First Love

Chapter 6: It's All A Game

   "Lucy, why are you giving me that funny look?" Natsu asked with an eyebrow as his girlfriend stared at him with a blank expression.
 
She continued to keep her gaze trained straight ahead of her as if she was seeing something horrifying. Her mouth was gaped open, and her wide brown eyes matched her shocked appearance.
 
"Hello? Earth to weirdo." The pinkette waved in front of her face curious as to what she was reacting to. It was just the two of them sitting in the back of the classroom. The period was about to end, and everyone had finished their classwork so the students were allowed downtime.
 
All of a sudden, Lucy snapped her head to look towards Natsu with the same shocked look as before, "I totally forgot to ask Erza if I could come over to her house after school today!" She shouted with raised eyebrows that caused people to turn her way at the volume of her statement.
 
He just gave a raised eyebrow in return before nonchalantly saying, "Then just call her."
 
Lucy raised her arms to push her plush cheeks together. "I left my phone at home today," she sighed inwardly panicking at how the fiery red head would get pissed if she showed up "unmannerly" without asking. Even though she knew Erza would love to have her over anytime.
 
"Then just use mine," Natsu shrugged as he handed his girlfriend his phone.
 
"Really? Thanks so much!" Lucy cheered as if she was given the best gift in the world. Although the pinkette didn't really think much of it since it wasn't that big of a deal to him.
 
She took the handheld device and brought it to her chest. She knew the password since he was a sweet boyfriend and set it to her birthday, 0-7-0-1. Lucy shared a light smile to herself as she put in the code and unlocked it.
 
The blonde then clicked on the phone icon to call her friend. Usually on her device she'd just go to the recent call list and find the name instantly, so she did it out of habit forgetting it's Natsu's phone and not hers.
 
However she finally remembered it was his was because of the one name of the girl Lucy never talked to. The name that filled his call history and blocked out the very rare occurences of her own, Lisanna Strauss.
 
Now the blonde knew very well the two had been close friends their whole life, and she'd never doubt Natsu's faith to her at all based on his excessive amount of communication with another girl besides Lucy herself. No, she knew with all her heart that the pinkette would be the last person on earth to ever cheat on her.
 
Then why did it hurt so much?
 
"Natsu, how come Lisanna's name is here so much?" She asked without even realizing it, cringing upon the sound of her own words exiting her mouth.
 
Her boyfriend tossed over a listless glance upon her words, raising an eyebrow in confusion as he he looked at his phone pointed towards him.
 
"I call her for homework a lot," Natsu answered with a shrug, not caring much about it. He was usually a tad bit oblivious to a lot, and in this case to Lucy's slight jealousy bubbling.
 
The blonde knew Lisanna was a sweet girl, that she would never even suspect of doing anything secretive with Natsu. Lucy always respected their friendship, and hoped Lisanna respected the couple's relationship in return.
 
Lucy always feared the possibility of turning into a controlling girlfriend, that's why she'd never asked Natsu for anything drastic or demanded anything. They've always had that comfortable and flexible friendship, but that was before they started dating. Although since they'd been labeled official, everything between them felt so fragile to her.
 
"Oh okay," The blonde called out curiously looking at the time stamp of the call. 7:03am. She knew she very well Natsu didn't like doing homework enough to do it that early in the morning, but she didn't want to think about it anymore.
 
In a relationship two main things you need are trust and love, so she had to have some faith in her boyfriend. Even if he was going to call Lisanna more than her, they were just friends and she believed that.
 
Lucy decided to just drop the matter and went to his contacts to search up, "Erza," and found her name immediately under "Erza the Devil," with a bunch of devilish emojis. She gave a light laugh at how cute Natsu was to her by using those emotions, and hit the call button.
 
As she put the phone to her ear, she looked over at Natsu reclining and staring off to the opposite side of the room with a concentrated and disgusted look. Her brown eyes followed his gaze to see their fellow friend, Gajeel Redfox, staring back at him with a mutual expression.
 
"What do you want Salamander?" The black haired teen spat at Natsu, calling him by a nickname he'd always had due to his pyro interests.
 
"Something pretty ugly, Metal Face!" The pinkette said raising his voice, so Gajeel could hear him across the busy classroom.
 
"What did you say? Say it to my face!" The boy replied from the other side, as he abruptly stood up. Gajeel brought his hands to his wrists to scrunch his sleeves up to his elbows on both arms, as if he was going to engage in a fist fight.
 
"I just did!" Natsu retorted, standing up to copy a fighting stance.
 
Lucy just watched from her seat, and the rest of the class moved to hide from two as they were used to the crazy antics of the boys.
 
No matter what, he was always her Natsu. Her best friend, and the boy she loved. She had already forgotten about the fact he had been calling Lisanna more than he called her. She was so focused on admiring him from afar, and lightly giggling at his actions.
 
He sure was her crazy rambunctious, loving Natsu. She wouldn't have changed him for the world, because they both loved each other as if they were each other's worlds.
 
"Hello?" A voice from the phone called out snapping Lucy out of her thoughts.
 
"Oh hello Erza, it's me Lucy. Sorry I had left my phone at home."
 
That was the thing about life though, nothing good lasts forever.