A/N: SO Here is another chapter for you guys! I hope you all like it! It may seem like a filler but it's somewhat necessaryto build the character's in the story. Also I have chapter three written buuuuttt (evilly chuckles) you're going to have to wait until next week. Welp I'm off to go write a fifteen page paper *dies a little*.

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"Gajeel! Wakeup man!" Gajeel opened his eyes slightly to see a blurry tall figure at the side of his bed. He could hear the sound of his third alarm on his phone was chiming for him to get up.

9:50 AM You're gonna be late it read

"Fuck!" He turned towards Gray who was trying to shake the sleeping brute awake. Gray started to back away once he realized that his friend was finally awake.

"I'm gonna be late to class if I don't leave now so I'll catch you later iron head!" Gray yelled as he walked out of their shared room.

Gajeel scrambled out of bed throwing Lily off of him as he attempted to grab his phone. Almost forgetting to grab his bag while putting on a clean pair of pants. "Well see ya later Lily!" he yelled as he walked out of the room making sure to lock his door.

He was only a minute late getting to class, but still managed to beat the professor to the lecture. Looking around he found a seat near the back where he hoped his professor wouldn't call on him, or get the curious looks by others at his metal studded face. His first class of the day was Production Technology. Gajeel couldn't wait to start what would be the beginning of his Industrial Engineering Technology major, and hopefully, the beginning of his dream career. A couple of minutes had passed after he took his seat when the professor walked in promptly starting class by passing out and going over the syllabus. Gajeel grabbed the sheet of paper, looking it over he thought that the class would be simple enough.

The hour class went by fairly quickly since the professor only had the syllabus to go over and outline for all of the students. Gajeel quickly lost interest as he doodled on the sheet of paper to pass time only to look up to see the professor ending the lecture.

"Alright class that's the syllabus I'll see you all tomorrow. Have a great first day and welcome to MU." The professor said as the students shuffled out of the classroom. Gajeel waved at his professor as he walked out and hoped that the rest of his three classes would go by just as quickly as his first.

A few hours had passed as he made his way to the last class of his day. The second and third classes after his Production Technology class were Introduction to Engineering Technology and an Intro to Magnolia University class that also went over their class expectations and syllabi. I wonder how many times I can skip that introduction class… Gajeel thought to himself making his way into his philosophy class. He saw Juvia sitting in the middle of the room towards the front. Juvia met his eyes and waved him over to the seat beside her.

"Hello Gajeel," She softly said taking out her notebook and pen for the class.

"Hey rain woman, what's up?" He turned to her as the professor walked in. Before Juvia could reply the professor began to start the lecture on the syllabus for her class. The syllabus that was handed out was only one page; the professor only took ten minutes to explain it.

"And also class," She began, "I expect that all of you come tomorrow with a 1-2 page paper on what you think philosophy is as well as your favorite philosopher. The papers should be double spaced and proofread, due tomorrow at the beginning of class." With that the professor left the classroom.

Gajeel let out an audible groan. "Well see ya later rain woman. Feel free to text me or whatever if you need the book."

"Yes Juvia will if she needs to. Good bye!" Juvia was collecting her papers as Gajeel walked out of the room to head back to his dorm.

Loud music could be heard from his shared room as Gajeel walked up the dorm hall. He opened the door to find his roommates moving some of their furniture in the dorm suite. "What the hell are you two assholes doing to our room?" He shouted over the blaring music.

"What does it look like metal head?" Gray shouted back. Pantherlily sat on the windowsill watching the boys switch two of the three beds around to where each of their beds had been before. "You two are literally just switching from where you were to begin with. Why didn't you just switch places instead of moving the beds?" Gajeel shook his head as he face palmed.

"We didn't think of that" Loke and Gray shouted in unison.

"Well it's done now, so whatever man" Loke shrugged. Gajeel threw his books on his desk and took a seat.

"So Gajeel did you notice any hotties in your classes?" Gray asked sitting on his bed. Gajeel gave his friend a furrowed brow and ignored the question. Lily found his way onto Gajeel's lap from the windowsill. "Well there was a fine ass blonde in my media journalism class. She had a bangin' body," Loke said with a smirk on his face. Gray rolled his eyes as he was secretly committed to someone he met over the summer.

"What was her name playboy?" Gajeel smirked back at Loke.

"I don't know, Lu something or…I don't know. She had a great smile though," he continued thinking back to the blonde that sat in front of him as he felt a slight heat flush his cheeks.

"You sure you're not actually into her lover boy?" Gajeel mocked as his friend stuck his tongue out. Gray's phone went off, and he excused himself from the room. Loke and Gajeel saw this as the chance to pull a prank on their friend.

"You still have those fake bugs you kept from when we pranked Juvia in high school?" Loke asked pulling back Gray's bed sheets.

"You bet your ass I do," the raven-haired man replied holding a bag full of an assortment of rubber bugs. "Gee hee hee" he began to laugh.

The two filled every inch of Gray's bed with the fake insects while their friend was away. By the time they had finished it was late afternoon, and they left the room to meet up with Gray for dinner in the dining hall. After finding a table they hailed down Gray who had a sheepish smile plastered on his face.

"That's a shit eating grin if I ever saw one, where did you run off to stripper?" Gajeel asked as they munched on their meals.

"None of your business," the bluenette responded shortly. "I need to get back to the dorm and do some work, you guys coming with or what?" he replied, standing up waiting for his friends to accompany him. They walked back into their dorm, and as they approached their room Gajeel readied his camera on his phone to capture what he hoped would soon entail. The two boys followed closely behind Gray waiting for him to get into his bed.

Gray walked in and just as they hoped pulled back the covers to reveal plastic bugs covering his bed spread, he was met with laughter as he ran out of the room screaming. Loke and Gajeel high fived between their fits of laughter at a prank well accomplished. Both of them posted their videos of the prank to their social media apps. After a good five minutes of holding their stomachs and wiping their tears, Gray came sauntering back in only to throw his covers off the bed and put them into a pile near the door. He then replaced the sheets with new ones causing the other two boys to erupt into another laughing fit.

Gray grabbed his books from his desk and stormed out of the room to get away from Gajeel and Loke.

Gajeel went over to his desk to see two missed video calls from his best friend. He quickly found Shrimp in his recent contacts and hit send on his video call. After a couple of rings a familiar face appeared on the other side.

"GAJEEL!" came the melodic voice he had grown to love.

"Hey short stuff! How's your first day at your fancy university going?" Gajeel lifted a studded brow as he smiled at the bluenette on his screen.

"My first day was great, everyone is so nice. I'm taking an amazing English literature class and we get to read all of my favorite classics. It should be fun." She said with a cheery light in her eye. Gajeel took in the way she looked in her purple university shirt and matching purple headband

"Well that's good to hear Shrimp. Say, you want to come visit this weekend? I will probably have some free time on Friday if you want to stay the night." he said hoping she would agree. Levy pondered the question for a second and looked at her wall calendar.

"Yeah, looks like I'm free," She replied with a smile. "Hey I have to read the text books for my courses so feel free to text me! Bye Gajeel, I will see you on Friday!" With that Levy ended the video call leaving Gajeel with a stupid grin on his face. He then grabbed his phone and sent a video of the prank he and Loke pulled on Gray to Shrimp in his phone.

WE GOT HIM SO GOOD the text read as he saw the ellipses; he waited for Levy's response.

Shrimp: Oh my! I can't believe you guys got him! Poor guy

Gajeel: I KNOW

Gajeel took a quick picture of Loke hunched over on his desk sleeping and sent it as well.

Shrimp: Lol you guys are ridiculous. I hope you're having a good time Gajeel!

After reading the last text he reluctantly decided to start his assignment, he was half way through his assignment when he sent levy another text. Gajeel: Hey Shrimp, who's your favorite philosopher and why? … Just curious

After a few minutes his phone lit up with Levy's reply

Levy: Epicurus, I'm not going to tell you why, read up on him and see for yourself. My second favorite is Plato

Gajeel read the text and finished his assignment, he then wrote down Epicurus on a piece of paper putting it next to the picture of himself and Levy and bracelet on his desk.