#1. A Shrimp?

Levy put down the last box she brought up from her minivan. Finally she had her own appartment. Allright, her dad spoiled her, considering he bought it for her. But Levy planned on paying all of it back. This would be her home. All she needed to do was to settle down and unpack. Tommorow she would go out to meet the neighbors a bit, but tonight she had a job intervieuw at a nearby restaurant. Also trough her father, but she didn't plan to just go with that. She wanted to earn the job herself, so she had to make a good impression. So the first thing to unpack were her clothes. She had to find something suitable to wear to the interview, and ofcourse she had to take a shower. Levy clapped her hands. "Lets get to it!"

After only two hours, Levy had unpacked all the boxes and put everything in the right place. "Good thing I didn't bring that much", Levy mumbled to herself. She looked at her watch. Time to get ready. Without wasting any time, she walked into the bedroom and got undressed. Grabbing a towel and washing cloth from the closset, she went into the bathroom for a quick, hot shower. When she felt nicely cleaned, she turned the shower off, wrapped herself in her towel, and walked over to her closet. "What to wear?"

Levy started humming as she went trough her closet. She didn't want to pick anything too fancy, but not sloppy either. She decided to go with something casual chic. She took the black pants of the lady suit she had, and picked an ice blue blouse to go with it. she checked If she wasn't showing too much clevage, and was satisfied. Putting a simple black and blue headband in her blue locks, to keep the hair out of her face, she looked at her reflection. Should she put on some make up? She decided not to. If she was going to be a waitress, it might get her more tips, but she could allways decide to put some on later. With another look at her watch, she decided to leave. Better early than late. Grabbing her bag and coat on the way out, she left her new appartment

"Order's up!" Gray shouted out to Lucy."Hey Luce! Take this to table four." He pointed at the deserts on the counter.

"Thank you!" Lucy grabbed the plates, after giving him a quick smile, and right before she left the kitchen she looked over her shoulder.

" You're blue haired stalker is here again."

And with that she continued waiting tables. Gray sighed. Ever since he accidentaly bumped into her, she kept coming every day. Gajeel walked past him and stopped in front of his counter.

" Did she say blue haired? 'Cause there's a blue haired girl in Mr Dreyar's office, for a job interview." "Oh, HELL no!" Gray grunted.

Grinning about Gray's distressed face, Gajeel walked on, overlooking the entire kitchen. Since he was in charge when Makarov was busy, he had to pay attention.

"Erza, how's the sushi?" Giving him an annoyed glare, she mumbled:

" Great. Not as great as the cakes I make though."

Gajeel chuckled. " You know what the boss said: As soon..."

He was interrupted when Makarov Dreyar, the owner of the restaurant, entered the kitchen with a blue haired, pixie like girl next to him. Gajeel shot a quick glance at Gray, who froze up at the sight of blue hair, but relaxed emediately. Obviously this wasn't the stalker.

"Everyone listen up." Old boss Makarov raised his voice to get everyone's attention. "This is Levy McGarden. She will be our new help in the restaurant, both in the kitchen ans waiting tables, so she can jump in wherever she is needed most. Do your best to show her around and teach her."

Makarov looked at Gajeel. "I mean you, Mr Redfox." Gajeel moaned softly.

"Aye sir." He gestured at the girl to come over to his counter. As he watched her getting closer, he only saw how small and fragile she looked, especially next to him. She wouldn't last a week.

Entering the kitchen, Levy got so many impressions at once, it overwhelmed her. All those smells and kinds of people cooking all different kinds of stuff. Waiters and waitresses walking in and out. And now that huge, scary looking guy signaled her to come to him. As she nervously started to walk over, Levy couldn't help staring. He was huge! His long , ravenblack hair, was tied up in a low tail, to keep it out of the way, even though it was still long enough to go down all the way to his lower back. He wore a black chef's jacket, that fit him so tight, she could see the muscles underneath. She gulped involuntary. She noticed he had piercings for eyebrows, and several more on his nose, and even on his lower arms, like he had flat pieces of metal portruding from his skin everywhere. Was that even allowed in a restaurant?

She stopped three feet away from him, but even then she had to look up quite a bit. He looked down on her with an impatient glare and sighed.

"Allright newbie. I'm Gajeel. But when the boss isn't around, you will refer to me as chef. Clear?"

Levy nodded frantically. Gajeel raised a pierced brow, but walked over to Gray's counter, as Levy quickly followed him.

"This is Gray Fullbuster. Our chef of deserts, Can't cook for shit, but give him some ice, and he'll make masterpieces."

Levy chuckled softly at the introduction, and to her relieve Gray laughed too. He shot her a smile, and held out his hand.

"Gray. Nice to meet you." Levy shook his hand.

"Levy. Nice to meet you too." Gajeel grunted.

"Yeah, yeah, mister nice guy. Get back to work, icicle."

He walked towards a big blonde guy, who managed the grill."This is Laxus. Grandson of the boss." Laxus shot her a glance.

" Hey shortie. Long time no see", he said smiling.

Gajeel looked a bit taken aback. "You've met?"

Levy smiled. " We were neighbors when we were kids."

Laxus looked down at her kindly. "True, but you were way shorter."

Gajeel chuckled. "Ha! She's still short if you ask me."

Levy looked at Gajeel, and then back at Laxus. He nodded encouragingly. With a strong feel of security now that Laxus was here,she looked back at Gajeel, while crossing her arms, dramatically pouting.

"I'm not short. I'm compact."

Laxus chuckled when he saw Gajeel's baffled face. Gajeel looked at Levy in surprise, before throwing his head back in laughter.

"Well, whaddya know. The little shrimp's got spunk."

Gajeel motioned her towards Erza. "This is Erza. She actually wants to do the cakes and pastries, but she's the only one who can handle a knife well enough to make sushi. So she's doomed to do that, untill we find replacement."

Erza gave him a foul look, but smiled at Levy. "Maybe I can teach you?"

Levy grinned. "I'd be happy to."

Gajeel made a gesture to the silent blue haired boy next to Erza, who kept looking at Erza frequently.

"That's Jellal. Prepares a lot of Erza's stuff and makes the sauces. Also very good at decorating."

He walked over to the back corner, where three very similar people were working. Obviously family.

"These are the Strausses. Mirajane, Lisanna and Elfman. Lisanna and Elfman make pies ,cakes and meatloaf and such, and Mirajane usually tends bar."

Gajeel frowned. "Meaning, what are you doing in the kitchen Mira?"

As Mira started explaining, Lisanna pulled Levy to the side.

"Hi, I'm Lisanna. You can call me Liz if you want. Nice to meet you. Don't be upset with Gajeel too much. He seems tough, but if you work hard, he'll loosen up."

Levy nodded with a smile. "Thanks, I'll remember."

"So, shrimp, lets put you to work." Gajeel interrupted. " The sooner I know what you're worth, the better. I'll introduce the waiting staff later."

And with that he led her back to his counter, as Levy was just baffled with the nickname. Shrimp?

A/N: Thank you for reading. please leave a comment, since this is only my second entry and i really want to improve. sorry if this chapter is a bit short

I don't own Fairy Tail or his charachters, i just borrowed the charachter from Hiro Mashima