That Thing About Love

Lucy Heartfilia smiled brightly as she smelled the nature surrounding her. The trees, flowers and grass of the campus formed a nice view to the recently entered college student.

She couldn't believe she made it into the university she wanted. It was very expensive, though that didn't present a problem, since her father runned the Heartfilia company. But, it was very prestigious and the ingress exam wasn't easy. She was now overwhelmed with joy.

Lucy grabbed her bag and walked to the secretary to acknowledge her presence. There was so much people, and of all kinds. Tiny girls reading books, probably drunken ones, sibling chatting between them, boys with tattoos and piercings, incredibly tall men, young and old people. It was a brand new world to her, that had been in her mansion most of her life. She was anxious to meet new people and find friends, and who knows what more...

"No," she told herself. "I'm going to concentrate in my studies. Just friends to hang out sometimes and talk."

If she failed this years, her father was going to take her back and force her to work on the company. She had to succeed no matter what.

When she exited the secretary room watching her papers, she felt someone tugging at her shoulder. She turned around and saw the blue-haired tiny girl reading a huge book inside the room. The girl had brown eyes that looked attentively at her.

"Uh, excuse me, you dropped this," the girl said with a nice voice.

Lucy frowned before looking at the keys in the blue-haired hand. The keys of her new apartment. Fuck.

"Oh, thank you so much!" Lucy exclaimed, putting the keys back on her bag.

"Are you new here?" The girl smiled gently at her. Lucy smiled back.

"Yes! I just got here,"

"Do you like here?"

Lucy, confused by this random questions, frowned once again. The other girl noticed this and cleared her throat, her cheeks turning pink of embarrassment.

"Sorry. I'm Levy McGarden and I'm working on a report for my aunt, who owns an publishing house and asked for my help."

"Oh," Lucy understood. "That's great. Umm... well... Like I said, I just got here so I don't know very much about this place, but from the looks of it, it seems amazing."

Levy nodded slowly, before a grin spread out her lips. "That means you don't know anybody. What do you say if we go to a coffee and chat a bit more? You can ask me anything you want."

"Sure thing," Lucy smiled. Maybe it was a good way to start this university life. Besides, her classes started tomorrow, and she wanted to know this Magnolia city more.

The coffee shop Levy took her was incredibly comfortable. It was small, with paintings all over the walls, wooden chairs and tables and with chocolate smell. There were four people in the shop, more the employees: one cleaning tables, one attending the people and other mopping. Lucy found it all very familiar and nice; it even was near her new home. But...

"What do you want?" the not-so-nice employee spat. Lucy had told Levy to go sit down while she ordered their coffee and food. What a big mistake.

She shuddered at the aggressiveness looking at her trough those dark, shaped eyes. This boy -man- looked at her like she was the concentration of all her problems. It sure didn't match with the wild pink hair he had tucked under a black cap. He wore a long scarf loosely around his neck, but she still could see the scar on its right side. His dark blue T-shirt didn't cover all of the tattoo he had reaching his shoulder. He was intimidating as fuck, but she wouldn't lose to it.

"I want two cappuccinos and a slice of chocolate cake." Lucy glared at the man, letting him know she wasn't scared of his antics.

"Hey bastard, you heard that?" he shouted to another boy behind him, with messy brownish blond hair framing his face. He had dark eyes and noticeably long eyelashes. Lucy thought he was quite attractive, but even if she didn't like it, this boy couldn't even compare with the mean pink haired boy in front of her.

The boy, Hibiki, as she read in the card over his uniform, nodded frantically and run into what she presumed to be the little kitchen to prepare her order. He looked really scared.

"Hey, you don't have any right to treat him like that, you know..." Lucy read his name in the card. Why didn't she notice it before? Oh right, she couldn't stop watching his face. "Natsu."

Natsu opened his eyes in shock, but quickly recovered and glared at her again. "And what right do you have to put your nose in business that doesn't involve you?"

"Excuse me, is it the way this place treats its clients?" Lucy asked, putting her hands on her hips and looking at him with wide, shocked eyes.

"Excuse me, is it the way people treats employees?" He said, with calm, cold, fucking sexy voice. He wasn't even looking at her now, as if she didn't matter and she wasn't his client.

She opened her mouth to retort, but closed it immediately. What could she say to him that would actually affect him? He seemed like he didn't care about anything. Then, she saw him eyeing her -his eyes went from her blonde hair, her chocolate eyes and then... lower and stayed there.

"STOP STARING YOU PERVERT!" she shouted. All heads in the shop turned to them to see what was the commotion. Lucy felt her cheeks turn deep red from embarrassment and fury. This Natsu... he didn't even look alarmed, actually, he seemed like he was enjoying torturing her. Wasn't his boss there to fire him or something?

Someone clearing his throat broke the tension, and then Hibiki appeared with her order. He handed it to her in silence and then returned to his job. Lucy smiled gently at his shadow. Why wasn't this jerk as nice as him?

"It's 20,50 dollars, miss." he said, now a smug smirk adorning his lips. Why did he have to be so hot?

Lucy glared at him, her teeth clenched. This... situation had gotten the worst out of her. She was so, so angry. Nevertheless, she took out her wallet and payed him, not glancing back as she made her way to the table.

She sat down defeated. Sighing, she handed Levy her cappuccino until she noticed the look the girl was giving her.

"What happened over there?" Levy asked, her curious eyes inspecting the blonde.

"Nothing important. That boy was just an asshole," Lucy said, putting a strand of her behind her ear as she took a sip of her own beverage.

"Well, that asshole goes to our university, too." Levy told her, gaining her attention. Lucy kept silent with inquiring eyes, so Levy took it as a gesture to go on. "Natsu Dragneel, 20 years old, presumably grandson of the college's owner Makarov Dreyar, member of a boxing club, 2 tattoos, never takes off his scarf, problematic. In other words, the boy no one wants to mess up with. He works here to pay his rent, I think."

"How do you know all that?" Lucy questioned. She was, to say the least, impressed.

Levy grinned smugly. "I have my contacts."

Lucy, despite her fury of before, chuckled. "So does that means I'll meet him again? That sucks,"

It was Levy's turn to laugh now. "Well, that depends. Do you want to meet him again?"

Lucy stopped drinking. Of course she didn't want to meet with him again. He was a jerk. Probably one of the most attractive men she has ever seen, but regardless an idiot who had no respect for anybody. Still, she didn't have the power to answer it out loud.

"Oh well," Levy continued, unaware of the problems the blonde was facing. "So, you told me you got here just about now? In that case, I'll be pleased to tell you how things work here. After all, I think we'll get along greatly." She smiled brightly.

"I think so, too." Lucy smiled back. But she couldn't get rid of her thoughts at the back of her mind even while Levy talked to her. What would she had answered?

A/N= So, this is the first part of a story I planned some days ago. Forgive my bad grammar. I hope you enjoy it, and if you didn't like it, please stay tunned because what comes next is better! This story isn't going to be too long, by the way. Any comments will be appreciated! Thank you so much for reading!