I do apologize for the late response I wasn't sure if you guys had read the previous chapter before I remembered to answer your questions, so I'm doing it on this chapter. Also I do apologize for the late chapter, I couldn't be on here to post it on Sunday, and I had to leave early from my mom's store (to go cook dinner we've been eating out too much lately) so I couldn't get to see whether my Beta, Cat Goliath had sent me her changes.

Yami-Vs-Hikari: For some reason I can't PM you so I'll answer your question on this chapter. So basically Natsu and Lucy rescue Erza from Jellal, Gajeel and Levy are sent by Mirajane and Laxus to assist Natsu and Lucy, till things get a little complicated then Gray and Juvia join in the fray. Then there's the whole Lisanna mess, Cana treading on the edge of death, Zeref preparing for something big and that has to do with Natsu. These factors will eventually lead back to somewhere explosive in the next couple of chapters

Chrissie: Jellal's involvement in the massacre will be explained in the next chapter. Yes Erza, Mirajane, Laxus, and Jellal used to be best friends I'll explain how and why in the next chapter.

Choices

Marriage. That was the last thing on my mind at the moment, with all the craziness of romance and the preparations for the mission, this was the last thing I had expected Natsu to say. Naturally to Natsu's proposal all I could say was, "What?"

"Oh please, don't make me say it again. It was already hard enough trying to get it out." Wasn't his response, it was more of a 'Will you marry me?' again this time with completely serious look on his face.

"Isn't this a little too sudden? I mean we just argued a few minutes ago." I pointed out while thinking. A very small argument but an argument nevertheless.

"Well, I thought before this mission was over, I'd propose to you." Natsu said while rubbing the back of his neck nervously, and I asked, "Why?"

"I love you, Lucy. And I want to be with you for the rest of my life, weirdo." There it was, that idiotic grin of his that I loved. I folded my arms, "What about the things that we need to sort out like that night we had….."

"We had sex?" Did he have to be so blunt about it? I corrected him instantly, "No! What we had was a one night stand."

"No it wasn't!"

"Do you even know the meaning of a one night stand? It's when-" Natsu threw his hands up in frustration, "Yes I do! Okay! What do you expect me to do? Say I'm sorry?"

"You already said you were sorry, but I want you to explain why you left."

"Lisanna was in the hospital," I stiffened at the mention of Lisanna's name while Natsu continued, "she got into a car accident. Mirajane and Laxus wanted me to be there with them for support, as childhood friend."

At that moment I felt like a total idiot and a jackass, and I said what any idiot/dumbass would say, "Oh."

Natsu shoved his hands into his pockets, searching for something, and pulled out a black box; opening and showing me what was in it. I saw was a gold ring with a small diamond embedded into it. Looking up to the ring holder, I said with a small smile, "Okay. Let's get married."

Quickly he slipped the ring onto my left ring finger while asking, "Did you get anything to eat?"

Those words went straight to my growling stomach as I said, "Uh...No. Do you want to order something? I don't feel like cooking today."

"Chicken?" I rolled my eyes. Of course he would pick that. "Okay, but I want mashed potatoes with gravy."

While he went to WingStop, I went to the living room to sit on the couch and stare at the gold ring on my finger, desperately trying to figure out what the hell just happened. Did he just propose to me? A lot of things went through my mind at the moment, but the one thought that kept on coming back was; is he still going to hunt down Zeref? Revenge, is never the right way to settle things, but considering the circumstances Natsu is entitled to have his revenge. The question is how far will he take it? It still hadn't sunken in yet when he came back with the fried chicken. "Lucy."

I blinked looking up, and saw that Natsu had already taken out the chicken and mashed potatoes from the take out bag and was flipping the channels while asking, "What do you wanna watch?"

"Uh… 'How I Met Your Mother'." I replied reaching out for a drumstick while Natsu went back to one of the channels that had 'How I Met Your Mother' on. While chewing on the chicken I asked, "Natsu?"

"What, Lucy?"

"What do you want to do tomorrow?"

"Mind if we jog in the morning?"

"No, I'm fine with that. What about in the afternoon? Should we see if there are any missions we could do after this at the Agency?"

"Sounds good. What kind of mission do you wanna take next? Bringing an evil drug dealer to his knees? Courting a mafia boss? Helping a poor village by getting rid of a mean dictator while teaching their kids how to play poker? Or we could just take a vacation."

A vacation did sound nice. "To where?"

He pondered for a moment, "How about we go to somewhere warm? Like Crocus!"

"Okay. How about this? After this mission is complete, we can do one more mission before we ask Mira if we could take a vacation, and tell them about this engagement. I really don't want Mira and the others to start planning our wedding just yet." He nodded, understanding that Mira could pick up on any intimate moment in the building and not even be on the same floor. She would already have a wedding planned out for the couple (so many were careful not to show anything romantic while in the Agency building). That's how Bisca and Alzack got married, and they had retired from the Agency's business to raise their little girl.

After watching another episode of 'How I Met Your Mother' we retired to bed. Natsu was the first to get to the bed; I joined him under the covers after taking off the gold band, I still wasn't used to having it around my finger. I snuggled up next to him, quickly falling asleep into his warm embrace.

The next day I woke up with a yawn, then I glanced to my side seeing Natsu still sleeping, thankfully, so I slipped out of the covers, but was stopped by his arms being wrapped around my waist. I turned around to see Natsu, with his spiky pink hair all in a mess like someone had combed their hands through it (that was most likely my doing), and his familiar wide grin on his face. He yawned, "Don't go. Can we stay in please?"

"No, Natsu. Remember, you're the one that wanted to go jogging today, so go get dressed. I'll make breakfast."

After groaning about early mornings, Natsu released me from his hold and went over to his drawer to pick out some workout clothes. I went downstairs to crack some eggs and break the cap seal on the mango orange juice bottle. Natsu came down wearing a sleeveless white top with gym shorts and a neon pink fanny pack. I tried to hold in my giggles while asking, "Is that… a fanny pack?"

"Yeah," When I chortled, he grunted, pulling up a chair, "my pants don't have pockets. What if I wanted to buy some food? I do need pockets for a wallet, right?"

"I guess you got a point there, but it's still a fanny pack." I pointed my fork to him before getting up with my dishes.

"Whatever." Natsu chewed on his eggs while I placed my empty dishes in the sink. Once he was done with his breakfast, we headed to the park that was near the Agency. We jogged around the fairly large lake before stopping at an ice cream vendor as the scorching heat pounded on us and the rest of the citizens of Fiore. While Natsu ordered for the both of us, I surveyed the park seeing some kids play in the playground that was a few feet away from us and the ice cream vendor. I smiled while a little boy with plum colored hair presented a bunch of daisies from the flower patch next to the playground swings to a blue haired girl who smiled gleefully while accepting the daisies. I mused out loud while the boy's cheeks turned pink, "How cute."

I continued to watch the playground remembering one of the past missions that Natsu and I did that had involved a powerful business woman's child.

It was about two years ago and it was snowing when I arrived at a park donning on a white skirt that was three inches above my knees with striped stockings, a pair of black gloves, and a long black coat. Like any other missions, I looked closely at my surroundings, there was a hot dog vendor, a couple sharing a chili hot dog on a bench near the vendor , and a playground that was my destination. While the kids were chasing each other throwing snowballs, I pulled aside my client's husband mumbling, "You know why I'm here, David?"

My client's husband nodded then called out to one of the kid's running around, "Yuki!"

A snow covered brown haired girl with frilly but warm clothes on stopped at the sound of her name and ran towards us giggling, "Daddy!"

While David embraced his little girl, I noticed two men covered in black clothes had pointed towards us, and I turned to the curly brown haired man ordering him in a strict tone, "Cover her eyes, this could get ugly."

He nodded before covering Yuki's eyes. I turned back to the two suspicious figures and started walking straight towards them. With a pleasant smile on my face, I punched the right man in the face with my left hand, and landed a back roundhouse kick on the left man's stomach.

What I didn't notice was that Yuki that broken free of David's covering hands and watched me with awe and excitement as I kicked the right man's crotch when he tried to lunge to me. After being satisfied that the two men were out of commission, I turned around and saw Yuki a few feet away from David, her eyes glittering in excitement. I shook my head wondering how long she had been watching as David shrugged helplessly. I knelt down to Yuki's level saying, "Don't ever tell your mom about this, promise?"

Yuki nodded enthusiastically before I took her hand and led her to the sedan that Natsu was in.

"You'd make a good mother," pointed out Natsu as I entered the car with Yuki, who still had that awestruck look on her face.

"No I wouldn't. I'm not like Bisca." I shook my head while making sure that Yuki had her seatbelt on, "This life isn't suitable for a kid, I'd have to retire like her, and the thing is, I don't want to. I enjoy these types of missions. Now, let's get Yuki to her mother."

"But you still would be an awesome mother." was Natsu's last comment as we headed to the client's destination. His words stuck with me through the rest of the ride.

"Lucy." I turned to the sound of my name, seeing Natsu beside me with our ice cream that was kind of beginning to melt. I thanked him while taking the ice cream cone, devouring the ice cream before it could melt any further. He asked while munching on the cone, "Do you want kids?"

"Eh? What makes you think that?!"

"You were looking at the kids with a happy expression so…." I pondered for a moment. Did I want kids? "Well I do want kids, but not right now…. Maybe a few more years would be okay."

Natsu looked thoughtful for a moment then he reached out towards my face I said, "Natsu?"

He leaned forward, I didn't stop him as he gently placed his hands on my cheeks and after realizing what he was about to do I stammered, "N-Natsu! W-Wha?!"

I could feel his breath as his tongue touched the corner of my mouth, blood rushed to my face, and then I realized that he was licking on some ice cream that might have gotten on my face as I ate. When I thought Natsu had finished licking of the ice cream from my face, he surprised me by kissing me in front of all those people on the lips. I could have sworn that my knees started to quiver as the kiss continued. Who knew Natsu could be so…. so passionate when it came to romance? He broke away from me with a grin, "There was some ice cream on your face."

I blushed, "That doesn't mean you get to kiss me!"

Natsu merely smiled before taking my hand in his, and I could have sworn I heard an old lady with a baby stroller say to a pregnant lady with a yellow sundress, "Youngsters are so bold these days."

"So in one hour, Lucy will intercept the information exchange from Jellal to Zeref. Thanks for the tip off earlier, Erza. I'll have Lucy take Juvia and Gray as back up. In the meantime, Erza, could you search for any copies of the information that's going to be exchanged at your house? I'm sure Jellal would have copies. Better yet, take everything from his office. I want it all here for examination, I'll send Laxus to help you."

"Okay, I'll text you when I find them. Also, Lucy kind of doesn't want Natsu to take part in this operation."

"What makes you say that?" It was very rare for partnered teams to ask to be separated in Mirajane opinion. Could there be trouble in paradise? She thought as Erza replied, "When I was talking to her yesterday about the information exchange, and the information that Jellal will exchange with Zeref could be about Natsu."

Mirajane ended the phone call quickly glancing at the computer screen next to her. The next thing the white haired woman did was call Lucy. "Hello, Lucy?"

"Hey Mira. I'm coming over with Natsu."

"Okay, I'll send Gray and Juvia to you guys. Juvia and Gray will provide you guys with back up on this mission."

"Actually… Can the guys not be a part of this? It is a girl's only thing." A few minutes passed by before Mirajane said, remembering her scarlet haired friend's voice about Lucy and Natsu, "Okay. I'll see you later."

"Thanks, Mira." The said person then called Juvia and Gray to the conference room using the newly installed intercom. Minutes later the duo came in. Juvia was the first to say, "What do you need?"

Mirajane followed up by explaining the operation to the two and said, "Gray, I need you to distract Natsu the entire time."

"Why?"

"Lucy doesn't want Natsu to be a part of this operation for some reason." Gray furrowed his brows. That was rare. The only time two cell teams would separate before incoming missions would be if the two were in a turmoil with one another or when a partner's family member was sick or on their deathbed. "Is this personal for her?"

"Maybe." Mirajane said shrugging helplessly, feeling curious about the reason to Lucy's indiscretion,"I don't know all the details, but hopefully I will once I talk to her."

After a few minutes of driving to the Agency, Natsu sighed while driving, "Why are we going there again?"

"To see if there's any work that needs to get done," I said, adding silently in my head. And I have to see Mirajane about the upcoming operation that I'm doing alone. I wanted to do this mission alone. Since Zeref was going after my partner, it was my job to make sure that he doesn't lay a finger on Natsu. Taking off the gold ring on my finger, I handed it to Natsu, who gave me a questioning look I said, "Hold on to it for me, Natsu."

"Can't you leave it on?" he frowned.

"If Mirajane sees this on my finger…." I trailed off, letting Natsu catch on to the Mirajane predicament; he hesitated for about a minute before taking the ring and exiting the car. We entered the Agency's front doors; greeted by Max and Laki, who were attending the front desk, "Hey Lucy. Did you guys go for a walk?"

"Yeah, we went to the park. Is Mira here?" Laki nodded in response as I glanced to Natsu, who was grumbling about kisses and kids.

"Natsu…. Are you wearing a fanny pack?" This was from Max, who stared at the said item around Natsu's waist. Natsu opened his mouth to retort, but I ushered Natsu into the elevator before he could say anything insulting back. Entering the elevator, we were greeted by Juvia and Gray, who started laughing while pointing at Natsu's fanny pack and that started a long string of insults. While Gray and Natsu were arguing, I leaned towards Juvia asking, "Did Mirajane fill you guys in on the mission?"

Juvia nodded in confirmation, "Yes. She told us to back you up and distract Natsu from knowing about this… Lucy, are you really not going to tell him about this?"

My eyes hardened as I whispered firmly, "No. Hopefully he'll be blissfully ignorant of this till it's done. After I get that information, I'll tell him."

Juvia formed a thin line with her lips then glanced to Natsu and Gray, who were ready to pull out their guns and duke it out right there in the elevator, but before they could do so the elevator stopped and the familiar sound of the elevator door opening with a ring cut through their argument. Natsu and Gray decided to go to the shooting range a couple of floors down to 'settle the score' while Juvia and I went to see Mirajane in the conference room.

The white haired beauty greeted us with a smile and the smile soon vanished as Mirajane displayed a very serious expression before asking, "Shall we get started?"

The two of us pulled up the chairs that were across from hers as Mirajane pulled up the traffic cameras that had the café in view onto the wide television screen. She had already laid out escape routes, possible distractions using the café's menu, and had already prepared the very short frilly café uniforms for the two of us in case Juvia wanted to join me in going under cover. The bluenette with us refused the uniform, saying that Gray would have a heart attack and put a bullet through any man's head for just looking at her if he had found her in that.

I really couldn't tell if she was serious or not, but then again, I did remember seeing Gray become really jealous when Lyon, his brother came to town and fell in love with Juvia at first sight. It took a while before Lyon got the message, that Juvia was Gray's. After a few more preparations, we were let go, or rather Juvia was let go, I was told to stay. Mirajane showed me a picture of a short black haired man with black eyes who was about as tall as Natsu. I pointed to the picture asking, "Who is that?"

"This is the man known as Zeref." My body tensed once more at the mention of his name. "What does he do? What's his connection to Jellal?"

"That's what this mission is for, to find out that connection, and why Zeref would want information on Natsu." Mirajane clasped her hands together and rested her chin against her joined hands as her elbows were on top of the desk.

"How'd you-"

"Erza figured it out and told me. Now I get why you don't want Natsu to find out about this. Cause Zeref's after him, right?"

"It's more complicated than that. Natsu… He wants revenge. You know how Natsu doesn't talk much about his family right?" Mirajane nodded as I continued, "Well, when he came back yesterday from meeting up with Gray. I noticed something strange about him. Natsu had a look in his eyes, one filled with fiery vengeance. It wasn't directed towards me, but to Zeref. He found the name in one of the file cabinets in the Agency's basement, and Natsu told me that Zeref murdered his father, Igneel. Not once did he tell me this in the past. Natsu told me that Igneel had gone missing not murdered… I could tell Natsu loved his father a lot, but he looked like he was so close to exploding when he saw me stiffen at Zeref's name, Mira."

I paused to take a deep breath, "I couldn't tell him that I knew the name when I listened in on one of Jellal's phone calls to Zeref. Otherwise Jellal wouldn't be alive right now if I hadn't lied, and I know Erza still loves him even if he did drug her. I couldn't tell him… Mira, I'm scared… I'm scared for Natsu… I can't help but wonder when he'll try to hunt down this Zeref guy. I wondered how far he would take this revenge. When I tried to search Zeref on the net, I couldn't find anything!"

"Actually that would be our Agency's doing."

"WHAT?" I shouted, luckily the conference room had sound proof glass as Mirajane explained, "Well, he used to be an ex member during the time of the Agency's founding, 40 years ago."

"He's looks like he's 20!" I pointed to the screen, I could understand if it was ten years ago, but forty?!

"I guess he eats a lot of melon," mumbled Mirajane before continuing her explanation, "Apparently, he was killing off civilians along with his targets. Basically, it didn't matter to him if everyone on the floor with his target was dead or not as he bombed the entire floor. Our founder, Mavis, caught him in the act and ordered a kill on him. Even confronted him at one point till Mavis got killed herself… Now, I'll try to keep Natsu here for as long as I can. Jet and Droy already brought up the kit to the changing room."

"Okay. Thank you, Mira. I know personal things shouldn't come up on the clock like this."

"Many things are getting personal now." I shivered when Mirajane said that in a deadly voice, I asked warily, "How?"

Mirajane clenched her hands into fists, and in a strained voice she said, "The day before yesterday, Lisanna went missing."

I wanted to say, 'Are you serious?' but by the look of Mirajane's face was completely serious. My mind processed the new information, and I asked tentatively, "Who took her?"

"Zeref and Master Hades, Laxus' grandfather's old mentor. So this mission is really important, you can't fail, Lucy. Whatever they've got planned for this Agency… I want to stop them before someone gets hurt." I could only imagine the questions in Mirajane's head about the subject at hand; and I knew by heart, personal things they can go from bad to ugly in a single second. "I'll be sure to bring some answers when I get back. I'll be in the changing room if you need me."

I exited the room resolving myself that whatever comes my way I won't back out on this mission or fail to complete it. Going down the hall, I turned to one of the changing rooms. I saw the café's uniform on a hanger to the left of me and a mirror on the other side, a table was in front of me with a medium sized black box. Opening it, I saw an assortment of lipsticks, eye liner, eye shadow, powders, small bottles of perfume, and a short brown haired wig.

Quickly, I stripped off my clothes and changed into the café uniform; the uniform was in a light hazel brown with frills on the edges and a white apron with a red border a few centimeters away from the apron's edge. I made sure that my blonde hair was bundled up and secured in the black hairnet before putting on the wig. Turning my head sideways to make sure that none of my blonde strands would be noticeable during my time undercover as a waitress, I applied on some light pink lipstick and a spray of a perfume called Amber Lilies, I headed out to find Juvia, who was waiting for me in front of the set of elevators. She asked, "You ready?"

"Yeah, I'm ready." We used the backdoor of the first floor to get to the garage of black vans and sedans that were filled with electronic equipment and pistols that were in a briefcase. For this operation we chose one of the black vans that held electronic listening equipment, and a sniper rifle that we deemed not necessary so we left it there, but we took the sniper rifle's scope with us. I couldn't stop worrying that Natsu was going to burst through the back door of the Agency's building and demand what I was doing without him, until Juvia and I drove five blocks away from the Agency's building. Natsu… I won't say I'm sorry because I know I'm doing the right thing.

Gray could tell as he and Natsu were firing shots at a paper target that they set to move, that Natsu was dead serious when shooting. There was a different serious vibe about him as he continued to shoot the paper target, and it was almost like he was seriously aiming to kill someone. Now, many times in their career they would have to kill a living human being, but those people that they were ordered to assassinate were a threat to their country, and so they did what was required of them. Both Gray and Natsu understood that fact, but such dedication was never put forth until now. Cautiously, the raven haired man asked his rival, who was still shooting fiercely at the paper target, "You okay, flame-head?"

"Just fine, ice brain," grumbled Natsu as he fired another shot at the target dead center in the head as it moved past Natsu's line of fire. He continued this for about ten more shots before Gray had enough and pushed the button that stopped Natsu's moving target just as he pulled the trigger. The pink haired man's bullet just grazed the sheet of paper that only had one hole in it. Natsu frowned turning to his rival he asked, "What'd you do that for?"

"You're been acting weird, Natsu. Ever since we got here to the shooting range, you've been acting really weirder than usual. Does it have something to do with the file I showed you yesterday?" Gray asked while emptying his pistol's clip. Natsu stayed silent for a brief moment then said, "Yes, and I told Lucy."

"You told her? I thought you weren't going to," said Gray while pushing one of the buttons next to him and the target paper reeled towards the raven haired man who inspected the paper as Natsu shrugged, "I changed my mind."

"So, what'd she say?" Natsu frowned before saying, "Lucy….. She didn't say anything, her body tensed for a moment as if she recognized the name, and when I asked her about it, she told me that she went down there and remembered the name from the file."

It was Gray's turn to frown, but just as he was about to say something the door squeaked open and in came Laxus, who wanted to shoot a few rounds to relieve some of the stress that he had been having ever since he heard that Erza had regained her memories. At first he had demanded that they capture and interrogate Jellal, until he heard from his wife about Zeref and the information exchange that was happening right then and there, "Hey, Natsu. Gray."

"Hey, Laxus," greeted both of the men simultaneously. Laxus commented, "Natsu, I thought you were supposed to be with Lucy on the operation. What the hell are you doing here?"

Gray froze thinking. Oh shit. "Hey, Laxus. I don't think-"

The Natsu distracter took one look at Natsu, who blinked and his coal eyes hardened and his frown turned into a scowl before the pink haired man demanded, "What operation?"

"Laxus, like I said this idiot doesn't-"

"What operation, Laxus?" The said person sighed, at that moment the blond haired man realized that Natsu didn't know about the mission and that Mira was going to make him sleep on the couch tonight after spilling out to the one person that shouldn't know about the operation. I might as well tell him, it's not like he's going to stop them.

Laxus spoke, "The mission to intercept Jellal and Zeref's information exchange that is the operation your partner is working on right now. She had received word that Jellal was going to give some classified information to Zeref, and Lucy requested to Mira that you can't be apart of this operation."

Natsu stilled at the information that came out Laxus's mouth. Lucy did what? She requested to Mira to that? He couldn't believe his ears at that very moment. All he felt was pure cold betrayal and hot anger coursing through his body. When Gray tried to reach out for the angered man, Laxus shook his head saying, "It's useless, Natsu. They're probably half way through their mission."

"That doesn't mean I can't try and talk her out of it." Those were the last words from Natsu's mouth as he left the shooting range and slammed open the stairway doors, knowing that if Mira knew he knew about this, then she would have to trap him inside the elevator as it moved up the floors. As he raced up those stairs his thought plagued him with doubts as to why Lucy would do such a reckless thing. She probably knew that if I knew about the mission I would insist on coming and dealing with Zeref and Jellal both. Did she think I would beat them half to death? I guess she would have thought that. Is that why she gave me back the ring? Was that a sign that she called off the engagement? Well, considering the timing, it would look like I was trying to distract her from the whole Zeref thing. Crap. I hate bad timing. Damn it all, Lucy!

He got to the operation floor where classified missions were in progress, entering the floor that had heads swirling away from their computer screens, Natsu demanded with cold sweat running down his face, "GET ME CONNECTED TO LUCY'S COMMUNICATION DEVICE, NOW!"

My heart was racing when I entered the café through the backdoor. This was it. I was actually going through with this. I couldn't help but wonder why I had this uneasy stomach dropping feeling like something bad was going to happen. The only time I felt this was when… Natsu got shot on that mission right before we had drunken stupid sex. Oh god, I still can't get that out of my head. Okay, once this is over, I'm going to start taking those yoga and meditating classes with Levy. I thought as I inserted a small communication device into my ear, tapping on it, I tested it to make sure it Juvia could hear me, "Juvia, you there? Can you hear me?"

Juvia say, "Loud and clear."

I could hear on the other end a bit of static and chattering in the background, I frowned. Was it the Agency connecting through?

"Luce." I stiffened. No. It can't be him. How'd the hell did he know? Then I heard Juvia say, "Natsu?"

"Luce, don't go through with this, please. Is this because I sprang the proposal on you last night? Was my timing really that bad?" I could hear Mirajane squealing in the background and every person in the operation congratulating Natsu. Why would he even think that? I managed to answer with a frown, "No, that isn't it."

"Then why didn't you take me with you?" I spotted Jellal crossing over to the street that the café was on, and saw a black Porsche park in front of the café and coming out of the car was the very black haired man I saw on Mirajane's computer screen. I had to do this, it's now or never. So I took a deep breath and said, "Because I love you, Natsu."

I took out the communication device out of my ear, and said, "Mira, I'm going to trash the device, take the money out of my paycheck. Juvia, watch me with the scope, I'm going in."

Without another word, I dropped the communication device onto the ground, stomped it with one of the heels I was wearing. After seeing it effectively destroyed, I took two menus from the table beside me, and walked over to the two who had just entered the café and greeting them with a bright smile, "Hi, I'm Eve and welcome to La Stelle!"