After I spent a good two hours in the bookstore just looking through some of the books, I carried my school books to my dorm. I still couldn't believe I would get to live in there for the next year. As I walked to my room I noticed the sky had become very dark and gloomy, it's probably going to storm soon. Once I got back into my dorm, I placed my books down and saw a black cat pawing frantically outside my balcony doors. I quickly went and opened the doors to the balcony and let the cat in. The cat ran inside and started to rub up against my leg while purring.

I checked the collar and it read: Lily. I petted her for a bit then I turned on my TV and turned on animal planet for her. I then placed her on my bed so she could watch it at a better angle. We watched TV for a while and then I gave her a few good pets, and walked into my kitchen in my dorm room and looked into the fridge. I was shocked to see that they kept it stocked for you. I took out some milk, and poured it into a small bowl I found. I walked over to her and placed the bowl on the floor.

"Hey there kitty, are you hungry?" I asked bending down to pet her as she walked towards the bowl and started to lap up the milk. She purred as I petted her some more but when she heard a loud boom from the thunder outside, she meowed loudly and darted under my bed. "Don't be afraid." I said softly while running to my bed and bending down to see her.

Her black hair was standing up, and her claws were dug into the carpet. I reached out a hand to her as she shook violently in fear of the oncoming storm. "Come here, I won't hurt you." She slowly came over and let me pull her out from under the bed. I smiled and petted her then placed her on top of my bed again. She yelped loudly when she saw the lightening and I giggled. "Shhh, I'll go close my curtains, so you don't have to see the lightening anymore."

I walked over to the balcony door and right before I closed the curtains, I saw a large shadow leap onto my balcony. I screamed bloody murder and leaped back as the shadow came closer and tried to open the doors, but they were locked. I heard a few curse words and a loud growl as rain poured down and the shadow man tried to get in. "Let me in!" He screamed while pounding on the door. If he kept pounding like that, he might break down my door. I looked around for a possible weapon that I could use. I ran into my bathroom and looked around for a weapon, I grabbed the first thing I saw; a plunger. I stifled a scream once the power went out and the whole room went pitch black. I heard the lock break and the door quickly opened.

Okay…Okay….I can do this! I won't go without a fight, I'm tough, and brave! I ran out of the bathroom and saw the shadowy figure moving, he tripped over something and fell. Now was my chance! I raised the plunger and started to hit it as hard as I could over and over again and he cursed louder and started to yell, "Hey stop that! Oww! Damnit I mean it!" Whack, whack, whack. I hit harder and harder till finally the shadow figure managed to grab the plunger and wrestle it out of my hands easily. I didn't realize how strong this thing was. I screamed again in a sure panic as it grabbed my ankle and pulled, I fell on the floor and started to try and slap and hit it but the shadow figure was having none of that. It pinned me to the floor and as I was getting ready to scream again, the lights flickered back on again.

I blinked a few times trying to get my eyes adjusted to the light and gasps, "Y-You…? You're the shadow man?" I looked up at Gajeel's scowling face and squirmed trying to get up but he still had me pinned and apparently wasn't going to let me up.

"Shadow man?" He growled. "Are you some kind of nut job? I'm no shadow man, why would you even think that?"

"Oh maybe because I couldn't see your face, and you broke into my dorm room!" I snapped. "Why would you do that? You can't possibly be trying to steal anything, it's not like you don't have money." I gasped coming to a realization. "Oh my god…oh my god…are you going to beat me up for bumping into you and calling you large?"

He narrowed his eyes and snarled, "You really are a nut job if you think that I would do something like that, or something so stupid! First off I would never hit a girl, and secondly I only broke in because this dorm room is usually empty, and my cat often comes over here."

"Y-Your cat…?"

He sighed and got off me then lifted me off the floor and placed me on my feet. "Yeah my cat…he's black and terrified of storms." He said looking exhausted, I've been trying to find him for the last hour. Have you seen him?"

"Yeah…now that you mention it, right before you started pounding at my door like a maniac a black cat was on my balcony so I let her in." I muttered.

"Her? Listen her munchkin, my cat is a boy!"

"Don't call me that! Anyways who names a boy Lily?"

He glared at me, "He already came with that name so there was no point changing it! Where is he anyways?"

I looked around my room and shrugged, "He must be under my bed again, and all that noise must have really freaked him out." I said looking worried. I walked back over to my bed and bent down again. "C'mon on Lily, it's okay your daddy is here to take you home." I heard Gajeel snort at that, but I ignored him and kept coaching Lily to come out from under the bed till finally he did. "Good boy." I said petting him as he rubbed up against me.

Gajeel came over and picked up Lily then looked him in the eyes, "What were you doing wandering around when it's about to storm?" Lily hissed at him, while managing to look annoyed with Gajeel. I laughed at the amount of attitude Lily was giving Gajeel, it was like Lily was an actual person. Gajeel shook his head but then looked at me and said gruffly, "Thanks for taking care of him."

"Sure." I said. "He is really cute, so it was no problem."

He looked around my room then at the door, "I'll have someone come fix that tomorrow, sorry I broke it but I was pouring out there." He didn't look sorry at all.

"You're just lucky I didn't murder you, I came real close!" I said with a huff.

His lips gave a small twitch, then he picked up the plunger, "So tell me squirt, how did you plan to murder me with this? It didn't really do much damage."

"If you keep calling me stupid short people nicknames I will personally show you!" I threatened although even to my own ears it didn't sound all that threatening.

He laughed, "Sorry I just can't resist. You're pretty small, it's cute."

I felt my face flush, "Well if you're done intruding, you should go. We have class tomorrow."

"Sure." He shrugged then slowly smirked, "I'll see you later neighbor." He walked towards the door.

"Wait, what did you just say?!"

"Well your balcony is right next to mine, so that makes us neighbors." He kept on smirking, "Something tells me, we will be seeing a lot of each other." He left without another word. He closed my balcony door and disappeared into the darkness.

What kind of person jumps from one balcony to the next? I didn't even want an answer to that question. Yeah we would be seeing each other more than I would like, but I wonder just what kind of hell he is going to put me through here.