"Oh I forgot to ask, where'd you get the jacket yesterday?" Lucy asked as she and Levy entered home room and sat themselves by their usual seats next to the window. Levy didn't want to give her the real answer, knowing the blonde would jump to conclusions. Once she'd returned to Lucy that evening, she noticed she hadn't returned the jacket yet and planned to do so in school.
"I brought it with me yesterday," she responded, thinking her answer further "a friend loaned it to me." Lucy only responded with a slight look of disbelief before dropping the subject entirely.
"Well you'll never guess what happened! I bumped into Mirajane when she was leaving the door in the back!" She exclaimed, cupping her face in excitement.
"Really? What did she say?" At that her friend started to blush.
"Well I was too busy being a bit too fangirly but she said she was looking for her friend who said she expected to be outside which was strange because so was I!" Levy was surprised at her gushing friend. In all honesty, she didn't realize could be such a fangirl. Before Lucy could go overboard with talking about Mirajane, their teacher showed up and started with the register.
After her name was called, Levy spent most of home room staring out the window onto the sports field. There was nothing particularly interesting happening out there until the loud rattle of a motorbike hummed outside and with it, the dark figure of the school's top delinquent gliding up the road to the school. The blunette couldn't help but blush, thinking of yesterday. It was then that the man of rumours became an actual human being and she was willing to set aside the past to become his friend. She had realized that there really was more to him than what was said about him.
As the morning whirred by in a flurry of new information, she found her thoughts straying to the half-stranger she'd met the previous day and she was sure this would continue for a long time. She regularly felt her face warm as the thoughts of last night kept returning.
"I forgot to tell him goodbye!" The exclamation was sudden and roused the attention of Lucy who was doodling in her notebook; neither of them listening to the lesson.
"Tell who?" Lucy asked. Her devilish grin caused Levy to shudder at her accidental outburst.
"N-no one!" Waving her arms defensively, Levy couldn't contain her blush as she ran her fingers across the leather sleeve of the jacket. A sudden gasp from Lucy made it clear she'd figured it out.
"You met someone didn't you?!" She cupped her face as she cooed and squealed at the idea of Levy's blossoming romance.
"It's not like that at all Lu-chan! We were just sitting in the cold together and he gave me his jacket. There's nothing more to it," she explained diplomatically. She didn't want to admit it to herself but part of her hoped it'd become a romance. She'd read enough cheesy novels about a handsome stranger sweeping the main character off her feet. Sure they were stupid but everyone has a guilty pleasure.
"Oooh. Tell me more about your little encounter." Lucy's interrogation becoming more heated as her interest heightened.
"There's really nothing else!" Warmth rose further in her cheeks since the whole class was now looking expectantly followed by odd mutterings of "Who are they talking about?" and "Levy has a crush?" followed by the teacher loudly shushing the class before talking more about molecule geometry. As the blunette looked to the window, she noticed Gajeel casually glancing up at the window. When their eyes met they both abruptly looked away as if they hadn't seen each other.