I'm on a roll! –rolls away- XD Yeah, just ignore me…


Eavesdrop

Gajeel is feeling anxious. He should have heard back from his partner in crime by now. As he walked out the front door of the Academy to get to his motorcycle, he fishes out his cellphone to check his text messages. Still no reply back.

From: Me

Didya get the money transfer?

Today, 2:37 p. m.

It is 4:30 now. What the hell was that guy doing all day? It didn't help between his double agent work that he had rather intense classes to take. Makarov wasn't being easy on him if his illegal gotten Raven transcript had anything to say about it. Classes on Chemistry, Trigonometry, Advanced Auto and Diesel Systems? Was the old man insane?!

Grinding his teeth, the black haired young man stuffs the cell back into his jacket just as something slams into his shoulder. Glaring at the source, he finds himself facing at none other than Gray Fullbuster. This is the guy Juvia is going head over heels over. Narrowing his eyes, Gajeel stares him down.

After a few minutes of silence, Gray throws up his hands, exasperated. "Dude, its cool. Sorry I walked into you."

That isn't why Gajeel is glaring. "Juvia likes you."

"Haah?"

"You're the first she's been serious about. Watch yourself."

The dark haired man's eyes narrowed as his lips curled up in a grimace. "Are you threatening me?"

Turning his head away, Gajeel scoffed. Right now isn't the time for him to start fights. Fullbuster isn't the target anyway.

"Not a threat, a warning," he replies almost tiredly as he continues on his way out of the building. "Juvia isn't most women."


It was almost 5 o'clock! Levy couldn't believe she had walked around the neighborhood for nearly three hours. For the first hour after her angry march off the Academy grounds, she wandered aimlessly while wiping tears of frustration from her face. She had to admit that talk with Redfox could have gone better. If Jet or Droy found out she broke their promise by seeing him herself, they would not hesitate to hunt the guy down and pick a brawl that could get them all suspended.

It was like their time in Phantom three years ago only she wasn't gripped by fear or hurting from bruises. Skidding around a corner from the speed she gathered by jogging back to school, Levy saw the entrance gate in sight. It was still open! Shifting her jog into a skip, she started humming the intro part to Taylor Davis' song, Awakening when she hears a deep voice on the other side of the high wall leading to the gate.

"Are you kidding me?" comes Redfox's voice to her ears that nearly make her stumble. It irks her his voice can still stiffen the muscles in her legs. Pressing her back against the wall, Levy listens hard to his conversation. Maybe it is worth listening to.

His heavy footsteps crunch on the grass as he walks slowly back and forth. "We can start the attack that soon, huh? Pfft, old Makarov has no idea I'm going to betray him this early."

Betray? Makarov?!

"Fine, I can do it. Fooling them will be too easy."

Levy clenches her eyes closed just to focus on her breathing. No matter what she needs to calm down and think! If Gajeel is going to attack the school again, she needs to warn the headmaster. The heavy footsteps grow closer and Levy feels panic well up in her chest. Who knows what he will do to her if he finds her squatting so close. Diving behind a bush that was two feet away, Levy watches as a bird hightails it out of the leaves just as her feet clear the foliage.

Growling at the sudden sound, Redfox saunters on over towards the garage where he is allowed to park his bike. "Damn flippin' birds."

With shaking fingers, Levy starts texting Jet.

To: Jet

Bring Droy. Meet me as soon as you can.

Hitting the send button, Levy waits until the purr of the motorcycle is far away before she pulls herself from the bush and walks unsteadily for the Academy's front doors.

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