Story of an Ex-Fatty

Chapter 11:

Previously:

"Here you go miss… Wendy."

As he took it, Wendy stared wildly at the blondie before watching her take off. Then it hit her. She forgot to say thank you.

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Gajeel was watching Levy, watching Natsu, watching Loke.

In Natsu's eyes, their interaction seemed teasing, taunting, even flirtatious.

In everyone else's, Lucy and Loke were merely throwing playful insults at each other. Levy knew what Natsu was seeing, and looked at him with pity.

Gajeel loved Levy. She was smart, she had goals in life, she was independent and caring. But maybe a little too caring.

He watched her, eye Natsu.

Gajeel was definitely not jealous and he knew Levy was only watching out for the guy. However, he sincerely felt that Levy needed to take it easy. Of course, he was not supporting blondie in any way. Her plan was bound to backfire and fail. Though the reason why he didn't stop her was that he wanted her to see that she didn't hate Natsu. She needed to learn this and well, this was how. Gajeel, despite the failure of his grades, was smart enough to know that maybe, Lucy was really just forcing herself to believe she hated Natsu for whatever reason she had. Looking at the short bluenette again, Gajeel realized that Levy was really feeling bad. Her eyebrows furrowed and she was fidgeting with the writers bump on her finger. She needed to take it easy.

Bowing his head down, Gajeel took his metal fork and mercilessly stabbed the tough meat in front of him.

Natsu is fine.

"C'monLucy, have a bite, that salad is pathetic-looking." Loke waved his wrap a little too close to her face.

"Loke I'm perfectly content with this non-pathetic looking salad."

At that moment Natsu grasped the can of root beer tightly. It wasn't opened so nothing spilled out, hopefully.

While this happened, Gajeel watched Levy inhale deeply while watching Natsu become angered. Gajeel shoved more food into his mouth and chewed viciously

Natsu is a big boy, he is fine.

Gajeel couldn't understand why Natsu was acting that way because; he simply didn't see the situation in Natsu's perspective.

Levy looked up at Gajeel and felt his thoughts. He is NOT fine, Gajeel. The two ended up staring at each other and realized, they disagreed. It was a rather stupid thing to argue about but it was happening. Levy argued that Natsu wasn't fine while Gajeel pleaded the opposite. And thus, they argued with no words, just staring at each other, "reading" the other's thoughts.

Raising her eyebrows, Lucy watched the couple.

One moment she pushing Loke away the next, he spine shivers and everyone is well, staring.

Levy and Gajeel stared at each other, a dark aura clouding them as they looked at each other's eyes, as if an intense battle within their thoughts emerged.

Natsu was staring at the un-opened can of root beer. He appeared to be reading the lettering but somehow, it was as if this wasn't the case but instead, he was in a trance. His face gave off an angry and annoyed expression.

Loke, well he was staring too, at the greasy bacon-filled wrap. He was staring at it while he was pretending it was a airplane, flying.

Flying in her direction.

Flying in her mouth.

Her mouth.

About to be shoved in her mouth.

"Loke! Sto-"

The crushing sound diverted everyone's attention from the pair.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Sarcasm was dripping from Natu's lips.

The can he grasped oh so tightly was now a demolished piece of metal, while root beer oozed out onto Natsu's right hand. The foamy liquid traced down the angles and bumpls of Natsu's hand. Looking at Natsu wildly, Lucy increased the distance between her and Loke, then grabbed a pile of napkins and handed them to Natsu.

Expecting him to accept her offer, instead, Natsu grabbed Lucy's wrist with his root beer covered hand and dragged her away.

Levy then looked up at the sorbet sky then back at Gajeel. Raising her eyerows, Levy's lips turned upward in triumph to create a smirk.

I told you Natsu isn't fine.

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"MIRA, YOU ARE FRIGGIN' WRONG!" Laxus practically shrieked in frustration. He wanted to take the books and "Maka-chop" her. Maybe he has been watching too much Soul Eater.

"Sorry, it's just, I don't get it." Mira pushed her purple headband farther up her head.

Laxus was desperately trying to tutor his girlfriend for the past 2 hours. Mirajane appeared to be smart in math but in reality, she barely passes 12th grade calc.

Inhaling deeply to calm himself, Laxus decided to end today's session after this.

"For now, just memorize the logarithm functions. Recite them, then we'll be done for now."

"Uh eh, er…-" flipping her book for a split second then closing, Mira continued.

"f(x)=, hehe kpop."

"Mira!"

"Sorry, sorry, uh f(x)= e;e-1;ex . . . O! E-X-O, EXO, kpop!"

"MIRA, TAKE IT-"

" –Seriously, I know, the other is f(x)= uh, In?"

"You're missing something."

Laxus needed to make her focus on math, not Kpop.

"(x)?"

"Yes"

"Thank you. Finally."

Patting her head, Laxus got up and decided to find her a snack. Finding a cupcake, he then entered the living room.

"I swear babe, you look smart in math but your brain ain't doin' you justice." Taking a bite of the icing then handing it to Mira, he expected her to answer.

"Well you don't look smart yourself ut, you were fouth when you graduated. And besides, it's only math I'm bad at."

Laxus had a bit of icing on the corner of his lips and Mira couldn't help but stare at it. The real reason why she invited Laxus was for something else. She lived by herself while Elfman and Lissanna lived together because, their apartment was too small for the three of them. Because of this Laxus occasionally visited her. Laxus lived alone too, his parent were lived in Italy while he stayed here, in Japan. She had to say it now.

"Laxus?"

"Mmm.."

"Um, well we haven't seen each other often because of your college and job and my job and school."

He looked up and saw the tension in her face. He didn't want to break up.

"Mira I …."

"So I was wondering…"

He didn't want to break up.

"Do you want to move in with me?"

Shocked, Laxus looked up at Mira.

What?

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Author's Note:

Hello Everyone. How are you and I hope you all are fine. Fisrst, I don't own anything except my ideas. So uh, I apologize for not updating a lot. I have highschool and such. Just a heads up, next chapter will start with Laxus and Mira then Natsu and Lucy, if you were wondering. Any suggestion would be extremely helpful. So that's all. Thanks for reading.