Fight for Glory↠NaLu

Chapter 3: Preparing

The next few days, Lucy managed to land a job as a barista and server at the brand new Café. She wasn't surprised since she'd worked at Starbucks before, and that was hefty work, constantly being bugged by annoying customers that demanded it to be perfect. She understood wanting the drink to be at high standards, but it was the occasional bastard screaming that he didn't get enough chocolate sauce on the whipped cream of his frappe.

She was currently happily humming as she wiped the tables, a gleeful smile placed on her lips.

"Juvia thinks this is too much work already!" A bluenette cried, her shoulders slumped. A broom was held loosely in her palms, slowly sweeping the floor.

Lucy laughed from her comment. "It's only the beginning, tomorrow's the first day we open up!" She excitedly said, quickly maneuvering to the next table to clean. "Ua maika'i."

Juvia raised an eyebrow. "Juvia doesn't know what... that means."

Lucy winced. "Sorry, it means 'it's okay'."

"I told my boyfriend if he doesn't come, I'm breaking up with him." Another bluenette shouted. She was the same age as them, but only significantly shorter.

"Wow, that's no pressure at all." Lucy said over her shoulder, smiling at her new friend, Levy. The first day they'd both shown up and instantly made connections somehow.

Levy tapped her foot against the ground and crossed her arms. "That metal-head better not forget to come after his workout."

"What sport does he do?" Lucy asked, curious to know more about her newest friend. For a quick second, the face of the young male she met popped in her head, causing her cheeks to tint pink.

Levy threw away a dirty napkin. "He's a boxer. He usually has a match every Wednesday evening or Friday afternoon," She said, cleaning the counter. "But he's always ticked because Friday nights usually pay the most, so he's been trying to work his butt off so he can maybe have a fight scheduled that time."

"Wow, hope he can do it," Lucy said, giving her an assuring smile. "I actually never watched boxing in person, but he'll manage if he's that motivated."

Levy sighed, shaking her head. "He's big and strong, but he's just slow, so he's been working on his agility mostly." She lightly laughed at the memories of watching his replays that she'd recorded, remembering him getting grumpy as they watched a certain pinkette beat the crap out of him.

"Maybe I'll come to an event with you, it'd be so much fun." Lucy suggested, her large brown eyes twinkling with excitement.

Levy raised her arms in the air. "Yeah! Then we can eat crap loads of popcorn and you can see Gajeel get punched in the face!"

The two of them started cracking up, continuing to clean everything until it was completely spotless.

After getting released from their last day of preparing, Lucy said her goodbyes to Juvia and Levy, promising that they'd hang out soon.

Lucy managed to get home quickly, avoiding getting trapped by a group of drunken males that catcalled her out. It's not like she was wearing anything fantastic, her face was bare without makeup and she wore another pair of sweats with a t-shirt.

She smiled as she flopped on her bed, grabbing her old laptop and snapping it open. "Well, at least I have a job at the moment." Lucy mumbled, letting her fingers glide across the keyboard to search more places around the area.

Even from the café opening tomorrow, her pay was still only a mere eight dollars an hour, subsequently too low for her to afford her cheap apartment for a month.