A/N This was started years ago and has been up on A03 for a long time. I figured it was time to bring it here. Hope everyone enjoys.

Desna

Earthland was host to a wide array of diverse peoples, societies and cultures. In general they traded, worked and handled each other pretty well. Kids were raised, went through some pretty decent school systems and as young adults on the cusp of reaching for the brass ring of adult life in its entirety, a lot went to college.

Lucy had spent a great deal of time trying to figure out where she was going to go for her "Higher" education, she had ambitions, hopes, dreams and she really badly needed to culture and refine her raw talents in writing so it could blossom into a paycheck.

After some dreamy eyed wistful looking at places like the University of Capressa in Minstrel or Baunbauers School of the Arts in Stella, ultimately it was finances that made her decision for her. Fiore University had a very good English and writing program with a well respected journalism department and she got the residential native prices to attend.

She'd graduated from High School with honors, and had scholarships, and Fiore University would work, her housing, books and a nice chunk of her expenses would be covered and if she got a part time job, she'd be down right comfortable.

Yes she would have to live on campus, but, having two deceased parents and no family of her own to turn to, it just made sense to take what she could make work the best.

Orientation week had been an eye opener, but she'd met some fun people and had always been pretty outgoing. She had the advantage of some friends already attending Fiore U too. Her sort of kind of adoptive big brother Laxus, whose grandfather had taken Lucy in when her parents had died was a Junior studying Electrical Engineering there. He of course wasn't around when she came for Freshman orientation week but when he did arrive and she got the text that he was moving into his dorm room she grabbed her room mate, Levy McGarden by the hand and grinning, drug her along to go help her big brother move into the mens dorm across campus.

"Lu! I really need to finish that chapter!" Levy protested, adjusting her slightly skewed headband so her unruly blue locks wouldn't blind her. Lucy gave her an utterly unrepentant look. "Classes don't start until next week Levy and you're already most of the way through that Ancient Scripts textbook!" Lucy chuckled at her new friend. Levy just puffed her cheeks out and held her chin high. "Yeah well, I like being ready!" She retorted then her hazel eyes widened as they rounded the Sciences building and the mens dorm came into view.

The upperclassmen were all moving in now and Lucys eyes scanned the driveway in front of the building and the parking lot to the side for her "brothers" car, he had a 76 GTO, his "baby" Laxus always referred to as his first love. She spotted it and grinned, seeing the trunk open and Laxus standing with Bickslow, who she recognized easily since the two had been friends for as long as Lucy had known Laxus.

She did not however, recognize the man currently hefting one of Laxus' bags. He looked nearly as tall as Bickslow and Bickslow was taller than Laxus who Lucy knew stood 6'3". "Uh..Lu…." Levy was slowing while Lucy was itching to bust into a run so she could hug her brother. She gave Levy an eyeroll and grabbed the girls hand "Come ON Lev! That's him by the black car, the one with the short blonde hair is my brother Laxus!" Lucy grinned then as they got closer she waved when Laxus looked up from pulling a tote from the backseat of his car "LAXUS!" She half screamed. Laxus, Bickslow and the tall guy with the long platinum colored hair all looked her way and Laxus set the tote down grinning.

"Lucy!..." He turned and slapped the other blondes arm who turned a little to look at the two approaching women. "Kaleb, this is my little sister Lucy and...uh…" He eyed Lucy expectantly and she grinned, slapping Levys back "This is Levy McGarden, my friend and roomate!" Lucy declared with a big smile.

"Ah, nice to meet you Levy, This is my buddy Bickslow and his older brother Kaleb, Fiore U has the privilege of having all SIX of the Pradesh brothers attending at once since Vander is a freshman this year too." Laxus chuckled, Kaleb and Bickslow exchanged eyerolls.

"Bix!" A shout from their left had everyone turning and Lucy felt Levys fingers tighten around hers, the young woman was shy and decidedly awkward in social situations, she'd been about miserable during a lot of the games they had played during orientation week. There had been a couple of big time people among the few hundred freshman though that had really stood out, made friends easily and seemed to gather people to them.

One was Lucy, who had always been an upbeat bright and happy person, the other was the young man jogging up to them. Tall, with red streaked black hair and wine colored eyes, Vander. Not a girl Lucy had met wasn't already fawning over the charming, bold, flirty young Kinesiology major.

"Little bro! Just in time to help us get our shit moved in!" Bickslow grinned. Levy was aghast at the whole situation then, she had planned to spend the day holed up in their dorm room, reading and taking notes going through her nice stack of text books so she was well prepared for the following week when classes started.

Orientation had been a nightmare, she'd met Lucy, and through Lucy dozens of other first year students, several of which she really did like, but, she had watched Vander Pradesh, the flirty man was good looking...extremely so, there was no arguing that, and fun and she'd be lying if she said the couple of activities she'd been forced into that had included him weren't more fun because he was there, but just about every girl in the whole damn class wanted him.

"So Lucy...wait...what are you doing hanging around these loosers?" Vander asked, giving Lucy a bright grin.

Laxus swept an arm around the younger mans neck and hauled him away from his sister ruffling his black locks "That is my little sister Van, I've told you about her and also warned you if you fuck with her I'm ending you." Laxus growled as the younger man twisted out of his hold and spun gracefully out of his reach. Before he'd even stopped he'd already shoved a hand through his disheveled wavy locks and set them right, it was as if Vander wasn't capable of looking less than gorgeous.

"Ok! Shit really? You're the Blonde Oxs little sister? Well damn obvious where all the good looks in the family went since they all missed Laxus…" He quipped. Laxus took a swipe at him but Vander dodged, agily moving behind the two women and puting an arm around each, his head between theirs.

"Laxus' grandfather adopted me Van, and quit that, Laxus is as much of a lady killer as you are!" Lucy laughed.

"Lady killer?! Me? Pfft, I'm just out for fun Bambi, you and Baby Blue here should know that by now. " He hugged them both into him and Levy blushed while Lucy elbowed him in the side.

He didn't let go though, hugging them both tighter "Oh it's like that huh?!" He grinned and his hands somehow had moved to their waists and both women squealed when he started seeking ticklish spots.

The grinning man was abruptly stopped though when he whirled to get a better grip on Levy and a thickly muscled arm shot between them.

"Yeah that's about enough of that, shit Van, I let you loose and you start molesting women first thing." A deep voice said mildly and Levy jerked her head around to look right into a wall of dark blue tank top stretched over a heavily muscled chest. Her eyes widened as they moved up to find long black hair hanging over broad shoulder and the darkest blue eyes she'd ever seen in her life narrowed and fixed on Vander.

"Cris! Where's your truck man?" Bickslow called. The big man straightened, shoving Vander back from Levy and looking up. "Right over there, I've got you and Kalebs shit in with mine, Farrons parked right by me and has the rest, we unloading Laxus first though?" He asked.

Levy was truly gaping, mouth hanging open slightly eyes unable to stop wandering over the big muscular man. He was...gorgeous, taller than Vander, as tall as the regal looking blonde who was still holding the big heavy gym bag by the car.

"Yeah so lets get moving, with all of us this shouldn't take long, OH! The Blonde there is Laxus' little sister Lucy and the pretty thing you just saved from Vander is her roomate Levy." Bickslow said and Levy was suddenly under those dark blue eyes. Gods above they even had little flecks of silver in them, the man had eyes like a night sky. She blushed, between Bickslows compliment and the big raven haired man looking at her she felt her face getting hot.

He smiled at her "Nice to meet you Levy, don't mind Van, he's just a lecherous party boy." He said.

"Hey! I am NOT a party boy...all the time anyway." Vander objected.

"Doesn't bother to deny the lecherous part, notice that?" Cristoff chuckled with a wink.

"So lets get you guys settled in! Maybe we can all grab lunch together after?" Lucy said brightly, hurrying forward to hug her brother before he could fill his arms with things.

"Good plan, all we bothered with this morning was coffee so I'm starving already." Cristoff said, a hand reaching down to Levys waist to guide her forward with him, he only brought her a few steps before releasing her and moving to help pull a couple big cases from Laxus' trunk and Levy watched wide eyed as muscle bunched and flexed, Gods he was in a skin tight dark blue tank top and black cargo shorts that reached mid thigh, by the looks of him he'd never missed a leg day in his life...or any other day for that matter.

"You're drooling Levy." Lucy whispered in her ear and Levy jerked, horrified at being caught, she'd just...well, outside of books and magazines she'd never seen men like these, God even Lucys brother was built like an Adonis.

"I..uh...I was just…" She stammered, Lucy handed her a lamp and a light smaller duffle bag "Follow Laxus and me." She chuckled, shouldering a couple back packs and heading after her tall blonde brother.

They spent the next three hours unloading Laxus' car then Cristoffs pickup and Farrons car, Levy got to meet Farron, a senior Political Science major who, like all of Bickslows other brothers...was stunning, with shoulder length dark blonde hair and sky blue eyes. Their other brother Zen wasn't hard to look at either, purple eyes and mahogany hair streaked with gold, he was a junior like Kaleb, Bickslow and Cristoff were both Sophomores like Laxus and then Vander a freshman.

In three hours, Levy went from having never had a male friend in her life because she was shy around boys, to being hugged and teased and treated like a princess by 7 of the most attractive men she'd ever laid eyes on. It didn't end there either, Lucy had made friends with a pink haired boy named Natsu their first day of Orientation, Natsu was studying to become a Firefighter. And Natsu showed up dragging Gray, an art sophomore and Gajeel a Criminal Science Sophomore along and that made 10, 10 good looking men surrounding her and Lucy as they made their way to the schools Student center to grab lunch together once the vehicles were emptied and everyone was settled into their rooms.

Levy sort of drifted through lunch in a state of semi-shock. She saw plenty of women go by where they had pushed tables together and give her and Lucy plenty of envious looks as the men they were with laughed and teased and decimated 14 large pizzas.

There was one thing Levy learned that day. The Pradesh brothers were all, every damn one of them, panty soaking gorgeous, even her shy quiet self was, more than once, left clenching her thighs together, especially when Cristoff did just about anything. The man had a rich voice, easy smile and he was just built. They had him, Laxus, Kaleb, Gajeel and Zen, five men out of the ten that looked like they could break a toyota in half over their knee.

She learned Cristoff was studying medicine and astronomy, was a sophomore. Kaleb was a business major with a minor in Civil Engineering. Zen was a Cultural history major and happily told her if she needed help in a couple of her classes he'd already been through them, knew the professors and would be glad to help.

It ended up being one of the most busy, crazy days the little bookworm had ever had, ending in an impromptu game of tag football in the main courtyard that somehow, Levy was dragged into participating in. It wasn't exactly easy either, she was neither fast nor could she get past some of the large men they were playing with, she did however end up on the same team as Laxus, Vander and Cristoff. Laxus, for his size was really fast and Vander was both fast and agile as hell able to outrun anyone but Bickslow.

The game drew a crowd too and when Levy was allowed to go to the sidelines and let someone else take her place on the field she and Lucys next door neighbor Cana was right at her side.

"Ok, so, how the heck did you meet these guys Levs?" She demanded, eyes locked on the field. Levy shrugged, she'd known Cana all through middle and high school, the young woman was studying sports training and had chosen her major specifically because she'd be able to get her hands on the schools athletes. Cana had always had one boyfriend or another and was always looking for her next roll in the sheets.

She also knew Levy well enough to know her little bookish friend wouldn't have walked up to any of the good looking guys she was currently playing football with...or that Levy would ever think of playing tag football in the first place.

"My roomate, Lucy, that big guy with the short blonde hair is her older brother and most of these guys are his friends...or...well, brothers of his friend...yeah because they said Bickslow...thats the tallest one with the blue and black hair? He and Laxus have been friends for a long time and five of these guys are his brothers, Vander, Cristoff, Kaleb Zen and Farron…" She pointed out the men that went with each name as she listed them off and Canas smile turned predatory.

When Farron came off the field, dropping down near Levys feet and snatching up a water bottle from the cooler one of them had brought out Cana elbowed her and Levy gave her friend a sharp frown but caught Farrons eye "Farron this is my friend Cana, Cana this is Farron Pradesh." She introduced. Farron stood and extended a hand "Cana, nice to meet you, you want to join us? We could use one more since a certain young lady keeps diving off the field on us." He winked at Levy who blushed and Cana grinned "Love to! Am I on your team?"

Levy almost rolled her eyes at Cana seductive tone but kept herself from doing it, gratefully sitting down and letting Cana take her place.

The game went until it was almost time for dinner and everyone headed off to grab showers, loosely agreeing to meet up in the student center again for dinner at 7.

When Levy climbed out of the shower, grateful there had been enough hot water she found Lucy still wrapped in a towel fixing her nailpolish on her toes.

"So what did you think of everyone?" Lucy asked, not looking up from her task. Levy pressed her lips together, think? How could she even string two thoughts together with men who looked like they could be the centerfold in playgirl running around playing football, occasionally grabbing her hips, touching her, or protecting her when she was unlucky enough to end up with the ball.

Cristoff...dear Gods...she'd never seen anyone like him, his eyes alone melted her brain out of her head.

"They seemed nice." She managed lamely, pulling on some underwear and hiding in her walk in closet, the dorm rooms for the freshmen weren't bad here, large common room with full sized beds and good sized desks, ample shelving for books a decently sized bathroom and two walk in closets.

"Good! I've never met Bixys brothers before...I liked them." Lucy said and her tone made Levys eyes narrow and she came out of the closet pulling her yellow dress into place over her head to eye her roomate suspiciously. That Lucy was still intently polishing her toes heightened Levys serious suspicions.

"Any one in particular you liked best?" She asked pointedly. Lucy pressed her lips together and while Levy had only known her for a short time? She knew and smiled "Which one?...I...I kinda liked...Cristoff." She admitted, hoping that would open up Lucy. Her roomates eyes flew up wide on her "Really? Oh my God Levy he's so sweet too! I...yeah I was kinda impressed with Kaleb...Farron too, I dunno, I thought they were both so…" She hesitated, searching for a word.

"Gorgeous? Sexy? Tall...Gods what aren't they?" Levy laughed. Lucy laughed with her, blushing in spite of herself. The brothers had been kind of overwhelming. Bickslow had always struck her as a really good looking guy and she'd known he was from a big family, his father had adopted several children when he was young including Bickslow. She hadn't known his brothers were all as good looking as he was though.

She hadn't expected to get quite so...taken by them either, especially by Kaleb and Farron...Kaleb was soft spoken, and patient with his brothers, though he didn't let them walk on him by any means, a Business major with a minor in civil engineering. Bix said he had a 4.0 too, was cruising on scholarships and worked nearby for the city part time.

Farron was just smooth, everything about the man was refined, calm and intellectual, though he'd definitely held his own on the football field earlier and looked pretty amazing in track shirts and a t-shirt.

They were both...mature, neither seemed to have an boyishness to them which Lucy found incredibly attractive. That her brother liked them both just added to it, though she knew if she showed an interest in either of them Laxus' "like" would go down a good bit, he'd always been protective of her.

"Well, get dressed Lu, I'm sure not going to meet all those guys without you." Levy said and Lucy smiled "Maybe we can work it so you're sitting next to Cristoff?" She teased and Levy smiled back at her through her blush "Or get you between Farron and Kaleb?" she teased right back and they both laughed while Lucy started going through her closet looking for something to wear.

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School started the following week and everyone dove into their classes with a mixture of determination, excitement and dread. Lucy had signed up for an art class and was surprised she had Kaleb in it with her, she had him in three of her classes, creative writing and computer art. Then she had Bickslow, Laxus friend Freed and Laxus along with Kaleb in her Business writing class.

She was overall really happy with her classes and by the end of the third week facing her first project in her art class, but...she had maneuvered herself so she was sitting near Kaleb, she hadn't been able to sit next to him, nope, when she'd walked in the first day the tall handsome blonde was already surrounded by smiling girls so Lucy had just dropped down in a spot two over from him and waved.

It was Kaleb who made the effort to talk to her, pointedly getting up after class the first day and walking out with her asking if she wanted to partner up with him on the first project when it came.

"What about your fan club?" Lucy had smiled nodding toward the girls who were glaring at her. Kaleb hadn't even looked at them smiling at her "Funny, I'd rather work with somebody who will work and not sit batting their eyes at me and trying to get me to ask them on a date. I want an A out of this class." He chuckled. So she was meeting Kaleb after her creative writing class on a bright and warm Friday morning to go over what they wanted to do for their project.

As she crossed the quad though she bit her lip seeing Cana approaching. She liked Cana, but the woman was way too into chasing guys for her, had already, two weeks into the semester, missed a Monday class because she'd been out drinking Sunday, had gone home with some guy and overslept.

"LU!" Lucy winced when Cana came running over to her. "Where you heading girl? I was about to grab Levs and maybe hit up the burger joint off campus." Cana grinned at her and Lucy smiled "I'd love to but I haven't settled in yet and have to watch my pennies until I can sort out some sort of work study or part time job ya know? Besides, I have to meet my art partner, we're getting started on our first project for the semester." She said, trying to sound as bored as possible with the whole thing even though her stomach was in absolute knots knowing she was heading to spend time alone with Kaleb.

"Oh ick...you have fun with that. Glad none of my classes have any crap like that starting already. Want us to bring you back something? My treat?" Cana offered. Lucy grinned at her "Strawberry milkshake woman! You know it's my weakness!" She responded. "If I'm not back at the room by the time you guys get back just stick it in the mini fridge."

Cana smiled "You got it!" She said and headed for the parking lot. Lucy waited until she was a little ways off and then hurried to the student center. The University student center was a nice one, not that Lucy had any to compare it to. It had a variety of little restaurants the students could choose from for their meals and Lucy had a nice meal plan and card loaded by Makarov to use for snacks and her mandatory late night coffee when studying. She had one of those single serving coffee makers Laxus had gotten her for Christmas, laughing about her addiction to coffee but it wasn't the same as a huge latte from the coffee shop in the student center.

When she walked in she looked around, spotting Laxus sitting with Bickslow in the coffee shop and ducking her head to hurry by hoping he wouldn't see her. She almost kicked herself for doing it, if he DID spot her doing that he'd get suspicious and besides, she had nothing to hide, she was just meeting Kaleb to work on a class project!

They were meeting what was called the Study Shack, it served health food and had a double door entrance to the schools large fitness center. It also had big tables Kaleb had been in a weight lifting class while she'd been in her writing class. He was easy to spot sitting at a booth with his laptop set up, long silvery blonde hair pulled back off his face held in a low tail wearing a black track suit though the jacket was on the back of the booth, no...he couldn't be wearing that, no, he had to be in a tight black muscle shirt that hugged each bulging muscle and left his thick tanned arms bare.

He looked up when she got close and smiled, standing "Great! Wasn't sure you'd make it past your brother, He and Bix had me shut down for a bit so I just got in here." He chuckled. Lucy smiled "Oh? I saw them but they were all engrossed talking about something so I figured I'd catch them later." She said with a wave and Kaleb narrowed his eyes doubtfully, Gods he had beautiful eyes…

"Uh huh, you used some sort of ninja skills to get past em is what you did. Either way, have a seat, I was pulling up some references, the Professor says he wants us to do something inspired by a famous artist, stick to a certain style, so I was looking over some of the big names to see what we could translate over to the computer medium well." Kaleb smiled at her and her chest tightened as he did.

Yep...she was a goner...it was official, her panties were ruined and she knew she was going to be daydreaming about him more than she already had been now.

They went through artists, settling on Monet because mixed color palettes especially softer pastels were harder to do so Kaleb was hoping that would generate a better grade. Lucy would, because she was better at it, sketch out the basics of the image and Kaleb would do the color work, they would share the detail work. Once it was all decided Kaleb shut down his laptop and put it back in it's bag "Ok, I've got to get changed for an ROTC meeting, here's my email, oh! And my phone number, want to meet up for dinner? I'll have Cris and Zen in tow since we're all in ROTC but your brother and the guy with all the piercings...Gajeel?" He asked looking at her for confirmation and she was nodding, smiling up at him.

"Gajeel, yeah they're all meeting over at Barnabys off campus, it's just across the street from the admin building, we're doing wings and beer I think and if your brother didn't already invite you I am, bring whoever you want, we're gonna shoot some pool and such." He said, getting to his feet and shouldering his laptop bag. Lucy was almost grinning, she knew it wasn't, that he was just making sure she knew about what everyone was doing tonight, but it almost felt like he was asking her out.

"Sounds like fun." she said brightly. Kaleb smiled "It will be, so is that a yes?" He asked and even knowing it wasn't a date she still was all full of butterflies when she nodded. Then Kaleb stunned her, leaning in and kissing her cheek "See you there then, round 6." He said softly and before she could gather her instantly utterly scattered wits, the tall blonde was making his way from the restaurant. She watched him leave, eyes wide, fingers reaching up to touch her cheek where he'd just kissed her but she felt eyes on her, glancing around she saw a couple of the girls from their class glaring daggers at her as they walked by.

"Little freshy tramp…" One of them snarled and Lucy looked away, gathering her things and hurrying out a different door from the one Kaleb had taken, the one those two girls were following him through. Once she was outside the discomfort of the hate vibes from the jealous girls was shed under the bright September sun and Lucy grinned, touching her cheek. "He kissed me…" she whispered and almost squealed, hurrying toward the dorms and hoping Levy was there so she had someone to talk to about what had happened.

Kaleb, heading the opposite direction of the little blonde was frowning, what the hell had he done that for? He'd kissed her! Right on the cheek, his impulse had been to kiss that pretty little pink mouth of hers but he'd managed to detour his wandering lips and just kiss her cheek, still, what the hell?!

She was a Freshman, 19 according to Laxus, granted he was only 21 himself but still, he was a junior she was a freshman. Still, that pouty little mouth of hers, those gorgeous doe eyes...he shook his thoughts, he was acting like a high school student not a third year double majored adult. He had responsibilities, he wasn't fucking Vander for Gods sake, yes, they were Boscan, and their culture was much much more relaxed than Fiores but they had all agreed Fiores University offered the best for each of them and their father had even gone and bought a house in Crocus to be close to all of his sons and taken the assignment in the Boscan Embassy in Crocus even though with his reputation and prestigious career he could have remained at the capital in Bosco.

Gods their sister Emzadi would likely come to Fiore University next year. He had to behave himself, Vander was bad enough for all of them, add in Bickslow and Cristoffs propensity for having women fall in love with him at the drop of a hat and Kaleb Zen and Farron were about required to walk straight lines so their father didn't go insane.

Still...Lucy Dreyar was beautiful, smart, witty...he'd love nothing more than to kiss that plump pink mouth and feel those ample curves against his body...he'd not been on a date in a couple of months, spent the summer with an ROTC detail then working for the citys planning office. He'd ended things with his last girlfriend, Minerva was just too...mean. The woman was brilliant and very beautiful, but she had a mean streak a mile wide and Kaleb just couldn't deal with how she treated people anymore.

He wanted someone sweet this time, friendly, somebody who genuinely liked other people and wasn't just a self centered bitch that had to have a boyfriend she thought looked good on her arm. Lucy was...all of that and so much more, he knew he was barely scratching the surface of a complex girl and hadn't been disappointed to learn he had so many classes with her this semester. Their art class lasted the whole year too so he'd get time with the pretty little blonde.

It just felt...wrong somehow though, she was a Freshman… He shook his head, realizing he was almost to the dorm now.

"Kaleb!" He heard a feminine voice call and turned, wondering if Lucy might have forgotten something and almost rolled his eyes seeing Claire and Dina, two of his ex-girlfriends buddies. Minerva didn't attend Fiore University, no, she went to school in Minstrel now, had started her graduate studies, but Claire and Dina were friends of hers and when he'd broken up with Minerva, Claire had come after him great guns to the point she'd ended up in a fight with Minerva last year over it. He'd thankfully not been around when it had happened but Farron had been there and seen the whole thing unfold. He'd been TRYING to avoid the pair but Claire was in the art class he had with Lucy.

"Claire, Dina, I need to get changed, have a meeting in less than an hour, what's up?" He asked.

"You busy tonight? I have VIP passes to Tech Street, they have a great band playing this weekend." Claire was all smiles, and pretty, no denying that, but the lovely brunette was as nasty as Minerva, just less intelligent and less good at hiding it. She slid a hand up his arm and started to step closer to him but Kaleb shook her off "Busy, sorry, going out with my brothers tonight. Really Claire...I dont want to start the year off like this, I'm not interested, you know that and I've told you why. I need to get going." He said starting to turn.

"But you have time for the little blonde whore huh? The one who wears all the skimpy clothes, I saw you two in the student center. You fishing freshman Kaleb? What's wrong, grown women too much for you?" She snapped.

Kaleb narrowed his eyes, nasty, the woman was just toxic. He gave her a tired look "That's pretty pathetic even for you Claire, she's just my project partner and the little sister of a friend of mine. Shit...find somebody else to bother would you?" He sighed and turned on his heel heading into the dorm.

"Guess I'll just talk to her then…" Claire snarled and that stopped him, Kaleb turned back, marching right to her so fast his eyes flashing dangerously Claire took a step back, fear flashing across her face as he towered over her.

"You won't bother that girl Claire, she's Laxus Dreyars little sister and unless you want trouble with him as well as me and my brothers, you leave her the fuck alone you hear me?" He growled low and quiet and she nodded, blinking rapidly. Kaleb turned his hard glare on Dina "You better check your friend Dina, she seems to think big boys like me are pushovers she can bully around. You two stay away from Lucy Dreyar, I hear you've said a damn word to her and you'll regret it." He snarled, then turned on his heel and went back into the dorm.

Dating Minerva had seemed like such a good thing, she was so beautiful and intelligent, she'd been fun, engaging, great in bed too if a little demanding but he hadn't minded that too much, but her and her nasty friends...once he'd gotten to really know them he'd not been able to get away from them all fast enough and for some reason, Claire had decided that since Minerva was out of the running, she could convince Kaleb he wanted her instead.

He'd turned her down flat more than a dozen times now. Farron and Cristoff had too, she had this idea she was going to land one of them. He'd already warned Vander about it and hoped his youngest brother had the sense to stay away from the beautiful but nasty women.

Lucy was nothing like them...she was just too young...well, not really...but she was just starting school and he was already in his third year, sure he still had his graduate studies after he completed his bachelors but still...and shit, he didn't even know if she was interested anyway, he was just one of her brothers many friends...