A/N: Ola! I know I mentioned in my previous chapter that I am going to quickly upload this chapter however two of my friends are getting married next week and I am super busy for the past few days as I was helping them out. So sorry! Anyway appreciate the reviews I received, I hope my updating cycle will improve (:

Chapter 4

With my earpiece plugged in, I was humming gleefully while arranging some of the flowers that were displayed at one corner of the shop. I was so caught up with what I was doing as I recalled last night's event that I didn't realize that my boss and my best friend were observing me.

"Looks like something good happened to Lucy." Levy said as she leaned against the counter with Mira standing beside her.

"Hmm… I wonder what it is though." Mira pondered for a while before a light bulb struck her causing her to snap her fingers. "That must be it!" Still leaning against the counter, Levy just turned her neck in order to face Mira.

"What is?"

"Lucy is in love…" Mira cupped her face and her eyes became dreamy at the sheer thought.

"Lucy found a guy?" This caused Levy to straighten herself up. "And she didn't tell me? Oh no, she's not going to get away that easily." Levy started to walk up towards me which this didn't go unnoticed so I plucked one side of my earpiece out.

"Hey Levy, what's up?" I greeted her with a smile plastered on my face.

"Spill it." Levy stood one feet away from me with her arms crossed. This caused me to blink several times at her in confusion.

"Er, spill what Levy?"

"Oh don't act dumb Lucy. Who's the guy? And how can you not tell me? I thought we were best friends?" Upon hearing what my friend asked, I felt my cheeks were getting a little hot.

"L-Levy, how can you say that? Of course, we're best friends and you know I will tell you everything right?"

"So how come you're not sharing details about this guy you're seeing?"

"W-what guy?" This caused me to blush even harder.

"You're seriously going to lie. I know you Lucy and furthermore you're blushing." Damn for having a nosey best friend at times like this. I kept silent for a moment, wondering if it is really necessary to tell her about Gray when there's really nothing between us but knowing it will be pointless, I finally surrendered.

"Fine." I looked away, embarrassed. "There might be one." This caused an uproar between Mira and Levy because Mira ran towards us and both girls were squealing like no tomorrow.

"Finally Lucy you got yourself a boyfriend!" Mira cheered.

"Hold up. He's not my boyfriend girls!" I cut in, hoping to get them to settle down so I can tell them the actual story between me and Gray.

"Maybe not yet, but soon my friend." Levy added in as a big smile plastered on her face this time.

"I'm serious girls! There's nothing that sort going on between us." I raised my voice a tad bit louder this time so that I could get their attention which I succeeded to. "His name is Gray. He's the guy who helped me out when my car broke down." I heaved out a sigh as I took a seat at the nearest chair available. "I thought that will be the last time I see him but no, he had to be the one to be fixing my car." I ended up blabbering to myself instead.

"Is there a problem Lucy?" Mira asked.

"Yes. This man just had to be god damn attractive. It doesn't help that he already sent me home twice!" I could see the surprised looks on their face upon hearing this new piece of information.

"Did you guys-?"

"Hell no!" I looked away, totally embarrassed that my boss almost raised a maybe, insane question.

"Lucy, are you trying to tell us that you like this man?" Levy asked sweetly as she took a seat beside me. I blushed once again as both my boss and best friend stared at me as they waited for my answer.

"No, no. Liking him is a little maybe too much considering I don't really know him."

"Okay fine fair enough because you only know this guy for maybe 2 days. But you sure do look happy earlier for some reason."

"That's because he asked my number yesterday."

"Oooh!" Mira squealed in delight. "That's the first step of a guy wanting to get to know the girl."

"No Mira, I don't think so. He took my number because he didn't want me to pay for our dinner yesterday."

"Lucy, really?" Mira exclaimed as she put her hands on her hips. "You're going with that?"

"That's exactly what happened. I wanted to pay for the meal, he didn't allow me so he said by giving my number to him will pay back for the times he helped me."

"I bet Mr. Handsome asked for your number because you my friend, happened to setup a perfect situation for him to do so."

"That's ridiculous." Lucy replied back in defense.

"Mira is right Lucy." Levy added in.

"Oh come on Levy, you too?"

"Yes Lucy." Levy stood up beside Mira so that she could face Lucy. "I bet he's going to contact you today."

"Oh please he-" Before I could finish what I wanted to say, I felt my phone vibrated. I decided to reach for it and as Mira and Levy predicted, Gray messaged me. To be honest I was surprised. What could he want from me at this time? Then that thought came, maybe my car was fixed already. I went ahead to open it and I couldn't help but to feel ecstatic upon reading his text message.

'Hey, what time are you done with work? I would like to pick you up.'

The girls managed to steal my phone away from me and they started to giggle upon looking at the text that Gray sent me. This caused a blush to creep up on my cheeks.

"H-hey, give me back my phone." I managed to grab my phone back from them and I quickly replied Gray before putting my phone back into my pocket. Mira was back to cupping her face and looking all dreamy like.

"So do you still think he took your number for no reasons?" Levy quirked an eyebrow at me as she rested her cheek against her palm. I gave it a thought before looking away, in embarrassment.

"Maybe."

Thankfully, customers started to enter our shop so Levy and Mirajane couldn't pester me more. I did not realize that the time passed by so fast and before I knew it, it was time for the shop to close and that means, Gray was coming to pick me up. I couldn't help but to feel nervous as I was sweeping the floor.

"What are you still doing here Lu-chan?" I looked up and saw Levy looking at me with hands on her hips.

"Erm, sweeping the floor?" Levy chuckled and walked towards me.

"I know that silly but what I mean is" Levy paused as she took the broom away from me. "Aren't you supposed to go already? Isn't Gray picking you up?" I couldn't help to blush when Levy said that out loud.

"I-I know." I couldn't help but to stutter. "But that doesn't mean I should leave my job halfway and go?"

"Oh that's fine Lucy!" Mira piped in as she suddenly appeared beside us. "Levy and I will take care of it. Besides, we do not want to keep Mr. God Damn Attractive waiting too long don't we?" And with that, she winked at me.

I was utterly dumbfounded. Mira was using my words against me. Before I could argue or defend myself, both Mira and Levy pushed me to the back so I could change and grabbed my stuff. I decided to comply to them this time because they were right, I shouldn't keep Gray waiting. After I was done, I exited the shop, not forgetting to thank Mira and Levy on the way out and saw that Gray was already here, waiting for me as he stood by his bike. I was going to walk up to him before I heard squeals behind me.

"OH MY GOD LEVY! Isn't he a hottie?" That was definitely Mira.

"He is, he is. Go for it Lu-chan!" And that was Levy supporting me.

Upon hearing their comments, I couldn't help but to smile and shake my head as I walked towards him. I think Gray saw me approaching me because he put his phone away and a smile grew across his face.

"Hey Lucy." He greeted me when I stood in front of him.

"Hey Gray." I greeted back, looking up at him with a smile plastered on my face. "I have to ask but why the sudden message of wanting to pick me up?"

"Well, you were telling me how tough it is to get cabs so…" Gray paused as he turned around to grab one of the helmets that were parked on his bike. "I decided to pick you up every day until your car is fix." Gray finished his sentence as he held out the helmet to me.

"Oh no, no, no. You don't have to." I waved my hands at him. "You're already helping me so much; I don't want to trouble you."

"But I want to Lucy, besides it's no trouble at all."

"But I insist." I wasn't going to take advantage of his kindness. "First, you helped me out here the other day. Hell, without you, I think I would have been stuck here looking at my car still. Then right now, you're going to help me fix my car up to a brand new baby which I really, really appreciate and not only that, you sent me home twice already and one of it, you treated me to dinner which I felt really bad already so in exchange you said giving you my phone number will do but I feel that it is not enough compare to all the times you -" Before I could even finish my sentence, Gray put on my helmet for me.

"Lucy, you're yapping away again." I couldn't help but to blush when Gray pointed that out to me. Furthermore, it didn't help that our faces were barely inches away from each other. Oh my god, this is so embarrassing. I feel like digging a hole and crawling inside. "Let me do this, please?" Afraid that my voice won't come out, I just decided to nodded back in reply.

With that, Gray fastened my helmet for me before he went to put on his helmet. After which he got on the bike and looked at me, holding his hand out to me.

"Ready?" I then took a minute to look at his hand before accepting it to get behind him. "So do you want to go anywhere before you go home?" I thought about it for a moment. Actually I am kind of hungry and then as if a light bulb switched on, I could take this opportunity to pay back Gray.

"I would like to have dinner but on one condition!" Gray looked over his shoulder, one of his eyebrows raised at me. "I get to pay for it." I paused before adding on. "For the both of us." I could see Gray was kind of hesitating and I decided to smile sweetly at him, hoping that it will get him to surrender which it did.

"Fine." Gray turned back and started to roar his engine to life. I couldn't help but to cheer and hug him, as if it was like the normal thing to do until I realized this and let go of him. If my eyes were not deceiving me, I saw Gray was actually blushing.

A/N: And that's it for chapter 4! How was it? Please leave a review before you go. Thank you!