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Natsu sat mesmerized at the girl resting underneath his shoulder. Lucy’s golden hair splayed across his arm and tentatively, with his free hand, reached over and grabbed a piece of it. He gently rubbed his fingers against the soft strands and let out a breath he didn’t even know he was holding.
Twirling it around his fingers he softly muttered, “It should be impossible to love someone this much.”
Lucy nuzzled deeper into his neck and let out a small chuckle. Natsu, unaware that she was awake, abruptly stiffened, blushed, and let go of the strand of hair he was holding.
“I- uh- sorry, did I wake you?”
Lucy laughed and started rubbing her hand up and down Natsu’s chest, in her feeble attempt to soothe him. “Relax, I was only resting my eyes. I’ve been awake this whole time.”
“Oh,” he said awkwardly, the blush still present on his face.
She tilted her head up to look at the dragon slayer and softly smiled when she watched his face get redder under her stare. “Natsu,” she paused to see if he would look down at her and continued when his eyes still wouldn’t meet her own, “What are you so embarrassed about?”
He huffed, still not looking her way, “Nothing. I just thought you were asleep.”
“You didn’t want me to hear what you said. You’re embarrassed,” she teased.
Natsu finally looked down with a pout. “Am not,” he said defiantly.
He looked away again and muttered under his breath, “It’s just that I wouldn’t have said that if I knew you were awake. Don’t want to freak you out or anything.”
Lucy leaned up and turned to face him. Her hands came up to turn his face towards her. She didn’t remove her hands from his cheeks once he was looking down at her, instead opting to rub her thumbs gently back and forth against his jaw.
“Oh, sweet boy,” she cooed, “you could never scare me away. Especially, never by talking about how much you love me.”
She softly smiled, still gazing deeply into his eyes. “If it brings you any comfort, I think it should be impossible to love you as much as I do too.”
He grinned and gently tilted his face down to lay a soft kiss upon the palm caressing his jaw. “I take it back,” placing one of his hands on top of the one she kept on his right cheek and the other on top of her knee, “It must be possible, because I feel it for you, an impossible love.”
She giggled, “That doesn’t really make sense, Natsu.”
He groaned, “Luce come on, I’m tryna be romantic and shit, could you just work with me.”
Lucy belched out a full laugh while he smiled down at her. “Okay, okay,” she spoke as she settled down. She looked back up at him, staring so deeply into his eyes like she could see his soul, and she smiled so bright, he swore he thought that the night had already faded into the day.
“I love you too, impossibly.”
He grinned, “Impossibly possible, I hope.”
Rolling her eyes, she giggled and repeated, “Impossibly possible.”
He paused. Eyebrows scrunching while she tilted her head in confusion.
“I’m not going to lie this impossible, possible, whatever stuff is kinda messing with my head now. Low-key, I don’t know what I’m saying anymore.”
“Natsu!” She removed her hands from his face and glared up at him. “Now, you just ruined the moment!”
He cackled and grabbed her hands, placing a kiss on the back of each hand before pulling them to his chest, right next to his heart.
“I’m sorry pretty girl, it doesn’t matter though. I love you, simple enough.”
Her glare softened as her cheeks dusted in pink. “I love you too.”
Her eyes flickered with a mischievous glint, and before Natsu could point it out, she pounced on him, straddling his hips and pushing him back into the couch and began to pepper kisses all over his face.
“Luce,” he chuckled, “what is this for?”
“Just because,” she said in between her kisses.
Once she was satisfied and she covered the entirety of his face with splotches of sparkly pink lipgloss, she placed one last kiss to his lips before leaning her forehead against his.
“What I feel for you transcends time and space. The word ‘love’ is not enough to encapsulate what I feel for you.”
Natsu tilted his head back against the couch and let out a groan. “Jeez, this is what I was trying to say. God, why are you so much better with words than I am.”
She laughed, “It’s okay angel. I can feel it.”
He smiled, bringing his head back up to look back at her. He lifted one hand to tuck a fallen strand of hair behind her ear before leaning up further to gently press his lips to her temple. He let his lips rest there for a moment before removing them in favor of smiling and looking into her eyes once more.
“I can feel it too.”