Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. This amazing manga series belongs to Mashima-san.
A/N:I humbly ask that you read By Your Side's chapter Falter, since this is a direct response to that scene. This story is set in the omake Fairy Academy universe. Please forgive me if I call Phantom by their name, as I refuse to dub them the 'Courage Academy' like in the OVA. It will focus on the development on Gajeel and Levy's relationship because I feel their bond was rushed in the manga. Please enjoy this small scene and submit feedback so I can know if this is a story worth continuing! =D
Daze
Three weeks and fourteen hours have passed since she had last seen his face, and counting. Even when she is swamped with homework and shelving books in the school's library, Levy's attention was only focusing on her tasks by 3%. Give or take a few inches of halfhearted willpower.
It didn't help that she was running on less than two hundred hours of sleep. Every night, she had been reliving her memories of being bullied at her old school. Polyushka, the head librarian, noticed this by giving her less heavy books to reshelf and with good reason.
By the time her shift had ended, Levy had walked into the circulation desk's side gate ten times, blanking out at the computer screen and walking circles around the huge library with only an empty cart. Since the librarian also doubles as the school's nurse, Levy was scolded every step to the doorway about lack of sleep, common sense and stupidity. Later she would acknowledge these words as a sign of the older woman's concern.
At lunch time, she was still very much distracted while waiting in line to get her food. In her stupor, she absently put a salad together that consisted of three leaves of lettuce, a crushed tomato and a tiny olive with a river of ranch dressing poured over it all. The cashier frowned at the mess that wasn't even on a plate but set directly on the lunch tray. As the price was being calculated, Levy turned slowly at the call of her name by her childhood friend, Jet.
The toothy redhead had a disturbed look on his face as childhood friends of theirs, Droy, appeared at their side. Their mouths were moving but she couldn't make out their voices or read their lips. Then they started pushing each other as if fighting over something and it was behind them, at the far corner of the lunch hall in a corner that she saw why.
Gajeel Redfox was sitting there, in a Fairy Tail Academy uniform, chewing on a fork with a bored face.
It was like the mute button on her hearing was suddenly hit and all the noise in the loud cafeteria blasted her ears with a whooshing roar. Levy jerked violently and the tray she was holding fell from her hands, clattering on the white and gray tile floor. Then Droy was yelling her name as the ceiling was the last thing she saw before blacking out.
To be continued...
Please review! Do you like? Are you intrigued? Or should I get by butt back to BYS?