FairyTail: Beauty And The Beast (GaLe)

Chapter 6

Levy took a long sip of her strawberry milkshake and sighed contently. She was sitting at the bar area in the common lounge, chatting to Mirajane.

She had grown to adore the white haired woman, who worked part time at the bar to help her pay for her rent and shopping obsessions and part time studying as a physics major.

Mira went to serve her boyfriend, Laxus. Levy smiled when she saw them talking, they were absolutely adorable. Even though the only time Levy had  heard the blonde speak was when he was goading Natsu or Gajeel into a fight, she knew he was a good guy, and he clearly made Mira happy.

"Oii Shrimp!" Levy heard a gruff a voice call out. She took a deep pull from her shake, trying to calm down the butterflies she felt erupt in her belly.

She felt Gajeel settle down on the stool next to hers, "Oii, Shrimp." He said again.

Levy looked up and him and smiled warmly, she couldn't help herself. "Hey Gajeel." She responded brightly.

She furrowed her brows when she saw that his usual smirk was replaced with an extremely faint frown and his cheeks were ever so slightly red.

Her hand immediately went to his forehead, checking if he had a fever, "Gajeel! Are you okay? You don't look too good." She almost shouted.

Gajeel snickered, "I wish it was as easy as that..." He muttered, almost to himself.

Levy's eyebrows furrowed even more and she removed her hand, "What's going on Gajeel, if you're not sick then you're nervous."

Gajeel sighed, and regained some colour in his face, "I'm just extremely nervous"

She giggled at the thought of Gajeel pacing up and down his apartment with a nervous frown on his face, cussing every now and then.

"So what's up?" She asked slowly.
"What are you plans for tonight Shrimp?" He asked, his nervousness evident in his slightly shaky voice.

"I don't have any, why?" She answered, growing worried. It was completely out of character for Gajeel to look this stressed out.

He shrugged, trying to come of as relaxed and causal, but Levy didn't miss the tension in his shoulders, "You wanna do something with me then? You, uhmm, you don't have too, but I kinda figured that it would be kinda nice to go somewhere..."

Levy's eyes widened, was Gajeel actually asking her out on a date? Was this why he was nervous? Because of her?!

Levy laughed, "Sure, that sounds like a lot of fun."

Now Gajeel's eyes grew large, "Really? You don't have to come! Its just gonna be me and you. You might not eve-" Gajeel was cut of by laughter coming from Levy, "Gajeel, I want too. Its a date!" She giggled, and immediately regretted it. She kicked herself internally.

Gajeel's nervous frown slowly faded into a smile, "Yeah, it is. We'll leave at six, so I'll meet you downstairs." Was all he said before getting up and walking away.

Levy turned back to her milkshake and smiled, Gajeel was turning out to be someone special.

"So what are you gonna wear?" Levy was interrupted from her thoughts by a bubbly Mira.

Levy's eyes went huge, "Oh my God, I have no idea!" She clamped her plans over her mouth, "I don't even know where we're going!" Once she checked the time, she wanted to fall into a crack in the earth, she only had two hours.

She abandoned her milkshake and stood up on shaky legs, "Luuuuuuccccccyyyyyyyy" she wailed, stumbling towards her best friend.

Lucy looked up from her book when she finally heard Levy's distressed calls.