Levy was starting to feel like a bad friend, she zoned out of the conversation three times since Lucy started talking. The girls were taking up the back half of the diner like they did every other Saturday morning. She didn't get much sleep last night, and the little sleep she did was filled with dreams of a certain person she was trying her damnedest not to think of. The girls usually told each other everything, a lot of times they over shared, which is why she knew how half of her close guy friends were in bed and it was something she just didn't need to know.

Right now Levy was holding out big time, Lucy was going to kill her when she finally found out what really happened between her and Gajeel, and it wasn't a one time thing. What was she going to say? "Oh by the way Lu, I've been kissed already, and its happened a few times after that. And they aren't just ordinary kisses, its the kind that short out your brain. That was the only way she could explain climbing in his lap last night, sure she was already half way there when he helped her the rest of the way, but she didn't realize just how intimate that position was until she thought about it later.

Lucy was talking about some new lingerie store she found that actually carried her size in cute colors. All the other girls seemed pretty excited about it, but Levy never had a problem finding her size in a cute color or for a good price. Maybe there were perks to not having giant boobs. Between the talks of back aches, and trouble finding clothes Levy was bored out of her mind. She needed a distraction before she went to sleep on them, the only thing Levy could keep looking at with a smile was the red tint in Mira's hair. Apparently she was really mad at Laxus so Lisanna invited her to come to breakfast this morning, all the girls thought it was really cute, but Levy knew there was rage behind that smile.

Levy ordered herself another coffee by the time the girls started talking about their respective boyfriends. Juvia was in the middle of another rant about her undying love for Gray and all Levy could think about was the fact Gray never had clothes on. Maybe that's why Juvia was in love, could they both be perverts? Gray was a confirmed pervert with his stripping habit and all, Levy had her suspicions that Juvia was a closeted one.

"Levy? Why you're awfully quiet this morning." Levy didn't admit that she was incredibly bored, or that she was thinking about the person she had to sneak out the back of her house last night. Her mom came home mid lip lock, and she pretty much panicked and kick Gajeel out before he could blink. That was one lecture she was glad she avoided, but she had to face him later, and was definitely going to be teased about it.

"I closed last night, and now I have to open, so I'm dead tired." She sipped on her coffee hoping it would be enough to get her through her shift, and then maybe she would tell Gajeel she was just too tired to hang out with him. He probably wouldn't have took no for an answer, but it was worth a try.


Her shift wasn't as bad as she thought it would be, but it was dragging by really slow. Not that many people showed up so she didn't have that much to do. All the returns were put away, everything was clean, she was even able to start a new book, she got half way through it without interruptions. She was so tempted to hide in the stuffed animals and bean bag chairs in the kids section and just take a nap, if she set an alarm on her phone and locked the doors maybe she could get a cat nap in, its not like anyone would know.

It was nearing the end of her shift, and she was starving. She knew Evergreen was coming in to relieve her, but she always seemed to be late, or she showed up on time and would sneak off to see Elfman who she was pretending not to date. She was always either painting her nails, or reading gossip magazines when she was here, then she would make Elf come near the end of her shift and help her do all the things she neglected to do. She found out that Ever was good friends with Laxus when he showed up with two other guys to pick her up for lunch. One was a guy named Freed who she had a few of her college classes with. The other she recognized as Lisanna's very eccentric boyfriend Bixlow.

Levy was hoping that Evergreen was by herself today, she didn't quite understand why Laxus referred to her as a Jetpack and she wasn't sure she wanted to know. She reminded herself to ask Gajeel later, but she had a feeling that she was going to be annoyed with the answer. She heard someone walk up behind her and after last night she was on her guard and wasn't doing to fall for it again. "Don't even think about it-" she turned around but it wasn't Gajeel behind her. "...Jet? Droy? What are you guys doing here?"

She didn't know why she asked, the fact they were both dressed up, and we're holding flowers was a dead give away, things were about to get really awkward really quick. Jet must have forgotten he was in a library because he was practically screaming at her. "Levy, I came to ask you to go on a date with me." Droy pushed Jet to the side yelling at him that he was going to say that.

Levy rested her face in her hands, she could feel a headache coming on. The same thing always happened, one of them would come ask her out and the other one would get mad because he wanted to, then they would end up fighting while Levy snuck away. She saw Evergreen come in and she took the chance to run before either boy could notice her absence.

The boys were blocking her path to the front door so she zig zagged through the isles hoping to escape unseen. She ran around a the final corner only to run straight into a brick wall, a very warm, very muscular brick wall. Levy felt a pair of arms around her, and that was the only thing that stopped her from landing on her ass. "That eager to see me shrimp?"

Oh this was fucking wonderful. At any moment Jet and or Droy were going to turn around and see her with Gajeel who still had his arms around her. She was never going to hear the end of it. This was the shit nightmares were made of. "Yup, let's go now!"

She pulled Gajeel out the door by his wrist, surprised she was actually able to move him. She was sure if he wanted to, he could have stayed where he was and then she would have had a hell of a time making introductions. "So you gonna tell me what that was about? Or are we gonna pretend that had nothing to do with you?"

Gajeel had actually stood there for a few minutes out of sight trying not to laugh at Levy escaping her would be suitors. Levy rolled her eyes explaining that Jet and Droy have been good friends forever and one day they both suddenly decided they were in love with her and she was constantly being fought over even though she always tells them both no.

"So... They're my love rivals then?" Levy almost got whiplash whipping her head around to look at Gajeel. He looked like he was trying to keep a straight face but he finally broke down and started laughing. "Saying that, actually left a really bad taste in my mouth."

Once the shock wore off Levy started laughing too, that was definitely number one on the list of things she wouldn't expect Gajeel to say. He admitted he had been spending way too much time with Juvia. "I'm glad you got a laugh out of that, now let's go shorty."


"That's not happening!" Nope, there was no way in hell Levy was about to climb on the back of Gajeel's motorcycle. She stood there with her arms crossed and her feet planted shaking her head back and forward. She didn't have a death wish and it barely looked like there was room for her in the first place with him sitting on it.

"Shrimp." He could shrimp her all he wanted to, the answer was no. Levy had hit her limit, she was already hesitant to hang out with him, and now he wanted her on the back of a death trap. "Can we skip the argument, and get to the part where you do what you said you weren't gonna do in the first place?"

That comment made her mad, now she was pouting with her cheeks puffed out. Sure she didn't have the best track record with telling him no and keeping it a no, but he didn't have to point it out like that. Gajeel was just asking for a punch, hitting him in the face would have probably hurt her more than him, but she was getting pissed off enough to give it a try. Picking up her attitude he decided to try something else. "What if I ask really nicely?"

Inwardly he sighed, rolling his eyes. Why was this woman being so damn difficult? Gajeel didn't usually ask people to do things, they just did it or he could be very convincing in other ways. On the rare occasion he did ask for things it wasn't nicely and he almost chocked thinking about saying the word please. He was used to getting his way, but Levy was putting her foot down on this one. It didn't matter what he said, there was no way in hell she was changing her mind. "Levy, will you please go out with me?"


Levy was mentally screaming, she was holding on to Gajeel for dear life and all she could get out was a "you better not kill me!" She could feel him laugh with the way her chest was pushed up against his back, she was sure she had white knuckles already and they hadn't even moved yet.

Levy needed to learn not to cave, and then she thought back to what he said and started freaking out all over again. She was glad no one could see how red her face was under the helmet. Did Gajeel just ask her out? Is this a date? Did Gajeel just ask her on a fucking date? She went to ask him, but they jerked forward and all she could concentrate on was not falling off.