It was the day after. The sky was at its peak with multiple cars already piling the roads. Natsu's penthouse had those windows where it took up a whole wall, so the sunlight that got through the heavy shadowed curtains had forced Lucy to get out of dreamland. The glare of light had stayed on Lucy's face, making her dreams fade to brightness.

Lucy knew it was already close to noon, considering how bright it was outside through the brightness that was displayed on the opaque curtains.. Lucy didn't care if she had missed work or that she was thirsty, she just wanted to go back into dreamland where everything is nice and perfect.

Despite the desperation to cuddle up into the cozy blankets, her stomach had other thoughts as Lucy could hear the loud grumble, making her eyes go open again. She sighed, knowing there was no way she could go back to sleep with an empty stomach or that she could fall asleep now since she was already wide awake.

She looked towards the bedside, wondering if the cake was still there, of course it wasn't. She knew it wouldn't be there, why would it be? It would have attracted ants and Natsu was a clean freak, well at least way more responsible towards cleanliness and organisations than her.

The first time Lucy had moved in with Natsu, he had already made a walk in closet just for her, next to his walk in closet. Lucy didn't have that much clothes in the first place, so she only took up a half of the whole entire pathway. She only had a few pairs of work clothes and short heels while the others were all casual shirts, tights, few jeans and shorts, a lot of hoodies, one or two pair of sneakers and flip flops, and only one dinner gown that she had wore to the reunion.

And well…..Lucy wasn't the most patience and organise person, when she had to unpack, she had just dumped all the casual attire in a pile and hung the work ones and dress up. Her socks were messily thrown into one of the cupboards while her bras and undies were too smashed into another drawer all together.

So let's just say when Natsu had walked in on her throwing a random cloth onto a random place in the room, he nearly had a heart attack. He had forced Lucy to sit on the bed as he reorganised everything in her closet, while complaining that a 3 year old could do better. He was so terrified on what he had saw that he didn't even give a single thought when he had rearranged her underwear as well, not like Lucy was embarrassed at all, in fact she was in the room playing with Happy, too distracted to care.

Lucy didn't want to face reality yet but her stomach had a different opinion, so without further ado, she had got up and walked towards the kitchen, not bothering with her messy and wrinkled hoodie and hair that looked it went through a sandstorm or care about the dry drool by the side of her lips. Too be honest she never did care, not even when she had moved in with Natsu, she still had walked out of her room like the walking dead.

She had dragged herself to the kitchen floor and plop herself on one of the kitchen stools by the counter while trying not to smash her head on the marble counter there and then to get herself out of this misery of having to deal with people.

"Well looks like the Princess of the Dead is awake." she heard Natsu say as it sounded like he placed a plate down next to her. She turned her face up and saw the cake that he bought yesterday. She smiled as she grab the spoon, slice the cake and shove it into her move.

"Mmmmm…" Lucy moaned in bliss as she saw Natsu chuckle and sitting down next to her. As Lucy ate her cake, Natsu had quiet down and soon the atmosphere had became serious, which was weird since she had never saw Natsu serious before.

"Luce, can you tell me what happened?" He asked.

Lucy stared at him, so the cake was just a distraction huh? She sigh, it was not like she could hide it forever, though she had a feeling that Levy knew since she was told that she was being stalked by her. Did Lucy find it creepy? Oddly enough she didn't, maybe she had trusted Levy more than she had realised it.

"He…...he was my ex, Rogue Cheney." Lucy had explained.

"He was a douche back then and maybe still is. I regretted that I fell for him when all he ever saw me was another bimbo that was trying to get into his pants, and looking back now, I kinda looked the part." She sigh as Natsu grabbed her hands in his, giving me comfort.

"That day at the mall, I was just going to take a short trip to the bookstore to see if the book series I read was updated. It was going to take a short time so I thought I would arrive back before you did so I foolishly never bothered to text you. Me and my stupid brain." she said with glossy eyes, tears already forming in the corners, threatening to fall as Natsu had squeezed her hands slightly harder but not hard enough to hurt.

"I was looking around and before I knew it, I was suddenly pushed into a corner that made me drop all the bags in shock. He took the chance to corner me before I had a chance to yell he had placed his hand on my face." Lucy shuddered at the thought of it, she saw the lust and sadist look in his eyes when he took the opportunity to examine her.

"Go on….." Natsu cheered for her.

Lucy took a couple of breaths before continuing, "For whatever sick reason, he said he wanted me back because I had grown to be 'sexily delicious' I had told him to fuck off and tried to kick him in the nuts but he had quick reflexes and moved before my foot had collided it."

She spat out in disgust as she hissed onto the memory, she was always a bold woman that was never scared on beating a man up, sure she doesn't exercise or train a lot but she could give a pretty good injury.

"He got mad after that and tried to strangle me as I saw his hands coming towards my neck but fortunately you came just in time."

"Now that I think about it, I should have slapped his face when my hands weren't held anymore." Lucy said as she grumpily let out a huff.

"I'm glad you didn't, who knows what could have happened if you tick him off anymore. If he did though, I would have jump in and save you of course but I'm no pro fighter Luce. Next time don't act on impulse alright? Text me wherever you are even if it's a trip to the bathroom, ok?" Natsu spoke as he comfortably rubbed his thumbs around Lucy's hands in circles, which made Lucy calm down and back into a relax state.

"Ya, you're right. I'm sorry." Lucy muttered as Natsu slowly let go of her hands, so she could finish her cake before Happy walks in the room and jumps on the counter and eats it.

A comforting silence was being flown around the area as Lucy had finished her last piece of slice cake while Natsu had picked up Happy that came walking in, demanding for attention.

Natsu watched Lucy as she went and place it in the dishwasher, then she took Happy into her arms and began petting him while Happy had lovingly snuggled into Lucy's chest. If Natsu knew one thing, it was that this marriage of convenience is anything but easy in fact it had more inconveniences than he had thought. Nonetheless, he was having fun with Lucy, something he would never had thought would happen 10 years ago.

He could do without the creepy ex-boyfriend though, in fact he should prevent it right now before a cliche bad scene happens like in all the other movies he had acted, if they ignore it now something bad was bound to happen later.

"Luce, I'm going to report this to the police and have them put a restraining order on him so he can never come near you ever again." Natsu had explained as he pulled out his phone and showed her the pic from last time. With the evidence at hand and the connections that both of their families hold, it would be pretty easy to put his ass in jail if they wanted it but knowing Lucy, she probably wouldn't put him behind bars just because of this reason. Natsu swears, she doesn't take care of herself more.

Lucy nodded, "Ok, it is the safest choice."

With that the problem was settled.

But of course Rogue himself didn't take it well and trashed around the court, yelling and cursing at everyone he saw. That is until a policewoman, Minerva, had tasered him into silence.

After that day, Lucy and Natsu's family had proceeded on the engagement party, which they had invited all of their friends and co-workers, while trying to keep the media out of the party hall, being an actor was frustrating, especially when you were as popular as Natsu.

Everyone of their friends, except Levy and Gajeel, were super surprise. Mira had yelled 'I KNEW IT!' the moment she had received the invite letter while the girls and boys that had bet on who Natsu was engaged too during the reunion was either sad that they lost their money or happy.

"I told you, you guys were meant for each other." Laki had grinned at the both of them at the party. She had always supported the distant childhood friends ever since she saw Lucy hung around the Gaming Group. Too bad they were both dense pancakes.

"I'm so happy for you guys!" squeaked Levy as she took Lucy's hands and jumped up and down.

Lucy awkwardly laughed as Levy finally let go of her hands, "T-Thanks everyone." she said with a force smile that everyone could see through. Worried, Natsu had excuse them for a second and took her to a more quieter place in the garden maze, while their parents were entertaining everyone else.

"What is wrong Luce?" Natsu said with worry, did she had a sad thought again? Natsu had learned that over the days that they stayed together, Lucy had a confidence issue, that she always thought she was never good enough but he was always there to prove her wrong.

"I…I didn't think anyone would bother to come see me. I mean I knew that they would come here to see you because you're popular with them and everyone likes you but I didn't think they would care about me." Lucy muttered, while thinking she was stupid to have these thoughts on a wonderful day.

"Luce…..what do you mean they won't care about you? You're their friend Friends care for one another."

"But…..we never used to hang out often. I was always the one who had to invite them first if I wanted to go out with them. They never bother to invite me to anywhere….." she said, her mind thinking back to the days where she had saw group pictures of them together in the mall and all the conversations they had back then when she was force to include herself in it because they were ignoring her.

'Dumb Lucy, why are you like this?' Lucy mentally yelled in her mind.

Natsu had a stern expression as he placed his hands onto Lucy's shoulders and made her face him. "Luce look at me, you got it all wrong." he said.

"They never meant to exclude you, they always thought you wanted to be left alone because they thought you wanted to be alone. Whenever they had tried to include you, they would notice you were gone when they took a second glance away from you. You know Luce, you should really tell people where you going instead of wondering off." He chuckled as Lucy's eyes widen, she never thought of it that way, she always thought that when they didn't bother with her she should just go do something else.

"Wait…..how do you know this?" Lucy said as one of her eyebrows raised a bit in question.

Natsu grinned after letting out a small laugh," Luce, we saw you as one of the Gaming Group family as well, though we didn't think it was permanent since you liked to wander off a lot whenever we wanted to include you too."

For the first time in a while, Lucy had genuinely felt embarrassed. All the negative thoughts that had popped into her head was mainly of her being a horrible person that was why no one had liked her. She didn't think what was meant of an action to prevent her from anymore hurtful thoughts would lead her to the very outcome she didn't want to happen.

She always had followed the other girls and sometimes wander around the room to the boys side for curious and bored sakes because the girls were talking to each other while she was left with her own devices. Whenever they didn't bother to involve her had meant to Lucy that she wasn't wanted, so she would wander off to do other stuffs that prevented her from feeling unwanted.

She felt stupid to have thought of that.

"The regrets are real…." whined Lucy as she saw Natsu continuing to laugh.

"Let's go back before they think we snuck away to do something else, Luce." He said as Lucy blushed at the thought.

Seeing this, Natsu had wriggled his eyebrows and grinned, "Unless perhaps, you want them to think of it that way?"

"Shut up pervert." Lucy growled as she stomped out of the maze and left the laughing Natsu behind to follow her.

And that was that, both Natsu and Lucy had a normal fun life with each other as days had passed. They never did had a phrase of being a lovey dovey couple. They acted more like best friends than being all smooch up with each other. Everyone could tell at first glance, heck even if they were blind, that they both loved each other very dearly. The funny thing was, it's that they never had told one another 'I love you' because they knew they never felt the need to, since actions speaks louder than words.

And they wouldn't have it any other way because their life was a Reunion, the process of being brought together again as an unified whole.

The End

Tada! End of Story!

Yes I know it went kind of rush and I know there should be more couple development for NaLu and I think more development for the other characters as well since I made such a bother to give the characters in the first chapter such background and all but I couldn't find a place to put them. I also wanted to end the story with not a lot of chapters because I know myself and me being me, I tend to get lazier as the story goes on so the story gets worse and worse, content and writing wise.

TLDR: I had wanted to end it early while I still have love for this story so that you readers would hopefully not be bored of the story when the details and writing worsen!

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