"Two days!" Levy shrieked in their homeroom. No one flinched at the sound, everyone was too busy buzzing about the prom and the after parties and the pre-prom parties and the dresses and music and shoes and hair and makeup. There was too much to talk about and not enough time, it seemed.

"I'm not ready!" Lucy groaned.

"Losing your virginity to Gajeel seems kind of scary." Levy pondered jokingly.

"Cut it out!" the blonde snapped at her friend, her knee bouncing nervously.

"You have to be nice to me! We're best friends." Levy pouted.

"Juvia heard that Levy and Jet went out for dinner last night." the other bluenette smirked at her comrade.

"Oooh, losing your virginity to Jet seems kind of scary." Lucy teased back.

"No it doesn't!" the girl squeaked.

"Hey, Lucy!" Sting walked over, Rogue trailing behind.

"Oh, hey Sting." she greeted.

"I've been hearing a lot of people saying they are gonna vote for you."

"Funny, I've heard the same about you!" Lucy joked back.

"Good luck, I'll see you sometime soon! And thanks for helping me with chem, I really did appreciate it." Sting grinned.

"No problem, it was my pleasure!" Lucy waved as he and Rogue walked back to their seats.

"You two would be the hottest couple." a girl sitting near Lucy sighed.

"What? No way." she laughed at the girl's comment.

"I'm serious! Two hot blondes are way better than one."

"Sting is dating Yukino." Lucy reminded the girl.

"Yeah, and Lucy is in loooove with Gajeel!" Levy squealed.

"Hey, knock it off!" Lucy smacked the bookworm on the arm. Levy was literally saved by the bell, and so she jumped up and ran off, leaving her blonde friend to fume silently.

"Juvia thinks that Lucy and Gajeel are the cutest couple." her other friend beamed.

"Th-thanks Juvia…" Lucy blushed before speeding off to her next class.

…..

"T-minus twenty-four hours and thirty minutes until prom!" Lucy was nearly pulling her hair out at Erza's hourly phone calls. Even though the scarlet haired beauty was going to a different event, she still pestered Lucy to make sure she knew exactly when she had to be ready.

"Erza, I appreciate that you want me to know the exact time before prom," Lucy sighed into her phone, "but Levy and I really have to get our english papers done. If I don't finish it tonight I'm screwed!" the scarlet haired girl wasn't too happy with being dismissed, but she complied with Lucy's request and left them alone for the night.

Lucy and Levy worked hard to get their papers finished, and Lucy nearly wept with joy when she finished putting her last source into MLA format. It had taken nearly five hours to get everything organized, but it was complete.

"I've got two more, Lu!" Levy cried out.

"You can do it! I'll go get us some celebration snacks!" Lucy left her room and headed to the kitchen. She perused her refrigerator before deciding she and Levy would do well with some yogurt and fruit. Lucy cut up some strawberries and brought their food back up to her room, being careful to tiptoe past her dad's room as to not wake him up. It was way past midnight, and she knew how much her father cherished sleep after working hard all day. When Lucy got back to her room, however, she was surprised to see that Levy was no longer seated at the desk typing her paper. No, she was sprawled across Lucy's bed giggling evilly to a mystery object in her hands.

"Oh, Lu! You're back!" Levy turned innocently towards her blonde friend, hiding the object behind her back.

"Levy, what are you doing? Have you finished your paper?" Lucy set the bowls on the nightstand next to her bookworm friend.

"Yeah, I just did. Oh, by the way… Gajeel texted you." Levy produced the object from behind her, and Lucy realized it was her cellphone.

"Oh? What did he say?" Lucy leaned over to grab the phone from her friend.

"He asked what you were doing, so I replied for you." Levy handed the phone over. Lucy unlocked it and gasped at the conversation.

Gajeel:

Hey, whats up?

Lucy:

Nothing much, just thinking about you 3 ;)

Gajeel:

...huh?

Lucy:

You and your cute ass

Gajeel:

What?

Lucy:

Don't deny that you think my ass is cute too ;)

"Levy!" Lucy screamed. "Why would you - how could you - oh my god!"

"You needed a jumpstart! We all know how you feel about Gajeel, even Gajeel does!"

"No he doesn't! I mean, I don't have any feelings for him! We're just friends, Levy!" Lucy's face was turning red.

"Okay sure, keep telling yourself that. Gajeel is calling you." Levy pointed to the phone in Lucy's hands. The screen was lit up, revealing the contact picture for Gajeel (a candid of him after Lucy had French braided his hair). Lucy screeched and threw the phone to Levy. Levy merely snickered and pressed the green button that accepted the call.

"Levy!" Lucy yelled.

"Bunny girl?" Gajeel's voice filled the room.

"It was Levy!" Lucy let out another squeal.

"You can't blame me for telling the truth, Lu!"

"I have no idea what's going on with you two." Gajeel sighed over the speaker.

"It's her fault!" Lucy squeaked.

"Lucy thinks your butt is cute!" Levy defended herself.

"I told you that in confidence!"

"Yeah well Gajeel thinks your butt is cute!" Levy retorted to her blonde friend.

"Levy! I told you that in confidence!" Gajeel's voice rang out over the phone.

"Oh my god this is so embarrassing…" Lucy put her hands over her face.

"Speak for yourself, bunny." Gajeel grunted.

"Well, thanks for the chat Gajeel! See you tomorrow!" Levy laughed, then put the phone down.

"I'm going to murder you." Lucy moaned, flopping back onto her bed.

"And by the way, Lu, I finished my paper." Levy giggled.

"Finally!"

"I'm kind of upset though." the bluenette sighed.

"Why?" Lucy questioned, sitting up and grabbing her bowl.

"Because Gajeel didn't even react when he thought you said his butt was cute." she groaned.

"Levy, he isn't interested in me." Lucy sighed, slumping onto her bed. She played with the ends of her hair, scrutinizing some split ends.

"But you're interested in him?" Levy replied hopefully.

"Well, yeah. He's just… the sweetest. Everything he does makes me so happy, I can't help but smile when I'm with him. He talks to me like a real person. Not just a cute piece of ass. But that doesn't matter, because he's not into me like that."

"Lucy." Levy whined. "He definitely does like you. A lot. You know that he barely let me get close to him before we all started hanging out, right? I think you know him best. Out of everyone. And not just in a friendly way either. He definitely cares for you, and thinks about how you feel about things. Not just himself."

"So? It's not like he's going to ask me out or anything." Lucy groaned angrily.

"Uh, do you want me to ask you out?" Gajeel's voice came through the phone still nestled in Levy's hand. Lucy shrieked, sitting up and clutching at her heart. Levy gave her a mischievous smirk.

"Y-you're still there?" Lucy stuttered, feeling a burning flush beginning on her ears.

"Yep, been here the whole time. Wasn't sure when to hang up." came his curt reply.

"Oh." Lucy felt unbelievably embarrassed. She wasn't sure what to say, since she had basically laid out her feelings for the guy. "I… um…"

"Get some sleep, it's late. We have shit to do tomorrow." Gajeel grunted. Lucy sighed in disappointment.

"You're not even going to ask her out?!" Levy squeaked in anger.

"Hey, don't get the wrong idea! I'm not the lame type of guy that asks chicks out over the phone. I'm classy. I'm going to do things right. Sweet dreams, bunny." and with that, Lucy heard him hang up. The dial tone confirmed it this time.

"You little witch!" Lucy leapt up, flailing towards her blue-haired best friend. "You did that on purpose!" she wailed, slapping her tiny friend on the arm. She simply smiled back, looking too content with herself.

"He's definitely going to ask you out now, Lu-chan. You're welcome! Now it's time to go to bed. I'm exhausted!" Levy leapt onto the bed and immediately snuggled under the covers.

"What about our snacks?" Lucy whined, holding up their bowls.

"Okay, an episode of The Office? Then we can eat our fruit and then that's it! We're sleeping."

"Two episodes?" Lucy pleaded.

"One!" Levy insisted, shoving a spoonful of yogurt into her mouth.

Two hours later, at three in the morning, the girls finally shut off the laptop and drifted off into an exhausted slumber.