Finally, after a long week, it was Friday. I know it's not over yet, but it is the last day before the weekend and I needed some rest. I still have a lot of studying, but I think I will let myself be this weekend and enjoy myself.

I was happily walking down the hall towards my meeting place with Levy. I didn't get to spend some time with her and I kind of missed her. As I was getting closer to her I saw her talking to someone.

Oh my Mavis, it's Gajeel.

I was shocked. When did they get so close to each other. And wait a minute, did he always go to our college. It really must have been a long time since I talked to Levy because I didn't know anything about them getting closer.

I hid, carefully observing what was going on, desperately trying to hear what are they talking about. I heard Levy laughing cutely and saw Gajeel smirk.

He looks like a titan when he is next to her. Or she looks like a dwarf. I shook my head. It's not nice to call your friend a dwarf when you are not really high yourself. But I am taller than her.

My attention was brought back to them when I saw Gajeel bent down and whispered something in Levys' ear. From where I was I could see Levy blushing and I was dying to know what he said to her.

My brain was trying to figure out what did he tell her to make her blush like that that I didn't see someone, or something coming towards me.

"Lucy, watch out!" I heard someone scream. I turned around and I saw pants flying towards me. I couldn't even react so pants hit me in a face. A pain screamed from my forehead, probably belt, when it hit me.

"Ow!" I said, falling with pants on my face. I went to remove it from my face but someone beat me to it.

"Lucy, I'm so sorry. Are you okay?" I saw Grays' worried expression.

"I think I am. What the hell, Gray!" I asked angrily. I saw his expression changes when he saw something on my forehead.

"You're bleeding!" he said, panicking a little. He took my head in his arms and made me look down so he had a better view of the wound. Doing that I had a better view of his naked body. He probably took his clothes off again, but one thing was still not clear.

"It's okay, Gray. I'm fine." I removed my head from his grasp and looked at him. "I get that you take your clothes from time to time, but is it a new thing to throw them around?" I asked him, not so angry anymore, forgiving him because of his abs. Damn it Lucy, you weakling.

"It's not my fault," he said, putting his hands in front of him in a sign of defense.

"So it's either Natsu or that girl from the other day," I said, nodding my head in understanding. I heard him sigh.

"It was that pink idiot. He thought it would be funny to throw my clothes the moment I took them off," he said, a little angry. "I'm sorry you found yourself in the way of my pants."

"It's oka...." I didn't finish when we heard chaos getting closer.

"Who called me a pink idiot?!" Natsu.

Gray and I looked toward the noise and saw Natsu angrily running towards us. He stopped as he reached us, looking angrily at Gray, not noticing my presence.

"Did you call me an idiot? A pink idiot?!" Natsu said. Gray just stood up and laughed.

"You seriously heard that? I guess you know it's true if you knew it was directed at you." Gray said, still laughing.

"Shut up you ice-cream princess! It's better to be an idiot than a pervert!" Natsu screamed.

"So you confess you are an idiot?" Gray had a satisfied expression.

"Un.....Aaa....." Natsu realized he was fooled and did have no comeback.

"Stop it you two. You will brake Natsu even more if you continue this." I said, standing up and giving back Gray his pants. Now that I stood up, Natsu noticed me.

"For how long were you...Lucy, are you okay? You're bleeding!" he jumped in front of me, took my head in his hands, just like Gray did a few moments ago.

"Will you all stop making a big deal out of it!" I said, removing my head from his grip.

"Lu, you're bleeding?" I heard Levy behind me. I turned around and saw her gasp when she saw my forehead. "Are you okay? Who did this to you?"

"AAArgh!" I screamed. "Thank you all for worrying, but it's nothing, really. Natsu threw Grays' pants and it hit me."

"Wait, so it's my fault?" Natsu asked confused.

"Of course it is, you thought it would be funny to do that," Gray said.

"But, why did Natsu have his pants?" Levy asked.

"Because both of them are idiots," I said, sighing. "Gray, do you know where is the rest of your clothes? Should we look for them?" I turned toward him.

"No need, I got it covered," he said.

"Obviously you don't because you're still naked," Levy said, covering her eyes. Now you're playing innocence. Not long ago you were blushing and flirting with Gajeel. I smiled, actually happy for her for talking to him outside of that restorant.

We found Grays' clothes and I introduce Gray and Levy to each other. Natsu disappeared somewhere along the introduction. I wonder where he went.....It's not like I miss him already.................ah damn it, I miss him.

Gray and Levy get along really well and the three of us talked and joked while walking around the town, with no exact plan on where we want to go.

I found out Gray have an older brother Lyon but they are on not so good terms. If I got it right, there was some kind of misunderstanding and now Lyon hates his guts. Gray felt responsible for that so he decided to left home and live on his own. I praised him for that because it's not easy living alone, I know. He was happy to hear that someone can relate. We exchanged some pieces of advice which helped us overcome living alone.

Levy would also advise us from time to time telling us she read it somewhere. She also told us about her mom and we commented our opinions. I already knew the situation but I was happy she shared it with Gray. It means she trusts him.

All in all, I was happy how we get along and how comfortable it is to hang out with them.

Although it's fun with them, I couldn't stop thinking and hoping that a pink idiot would show up at any time.

From time to time something that looked like him would catch my attention and I could feel happiness growing in me. But as soon as I turned toward that direction, disappointment would hit me like Grays' pants.

Where are you?

I tried not to show how much I miss him because I didn't want Levy nor Gray feeling like I don't care for them.

How is it possible to miss someone so much? Why do I feel like this? Did I pick up Natsus' weirdness?

Despite my efforts to hide it, they figured it out.

"You miss him?" Levy asked, looking at me with a little know-it-all smile.

"N-no," I said, looking down. I heard quiet laughing from Gray and Levy. I sighed. "Yeah, I miss him," I said, feeling like I miss him even more now that I said it out loud. "I mean, we hang out almost every day! How dare he leave me!" I let out my frustration before I could stop myself.

"Are we not good enough for you?" Gray said, making a sad face, Levy doing the same.

"No, no, no!" I panicked. "You guys are awesome, it's just....." I stopped, trying to find the right words to say to them.

"We aren't Natsu." Levy finished for me. I quietly nodded my head, suddenly feeling ashamed for thinking only about him.

"Don't give me that face," Gray said, giving me a side hug. "I don't know about Levy, but I'm perfectly fine with not being that idiot." I looked at him and saw him smiling which also made me smile.

"I'm with you on that one Gray," Levy said laughing.

"You're right. No one wants to be him. It would be the end of the world to have more than one Natsu." I said, laughing. I awkwardly hugged them, trying not to touch them too much but they both crushed me in a group hug. I couldn't escape. Help!

"Can't....breathe...." I tried to let them know so they can let me go. I started lightly hitting both of them in hope they will put me down. After few minutes that felt like an eternity, they let me go.

"I can breathe!" I said, breathing deeply. "In the future, can you not do that?" I asked them. They just smiled innocently.

"Can't promise you anything," Levy said, winking in my direction and smiling with Gray.

"But guys, you know I don't like doing that!" I whined like a baby.

"We know. But it wouldn't be such a bad idea to hug from time to time. To remind us that you like to hang out with us," Gray said, "and are not always thinking about Natsu." he said, again giving me a side hug.

"Shut up...I care for you..." I said, trying to sound offended. I heard Gray laughing then I felt his arms around me, hugging me closely.

"You are so cute." I heard him say. I wanted to get out of his arms, but he wouldn't let me.

"Not fair, I wanna do that!" Levy said, looking angry.

"Group hug!" Gray shouted, not giving me time to react. He made a space between him and me for Levy. She filled that space, hugging me around my waist, while Gray hugged me around my shoulder.

I couldn't move......again.......but, somehow, I didn't feel that awkward like before. It kind of felt............nice.......what is happening to me?

This is all because of Natsu.

They let me go and we were all smiling.

"I guess someone likes to hug now." Levy teased me when she saw my smile.

"Whatever," I said, running away, knowing she is right.

"Hey, wait for us!" I could hear them scream behind me followed with quick footsteps, meaning, they ran after me.

We were chasing each other, laughing and having fun. I couldn't believe I would find others who would make me this happy and carefree. I'm so glad I met them.

After some time, we had to part ways because I had to go home. They walked me to my bus stop. We hugged for the last time.

As I was going inside, Levy was acting dramatically, crying and begging me to stay. Gray joined the act, taking the role of a calm and collected brother who had to comfort her. He dramatically hugged her, trying to hold her from running towards me while she cried in his arms. When the bus started to leave, Gray looked up and I could see a single tear roll down his cheek. I was laughing really hard, enjoying their little show.

What idiots........

I couldn't believe they were doing that. Most of all, I couldn't believe Levy was doing something like that. I never took her for someone who can joke like that. I guess I was wrong.

It could be that she was also affected by stress from college and her mother, so she suppressed any kind of fun to focus on studying. Just like me.

I guess Natsu and Gray are bringing out our true self. And that is good. We needed some time to be goofy and crazy, to forget about exams and studying.

I guess I was right when I said Natsu will change everything.

I sighed, remembering an idiot that I missed all day, and am still missing.

Where the hell are you? I hope nothing bad happened.........

Would he tell me if something happened? What does he think about our friendship?

I couldn't take it anymore so I took out my phone and typed a message.

L: Hey, you disappeared....is everything alright?

I waited for a little but no response came.

L: I'm worried. Please answer as soon as you can.

As soon as I got home I showered and made some coffee. I checked my phone to see if Natsu responded.

Still nothing...

I put my phone away so I can concentrate on studying. I turned on my laptop and downloaded a power point presentation from today's lecture.

After some time I felt tired so I decided to go to sleep. Looking at my phone with a hope he answered but was welcomed with nothing on screen. Now I started to get worried. He never took so much time to answer my messages.

I brushed my teeth and went to bed, sending one last message to Natsu before drifting to sleep.

L: Please be okay.....I miss you...

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Hello there :)

this is an early present for Easter. I don't know if you celebrate it, but still, happy Easter Day.

I hope you will like it

Enjoy and prank a lot of people and don't let yourself be pranked !!

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so, till the next chapter....