Lucy cautiously sipped her Starbucks as she idly scrolled down her dead Tumblr dash. The drink burned her tongue, but she didn't notice, too involved in her phone...
Until someone sat down loudly at the table next to her. She jumped and looked up, startled. She found the source of the noise, and began staring.
'Damn, he's hot.' She thought as she stared at him. He had light pink, spiky hair that fell in his eyes at the perfect angle, and muscles galare. Lucy gave him a once-over and stopped at his cheek.
He had a long diagonal scar on his left cheek. It looked fresh, judging by the blood oozing out of it. Lucy winced. 'Where did that come from?' She wondered.
She looked down, blushing. 'Calm down, Lucy...' She told herself. 'You've seen hot guys with scars before, this is nothing new...'
It was true, of course. Her business partner, Loke, had scars. He showed them to her at every possible time. He claimed that they were from sneaking into heavily armed buildings and stuff like that. Levy, her best friend, claimed that the scars were from when he was a kid, and he accidentally shot himself with a BB gun. Repeatedly.
Lucy looked up again. Had she imagined it? No, there it was again. A faint, but still audible, meow. Coming from where the hot guy was sitting.
The man looked at his pocket worriedly, and shushed it. Lucy crossed her arms. 'Does he have a cat in his pocket?' She wondered silently. She took another tentative sip of her coffee as she stared at the stranger over her phone. Something about him piqued her interest...
She heard another meow intermingled with the sound of a phone ringing. The man grabbed a phone with a firey case out of his pocket and glared at it before answering.
"Gray, I can't talk right now." He said into the phone, looking around. His eyes rested on Lucy a moment longer than they rested on everyone else, and Lucy looked down, suddenly very interested in her shoes.
"I..." The man lowered his voice to whisper, and Lucy had to crane her neck to hear the rest. "On it's own. I couldn't just leave it." He whispered. Lucy could hear the person he was talking to yelling, and the man rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever frosty." He said in annoyance. "I'm at Starbucks right now." He said. "Later."
Lucy heard another meow, this one more urgent than the last few. The man looked at his pocket, then at the rest of the cafe, then back at his pocket.
He slipped his hand inside, and then brought it out with a scream. A blue blur, faster than Lucy could have ever thought a cat could go, rushed out of the pocket, down the man's leg, and towards the door.
Making a split second decision, Lucy dodged around the men who were going to see if the other guy was OK, and raced the cat to the door. She won, and scooped up the cat.
She looked down at the cat in her hands. She had never heard of a blue cat before, but the thing was adorable so she didn't care. It yawned and snuggled her hands, and she smiled.
"Hey, you caught Happy!" She whirled around at his voice, and found herself face-to-face with the stranger. She was close enough to see every detail of his face, from his sharp teeth to his dark eyes. She blushed and backed into the door.
"U-u-u-u-uhm..." She stuttered. She held out the cat. "Here!"
"Thanks!" The man grinned. Lucy felt her heart melt. "I'm Natsu, by the way.
"L-Lucy..." She muttered, trying not to blush. She failed. Natsu grinned again.
"Well, thanks, Luigi!" He said kindly. Lucy looked at him angrily.
"It's Lucy!" She yelled. The man shook his head.
"Whatever, Laura." He teased. Lucy hit him.
"LUCY!" She yelled. The man smiled at her.
"Fine... Lucy." He took the cat out of her hands. "Thanks!" He grinned again. Lucy felt her knees weaken.
"N-No problem..." She muttered. "Um... Why is he blue?" She asked. He shrugged.
"I dunno. I found him like this. He's probably painted or something." He grabbed a napkin off of a nearby table and began wiping the cat. The blue stuff didn't come off. "Or not... Eh, whatever, a blue cat is better anyway, right!" He smirked. "This'll knock the socks off of Gajeel and his black cat... He thought his cat was exotic because it had a scar over its eye." He explained. Lucy didn't know who Gajeel was, but she nodded anyway.
"OK..." She muttered.
"Hey! No pets are allowed in here!" A man yelled. Natsu yelped.
"Run!" He yelled. Before Lucy knew what was happening, she was running alongside him.
They stopped after they ran around a wall, and hid on the other side. "Why are we hiding from Starbucks?" She asked. "They're not a real threat."
"Yeah, but I don't wanna get banned." He said, barely even panting. "I love Starbucks!"
Lucy rolled her eyes. "I doubt they'd ban you..." She panted. "You seem like their best customer."
"Why do you say that?" He asked. Lucy sighed.
"You seem like you've been drinking coffee all day..." He grinned again.
"Nah, I'm just naturally crazy." He said calmly. Lucy laughed.
"Naturally crazy?" She asked. He nodded, still grinning that infatuating grin.
"According to Gray," He said. "I am the most crazy and irresponsible person on the face of this plant and possibly other planets and maybe even other dimensions." He rambled.
"Gray is right." She muttered. Natsu crossed his arms.
"Is not. Gray's an idiot." He pouted. Lucy laughed.
"I'm sure he is..." She said. Her phone began beeping, and she looked down. Levi had texted her.
"Where are you, Lu? The game's gonna start!" She read out loud. Then she gasped. "Oh no! I forgot!" She yelped, trying to run away but ending up tripping over Natsu's sandals. Natsu grabbed her arm before she fell.
"Woah!" He yelled. "Late for what?" Lucy frantically began typing a response to Levi.
"Me and some of my friends are watching a soccer game tonight." She explained quickly, turning off her phone. "Damnit! I walked her, there's no way I'll get back home in time to get ready..."
"I'll drive you." Natsu said without any hesitation. Lucy looked up at him.
"Really?"
"Yeah, sure. My car's parked out in front of Starbucks." He said. "Come on!" He held out a hand to her.
"Yeah!" She answered back, smiling like an idiot.