A/N: Since the last chapter was so fluffy, of course I had to ruin it by making them into perverts... also Lucy's secret gets revealed next time. Don't forget to review!

"You what?!" Levy squawked at her best friend the next day.

"I went to Gajeel's house on Saturday and we played games and watched a movie." Lucy explained again, thinking her friend misheard her. They were sitting in their homeroom before school, waiting for the bell to ring.

"Yeah I know I got that. Are you guys, like, dating yet?!"

"What?" Lucy mimicked her friend's screech from before. "D-d-dating, no! We're just friends." she waved her friend's words away.

"Yeah, sure." she rolled her eyes. "I'm telling Juvia about this!" Levy squealed. She waved their friend over, who also had blue hair, and immediately told her what had happened.

"You two would be the cutest couple! Just as cute as Juvia would be with her dear Gray…" the blue haired woman sighed dreamily. The captain of the girl's swim team held an infatuation with the hockey player from Magnolia. It was a bit excessive at times, but there was no doubt that Juvia held feelings for the black haired man. Lucy had only met him the one time, but she had heard many stories from her friend.

"Their ship name is officially Gajucy!" Levy exclaimed.

"What! No, it must be Galu!" the other blue haired girl argued. Lucy just dropped her head to her desk with a groan.

"Can we not talk about this? I'm already stressed out enough over prom." Lucy sighed.

"I'm so excited, it's less than three weeks away!" Levy squealed.

"Juvia wishes she could go with her beloved Gray." Juvia sighed.

"Well, Lyon is on court with you. Don't hurt his feelings by talking about Gray all night." Lucy warned.

"Juvia would never!" the girl blushed, knowing she probably would end up talking about Gray unconsciously.

"So why are you stressing out over prom?" Levy asked. Lucy's face warmed up.

"No - no reason." she hid her face again.

"Oh, I know what it is." Levy's face broke into a lecherous grin.

"What? What is it?" Juvia excitedly looked between her two friends.

"Lucy is worried about what comes after prom night!" the blue haired girl giggled maniacally.

"Levy!" Lucy shrieked, slapping her hands over her friend's mouth. "It's not - we aren't - I wouldn't - Ugh!" she let out a wail and let her head thud back down onto the desk.

"Don't worry about that, Lucy." Juvia's grin mirrored the other bluenette. "We will make sure you have protection." before Lucy could shriek at them again, the bell rang and the room filled with students. Lucy settled for a petulant glare before ignoring them for the rest of the block.

…..

"Dude," Gray sighed to his friend, "think about after prom night if you're so nervous."

"What?!" Gajeel blanched.

"Oh, come on." Laxus rolled his eyes. They were all seated at their lunch table, the guys on one end and the girls on the other, all chattering about the upcoming dance.

"Yeah, you gotta know that you rent a hotel for the night and stay out waaay late." Gray acted nonchalant about this, even though he hadn't even done it himself.

"There is no way." Gajeel disgustedly shook his head.

"What, not attracted to Lucy? I'm sure Bickslow would take her off your hands." Laxus turned towards his friend who nodded eagerly.

"That's not - shut up!" Gajeel's cheeks tinted pink.

"What's wrong, man? I know you've done it with a girl." Gray smirked slyly, baiting his friend.

"Yeah, but this is Lucy. She's not just some quick lay." the mechanic ran his forever grease stained hands through his wild hair, sticking it up even further.

"Aw, you like her." Laxus teased his friend.

"Shaddup!" he snapped, tossing a piece of crust from the cafeteria's pizza at the blonde.

"Hey, where's Natsu?" Gray looked around, just realizing that the pink haired teen wasn't around the entire lunch period.

"Huh, weird. Natsu never misses a lunch…" Mirajane, who was seated next to Laxus, had only heard this part of the conversation and became worried.

"Hey… Lisanna is gone too." Gajeel smirked.

"No!" Bickslow gasped.

"Yes!" Mirajane squealed.

"Finally, that idiot grew some balls." Gray nodded, kind of proud of his sort-of friend.

"Now the only ones left to go get paired up are Gajeel and Gray." Mirajane sighed happily.

"Hey, what about me?" Evergreen piped up from further down the table.

"We all know how much you like a certain Strauss brother." Bickslow teased. Luckily, Elfman and Freed were in the other lunch so they didn't hear Evergreen's secret.

"Sh-shut up! You've got no idea what you're talking about." Evergreen sniffed indifferently.

"Yeah, yeah." Bickslow snickered.

"Anyways," Gray turned back to Gajeel with a low voice, "prom night."

"Quit it you pervert!" Gajeel hissed at his friend. "Lucy's way too good for any of that crap. I wouldn't… It wouldn't be right."

"Well, well." Mira smirked at Gajeel. "At least one of the boys here has some semblance of romance."

"What-" Laxus sputtered. "I'm romantic." he paused. "I am romantic, right?" Mirajane just giggled, not giving him an actual answer.

"I must admit that I am little bit disappointed that you and Lucy are going to prom together." Mira let her lip pout out.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Gajeel clenched his fists, narrowing his eyes at the white-haired beauty.

"After doing the match game I thought you and Levy were perfect for each other. It was like a match made in heaven." she sighed dreamily, placing her face in her hands.

"No way, Levy likes some track kid." Gajeel waved her dreams away.

"I still have hope!" she giggled again. The mechanic merely shrugged and poked at his tray. When the bell rang he was the first to stand, tossing his picked apart lunch and going to class faster than he ever had before. Gajeel just couldn't wait for the day to be over.

The next time he saw Lucy was gonna be awkward as hell.

…...

"Luuuuuucyyyyy~" the blonde cringed at the voice of her classmate. She turned with a smile to see what they needed.

"Yes?" she was, as ever, perfectly polite.

"Can you come to my prom after party?" the dance was in less than two weeks and Lucy was beginning to feel nerves settle in. May sixth was the date and it was, in her mind, way too soon.

"I'll see if I can make it." she assured the kid and turned tail to rush to her locker. Levy and Juvia were waiting for her there.

"Everyone says they're gonna vote you for queen!" Levy squealed.

"Really?" Lucy's heart skipped a beat; she really wanted to be queen, but her biggest competition were Yukino and Minerva.

"Juvia thinks that Lucy will win because Lucy is such a wonderful and beautiful person." the curvy bluenette smiled to her friend.

"Juvia you're so sweet! But I think that Minerva or Yukino would win, because they both are so gorgeous and talented." Lucy hugged her friends.

"Just imagine what Gajeel would say when he saw you with the crown on." Levy smirked.

"Oh, shut up Levy." Lucy blushed at her friend.

"Juvia heard from her darling Gray that Lucy and Gajeel have a date tonight."

"Do not!" Lucy snapped, her face turning even pinker. "We're just going to the movies and then we're hanging out at his house."

"That's a date." the short bookworm sang out.

"Oh, you two are just as bad as Mirajane." the blonde's face began to cool down and she packed her books into her locker. She didn't have much homework for the weekend so it didn't take long.

"You'll call me when you guys finally kiss, riiiight?" Levy wiggled her eyebrows.

"As long as you tell me when you and Jet have sex." Lucy giggled at her friend and shut her locker, strutting off towards her car. She primped herself in her mirror before heading towards the movie theater. She and Gajeel wanted to catch an early showing for a new action movie, knowing that the later they went the more busy it would be.

When she arrived she pulled a designer bag out of her center console and swiped a nude gloss from its depths. She pulled out a small rollerball of perfume and applied each of the products lightly before scanning the rest of the parking lot for Gajeel's super-hot black truck. When she spotted it pulling into a space, Lucy immediately jumped from her car, locked it, and rushed towards it.

However, she was interrupted.

"Hey, you here alone?" a guy stepped between her and the area she was headed towards.

"Ah, no, actually, I'm going to meet my friend in just a minute." Lucy smiled back.

"Aw, too bad. I was gonna ask if you would go see a movie with me. My date stood me up, you see." he grinned sheepishly at her.

"Oh, I'm sorry." she let out an uncomfortable laugh. He didn't seem to be a bad person, but she really wasn't in the mood to get asked out.

"Do you think maybe we could hang out sometime? I'm Dan." the redhead smiled at her, and her heart leapt into her throat. His name was Dan. HisnamewasDan.

"No! No, I have to go." she turned and tried to bolt somewhere, anywhere but there. But his hand shot out and gripped her forearm.

"Hey, are you alright?" he seemed genuinely concerned, but she couldn't breathe and she was panicking and she couldn't fucking breathe and she had to get away. But Dan had her by the arm, Dan grabbed her and suddenly she was brought back to a time that she really, really wanted to forget.

"Let her go." a deep voice growled out, causing the iron grip Dan had on her forearm to immediately drop. Lucy stumbled forwards a few steps, wheezing as tears began to form. She could not believe that she was having a panic attack at this awful moment. She felt a pair of hands fall on her shoulders, but she struggled to see who it was. Black dots were spotting her vision and her knees were shaking.

"Get, go, go away." she whimpered.

"Bunny, what's wrong?" Lucy recognized Gajeel's voice as he spoke, wiping a tear that escaped down her cheek.

"I can't-I don't-" she was unable to think or speak or even explain what was going on. She must have blacked out because the next thing she knew she was sitting in the passenger side of Gajeel's truck. The door was opened and he was standing in front of her, hands on her knees drawing soothing circles on her skin. Her hands fisted into the hem of her skirt.

"Are you okay now?" his voice was soft, softer than she'd ever imagined it could be, and she felt his eyes boring into the top of her head. She sniffled a bit before looking up at him.

"Yeah I'm fine, I'm sorry about that." she let out an embarrassed laugh.

"Don't be sorry." he grunted. "What did that piece of shit do to you?" his eyes narrowed at her. Lucy began to feel guilty.

"He didn't do anything." Lucy sighed. "I just-I don't want to talk about it right now."

"You don't want to talk about it or you're scared to?" he questioned. She didn't respond.

"I don't want to ruin our night with this. Let's go in and see the movie, okay?" she smiled.

"We missed the beginning."

"Oh…"

"Lucy." his voice was soft and warm and gravelly and it hurt her heart.

"I…" she trailed off weakly. "Can we not talk about this here?"

"Do you want to go home?" he asked.

"No!" she shouted. His eyes widened and he took a step back. "I mean… I just… going there would be worse. Can we go to your house?"

"Uh, yeah sure. Do you wanna drive separate?"

"Yes!" she jumped down from his seat. "Last one there has to pay for pizza!" she ran to her car and when she finally made it inside, she collapsed back onto the seat. "I don't want to tell him." she whimpered, gripping the steering wheel so tightly that her knuckles turned white. She hated when the past caught up with her.