After the car crash incident and me coming clean about my parents to Gajeel, we were closer than ever. It seemed that we do everything together now. I gave up on the fight on sleeping in another bed. Once I tried to sneak out of his room when he was asleep but he just held me down so I couldn't escape. There was no point trying to fight it. He even started to hang out around our table, of course him and Natsu would get into morning fights if Natsu wasn't fighting with Grey. I came back from the bathroom day at lunch and saw Natsu laughing at Gajeel.
"So homecoming is coming up, are you going alone again this year?" Natsu laughed.
I saw a vein in Gajeel's for head tick. Uh oh… "For your information Salamander I already have a date!" He snapped. He does? He never even said anything about it till now…
"Oh yeah, who?"
He pointed at me, "Shrimp is going with me." He said angrily.
I am? "She is?" Almost everyone at the table asked.
He came over to me and put his arm around my shoulder and nodded, "Yeah she is, anyone got a problem with that?" He never even asked me….
I heard a loud sigh come from Juvia, "Oh I wish my dearest Grey would ask me to go to the dance with him."
I saw Grey shake his head, then Lyon came over. "Are you guys talking about homecoming?"
"Yeah." Lucy said smiling.
I sat down with Gajeel at the table as my mind was wandering back to what he said about me going to the dance with him. "Lovely Juvia would you make me the envy of the dance by agreeing to be my date?" He bent down on one knee and took her and kissed it. I saw a look of irritation cross Grey's face, he slapped the back of Lyon's head.
"Oww! What the hell?" Lyon snapped glaring at Grey. Grey glared back at him.
"Didn't you hear? Juvia is going with me." Grey said defensively.
"Oh my god! My dearest Grey has accepted my love proposal!" He jumped in his lap and started to plant small kisses all along his face.
"H-hey…." Grey said.
Meanwhile Lyon looked like a puppy who was just kicked. I couldn't help but feel bad for him, then I saw Jet and Droy come over to me while they pushed each other around trying to get to me first. "Levy!"
"Levy!" I heard them both yell. "Will you go to the dance with me?"
"I…ugh…well you see…" I was trying to find a nice way to tell them no.
Gajeel didn't care about manners, "She isn't going with either of you losers, she's going with me." They both looked sad and hopeless.
"Sorry guys…" I said trying to make them feel better, "Maybe next time." They smiled slightly and walked away.
"Pfff. Next time…yeah right." I heard Gajeel muttered under his breath sounding annoyed.
I got up and pulled on Gajeel's hand trying to get him to stand up, he stood and looked at me curiously. "What?"
"Come take a walk with me." I said pulling him out of the dining room.
He followed me out of the dining room and we walked down the hallway. Finally when I felt like we wouldn't be interrupted I stopped. "Gajeel why did you say we're going to the dance together?"
"Because we are." He said simply.
Now I felt like a vein in my forehead was ticking, "Were you going to ask me, or just demand it." I snapped.
"What's your problem?" I snapped back, "You should be happy I asked you to go with me instead of those two losers."
I was so close to slapping him but that probably wouldn't be the best move since I would probably hurt myself more than him. "Don't call them losers, they are my friends! And you that just the thing you didn't ask me, you told me!"
"What's your point?" He huffed while crossing his large arms.
"My point." I said gritting my teeth, "is that most girls liked to be asked to the dance, not ordered!"
"Fine." He said, "Shorty go to the dance with me?" He said it that it almost sounded like he was asking me.
I sighed, "Fine…I guess that's as good as I'm going to get. Yes Gajeel I'll go with you."
He narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean that's the best you're going to get? That was a great proposal for the dance!"
I nodded while trying not to laugh, "You're right Gajeel, it was great." I decided not to argue with him.
We walked back into the dining room and I noticed that all the girls were at the end of the table. Lucy waved me over and I walked over to them. "What are you guys talking about?" I asked.
"Oh were talking about going to get dresses for the dance? Do you want to come?" Lucy said.
"Sure." I nodded.
4 Hours Later
We walked through some stores until we found this one store that was selling the cutest dresses. Lucy managed to find a dress that actually matched Natsu's hair. It was a beautiful pink dress that had ruffles going down it and the corset of the dress had jewels all around it. It was beautiful and it completely suited her. I found a cute short baby blue dress with a small bow around the waist. Juvia found along dark blue dress with a slit going up her thigh. Cana found a dark red dress that had small diamonds going across the waist. We all found matching shoes to go with it and then we spent another hour getting our nails done, we agreed that before the dance we would all go get our hair done. I wasn't use to this kind of shopping and pampering, but since my grandmother gave me her card I was able to do it.
I got back to my dorm and put away my dress in the back of my closet and nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw Gajeel sitting on my bed while reading one of my books.
"Are you actually reading that?" I asked curiously.
"Nah more like skimming it. Don't you have any books with sex in it?" He asked bluntly. I felt my face turn red.
"N-No you pervert! I don't!" I actually did have some romance novels with some light sex scenes in it but I wasn't telling him that, he might make me read them to him which was not happening.
He chuckled, "I'm just kidding…kinda. So did you find a dress?"
I nodded, "Yeah, I found a nice blue dress." I said.
"Good, I'm sure you'll look good in it." He said gruffly. I felt my cheeks heat up some more. He got off the bed and headed to the door. "Do you want to go down to the dining room for some dinner?"
I nodded again, "Sure." We walked down to the dining hall and when we got down there I saw everyone at the table talking heatedly and some were arguing. I wonder what was going on. When we walked up I heard some people say, "I can't believe he is back, how's that is even possible?"
"Didn't he stab a student last year?" I heard Lucy ask.
"Yeah! He got mad at some kid or they got into an argument and pulled a knife out and just stabbed him right in class." Natsu said.
"But how is he not in jail? And why did they let him back in?" I heard Grey ask.
"Who are we talking about?" Gajeel asked.
"Midnight is back." Natsu said.
"What?" Gajeel nearly yelled, "He can't be, that kid is psycho!"
"Who is Midnight?" I asked.
"A very disturbed kid." Grey said.
"His father must have pulled some strings to get him back in the school." Cana said taking a swig of her flask.
Gajeel grabbed my hand and pulled me away from the others and pulled me into the hallway. "Listen shorty, Midnight is a very messed up kid. Don't go near him, you understand me?"
I nodded, "Trust me I wasn't planning on it."
The way they were talking about this guy made him sound really dangerous, I had no plans to mess with this guy.
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