You felt Gajeel grab your wrist. You stopped walking away. Gajeel was standing behind you. As Gajeel would say, you looked like a scene in a cliché book. The butterflies in your stomach disappeared.

"(Y/n)," You heard Gajeel.

"Yea." you turned around to face Gajeel. Your (h/l) (h/c) hair flowed with the wind. Gajeel stared into your hazel eyes and you stared into his burgundy eyes.

Gajeel cupped your cheeks. You felt his rough, but warm fingers on your cheeks. Your heart was pounding so much that you felt like your insides were gonna burst. Gajeel started to lean in for a kiss and so did you.

Your lips were nearly one centimetre apart...until someone cleared his/her throat. You dropped your soccer ball and jumped away from Gajeel.

To your surprise, it was Erza and Lucy walking back home from the guild.

"What is going on here?" Erza retorted. You let out a tiny yelp and Gajeel blushed like crazy.

"N-n-nothing!" You stuttered, kicking your ball up to your hands.

"Oh boy." Lucy face palmed.

"(Y/n), may I speak with you. Privately." Erza demanded.

"I'll just, see you later (y/n)." Gajeel walked away from the scene.

-

You were currently at Lucy's house. She gave you something to change into, because your clothes were muddy from soccer.

You, Erza, and Lucy sat around her coffee table.

"So, you and Gajeel were about to kiss huh?" Erza sighed "I'm not going to watch two nineteen year olds kiss. Your too young."

"AM NOT! Don't you remember when we were playing truth or dare and you dared me to kiss Natsu when we were just 13!" You shouted "And also, I didn't stop you from being all lovey dovey with Jellal did I? Don't think I don't know what happened that night. After the 'kiss'."

"Yes, but you were going to do it for real, and may I remind you I'm older than you. Wait...how do you know that?!"

"By two months! And Happy's got a big ass mouth." You and Erza were both nineteen, but your birthday was December 20th. "And you watch Natsu and Lucy hug each other all the time! Why don't you stop them too?"

"Guys why're you fighting about this? And why in my house?" Lucy said

-

"Hey Erza!" You yelled across to her. You and Erza were best friends.

"Hey (y/n)." Erza looked upset.

"Why are you sad?"

"Because everyone thinks I'm scary."

"So? what's the big deal? You still got me!"

"Just promise me that you'll never leave me for anyone else."

"I promise." you both shook pinkies

-

"I broke a promise." You sighed.

"So that no one will tear apart our friendship." Erza agreed

"And technically speaking, I've been putting Gajeel before Erza."

Lucy face palmed. "You can't control love, guys." Lucy knocked some sense into you two. "It just happens that Gajeel and (y/n) are beginning to fall in love. It doesn't mean that (y/n) won't care about you anymore."

"Lucy has a point, Erza." You smirked.

You took of your bandana and tied your hair in a ponytail, using the bandana as a bow.

"If you were actual friends you would support each other, but like this, it just seems to me like Your jealousy getting the best of you, Erza." Lucy said.

Erza looked down in shame "Yes, I suppose your right."

-

You woke up and stretched your arms. There was a small bird on your windowsill and the sun was shining brightly. It seemed like a beautiful day.

You got dressed in some ripped jeans, a white crop top, and a red sweater that had three white lines running down the long sleeves (like an adidas sweater).

You combed your hair and put your hair in a fishtail braid over your shoulder and tied your bandana as a bow in the end.

You ate breakfast, put on your usual ankle-high black converse, and left for the guild.

At the guild, you punched Natsu as usual, and then sat with Juvia, who was fawning over Gray. You didn't ask for a beer, get drunk with Cana, or get squashed by the master.

Everyone thought you were unusually quiet. And what worried people the most is that you weren't with Gajeel, who was always with you. You heard whispers around you like

"did something happen?"

"Where is Gajeel?"

("Did (y/n) fall into crippling depression?" lolol memes)

"Hey Juvia." you said.

"Oh, hi (Y/n). Juvia didn't notice you come in today." Juvia said.

"It's ok," you sighed. "What do you do when Gray isn't around?" You asked. "Uh...Never Mind. I really don't wanna know," you just remembered what you saw when you walked into Juvia's place once; there were Grays, everywhere.

You stood up and left the guild. You went to south gate park. It was your happy place, but it didn't seem too happy today. You remembered what almost happened yesterday.

You sat under the big tree and looked at the sky while leaning on the tree. You pulled your legs up to your chest and wrapped your arms around them.

"Ugh, fuck." You buried your face in your hands.

You got up and walked towards Gajeel's place. You stuffed your hands in your pockets. But, on your way there, you saw a familiar exceed. He was none other than Pantherlily the great.

"Lily!" He stopped and You ran towards him. "where's Gajeel?"

"Funny you ask, because he sent me to get you." He replied. "he's waiting by the path you take to get home."

"As in, the path in the woods right?"

"Yea."

You ran towards the woods' path. Leaning on a tree, you saw Gajeel.

"Gajeel!"

He looked over to you. A light blush found its way on his face.

"Yea. I wanted to tell you yesterday, but Erza showed up," he started to talk. "I-I-uhh...I-" he struggled to bring words out of his mouth.

You've seen Gajeel's soft side a few times but never like this. You got closer to him. He cupped your cheeks. You stared into each other's eyes. Your hands were on the back of his neck. His thumb caressed your cheek.

You closed your eyes and leaned in for a kiss. Gajeel pressed his lips firmly on yours. The kiss started out pretty calm but as the time passed you got into a more passionate kiss.

This was something that didn't scream Gajeel at all. He was usually a cocky bastard but right now he was a complete softie. You always had a feeling that Gajeel was more of the more physical, lustful romantic type.

You started to play with Gajeel's hair. You broke the kiss, desperately in need of air. You felt your cheeks turn a bright red. You smiled and looked down at your shoes, your arms still wrapped around Gajeel's neck.

"I love you." Gajeel said.

You kissed Gajeel again. Gajeel licked the bottom of your lip asking for an entrance to your mouth. Soon, both your tongues were slithering in and out of each other's mouthes.

You broke the kiss, a string of saliva connecting your lips.

"First kiss?" you chuckled.

Gajeel nodded.

You heard someone clearing his throat behind you. It was Lily.

"Gah! Where you watching?!" You shrieked, embarrassed.

You used to have a light red blush but now you were a tomato. You let go of Gajeel but he wrapped his arm around your waist.

"Yea." Lily smirked.

"Just one question, Gajeel. Yesterday, did you know that your arms were wrapped around my waist in the morning?" You asked.

"Uhh...maybe," He blushed.

"I knew it." you smiled.

"So does this mean we're..."

"Yea, it does." Gajeel replied.