Races for Love- A GaLe Lemon

Levy's Rooting for Redfox

~3 Week Time Skip~

~Gajeel's POV~

   3 weeks of waiting, building and giving two of my classmates dirty looks led up to tonight. I was unbelievably nervous, the school day had droned on at an excruciating pace but it was finally time that I headed to the race location.

~Time Skip~

"Good luck, Gajeel!" Levy smiled up at me.

"Pfft! I won't need it!" I sounded more confident than I was feeling.

   I had taken on Natsu, granted he gets extremely nauseous when racing and Gray, who spends his life challenging Natsu to races. I was one of Fairy Tails's best racers, I could beat Speedy and Chubby any day, right?

   So many cliché thoughts went through my mind. 'My entire life had led up to this moment' or 'it's go big or go home' and even 'my stomach was like a jar of manic butterflies,' they all described how I felt.

   Although I had drove my newly made vehicle around the streets, I had never went over 60. This car was either going to drive like a dream or crash and burn, a 50/50 chance.

   I'm so fucked! If one of those two pussies win, I'll be laughed out of the school and I would have one of those two bafoons all over Levy. No! That ain't gonna happen!

"I'm rooting for you, Gajeel!" Levy whispered as if Jet and Droy could hear us.

   I couldn't help myself as I snaked my arms around her. She let out a squeak but stopped tensing her body after a second. My face was then in front of hers, her cheeks tinted pink, my desire to make her mine was growing.

   So... Close! I can't though, she ain't mine! Yet! She will be! I promise you Levy McGarden, you will belong to me!

   I pulled myself back, putting a chain on the hunger inside me. My arms fell to my side and I turned in the other direction, I had a race to win.

"Gajeel! Wait!" Her small hands grabbed at my wrist. "I-I... I... I-I l-lo..."

"You what?" I felt my legs grow weak, to the point where I could barely stand.

"I... Uh? I-left my light on!"

"Oh..." My heart sank, I was such an idiot.

"YOU BETTER WIN!" She screamed, waving her arms around in the air like a mad woman.

"I will. Gi hi!"

~Levy's POV~

FWAHHHHH!

   I felt my weight lift off of my feet, a blindfold was on my eyes and a gag in my mouth. What was going on.

   It wasn't even a minute later that I was sat in a chair, the noise of shoes pattering around me.

"Okay, take it off, Lucy!" I knew that voice.

   I felt the fabric gag loosen and fall around my neck. My heartbeat was rapid and my mind was buzzing.

"Erza, is that you?" I gagged.

"Yes, we are here because of Lucy's wish," she explained.

"We?" I gasped, the blindfold took off of my eyes.

   I was sat in the middle of one of the hangars, the race location being the abandoned air strip on the outskirts of town, with a pile of my female friends.

"Hey!" Lucy squealed. "Just sit still, okay?" With that brief explanation the blindfold was placed back on my eyes.

   Hands were roaming my body, ripping off my clothes, trying on new items, bristles were tickling my face and neck, brushes and combs trying to scratch my scalp, I could barely breathe over the smell of hairspray, perfume and burnt hair.

   Eventually I had the blindfold took off me again, a mirror in front of me. I was dolled up... Sort of. An orange crop top, black micro-mini, a pair of black boots encasing my legs all the way up my thighs, my hair straightened and slightly curled at the ends, my face no longer bland with black smokey eyes and my lips a coral shade, I looked... different.

"Cute, right?" Lucy chipped in.

"I..." I was speechless, I knew I looked good but I didn't like showing this much skin. "Can I put on some jeans? My ass is hanging out the piece of fabric you call a skirt!" I stood, hands covering my exposed ass cheeks, the black thong Lucy had forced me to put on did not help.

"Nope!"

"Fine!" I snatched my hairband from Juvia and placed it in my hair.

"Levy better stay way from Gray-sama! Juvia cannot deal with another love rival!" She scared me sometimes.

   With a few more touch ups, Mira ripped me out of the garage. A random spotlight blinding me, THE DEVIL MATCHMAKER PLANNED THIS!

   The area was soon filled with 'oohs' and 'ahhs' and one guy who paled and passed out due to blood loss. It wasn't Gajeel as I couldn't find him.

"Has his race started?" I asked.

"Not yet, only around 5 minutes to go!" She smiled.

   Thank Mavis! I thought it had already started, I can't miss it! Where is he? Where is he? Where i-

"Ow!" I yelped, someone managed to walk full force into me.

"Move!" It was Gajeel, did he not notice that it was me. "I said move, lady! I've got a race to win!" He barged past me, stomping to his car.

   I'm gonna have some fun!

   I deviously followed the man to his car. It was beautiful, the main body was as black as midnight. I knew that he liked black but why the orange detailing? Orange?

"Sh-Shrimp?" He gulped as I leant in to look at the interior, exposing what cleavage I had on purpose.

"Just wanted to say hi and ask you how I look," I grinned, Gajeel's eyes roaming all over my body.

"You look fine Shrimp!" His voice cracked a little.

"Thank you, here... Take this!" I handed him my headband and wrapped it around his wrist.

"Thanks!" He smirked, revving up the engine.

"Go and win this thing!" I cheered.

"I've got this, I am definitely gonna win. And.." He gave me a last smirk, removing the handbrake and speeding off. "Orange... Matches my car!"

   I was stood there, blushing madly as I put 2 and 2 together. That car was Gajeel and I, together. Did he love me? I mentally slapped myself. I needed to just get through tonight without doing something stupid. I could do that, right?