Hello again!

I decided to write another chapter as I think the first one is more of an introduction.

Do you guys like this couple? I was thinking maybe this is an unpopular couple.

Please leave a review with your opinion so I can improve.

Chapter 2: Black coffee

It had already been a couple of weeks since Lucy was attacked on the street that night.

After she woke up, she realized that she had fallen asleep in the couch she was seating at in the coffee shop. At first she was embarrassed about it but Mirajane told her not to worry with a smile.

Lucy couldn't help but smile when she noticed the blanket covering her, it had to be Mirajane's deed.

In the end she was even offered a job at the shop, which Mirajane managed with her two siblings: Elfman in the kitchen and Lissana as a waitress, it was a small but warm shop with a smell of coffee and sweets. And it had a lot of regular customers.

'They must be coming here to see Mira-san' Thought Lucy as she saw once again how another customer became like a lost sheep at the woman's angelic smile.

The Strauss Coffee Shop was a very busy and noisy place, in short it was lively, but Lucy found that she liked it. It was the complete opposite of her own home, where the meals were always eaten in silence or alone. She had been lonely there but in here she felt like she fitted in, in fact she had already befriended many of the regulars.

There was Natsu, the super noisy guy that she meet in her first day at work, he had treated her as if they been friends for years and Lucy took a liking to him and his big smile.

And there was also Levy a short but cute girl who always came in the afternoons to drink tea while she read some book; Lucy had talked to her when she noticed Levy's book, it was one of her favorites, then they started talking nonstop about lots of books and authors.

There was also Gray, Natsu's classmate, who was a very cool guy but was always arguing with him about the smallest things. What made Lucy laugh is that they always became very tame when Erza, Natsu's older sister, showed up. Apparently they were childhood friends, and she had bossed them around since way back. Which left them with some sort of trauma.

Sometimes Gray would even bring along his little sister Wendy for some dessert, she was a very cute and polite girl, and at first she had asked if Lucy was Gray's girlfriend making them both blush as they denied it. Natsu told her later that they had no parents and that they lived instead with their aunt and cousin.

These were only some of the friends she had made in her short time working at the coffee shop.
But they were already very important people to her.

It was still early that day when the door's bell chimed and a pink aired guy walked in.

"Hey Lucy!" He greeted as usual with a big smile on his face and took a seat at the counter like he always did.

"Good morning Natsu, same as always?" Answered Lucy with a smile.

"Yeah! So how is it going? Already used to the apartment?"

"Well yeah, pretty much. Here you go! I don't have much stuff though so it's still almost empty haha"

"You can come hang out at my place whenever you want, after all we are neighbors" He drank some of his coffee and proceeded to eat his food.

"Yeah, thanks. And thanks again for helping me find the apartment." Said Lucy with a smile before going to refill another customer's coffee.

Natsu only nodded his head in answer, his mouth busy with his breakfast.

Lucy was slowly getting accustomed to her new life and new friends.

She was happy.

It was already getting late when the door's bell chimed again, but this time the one who walked in was a tall black-haired man.

Lucy had gasped at this fact.

'Long black hair! Just like the man who saved me. Could it be him? But that would be too much of a coincidence!'

He walked straight to a table in the back and sat down comfortably, hanging one arm over the back of the seat.

Somehow when the man walked in the shop became surprisingly quiet. Lucy stared from behind the counter at the man, it was true that a wide variety of customers came to the shop but none were this…. Intimidating.

'It cannot be him….. can it?'

That man completely dressed in black, leather jacket and all, had an intimidating aura to him thought Lucy to herself. But for some reason she was still staring!

Even from afar she noticed his muscular figure, and the way his black t-shirt hugged his body, showing a hint of the muscles underneath. Lucy started blushing as she imagined what he would look like without a shirt.

'What is wrong with me?! Ok, stop staring already Lucy! He is gonna notice!' she mentally reprimanded herself.

"Oy, blondie!" yelled in annoyance the man "You gonna take my order or what?!"

Snapping out of her daydreaming she hurried to the man's table.

"I'm sorry sir, what would you like?" said Lucy shyly as she put a strand of her hair behind her ear.

Up close he had a very manly face, a red bandana in his forehead with bangs on the sides and lots of piercings in the face and ears, he practically screamed "BAD BOY" all over.

Was it him? Could this man be her savior? Maybe it was someone else with long black hair.

A smirk crossed his face, and god did he look handsome, his red eyes roamed around Lucy's body before stopping at her eyes.

"You, for starters" the smirk still in his face.

Lucy couldn't help the blush that appeared in her cheeks, which somehow made her annoyed.

"How about some coffee instead sir?" answered Lucy the last part almost sarcastically.

'What's up with this man?! It's not like this is the first time this happened to me, but ughh… this is definitely someone else! No way is my savior this macho guy!'

"Mmm….. All right let's go with that, for now. And make it black babe"

'Did he just call me babe?!'

Lucy glared at him but said nothing as she furiously walked back to behind the counter to prepare his coffee.

'Who does he thinks he is?! Walking in here and acting like he owns the place! I should just pour this coffee on him… no, I can't, he might get burned and I don't want to make trouble for Mira-san'

'Maybe I should just do something to his coffee, like pouring salt in it or something' thought Lucy with an evil smile in her face.

But in the end she hadn't dared to do anything to the coffee.

"Here you go sir, black coffee, anything else?"

"Yes" he said as he grabbed Lucy's wrist pulling her to his lap, and then added in a low husky voice while holding her chin with his other hand "I still haven't got my first order"

So what do you think?

Is it getting better?