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She was so pretty to him. The way her dark blue hair draped across her shoulders. The way she was always smiling and happy. He didn't care if she was flat chested even though she always gets so worked up over it.

Romeo smiled just thinking about it, he caught himself staring at Wendy from across the guild. He thought it rude to do so, but that didn't matter at the moment. He just wanted to get a chance to look into her beautiful brown eyes. Even if she saw him staring, it would only be for a second and then he'd glance away. Or at least that was his plan. It was too bad Wendy had her back turned to him.

She was speaking with Lisanna and Lucy as usual. He felt that today would end differently than all of the other days. Continuing to stare at the young girl he sighed.

Wendy's ear moved, hearing the love struck kid sigh she finally turned around and saw Romeo with his hand on his cheek. He was glancing off elsewhere, but soon looked back in her direction.

They locked eyes from across the room and Romeo straightened up. He kept glancing in every direction but hers, and kept looking back.

Darn it, he thought, I'm blushing. She's gonna think I'm such a wimp! Romeo fully turned his body around so that she wouldn't see him like that, only to find the iron dragon slayer looking at him and smirking.

Lifting his head up Gajeel looked over in Wendy's direction. "Hey Romeo, she's still looking at you." Exclaimed the eldest dragon slayer. He snickered.

Ugh Gajeel, thought Romeo rolling his eyes, He's always bothering me for some reason. Romeo's frustration at the older mage almost took his attention away from the matter at hand. To bad it was only for the moment.

Romeo turned back around and just as his friend had said the twelve year old girl was still staring at him only this time she was smiling. Romeo was so embarrassed that he started sliding down farther into his chair until his whole body was almost all the way under the table he was sitting at.

Wendy giggled and turned back around in her chair gleaming. Looking up at the two older girls she was speaking to before and they were looking at her like they knew something that she didn't. So Wendy averted her eyes and blushed.

How embarrassing, she thought.

Suddenly Carla appeared. She got up onto the table and brushed herself off. "Ugh, I'm getting tired of that cat flirting with me almost every day." She said with annoyance in her voice. Carla looked over at her friend Wendy. Seeing her and the other two girls in awkward silence she decided to speak up to break it.

"What's wrong Wendy?"

Wendy's head turned towards her exceed companion and her face got even more red. "Oh! No Carla it's nothing." She replied.

Carla looked over in the direction that the two older girls were staring and saw the Conbolt boy slumped down in his chair as far as he could possibly be, his left hand up against his forehead, as if an attempt to hid his identity.

Carla shook her head and sighed in frustration. She couldn't have Wendy getting love struck when there was important matters at hand. Especially not with that trouble making "mini Natsu".

"Are you angry with me?" asked the sky dragon slayer with a concerned tone in her voice.

Carla held up her paws and sighed. "No Wendy it isn't that. . ." her voice trailed off as she began to slip deep into thought.

Wendy got up from her seat and brushed herself off. Gesturing towards the request board she said, "Come on Carla lets go get a job."

Wendy was nervous, although she couldn't find a logical reason to be. What was that just now, she thought, Romeo and I, we just-. Her train of though was interrupted as she remembered that her attention needed to be on the matter at hand.

Letting her eyes wander across the board Wendy saw a job that caught her eye. It was a fairly easy job, but a job no less. Putting the paper in Carla's face she put on a smile. Already forgetting about the past events she began to speak.

"Come on Carla let's do this job!"

Carla took the paper from Wendy's hands and began reading it aloud

"Needs a wizard to find a lost family item from the mountains."

That's all that the paper said. Even so, Carla nodded her head in approval and the two went to go get details and permission to go from Mirajane. Which they get and they leave the guild at once.

Gajeel was still snickering at Romeo for being such a wimp. Sometime after the core of the guild returned from Tenrou island, Gajeel had developed a soft spot for Romeo, just as Romeo had developed a crush on Wendy. He admired Romeo's determination for strengthening his magic, but of course he would never say that out loud. He had too much pride.

Gajeel walked over to the table that Romeo was sitting at and grabbed a chair. Turning it backwards he sat down and rested his arms on the head.

Romeo had his arms crossed, resting them on the table, with his head down in shame.

"Just go talk to her squirt it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

Romeo lifted his head up and met his eyes with Gajeel's. Eyebrows narrowed, he gave a sly smile.

"Says the guy that can barely even talk to Le-."

"Shut up," yelled Gajeel, "And how do you even know about that?"

Romeo stared at the back of his palm and narrowed his eyes more. "I hear things," replied the fire mage, "And besides it isn't that hard to tell that you like her." Almost singing the last part Romeo sat up straight.

He let his mind wander for the moment, only thinking about her. Not about Levy, but about Wendy. Romeo always caught himself staring at her. Not on purpose he was always so. . . distracted by her. Ever since she came back from the S-class wizard exam he had had feelings for her.

Why wasn't I like this before the whole incident? He asked himself. Shaking his head he realized it was because he was a six year old with little interest in females. Shrugging his shoulders Romeo began to try to picture his crush.

"Hmm."

Gajeel raised an eyebrow. "What are ya thinking about now?"

Romeo looked up at the older Fairy Tail mage and shook his head. "N-Nothing Gajeel." His face almost darkened, realizing that the part of Wendy he could remember best was the back of her head. Romeo never talked to that often Wendy because he was, as Gajeel said, a wimp.

Romeo hit his head down on the table, growling in frustration. He narrowed his eyes so far that he was afraid his eyes might get stuck like that. Romeo lifted his head up once more, resting his chin on his arms. He glanced over at Gajeel, who was just staring at him with a blank expression plastered on his face.

Romeo sighed as he slowly got up from his chair. "Whatever." He said slowly walking away from the table and out of the door to the guild.

Macao looked up from his drink* and gave his attention to his son's location.

"Where're ya goin' son?" he asked.

Romeo looked back with a serious expression on his face and replied, "Home."

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A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please review. Was it too short? Could it be better? Anything! I love constructive criticism and flame if that's your style because I don't care for flamers.

*Don't worry it wasn't alcohol or anything.