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"Natsu?" Lucy gaped at the pink haired boy.

He made an impatient noise, "About time you finished class. I've been waiting foreverrr. And when are you getting a new phone? It felt like torture not being able to text you."

Lucy's face resembled a tomato.

Levy and Juvia giggled. "So you're the famous Natsu we heard so much about."

Natsu cocked his head to the side and looked over at Lucy, "You talk about me?"

Lucy refused to meet his eyes, "Of course not, Stupid."

Natsu's gaze shifted back over to the grinning bluenettes. The really short one waved, "Hi, I'm Levy."

"And I'm Juvia," the other one said.

Natsu smiled brightly, "And I'm Natsu!"

"And I'm Loke," a silky voice joined.

Lucy and Natsu's eyes bugged and at the same time, they cried, "LOKE?!"

The orange hair stud winked at Lucy, "You're prince has arrived, Princess."

Lucy face heated up from embarrassment, "Don't call me that!"

Loke took a step closer to Lucy, who in return, took a step closer to Natsu. This didn't go unnoticed. Levy and Juvia grinned at this. And even Natsu had a smile playing at his lips.

"If you don't like princess, I could always call you, goddess, or maybe mistress? Or how about beautiful? Temptress?"

Natsu snorted as he rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest.

Levy and Juvia watched curiously. Both equally shocked that Lucy's face had turned even redder than before. "Juvia didn't know someone could turn that shade," Juvia whispered to Levy.

"Me either," Levy whispered back.

Lucy's hands balled up into fists, "GO AWAY, YOU-"A hand covered her mouth.

Loke smirked at her, "Hold that thought, my mistress. I see another beauty awaits for me!" he released Lucy's mouth and chased after a girl with pink hair that was a shade lighter than Natsu's.

"Why that little…" Lucy grumbled, shooting daggers at Loke's retreating form. "I'm going to hurt him one day!"

Natsu chuckled, "Make sure I'm there when you do."

"Okay," Lucy grinned.

"So, Natsu," Levy cooed. "Why are you here?"

"To walk Lucy home," he answered.

Levy and Juvia gasped, "YOU TWO ARE SO DATING!"

Natsu's face scrunched up in confusion, "Huh?"

"No way!" Lucy scoffed. "Natsu just feels bad about breaking my phone so he decided to be my escort for the time being."

Levy coughed, "Dating."

Juvia cracked up.

Lucy was positive her face would be permanently stained red.

"Whatever! C'mon, Natsu!" She grabbed the boy's hand and pulled her to the direction of her apartment.

"Nice meeting you guys," Natsu called over his shoulder. And then he stumbled, "Oi! Don't pull so hard!"

"I didn't," she said defensively, "You're just a klutz."

"Am not!" He pouted. "So when are you gonna get a new phone? It was awful going a whole day without texting you."

"I don't know," she said, her heart thudding rapidly against her chest. "I guess we could go to the phone store right now?"

"Yosh! Let's go, Lucy!" Natsu dashed off, pulling the poor blonde helplessly along with him.

"Young love," Levy smirked.

XOXOX

Lucy successfully got a new phone. It was surprisingly fun going to the store with Natsu. They played with all the display phones. They took goofy selfies and would set them as the background image on each display phone. The people at the store were getting annoyed to the point where they almost kicked Lucy and Natsu out.

"Why do I have to carry your backpack?" Natsu whined.

"Because it's heavy," Lucy smirked.

"You should carry mine," Natsu grumbled. He was wearing his backpack on his back, while holding Lucy's on his right shoulder.

"Nah," Lucy grinned, placing her hands behind her back.

Natsu shot her a dirty look, and Lucy stuck her tongue out in reply.

They finally made it inside Lucy's apartment building, "Can we please take the elevator, Lucy."

"No!" she said quickly, slightly panicked.

"C'mon, you don't have to worry," he said, "I won't let anything happen to you."

"No," Lucy said more firmly. "Besides, won't you get motion sick from it? I mean it is a form of transportation…"

Suddenly Natsu was keeling over on the floor, his hand clutching his mouth.

"Natsu?" Lucy gasped with concern.

"You're…so cruel…Lucy."

"Ehh?" Lucy's head titled with confusion, but then realization hit, "You got motion sick by just the thought of it?"

"Blarggg," Natsu's face was looking green.

"How pitiful," Lucy shook her head. Lucy helped Natsu up and slid her backpack off his arm. "You don't need to walk me up to my room. I have a phone now!" She waved it in front of him. "So no worries," she smiled.

Natsu's face returned to its normal color, "If you insist," he grinned. "Bye, Lucy!"

"Bye, Natsu," she smiled back.

She barely made it up one flight of stairs before her phone chimed with a text, "Yo!"

"Hiya, Natsu," a huge smile ghosted her lips.

XOXOX

BRRRRINNNGGGG, BRRRRRINNNNGGGGG.

"Today's the day," Levy hummed with nervous energy as she turned off her phone alarm. She was so nervous, she hardly slept. "How am I supposed to make it through the school day?

She still couldn't believe it. "I have a date with Gajeel…"

"GAHHH! I'm so anxious!"

XOXOX

Lucy awoke to her annoying alarm, "Ughhh, I don't want to wake up!"

She quickly shut off the alarm on her phone and saw a text.

"Morning, Lucy!" It read.

A huge grin spread across her cheeks, "Morning, Natsu."

"Yosh!" he replied. "You're up!"

XOXOX

The day went by pretty quickly for Lucy. She and Natsu had texted the entire day, even during math, the one class that Lucy was scared to text in.

There was something addicting about texting him.

For Levy, the day went by painfully slow.

"I'm so nervous," Levy confided. "I don't know what I'm supposed to wear!"

"Well it's pretty warm out right now, but it's supposed to get colder later," Lucy informed, while debating whether she should bring home her history textbook.

"So I should wear something warm?" Levy asked, sounding frazzled.

"No!" Juvia exclaimed.

"No?" Levy and Lucy repeated.

Juvia made an impatient noise, "You're supposed to dress in something impractical so that Gajeel-kun gives you his jacket or wraps his arms around you to keep you warm!"

Levy and Lucy gapped at their blue haired friend.

"I think you might be a genius," Levy awed.

"Juvia knows," she smirked.

The three girls headed out of the school.

Lucy's eyes glanced around the school yard. She didn't know why. Maybe she was hoping to spot something pink. But why? And why was she disappointed that she didn't see anything pink?

"No Natsu today?" Levy quirked, noticing Lucy's searching eyes.

Lucy flushed, "Why would he be here?"

"Maybe because he likes you?" Levy jabbed.

"No he doesn't!"

"Keep telling yourself that, Lucy," Juvia winked.

XOXOX

Lucy grumbled on her way home. Why did Levy and Juvia have to constantly tease her? If Natsu did like her, then he would have been at the school, right?

Her chest felt heavy, he doesn't like me…

"Why does that matter to me?" Lucy scolded herself, aloud. "I don't like him like that!"

She unlocked her apartment door and dropped her backpack onto the floor. "Ahh, I'm so tired."

She walked into her bedroom, a breeze from her opened window caused her to shiver.

She quickly jumped onto her bed, wanting to get under the covers, but that didn't happen.

Lucy had landed on something hard, "Oww!" she heard.

Lucy blinked, "Ehh?"

The thing beneath her stirred.

"KYYYAAAA!"

"AHHHHHHH," someone screamed back.

Lucy scrambled off her bed quickly.

A head of pink revealed itself from under the covers. "NATSU?"

"Why are you always screaming?" He grouched.

Lucy crossed her arms over her chest, "I'm not always screaming!"

"Are you sure about that?" He asked dryly with a sweat drop.

She ignored him, "How did you get in? And why are you in my bed?"

"The window," he pointed to the open window. "And your bed is so comffyyy," he let out a moan of pleasure.

Lucy blushed, "Why are you even here?"

"I wanted to hangout!" He grinned.

Lucy gaped at him. What a strange boy…

Natsu finally stood up, "I want to take you to Fairy Tail and introduce you to everyone."

"Everyone?" Lucy repeated as she gawked at his outfit.

He wasn't wearing his usual school uniform. Instead, he had on the outfit he wore the night they first met, puffy pants and a blue vest with a half sleeve, buttoned down the middle. And of course, his scarf. She was going to question him on the clothes, but decided that this made Natsu…well Natsu.

Natsu nodded, "Yeah, all my friends. You'll love 'em."

Lucy loved the idea of making new friends, "Okay!"

"Let's go!" Natsu beamed, taking hold of her wrist.

"Wait!" Lucy dug her heels into the floor.

"What?" He groaned.

"I want to change."

"Fine," he said, crossing his arms over his chest in a bored manner. Lucy continued staring at him. "What?"

Lucy glared, "Mind leaving the room?"

"Don't want to," he plopped down on the floor, sitting pretzel style.

Lucy's face heated up, "PERVERT!" She quickly pulled out a navy blue skirt and a red tank top and ran into the bathroom. Her heart was beating fast.

The tank top left her belly button exposed and graciously showed off her cleavage. Lucy was satisfied. She hated dressing all conservative, not that there was anything wrong with people who liked to dress that way…it was just that living back home, she was always forced to dress conservatively. Any inch of cleavage shown, she would be scolded.

She came out of her bathroom and saw that Natsu was now reading a stack of papers. "I TOLD YOU NOT TO READ THAT!"

"Sorry, Lucy!" Natsu grinned, not sounding the least bit apologetic. "I had to know whether or not they destroyed the book. I was a bit disappointed that they didn't, but the ending of that chapter was amazing! The book containing a secret message! That Celestial Mage, Elie, is a genius!"

"Glad you liked it," Lucy felt bashful.

"They make a great team, Haru and Elie," Natsu grinned. "Just like you and me."

Lucy's eyes widened, as she tried to ignore the way her stomach was flipping and the burning sensation on her face, "Sh-shut up!" And then her face burned even more as she watched Natsu's eyes trail her up and down.

She quickly turned around, "Let's go already!"

"Okay," Natsu scrambled behind her.

XOXOX

Levy walked nervously into Fairy Tail. It was a chilly walk. She mentally cursed Juvia for convincing her to wear something improper for this sort of weather. Levy had on a floral dress with black flats and a headband.

She was supposed to meet Gajeel here an hour after school ended.

She glanced around for any sign of black, unruly hair and hypnotizing red eyes, but no such luck.

"Hello," a voice greeted, startling Levy. "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you!"

"No! It's okay!" Levy smiled. It was the white haired girl with the pretty blue eyes she had met last time. "I'm just a jumpy person."

"Aren't we all," the girl joked. "May I get you something to drink? I'm Mira by the way."

"Levy," Levy smiled. "And no thank you. I'm actually here to meet up with someone."

"Gajeel?" Mira questioned.

Levy blushed, "How did you know?"

Mira smiled, "I remember you from last time! The way you were cradling Gajeel when he was unconscious!" She gushed, putting her hands to her cheeks, "So romantic!"

"Uhh," Levy rubbed her head.

"Shrimp," a gruff voice called.

Levy jumped.

A tall guy made his way over to her, "Gajeel." His hair was just as unruly as she remembered. His blood red eyes were just as hypnotic too. Instead the white suit Gajeel had worn last time, he was now clad in a black sleeveless tank top with black pants that had chains draping on it. He wore black, steel toe boots to top it off.

Levy shivered.

"Gheehee," he chuckled. "Let's get going."

He headed out the door and Levy quickly followed, shooting a quick back at Mira, "It was nice to meet you, Mira!"

"Likewise," the girl giggled.

XOXOX

The two walked in awkward silence to the aquarium.

Gajeel was very confused. Everything was so tense between them. He felt on edge and a little pissed off.

"How was your day?" He had asked, trying to make conversation.

"Good," she said briskly. "Yours?"

"Good," he shot back.

Silence.

"Your dress looks…okay," Gajeel stated.

"Thanks?" Levy scratched her head.

And that's how every conversation went…one word sentences followed by silence…

At least they were walking next to each other, he sighed.

His eyes stared at her swinging arm. It annoyed him. So he grabbed it.

"Wh-what are you doing?" She stammered.

"It was annoying me," he said.

"My arm?" She sounded appalled.

"You swinging your arm, you idiot."

"Hmph," Levy indigently turned her head away from him. She didn't pull her arm out of his grip.

A smile ghosted Gajeel's lips.

XOXOX

"Tickets are ten dollars each," the clerk at the aquarium said.

Levy reached in her bag, but Gajeel already pulled out a twenty dollar bill and quickly pulled Levy inside the double doors that lead to the exhibits.

Levy stared at him, "Thanks. I'll pay you back later."

"Nah," he said.

"What do you mean nah?" Levy ticked.

"I don't want your money."

"Well I didn't want you to pay for me," she growled.

"Well too bad," he growled back.

"Fine," she huffed.

Her gaze traveled to his hand that was wrapped around her wrist. She marveled at how big it was. It completely swallowed her wrist whole.

XOXOX

"WHOAAA," Levy awed. "Look at how big those fish are!"

"Sure," Gajeel shrugged.

"Ooh," she cooed. "Gajeel, look!" She pointed to a tank of seahorses. "Aren't they so cute?"

Gajeel eyed the seahorses carefully. They were swimming merrily in the tank. Some had their tails tied against the plants in the tank. They had pointed, face that gave it an appearance of horse. Their fin on the back looked like a motor as the floated upwards. Their adorable, Gajeel sweated. "They're okay."

Levy giggled as if seeing right through his façade.

"Did you know it's the male seahorse who gets pregnant?" Levy sounded proud that she knew this tidbit of information.

"Yeah right," Gajeel scoffed.

Levy squinted at him, "You don't believe me?"

"I believe that you believe it," Gajeel shrugged, "but I don't believe the fact."

"Well it's true!" Levy exclaimed.

"Says who?" Gajeel questioned.

"All marine biologists!" Probably, Levy wanted to add.

"I think they made a mistake."

"A mistake?" Levy ogled at him.

"Yeah," Gajeel smirked. "I bet the bastard who discovered them pointed to a male seahorse and called it a female."

Levy sweat dropped.

"And then the seashore gave birth and the scientist, being the little narcissistic prick that he is, decided that male seahorses give birth. Because he would rather believe something as ridiculous as that than the idea of him being wrong."

"You're unbelievable," Levy gaped.

Gajeel shrugged again.

XOXOX

"Wahhh they have penguins!" Levy cooed.

Gajeel gazed into the penguin tank.

"Look how cute!" She grinned. "Did you know penguins are monogamous? Isn't that romantic?" She gave Gajeel a longing gaze.

Gajeel took a step back. A blush ghosted his cheeks. Why is she looking at me like that? "Sure," he grunted.

"Ooh!" She grabbed Gajeel's hand and tugged him along with her. "Look sea lions! So cute!"

"You think everything's cute," he muttered.

Levy looked at him curiously, "And you don't?"

Gajeel, once again, blushed. Her big brown eyes looked up at him so innocently. "I…guess."

She grinned at his answer. "Look how cute they are!"

A sea lion swam in front of them. Gajeel's eyes bugged, "So-so cute."

Levy smirked at his reaction.

"What's the difference between these things and seals?" He inquired.

Levy blinked, he's actually curious? "Oh! Sea lions have outer ear flaps and they are able to walk on land better and I'm sure there's other stuff too…"

"Interesting," he said.

"Let's go to the sharks next!"

"Alright."

The two walked hand-in-hand to the shark tank. It was humongous and the tank was shaped roundly.

Levy and Gajeel both gaped at the quantity of sharks in there. "Wowww," they awed.

"Imagine if this tank broke," Gajeel said.

Levy shivered, "Let's not imagine that please!"

A mean looking shark swam in front of Levy. "Gheehee, it wants you, Shrimp!"

"Stop!" Levy clutched Gajeel's arms. "It-it can't see us!"

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"The way the tank is shaped," she said. "They shouldn't be able to see us…"

The shark was still staring at her.

Gajeel bent down and whispered, "It can see you."

"NEXT EXHIBIT!" Levy pulled Gajeel away in a panic.

XOXOX

Levy observed the shrimp tanks. "Whoaa so many different types."

"Gheeheheheehe," Gajeel cracked up.

Levy eyed him suspiciously, "What's so funny?"

"Shrimp looking at shrimp!" He clutched his stomach, laughing even harder.

Levy turned red, "Sh-shut up!"

"Look," Gajeel pointed to a giant shrimp, "You're almost the same height!"

A vein throbbed on Levy's forehead, "You're annoying!"

Gajeel continued laughing, wiping tears from his eyes.

Levy puffed her cheeks, "Let's get food. I'm starving."

"Fine," Gajeel finally stopped laughing. With a mischievous grin, he said. "I'm in the mood for some shrimp. What about you?"

"SHUT UP!" She stomped away as Gajeel cracked up again.

XOXOX

About an hour later, Gajeel was walking Levy home.

"This was really fun," she admitted.

"Yeah," he admitted as well, "it was."

"Thanks," Levy said without looking at him.

"Any time," he lazily replied.

The wind blew and Levy shivered, rubbing her arms. "It's so cold."

"Not really," he said.

Levy shot him a look, "Well I'm freezing."

"Maybe you should have dressed warmer," he eyed her outfit.

"Well I didn't," she glared at him. Then with a blush, she shyly said, "Maybe if someone would warm me up…"

"Who would do that?" He raised a brow.

Levy nearly face palmed. "Stupid Juvia…" she muttered under breath. Now I'm freezing because this dense idiot won't warm me up!

"You know Juvia?" Gajeel asked.

"Huh?" Levy blinked. "Yeah, she's one of my best friends."

"Really?" Gajeel looked deep in thought. "She's one of my best friends as well."

"Guess we have something in common," Levy said dryly.

"If she likes you then I guess you can't be that bad after all."

Levy's stomach fluttered. She looked at the ground, "I guess the same goes for you."

They finally reached Levy's house, "Thanks for walking me." She said softly.

Gajeel nodded.

She moved a step closer to him. Gajeel gave her a puzzling look. She stood on her tippy toes and maybe it was her imagination, but she could have sworn Gajeel bent down, just a bit. Without thinking, she brushed her lips against his cheek.

"Bye," she squealed before dashing into her house.

Gajeel's hand lightly touched the spot she kissed.

His breathing had stopping for a moment.

What is wrong with me?

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