A/N: #2 in the Wild Girls Universe! More Cana and Lucy friendship, as well as giving you a peek at the ships that'll be making their debut soon. The timeline of the story hops about a bit, so this is not directly after the first chapter. It's all over the place. ;)
If y'all have any suggestions for antics our two leading ladies can get up to, leave a review! (The Celery Incident will be revealed soon...)
Lucy came swinging in the door, as cheerful as always. "Good morning!" She chirped.
Levy shook her head fondly at her old friend. "Honestly, I don't know how you can be so awake and you haven't even had coffee yet." Gajeel grunted a disbelieving agreement next to her. He had only met the bubbly woman a couple times and she seemed a bit crazy. Of course he knew of her; everyone did. His best friend Juvia was rooming with the two 'Wild Girls' and she assured him that all the rumors were true. Lucy Heartfilia and Cana Alberona Clive were insane. "And you're surprisingly cheerful, even more so than usual." Levy eyed her speculatively while keeping an eye on the milk steamer. "What happened, did Laxus kiss you or something?"
Lucy's cheeks flushed scarlet and her grin got even bigger. Levy almost dropped the milk. "He didn't!" She squealed, her blue hair bouncing as she bounced.
Lucy giggled. "Tell you later. Right now, I need one of your 24oz, cream and enough sugar to kill a horse crack Americanos before I die."
Gajeel stared in horror at the blonde leaning against the counter. A crack Americano? Was Love and Lucky selling drugs in their coffee? He cut his eyes over to Levy, wondering if she had heard what her friend had said. Surely this cute shop wasn't a coverup for a drug cartel... Levy merely rolled her eyes and sighed. "Lucy, stop calling them that, you're going to get me in trouble one of these days."
"Sorry, Levs, it's just that, I have no clue what you put in them, but every time I get an Americano, I'm wired for the rest of the day."
"Well, if you didn't get six shots and half a cup of sugar for a start..." Levy said drily. "I'm surprised your heart hasn't stopped from how much caffeine you put in your system daily."
The blonde giggled, her bright eyes sparkling. Waving a hand airily, she spoke. "Easy. I've built up a tolerance over the years. Like Cana with her drinking habit."
"You know, I'm surprised her liver still functions."
"Have you met Gildarts? He's the same way. Livers of steel, those two. Good genes that got passed down to Cana is the only reason I can come up with for why Cana hasn't died of alcohol poisoning just yet." Lucy propped her chin on her hand and pouted. "And it makes it really hard to win a drinking game against her."
Levy looked at her blandly. "Why would you even try."
"Eh, it never hurts," Lucy said with a shrug. "Well. Actually it does. But my alcohol tolerance has grown exponentially since Cana and I have been friends. I once drank an entire bottle of tequila and only got a mild headache," she mused, absently accepting her enormous coffee from Levy and taking a hearty mouthful despite the heat.
Gajeel could only shake his head at the blonde waved and bounded out of the shop. It was confirmed:
Cana Alberona Clive and Lucy Ashely Heartfilia were INSANE.
A/N: The crack Americano thing? Yeah, I actually had a lady come and tell me that our Americanos were like crack. Seriously. Add that to the joke that white chocolate powder looks like some kind of drug... Yeah. Weird times in the coffee shop!
