I woke up startled realizing that I had a repeat of the other night. I was once again asleep curled up with Gajeel, he was holding onto me tight like a pillow. Why do I always do this to myself? At least I wasn't late for any classes yet, breakfast was only just starting. I tried to get out of his arms but I had very little luck, I hated how strong he was. I yawned and poked him. "Gajeel, get up. We need to get to class."
He mumbled something in his sleep, I tried a few more times to get him to wake up. I finally had no choice but to reach behind me and fumble until I reached his ear and pinched it tightly while giving it a twist. "Ow!" He yelled. "Why'd ya do that?" He snarled.
"I tried to wake you, and that was the only thing I could think of to get you up." He let me go and I got to my feet while rubbing my eyes.
"At least I'm not bleeding this time." He said irritated.
I giggled, "I'm glad you learned your lesson on not covering my mouth."
"Brat." He said getting up while rubbing his ear.
I rolled my eyes, "Well if we hurry, we can make it to breakfast." I didn't give him time to respond, I left his room and hurried to mine. I jumped in the shower quickly and took the quickest shower I could manage then I put on one of my favorite yellow dresses and a matching head band. I slipped on my red shoes and grabbed my bag. Gajeel was waiting for me in the hallway and looked at me shocked.
"I was expecting you to be in there longer. It takes most girls a while to get ready." He said.
"Yeah I can be quick if I really need to be. I want to get some food before classes start, plus I want to see Lucy." I said.
He shrugged then followed me down to the dining room, we both got plates of pancakes. I went to sit over at Lucy's table, when we walked over there Gajeel said, "You hang out with Salamander?" He asked with disgust.
Natsu was laughing with Lucy but then frowned and glared at Gajeel, "Of course she does, she's are friend!" He shouted. "What's your excuse?!"
Lucy sighed, "Natsu, it's too early for a shouting match." Her comment fell on deaf ears since Gajeel started to join in on the shouting.
"The shrimp is my friend as of last night! You got a problem with that?" He challenged.
Natsu looked at me then back at Gajeel. He bursts out laughing, "Oh c'mon Levy, couldn't you have found a better friend then him? I mean that's just sad…"
Lucy shook her head at Natsu's antics, "Sorry about him…he can get pretty obnoxious in the mornings if you haven't already guessed."
I shrugged, "It's alright Lu." I sat down next to her and started to eat while we watched Natsu and Gajeel argue.
He grabbed Natsu by the scruff of his shirt and yanked him closer to him while looking at him threateningly, "I'm warning you now Salamander, I'd be careful what you say to me!" He seethed.
Most people would probably looked terrified or at least a little intimidated but Natsu looked amused, "Why would I do that? I'm not afraid of you!" He said loudly, a lot of the kids in the room looked over. Some shouted, "Fight!"
Gajeel was about to take a swing at him then I shouted, "Gajeel don't!" I said right before his fist hit Natsu in the face. His fist froze inches from his face. "Just put him down."
"Why? He's asking for an ass kicking!"
Natsu laughed, "I can't believe you actually listened to her, you don't listen to anyone." I heard Lucy groan while shaking her head, I patted her back reassuringly.
"My boyfriend is an idiot…why can't he just walk away from a fight."
"A real man doesn't walk away from a fight!" I heard someone shout.
"Shut up Elfman!" I heard a girl yell. "I swear if you say that one more time, I'm going to kill you!"
I saw a red haired girl walk over and yell, "Gajeel put him down right now!"
Gajeel looked at the red haired women and yelled back, "Why should I? He is asking for it!"
"Who's that?" I asked Lucy.
"Oh that's Erza, she is the class president. Most of the students are afraid of her because of not only her personality but because she rules the school with an iron fist. She doesn't take crap off of anyone. Word of advice, if she asks you to do something….just do it." I nodded making the note in my head not to piss her off.
"Because I said so." She said while glaring at both of them, "Look I know you two hate each other, but it is not acceptable to being fighting during school hours."
"Fine." He put Natsu down.
"What?! That's it? You're just going to listen to her? Fight me you coward!" Natsu yelled.
"Natsu…" I heard the warning tone in Erza's voice.
"I thought you said everyone is afraid of her…." I said looking at Natsu, while feeling nervous for him.
"No, I said most. Natsu is a special case." Lucy said with a sigh but I saw her lips tug up into a small smile, "There are a few here that aren't."
Cana came over to the table, which I assumed was to watch the show. She took out her flask and took a swig.
"No I want a good fight." I heard Natsu yell.
"Oh trust me Salamander, I'd love nothing more than to beat the ever living crap out of you but its more trouble than your worth." He snapped.
Erza nodded looking satisfied, "If you really feel that strongly about fighting save it for this weekend. It will be perfect timing."
"What does that mean? Perfect timing?" I asked.
Lucy shook her head, "Oh I almost forgot about that. Well the first weekend of the first term starting, we have a paintball war going on during the weekend."
"Paintball war? And the school allows it?"
"Oh yeah, they encourage it. They think it's all in good fun."
"So what are the rules? And what does the winner get?"
"Well there really isn't too many rules. If you get hit once with paint, then you're out. You can team up with no more than three people. The winner's get out of their classes for a whole month, and they don't have to do any homework they miss. You don't have to compete but everyone wants to get out of homework."
That does sound nice, but there is no way I could win something like that.
"Fine with me." I heard Natsu grin.
"Come this weekend your dead, Salamander." Gajeel growled.
Erza looked over at us then narrowed her eyes on Cana, "That better not be alcohol in there." She said glaring at Cana.
"Oh noooo, its apple juice." Cana said as she slurred her words. "Want some? You might feel better." She giggled at that.
She walked over to Cana and snatched the flask out of her hand, then she opened it up and sniffed, "Get up, you and I are going to have a little talk with your father."
"Suuure." Cana said, "I need to talk to my old man about raising my allowance anyways." She stumbled out of her seat and followed Erza out of the dining room.
"Is Cana going to get in trouble?" I asked.
"Nah, Cana's dad will only act disappointed in her in front of Erza then once Erza leaves the room he will probably offer to buy her something. Once she drove her car into the school and crashed, breaking down one of the walls. Later that week he bought her a shiny new car."
"That's insane." I said shocked.
"Tell me about it, if I would have done that my dad might have cut me off or even disowned me. Cana loves her so much but I think he feels guilty for leaving her mother. Once Cana's mother died she went to live with him and ever since then he has done nothing but pamper and cater to her all the time."
"Wow, that's horrible about her mom." I said softly. I couldn't help but think of my parents.
"Well we should get to class." I said abruptly. Lucy looked a little startled but then nodded.
"Yeah let's go." We both got up and headed to the door, I looked at Gajeel and smiled.
"Coming?"
He nodded and walked to class with us.
Author's Note: Well I finally did it, I brought Erza into the story. Thank you again for all the reviews, I love hearing about what you guys think of my story. I hope to keep getting them. Tell me if you have any ideas on what you think should happen next. Next chapter will be on their paintball war, I can't wait to write that one! Tell me if you want to see any characters appear in the next few chapters, I will see what I can do. Thanks again!