A/N: Sorry about an update taking so long! reviews welcome and appreciated.

They had decided to meet at Gajeel's dorm on Saturday. There they would be able to practice making the next project in Culinary Arts: banana bread. Levy found herself kind of worried about today's meeting; they would be alone. Well, they were technically alone yesterday but there were people all around in the library. She found Warrod hall okay, she walked past it occasionally but had never been up close. As she saw it up close and then walked in she was surprised at how shabby it was. She smelled a pungent parfum of someone smoking weed. Levy looked down at the her watch, 3.p.m. seemed a little early for people to start smoking in her opinion.

She entered the building and headed towards the elevator only to see a sign that read "Elevator out of order." Great she thought to herself. Gajeel's room was 503, which means it's on the fifth floor.

As Levy walked up the stairs she felt herself getting out of breath around the third floor, and but the time she reached the fifth floor she was embarrassingly out of breath. Man I should really start working out. She thought to herself. She reached the door to 503, knocked, and tried her hardest to conceal her heavy breathing.

The door opened to reveal Gajeel, his tall muscular frame taking up most of the doorway.

"Hey Shortie."

"Hey." She replied with a little too much breath behind it. She saw that smirk spread across his face and it made her the tiniest bit more breathless.

"Ghehe I see they haven't gotten around to fixing the elevator yet. Ya know Shrimp I think the next thing I need to help ya out with is some cardio." Before she could come back with a witty retort he started walking into his dorm. "Come on in Shrimp.

Levy wasn't exactly sure what she was expecting, maybe a room with some football propaganda, a mess, a weird smell that most boys rooms have (Natsu and Gray's room had a hint of it).

The room was as shabby as the building, but it was kept very neat. However that might have been due to the lack of things. They had the standard dorm furnishings but there were very few personal touches that levy could see. But maybe she had just gotten used to the way Lucy decorated. There was a small common area with a kitchenette. A very small stove and sink area. Levy thought it was cute. Not far away was a couch and a TV, there were 2 other doors Levy guessed one went to the bathroom, and the other to the rooms. It was really just the basics, as opposed to Levy and Lucy's room where Lucy had fancy decorations and Levy had all her books and posters.

Lily emerged from the bedroom, "Hey" he waved. He was tall as well, almost as tall as Gajeel. Well muscled and bald with dark skin. He was carrying a bag on his shoulder.

"Levy this is my roommate Lily. Lily this is Levy"

"Nice to meet you Lily"

"Nice to meet you to Levy. Sorry I can't stay, I've heard you're quite the chef, but I have a date with my girlfriend Charla."

"Okay, well you're really missing out on some good food but it's your loss." she joked.

Lily left and she was alone with Gajeel. "This will be our workspace today," he gestured to the tiny kitchen area. "It's not much but I think it'll work." It would be cramped that's for sure.

Gajeel handed her an apron, it was plain black and said, "kiss the cook." It was so cheesy, Levy thought these only existed in TV sitcoms

"Interesting choice." Levy commented.

"Yeah well Juvia got it for me, she thought it would be funny or something."

Who is Juvia? She thought. A girlfriend?

He put his apron on. It was white but had clearly seen a lot of action in its day. Besides being decorated with various food stains, there were crudely drawn pictures that were pretty much indecipherable, and hand prints where the child had stuck their hands in paint and then on the apron. In a child's handwriting was written "World's best Chef"

"Oh that is adorable," Levy commented, "do you have a younger sibling?"

"No actually I made it. You see this?" In one corner there was 'Gajeel' written. He saw the slight look of confusion on Levy's face and explained further. "You see, I made this apron for my mom when I was really young. She was actually the world's best chef. I used to spend a lot of time in the kitchen with her, she taught me everything she knew before she died. She had plenty of other aprons, but she always wore this shitty one I made her when I was 5."

Levy didn't know what to say. For a moment she thought he saw sadness in his eyes. But before she could think of anything comforting he had moved on to the next thing.

"Well I didn't mean to make things so somber in here. Let's get to work!"

"Oh I brought some bananas with me." said Levy taking them out of her bag.

"It's okay," Gajeel responded, "I already have some." He gestured to some bananas that were mostly brown in color."

"Are you sure…?" Levy asked suspicious.

"Oh yeah. Those bananas you have are practically green. Using these brown ones gives the banana bread a better flavor." Levy was still suspicious but what did she know, she was the one that needed tutoring in the subject.

Levy preheated the tiny oven while Gajeel pulled out all the necessary ingredients.

"So how is it living in Warrod hall?" she asked as she heard loud music coming from one direction, and from the other a banging on the wall that was definitely someone's headboard hitting the wall during sex.

"Well, it's pretty much like this around the clock." He answered. "You see the dorms that the Freshman live in are just for show. They're trying to get people to attend by luring them with nice dorms, but then a lot of the upper-classman dorms are shit. Warrod though is the worst of the halls. Mostly everything breaks, there isn't much sound proofing, and somehow the worst and sloppiest people live here. Last year Lily was in our shower, so I went the the building's public showers. It stank only to find out someone shit in one of the showers. I couldn't stomach taking a shower in the bathroom because it all reeked like shit so I ended up going to class smelling like a gym sock."

"Haha oh man," Levy laughed, "that really sucks"

"Eh, well it definitely keeps things interesting" Gajeel replied.