Kin should have known all good things come to an end, Saturday he found out he was going to be a father again, they had been talking about it for years, but they hadn't actually been trying but to find out that it was actually happening made him happier than he could even describe. Sunday he spent the day celebrating with his two favorite girls, everything seemed to be perfect, he had time off work, a happy wife, a healthy baby, and his little princess hadn't given him the cold shoulder he was expecting. Usually she would lock herself in her room for a few days, or just ignore him by putting her nose in a book and pretending she wasn't mad. She still seemed a little bit upset, but she would talk to him about it when she was ready, but right now they were too busy catching up to deal with it at the moment. She knew he didn't do it on purpose, but he knew it didn't really make things better.
There was no mention of the boyfriend he still yet to meet, he didn't show up yesterday and neither girl mentioned him, so Kin wasn't going to ruin his mood if he didn't have to. Levy came home around eleven Saturday night, and he really did not want to think about what she was doing all that time. He didn't know much about this boyfriend of hers, but as her father she was naturally suspicious. Kin knew what he was like when he was around that age, and he didn't want Levy to get her heart broken. He was pretty surprised she never dated one of the guys she was already hanging around, he knew Jet was going places, he just got an athletic scholarship to the university and had been head over heels for Levy since he was ten. Droy was a good kid too, he was going away to Culinary school, the kid had a thing for plants and he loved food even more. He always talked about growing his own food so everything would be fresh for his recopies and he was going to make the perfect dish to make Levy fall in love with him.
Kin remembered Droy asking him for Levy's hand in marriage when he was about twelve, Lana thought it was cute but Kin was just annoyed by the question, not even a minute later Jet started arguing with him about stealing his idea. Kin didn't care who thought of it first, there was no way in hell he was giving either one of them permission to marry his then eleven year old daughter. He thought they would eventually get over their crush on her, but apparently they were both pretty heart broken about Levy's new love life. Maybe if the boys were a couple years older he would grab a beer with them, Kin was pretty heartbroken about it too.
After a wonderful weekend, Kin should have known that Monday was the day the shit was going to hit the fan, he woke up alone. Lana was up early and he was hoping it wasn't because she wasn't feeling well. When he walked past his window he saw something out the corner of his eye that instantly gave him a headache. Who the hell did he know who rides a motorcycle? Nobody around here, sure a lot of guys he knew from base did, but he wasn't expecting any visitors, so he was just hoping it was parked at the wrong house. Plus it was seven in the morning, riding a bike around this early in the morning was the same thing as mowing your lawn first thing, it was a newer model so it had to be quiet, if it wasn't Kin would have woke up the minute it pulled onto his block.
Kin figured he had company, so he decided to get dressed before looking for Lana. It was Levy's first day of school, so he was hoping Lana wasn't working too hard to trying to get everything ready for Levy, and he was really hoping Lana wasn't attempting to cook. He loved his wife, but her pancakes just weren't edible, and he didn't want to suffer through a batch of those. She was up too early and he was hoping she wasn't working too hard. She thought she was superwoman and still do everything she usually did while pregnant she wasn't showing yet but she still needed to take it easy. He still remembered her being pregnant the first time with Levy, it made her overly motherly, but she was also very forgetful when it came to cooking, and one time she literally burned water. All the water boiled out of her pan, and it came out disclosed, he still couldn't mention it without it making her upset. He could smell good coming from the kitchen, and he was surprised it didn't smell like he needed to call the fire department. That meant Lana wasn't cooking, but somebody was. "If your brats not down soon, I'm gonna bring her down over my shoulder."
He heard Lana giggle, why the hell was Levy's boyfriend over first thing in the morning. Kin knew he was going to be ansty when he came face to face with her boyfriend the first time. But he wasn't expecting to have to deal with it five minutes after he woke up, Lana introduced them and he tried really hard to have an open mind, but everything about Gajeel was just pissing him off. Lana probably would have kicked him in the head if he asked him what was up with the piercings, he just looked like the kind of bastard that would break his baby's heart and not feel a thing about it. He knew he shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but Kin was a little bit biased when it came to his baby girl.
Kin was brooding and it was definitely noticeable because Lana kicked his shin under the table. He was trying to make small talk with Gajeel, maybe his personality was less standoffish than his looks, but he kept giving him one word answers and it was really pissing him off.
Kin found out Gajeel was younger than he looked, but he still thought he was too old to be dating his Levy. He knew he was being a hypocrite because he was four years older than Lana, but its different when its your daughter dating the older guy. He was a stunned when he asked Gajeel how he and Levy met, Gajeel asked him if he wanted the version Levy was telling people, or the real one. Kin already heard Levy's version from Lana a few weeks ago when they were talking on the phone, but Gajeel recently told Lana the truth and though it was a way better story but she knew why Levy wanted to hide that from her and her father. Kin told him he wanted to hear both, so he could compare the stories, there was no way his daughter could have been doing anything too bad, so he was curious as to where the hell she was when she met someone like Gajeel.
"Well, Shrimps been telling people we met at the library and stuff, but that was the second time we met. The first time we were at my friends party and he decided to lock us in a closet cause he's an ass hole. And her friends thought she needed to play seven minutes in heaven to loosen up." Kin's jaw dropped he wasn't sure if he wanted to know the rest of the story, but he was in this deep and he didn't want to play they what if game so he stop him. "She was pretty pissed at first, but i got her to come around."Great, just what Kin wanted to hear. "Those idiots thought they were funny and it ended up being an all night thing." Lana laughed about it all over again, she could just imagine Levy's face through the whole thing. Kin on the other hand paled, first he raised an eyebrow at him referring to Levy as Shrimp. They already had pet names, great. But finding out how they made met him like Gajeel even less, he knew what went on those kinds of parties, the fact her baby was there was bad enough. But for her to be playing a game like that, with a guy like Gajeel made him want to cry.
Obviously it wasn't a one time thing since Gajeel was now sitting in his dinning room, comfortably at that. His daughters boyfriend should have been terrified to meet him the first time, but Gajeel made himself at home, sipping coffee and eating breakfast across from himself like it was the most natural thing in the world. That let Kin know right there, Gajeel was already used to being here.
Kin tried to change the subject, anything that would take his mind off the information he just heard. He couldn't tell if Lana was still laughing at the story or if she was laughing at the pain she knew her husband was going through. Gajeel on the other hand was completely nonchalant, he was sure Gajeel could tell him he had sex with his daughter on the kitchen table and not flinch. It was obvious he didn't care what Kin thought of his and Levy's relationship, he was too fucking cocky and it was pissing him off. "So Gajeel... You're in pretty good shape, you must spend a lot of time in the gym." Kin tried really hard to keep his cool, but he was sure that his words came out like venom. Kin didn't really give a shit if Gajeel was in shape or not, he was just wondering how hard it would be to kick his ass.
Gajeel made eye contact with him, and with a smirk Gajeel said "Yeah, your daughter likes it." and Kin was ready to jump over the table.
Gajeel was very subtle in how he was pissing Levy's dad off, he couldn't just stroll into the mans house and pick a fight with him because he felt like it, he didn't want to be on Levy's shit list too. He was just innocently telling the man everything he didn't want to know. Lana told him that Kin was still in denial about the whole Levy growing up thing, so Gajeel was going to poke at that wound as much as possible. The longer Kin sat across from Gajeel the more uncomfortable he looked. Gajeel made a comment about how Levy was a bed hog even though she was so small, and he "innocently" asked her parents who she got the whole drooling thing from. Gajeel was going to keep subtly mentioning that they've shared a bed as many times as he could.
"Good morning Daddy." Levy didn't seem to notice the tension in the room, or she chose to ignore it. She hugged him and gave him a kiss on the cheek calming him down, he couldn't exactly get into a fight with Levy's boyfriend in front of her. He just got back on her good side. He watched Levy kiss her mom on her forehead before kissing her still flat belly before she made it over to her boyfriend to give him a good morning kiss. Kin mentally groaned when Gajeel pulled Levy into his lap to steal a second kiss. Kin did his best but he suffered through the rest of their "family" breakfast.
"Honey..." Kin tried to choose his words wisely, telling his wife he was going to kill him would probably just start a fight, so he said the first thing that came to mind. "Did my teenage daughter just ride off on the back of her hoodlum boyfriends bike?" Lana just laughed, she had been watching her husband squirm in his seat since he came down for breakfast. She was glad she put Gajeel up to that, just little jabs here and there was enough to send him over the edge and Gajeel had like the best poker face for it. Gajeel asked her when he showed up if he should be loving boyfriend, or boyfriend from hell, and she told him to be subtle but annoying. Gajeel was still nice enough to make everyone breakfast, but Kin was so busy staring him down, he didn't even notice.
For some reason Kin felt a chill go down his spine, and he knew his day was about to get worse. If looks could kill he would have been a goner, he hated when his wife looked at him like this."You know he was trying to get under your skin." Kin looked at her like she was crazy, why the hell would Levy's boyfriend purposely want to piss him off. "Next time you should try paying attention to him instead of just glaring. Gajeel might seem like a bad guy, but he's actually very sweet. You should see the way he looks at Levy, you can tell he cares about her." Kin rolled his eyes, if he cared so much about Levy he should be trying to get along with him, not piss him off.
"You did make Levy cry and Gajeel worked really hard to cheer her up again, Gajeel shouldn't have to make up for your mistakes. In case you didn't realize it, you're the only bad guy here." He should have known this was coming, Lana always waited until the right time to tear him a new one, while Levy just gave him an icy shoulder. Usually By the time Levy was coming around Lana was hating his guts, and it looked like he was going to have to deal with two angry women. I'm going to give you a run down of why you suck, then I'm going to give you one chance to do a better job. "You ruined her birthday. Again, if you pick a fight with her boyfriend she's just going to push you away, so I suggest you learn to get along with him."
"You're not allowed to have an attitude about her riding on the back of Gajeel's bike. He's going out of the way to take her to school for me, because you still haven't bought her the car you've been promising her for next time you screw around and break my baby's heart, I'm going to break your neck. Then you can wheel yourself down the aisle to give Levy away at her future wedding, or I'll just ask my new husband to do it."
Great now he was going to have to apologize to Gajeel too.