Gajeel...
It hasn't stopped raining ever since the hospital called me. Half of these people I've never even seen before. Why is it so cold? I could of promised I turned on the heater. Maybe it's broken, I should tell dad to call the mechanic... Oh yeah I forgot.
1 week earlier...
"Hello?" I ask while eating the strawberry I found hiding under the whipped cream.
"Hello, is this the Redfox residents?" the mellow sounding man said.
"Yes it is," I say still eating the cake, "oh but my mom and dad aren't home right now. I can take a message."
"Actually, I'm Detective Zeref and I have some very unfortunate news."
"Uh-oh," I thought, "what did dad do this time?"
"I'm sorry to have to inform you of this, but your parents were in a car accident this morning," the detective said with sympathy in his voice, "and are now in critical condition."
Everything around me went silent. The detective's voice sounded further and further away as seconds ticked by. My stomach seemed to be in knots. And the cake I just ate felt like it was going to come back up any minute now. After a few minutes of trying to process what I was just told, the once far voice of the detective became closer and closer.
"Hello?" the detective asked sounding a bit concerned. As I try to tell the detective I'm here I felt a lump in my throat that prevented me from speaking.
"Hello?" the detective asked again sounding more concerned.
"I'm here," I said trying to hold back the tears that threaten to run down my face.
"Good," he said sounding relieved.
There was a long silence before I finally said, "What hospital?" The detective almost instantaneously said," Magnolia Hospital." He also informed me that Porlyusica isn't in Magnolia right now so there's a different doctor taking care of them.
I didn't have to hear anymore. I hung up the phone and told Kinana, my personal maid, the whole situation. We grabbed our coats and hurried to the hospital, but when we got there they were already gone.
Now it's their repast, and I haven't seen or heard from Levy once. Not at the funeral or the burial. They told me her and that idiot Jet weren't in Magnolia right now. But she still could of called. Not that I need her to call or anything, but I kind of want to see that smile of hers. And I want to see those teeth and lips of hers too.
'What are you thinking Gajeel? She's not even yours.' I try to force myself to realize.
After thinking about her the entire day I finally realize it's about 10:00pm and everyone's gone. After cleaning up I hear a car pulling up and minutes later I hear the shrimp screaming and crying at the same time. I look out to see what happened, but Jet was embracing her and kissing her every where that I should be kissing her. I almost ran out and kicked his butt ,for making her cry but I figured it was probably because of me.
Levy...
When we pulled up to my house, all the maids and butlers were standing outside with troubled looks on their faces. Considering the lateness of the hour and the lack of enthusiasm in anyone's expression, it wasn't difficult to figure out something terrible had happened and I started to get nervous. I think Jet saw it in my face because he grabbed my hand and gave me a kiss on my nose to calm me down. When I got out the car the staff wanted to speak to Mavis first. I gripped Jets hand tighter and started to look for my parents to make sure they were ok. But I couldn't find them.
When Mavis came back over she told me that she needed to talk to me.
She started talking very slowly," Young Miss I'm sorry to inform you that Gajeel's parents were in a car accident last week and passed away at the hospital."
I think I blacked out after that because all I remember is Jet holding and kissing me telling me it's alright. And my face was wet probably from the tears pouring down my face.
We went inside and Jet and I went into my room until he had to leave. Jet tried to make me feel better by tickling me, petting me, and making horrible jokes and he kind of succeeded.
When he was gone I decided to make a cake and take it to Gajeel to see how he was feeling and to apologize. Before I left to go to his house Mavis told me to make sure I watch what I say because he could be sensitive to certain words.
As I walked over I tried practicing how I would speak to him, but everything seemed so forced. When I finally got to his house I rang the doorbell but no one answered. So this time I knocked on the door and told him it was me Levy. A minute later he opened the door. Before I could get anything out he asked me what I was doing there. I froze not knowing what to say or how to react to the question.
And not knowing how I got this out I said, "I'm sorry to hear about your parents."
That seemed to add more fuel to his fire.
"That has nothing to do with you," he said angrily.
"It so does," I said trying to figure out why all his anger seemed to be towards me, "they've been there for me and my family since I was three."
"Maybe they just felt bad for you because you're with an idiot like Jet," he says in a nasty tone.
"DON'T PUT MY BOYFRIEND IN THIS!" I say without thinking.
That's when I knew I messed up.
And then out of nowhere he yells," YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE JUST A SPOILED LITTLE BRAT WHO ONLY THINKS ABOUT HERSELF AND HER DUMB BOYFRIEND. NO ONE WOULD LIKE A SHRIMP LIKE YOU. MY PARENTS NEVER LIKED YOU AND NEITHER DO I. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY YOU CAME OVER HERE!"
And all I felt were tears burning my eyes about to fall down my cheeks. I shoved the box of cake in his arms and tried to run but something gripped my arm tightly.
Gajeel…
What did I just say to her? Before I could apologize she shoved what looked to be a cake box in my hands and started to turn to run away, but I wound up grabbing her arm. I felt her body shaking and her sniffing in snot. I made her cry..I made my Levy cry.
We stood right there for about a minute while I watched her trying to catch her breath from crying so hard. This bothered me more than it should have.
And then out of nowhere she says, "I'm sorry."
Then she turned her head to look at me. Her face was soaked with tears and her eyes red. My heart broke the longer I stared at her.
Before my mind could think of something my mouth said, "no I'm sorry I should've never said that to you when you did nothing to me.
She says in a low tone, "I should've watched what I said to you in a time like this."
"Would you like to come in?" I say without thinking.
She nods yes.
I run to grab her a face cloth from one of the many towel closets, so she can dry her face.
When I get to the kitchen she has the cake open looking at it with a frown.
"I'm sorry the cake got messed up," she said, saddened.
"No no no it's fine. It's my fault anyway," I say. "Tell Mavis I said thank you for making me this."
"Act..Actually," she said, "I made it myself."
I stop and stare and finally I say, "You know how to bake?" not meaning to sound insulting.
She starts laughing which made me happy and said, "Yeah Jet taught me."
My smile instantly turned into a frown, but her not paying attention continues," he taught me when I turned ten. I kept on burning myself too, but I never said anything because I wanted to show him that I could do this- that I will make the perfect wife when it comes down to it."
She was smiling and blushing from cheek to cheek which made me jealous that she wasn't talking about me to another guy like this. While day dreaming she cuts me a piece and hands it to me.
"Here," she says with a smile, "I know this is your favorite type of cake."
"And how do you know that?" I ask a bit confused.
"When you came to my house, when we were really little, Mavis asked you what type of cake you liked and you said yellow cake with whipped cream and strawberries on top."
"How do you remember that?" I asked astonished. "That was more than 10 years ago."
She laughed again and said, "I always remember what my friends like, so I can make them happy if they're feeling down.
"Now taste," she said shoving a piece of cake in my mouth.
"This is delicious," I said stuffing some more in my mouth.
"Thanks," she said satisfied.
Then her smile turned into a sad face and she says, "I'm sorry about your parents and I'm sorry I wasn't there for you at the funeral, burial or repast. I didn't know they even di-"
"It's fine," I say cutting her off. "You weren't even in Magnolia so you couldn't of known."
"But if we didn't stay those 3 extra days at his beach house I could of been back here soo-," I cut her off again for her sanity and mine.
"It's fine," I said again. "I would rather see you smile and have fun then to see you cry.
Then I realized my feelings were starting to come out more than I wanted them to. But those words seemed to put a little ease on her mind.
"Hey do you want to help me sort through some pictures?" I say pointing towards a box sitting on the coffee table in the living room. I start walking towards the room and continue a little louder "one of the maids found the box a couple of weeks ago while cleaning the library. I thought it would have been cool to make a slideshow for my par-...umm…" I stopped in my tracks before I finished the statement. I felt my chest tighten and mouth get dry. I wasn't sure what really caused my reaction but I knew I couldn't finish the statement.
I'm not sure how long I stood there until I felt a hand slip into mine and a soft voice say, "I know they would've loved it." I looked down to see beautiful hazel eyes staring back at me with nothing but care in them. No hint of pity in sight.
"Levy….", I breathed. My heart was beating so hard and loud in my chest I was sure she could hear it. I started to speak but before I could continue she said, "I tell you what. How about you get the pictures out of the box and I'll get us some cake and something to drink?" She smiled at me and all too soon she let go of the hand I didn't realize was still being held until I felt a cold emptiness take its place.
"Actually", I stated as I started towards her direction. She turned around and looked at me quizzically. I chuckled to myself slightly. She makes the cutest faces sometimes. She looked even more confused and asked "what?"
I shook my head quickly to bring myself back to reality and said, "Nothing, but I think I'll get the cake and you handle the pictures. I remember the piece you just gave me and if I get another piece that small I'm liable to give you a noogy Shrimp".
Her confused features softened and her eyes lit up. And a smile that I hadn't seen in years graced her face. My heart nearly stopped. "A noogy?", she said between chuckling. "You wouldn't dare." She stood in a defying stance with her body giving an 'I dare you vibe'. But as I walked towards her, her bravado quickly left and she raised her hands in surrender saying, "Okay, okay. You win. You dish the food and I'll handle the pictures." And she quickly scurried off into the living room.
As I was dishing the food, I heard a slight buzzing sound. At first I was planning on ignoring it but as it continued I realized it must have been Levy's phone. I thought about giving it to her but figured that it could be important and seeing how I was a magnet for earth shattering news, answering one more phone call couldn't make this day any worse….
Levy…
As I picked up Gajeel's baby pictures I started thinking about what happened that day. And what could've happened if I decided to sit on Gajeel's lap instead of Jets.
"I probably wouldn't be in this relationship with Jet," I said to myself. Which didn't sit well on my stomach.
As I kept flipping through the photo album I found this picture of him in the tub crying. I instantly reached for my phone to take a picture, but it wasn't there. I looked under every photo and album but it wasn't in here. And then I remembered I put it on the counter when I had to cut the cake.
I walked down the hallway and wondered what Gajeel was doing. So I yelled, "Gajeel what's taking you so long?" but he didn't answer me. I figured he didn't hear me so I got up and headed in the direction of the kitchen. As I entered the kitchen I said again, "what's taking you so lo-?" But the words never came out because all I could sense was blood lust in that room.
"What's wrong?", I said sounding concerned. I questioned, "Is mom and dad ok? Is Je-.
"One of your butler's called", he said cutting me off.
"Ok…," I say sounding even more confused
He continued, "Apparently Master Jet will be spending the weekend over your house and he's on his way over."
"Alright," I ask nonchalant, "What's the big deal?"
"What's the big deal?" he sneers, "Why's he spending a night over your house anyway?"
"He always spends a night over my house. Since we were little he did that," I continue, "but since he is getting older now he stopped spending a night as much because of … well you know."
In that instant he slams my phone, stands up and tells me in the most calm voice, "Get out." But I knew even with his tone he meant every word.
"Bu-," I try to say.
"Get out," he says again cutting me off.
He slides me my phone across the counter and turns his back on me . My phone starts vibrating. It's Jet.
I pick and say, "Hey Jet." Trying not to let him know anything is wrong.
"Hey Blue where are you? Are you ok?," he said sounding worried.
"Yea I'm fine. I'll be back in a minute. I'm over a friend's house." I blurted out.
I looked at Gajeel now with a clenched fist.
"You're not over a guys house, are you?," Jet says concerned.
"Yes," I said with no intention of lying to him, "but I would never cheat or hurt you. You know that."
After silence he finally said, "Yeah I know. Hurry back I'll be waiting."
Then he hung up. As soon as I take the phone from my ear Gajeel said get out again in a tone of voice just short from yelling.
The only thing that came out of my mouth was ok and I started walking towards the door. As I was walking out of the door, I looked back and said, "Thanks for having me. It was fun while it lasted. Oh and happy belated birthday." But the only thing he said was 'mhmm' and closed the door on my face.
I walked home and looked back once even though I didn't know what I was looking for. Jet met met me in the driveway and gave me a hug. Being with him made me feel a little better. That same blood lust I felt in the kitchen was the same I felt coming from Gajeel's house. After that night I didn't talk to Gajeel for another 2 years. That was until…
Thanks for reading guys I hope you enjoyed. Sorry for taking a while to make my 2nd chapter. Stay tuned for what happens next. .