Letting out a deep sigh, I rested my chin in the palm of my hand, resting my right elbow on gray table. I tried my best to hold in the yawn that was threatening to come out. I barely got any sleep last night, pondering where I've seen Gajeel before and what he has planned for me. I know, I've seen him before, I just know it! But where?

I'm still mad at myself for debating what to wear today. Seriously? Why did I even do that? It's not like I want to look nice for him or anything. Even if I wanted to, I took too long to decide on an outfit and was almost late for class. Letting out another sigh, I looked down at the Fairy Tail University hoodie and dark skinny jeans I quickly put on before bolting out of my room. I took a chance to look extra cute and it failed, oh well. And to make matters worse, on my way out, I saw that dumb Zombie flyer. Warning the students about the 'Zombies' practicing all over campus for the 5k run and not to hurt them. Well, I obviously didn't follow directions.

Looking at the clock, I saw that I had only a few more minutes before I had to meet Gajeel. I really wish I could talk to Lucy, but our class together isn't until 2:30 pm. I'm curious about her conversation with Natsu and about the cat he found. A small smile spread across my lips at the thought of him begging Lucy to keep it and her lecturing him on how we're not allowed to have pets on campus.

"I bet he's going to keep it anyway," I mumbled to myself, staring blankly at the slideshow my professor was showing.

"Hey! Levy!" I heard a familiar voice call out as I walked along the path leading to the main building where the cafeteria was. Stopping in my tracks, turning around, I saw long brown hair flowing and big Gatorade bottle in the brunette's hand.

"Hey, Cana."

"What are you doing tonight?" She asked taking a swig of liquid that I was certain wasn't Gatorade.

"studying most likely,"

"Well you should def' come to my party tonight! Gonna be some fine men there!" she winked, with a huge smile.

"Cana, you know I don't drink and I'm not one for parties,"

"oh! Come on! It's Friday! Loosen up a little!"

"I'll think about it, but I have to be somewhere, so I'll see you later."

"You better! Oh! Wear something sexy too!" she shouted as I walked away from her.

I ducked my head, trying to hide my red face from the people that was staring at me thanks to Cana. And I'm pretty sure I'm late for whatever Gajeel wanted to do. I hope he's not mad at me for being late.

I walked into the main building to see Gajeel standing in a white suit and hat, glancing at his watch.

What the heck? I thought we were getting lunch, not a romantic date to some super fancy and expensive restaurant. I'm clearly not dressed for this! Maybe, I should run back to room to change? Yea, I better hurry before he sees me. As soon as I turned on my heels to walk back out the building, Gajeel called out to me.

"OI! Shrimp! It's about time you got here! It's exactly 1 pm."

"S-sorry, the professor continued to talk past class time and I got stopped by my friend Cana and-"

"I don't care about that. Here put this on." he interrupted shoving a costume in my hands.

I scrunched my eyebrows together in confusion, as I unfolded the garment. Then, fear and shocked swept over me.

"Oh! No! I am not wearing that!" I said shoving the bunny costume back at him.

"You have to! You owe me remember!?"

"But I didn't agree to this! I agreed to lunch!"

"The faster you put this on, the faster you can get lunch!" he demanded shoving the material back towards.

Letting out a shaky breath, I knew that I had to do it. I did owe him, after all, I did scream in his face and pepper spray the poor guy.

"Go put it on in the bathroom and meet me in the Fairy Den. You have 5 minutes" he said before walking away, leaving me to stare at the costume.

"Wait! 5 minutes! Are you kidding me?" I shouted running to the girl's bathroom.

I entered the nearest stall, quickly locking it shut.

"Who is he to boss me around? And only give me 5 minutes to put on this retched thing." I complained as I pulled the stretchy fabric over my thighs and butt.

"You have 5 minutes! The faster you get done, the faster you get lunch." I said in the deepest voice, I could manage mocking the giant of a man.

"Stupid Gajeel! Making me wear this dumb costume and dumb ears." I mumbled placing the ears over the headband I wore. Checking my appearance in the mirror, I made sure I had the costume on correctly, before heading to the Den.

Swallowing hard, I pushed my fear and insecurities down as I pushed open the bathroom door. The Fairy Den was busy as always with students having a break in between classes for lunch. The Subway and Papa Johns had long lines and the den was slightly filled with students sitting at tables and booths enjoying their break before heading to another class.

Slowly, I walked into the Den, but then stopped when I saw a certain blonde wearing the same outfit as me.

"Lu-chan?" I asked approaching her as she stood a few inches away from the little stage that had a drum set, a mic and a stool occupying it.

"Levy! Gajeel told me you were coming! I'm so glad, I'm not they only who has to wear this thing."

"Gajeel told-wait, you know-hold on! Hold on! Why are you even wearing it?" I asked utterly confused as a hundred thoughts and questions ran through my head.

"Because, a certain pink haired idiot begged me too," she sighed moving slightly to the side revealing Natsu, sitting behind the set of drums.

"Yo! Levy!"

"Hey, Natsu. You begged Lucy to do this, huh?"

"Yea, but she agreed only if I don't steal snacks from her room for an entire month." he said slumping his shoulders in sadness. I stifled a giggle at the always hungry Natsu and his defeat. Poor guy, he always tell us that Lucy keeps the best food in her room, and she always retorted that she wish she knew because she never gets a chance to eat them before he does.

"I can finally stop hiding the best food. For now anyway," she whispered, giving me small smile.

"What? You hide the best food from me?!"

"Darn it Natsu! How did you even hear me?" Lucy asked turning to face the shocked boy. At this point, I was losing it, as the two started to bicker back and forth.

"You guys ready?" Gajeel asked as he approached us. Looking at him, I saw that he had what I think was a black bass guitar strapped to his torso. He also didn't look bad in a suit. Really handsome actually….wait a minute levy. You can't compliment this guy after he made you wear this dumb outfit.

"Yea, let's get this over with." Lucy sighed standing on the stage, facing the crowd.

Hold on? Am I going to….dance!?

"Levy, remember that time we made a little dance routine to a bunch of Bruno Mars songs?"

"Y-yes, but I don't think I can do it Lucy! I never danced in front of people before!"

"You'll be fine! Just imagine that we're in my room doing it,"

"I don't think I-"

"I promise if you do this, we can go to that new smoothie place beside the book store tonight." she said smiling at the way my eyes got wide and my ears perked at the promising opportunity of new books and a cold drink.

"Ugh, fine!" I gave in as I walked to the other side of Gajeel, stepping onto the stage.

Looking at Lucy, she shot me a reassuring smile and so did Natsu.

"I can't believe, I'm doing this," I mumbled as Gajeel strummed the strings on his guitar earning the attention of every student and faculty in the Fairy Den.

His deep gruff voice, sung into the mic as Natsu followed the tempo with his drums. He actually didn't have a bad singing voice, it was really rough, but it actually calmed my nerves. I think…I think I can do this, as long as he keep singing. A little smirk appeared on my face as I danced to his music. This is actually fun. Still wish I wasn't in public wearing a bunny costume, but I can push through.

"That song is manly!" I heard what I think was Elfman scream out clapping to the beat.

"Wooo! Levy! Looking good!" Jet called out with a huge smile.

"Yea! Go, levy! Go!" Droy called out from the booth they were sitting in.

I take it back, this horrible. I never want to do this again. My face turned red as I tried to not focus on my childhood friends that cheered me on from their seats. "Guys, please stop," I mumbled trying hold in my embarrassment.

They did three songs total, and it felt like they took forever to finish.

"That was horrifying," I said leaning my head on the wall, completely exhausted from embarrassment.

I was happy to finally have my regular close on again, but I didn't want to go class, right now. I want to crawl into a hole and never come out.

"You did good, Levy!" Lucy said rubbing my back, soothing my tired and very hungry body.

"I never want to do that again. Can we just get food and go back to our rooms?"

"I made the men stand in line for us, since they made us wear those dumb bunny outfits."

"What are they getting?" I asked raising my head from the wall.

"Pizza."

"Good, I'm starving. Let's go sit in the booth and wait," I said moving slowly away from the wall and back into the Den. We sat beside each other, in the booth, waiting for our prize. I kept replaying Elfman yelling, "Manly!" and Jet and Droy cheering me on in my head, causing me to groan and lean my head back against my seat.

"Stop whining shrimp, it was only a few songs," Gajeel said interrupting my thoughts as he placed to two large pizzas in the center of the table.

"A few songs that felt like a lifetime. I refuse to do that again."

"Don't pepper spray me and you won't"

"W-What?" Natsu chocked as he continued to stuff a slice into his mouth.

"N-nothing!" I said lowering my head in shame as I grabbed two slices.

"Tell me! I want to know!"

"The shrimp here pepper sprayed me last night, because she thought I was a zombie,"

"Oh my Mavis! That's great!" Natsu's laughed hysterically, with tears threatening to come down.

"Did you really think he was a zombie? Didn't you see the flyer, telling us it was fake?" Lucy asked confusion written all over her face.

"Y-yea I thought he was real and I didn't see that dumb flyer until this morning!"

"I don't care, if you saw it or not! You still pepper sprayed him! Oh! I wish I could've seen both you guy's faces!"

"Natsu!" Lucy hissed kicking him under the table.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"Stop being rude! It was an accident!"

"Still really, funny." he pouted shoving another slice into his mouth.

I smiled at him, knowing he didn't mean any harm and come to think of it. It is really funny.

"Well, Natsu, you really should've seen his face! He was yelling at me and rubbing his eyes making the burning even worse."

"HA!" Natsu laughed even more, earning a bop to head from Gajeel.

"Hey! Why am I the one getting hit today?"

"Because you're annoying, ash brain!"

"Whatever, metal head! You're just mad, you got token down by a girl more than half your size."

"Thank you, Natsu."

"Ner Pwoblemn Lewvy!" He smiled with two slices stuffed in his mouth.

"What am I going to do with him?" Lucy whispered, face palming herself.

I giggled at my friends as me and Gajeel told them the story from both our point of view. He made it seem like, I was some crazy mad woman out for blood. Which I was not! I was just scared and thought we were seriously under attack. Any one in my situation would've done the same thing! At least I hope so.

"Hey, Gajeel! You want to come with us to the new smoothie place, tonight?" Lucy asked as me, her and Gajeel stood outside. Natsu already ran off to go to his next class, a while ago. He took the last box of pizza with him too, with a slice hanging out of his mouth as he ran out of the Fairy Den.

"Is Levy going to spray me again? If so, I'll pass!"

"One time! It was a mistake! Geez!"

"Gihi! I'm just messin'. Sure, I'll meet you and shrimp there."

"Ok, I'll text Natsu and tell him when we're ready."

"Cool! Seeya bunny girl. Shrimp." He said walking off with his hand raised, waving side to side.

"Bunny girl?"

"At least you're not a shrimp," I sighed as we made our way to our next class. We chatted lightly, before the question that was nagging me before, popped back in to my brain.

"Um? Lu-chan? How do you know Gajeel?"

"uumm-uuuhh!" she stumbled with a horrified look on her face. I noticed that her body started lightly shake at whatever she was remembering.

"What is it, Lu-chan?"

"It's a long story," she said fidgeting with the straps of her tote bag, which sat snug on her shoulder. Ok, now she got me curious. What the heck happened? And why does she look so scared.

"Ok, I'll tell you, but promise not to bring up in front him or Natsu!"

"I promise! I promise! Know tell me how you know him!"

"Well….." she trailed off, looking around us, but then grabbed my shoulder to stop me from walking. She moved her hands around her mouth, then leaned in to whisper in my ear. My eyes got wider and wider as she told me the story.

"HOLY CRAP! I knew I've seen him before…..but….I didn't know….holy crap!" I nearly yelled as my brain slowly pieced the puzzle together. Lucy, slowly nodded her head, as laughter rose in my chest. I burst out into a fit of giggles as Lucy face-palmed again.

"Levyyy!" she whined shaking her head.