Title: You care for me

Prompt: Dear person I like

Characters: Levy McGarden, (Gajeel Redfox)

Setting: Post Tenrou, Pre-GMG

Rating: T

Word count: 548

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Levy marched into her room with heavy footsteps, carelessly kicking off her sandals and flinging her small sling bag to the couch. She headed straight to her reading table where she earlier left a book unfinished.

She flipped through the pages for a few minutes before deciding that she cannot possibly concentrate enough to understand what she's reading. An odd thing to admit for a bookworm like her, but her mind is troubled.

She lazily scanned her surroundings until her ink pen caught her attention. That's right, she should write. Writing down her thoughts often helps her out of these rare but totally frustrating and confusing moments.

What should she write, though? Levy thought for a moment about the person who's plaguing her mind. She was feeling dejected just now because this certain dragonslayer rejected her request to join their training for the upcoming Grand Magic Games.

There are still things she can't say directly to him, and it frustrates her more.

Yes, she thought as she took a sheet of paper and prepared the ink, a letter for that person.

For privacy measures, she decided it is best not to mention names; her friends frequently pay a surprise visit, you never know.

She wrote:

Dear Person I Like,

I like you. There. I finally let that out.

I can't tell exactly when I started feeling like this towards you. Maybe around the time my fear of you dissipated. Maybe even earlier, when you saved me… maybe when you offered to be my partner for the S-class exam and promised to make me big. Or maybe when we fought together. But I'm certain that I like you now.

I don't know for sure if you like me the same way.

But you know what? Even though you confuse me with your gruff actions, I know for sure that you care. Even though you frustrate me at times with your penchant for fighting, I can see that you give importance to me too.

When you flat-out rejected my request to join you train, it made me think that you just don't want me around. But no, I realize now that no matter how you try to deny it, you like being around me. (I like being around you, too.)

Now that I think about it, I realize that you're not rejecting my presence; you're just being protective of me. Not because you think I'm weak, but because you don't want to accidentally hurt me while training.

I'll choose to appreciate the underlying reason in that— that you care for me.

You don't have to admit it nor deny it. I know that now, and for that, I think I like you even more.

Levy

The solid script mage sighed contently at her letter. Writing the words down did help her sort her thoughts and she instantly felt better.

Levy knew that she won't give this letter to the supposed recipient, but liked it enough to keep it. So she folded the letter neatly and placed it in the secret pocket of her winter coat.

Now feeling like her usual, cheerful self, she grabbed her bag and threw on her sandals, happily hopping outside. She can always just ask to join Lucy and her team mates and train with them.

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fin

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Thanks for reading!

This was requested by letsembracethemadness on Tumblr.