"No,no,no! Ugh, why can't I find the book I'm looking for" Lucy muttered to herself as she walked between the aisles of the book shelves. Christmas was just a few days away and she still hadn't bought a gift for Levy. She had planned on buying her friend a book but that was hard when she had to find a book her friend didn't own and would read. Maybe she could get her a cookbook. Her friend had always talked about her lack of culinary knowledge; maybe she could find one that had some easy recipes or something. But lately her friend had really been getting into this series of romance mysteries, maybe she could find a book from that series.
Looking at the labels of the sleeves as she walked down them she wasn't looking in front of her, if she did she would have seen the guy carry three boxes that were covering his line of vision. But she didn't so when she ended up on the floor a few seconds later surrounded by books and tipped over boxes, along with a pretty handsome man.
"I'm so sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going" Lucy hastily apologized to the guy. He was rubbing his forehead and she leaned forward to see if there was any bleeding before he waved at her.
"I'm fine, no blood or anything. Worst case scenario is I'll wake up with a gigantic bruise tomorrow. Anyway I'm sorry for running into you" he said.
"No don't apologize. You must have been carrying all of these boxes, you couldn't see"
"Yeah and that's why it's my fault. I shouldn't have been carrying all those boxes ok. Anyway I better clean these up, there this new shipment of books. First one of this new book in this series everyone has been loving recently. Probably gonna be attacked tomorrow."
Nodding her head she said "Let me help you clean this up."
"Oh, ok. I don't want to make you feel like you need to do this."
"Nah, I'm fine" Lucy said as she began to stack the books back in. She couldn't help though but look at what the book was called, "The Case of The Bookstore Bureau: Fifth Book in the Criminal Romance Series ." Gasping Lucy said "This is a book from that series my friend loves so much."
"Huh really? She into it?" he asked.
"Yeah, she was talking about how he was releasing a new book soon. When are these going on sale?" she asked.
"Well, there not supposed to be on sale until tomorrow but…. I don't that one book sold before the release date would be that bad."
"Really? Thank you so much" she said clutching the book.
"No prob, just let me finish picking these up and I'll ring it up for you."
After they had finished picking up the books and piling them back in the boxes she helped carry one of the boxes to the front before they went to ring up the book.
"Thanks again" Lucy said as he handed her the book.
"I told you, no problem. I hope your friend likes the book, oh and thanks again for the help with the books."
"It was nothing" she said before waving at him and walking out of the store. He had been nice, plus being cute was a definite plus. At least she had seen his nametag before she had left. Natsu; had a nice ring to it. She was definitely planning on going back to the bookstore very soon.