I woke up after only getting an hour of sleep and I realized for the first time in a while that I was alone in my room, Gajeel and I had that big fight last night. I felt bad about it but I wasn't going to back down on it because I can't let Gajeel think he gets to tell me who I can and can't be friends with. He doesn't know the whole story of what happened that day to Midnight, he has no reason to hate him so much either. Although I do remember him saying something about their fathers not really getting along; I wonder what is with that.

I shook my head irritated not wanting to think about that right now, I got out of bed and took a quick shower, then went into my closet and put on one of the dresses that my grandmother bought me. I then ran a brush through my messy hair and then put a matching headband in my hair. I slipped on my shoes and when I reached for the door knob and opened it, it was Gajeel leaning on the wall across from my door. I blinked surprised to see him there but he looked exhausted, there were dark circles under his eyes.

"Gajeel…what are you doing?" I asked slowly.

"Making sure you don't do anything stupid." He said crossing his arms. I narrowed my eyes on him and glared.

"Stupid? Being friends with Midnight isn't stupid! What is stupid is you thinking you get to dictate who I get to be friends with." I said nearly stomping my foot.

He growled, "I'm not trying to dictate who your friends are, after all your still friends with salamander aren't you? I'm trying to keep you safe, and you being friends with Midnight won't end well." He walked over to me and backed me into the wall then he placed his hands above my head on the wall while looking down at me. "If I have to stalk you around the school to make sure nothing bad happens to you then I will."

I felt my face flushing, "Gajeel I appreciate your concern but it's not needed, you don't know him." I said softly.

I saw a vein in his forehead twitch then he clenched his jaw, "Oh and you do? You've known him for what, a day or two? I've known this guy since I was a kid, you don't know what you're getting yourself into."

"You might have known him for years but that doesn't mean you know him. Midnight has no friends and I want to be his friend, why can't you just support me on this?"

He shook his head, "I'm never going to support you on that, so you might as well get that out of your head right now but if I try and stop you from hanging out with him you'll only resent me and I don't want that shorty. We just got in this relationship and I don't want to fight over that bastard, so how about a compromise?" He offered.

"A compromise?" I asked curiously.

He nodded, "Yeah women love those." He shrugged, "So if you want to be friends with him so badly I want to come with you when you hang out with him. You have to promise me that you won't go anywhere with him alone."

I smiled and nodded, "I'm sure Midnight will like that, at least he can have two friends now."

"No shorty, I'm not willing to be friends with the guy. Just know that I'm only there because you are, got it?"

I sighed, but nodded. Maybe once Gajeel got to know the real Midnight then he would start to like him. I bet the more time they spend together, the more he will trust Midnight. "Alright Gajeel, you have a deal. Just please try and be nice to him."

"The promise, shrimp. I want to hear you say it."

"Right, okay Gajeel I promise not to go anywhere alone with Midnight."

He nodded, "Good. Look shrimp, I'm sorry for yelling at you last night I just don't like thinking about bad things happening to you...It makes me feel enraged."

I smiled, that was the sweetest thing. "Gajeel, I'm sorry to for yelling at you and not telling you about Midnight. I don't like fighting with you." I reached up on my tippy toes and gave him a soft kiss on the lips, he cupped my cheeks in his hands and eagerly kissed me back. He pulled back while looking at me.

"I don't like fighting with you either, I didn't get any sleep last night because of it. C'mon shrimp you look as tired as I feel, why don't we go get some sleep?" He said kissing my forehead.

"I would love nothing more than that but I can't I have big test in math today…well technically we both have a test in math. You shouldn't miss it."

He grinned, "Why don't you live on the wild side today and ditch classes? We can take a makeup test later." He said.

I shook my head, "No way! But if you want after class we can go take a nap." I said yawing.

He sighed, "Fine have it your way, let's go get this stupid test done with." He grabbed my hand and we walked down the hallway together. We had already missed breakfast and our first class so we walked right to math and made it in before the final bell rang. We sat down at our seats and waited for the teacher to finish taking attendance.

"Levy!" Jet said looking at me with a smile, "I feel like I haven't seen you in a while."

"Oh that's ridiculous Jet, we have class together every day."

"He's right Levy, ever since you started hanging out with Gajeel you haven't had time for us." Droy said softly trying to keep his voice down so Gajeel wouldn't hear him.

My eyes widened, I didn't realize they felt so left out…I haven't really been giving them that much attention. I would have to fix that somehow. "I'm sorry guys, how about this weekend we go out? We can invite everyone, it will be a lot of fun." They nodded looking happy. We stopped talking once the tests were passed around, we were all given an hour and half to finish our test. I only needed twenty minutes to finish mine, this stuff was pretty easy to me.

I pulled out my book and waited for class to be over, but I had to use this bathroom so I excused myself from class and made a run to the bathroom. Once I came out of the bathroom, I saw Midnight walking down the hall. He walked towards me, "Hello kitten." He said.

"Oh hi Midnight." I said. Oh jeez I was already kinda breaking Gajeel's promise of not being alone with him, but this isn't really my fault.

"How are you feeling? Did Gajeel hurt you? I was so worried about you last night." He said placing his hand on my cheek.

"Gajeel? Gajeel would never hurt me!" I said. "He was just concerned about me."

"Worried? He looked like he was planning to beat my ass and then yours, is that what you would call concern? Levy I'm a little worried about your relationship with him, he seems like an abusive guy."

I sighed, "I want you to listen to me very closely Midnight, Gajeel would never ever hurt me. The whole thing that happened last year with you has him on edge, he is just protective. If you want to be my friend Midnight then you have to accept that. When we hang out, Gajeel wants to come with us."

Midnight looked beyond frustrated and angry, "Because he doesn't trust me, right?" He spat. "But fine if he wants to come I don't have a problem with that." He said shrugging, "I'm just concerned for you sweetheart, I'm just trying to look out for you."

I hugged him, "Midnight, not everyone is a bad person. I promise you once you get to know Gajeel, you'll see he is very kind and a good person. I bet you guys will become good friends too." He hugged me back squeezing me tightly while stroking my hair which I found a little odd but decided not to comment on it.

"I hope so, that would be nice." I stepped away from and smiled.

"I have to get back to class but text me tomorrow and we can all hang out." I walked away and let out a breath of relief. That went better than I thought it would, and I was alone with him and nothing even happened. Once Gajeel and Midnight let go of the past I'm sure they'll be great friends.