Hey everyone! What great feedback you all gave me last time and I cannot be more thankful and humbled by the responses! I got a new laptop and I'm extremely happy, but things haven't been as easy as I thought. I had to transfer all my fanfic files on a flash drive because a bug/virus has made its way onto my laptop. I've just been having a lot of difficulty transferring my files but clearly things have finally worked out all right :)

Here's the chapter, I hope I don't disappoint

Just Lean In

She always thought that she just thoroughly enjoyed Gajeel's presence. That she just was a very close best friend whose heart raced at the presence of him. The smell and sight of him made her more content than ever, but she never would have suspected what she was feeling was love.

Oh, but this was quite defiantly just that.

They were standing in his kitchen, Levy with just his t-shirt on and her azure hair dripping cold water onto the tiles. Gajeel stared at her longingly and his blood red eyes somehow softened every time they met with hers. Levy fought back the urge to kiss him right then and there, but clearly somebody didn't have that kind of self-control.

Gajeel practically tackled her, making Levy screech at the added weight.

"Gajeel", she managed to squeak out, suppressing a wince.

"Oh, sorry Shrimp, why do you have to be so damn small?"

Although, he is cute when he tries to show affection

Levy wriggled out of Gajeel's strong barricade built by his muscular arms, which was a respectable attempt at a hug…for Gajeel. He looked slightly disappointed that his rare act of affection didn't work out the way he planned it to. Levy giggled.

"Oi," Gajeel spat at her, "What's so funny?"

Hastily, Levy leaped up onto Gajeel. He caught her with ease, and her bare legs swung back and forth as she felt the rise and fall of his chest against her shoulder. While carried bridal-style in Gajeel's massive arms, the bluenette's hazel orbs penetrated into his pair of deep scarlet ones. The color made Levy's heart beat faster and louder until she thought she'd explode. If just looking into his eyes can do this to me, kissing him would kill me. Levy thought to herself in order to prevent doing anything she would probably regret. She had to escape the position she had put herself in, and quickly.

"Gajeel", Levy hummed, then mentally cursing at herself for sounding so suggestive. Apparently it was too suggestive for Gajeel.

Lustfully, he took both of Levy's legs and hooked them around his waist. Of course, the tips of her tiny toes only just barely grazed Gajeel's back, but neither of them cared. While entranced by each other and the extreme lack of space between them, Levy failed to fully notice what was in the corner of her eye. She didn't want to give any attention to anything else. She gave it all to Gajeel.

Levy leaned in and one of Gajeel's rough hands slid slowly up her knee to her thigh, while his other hand held her up with ease. Her arms rested on his shoulders, Levy's petite hands tangling themselves into his mane.

His nose touched hers and her lips parted slightly as she began to close her eyes. When suddenly, a slightly suppressed gasp came from the doorway.

"I knew it!"

I'm making this story up as I go so sorry for the shitty endings. I haven't been feeling well mentally, physically and emotionally these days so that's why I'm so late, sorry about that :P Plus, I didn't even want to continue this story before! But now I like where I can go with this, so I think I want to get to around 15-25 total chapters. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure at all. Well, thanks for reading! Have a nice rest of your day (or night)! ️