Authors Note:

Natsu is gonna start acting a certain way towards Lucy because of a certain post I saw on Tumblr about that one certain person's [mashima] fact about- you know what? The picture is right there, read it if you love NaLu.

-Sophie

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Saturday

--- Natsu's POV ---

Lucy had told me to wait for her in the coffee shop. I never came here as much as I do now. And I think my main reason for coming here was Lucy.

Before she came to this boarding school, I only came here for assignments. With Gray most of the time...

And I know it's strange but this was my favorite place ever. It may not be world famous but without it, I'd somehow feel that something was missing. And I'm not sure what that could be.

"Who are you waiting for?" A voice spoke up. I looked to see Jellal slide into the seat in front of me.

"Lucy." I shrug, "Taking her someplace. It's not a date!"

"Sure." He laughed, "I didn't even ask if it was a date."

I felt the heat rise to my face and I quickly hid it with a menu. "What are you even doing here?"

"Taking Erza somewhere. Just like you with Lucy."

"I doubt it's gonna be anything similar. I'm just acting as support for Lucy as she is going back home for her dad's will."

Jellal flinched as he wasn't suspected something like that. "Oh... well give her my regards."

I smile and put down the menu, staring out the window.

"It's pretty obvious... your feelings for her. I'm kinda surprised, I didn't expect you to like someone this easily."

I looked back at him and wanted to refuse but I knew he was right. "I didn't believe in love at first sight until now... but don't tell her how I feel, because she's hard to read and I don't know if she feels the same."

"Understood." He winks and leans back in his chair, scratching his tattoo. "Did you hear about Gajeel?"

"What about the idiot?"

"A little birdy told me he has a crush."

"You're lying." I snorted, "There's no way he has the capability in liking anyone."

"It's Levy."

"That's just impossible. She has no similar interests at all." I lean forward, "I don't believe you."

"Opposites attract." Jellal laughs. "oh and... Lucy is walking down the street."

"What?" I turn around to see her walking towards the entrance. Then I acted as if I didn't hear her walk in.

"Oh hey Natsu." She spoke when she reached my table. "And Jellal." she nods politely to him.

"Hey Luce, didn't see you come in."

I glanced at Jellal who was giving me a look, and I shot him a glare in return.

"I got you something to drink!" I exclaimed and lifted up a to-go coffee. Lucy blinked and took it in her hands gently.

"Thanks." She smiled and scooted in next to me. "And Jellal, are you waiting for Erza?"

"Yeah." He nodded, "She's running a bit late."

"Oh don't worry. I just saw her run into the post office. She said she's sending a package to her friend, Kagura." Lucy informed.

Jellal shivered at the name and balled his fists on his lap. "That girl..." he whispered to himself.

I blinked at his reaction and decided not to ask.

"How long will the ride be?" I turn back over to Lucy, who slowly had to look away from Jellal.

"Ah... An hour or two... I believe."

I look away to cover my dreamy smile, "that's not bad. A couple hours on a road trip... with you."

Lucy giggled and took a sip of her coffee. "Yeah just tell me when you're ready. But we should leave soon."

"We can leave now." I say quickly and pushed the two of us out of the booth.

Lucy halted me and looked over at Jellal, "you okay alone?"

"I'm not a little kid." He laughs and gives me a cheeky grin. "You two have a fun road trip."

She opened her mouth to respond but I pulled her out of the coffee shop, waving goodbye to Mira, Lisanna, and Elfman before closing the door.

"I need to grab something from my foster sister before we go." I mutter as we started to walk down the road. "She has my motion sickness pills because she was borrowing them for herself."

Lucy smiled and put her hands behind her back, adding a little skip to her step. "Motion sickness? It's that bad?"

"Oh you have no idea. Its horrible." I laugh. "Consider yourself lucky that you don't have to deal with me like that for the whole trip."

My eyes trailed down to her hand as it swung back down to her side. I felt the need to hold it and interlock our fingers but I had to remind myself that we weren't a couple. How long am I going to deal with these feelings for her if I can't even express them for her? It's not helping when Jellal taunts me too.

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---Lucy's POV---

After all that time searching for Natsu's foster sister, Wendy... We noticed that he had it in his bag the whole time. He seemed flustered as he just remembered that he packed it and forgot as I came into the coffee shop. I didn't quite understand that.

But now he took the meds and we entered the car we borrowed from MiraJane. It was great for the trip, though it was only a beaten down old thing. But I was just used to my family's limousine mostly.

Natsu is actually a really good driver despite his lack of practice because of his motion sickness. Its like he's an all new person when he's on the road. [a.k.a. Edolas Natsu]

"What's on the radio?" He asked, hinting for me to turn it on. I quickly brought my hand up and changed the stations to find something suiting us.

"Stop stop stop I love this band." He grabs my hand to prevent me from pressing the buttons. But he flinched once he touched my skin and pulled away. "Fall Out Boy."

"I never actually heard them before. I stick to the older songs like... Simon and Garfunkel... and the Who." I admit with a shrug.

"The Beatles?" He asked.

"My absolute favorite."

"They have always been my favorite. Since I was a kid, they were all I listened to." Natsu smiled and glanced over to me. "Igneel introduced me to everything I listened to, and now I'll introduce everything to you."

"Yeah? What's this song?" I giggle and look at the speakers.

"Alone Together, by Fall Out Boy." He said softly. "I guess it's considered a love song. Do you like it?"

"It's very catchy. And you know what? I might just buy their album, for the sake of us."

I catch a light dust of pink on his cheeks which made me smile. "Shall this be our song then?"

"Of course."

After a couple minutes but I found myself still humming the chorus.

"Say yeah, let's be alone together. We can be young forever. Scream it from the top of your lungs." He repeated the lyrics, looking quickly in my direction after changing lanes on the road.

"My heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it's broken-" I joined in.

"-oh do you wanna, stay beautiful? Do you wanna..."

"YEAH!" We smirk at each other and scream out the last word, though it wasn't the end of the song... we just started laughing nonstop.

Just then a whole bunch of songs started to play one after the other, and Natsu informed me about each one. And though I barely could sing along to any of them, I didn't feel left out. Because I was happy to be with this boy either way.

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Authors Note:
Sorry for the late update. I usually wrote all my chapters during school. And though I have nothing going on in the summer, I'm always too lazy to write something. XD life is strange
-Sophie