Okay! Long time no write... I brought my laptop to school, and right now there's an assembly for Sophomores and Freshman and because I'm a Junior in a Sophomore class they're just like "you can leave and do whatever you want." So I marched my way (In an Attack On Titan Cape) down to the library and whipped out my laptop which is adorned with anime stickers... And now I'm writing fanfiction in the library. I feel so fancy. Anyways i got some really nice feedback from my last chapter and WOAH. THE REVIEWS ON THIS STORY! Like man Im so happy that you guys actually like this story... I thought it was going to be unpopular but you guys proved me wrong. Okay. I'll stop ranting now. Read on. ~Hana
Looking at Gajeel's friends sent a shiver down her spine. They looked rough, big, even scary, although Levy didn't want to judge based on looks she was feeling uneasy.
Oh god we made eye contact. Levy thought to herself as Gajeel's red eyes pierced her own. Her mouth tipped into a slight smile as he grinned at her. He made a hand motion similar to a 'come here' but it was much more demanding.
Complying to his demand, her feet started moving before her brain comprehended the action and before she knew it she was only yards away from his friends. Gajeel lightly jogged over to her location, and met her half way. "You dressed up for me?" He joked.
"Just for your information," she started "I just came from somewhere very important." She raised an eyebrow.
"Well." Gajeel held a strand of her hair, placing it back behind her ear. "You look nice." He smirked.
"Thanks..." She said as he beckoned her back to his friends. She thought for sure that he would see through her lie, but he didn't. I came from somewhere else? VERY IMPORTANT? Oh God Levy you overdressed and you know it. Next time you wont let Lucy talk you into anything! Okay? This is so embarrassing, look at his friends... She walked up to the group timidly, as if they could smell her fear or something.
"Hello." She said more shyly than she would have wanted. She was way over dressed and slightly embarrassed. While she looked like she was ready to view an art gala, Gajeel wore a pair of gray jeans, a white t-shirt, a pair of normal black sneakers and a black light jacket. He was casual. She was formal. The rest of the group was pretty much the same, jeans and tshirts and sneakers.
"Guys, this is Levy." Gajeel said, pushing Levy's back a bit so she'd take a step closer to the group. "She goes to the Fairy Gym, shes in one Juvia's classes." Gajeel said with his arms crossed back over his chest. To an outsider Levy looked very out of place with the tall demanding presences of Gajeel and his friends.
"Rogue..." The black haired man with the white stripe said timidly. Levy nodded a hello, somewhat happy that there was someone just as awkward and uncomfortable as her there.
"Hi." The white haired girl cut in. "My name is Sorano, but everyone calls me Angel, if any of there guys bother you you can come to me. It's nice to see another girl in the group for once." Her smile seemed almost forced, but Levy shrugged it off.
"What about Juvia?" The purple haired man cut in. "Shes a girl."
"Yes, but she's always fawning over that Gray. It will be nice to have someone else to talk to." Angel said. "That's assuming you're not going to be fawning over Gray as well."
"As if." Gajeel cut in. Levy looked up at him a bit confused. "Juvia sends stares sharper than knives to anyone who even thinks about Gray so I doubt she'd have made it this far."
"Purple hair over there is Jose by the way." Gajeel pointed to the aforementioned man. "And she doesn't even take swimming classes, I doubt that she would even know who he was." Gajeel commented to Angel.
"Gray, as Juvia puts it, has 'eyes that are as deep as the ocean, a core tighter than a vice, biceps stronger than bulls, legs toner than any she'd ever seen before, hair suaver than Fabio's, a face that'd put a God to shame, and hands perfect for holding." Angel took in a deep breath after ranting. "But that's basically describing anyone who is fit with blue eyes. So to put it in simpler terms, he's the swim trainer at Fairy Gym, doesn't like to wear a shirt, and gets in fights with a pink hared boy named Natsu a lot."
"Oh." Levy said. "I know him."
"See?" Angel said to Gajeel who only rolled his eyes. "Anyways is Totomaru coming or not?" She asked. "Its going to start soon and I want good seats!"
"Calm yourself, girl." Jose cut in with a tone sharper than knives. "He's running late."
"Lets just ditch him." Gajeel muttered.
"No!" Angel cut in again. Seriously does this girl ever shut up. "Maybe if it were Cobra, but I'm waiting for Toto!"
"I don't mind waiting." Levy said.
"Good!" Angel smiled almost genuinely. "So Levy tell us about yourself." Angel inquired. Although Levy knew it was more for the sake for them to judge her rather than learn about her. Nonetheless she carried on.
"Oh, uh." Levy rolled her eyes not knowing where to start.
"You don't have to tell them anything you don't want to, shorty." Gajeel nudged her arm.
"No, that's fine." Levy reassured. "At the moment I read a lot of books and work part time, but I just got a part in the Magnolia Ballet Company winter production-"
"Woah." Angel raised an eyebrow. "The Magnolia Ballet Company is a big deal, who did you have to sleep with to get in there?" She asked.
"No one..." Levy defended. Did she look like a slut? "I majored in ballet in college and I've been dancing my whole life. Competitions, concerts, recitals, you name it. I did them all." She said. "My name has been in the business for a while so I guess they knew about me.
"So you're like a pro?" Angel asked.
"If you call dancing in the MBC pro then I guess..." Levy wasn't much for bragging about her dance prowess, although she couldn't deny that she was proud of her part.
"Go on..." Angel said.
"So I'm getting back into ballet after taking a little while off. Going back to the gym, drinking nasty protein shakes, stretching my muscles back to their full extension. The usual." Levy said.
"Wow Gajeel." Angel turned to the blacked haired man. "How'd you manage find a friend as cool as her?"
"Game Of Thrones." He replied. Game Of Thrones, apparently bring people together since... now.
"Totomaru isn't coming, I'm not waiting anymore." Gajeel said. "C'mon Levy, lets go let seats while they waste their life away."
"See you." Angel waved as Levy and Gajeel walked off.
"So you're a dancer?" He asked now that they were alone.
"Ballet, yes." She nodded. "I don't do any tap or jazz or anything else. Just ballet." She added before he asked, because everyone asked.
"I didn't expect that." He smirked as they walked into the seating area that consisted of a large grass field covered with chairs that faced a large white sheet that the show would be presumably projected on.
"Whats that supposed to mean?" She asked.
"Well you're so tiny." He placed his hand at the same height as her head.
"And you're so tall to be teaching yoga." She snapped back. He couldn't help but laugh.
"That's true but I'm the only one with a free period then." He said. "But Juvia will be back on Monday, so I'm all done with those classes." He let out a breathe. "Which I'm glad for. Some of those ladies stared at my butt."
"How terrible for you." She giggled lightly.
"Its hard being this... this." He gestured to himself.
"You just gestured to all of yourself."
"That's the point shorty." He flashed his rather sharp teeth.
"There are two seats in the front!" Levy pointed, smiling largely. "Lets go up there! Oh please, please, please!"
"You'd think it were Christmas or something by the way you're acting there, Pip."
"I'm just so excited to watch season three." She beamed. "I can feel the plot twist coming along."
"Didn't you read the books?" Gajeel asked.
"Sometimes they change it when it goes on the big screen." She crossed her arms over her rather flat. chest.
"You totally know the whole story, and you cant deny it." He said as they arrived at the two seats in front."
"Yeah well... Its still a surprise." She defended halfheartedly. There was no surprise. She knew everything that was going to happen at east three scenes before it happened.
"Alright, its still a surprise then." He laughed. "Want anything to eat?" He asked.
"No thanks, I'm good." She smiled as she sat down on her seat.
"Shorty, when that screen starts playing and you lean over to tell me that you changed your mind and you actually want popcorn, you're not getting it." He said.
"I know, I know!" She giggled. "I'm fine, really." she waved her hands in front of her.
"Alright, you wait here and I'll be back." He said as he walked off.
She let out a sigh as she fidgeted with her hands. We just ditched all his friends and he offered to buy me food. Is this a date now? Inst that the definition of a date? I wish Lucy stopped me or something this was a terrible idea... "Nervous?" The blonde girl sitting next to her asked, snapping her from her thoughts. She looked nice enough not to set any alarms off in Levy's head.
"Huh?" Levy was a bit shocked that a stranger started to talk to her. "Oh no." She smiled.
"First date?" The girl asked as she crossed her legs under her purple dress. While her bangs covered one of her eyes, the other teal one was filled with warmth and compassion.
"I don't think its-." Was it a date? He said it wasn't but now that they ditched his friends it seemed more intimate. "Something like that." She settled on.
"Overdress?" She cocked a smile.
"I think..." Levy shrugged.
"Would you mind if I helped?" She asked. "I got one look at you two and you're just so adorable together." She explained. "And I know just how awkward it can be to be overdressed to something." She giggled a bit, reminiscing. "Lucky for me my dating days are over." She wiggled her left finger where a diamond engagement ring sat.
"That'd honestly be so helpful. Thank you, really" Levy sighed. "I'm Levy." She held out a hand.
"Ino Yamanaka." The blonde smiled. "Just turn and we can take your hair down."
"Yeah my best friend got really excited that I was going out after a while." Levy explained. "And she kinda went overboard and now I'm way overdressed... Although I guess I let it happen." Levy fessed.
Ino laughed. "I was the same way with my best friend, Sakura." Levy felt her hair touch her shoulders once again. "There." She sighed.
Levy reached up to touch her hair, it was still slightly curly from Lucy's iron but luckily Levy got it to resemble waves. "Your makeup is pretty natural, so you don't have to worry about that." Ino commented. "I love the dress and shoes though." She smiled. "But just a word of advise, next time you don't know what you're doing, or where you're going, its always best to wear flat footwear, and layers. Maybe a sweater or something easily removable- that's saved my ass so many time." She smiled.
"Thank you, really." Levy smiled back. "I don't do this a lot, but you really saved me here."
"No problem, anything to help a fellow girlfriend out." The blonde smiled, and checked her phone as it buzzed. She smiled slightly and typed at speeds that rivaled Lucy's. A few moments later a girl dressed in a red dress with pink hair and green eyes ran over to Ino and hugged her, congratulating her endlessly on her ring.
"Here Shrimp." A deep voice said.
"Gajeel!" She straightened her back at his sudden entrance and whipped her head to look at him. Her hair followed her in a crashing wave as it settled back on her shoulders.
"Changed your hair?" He asked as he sat down.
"It was a bit tight, hurt my head." She touched it, feeling almost more self conscious. Not to mention she heart Ino giggle slightly behind her.
"Good choice, you look a lot more relaxed now." He smirked and held a brown bag out to her.
"Huh?" She asked, surprised.
"Open it." He said. She complied and opened the brown bag a bit. Her nose was hit with a buttery salty scent.
"Popcorn." She laughed. "Thank you but I said-"
"You said you didn't want any but I bought it for you because I wanted to." He said. "So put it under your seat and it in in about an hour when you decide that you want it." He grinned.
"Thanks." She laughed as she placed it under her seat.
"And I'm sorry about earlier." He sighed, clearly uncomfortable with apologizing.
"Earlier?"
"Angel." He replied. "The reason we call her angel is because she is so far away from one. So sorry if she offended you."
"I didn't realize..." Levy said.
"Don't sweat it, she intimidates a lot of people." He smirked. "So what else don't I know about you, miss ballerina?" He questioned.
"Not much, I'm kind of an open book." Levy shrugged. However, that's not true. Everyone thinks they're an open book, but everyone has secrets they wouldn't like to admit.
"Well we have-" He pulled out his phone to check the time "Just about twenty minutes until this marathon starts, so I have twenty minutes to find out all about you." He said.
"And what happens when I run out of things to say?" She asked.
"I have a feeling you wont." His smirk widened.
"You have a lot of faith in me..." She sighed. "So I was born on March 12th, had a generally normal childhood I guess..." She paused to think. "I started ballet, and then when I was seventeen I got a tattoo-"
"No way!" Gajeel laughed. "You got a tattoo?" He asked.
"What?" She asked.
"By the looks of it you don't even have your ears pierced." He said.
"That doesn't mean I don't have other piercings." Levy stated, although it came out a bit more seductive than she intended.
"Fair enough." He said.
"Anyways so I got a tattoo out of rebellion I guess. My boyfriend at the time was saying how I was too much of a goody two shoes and how I never did anything daring enough." She sighed. "So I went out and got a tattoo."
"Where?" He asked.
"Excuse me?"
"Well to be fair, you just wear shorts and a shirt to the gym so I'm thinking hip bone. Also you have an open backed dress so that rules out that. Unless its a..." His eye brows raised, than his face fell into a look of disapproval. "Levy, you don't have a tramp stamp do you?" He asked.
"No its not a tramp stamp." She sighed. "And its covered most of the time anyways."
"How come?" He asked. "Is it a butterfly?" He asked.
"No its just..." She sighed. "Its this symbol from one of my favorite books and its a fairy." She said.
"A fairy." He repeated.
"Somewhat." She clarified.
"Somewhat?"
"Its not a straight fairy, like it doesn't have a face or anything." She thought. "Its kinda like a bird..."
"A fairy bird?" He asked.
"Well there's the point, than the arrow thing..." She tried to fish for the right word.
"Just let me see it." He said.
"No no no!" She waved her hands.
"Okay." He smirked. "Next time we hang out we'll just go to the beach." He placed his hand on the back of Levy's chair.
Next time? She felt her heart flutter. No, he probably means with his friends.
"So, go on. You got a tattoo at seventeen."
"Yeah and I kept dancing up until a few years ago." She said. "I took a break until a week ago where I got an email from the MBC to be in their production this winter."
"You do know its summer, right?" He asked.
"That I do." She laughed. "They have to plan ahead for these things."
"Apparently." He snorted. "So whats the musical?"
"Production." She corrected.
"So whats the production?" He corrected.
"I have no idea." She smiled.
"And you're already in it!" He asked.
"Yeah." She kicked her feet. "I was out of the game for a while, and they really hounded me on this. They emailed me multiple times a week for a few months." She fessed.
"For a few months?" He asked. "Just how many?"
"Oh... You know." She shied. "Like four."
"They hounded you for four months?" His jaw opened. "Shorty, I have never heard of anyone being sought after so damn much, why'd you deny it?" He asked.
"I had stopped dancing." She said.
"Yeah you said that earlier, how come?"
"I'd rather not say." She looked at him with pained eyes.
"Sure." He said.
"So what about you?" She asked.
"Me?" He asked. "Not much. I'm Gajeel Redfox, I was born on November 4th and I got my first tattoo at twenty." He smirked at her. "Although I have a lot of piercings."
"You do?" She asked.
"I'm not allowed to wear them at work but-" He pulled his hair back, revealing his ears had multiple spikes and piercings going up the sides. "When I was younger I had my eyebrows and lips pierced. And a few on my arms and chin." He added as he rubbed a hand over his arm.
"Didn't that hurt?" She asked.
"I thought they made me look tough." He commented. "Anyways I took most of them out, luckily most of the facial ones didn't scar."
She nodded her head as she followed his face as he talked. He was breathtaking to look at. The way his blood red eyes rolled around as he looked at things while he talked, the way his tongue danced in his mouth and ever so slightly pushed against his sharp canine teeth.
"Then I became a kickboxing instructor and now I'm here." He said.
"Wow." She laughed to herself.
"Something funny?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Its just funny how were so different."
"Opposites attract?" He offered as an excuse.
"Maybe." She giggled as the lights flashed.
"Its starting." He grinned.
As the show played on, and on, and on, Levy felt herself getting tired. She opened her purse to grab her phone as her eyelids struggled to stay open. She clicked the power button, revealing the screen brightly. Hissing at the light, Levy shut her eyes, and opened them just a little to reveal that it was 1:32 in the morning. They had only watched four episodes and she felt the exhaustion of this weeks gym trips catching up on her. Going to the gym after being lazy for so many years was enough to make anyone tired, but adding on all nighters to watch Netflix, as well as falling asleep on a terribly uncomfortable couch made for a horrible combination.
Levy decided to shut her eyes for a moment and felt herself beginning to nod off. Half asleep and not caring about anything, she brought her legs up on her chair, and leaned over to rest on Gajeel. He remained focused on the screen, so she figured he didn't mind. Watching the screen, she felt her eyes unfocused and the sound fading. She struggled to focus her attention back on the screen, but couldn't help it as sleep eventually took her over.
"Hmmmm." Levy moaned lightly as she sat up. She rubbed the corner of her eye lightly as she stretched her back and listened for a crack. Sighing, she felt something fall off her chest and as she looked down at the weight she noticed it was a black jacket. This must be his. She looked down at it once more before looking over at him. He was still staring at the screen, highly invested. She listened to her stomach rumble, and remembered her snack. Leaning forward, her hand searched the grass for her bag of popcorn.
"Bingo." She whispered as she located the bag. Pulling it back up, she opened it and indulged in her salty snack. As she happily munched, Gajeel leaned over to her.
"You missed a little." He said.
"Sorry, I fell asleep."
"I noticed." He smirked. "Well you only missed two episodes."
"Two!" She yelled in a whisper. "Why didn't you wake me?" She asked.
"You were out of it shrimp." He defended. "Even if I had wanted to, you looked like you needed it."
"Well thanks." She said. "Sorry that I leaned on you, it might have been awkward for you."
"Not really, it wasn't a problem." While she slept on him it gave him a chance to put him arm around her, run her arm with his thumb, eventually he gave her his jacket, but she slept soundly nonetheless. She was cute to look at, and different than all the other girls that had caught his eye. He usually went for the blonde with huge boobs and low self confidence, but she was something else. She was just reading when she sparked something in him. He figured he was reacting to Cana or something- not that he would ever go for Laxus' girl- but he decided to take her out to see if the feelings were genuine.
"So what'd I miss?" She asked.
"No, no." He said. "You have to watch it."
"What!" She whispered back. "You have to tell me."
"You already read the book, so you already know." He defended.
"Yeah but-"
"C'mon, lets get out of here." He said.
"What?" She asked. She didn't want it to end.
"We can go somewhere else." He said. "We could even go back to my place to watch the last two episodes." Before Levy could say anything, he pulled her to her feet and she leaned down to grab her shoes that she had taken off earlier.
"Wait, wait!" She whispered to him as the scurried up the aisle of people.
"Yeah?" He stopped as they reached the dimly lit area of the concession stands.
"Let me catch my breath and but on my shoes." She leaned on one foot as she placed the other in her new shoes.
"Levy?" A deep voice said. Levy's head shot up as she looked in the direction it came from. She couldn't see his face, but she'd recognize that monsters voice anywhere...
THE CLIFF HANGER. BWAHAHA. That's the only way you guys ever review so I will keep them coming. And woah this is a lot longer than expected... Dont get used to it! Its not every day that I have a 4,000 word chapter! This just ended up being longer cuz they talked about themselves. ALSO. DISCLAMER. Those aren't Levy and Gajeel's real birthdays. Theyre not on the wiki so they technically don't have specific ones. So I made those up. I just figured that Gajeel was a Scorpio and Levy seemed like a Pieces. So review on what you want neeext. Should they go to Gajeel's? Maybe have some awkward flirting (although there was some of that here) A RUN IN WITH GAJEEL'S ROOMATE? Although i feel like if he did have a roomate it would be Juvia but she's on vaca... So that wouldnt really fit. Maybe Lucy will roll up and steal Levy away? I dunno. You tell me! Review away my friends. Thanks for reading! ~Hana
P.S. To any of my followers in the United States, Happy Thanksgiving!