THE BET | NALU

Chapter 16

"Where is he?" The 16 year old girl asked herself as she stood outside a cafe "He promised to be here at 6.."

"Whoo!" A 16 year old boy yelled as he ran up to the cafe, panting, "Sorry I'm late." He said, looking up at the obviously irritated girl. She just glared at him before storming into the cafe.

"Aw come on! I really am sorry!" He said, following her in.

"Save it." She snapped as she took a seat in a nearby booth. The boy closed his mouth and took the seat across from her. "I-I need to tell you something.." The girl said quietly, not looking into the boy's eyes.

"What is it?" He asked nervously, knowing that the news would not be good. He bit his lip as he stared into her eyes, sad. This news was making her sad. And it took all of his willpower not to jump across the table to comfort her. All of his willpower plus some.

"My father..is choosing my future husband.."

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"Oi, Natsu." Cobra said, waving his hand in front the pink haired man's face to get his attention as the regular group sat at their rock. It didn't work. Natsu kept his eyes on his phone, and his smirk just grew.

"He's paying attention to his phone." Midnight observed, looking over at the man curiously. Cobra scoffed and smacked Natsu upside the head. Natsu looked up from his phone for a second to send him a deathly glare, but turned back to him phone almost immediately after.

"What the hell do you want?" He snapped, his eyes on his phone, but his voice was directed towards Cobra. Cobra winced a little under his tone, but not too much. A little anger had grown in his stomach for Natsu, but he didn't act upon it. He knew it wouldn't be a great chose.

"New Weekly Sorcerers." Cobra announced and placed the magazine in front of Natsu's face, it was opened to a picture of some girl named Jenny in a very skimpy bikini.

"No thanks." He said and pushed the magazine away to continue looking at his phone. The members of the group exchanged puzzled looks, Natsu has never turned down his favorite magazine before..

"Natsu~" Angel said and threw her arms around his neck, leaning onto his back as she deliberately pressed her boobs against him "It's been a while...wanna have some fun~?"

"No thanks." he repeated and shifted his shoulder so she would get off him. Angel glared at his back before stomping away, angry that she had been turned down. Midnight, Cobra, and Racer exchanged the same looks. It was even more rare for Natsu to turn down sex with a hot girl.

What the hell's going on?

Midnight looked over Natsu's shoulder, to see what was so interesting. He expected some game or maybe porn, but he was just texting someone. He looked at the top of the screen to see who the contact was, Luce, who the hell's Luce?

Heartfilia.

"So..how's the bet going?" Midnight asked suspiciously, taking the seat next to Natsu.

"Bet? What be- Oh yeah, fine." Natsu shrugged, not looking up from his phone.

"Have you taken her to bed yet?" Cobra asked, catching on to what Midnight was doing.

"Uh..no." He answered a bit nervously this time "I'll get her soon though." He said confidently as his fingers tapped rapidly on his phone.

"You haven't...fallen for her, have you?" Racer whispered into his ear as he leaned over his shoulder.

"What? No!" Natsu denied, snapping his head up so that he wasn't looking at his phone anymore. He placed his phone next to him on the rock and stood up confidently. "I'm Natsu Dragneel!" He yelled, practically to the whole school "I don't 'fall' for anyone." He used quotation marks at the word 'fall' as if it was a lie. That you can't 'fall' for someone. That love didn't exist. But for some reason he felt guilty when he said it.