Author's Note: I don't own Fairy Tail.
This chapter gave me lots of trouble...
R&R please!
I sat down right as the bell rang. As luck would have it, the pierced man sat next to me. Again. I sighed. "This is going to be a long semester." I thought. I had every class with him and none with my friends. "What great luck, right?"
"Now, for the rest of class, I want you to get to know the people around you. Turn in a two page paper about him or her due tomorrow. I will now read the names of your partners." The teacher said sounding bored as hell. I don't blame him. First days like this are always boring.
"…Gajeel Redfox and Levy McGarden…" The teacher droned.
My jaw dropped as the pierced man next to me turned and grunted, "So you're Levy? I'm Gajeel."
"H-hello…" I stammered. "Dammitdammitdammit! Fuck my life!" I thought angrily.
"Wait…aren't you the girl who I see every morning and afternoon? You're the girl! I knew I recognized you." He said triumphantly. "W-why are you crying?"
"Huh?" I said, feeling my cheeks, and sure enough, they were wet. "I-I'm sorry…I-I don't know what's w-wrong with m-me today." I stuttered between sobs. I clutched at my arms, trying to stop the shaking.
Gajeel reached across the table and tried to comfort me. "Don't touch me!" I flinched. Fear traced my words. I suddenly recalled my nightmare and began shaking and sobbing harder.
"Teacher." Gajeel said standing and scooping me up into his arms. I was too shocked to speak. "I'm taking her to the nurse." The teacher nodded and let us leave.
"Put me down!" I shrieked in the empty hallways.
"No." He stated bluntly.
"Please…" I pleaded. My voice was barely a whisper. "Please put me down, Gajeel."
He set me down next to a wall. I leaned against it and slowly slid down it. Sobs continued to shake my body.
Gajeel was silent for a long time and it shocked me when he said, "What's wrong?"
I sighed. "Should I tell him?" I thought. "Sure. Why the hell not?"
"Every morning and afternoon, I pass you on my way to and from school." I said quietly, my voice barely a whisper. "To tell you the truth, I'm terrified of you and everyone else that's with you. This morning I glanced over and saw you with the others. Your eyes locked on mine and I've been scared the rest of the day. It also doesn't help that I haven't been sleeping or eating enough…" I trailed off. Gajeel was silent.
"What the hell?" He muttered as I slowly stood from where I was sitting. His back was to me.
Suddenly, he whipped around and placed a hand on the wall beside my head on either side, trapping me. I felt my heartbeat quicken and my eyes go wide in fear. Gajeel slowly took his thumb and gently wiped away a stray tear from my cheek. I flinched at the contact of our skin.
He growled and moved away from me muttering under his breath. The bell rang then and he stormed off, leaving me standing there. "What was that..?" I thought as I hurried off to my next class.
Surprisingly enough, Gajeel wasn't in my Study Hall. The rest of the class passed silently as I found some comfort in the books inside the library, surrounded by their sent.
As I walked home, I feared the thought of having to see Gajeel again on my way home. I dreaded having to round the corner and see him standing there, smoking, and chatting away with his friends.
I took a deep breath before rounding the corner. There he was. Like always. But this time, I needed to speak with him about the paper that was due tomorrow. I continued walking like normal until he was straight ahead of me, across the street. I gulped, took another deep breath, and crossed the street. Gajeel looked up to see me walking towards him, and his eyes widened.
I continued to focus on my breathing as I neared him. "In, out, in, out…" I thought. It calmed my nerves a little. Once across the street, I took yet another deep breath and squeaked, "Gajeel, I need to speak with you."
The people loitering around snickered at my comment and were saying things like, "Who does she think she is?" and "What's up with this chick?"
"What do you want, Levy?" He asked.
"W-we need to w-work on our p-paper for tomorrow." I stuttered.
"Right." He sighed running a hand through his long black hair. He pushed through the people sitting around him and said, "Follow me."
"Coming." I said, following a few meters behind him.
A few minutes passed in silence. "He must be mad at me…WAIT! Why do I care? I'm scared of him!" I thought. I was so deep in thought that I didn't notice a hand clamp over my mouth and someone dragging me away.
"Mmmph!" I grunted. The man just kept dragging me away and into an alley.
Oh no! My dream! This resembled my dream too well! "Someone help me!" I screamed in my head.
The man had dragged me into an alley where no one could see us. "Hehheh…now just be a good girl and be quiet." He said, holding a knife to my throat. He removed his hand, but I didn't dare make a sound.
He began tearing at my uniform, ripping it to shreds and leaving me standing there in only my bra and panties. "Oh my god! He's going to rape me! Someone save me!" I thought feeling fresh hot tears fall down my face.
"Don't you dare touch her!" I heard someone say from somewhere in the shadows.
"W-who's there?" The man holding the knife stuttered as fear traced his features.
"H-help…me…" I squeaked before I felt a sharp pain in my neck.
"I said be quiet." He snapped, momentarily forgetting about the voice in the shadows.
"AAAAGGHHH!" I screamed as he pressed the knife into my neck even harder. Tears continued rolling down my face in a steady stream.
"DON'T TOUCH HER YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Gajeel screamed as he leapt from the shadows and landed on top of the man, taking his knife and slashing at him. I was on the ground, clutching at my throat. It felt wet and sticky.
"Don't…kill…him…Ga…jeel…" I muttered with my last ounce of strength. It hurt too much to speak.
"Levy!" Gajeel said, his voice full of concern. It was the last thing I heard before everything turned black and my body went limp in his arms.
