I woke up feeling like I haven't slept all night. I couldn't stop thinking about what Gajeel said to me last night. He wanted me to pay off my debts? Then fine, but we are no longer on friendly terms. For all I care his business can crash and burn. I took a deep breath and got out of bed and went into my closet, I picked out a pair of pants and a t-shirt. I placed a black headband in my hair and headed for the door. I walked into the kitchen where Lily was finishing up breakfast. He looked up at me and gave me a small smile.
"Good morning Levy, how are you?"
"Fine." I said softly. Did he know about last night? I watched him finish making some pancakes and bacon.
"Can I make you come breakfast?" He asked.
"No thank, I'm not very hungry." I said. I had not appetite from last night. I was actually feeling pretty queasy from our fight.
He nodded and almost looked at me sadly, "Alright then, if you're not going to eat why don't you take out the master's breakfast to him. He wants to speak to you this morning."
I was dreading this but I nodded this, it was not like I could really avoid him for very long. I might as well get this over with. I grabbed his plate and walked into the dining room where he was siting and reading a newspaper, he looked up when he saw me. He put down the paper. "Morning shorty." He said with a smile. Was he planning to pretend like last night never happened? It took everything in me not to smash his pancakes in his face. I placed them down in front of him.
"Morning Mr. Redfox." I said stiffly.
He frowned, "You're not going to sit and eat some breakfast with me?"
"No, I need to get to work."
"Lily can handle it until you eat." Gajeel said shrugging.
I glared at him, "Maybe I didn't make myself very clear last night. Our friendship ended the second I found out about your plot involving me. Since you're forcing me to stay here, I will work off my so called debt, but we aren't friend. You are my boss and I'm your employee. There will never be anything more between us."
He glared right back at me, "If that is the way you want it, then fine. Although things are going to change for you around here." He snapped.
I arched a brow, "Oh?"
"First off you're going to start calling me sir or master." He smirked at that. Was he trying to make me uncomfortable?
"Yes sir." I said clenching my jaw.
He grinned, "Next, I want my office deep cleaned. Meaning I want all my book shelves dusted really well, so take all the books off the shelves and get every inch of dust off them. I want you to vacuum in there too. I also want all the windows wiped down." As he was explaining all the chores he wanted me to do in his office today, I had a feeling this was going to be an all day job. "Once you're done I will have Lily check your work."
My mouth nearly dropped open, "I'm sorry what? Aren't you going to be in your office?" I asked.
He nodded, "Yeah? What's your point?" He said with a smirk. Oh he so knew what my point with but he was trying to get a rise out of me. He was deliberately trying to make me mad.
"My point." I said grinding my teeth, "Is that if you're going to be in your office while I'm cleaning, you can obviously see if I've done a good job or not."
He started to eat, "Yeah I could, but Lily is the expert at this kind of thing. He can spot dust from a mile away. If your screw up like your normally do, he will know." He smirked again, "And if you do, I'll make you re-due the whole thing again until you get it right."
"I won't screw it up!" I snapped.
"Hey! There will be none of that." He said wagging his finger at me. "No back talking to the master. You can answer yes master or no master." He said grinning. Oh I could tell he was really enjoying himself right now, which was not helping my anger.
Do not scream. Do not scream. Do not scream. I have never wanted to scream or even punch someone so badly in my life before. He was actually making me want to lose my cool. He was trying to provoke me…provoke me into what? I'm not sure, but I'm not going to feed into his little game. I'm going to play the good little maid. I'm going to be the best damn maid he has ever had. "Yes sir." I mumbled around my teeth.
"There you go. Although I was really hoping you would go with master." He said shrugging and finishing off the last of his meal. I took a deep breath and began walking away, "Hey! Where do you think you're going?" Gajeel demanded.
I froze and turned to look at him, "I'm going to go get started on cleaning your office." I said.
"A proper maid waits to be dismissed." It took everything in me not to roll my eyes and I was very proud of myself for not doing it but I knew Gajeel could sense my frustration, "Hey you're the one who wanted me to treat you like my employee. So now I'm treating you like a maid. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to make you curtsy when you walk in a room and see me, but you will start wearing the uniform."
"I don't have the uniform." I snapped. I didn't care what he said I wasn't going to be giving him a curtsy when I walked into a room. Isn't that something you do with royalty? Who the hell does he think he is?
"Well now you do!" I was blinded for a second when Gajeel reached under the table and threw one and it landed on my head. I ripped it off and looked at the French maid's uniform I was going to have to wear. Now he was just trying to embarrass me. "Put it on, and meet me in my office in ten minutes." He then flung a scrap of material at me, "Here's the matching headband to it." He smirked and walked away.
I guess there is no getting out of it this time, I'm really going to have to wear this thing. I marched up to my room and changed into it. When I was done I looked in the mirror and my eyes widened. He couldn't seriously mean for me to wear this? The skirt came upper thighs and just barely covered my ass. I pulled on the top covering up my breasts which seemed to push them up slightly. I placed the headband on my head and walked down to Gajeel's office. I let out a loud suffering sigh and knocked.
"Come on in." He called out.
I walked in and he looked at me and froze and just stared at me for a long moment. Too long of a moment actually. It made me think I had this thing on wrong. "Sir?" I said trying to get his attention.
"S-Shorty…Shrimp…you look…um…" He swallowed at a loss of words. "Looks good on you." He finally grunted. "Get to work."
Author's Note: Poor Levy didn't see that coming when she woke up. Thank you so much for all those wonderful reviews! I loved them, and I really hope you guys keep them up! I'm trying to update every night since I've been getting more reviews, you guys are awesome!
