Authors Note: Working on the smut as we speak guys, expect it tonight. I may also be editing some minor errors I found in the other chapters. Thank you for your patience! Also, after the smut chapter let me know if you want more. I plan to stop there unless you guys want more!

As the water cascades down my body I start to relax and my heart slows back to a normal pace. I decide to be efficient and at least bath while I'm hiding from my mission partner. Getting a deep lather in my hair I start to hum; the song from Beauty and the Beast somehow making it through my closed lips. I hear a cough on the other side of the shower curtain and jump causing all the cleaning supplies in the shower to crash in a loud thud.

"G-gajeel," I stammer, trying to pick everything up from the slick shower floor. I fight a blush as I feel exposed even knowing a curtain is between us.

"You're so damn clumsy," is his only response. I pause, realizing he hasn't stated a reason to intrude on me while I'm naked.

"What are you doing in here," I ask as I place the last item back into its spot.

"I want to ask what the fuck you were doing straddling me on the bed when I woke up." Leave it to him to not have anything romantic to say, just practical. I rinse my hair as I think of an answer. Realizing I can't think of a single good reason to straddle a man in his sleep without implicating more, I blush. I lean against the wall and pray that the blush from my crush in the same room as me naked and asking why I was on top of him would go away. I didn't need to feel embarrassed, in fact I should be apologizing; Gajeel probably felt violated. Oh God, what if he has a girlfriend? I silently start panicking as all of a sudden the shower curtain is gone and I'm starring at the red-eyed Dragon Slayer. I squeak and cover up my exposed bits with widened eyes.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" I screech as I fall to a sitting position to better cover myself.

"I thought you passed out, Shorty, you almost did a bit ago," more than just Gajeels eyes are red now.

"N-no, I was j-just thinking, sheesh," I bury my head as far down as it can go as a feel a dry towel placed on my head. I peek out and see Gajeel turned away waiting for me to cover up. Quickly, I wrap the towel like a dress and step out of the tub, glad to have rinsed my hair. I brush past him on my way out the door but I get dizzy from the heat in my cheeks and stumble yet again. An arm wraps around me and I can't help but snuggle into it a bit.

"Oi, you're acting odd are you sure you're all right?" He doesn't sound mad for once just concerned. I turn to face my worst fear, rejection, and look him in the eyes.

"I was straddling you to get a better angle to look at your face," I state boldly and with flushed cheeks. Surprisingly the Dragon Slayer can blush just as deeply but he still can manage a cool voice, "And why were you doing that?" I cough wishing he had just told me if he was interested instead of me having to be so girly about this.

"I….I like you…" I turn away so I don't have to see the rejection on his face. Instead, though, I get a hand pulling my face back to his which has a slight grin; definitely a grin more to be afraid of then excited about. But, yet again I'm wrong, because his next words make me the happiest I've ever been.

"I like you too, Shrimp."