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"Are you sure about this, shorty?" Gajeel asked, looking around the dark room skeptically. He could've sworn the big, burly man wearing the leather vest in the corner was giving him bedroom eyes. Gajeel shuddered.

"About eighty-five percent sure," Levy confirmed, rubbing her hands together and flipping a page in a binder full of small works of art.

"What's the other fifteen percent?" he asked, looking in the binder over her shoulder.

"Well, about five percent adrenaline and ten percent fear and feeling like I'm going to wet my pants," she explained.

"You know, no one is forcing you to do this," he told her, resting a hand on her shoulder.

"I know, Gajeel," she said, taking a breath and springing up out of the small plastic chair she was sitting in. "This was my idea, and I'm going through with it!"

"You know tattoos are kind of permanent, right?" Gajeel asked, standing up next to her. The small plastic chair practically had his knees in his throat; it was good to stretch out.

"I've always wanted one, I was just too scared to get one," Levy told him. "I'm doing this."

Levy closed the thick binder with one finger left in it, saving her page. She marched over to the front counter and showed the man the one she wanted. Gajeel peeked over her head to see which one she picked out, only to have her slap her small hands over it before he could get a good look at it.

"It's a surprise," she told him.

"I'm gonna see it when I go back there anyway," Gajeel said, starting to follow her to one of the chairs set up in the back.

"I am twenty years old, Gajeel. I can handle this by myself." With that said, she shooed him away with her hands and continued to the back without him.

Gajeel returned to one of the small, cramped chairs, bouncing his legs while waiting for his blue-haired girlfriend to be done.

"She'll be screaming for you in no time," a voice said beside him.

Gajeel turned his head to see the man that was checking him out before came to sit next to him. He cleared his throat and looked away quickly, careful not to make eye contact.

"But until then," the man suggested, sliding his hand onto Gajeel's knee.

Gajeel quickly fell out of his chair and scrambled across the room.

xXx

"You're really not going to tell me what tattoo you got?" Gajeel asked hours later when they were sitting in Levy's favorite corner of the library. She thought his story about the man hitting on him the entire time she was getting her ink done was quite hilarious. Gajeel wanted to slap the new bandages on her healing shoulder blade.

"You can see in a few hours when I take the bandages off," she answered, flipping a page in her book.

Gajeel shrugged and went back to reading his own book, but then stared at his girlfriend out of the corner of his eye. "Have I ever told you that you look absolutely adorable with your glasses on?"

Levy turned to face him, pushing her red reading glasses up the bridge of her nose. "Once, but you were making fun of me."

"I would never."

"You do it all the time."

Gajeel rolled his eyes and leaned forward, planting a small kiss on her forehead. It was hard for Levy to believe, but Gajeel was actually being a decent boyfriend. They'd go on dates every now and again, and he even bought her a stuffed panda bear (mostly because she pouted about how cute it was until he got it to shut her up).

"Thanks, sweetie," Levy said, to which Gajeel wrinkled his nose and she laughed in response. She was still testing out cute pet names for him. Gajeel seemed pretty content with calling her "shorty".

The couple went back to reading in silence, but Levy watched one of Gajeel's long legs continuously twitch from over her book. He was getting restless.

"Does your butt hurt or something?" she giggled, but he almost cut her off.

"It's not something stupid like my name, right?"

She blinked a couple of times, trying to process his question.

"You mean the tattoo?" she asked slowly.

"Yeah," he said, not meeting her eyes.

She paused for a minute, chewing on her lip. "You think that's stupid?"

Gajeel slammed his book down. "Oh, shorty, really?!"

Levy busted out in a fit of giggles. "No, stupid! Geez, how dumb do you think I am?

He let out a sigh of relief, unconsciously resting a hand on her knee as he returned to reading his book; Levy followed suit. Their reading was short lived.

"So, shorty, I was thinking—"

"That's dangerous."

"—maybe you should calm down with all of the adventurous stuff. You're allowed to have lazy days."

"I sit and read all the time," Levy said, rolling her eyes while continuing to read her book.

"But today you got a tattoo," Gajeel told her.

"So?"

"And yesterday you wanted to drive my motorcycle."

"Yeah?"

"And the day before that you wanted to go sky diving."

"What's your point?" Levy asked, finally putting down her book to focus on her boyfriend.

"You have your whole life to do crazy things," Gajeel said, shrugging. "I like you just being your little dorky self."

Levy bit her lip. Maybe she had been going a little crazy lately. She wanted to make sure she was interesting; that's why the two of them started hanging out in the first place. Was she doing it to make sure Gajeel stayed with her?

"I guess I just wanted you to think I could still be fun," she whispered. "Guess things have gotten out of hand recently."

He rested a hand on her shoulder. "Us sitting here a reading is plenty. You're fine, shorty."

Levy blushed under his gaze, her eyes darting from his eyes to his lips. Gajeel must have had the same idea because he leaned in a kissed her.

"Keep it PG!" The two were startled apart by a new voice joining them.

"Must you always do that?" Levy asked, glaring at her roommate standing before them.

"It's just fun now," Lucy giggled. "I actually came here to ask you guys something and not just annoy you."

"Sounds like the same thing to me," Gajeel grumbled.

The blonde shot him a glare before continuing. "Natsu and I were planning on trying the new restaurant that just opened right outside of campus, and I was thinking we could make it a double date!"

"No," Gajeel said without stopping to think.

"Gajeel!" both women chastised, causing Gajeel to wince and cover his ears.

"We'll be there, Lu-chan," Levy answered.

"What?" Gajeel hissed.

"Oh, come on," Levy said, rolling her eyes. "I've done everything you wanted to do with me, so now it's your turn to follow me. This is far from adventurous, anyway."

"I'm not going to some frou-frou dinner," he said, crossing his arms.

"Good luck, Levy!" Lucy told her roommate. "I'll see you guys tonight at seven."

As Lucy walked away, Levy swatted Gajeel's shoulder.

"We're going."

"No."

"I will force you."

"I'd like to see you try."

"You'll never touch me again."

"…Fine, we'll go."

Levy did a victory dance and planted a kiss on Gajeel's cheek. He groaned and flopped over.

XxX

"This is stupid," Gajeel groaned, looking over the menu at the dimly lit booth they were sitting in.

"You're mean," Lucy told him from across the table, wrinkling her nose.

"And you have too much cleavage showing," he retorted, staring at her chest and then back at her eyes.

Lucy crossed her arms over her chest, which was clad in a dark red halter dress. "Levy!"

Levy swatted Gajeel on the arm without looking away from her menu. "Be nice."

"I'm just saying, it's no wonder Natsu acts so stupid all the time if she keeps dressing like that," Gajeel said, gesturing to Lucy.

Natsu payed attention for the first time after hearing his name. "What happened?"

Gajeel rolled his eyes. "See?"

Levy laid her menu down and slowly turned toward Gajeel. She tried her best at her most menacing look, though he always said she looked cute when she was angry. "Would it kill you to be nice?"

Gajeel made a scene of choking and dying on Levy's shoulder. She shook him off, but he found it humorous.

"I would take that as a yes," Natsu laughed, reaching to fist bump Gajeel over the table. Gajeel sneered at the pinkette's hand, then reluctantly obliged when he saw he wasn't going to put it down.

"If you don't want to be here, Gajeel, you can leave," Levy sighed, resting her cheek in her palm.

"That's an option?" he asked, smirking.

"Sweet!" Natsu exclaimed, springing up out of his seat. Lucy pulled him back down.

"See?" Gajeel said, gesturing to Natsu. "Even Salamander doesn't want to be here!"

Lucy looked confused at Natsu's nickname. "Natsu is not going anywhere. Right, baby?" She stroked the side of his face.

Natsu seemed to settle down at her touch. "Right."

"Whipped," Gajeel coughed, grinning wickedly.

"What?!" Natsu snapped.

Before the fighting could proceed any further, Levy gained everyone's attention by slapping her hands on the table. "What's your problem?"

"Clearly we don't want to be here," Gajeel chuckled. He abruptly stopped at the sour look on his girlfriend's face.

Quietly, Levy stood and slid out of the booth, easily maneuvering because she was on the outside. She gestured with her arm for Gajeel to move. Everyone stared at her dumbfound, unsure of what her intentions were.

"If you don't want to be here, leave," she simply said.

"You want me to leave?" Gajeel asked after a moment of pondering.

"I'd rather you leave than sit here and be an ass hat," she told him, prompting him to raise an eyebrow. "So are you going or not?"

The two of them stared each other down while Natsu and Lucy looked on. Everyone was silent until Gajeel finally shrugged and looked over his menu. Levy let out a breath she didn't know she was holding and returned to her seat, raising her menu as well. Natsu and Lucy exchanged confused glances, then shrugged and returned to their menus, giggling behind them.

Gajeel leaned over after a while to whisper in Levy's ear, "You're so sexy, shorty."

A blush spread across Levy's cheeks, but she smirked nonetheless. They would be fine.


Just a chapter to see how their relationship is going. There will be one more chapter in this story before it is done! It's been so much fun writing this, and thanks for the support.

Fear not, I already have a new idea for a Gajevy/Gale story, so be looking for it!

Also, if you're interested in some Grayza friendship, go check out the story for my BroTP called We're Alright.

I also might write a new Jerza story and maybe some Gruvia. No worries, Gajevy is number 1! I love you guys so much, and see you in the finale.

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