Hi guys! Sorry I took so long to update. The thing is, like everyone else, I've been busy preparing for my upcoming exams…so that's technically what I've been doing for the pass couple of days – studying.

But I figured that I should take a break for now. This is a pretty short chapter about Gajeel bossing Reedus Jonah around (That fat painter guy). So it's nothing to do with Juvia's doll. Take it as some bonus chapter k? =D "Fairy Romance Day"

It's another typical day at the Fairytail guild. As usual, the house was pretty damn rowdy, with everyone screaming at the top of their voices, people dancing at the top of the tables, chairs, plates and random objects flying all over the place like nobody's business. But for some reason, there are still the usual people who were able to just sit around and silently immerse themselves in their own activities – reading.

Gajeel Redfox whirled around back to his meal, amazed at Levy's ability. He pushed a mouthful of metal into his mouth and swallowed a piece whole.

Looking at the guild and its members, he couldn't help but feel this warmth inside his chest. He wasn't sure if he liked that feeling but the iron mage was absolutely certain that he'd be lost without it. Fairytail is his home and all these people are his family. He took another bite and concluded that Fairytail would never be completed without this craziness, absurdity and laughter and that he, as a member, should learn about the culture, beliefs of Fairytail and know each and every one of his guild mates.

Today was no different from the other days…except for one minor detail that disturbed the metal dragon a little.

"Oi Mira! What's up with all the hearts and pinkish stuff al over today?" The dragonslayer asked in slight annoyance. His meal, cup, plates and even the pillars and walls in the guild were all decorated with pinkish heart shapes and balloons.

The white-hair beauty gave her usual sweet smile and answered him. "Gajeel, this should be the first time you're seeing this right? It's the Fairy Romance Week!"

"Huh? What the hell's that?"

"Every year during this time, Fairytail will celebrate the 'Fairy Romance week'!" Mirajane explained pointing a finger up while continuing, "During this time of the year, people will celebrate their love and affection with their intimate companions or use this opportunity to confess to the person they like. Usually, this can be express by the guy getting a red rose for the girl he likes!"

"HAH! WHO THE HECK CARES ABOUT THIS SORT OF THINGS?" Gajeel said out loudly trying to hide his immediate interest in the topic, which clearly did not help since Mirajane was not only an S-class mage but she was also one with an S-class intellect. But the take-over mage decide not to further embarrass the guy and merely giggled.

"Here's a new special beverage made just for you Gajeel, Iron-heart mocha." She pushed a large mug over to the dragonslayer. "My treat." She said with an angelic smile.

Gajeel's brows furrowed when he looked at the pink heart floating on the foam of the drink. Oddly, he started drinking through a straw, careful not to mess up the heart as it slowly sank lower into the mug, not taking his eyes away. When he finally finished his delicious drink, the heart started glowing prompting the curious dragon to scoot his face lower into the cup. 'What's that?' he thought as an image began to surface in the heart. 'LEVY?' "AHHHH! WHAT'S THIS?" he screamed, overturning the entire mug in shock.

"Ahh…so you have someone inside too?" Mira casually responded, pointing to his chest area referring to his heart. "SHUT UP!" The flustered mage got up and walked away quickly.

"Stupid drink, stupid drink. What kind of nonsense was that?" He complaint, pacing around trying to get the image out of his mind. "I don't like that shrimp!" he ranted in self denial. As he was about to go to the notice board to check out the latest missions, Reedus Jonah caught his attention. Gajeel realised that he had never really interacted with this round guy, so he decided to use him to distract himself. "Oi! What are you doing?" He asked in his hoarse voice.

The painter looked up at the person who was talking and politely replied "Oh…haha…I'm painting." Then his eyes quickly travelled to the left, avoiding Gajeel's gaze. The truth was that Reedus wasn't really comfortable with the ex-phantom mage yet. Gajeel's overall image was literally screaming, 'I'll smash you to minced-meat you meat ball.' 'Please go elsewhere' he prayed.

But too bad for him, his worse nightmare came true, Gajeel sat down beside him and he's definitely showing no indication of leaving him alone so soon. "Well, what you painting?" Gajeel continued, sensing Reedus' fear. "Relax! I won't hurt you…"

"Haha…well, Fairy Romance's here so Max told me to paint some Fairytail couples for selling." He nervously replied. Sweat began dripping furiously.

"Fairytail couples?" Gajeel attempt to soften his tone, but failed to calm down the poor meatball as his voice merely sounded more dangerous to the painter.

"Ah ah! Haha! Yes…you know…the folks enjoy collecting pictures of our guild members…and some like couple pictures, for example Visca and Alzack…" Reedus explained and took out a piece of his art to show Gajeel despite his horrible tremor.

"Orhh! Nice work MEATBALL!" Gajeel cackled holding up the painting with extra care. Reedus eyes almost bulged out when Gajeel called him 'meatball'. This had heightened his fear for Gajeel. 'He really does see me as meat!'

"Let's see what else you got there!" Gajeel exclaimed happily, forcefully grabbing Reedus' file and flipping it open.

The first picture was the pink-haired dragonslayer, his blue cat and his everlasting partner Lucy Heartfillia. "Cool. Natsu and Lucy as a couple?"

"Yea…the people likes this pairing a lot, it's like one of the top ten hot favorites." The painter said shyly as Gajeel flipped to the second picture. "Mirajane and Freed? Since when?"

"Orh…haha…that is a special fan request."

"Ok…" The iron mage swallowed his saliva when he saw the next picture. This S-class mage somehow managed to send some chill down his spine even in a painting. "Erza and Jellal…fan request too?"

"Huh…no…personal request from Erza herself…" Reedus replied.

Fearing that he might cause even the tiniest damage to this piece, he quickly flipped to the next.

"Hey! What's this? Isn't it supposed to be a couple thing? Why is the stripper all alone?"

The painter gasped at Gajeel's reaction but quickly found his voice to speak. "Orh…his polls aren't out yet…so I haven't decided who to fill in."

"What you stupid! Of course it has to be Juvia! Who else would fit into that space?" The dragonslayer rudely stated, clearly speaking in favour of his good friend. "Don't just look at me! Start painting now!" Gajeel ordered, ignoring the fact that he might be scaring his new found 'friend'.

Of course Reedus did not hesitate at the order of the metal dragonslayer for the fear of his life. He immediately picked up his brush and began his job. True enough, every stroke was done with utmost skill and profession. Gajeel was impressed. He nodded and flipped to the next picture. "WHAT! CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT IS LEVY DOING WITH THIS TWO GUYS!"

The painter screamed and dropped his brushed and covered his face. "ah...ah...the polls…are not…yet…out too…s-so…I don't know…w-which to-to strike out yet…"

"What are you trembling for? I told you I won't hurt you! But this is obviously stupid! Tell you what! I'll help you!" The dragonslayer said loudly in confidence. 'PSSSST! PSSST! PSSST!'

"There!" He proclaimed, throwing the shredded pieces of paper into the air much to the painter's horror. "TRUST ME! No one in the right mind would like Levy to be paired up with Jet or Droy!" The happy iron mage gave the meatball a friendly punch in the belly.

"My…m-my…my painting…" Reedus wept silently.

New Random Story

"Lucy! Want do the monkey dance together!" The fire mage offered, noticing that she's been rather down.

"NO!" Lucy screamed so loud his hair flew behind.

"Aww…Come one Luce, I was just trying to cheer you up…" Natsu replied with a pout and sat down beside the girl. "What's up! You can tell me!" His grin lit up his face. Lucy felt rather guilty for being rude to Natsu at the sight of his child-like innocence. But she couldn't help that he was partially the reason to her foul mood.

Heart shapes were everywhere, reminding her of how 'lonely' she was. At this age, it was her dream to have a perfect boyfriend who she could go on a date with. And obviously, Natsu won't be the guy who would romantically hand her a rose and fly her to the moon.

Mirajane had secretly told her that Natsu had bought a rose since yesterday. So she had been waiting for her 'surprise' to come, but she had received nothing from the dragonslayer. 'He must have given it to Lisanna'

A while ago, she had imagined Natsu strolling on the beach with her, hand in hand.

'Lucy, listen to this…' handsome Natsu hands her a seashell and cupped it over her ear. 'Listen to the sound of the ocean...it is said that the sound can be captured by the seashell and you can listen to the soothing sound of the ocean when you put in to your ear.' A slight blush glowed on her cheeks as she looks into his sparkling eyes. 'Natsu…'

'Lucy...' 'Natsu' 'Lucy' 'Natsu' The two kept calling each others name in a way that would cause hair to stand. Natsu placed the seashell to his chest for a while and pulled it away again. 'Lucy…can you hear it? The sound of my heartbeat. It beats for -"

"AHHHH!" The girl snapped out from her daydream when Natsu spilled coffee on her.

"NATSU!"

"Sorry!"

*End of flashback*

T^T T^T

"Sigh…you won't understand Natsu…"

"That's why you need to explain Luce! Happy says it's not good to bottom up everything inside!"

"Sigh…It's no use Natsu. I don't even know how to put it…" Natsu pursed his lips together and tilted his head to the left. "You're weird!"

"How did it go Natsu-chan?" came Mirajane's voice interrupting the pair. Natsu shook his head in response. "Didn't work Mira. The rose was bad!"

Lucy turned to look at Natsu in puzzlement. What did he mean the rose was bad? Then she thought that given Natsu's taste, he must have chosen an ugly rose and got rejected by Lisanna.

"How come it didn't work?" Mirajane asked.

"I don't know! It just didn't!" He scratched his head in irritation. "Wasted 100 jewels on that."

"100 jewels? I thought you didn't have anymore jewels left?" Lucy said, remembering how he was borrowing from her since their last mission.

"I took from your purse?"

"YOU WHAT!" Unable to accept that Natsu had used her money in order to buy a rose for Lisanna. "How can you do that? Don't buy a rose if you can't afford one yourself!" She yelled like a maniac as Natsu felt himself growing smaller.

"Sorry Luce. I was going to tell you…" He apologised only to be cut off. "Ahhhhh! Forget it!" She slapped her forehead and stood up to leave."

"Lucy!" Natsu stopped her holding on tightly to her arm. "Don't get angry please…" he begged her.

Lucy dropped her head and decided to calm down. After all, it's not such a big deal to be so angry at such sweet actions…even if it's not meant for her. 'I am not a jealousy monster'

"Was the rose ugly?" She asked to which Natsu shook his head furiously, "No. It was beautiful."

"Orh…So she just didn't like flowers?"

"Huh? Who's she?" The salmon-haired boy confusingly asked. "Who did you give the rose to?" Lucy quickly added, annoyed that he did not answer her question.

"I didn't give it to anyone! I ATE IT!"

"HUH?" She wrinkled her nose, disgusted with what she just heard from Natsu.

"Why did you eat the rose?" She knocked Natsu on the head several times hoping that will help him find his lost senses. "Hey! Stop hitting me!" He circled around Lucy trying to avoid her attempts but finally got her to stop when he caught hold of her hands once again.

"I just wanted to tell you…I like you Luce!" He smiled. Lucy froze, not being able digest what she had just heard. "N-Natsu? Do you really mean it?" She turned her face away from him, beginning to feel awkward.

"Yea…kinda…But I didn't really dare say it I guess. Cause it's weird." Releasing his grip of Lucy's hands. "But I had to say it! Or else I'll lose to that stupid stripper!"

"WHAT!" Finally breaking away from her trance.

"Gray dared me to confess on Fairy Romance Week, or else I'll be a scary egg! That's not true! I AM NOT A SCARY EGG!" By now, Lucy had her anger level boiling to the max that she picked up a chair and knocked Natsu out cold.

"STUPID NATSU!" She stomped away leaving his body on the floor.

A/N:

Bahhh… I don't like it. But I'd rather write then study.

Forgive me for not writing a better chapter! I will try again after my exams are over (Which is around mid-June).

Anyways, I'm currently doing a picture of Juvia and Gray as "Sleeping beauty & Prince". I made Prince Gray wear his usual white outfit with some modifications added to it and I even threw in a sword for him.

But I've yet to color Juvia's dress and I wish to get some opinions from you guys… What color should Juvia's dress be?

Once again, thanks for all your kind reviews =)