"Yeah. You should've seen your face when that old lady dragged you back to your place. It was so funny!" He could laugh about it now. Back then his reaction was more along the lines of "what the hell just happened?"

Her follow up question left him stumped for a few moments. Natsu hadn't thought that far ahead. So he quickly scrambled together whatever information he knew from Michelle and what he heard from Lucy.

"He was doing great. Busy with the new business but he didn't sound as crazy about it as he might've been before. Well I guess the whole paying your rent thing kind proved that from the start though."

Dammit he wasn't sure how long he could keep dodging these bullets that were flying his way after each ommision of the truth.