Chapter 7-Friday is the day

Natsu's P.O.V
We were still at the cafe talking and getting to know each other. I look outside and saw that it was getting pretty late. "Hey Lucy, it's getting pretty late. Do you want me to walk you home?"

"Oh no um...I'm alright. I-I don't want to be a bother." she said nervously.

"Be a bother? Oh Lucy you could never be a bother." I say while grinning. I just realized I haven't smiled so much in forever and I'm glad.

"No. It's really fine. I can walk home by myself." she said still refusing my offer.

"Okay fine." While we were talking I guess the waitress put down the check, so I pulled out the money for the food and put it on the table. Lucy and I stood up and left, I opened the door for her and with that we exited the cafe.

Lucy noticed I was still walking in the same direction as her. So she stopped making me bump into her back. "Why are you following me?" she asked sternly while turning around to look at me.

"Who says I'm following you? My house is this way too." I say confused.

"O-oh well I guess we could talk while walking to our houses."

"Okay. You know Lucy, you really helped me. I have a little more confidence when I'm talking to you."

"R-really that's great, but I haven't really helped you yet. We still have a long way to go." Yes you have, you've helped me more than you could imagine. Of course I didn't say it to her again.

"Also Lucy I want to help you because I haven't done anything for you."

Lucy's P.O.V
No Natsu you have done something for me. Of course I don't have the guts to tell him that.

I saw that we were almost to my house, so I decided to ask him a question. "Hey Nastu can you meet the rest of my friends tomorrow after school since you know it's a Friday?"

"Uh...I don't know if I can." he said timidly.

"Oh well okay then. Maybe you can meet them some other time. Good night" I say disappointedly.

I turn around to start walking to my house, frowning as I try to hold back the tears that are threatening to fall from my brown eyes. I knew it, he doesn't like me, he hates me, I'm worthless, I don't deserve to
live. I guess all that stuff he said on the roof wasn't true, he didn't mean it, no one ever means it.

Soon after all those thoughts crossed my mind I felt something wet and warm run down my face. I realized I was crying, Natsu must have noticed I was crying because he called out to me. "W-wait Lucy wait." Natsu said guiltily.

"What do you want?" I said sniffling as I was trying to hide the fact that I was crying.

"I-I will m-meet your f-friends."

"W-what did you just say?" I said with disbelief.

"I-I said I would meet your friends tomorrow. I only said no b-because I was scared to say yes. What if they don't like me?" Natsu said as his shyness was taking over while he staring intently at the ground.

I wiped my tears as I slowly turned around to see an ashamed looking Nastu, I felt really horrible knowing I made him feel bad. I walked over to him and lifted his chin, so he was looking at me. "They are going to love you. No one their right mind wouldn't love you. You don't have anything to worry about." I said trying to cheer him up.

"Y-you really think that they will l-like me?"

"No......." Natsu face fell into a frown when I said this, he was about to turn around and leave when I said "You didn't let me finish, I don't think they will like you, they will love you." I finished with a smile.

Narrator's P.O.V
"Okay then it's settled, I will meet your friends, well then good night. I'll see you tomorrow." Natsu said to Lucy as he gave her a slight wave and started walking towards his house.

Lucy gave him a wave too and started to walk back to her house. She thought about what happened just now and thought that maybe if he fell in love with Lisanna it wouldn't be such a bad thing, seeing how much she hurt him just now.

Lucy thought she was being selfish because she felt that the only reason she didn't want Lisanna to have Natsu was because he noticed her pain and he wanted to help her.

(Trigger Warning, I think)

Of course she wanted to be happy, everyone wants to be happy, but there was always an excuse, a new person to help or some distraction that made her forget about helping herself. She was unhappy, but couldn't do a thing about. It's like her body was a shell and she was forced to watch herself go through all this pain.

Depression is a bomb strapped to her chest and time was ticking down for her and soon enough she was going to explode. No one would be there to cut the wire and stop her from exploding, no one would be there to help her when she needed it the most.

Lucy was left picking up the pieces of herself and trying to make herself whole again, but she knew she would never in a million years be whole again.

A part of her was hoping someone would cut the right wire. She was wishing someone would help pick up the pieces of herself she couldn't quite reach and make her whole again. Deep in the back of her mind she was praying a million years would come sooner than she thought.

She wanted this someone to be Natsu.

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Authors' Note:
I'm sorry for not updating in a while, I know I say it all the time.

The next chapter will be Meeting the gang pt.2 and I want to publish it by Friday or Saturday, maybe even earlier.

Bye!! Hope you enjoy!! ❤️💛