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It had been about six days since Levy started talking to Gajeel. Six days of her having her first boyfriend, unofficially, of course.
"Good morning, boyfriend ^_^," Levy giggled to herself at her lame joke as she clicked the 'send' button. She watched as the writing icon appear on the text screen, indicating that Gajeel was replying back.
"Go away," it read.
Levy rolled her brown eyes as she sweetly wrote, "Hope you have a great day at school!" She gave her phone a stare down, nervously anticipating his reply but alas, he didn't. And a part of her knew he wouldn't. A sinking feeling churned in her stomach with disappointment.
She debated sending another text, because there was nothing Levy loved more than rallying him up because then he would then call her up in a heated manner, or at least that's how the past week went. However, Levy decided against the idea.
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Lucy awoke to her phone buzzing nonstop. "Whhhyyyy?" she cried into her pillow. "It's too earlyyyy!" But the buzzing was relentless, leaving her with no choice, but to check her phone. One look was all it took before Lucy started screaming, "FIFTY MESSAGES?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" And it was only 6:30 in the morning.
Each message all belonged to her beloved new friend, Natsu.
"Yo!"
"Thanks again for helping me :D"
"Are you still sleeping?"
"Why aren't you responding?"
"Hellloooooo?"
"Just gonna spam your phone until you wake up."
The rest of the messages were filled with random streams of endless emoticons. "You're so annoying!" she practically punched her reply.
"Morning, Weirdo!"
"Why are you spamming my phone at 6:30 in the morning?" she fumed, getting right to the point.
"I was bored :P," he replied.
Lucy face-palmed. "Well that's not my problem. How are you up so early anyway? We were up for a good amount of the night."
"More like 'this morning' considering I didn't fall back to sleep," he wrote back. Lucy was about to type her reply but she could see that he was typing, so she stopped. "Correction, I didn't sleep at all last night."
Her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets with utter shock, "What? How are you even functioning?" Lucy never nor could ever pull an all-nighter. Sleep was the one thing she valued most and she couldn't fathom how tired and cranky she would be.
"Dunno. I'm naturally energetic I suppose," he lazily replied.
Lucy yawned, covering one hand over her mouth while the other texted, "I'm jealous. Going back to sleep now. Bye."
"What?!" he wrote back, "You can't go back to sleep. School starts at 7, stupid!"
"Hey! I'm not stupid!" Lucy puffed, grimacing at the phone, "School starts at 8 for me."
"Huh? Don't you go to Magnolia High?"
"Nope."
"THEN HOW DID YOU KNOW I ALMOST BURNED DOWN THE SCHOOL DURING CHEM THE OTHER DAY?"
Lucy nearly cried from her laughter as she ominously typed, "I have my sources ;)"
"So you really are some creepy stalker!"
"Not really," Lucy found herself shrugging.
A few minutes went by before he finally replied, "I'm so confused…So how do we know each other then?"
Was he really that stupid? She blanched, "We don't. It was just a prank text. I was only messing with you."
"So how did you get my number?"
"We have a mutual friend."
"Who?!"
"That's a secret :P," she teased, wondering if he really thought she would tell him.
"Hmph :(."
"Sorry, Natsu!" Lucy insincerely apologized. A couple of minutes flew by but Natsu hadn't responded. Biting her lip, she hesitantly added, "If you don't want to text me anymore, I understand."
She quickly flipped the phone over and pushed it far away from while she draped her covers over her head as if that were going to protect her from his answer.
She could hear and feel the buzzing frim her phone, but instead of answering, she closed her eyes to sleep for another half hour.
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Natsu gazed at his phone. Why hasn't she texted back yet? "Natsu," someone poked him on his forearm, "Why do you keep checking your phone every five minutes?"
"Huh? What?" he jumped up and whirled around to see who the poking culprit was—a girl with pixie-styled, silver hair. "Oh hey, Lisanna!"
The girl giggled sweetly, "Hi, Natsu. So why do you keep checking your phone?"
"I'm not," he quickly denied, ducking his head a bit.
Lisanna raised a delicate silvery brow, "Oh really? Then would you mind if I borrow it for a second?" Without waiting for an answer, she reached for his phone, but Natsu's hand beat her to it and Lisanna fought a grin as she cried out to her dear sister, "Mira-nee, Natsu's being shady with his phone!"
The whole lunch table stopped what they were doing to gawk at Natsu and Lisanna. Natsu's face warmed up, "Am not!"
"My, my," the older Strauss sibling said, smiling innocently, "What's on your phone, Natsu?" He hesitated for a moment, keeping his gaze focused on Mira's ocean-deep eyes. He could feel everyone's curious eyes still staring at him, so he begrudgingly handed the phone over in defeat.
"Nothing's on it! That's the problem," he huffed as Lisanna and Mirajane searched through it.
Gray chuckled to himself, watching the pink haired boy give the phone a longing gaze. Gray pulled out his own phone and texted his new friend, "You seem to have Natsu on edge today."
"Who's Weirdo?" Lisanna inquired, her petite facial features scrunched up.
"Ooh," Mira cooed, clasping her hands on her cheeks, "Does Natsu have a secret girlfriend?"
"Like that's possible," Gray scoffed.
Natsu shot out of his seat and held a fist up to Gray's face, "Shut up, Ice Prick!"
"Don't tell me what to do, Flame for Brains." Gray growled back. Suddenly Gray's phone buzzed, and Natsu quickly dashed over to his own phone, thinking it was his that went off. But to his chagrin, it wasn't.
Gray silently read Lucy's message, "What do you mean?"
"Wait!" Lissana protested as Natsu grabbed his phone back. "We weren't done reading!"
Gray typed back, "He's constantly checking his phone. Got sick of talking to him already?"
"He is? And no, I just don't know what to reply :/,"
"Well you better think of something. He looks pathetic." Gray wrote. As much as he and Natsu fight, Gray considered the annoying boy to be his best friend, and somewhere deep, deep, very deep, down inside Gray, he wanted Natsu to be happy.
Lucy didn't answer causing Gray to curiously look over at Natsu with his dark blue eyes, wondering what Natsu could have possibly texted the blonde girl to make her speechless.
"Gajeel, you've been awfully quiet today," Mira commented, noticing that Gajeel had been sitting at the far corner of the table, isolated from everyone, while gazing intensely at his phone.
"So?" he barked, without glancing up from his phone.
"How strange," Lisanna rubbed her chin, her eyes darting from boy to boy.
"What's strange?" Erza appeared behind Lisanna, taking a seat between her and Mira.
"Natsu and Gajeel have been glued to their phones all day." Lisanna explained, tapping a finger to her pursed her lip.
"More like all week," Gray muttered.
"That is strange," Erza nodded in agreement. "Natsu and Gajeel hardly ever touch their phones."
"Exactly!" Lisanna exclaimed, clapping with excitement, "I always have a hard time getting in contact with Natsu, but lately he's been replying right away!"
"Hmm," Mira pondered. "This is very strange indeed."
The two boys in question were holding their phones tightly in their hands, completely unaware of the chat going on around them.
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"So are you still texting Gajeel?" Lucy asked her blue haired friend at lunch.
Levy blushed, "Yeah! Are you still texting Natsu?"
"Yeah," Lucy blushed as well. "Though this morning I told him that it was all just a prank and that I don't go to his school."
"You did?" Levy gasped, her eyes widening in shock. "I mean he had to know it was all a prank, right? Was he creeped out to find out you were a complete stranger?"
Lucy chewed on her bottom lip, mulling it over in her head, "Actually, he took it pretty well. I mean he was surprised and all and he also called me a stalker, but in a joking kind of way."
"Really?" Levy awed, absentmindedly poking around her salad with her fork, "I wonder if I should tell Gajeel…"
Before Lucy could respond, a quivering voice interrupted, "It's been three days." Juvia plopped down between Lucy and Levy in the cafeteria, with tears cascading down her cheeks like waterfalls. "Three days!"
"Juvia!" Lucy inhaled sharply at the sight of the crying girl. "What's wrong?"
"Ju-Juvia hasn't he-heard from Gray-sama for the past thr-three days!" Juvia sobbed.
Lucy and Levy shared a guilty look since the two of them had been in contact with Gray for the past three days. And the fact that Lucy had actually been texting Gray only a few minutes prior…
Levy soothingly rubbed Juvia's back and said, "Aww, Juvia-chan, I'm sure you will hear from him soon. Boys are just stupid. He probably hasn't realized it's been three days!"
"Wh-what if he found an-another girl?" she sobbed harder into her palms.
"Juvia," Lucy said softly, "Gray would be crazy to choose someone over you!" And then quickly pulled out her phone, "What's wrong with you!?"
"Huh?"
"Why haven't you talked to Juvia for the past three days?!" Lucy angrily typed.
"Yeah," Levy agreed, talking to Juvia. "Gray would be a complete idiot to pass someone like you up!"
"Bu-but why hasn't he called Juvia?" she hiccupped. "Or at least send a text!"
"Dunno," Gray replied back after a few minutes. "I'm not good at this relationship stuff."
"That's a lame excuse." Lucy snapped, feeling a surge of fire course through her veins. "Just text her a simple, "Hey." It's not that hard!" Turning back to Juvia, she said gently, "I'm sure he will text you any minute now."
As if on cue, Juvia's phone rang.
The girl quickly grabbed her phone from her bag with her trembling hands. "It-it's him!" she cried even harder, but this time it was from joy as she let out a choked up laugh.
"Good boy," Lucy breathed in relief as she sent the text to Gray. Levy smiled at Lucy, knowing very well that this was all thanks to her.
Lucy's smile soon faded as she thought about Natsu's text, feeling a bit hypocritical that she told Gray to text Juvia.
She opened Natsu's text again. Her heart raced as it did when she first read it. "Huh? Why would I not want to text you, Weirdo? You're so much fun :D." No one had ever said such sweet words to her. It made her stomach flip in ways it never had before.
With wobbly fingers, Lucy texted, "Glad you think so :)."
"Oii, you're back!" Natsu wrote back almost instantly.
"Lol yupp," she grinned inwardly as a strange, new giddiness overtook her. "Did ya miss me?"
"Nope," he wrote back. "Not at all."
"Really?" Lucy licked her lips and grinned. "That's not what I heard :P."
"And what did you hear?"
"That you were pining away at your phone all day, desperately awaiting my text ;)."
"Pshhhh," he replied. "Yeah right."
Lucy couldn't help but laugh out loud and she didn't have to worry about Levy or Juvia questioning her since they were both too engrossed with their phones.
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"So how was school today, boyfriend?" Levy texted Gajeel when she arrived home. "Heard you got in trouble for looking at your phone in class. I wonder why… ;)." She joked, thinking back to the message Gray had sent her.
"Seriously who are you?" he asked for the umpteenth time.
"Don't worry," Levy sent back. "I got in trouble for the same reason, texting in class. It was my first time ever getting in trouble."
"ghihi good," he sent back.
"Ghihi? Who says 'Ghihi'?" she questioned with complete bemusement.
"I do! Gotta problem with that?"
"Maybe I do," she smirked. "What are you gonna do about it?"
Moments later, Levy's phone rang. Her smile brightened by tenfold as she gleamed, "Heya, Gajeel!" She jumped right onto her bed.
"Listen here, Shrimp," Gajeel growled in his gruff voice, "I-"
"Hey!" Levy interrupted with a bitter pout, "No fair! How did you know that I'm short?"
"Huh?" Gajeel questioned, sounding off guard.
"You called me shrimp. And that's usually what normal people call short people."
"I called you shrimp because your voice is so high pitched and annoying so I found it fitting."
Levy rubbed her head as she murmured, "I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not."
"It's neither," Gajeel said nonchalantly. "I put that as your name in my phone."
"How sweet," Levy sweat-dropped.
Gajeel let out a laugh that sounded eerily like his ghihi text and without helping it, Levy burst into laughter, clutching her ribs for support.
"What's so funny?" He barked.
"You actually say ghihi when you laugh? That's so weird!" Levy continued her giggle fit.
There was a pause before Gajeel said, "Sh-shut up." And with that said, he hung up.
As her laughter faded and the sudden silence overtook her, Levy couldn't help but notice her heart had been pounding during the entire phone call. How strange, she flushed, deciding it would be best to ignore it and get started on her homework.
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I think I'm going to set up a designated day to update so what day of the week would you all prefer me to update? Whatever the majority decides will be the day, though time zones may vary.
And also I started reading Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches. It's hysterical! I would recommend! And there's a Fairy Tail x Yamada omake too for those interested.
And OMG! The Tartarus Arc finally started! Eeks, I'm not ready for this!
Please let me know what you thought of this chapter! And sorry if my texts aren't really text looking. Hope I didn't disappoint!