusing look "Luce?" I ask perching on the edge of the sofa next to Natsu.
"Yeah. I kind of gave you a nickname. I hope you don't mind." He said his face turning a little pink making me giggle.
"No I don't mind at all. I like it" I say thinking about my new nickname and how I love it.
"Good. Cause I'm calling you it from now on." He says practically throwing his controller in all different directions to try and make his character in the game win. Just like Natsu predicted, his character won and Natsu was seen making up his own little victory dance making us all laugh.
"This isn't over flame-breath!" Gray said throwing his controller down on the floor almost smashing it.
"Temper temper!" Juvia says mocking Gray making him smile at her. I couldn't help but notice the interaction between those two. Maybe Juvia wasn't half off the mark. I watched them work their way into a light conversation and you could tell that there was something there. I smiled. It was nice to see Juvia and Gray getting along. Especially since Juvia's revelation this morning. Her and I have always been friends since we were little and I've watched her go through so much heart ache purely because guys just weren't interested in a girl who was obsessed with water and talked in the third person. But from the looks of things Gray doesn't seem to mind. He is happily talking to her about his life and how he became part of the band with Natsu and the others.
Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves and sort of separated themselves already. Levy Gajeel Jellal and Erza are all on one side of the room having a group discussion of sorts comparing instruments and our sets while Gray and Juvia sit with Natsu and myself on the sofa.
"Are you okay there?" I hear out of the corner of my ear. I move my head down to see Natsu looking at me with what looks like worry.
"Everything's fine. Why?" I ask not sure why he is concerned.
"Nothing. You just seemed out of it for a few minutes there. You looked like you were in a world of your own" He laughed. I merely blushed not realising that I had been so rudely ignoring him.
"It's fine." Natsu laughs again picking up Gray's controller from the floor and hands it to me. "Want to play?"
"Sure why not." I say knowing secretly that I am really good at this combat game in particular. I grab the controller and start battling Natsu surprising him that I could actually play well.
We all carry on in this fashion throughout the night. The others soon joined over to where Juvia, Gray, myself and Natsu were sitting and it somehow turned into a boys vs girls tournament on the game while we were eating our way through 10 boxes of takeaway pizza.
"Come on come on just there! Hit him hit him!" I hear Erza scream in my ear.
"Come on Lu-chan you have this! Kick him!" Levy shouts at me
"Go Lucy!" Juvia shouts
"NO! Where did that come from!" I hear Natsu on my right scream in my ear. For the past hour I have been kicking his ass at this game and the guys were now starting to make things more interesting by involving alcohol. If the girls lost a game they all had to do a shot, if the guys lost they had to do a shot. Simple right? WRONG! It wasn't really a good idea after about the 15th game when we were all drunk and couldn't play for anything! But it was still funny since we got to relax and have some down time knowing that we had a gig the next day.
"YES!" The girls all scream as one final kick causes Natsu's character to die in a very ceremonial fashion.
"Come on guys. You know the rules" Erza said passing out the shots of what we think might be our 3rd bottle of vodka to the guys. They all neck them in one causing them all to show faces that made us all laugh rolling on the floor. I didn't care that I was drunk, I didn't care that the room was starting to spin, all I cared about was that I was genuinely having a great time.
It was a little after 4ish when everything started to settle down. The vodka was still going strong until about an hour ago so we were all very drunk. Levy had gone to bed about an hour ago and so had Gajeel. Jellal and Erza went to bed about an hour before them- ever being the sensible one, leaving myself, Natsu, Gray and Juvia sitting, laughing and drinking some more.
"Thank you for this guys" I slur to Natsu
"What for?" He asks back. Both him and myself had not moved from our positions on the sofa at all. I was still on the edge of the sofa which he was sitting on the cushion the closest to me.
"For being amazing people and -whoops" I say accidentally falling over onto Natsu's lap. Again we all laugh.
"Are you alright there Luce?" Natsu asks trying to hold onto me to make sure I don't fall off. Normally I would roll off immediately and try to blow it off as an accident but I found myself being too comfortable to move again!
"This is uncomfortable can you move around?" He asks picking me up without me answering and manoeuvring me so that my head was on his lap and my legs were on the cushion in-between Gray and Natsu. "Much better" he said.
"Do you guys want us to leave you or something?" Gray mocks pointing at the two of us.
"Shut up ice-freak" Natsu says as we all laugh while my face was turning very red very quickly. As I lay down on Natsu's lap his body heat was causing me to become very warm and I start to yawn.
"Keeping you up are we?" Natsu asks smiling down at me. I simply shake my head.
"No I'm fine. Like I was saying, thank you for being amazing people and letting us share this experience with you. This is our first tour and it is already amazing!" I say
"That's not a problem" Gray answers "We love having you girls here. It's fun" He says looking at Juvia with lightly pink cheeks while Juvia's whole face practically turns scarlet with embarrassment. Again I smile knowing the chemistry showing between them two. I'm guessing that the alcohol does help but still I know that it is there. I yawn again as I start to become very sleepy.
"Do you want me to walk you back to your room?" Natsu asked knowing my next thought of going to bed.
"I'm okay. I don't want you to leave your room just to walk two seconds to mine."
"It's not my room anyway. It's Gray's" Natsu says grinning. I grin back and nod back.
"Then thank you. Good night guys." I shout to Gray and Juvia as they are finally left alone.
As we walk to the other end of the corridor, Natsu stops me outside my door and waits for me to let myself in.
"Thank you again for tonight." I say. "I needed to let myself loose a little. I was worried about this tour and messing it up."
"Well you have nothing to worry about." Natsu replied making me blush. "It's ice-freak I need to worry about more."
"Why is that?" I ask tilting my head slightly in my drunken state.
"Because he has a thing for Juvia. He won't shut up about her." He laughs.
I laugh too "Well it's a good thing Juvia has a thing for Gray too then" I say leaning forward to whisper to Natsu
He looks back at me with surprise. "Really?" I nod back.
"Well good for him then. Just hope he isn't too loud. I'm next door to him" He says making me giggle.
We both smile as I look up and our eyes latch to each other. We seem to stare at each other for a few minutes all the while my face was burning up with ideas in my head that I probably shouldn't about Natsu. We both gaze into each other's eyes are a while, as if we are reading each other's souls. I don't know about him but while we are standing there - well, I'm leaning against the doorframe trying to hold myself up and he is standing there- I can feel our bodies getting closer, my blood pounding faster and faster in my ears all the while. I can feel the tension as I resist the urge to lean into him and kiss those amazingly soft lips of his that were right in front of me, convincing myself that it is the alcohol that is making me think of running my fingers through his amazing pink hair and down his chiselled abs.
With a lot of will-power, that I'm amazed I have in my drunken state, I just stand up on my toes, never losing eye contact with Natsu as he follows my gaze. I am eye level with him now and I start leaning forward towards him making sure to keep his gaze. I feel the blood pumping louder in my ears as I feel my stomach flip in excitement. I feel Natsu's warm increasing minty breath on my face hitch slightly as I lean even further in slowly and give him a slight peck on the cheek causing my face to blush even more and for him to grin widely.
I settle myself down and turn around, grab the doorknob and let myself in properly into my room, making sure that I look back one last time, still feeling the amazing tension between us and whispering "Good night Natsu" before closing my door and heading to my bed.
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