Coffee, Donuts, and Lots and Lots of Teasing. :3

[celestial_wizard]

Date & Time: March 6th, the afternoon
Location: Somewhere in the city MY, "the city", and ending up at a coffee shop most likely!
Characters: Lucy Heartfilia, Natsu Dragneel, Blaine Thorps
Summary: What happens when two mages encounter a troll who found it way too fun to tease them? ... a helluva lot more teasing, that's what.
Warnings: Probably none!


Morning training was always brutal on poor Lucy's body, especially considering it was Erza who was putting them through those drills. But it would be worth it in the end, even if she felt like she couldn't move afterwards. So immediately after training she'd informed her friends she was going back to her unit to have a shower. After that was done, she then decided to head outside again for a walk and possibly get a coffee and donut from a shop nearby. She'd meet up with Natsu again later (or sooner than she thinks), but for the meanwhile, coffee and donut was on the agenda. Also meeting certain trolls that teased her the other day, but shh, she didn't know she was going to run into Blaine yet.

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[celestial_wizard]

And she moved further back, opening her eyes only when she couldn't feel Natsu's presence so close to her. But it still took her a few minutes to speak, a bit of a shake in her voice. "God, what did I - what am I doing..."

No really, what the HELL was she doing. And why did she want to do it again - this was so wrong it - she couldn't even bring herself to look at Natsu at first, a hand touching her lips. Damnit. Damnit why - she glanced towards her friend. Her best friend. Her most special, precious, important friend, worriedly. Dear lord why was he looking at her like that? She probably- well she wasn't sure what he was thinking. All she knew was that if she stayed close to him another second ...GAH.

"I-I... I'm sorry I ..." Get up Lucy. Get up get up get up. "I don't know why I...Sorry!"

She pushed herself up from the couch, shakily. Space. She needed to move away, because he was her best friend damnit. They didn't have that kind of relati- friendship. It was one thing to kiss him out of curiosity because Erza told her she'd kissed him once before at the Christmas party. This was completely different. Judging the way he reacted the last time when Erza walked in on them, he was probably going to bolt. ... actually, Lucy kind of felt like doing that herself, right now.

[explodewiththerage]

Oh dear her tone of voice wasn't encouraging. Yep he definitely did something he shouldn't have. To be fair the urge to run was bubbling up again. But he still remembered what that led to. He was not going to risk it. So acting it would be.

" It's fine. Really I - Oh would you look at the time. I think I was supposed to meet with Erza again to help her out with something she said she found the other day!" He said forcing a hopefully authentic laugh. Yep just going to sweep that kiss under the rug for now. As long as things didn't break he would be fine with whatever compromise he could breach with Lucy right now. Naturally he wasn't going to forget it. Which kinda defeated the purpose of his acting but hey a stop gap measure was better than none at all.

[celestial_wizard]

She knew he would react that way.

It must have been really shocking for him. Enough that he didn't even want to be around her. Why didn't she learn her lesson from the last time? He didn't run because Erza walked in on them. He ran because of her. Because she'd kissed him.

That hurt. You really are stupid, Lucy...

She smiled, even though it pained her to do so, but she didn't dare give him reason to feel guilty or sorry over her mistake. "Really? Ah, yeah you'd better hurry, she's probably going to get angry if you're late." She laughed herself, "I'll -- I'll see you later then.." And she was lucky that those glasses were there, because she leaned over to collect them both. There was plenty reason to brightly step off into the kitchen.

She wasn't going to break down. Not until he was gone. But still, she cursed herself silently in her head for making what was quite possibly the -WORST- judgement call she could make in the history of ever. Stupid, stupid, STUPID Lucy.

[explodewiththerage]

Lucy was lucky that Natsu couldn't read minds or else he would have stayed for sure.

Did she really forget what he had said both to her about the drunken incident and over the call with Blaine? He confirmed that it felt nice and that part of him liked it. But then they both had their minds so frazzled right now, such connections were impossible to make.

"Yeah she really likes things to be on time." Natsu chuckled back. He wasn't convinced by the smile. It felt fake just like his. He knew her true smiles and that wasn't one of them.

"I'll drop by when we're done." No maybe's or what if's. He was not going to let this break...whatever bond they had. With that he made for the window, walking at a normal pace not trying to look like he was rushing to get far away or anything.

[celestial_wizard]

She actually had. And once her frazzled brain calmed down from the kneejerk reaction of 'OHSHT I KISSED MY BEST FRIEND', she'd remember that. And other things. Particularly that he had kissed her back.

The smile that followed his statement planning to come back when they were done was a bit more genuine, at least. It was reassuring, if not a little awkward. "Okay." So she didn't completely screw things up there at least, if he was willing to come back the same day. "See you later." That said, she slipped silently back into the kitchen to clean the glasses, and try not to think too hard about what happened.

[explodewiththerage]

Good. That was important after all.

Well it seemed that helped out a bit after all. Good good. Things weren't screwed up per se. Just really confusing but he couldn't stop thinking back to what Erza had said to him a few days back when they were training. Him a crush on Lucy... Why did it start to feel less ridiculous the more stuff just...happened between him and Lucy? Well hopefully whatever Erza found would serve as a good distraction from that train of thought. And hopefully it would give him a fun enough story to share with Lucy afterwards.

"You bet. I'll tell you all about what she found." Providing Erza doesn't threaten him into silence.