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The Griffin's Path

I think it was because of his emerald green eyes, and the blonde hair, too. The boy takes a hold of my hand, and took me towards the empty seat I was planning to sit on earlier, and as soon as he let go, he jumped over the bar to look at me sit down. In fact, his eyes glowed brightly, and as I looked harder at them, I could see small golden specks scattered across his pupils.

"Miss?" I jumped when the boy put me out of my thoughts, and I quickly focused onto the question he asked me. "Sorry, what did you say?" He sounded so much like Meliodas, and I was almost as faint to reply. So rude of me, I should've listened to him properly without looking into space.

"I asked what your name is." I saw the boy look at me with no emotion shown on his face. The little grin that used to be on meliodas wasn't there, so it couldn't be him, there was no possible way. "Oh, call me N/n, and yours is?" Suddenly, the boy's eyes widened a fraction, his beautiful green orbs sparkled with hope, which made me raise an eyebrow. "So? What's yours?"

"Oh, the name's Mel-" "-Ey bartender! Pass me another drink!" The blonde looked at me, but he quickly said one minute as he dashed towards the others. I sighed, placing one of my hands under my chin to gaze at the counter. When I looked back up, I saw a white-haired man approach me. He wore a signature apron with the tavern's name "The Boar Hat" on it, and underneath he had some red leather shirt taking up most of his chest yet it didn't hide his toned stomach.

I grimaced in my head, 'At least keep some decency not to reveal anything.' Giving him the most polite smile I could muster with him, I asked if he had any drinks or food to spare me with. "I'll bake an apple pie if you're interested," He pauses, looking me up and down with a smirk that said mischief. "What's a lovely lady like yourself doing in a tavern here, anyway?" In turn I glare at him under my hood. "None of your business, I'm just hungry like every other human here." And that was that, the man shrugs with a certain look in his eyes, and he turns towards the kitchen to bake me that pie.

I let out another sigh of boredom, I almost thought he was gonna ask more questions. However, who piqued my interest the most in this tavern was the blonde who talked to me earlier, he seemed indifferent to my E/c eyes. Out of all the drunkards and staff in this place, he was the odd one out. To everyone else, they would've seen a short, harmless boy. Although to me, I saw a dangerous aura erupt from him, his smile seemed fake and his green eyes spoke a million words.

I couldn't stop myself from staring at him from afar, my eyes slowly made their way to his cute little face and I felt my pale cheeks redden. It wasn't like me at all to stare, it was of course rude and new to me. But whenever I looked at him, I felt at ease, the pain I went through years ago numbed at the sight of the blonde. I almost felt attached to him, as if I should take hold of him and never let go.

"A-An apple pie, m-ma'am...!" When I heard a sudden voice come from next to me, as soon as I turned around I felt the crust of pastry in my face, and the smell of apple reeked on my cloak. The remaining silky H/c locks that came out of my cloak were dripping in apple sauce. I swear my face became redder than looking at the blonde from embarrassment.

Did she just throw that apple pie in my face?

I glare at the silver-haired girl and stand up, grabbing her by the collar of her pink shirt. "Is this a joke to you? Do you enjoy throwing pie in your customer's faces?" I question the poor girl, she was shaking in her black and white flats. Of course, she looked like a slut! Either this is their uniform or the girl just wants to take the p*ss.

"I-I'm sorry I-I-I tripped!" My glare softens as I look straight into the bright cerulean eyes of the girl, I realised she wasn't lying when she said that. I mutter a quick apology and put her down. The drunkards who whistled and called "Cat fight!" from before were sent out, meaning literally every customer besides me left.

I wasn't hallucinating it, but when I held the girl up, I swore I saw the look Liz used to have whenever she regretted something. Not only that, but her own face almost resembled Liz in a way.

All the staff watched as I shuffled towards the door, a look of guilt plastered on my chubby face. "W-Wait! We'll help clean you up, if t-that's okay." I turn a whole 180 to see the girl come back as I hold my arm up. "No, no. It's fine-!" Instead I feel a different hand hold my raised arm and they take me to the back where there was a bucket of hot water-how fast did they do that?

"We'll need the cloak off if you want that washed." I look up at the taller pig-tailed woman in front of me, she had really pretty eyes, they were violet coloured. Without me protesting, she takes off the dark green cloak herself to reveal my H/l, H/c hair and my ruined face. The girl from earlier comes in from the front of the tavern and comes to aide me with a napkin.

She wipes most of the sauce from my face, gasping when she sees my clean features. "Wow, you're really pretty." I feel my face turn red for the third time today. That girl just complimented me? How sweet! "U-Um, thanks... Is there a reason you're wearing those c-clothes?" 

"Huh? Why?" She stares at me, confused.

"They're a bit... R-Revealing," I stuttered, but this only made the girl raise an eyebrow at me.

"It's our waitress uniform, that's what the captain says!" The brunette from earlier comes back with my cloak all washed up and clean. But the cloak still appeared to be wet, so I asked her if she could leave it outside to dry.

When we walked back to the front, I suddenly feel a finger poke at one of my breasts. This obviously makes me jerk myself away from the owner of the finger, my cheeks looked as if they've become a fire truck. "C-Can you n-not?!" Instead of the blonde apologising, he literally shrugs his shoulders as if it isn't weird. "Not do what? I just checking if your heartbeat is good." However, he's interrupted by the talking pig-wait what.

"You perv! You already said that to Elizabeth when you first met!" I still glare at him, although it seemed strained since it felt wrong to be at least a few feet near him. I the proceed to feel a hand on my shoulder as the brunette beat up the blonde with tons of "Womanizer"'s coming from her tongue. I see the silver-haired girl from earlier taking hold of my shoulder, a small smile on her face. "Don't worry, he does this a lot to other girls." Of course, it didn't reassure me at all. Of course, he's a player, I'll hand that to him.

"Right~. Anyways, can I have some cider to go?" I ask, scratching my chin. As soon as I said it, everyone's attention is on me, and the blonde proceeds to get up from the pig's wrath. "Sure!" He smiles, and if nobody else saw it, I'd point out that he had a dreamy expression whilst looking at me.

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At first I thought they were going to actually let me leave as soon as I got my cider and cloak from earlier.

Well, I was SO wrong.

Instead, the blonde came walking over to me with a mug full of cider and asks if I want to stick with them for a while. Being a traveller, I decline his offer. But he uses some puppy dog eyes Meli used to give me-and before I knew it I had accepted to stay out of guilt.

When I came back inside with my dry green cloak, the rest of the staff introduced themselves to me. The girls from earlier were Diane and Elizabeth, the chef who questioned me before was Ban, and there was also another brunette called King-to my surprise he could use transformation magic to turn himself into an old man and he could make a fluffy cushion appear out of nowhere.

The pig introduced himself as the captain of the order of scraps disposal, but he was quickly hit in the head and he was corrected that his name was Hawk. I giggled at the scene, and then I was pulled towards the blonde. "So, what's your name then, Mr. Bartender?" I joke to him playfully, which earns me a smile from him.

"The name's Meliodas!"

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Helloooo! Me again! Came back to say hiiiiii ;)

Anyways, I got another chapter done today. This ones a bit longer than the other, but you don't mind that, right?

I also got to spend most of my day today in bed... ^o^ I know, lazy-

Word Count: 2285 words(Minus A/N)