Lucy


Since the recent publishing of her newest book, Levy's closest friend Lucy had been visiting her often, checking on the sales of her book from the blunette's shop. It was a warm welcome to the admittedly boring days of the week where the majority of her customers during this time were little deaf ladies. Of course, Levy loved all her customers, but after pouring them tea and exchanging pleasantries, she didn't have much in common with her usual patrons. Only occasionally she'd have kids and their parents come in, as well as teens looking for cheap learning material.

Seeing Lucy more often simply made the quiet hours pass quicker. Her friend was tall, curvaceous and very beautiful, with long blonde hair and big brown eyes. She didn't look a day over twenty, another feature that was loved by her male audience. And despite all femininity, her stories were all fantasy and adventure stories, tales of dragons and magic rather than the fluffy love stories people often perceived her to write.

Said blonde was currently sat in Levy's chair, complaining about everyone and their mother.

"How can you stand being in here all day, every day?" Lucy sighed for the fifth time that hour. "It's driving me crazy already and I've only been here two hours!"

"I'm used to this sort of quiet," Levy smiled at her energetic friend. "Plus I can read all day long, life can't get any better than this."

"You need a man," Lucy concluded, nodding her head firmly. "When was the last time you made out with someone?"

"Luce!" Levy gasped, hand flying to mouth as she looked around. "That's not something to discuss in a public place!"

"Levy, we are literally the only two people in here right now," dead-panned Lucy in reply. It was true; there was no-one in sight and nobody had come into the shop in the space of time since Lucy did.

"What about Crazy Cat Man? What's he like?" Lucy mused.

"He's just a regular customer, there isn't much to know." Levy shrugged off the question, for some reason she wasn't ready to divulge her steadily growing relationship with Gajeel to her friend, not when there wasn't anything other than wordplay going on.

"Is he really obsessed with cats?" queried Lucy.

"Just his own," the blunette informed her. "And to be fair, it's adorable, so it's completely justified."

"Well, I don't think that type'll suit you anyway," Lucy sniffed dismissively, much to the amusement of Levy. If only she knew, she thought.

"Levy, when was the last time you kissed someone?" Lucy inquired suddenly, leaning forward rather eagerly. Levy, sat with one leg over the other on the desk as she leaned back on her hands, shuffled as far back as she could from her overly-curious friend.

"I-I can't remember something so trivial, Luce! It's not important, anyway."

"Fine. How about sex?"

"Lucy!"

Giggling loudly, Lucy rolled her eyes. "Are you saying you haven't done it? Lev, you're twenty-five."

"S-shut up," Levy protested weakly. "You know I want to wait."

"I know, I was just teasing," Lucy assured, waving a hand dismissively. "But when was your last relationship? The last person I remember was-"

"We don't need to talk about him!"

"Talk about who?" interrupted a new voice.

Jumping in fright, both girls turned their attention to the new person in the conversation. There in all his glory, stood Gajeel; wearing a black, fur-lined leather jacket, a hoodie underneath and scuffed jeans and boots, with a new feature of a dark red beanie, meaning he was wearing his hair down and Levy could see it was fairly long, several inches past his collar bones at least. As he stood there, a slight frown on his face, Levy had a good view of the piercings along his eyebrows and nose. She hadn't really noticed them before, but now that she had she realised they suited him.

Lucy seemed very surprised to see Gajeel too, which was odd. At that second Gajeel spotted her too and had a double take.

"YOU!?"

Both of them pointed at each other at the same time.

"You two know each other?" Levy blurted out in surprise. This snapped Gajeel out of whatever trance he was in, since his face started going a little red.

"Nope, not at all." Gajeel croaked out quickly with a cough.

"We bumped into each other before," Lucy informed the curious blunette.

"No we didn't!" the long-haired teen denied hotly with a scowl.

"Yes we did~" Lucy sang, a mischievous grin on her face suddenly forming.

Eyes flickering between the two, Levy wondered what the heck was going on.

"We shall never speak of this!" Pointing at Lucy fiercely, Gajeel growled in a confused manner, before stomping back out of the shop. Levy could see his cheeks were red as he glared at the blonde through the window whilst walking away.

"I think you embarrassed him," Levy informed her giggling best friend.

"Ahh well, I couldn't help it, he was so adorable." Lucy admitted.

Levy frowned. "You bumped into him and he was adorable?"

"Well, I was in that coffee shop, you know, the one I call my 'life-savers'?" Levy nodded. "And he was stood in front of me in the queue. On his turn he stood there forever, muttering and mumbling about not knowing anything about coffee. He was holding everyone up but he kept arguing with the lady at the till about the most recommended coffee. It seemed like he was buying it for his crush, or something; it was just really cute."

Levy laughed at that; she could imagine the situation in her mind. At the same time though, the thought of him putting in so much effort just to get her a cup of coffee made her blush a little.

Lucy noticed her friend go silent. "Lev? Who was that guy anyway?" Lucy winked exaggeratedly. "Your secret lover, perhaps? He was kinda attractive, in that punk way."

"Well..." Levy bit her lip to stop herself from smirking, thinking of how Lucy will react. "Actually, that was 'Crazy Cat Man'."

Lucy's eyes widened and her jaw dropped, blinking up owlishly at her grinning friend.

"Eeehhh?!"


"So Blondie's yer friend from high school," Gajeel muttered, sitting in his usual spot next to Levy's chair. It was a few days since the two most interesting people currently in Levy's life had run into each other.

"Mhmm," Levy hummed.

"Well, that's just great," Gajeel sighed. "I'm gonna end up seein' more of her, aren't I?"

"Well, if you keep hanging around, sure." Levy shrugged off the uncomfortable thought of not having the usual company of this quirky dark-haired teen.

"Why wouldn't I keep comin' by?" Gajeel questioned, raising an eyebrow at her.

"W-well, if Lucy makes you uncomfortable-"

"Well, yeah she does," Gajeel broke in, "but just 'cause she saw me doin' somethin' embarrassing. But I'll get over that. Somethin' as insignificant as that won't stop me from seein' ya." Wrapping his arms around his knees, Gajeel hid his face in the crook of his arms, though Levy could still see the redness of his cheeks.

Blushing profusely, Levy couldn't hide her beaming smile even if she tried.


Extra

"Blondie," Gajeel greeted stiffly as the young author entered the shop.

"...Crazy Cat Man.." Lucy replied after a moment's hesitation.

"What...-?"

"Lucy! You weren't supposed to tell him!" Levy cried. Gajeel stood there in silent shock. Blondie called me a crazy cat man.

"What? You never told me his name! What else am I supposed to call him?" Lucy yelled back.

Gajeel still stood motionless.

"Crazy...cat man..."


That'sRidiculous asked to see how Gajeel would act around Levy around other people, and I tried but I don't think I got it right :/ I wanted to perceive Gajeel as less casual/more formal around Levy around other people...

I hope you enjoyed anyway! Leave some suggestions in a review and tell me what you think so far! :D