Manager Law & Staff Luffy

'To make a move or to not make a move' my mind was twirling on this question. I felt like Hamlet. Well my thoughts were much less sophisticated than his and my intention was not as grave as revenge but that of a simple common love, one that slowly grows out of attachment and need and finally turns into addiction of familiar. I recruited that brat who was swaying his hips unintentionally at me, just five meters away from my trinket counter. He looked like a high-school student, but in fact he was a fresh graduate with a degree in sales.

It was almost a year he began working under me; my small business hardly required more than two people to run it. In general it was only us who looked after the store. He was the fifth person working here this summer and the only one who was employed by me. With advent of this new soul, the sixth sense of the store awakened. With the store's sudden blossom I the owner sprouted as well, I melted in love.

I was looking straight at his back while he happily chirped a forgotten island song, my half-sister Baby glared at me from the reception counter. My clumsy adopted father Corazon was tripping now and then while sweeping the porch. Chopper my nephew was helping us today with the front display while his parents my elder sister Robin and her husband Zoro were busy talking with suppliers. And the sea was calm meters away from my door slowly poking the dock.

None of my family members were churning their livelihoods from my shop, Baby needed extra cash for upcoming wedding, Robin and Zoro had their own bookshop and dojo to run they just wanted to help me because of the lazy week and there was Luffy, the only worker in this souvenir store who was not my family member. Robin scouted him because he was the sole person who was willing to sell things I offered and tea which only Robin drank. Currently I managed the shop, Robin and Zoro bought suppliers of food and other trinkets to me, presently Baby kept control of money and my father well he kept things lively around.

"Luffy" Chopper my nephew knocked at the display window and Luffy looked up. The sun outside was pleasant and I could see the town waking up to morning and the sea shivering at the dock. Luffy's back faced me but I could his slender neck nod to Chopper. And the OPEN sign faced the world. "Manager Traffy we are opening" he turned around at me with a big grin touching his ears. "Thanks guys, Baby stop smoking early in the morning" I looked at my sister and Luffy.

The first dingy was to arrive at 8am sharp, with that we would welcome the travelling work force into our shop. Most came for coffee and quick breakfast before heading off to mills. But with Luffy's advent I was selling tea most, which I was not in particular, favour before. The boy charmed in the middle aged women and increased my profit with his infinite knowledge of tea. He would woo the women with absolute truth and smile. "Ma'am, green tea keeps your body toxic free and the extra fat you have in your arms will vanish" he would smile. "Auntie Hibiscus Tea keeps your blood pressure in control and your hair fall will be controlled" he would hand the cup to the lady. "Jasmine tea keeps you energetic and your lethargy will fly away" over all Luffy was a tea person, I had never seen him drink coffee while I brewed it and I on other hand was a coffee person. Two different drinks, two different people and combined it was one big problem for me.

Hence the source of my dilemma- Should I ask him on a Coffee date or Afternoon Tea!

The dingy appeared Chopper and Luffy rushed out placing all the small table and chairs on the porch. But my mind was busy worrying, my mind panicked when I saw the parrot haired stammering guy step down of the boat. That guy was holding red flowers and I knew it he loved Luffy. "You know what Law?" I looked towards my half-sister, "If you keep only imagining Barto will seduce Luffy soon" I hissed at Baby. "See" Baby pointed her burning cigarette.

Luffy was laughing and parrot head was offering him the roses with trembling hands. "Shit" I was cursing myself. Keep dangling between tea and coffee while the parrot runs off with my three course meal. I grumbled at the sight and went back to my position beside the trinket counter. I was again glaring, now at the colourful boxes of tea. Fuck those tea drinkers...

With that thought I saw him walk with the red roses in hand, walking up the porch, smiling at the people. I sank on my trinket counter and my head slumped on my hands. "Uncle Traffy do you not feel well?" Chopper asked and I groaned in reply. "Chopper let him be, he is sulking" Baby broke my heart in pieces.

Half an hour later later I felt something hit on my head and it smelled great,"OUUUUCHHH" I sat up. I was hit with bunch of roses. "Manager Traffy! If you can sulk because I got roses from some guy, I bet you can cheer up too if I go out with you on a Brunch Date! God please stop looking so gloomy its not even 10 am in the morning!" Luffy was glaring at me. His cheeks blushing and his eyes shy but determined. He was shinning under the peeping rays.

"In between your Afternoon Tea-Coffee Date war, I have wasted almost a year waiting, I just accepted the roses not his love. Coffee and Tea are both hot beverages, that's where they are similar! There are other kinds of Date too... Idiot.. Manager.. I ... lo..." Luffy bent towards me and kissed my forehead.

"You love me?" I asked with large eyes.

"Idiot Manager, I can drink coffee for you, what about you?" he ran off.

I could drown in tub of tea for him...

THE END

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it was small chap, not my best, I wrote it in-between train journeys so forgive for scattered piece. Next chapter will be big and full of lemon juices-promise. Right now my heart craves something really simple. Hope it was sweet. Its my version of accepting differences to gain love.

Yes I love Green Tea!