After deciding to end Everyday Lives, I think it'll be easier to find certain chapters this way. I hope you don't mind :)

Fairy Tail and it's characters belong to Hiro Mashima.

Summary: Lucy moves to a new town for a job and goes to the same coffee shop every morning where someone behind the scenes gives her a free drink everyday?

It was a bright and sunny morning in the beautiful city of Magnolia, where Lucy has just moved to to begin anew. Her best friend Levy McGarden is the head honcho for e Sorcerer Magazine and she offered the newly opened editor-in-chief position to her this past week, so Lucy had to make a huge move in life for this once in a lifetime oppritunity.

"I can't wait! This is going to be awesome! Not only do I get see Levy all the time but I'll get to meet some amazing people! The center fold model Mirajane, the number photographer Erza, and I'll finally meet this mystery man in Levy's life, who apparently works there too." Lucy was getting herself more excited as she got dressed on her first day.

"Hm, let's see. First day I need to make a good impression," going through her over-sized closet to find the the perfect outfit, "AH! Perfect! It screams smart, sophisticated, and sexy."

Once dressed and ready to go, she saw that she had quite a while until she had to be there, which was perfect for Lucy. She loved being early.

As she stepped out the door of her new home, she saw a cute coffee shop across the street that didn't look to crowded. The name was "Happy Morning", and it had a blue cat one the sign. Seeing as she was ahead of schedule she decided to stop and get something.

As she walked in she could smell the amazing scent of coffee and fresh bread and all kinds of yummy breakfast food. It looked like a homey place, it didn't have blaring music like most places, and it even had a few sitting areas with living room chairs. A perfect place to read or just sit after a long day.

"Oh excuse me!" a little girl with long blue hair almost bumped into her since she hadn't moved from the door, she had on a high school uniform and was carrying a large bag.

"Oh no I'm sorry I'm in the way!" Lucy smiled at the girl who smiled back and then ran behind the counter. Lucy stared after her, a parent or sibling must work here, then a few seconds later she saw the girl run back out, "By big brother! I'll be back later!"

She saw a white cat and then a blue one ,it matched the cat on the sign outside, sit beside the girls feet, the blue one looked identical to the one on the sign. Then she heard a voice from a back room, "Be careful Wendy! And stay away from Romeo!"

The girl, Wendy, sighed at the voice. She knelt down to rub both cats on the head and then rushed out the door, giving Lucy a smile.

Lucy looked at her watch and saw she still had some time so she walked up to the counter to look at the menu. She wasn't a fan of the fancy drinks. Just some regular coffee was good for her.

"Hi, what can I get for you?" Lucy looked up to see a very handsome young man standing behind the register, she glanced at his name tag.

"Why yes, Hibiki, I'll have a regular please. With extra milk and sugar too. And a strawberry muffin, to go please." She winked at the boy and reached for her wallet.

"And you're name miss?" He smiled at her as he rang up her order.

"It's Lucy."

"Alright it'll be right up." He walked over to the machines to get it started.

Lucy blinked and just stood there. She was holding onto her credit card ready to pay, most coffee places make you pay before they get it ready. Most places do actually. Maybe this was just how Magnolia was, Lucy hadn't lived here since she was in elementary school.

"Here you go Miss Lucy." Hibiki walked over to hand her her drink and muffin with a smile in his eyes.

"Thank you. How much?" She tried to hand him her card but he refused, "It's already been taken care of ma'am."

"Oh? And who may I ask payed for it." She liked to have attention based on her looks, she was beyond flattered, but she could pay for herself.

"I'm sorry m'am, but I need to tend to my next customer," he moved to help the next person in line while ignoring Lucy.

"Hey!" she watched as he went about his business and shrugged, "oh well, I don't have time for this."

She walked out of the shop, almost stepping on the blue cat, when she saw a flash out of the corner of her eye and shrugged again, probably a waitress or something, all she saw was pink.

"Lu! I'm so glad you're here!" immediately upon walking in the door she was embraced by her best friend she hadn't seen in a long time.

"It's so good to see you Levy!" Lucy tried hard not to spill her coffee on her friend.

"I'm so happy I was able to get you here, I've been waiting for something to become available for about a year now." Levy was showing Lucy the main office area, and introducing her to many new faces.

"Mira is on vacation this week with her husband, so you'll meet her later on," Levy laughed at her friends sad expression, "Erza should be back tomorrow, she and her partner went to Oak Town to see what they could find out about Jose Porla's failing business. They're our top team around here."

"I can't wait to meet them! But now, who is this guy you keep avoid telling me about, hm?" Levy doesn't like to date, her job being her top priority, but there was something about this guy that she was crazy about, or at least that's what Lucy suspected.

"Nothing is going on! We're friends! He's a reporter here! He likes to talk about the stories he wants to take on and he wants my opinions on it! So what if we go to dinner every now and then, it's nice to have a new environment every now and then!" By her rambling, Lucy knew she liked him.

"Uh huh, sure Levy. Just let me know who he is so I can give him a good talking to about hurting my best friend."

"Lu!"

Her first day was a total success. Today would be great, she gets to meet Erza Fernandes! Erza got the job as a photographer right out of college, an amazing achievement. Her husband, Jellal, also works at the company, as an undercover agent about the more serious topics going around.

Lucy decided to go back to Happy Morning to get another coffee, and to pay for the one from yesterday too.

"Good morning, miss! How can I help you?" This time there was a younger looking man who's name was Eve.

"Morning, I want a regular coffee with milk and sugar with a strawberry muffin. And also, I need to pay for the ones I got yesterday. My name's Lucy," She said before he could ask.

"Coming right up!" Again, the man behind the counter walked away before she could hand him her card. So she waited and held out her arm out when he walked back over.

"Here you go miss! And don't worry, it's all been payed for!" He placed her cup and muffin down and walked away.

"Are you serious?" Lucy stood there for a second when she felt something furry rub her legs. She looked down to see the blue cat again. She smiled and knelt down to pet him, no matter how angry the men here made her, a cute kitty was a cute kitty, how can you be mad around them?

"You are pretty cute," She rubbed the cats belly when he rolled over and when she stood back up she saw the pink flash again. She was going to have to come by one day and wait awhile to see what that was, it made her curious.

"I'll come back tomorrow and pay for it. Hopefully." She walked out, not noticing the blue cat walk up to the 'pink flash' to be picked up.

"I would like to introduce you to Erza Fernandes and Gajeel Redfox. Our number one scoop team at Sorcerer!" Lucy shook hands with both of them and was pleased to know that Erza was actually allot nicer than some of the other employees said about her yesterday. And she had read many of the articles done by Gajeel, who in his articles just called himself 'Black Steel'. He was rough around the edges, especially with the piercings, but Lucy made a mental note to ask Levy about him. Especially since when she walked in he looked like her recognized her and had a big grin on his face.

"This is Lucy Heartfillia, out new editor-in-chief." Levy finished her introductions and was about to walk back to her office when she turned around, "Gajeel I think I have some papers for you look over before I hand them to Lucy in my office. Can you come get them?"

"Sure shrimp." Gajeel left the room with Levy in a light hurry. She turned back to Erza who was sitting in one of the lounge chairs and was about to ask, got beat to the punch.

"That's him." At Lucy's confused look she continued, "I've overheard some phone calls you and Levy have had the last few weeks and I know shes let it slip that she's seeing someone. It's Gajeel. Its been going on for almost a year now."

"A YEAR?!" Lucy and Erza bonded quite well over the romances going on in the office for the next few hours.

"Ok. Day three's a charm. It has to be Hibiki. There isn't anyone else who it could be. Eve wasn't there the first day, and I didn't see any of the same people sitting down either day. It has to be him" These were Lucy's thoughts as she entered the coffee shop Thursday morning. Once again, there was a new man behind the counter.

"What do you want?" This ones name was Ren, he seemed kinda distant.

"A regular coffee, milk and sugar, with a strawberry muffin please. And I need to pay for today's, plus the past two days of the same order. Name's Lucy." She was more than a little pissed by the men here.

He didn't say anything as he walked away to prepare her drink. Lucy looked around the shop to keep herself occupied when she saw the blue cat sitting on someones shoulder, someone with pink hair. The persons back was facing her, she didn't know if it was a boy or girl. He/She was sitting with a man with short black hair and a woman with long blue hair. Right when she saw the person standing is when Ren gave her her order.

"It's on the house." He walked away.

"...fine." She took her things and looked over to only see the man and woman still sitting at the table, the man's shirt was undone. But the pink-haired man/woman was gone.

"Oh well, I'll come back later."

Lucy was unable to go to the shop on Friday because she woke up late. And Saturday Levy had invited her shopping with her and Erza. Where she found out that Levy WAS dating Gajeel, he was just shy.

So Sunday morning when Lucy woke up, wanting nothing more than to fix herself some coffee, she decided to go and stay at the coffee shop across the street. It'd be a relaxing place to spend her morning. And maybe she'd finally get to pay. If not she had all the cash to pay for to put in the tip jar.

Lucy decided to wear a pair of shorts and a college sweatshirt today, it was getting a little chilly out with fall approaching.

She walked inside and was surprised to see Wendy behind the counter.

"Hi again!" Wendy grinned at her as she walked up, "You're Lucy right?"

"Hi, yes I am how do you know?" Lucy was still trying to figure out who was paying for her, surely it wasn't this little girl?

"The guys who work here told me. I already know what you want so why don't you have a seat?" Wendy pointed to one of the bigger lounge chairs. The place maybe had five people in it so she had her pick.

"Sure, but am I going to get to pay today?" Lucy called out to her as the girl went to fix her order and obviously didn't hear here. She sighed and walked over to the large chair. She pulled out the book she had gotten yesterday on Levy's suggestion and began reading.

She was a couple pages in when she heard someone step in front of her and place a muffin and a coffee down on the side table.

"One regular coffee, milk and sugar, with a strawberry muffin?"

She looked up and saw a man. A man with pink hair.

"Thank you," She pulled out her wallet only to hear, "It's on the house." She fumed.

"Ok, this is crazy, just who is paying for it? It's a nice gesture and all but I'm sick of it! I'm a independent woman who can pay for myself and if someone wants to pay for me the decent thing to do is grow a pair and show his face!" Lucy was panting as she looked at the mans shocked face. He looked down for a second and then turned to the side where she saw his face was flushed.

"I..I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult you or anything.." He began.

"Wait..It was him? I've never seen him before though.." He sat down on the chair in front of her and looked at the floor.

"Last week I saw you moving in and thought you were really pretty. If the shop wasn't so busy I was going to go over and help you, but I never got the chance.

"My brother and sister, Wendy, are always giving me a hard time about not dating. So when my brother was here and saw me staring, he told me to go ask you out. Which I was gonna do.." Lucy smiled at him.

"So when I came in you decided to buy my drink to make it easier?" The mans face got darker at that comment.

"Well, kinda. My last and only relationship kinda made me loose faith in it. The girl cheated on me for six months of our year long relationship."

"I'm sorry.."

"Nah don't be. We were childhood friends and we thought we liked each other. She felt bad about doing it, but she didn't like me as much as she thought." He grinned, Lucy thought he must be remember her in a good way then. The man stood up and looked at her.

"I really am sorry I offended you, don't worry about the drinks though, you don't have to pay, I was just being a chicken. Have a nice day," He began to walk away as Lucy realized she wanted to know more about this guy.

"Wait!" The man turned around to look at her.

"If you're still interested, can I buy you a coffee? And would you join me?" She was taking a leap of faith here. Then he laughed.

"Oh I'm interested, but you don't have to worry about buying it though." He walked behind the counter to get himself a cup. Lucy plopped down in her chair, thoroughly confused.

He came and sat in the chair across from her holding a coffee and the blue cat.

"This is Happy by the way." He put the cat down who immediately jumped in Lucy's lap. She scratched his head and made him meow, which sounded kinda like 'aye'?

"This is the shops mascot?" Lucy giggled.

"Yeah kinda. I got him for Christmas one year while I was in school from my mom. She gave me and my brother and sister one too. So when I was designing the shop Happy walked all over the blue prints, right where the name was, which was originally, Good Morning. It was his way of changing it I guess." He grinned and took a sip from his cup.

"So you own this shop?" She thought he just worked here.

"Hm? Oh yeah I do. Couple years now."

"Is that why your sister works here?" Happy had decided to take a nap in her lap by this point.

"Nah, she lives with me, our parents died a few years ago. She helps here whenever I need her too. My brother too, but he doesn't like too."

"You and your siblings seem close. What does your brother do?"

"He's a reporter at Sorcerer Magazine."

Lucy blinked once. Twice. "Huh?"

"Yeah, why is that surprising? You've probably read his stories, goes by the name 'Black Steel'?"

"You mean your brother is that guy?" Shock didn't cover it. They didn't look alike at all!

"Yeah. You know him?" He titled his head to the side.

"I work at Sorcerer Magazine too! I met him the other day. He's dating my best friend." Lucy now knew why Gajeel recognized her, he saw his brother staring at her!

"Oh Levy? She's pretty cool, comes in here sometimes. Her and Weny get along great."

"I can't believe you're his brother. You don't look like it. Him and Wendy maybe.."

"We're half siblings. Same mom. Me and Wendy have the same parents though. I can't believe he didn't tell me he met you, he came over here yesterday too and asked if I'd talked to you." He was pouting.

Lucy was happy, it turns out that the guy whose been buying her breakfast was close to the people she worked with. She had a feeling she knew who his ex was too. A junior reporter, Lisanna, who was Mira's little sister, always stared at the to-go coffee she brought in, which had a picture of Happy the cat on it, with a sad smile on her face. Levy told her she was dating a man named Bickslow since she was in high school, must have been the one she cheated on him with.

"So how about one day when you're free I take you a real date?" The pink haired man was now petting a black cat that was curled in his lap, it had a scar on it's left eye and refused to look at her. His flush was back.

Lucy stared at him, compared to the men shed dated before, he was almost perfect. He had begun this little relationship in a very romantic way and he was close to people she knew. I guess it was time for him to buy her dinner.

"I would love to, um.." Lucy stared at him as she realized she didn't even know his name.

"Oh! Haha, I guess I forgot to Introduce myself," He stood up and sat beside Lucy on the large chair and threw his arm around her,"I'm Natsu Dragneel. Guess it was kinda awkward having someone buy your breakfast and not know who."

"It's nice to finally meet you Natsu, I'm Lucy Heartfillia." She raised her eyebrow as his smile turned a little too devious.

"I hope the next time I buy you breakfast it's because I got to buy you dinner, too." He winked at her and pulled her closer to him.

Lucy laughed and leaned back into his arms to enjoy her Happy Morning.