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Chapter Six

Let's Celebrate

Lucy's POV:

I don't remember when it was that I fell asleep, but was defiantly after Natsu and I destroyed each other in Marvel vs. Capcom, I had never met anybody that was able to beat me in that game. It was also after the giant bowl of popcorn and probably part way through a really bad sci-fi movie, all I know was that I was cuddled into Natsu's chest while his head rested against the back of the couch. I groaned inwardly, why was I awake, I didn't want to be awake, then there it was, my phone that I had left on the coffee table was going crazy. I sighed as I answered the phone groggily just to make it stop ringing.

"Yes?" I was then greeted with Erza's cheerful voice, how could she be this cheerful this early?

"Hey, Lucy, you finally answered, were you sleeping?" I rolled my eyes,

"I was trying too." I heard her chuckle,

"Still? Lucy it's six thirty at night." My eyes widened as I asked,

"Really? Wow."

"So Lucy the guys and I were wondering if we could maybe come by your place tonight and watch movies, play videos games, just sorta hang out as a let's celebrate how awesome Lucy did last night thing." I smiled and was touched by how much my new friends cared about me as I said,

"Yeah, sure that sounds like fun, but I don't have a whole lotta food here right now, I have to go grocery shopping be for you guys come over." Erza just cut me off as she said,

"You will do nothing of the sort; we will bring everything all you need to do is provide games and movies. Oh and if you could get a hold of Natsu and tell him what's up that would be great, his phones off. Okay we'll see you in about an hour." Before I could say anything else Erza had already hung up. I took a deep breath and surveyed my place and it was a mess, there were dirty dishes in the sink, clothes that still needed to be put away and I couldn't remember the last time I vacuumed. I had a lot to do and I still needed to shower, so I nudged Natsu which just caused him to snort and try and get comfortable again, I swear he could sleep through anything, so I moved on to plan B, I pinched his nose closed and watched his eyes instantly pop open. I smiled and let go of his nose as I said,

"Morning sunshine, now get out and come back in an hour." He looked at me like I had grown a second head, as he asked,

"Wait what?" I sighed as I hurried off the couch and into the kitchen to wash my dishes as I talked over my shoulder,

"The guys are all meeting here in an hour for a Lucy didn't choke party and this place is a mess, I need to clean and shower, and you need to go home and shower, so get, I'll see you soon." He was now leaning his elbows on my kitchen counter as he asked,

"Don't I even get coffee, you always give me coffee before you kick me out." I shook my head and said,

"No time, if you hurry you can have some when you get back." With that said, he began walking towards the door and I called after him when I felt a certain blue fur ball rubbing himself against my leg telling me he was hungry, "Hey are you taking Happy home with you?" Natsu popped his head back into my field of sight as he said,

"What's the point he'll just come back here anyway." He then glared down at the cat, "Traitor." To which Happy just meowed in agreement. Then the pink haired boy was gone and I kicked it into over drive.

I did it, all the dishes were washed, the clothes put away, the floor was vacuumed, made Natsu a pot of coffee and I even fed Happy I then sent Erza a text that I would be in the shower and to just come on in. I then gathered my clothes and hurried into the bathroom to take my much deserved shower, only I may have forgotten to close the door all the way.

Natsu's POV:

I swear I don't think I have ever run so fast or showered so fast in my life. I wish I could have just stayed at Lucy's without all the running, but she was right I did need a shower and it might have been a little weird for everyone to show up and see me at Lucy's wearing what I had on last night. They would never let it end; Lucy was my best friend, well besides Happy, which I don't know if he counts since he can't talk. Maybe Lucy would just let me keep a change of clothes at her place for emergencies such as this? I heard my stomach growl as I began my run back to Lucy's apartment, I was starving and in desperate need for a cup of Lucy coffee. Instead of going in through the front door of the building and then having to climb some stairs and then have to wait for Lucy to open her door I decided to take a trick right out of Happy's book and climbed her fire escape which led right to the window next to her bed. As soon as I was through the window I noticed something was off, where was Lucy? She should be here. I looked around her apartment and noticed that her bathroom door was open and thought that maybe she was doing her make-up or something, I was very, very wrong.

As soon as I pushed the door open more, I noticed that Lucy had just stepped out of the shower and that she was naked. I was speechless, but was not she screamed and I was slapped very hard, which I will admit I probably deserved and then the bathroom door was slammed in my face. Then just as I turned around to walk towards the couch to wait for her and apologize I see that Erza and Gajeel had just walked in and seen the whole thing, great. I walked by the two of them and just sat cross legged on Lucy's couch as I crossed my arms as well, and that was when I heard that stupid strippers voice as he sat the five boxes of pizza on Lucy's kitchen counter,

"Hey, pyro, why are you pouting and dude why is there a handprint on your face?" I just glared at him as I said,

"I don't want to talk about it." But since I wasn't talking Gajeel decided that he would,

"Flame brain decided it would be a good idea to peek on bunny girl in the shower and she slapped him." I turned my glare to our drummer as I thought out ways to get him back for this and all of them involved a petite blue haired girl.

"It wasn't like that at all." Grey laughed as he said,

"Smooth move, if you guys wanted to be alone you could have just said so." I rolled my eyes and I could feel my patience dwindling as I said again,

"It wasn't like that, it was an accident." Grey just rolled his eyes at me as he said,

"Sure it was lover boy." That was it, I'd had it I was going to beat the living crap out of him, but then I heard the bathroom door open and I held my breath.

Lucy's POV:

Natsu saw me naked! How the hell did that happen? I banged my head against the now closed door. I know how it happened the door was open and Natsu wouldn't think that I was naked if it was open; I mean we talked with him in my bathroom doorway all the time while I was getting ready. I banged my head again, I really shouldn't have slapped him, I knew that he didn't mean to peek at me, but I panicked and before I knew what was happening his face was red and my hand was numb. I took a deep breath and tried to calm my nerves as I slipped on my bra and panties and then pulled on a pair of black yoga pants and my purple dark wing duck t-shirt. I looked at myself in the mirror and could see that my cheeks were still flushed, but screw it I was going to have to face Natsu and the others soon, plus I was starving and I smelled pizza.

As soon as I opened the door I could feel everyone's eyes on me as I walked past them all to get to my kitchen, once there I poured myself and Natsu a cup of coffee, a I'm sorry I slapped you offering, I then reached into the freezer and pulled out a bag of frozen peas and carefully walked back into my living room. I stood right in front of Natsu and said softly as I handed him his coffee,

"I'm sorry." He took the coffee, but looked up at me confused as he asked,

"Sorry for what? It's my fault Luce; I'm the one that is sorry. Forgive me?" I just smiled down at him and nodded as I said,

"Of course." I then handed him the frozen peas, "So your face doesn't swell, I don't need your crazy fans out for my blood." He just smiled as he placed the peas to his cheek and let out a sigh, that was when Gajeel chimed in,

"If you guys are done with the touchy feely, I'm starving." Natsu and I rolled our eyes at the same time as I said,

"Fine let's eat. Why don't you pick a movie for us to watch?" This request seemed to pacify our gruff friend as he began to look over my movie collection and picked out a rather surprising choice, but I just shrugged it off, this was Gajeel this man was nothing if not constant in his unconstantness. I just popped the kung fu hustle DVD in as we sat around my coffee table and ate until we couldn't move, or in my case where I ate half of my favorite bbq chicken pizza and thought about saving the rest for later as I sipped my coffee, which Grey had already informed me was gross with pizza, when I felt Natsu's eyes on me. I sighed as I noticed the empty pizza box on his lap as I kicked my box over to him as I said,

"Go ahead." He beamed at me,

"You're the best Luce."

By the time the boys were finished eating we decided to play Mortal Kombat. I sat everything up and noticed that there really wasn't any more room on my couch and I was so done with sitting on the floor so I sat on the arm of said couch next to Natsu as I said,

"Okay, since we only have two controllers we take turns, the person that loses the match passes it on to the next person and has to challenge the victor." They all agreed to the rules as I hit play.

Natsu's POV:

As I sat cross legged on Lucy's couch as I glared up at her yet again, because wherever she got to into her fight and I got elbowed in the head, and she just smiled down at me sweetly right before she did it again, I swear she was doing it on purpose now, maybe because I chucked her controller at Grey's head because he kept freezing the floor under my character so I couldn't attack, but she had to know that was going to happen at some point tonight, I mean come on it's me and Grey. Bam there was that damn elbow again, I had, had enough so I pulled her off of the arm of the couch and into my lap which caused her to squeal and subsequently lose the match, which Gajeel was very happy about since no one had beaten her since we started. She pouted as she squirmed but I just held tight as I said,

"Just sit still, my head can't take anymore of your elbow." She just sighed as she stayed still,

"You made me lose." I chuckled,

"You'll get over it and beat the crap out of me in the next round anyway." Just then Erza lost and handed me the controller as she said,

"It's getting late, I still have to check and see when and where we can book our next show." As she stood, Lucy asked her,

"Are you sure Erza? Can't you just take tonight off?" She smiled down at the blond girl in my lap and said,

"I already did, but a lot of places need notice and I have to get a permit which they only give out on Mondays, so if we want to have another show soon I need to get to work." Lucy looked like she felt bad for our friend as she asked,

"Do you want me to help you?" Erza just shook her head,

"This is your Lucy was awesome celebration, you have fun." Lucy just nodded as Gajeel said,

"I'm done, I beat bunny girl at least once. I'll drive you home." That was when Lucy got the controller back and she began to torture me and Grey that was until Grey left, saying that he was sick of losing to our cutthroat friend. I just waved, but Lucy didn't even notice he was gone because she was too busy killing me again. After Grey left I rested my head in the crook of her neck and asked,

"Are you done killing me yet?" Lucy seemed to snap out of her blood lust, and looked around the room,

"Where did Grey go?" I sighed,

"He left fifteen minutes ago."

"Oh." I was beat, all I wanted to do was go to sleep, but I was really comfortable sitting here with Lucy and then she let out a yawn and I knew she needed some sleep too. So I mumbled half heartedly,

"You need to go to bed." I felt her move her head from where it was now rested on my chest to look over at her bed as she groaned,

"But it's so far away." I chuckled,

"I could carry you there." She turned her head to look up at me,

"Really?" I nodded,

"But I get to sleep in the bed too." She squinted her eyes at me,

"But you always sleep on the couch." I shook my head,

"Not tonight, if you want a ride over to the bed, I get to sleep there too, that's the deal, plus your couch sucks." She sighed,

"You could always try sleeping in your own bed."

"It's too far away and if I did how would you get to yours?" She closed her eyes as she pondered my deal, but I'm pretty sure she was trying to fall asleep so she wouldn't have to make a choice so I started touching her face until she grabbed my hand and said,

"Fine, you win. Let's go to bed."

To be continued...