After our classes were over, Gajeel and I went back to his room and laid in his bed. He grabbed me and we snuggled and spooned until we fell asleep. It didn't take us long since we were both exhausted. I woke up to a chirping sound on my phone and realized it was dark out now. I grabbed my phone trying to stretch and reach it, it took a few attempts since Gajeel was using me as his own personal teddy bear. I scrolled through a few texts I got and saw that Lucy texted me first.
Lucy: Would you mind lending me your creative writing notes?
I answered her saying yes, then I looked over at my other text. It was from Midnight, I saw he left me over several messages.
Midnight: Hey
Midnight: Hi
Midnight: What are you doing?
Midnight: Are we still on for this weekend?
Midnight: I'm getting worried, where are you? Is Gajeel not letting you talk to me now?
Midnight: If you don't want to be my friend please just tell me now, I'd prefer to know now rather than later.
When I looked through his text messages I was shocked that he had so little trust in me. I told him I wanted to be his friend. Once he sees that I'm not going anywhere then he'll trust me. I looked at the time and realized it was early Saturday morning.
I texted him back quickly so he wouldn't freak out anymore: Of course I still want to be your friend, that hasn't changed. Let's meet up in town around noon and we can all have lunch together.
Midnight replied back quickly.
Midnight: Sounds great kitten, sorry about all those texts I was just worried.
I texted back: Well don't be, okay? I'm here for you if you need anything. Just please promise me you won't be freaking out about me not wanting to be your friend anymore, okay?
Midnight: I'll try, that's a hard one kitten. I don't have a lot of people who care about me.
I felt my heart break at that, I felt like that once my parents died. When they died and I was stuck in my grandparents' house, I had never felt more alone. They can be very cold people, my grandfather barley acknowledges me. Once I came to Fairy Tail Academy and met all my friends, it felt like I belonged somewhere and that I made friends that really care about me. I want the same for Midnight, he deserves someone who cares about him. I hope I can get the rest of the guys to accept Midnight, but if they can't at least he will have me.
Me: I care about you!
Midnight: Really?
Me: Of course
Midnight: I care about you too kitten.
I smiled and text back once more: Good now I'll talk to you later, meet me in the same café we went to in town the other day!
Midnight: See you then kitten.
I smiled and nearly jumped out of my skin when I felt Gajeel kiss my collarbone. I shivered and blushed. "You're up early." I said softly.
"We went to bed pretty early last night shorty, I can only sleep for so long." He mumbled as he kissed up my collarbone to my cheek then finally he stopped at my lips and kissed me again almost roughly. He stopped after a few minutes of kissing me, "So who were you texting that made you smile like that?" He asked sounding generally curious.
"Oh it was just Midnight." I said playing with his long dark hair, "I told him we would meet him up for lunch today."
I saw a dark look cross over Gajeel's face, "Shorty I thought we talked about this…you can't be going off with him alone, you even promised."
I blinked, "Gajeel when I said we…I meant you and me. Plus whoever else wants to come. I'm going to invite Lucy and see if she will invite the others."
He sighed, "How often do you plan to hang out with him…? I would like to know how often I'll have to share you with him…" He was starting to look irritated again, but I couldn't help how adorable he was being. He didn't want to share me. For some reason I found that really cute, not that I would dare say that to his face.
"Um…well I'm not really sure. But don't you worry we will have our time together! You still owe me a date." I said poking him in his chest.
He smirked, "Oh you'll be getting your date shorty. It will be the best one you've ever been on, you better believe that."
I laughed, "Someone is very arrogant this morning."
He shrugged, "Just confidant is all."
I sat up and got out of bed then I felt Lily rubbing up against my legs. I smiled and petted him. I looked back at Gajeel, "Let me go get dressed then we can go down and get something to eat."
He nodded, "That's fine with me."
I left his room for a few minutes to get dressed and when I came out I saw Gajeel in the hallway looking irritated. Did something happen? He walked over to me and handed me my phone, I must have left it in his room. He looked at me, "Let's get one thing straight, I don't like how he talks to you and I don't like how attached you're getting to him shorty." Oh no…he must have read the texts that Midnight left me.
"What do you mean you don't like how he talks to me? How does he talk to me?" I was confused at that.
"Like you're more than just friends." He snapped, "He calls you kitten! You're not a damn cat." He yelled looking truly upset.
"Gajeel it's just a nickname…like the ones you give me." I said softly trying to get him to calm down.
"That's different!"
"How?" I asked.
"Your mine!" He snapped again, "He has no right to call you anything other than your name."
I tried to say it gently not wanting him to get upset with me, "Gajeel…maybe the name isn't the problem…maybe you're just a little jealous." I said.
"Let's get one thing straight shorty. I'm not jealous, I'm territorial. Jealous is when you want something that's not yours. Territorial is protecting what's already yours." I nearly screamed when he scooped me up and threw me over his shoulder, "I see were going to have to have a talk about that with some of the guys here."
"Gajeel put me down!" I said hitting him on his back which basically did nothing. I think telling him he was jealous just lite a fire that shouldn't have been lite. "What are you talking about? What guys?"
"The guys who flirt with you here, they need to know your mine." He said almost cheerfully. My eyes widened, well this could get embarrassing.
"Who flirts with me?!" I yelled.
"Apparently Midnight when I'm not around, and your little fanboys." He said.
"Midnight doesn't flirt with me and neither do Jet and Droy." I yelled even louder. "You need to stop this…I don't' know what you're planning but I don't feel like dealing with it so put me down!"
"Nope and they do flirt with it, you're just too in love with me to realize it. Not that I can blame you." He said shrugging again.
I shook my head, he was being annoyingly arrogant today, "Shut up! And I would know if someone flirts with me!"
He didn't answer me as he carried me into the dining room full of student's who were eating their breakfast. I shook my head realizing I wasn't going to escape whatever he had planned. "Hey listen up!" He yelled, "I want everyone to know that his girl…" He flipped me so that I was in his arms bridal style and everyone could see my face, "is mine and if anyone touches her or even flirts with her, I'll rip you apart with my bare hands." He put me down and grinned at me.
I shook my head feeling my face heat up at the amount of people starring at us. I couldn't believe he would do something like that, I was so embarrassed. I saw Lucy looking at us with her mouth open in shock. Gajeel was staring down Jet and Droy, they quickly looked away and fled the dining room. I sighed and walked away going to get my breakfast while not meeting eye contact with anyone.
Author's Note: Sorry about not updating last night, I couldn't get myself to sit down and write out a chapter, I am happy to announce that I was successful today! Thank you all for you kind reviews, and follows! I always look forward to those, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
