Ugh, why does my head hurt so much? I slowly look around and take my surrounding in. Where am I? Am I in Oak Town? If so, how did I get here, and why does my head hurt?

A door to my left opened and a small girl with blue hair came in. She looked up at me and then turned back to the door. She opened it and yelled.

"Gajeel she's awake."

She moved away from the door and walked towards me with a smile on her face.

"Hi, I'm Wendy, Gajeel's cousin. Are you feeling alright? Is anything hurting?"

"Yeah my head hurts but that seems to be all."

"Ok let me try to help you."

She lifted her hands to my head and suddenly her hands started to glow a light blue. I felt my headache start to go away solely and soon altogether.

"Thank you Wendy. I feel much better now." I said and turned to smile at her.

"Anything for Gajeel's future wife, and speaking of Gajeel, here he comes now."

What? How did she know that? Oh wait. If she's Gajeel's cousin, then she must be a dragon.

Wow, dragon hearing is amazing.

A minute later, Gajeel came into the room. Now that I got a clear view of him I noticed something. He is hot! Long black messy hair, chiseled face, toned body and the same red eyes that I remembered that now seemed to show maturity in them. Also let's not forget the piercings or whatever they actually are. He had more now than he was a kid. Metal was now along his arms as well as more on his face, they even took place of his eyebrows. Add the black tattoo that now covered his left arm which just added to his looks. I looked back up at his face after staring at his body for awhile and saw the smirk that he had.

"Gihi, well shrimp you don't look to bad yourself."

OMG did I just say that he looked hot out loud? Why do I keep doing this? My face must be the color of his eyes right now.

"Don't be embarrassed. I'm glad my fiancée thinks that I'm hot, since I think the same way about her."

My face feels like it's on fire right now. He thinks I'm hot! Well there goes most of the things I worried about before I came here.

"So shorty, how are you feeling?"

Now if he would just stop with the short nicknames this moment would be better.

"I'm feeling good after Wendy helped me. Gajeel what happened? How did you know I was in trouble?

Gajeel looked at her like the answer was something she should already know.

"Well your carriage got attacked when you were on the way here by some shadow creatures. Since we are mates, then I can sense when you're in trouble and where you are. Plus Erza, Pantherlily and I weren't far from you since I wanted to know that you were safe."

What?! Did he say we were mates? When did this happen? I haven't seen him since we were kids how can I be that be his mate?

"Well shorty, remember when we were kids and we swapped blood then I bit you on the neck, well that made us mates." Gajeel said looking sheepishly at me and rubbing his neck.

I really need to control what I say and stop speaking out loud.

"So we've been mates all this time and we didn't know this? I asked.

Gajeel just looked away at the wall on the other side and refused to look at me.

"Wait I thought you had to have feelings for the other person in order for them to become your mate?"

Gajeel continued to look at the wall but I could see his face start to turn red. He was blushing?! Why?

"Gajeel? What aren't you telling me?"

He muttered something under his breath that sounded like "Damn smart fairy"

"Nothing shrimp just forget about it."

"Gajeel just tell me what you're trying to hide"

"No, forget it shrimp."

"Gajeel? Please?" I whined.

"No and that's it" he said.

I glared at him when he didn't give me the answer I wanted. I know he is hiding something so why doesn't he tell me. Maybe he's hiding the fact that he didn't want to be my mate and that it was a mistake when he did it. I hope that it isn't it, because I'm kinda glad that we are mates. I turned away from him, crossed my arms across my chest and puffed out my cheek. This look usually gets me what I want let's see if it still works. He turned to look at me and noticed my expression. He gave out a sigh, grabbed my shoulders and turned me towards him so I was facing him.

"Fine. I might have had a crush on you as a brat and wanted you to be my mate. So I asked my dad what I was supposed to do and did exactly what he told me to do in order to make you mine. That's all I'm saying." He quickly stated before looking away from me.

I was shocked. I didn't know he felt the same was I did when we were younger. All he did was call me the same names he call me now and ruffled my hair. I guess that was his way of showing his feelings. I guess I should tell him how I felt (and maybe still feel) about him too.

"Well I may have a crush on you as well when we were kids."

"Of course you did, I am just that awesome even as a brat. You had no choice but to have a crush on me."

"Gajeel!"

"Gihi. Alright shrimp, I have to go meet with Erza and Pantherlily. You will meet them later but for now why don't you go explore the castle. There's a library in here somewhere." He said as he turned around to face the door. Oh My Gosh he had a tail. I don't remember him having that as a child. Maybe he just hid it. I reached out to touch it. It felt scaly but smooth at the same time. As I continued to run my hand up it, I heard Gajeel start to growl or maybe he was purring. He turned around quickly, his eyes were slightly darker and he had a slight blush across his face.

"I'm so sorry did I do something wrong?" I asked worriedly.

"No! Just don't touch my tail."

"Why?"

"Just don't shrimp. I have to go." He said as he quickly turned towards the door and left.

I just stood there confused. Did I do something wrong? Maybe I should go find the library and start to research about dragons. With that plan in mind I left the room to go search.