First Love

Chapter 5: Old Friends

Levy lightly leaned her figure towards her boyfriend to grab onto his arm to show affection. She had been meaning to talk to him for awhile, but hadn't really gotten a chance to tell him all the drama in her life.

Gajeel always listened to the girl's endless rambling even if he was uninterested. That was the point though. She always trusted him, because she knew he didn't care enough to tell anyone else.

"What's the matter?" Gajeel inquired with concern, seeing the his girlfriend's facial feature looking concerned after Lucy walked away.

"It's Lucy, she saw Natsu again, and well... Things haven't been going well." Levy murmured, before closing her eyes to think for a moment.

She hadn't seen her best friend break down crying as bad as Lucy had since senior year. That was when Natsu and Lucy had broken up, and saying the blonde was a mess was an honest understatement.

Levy couldn't even get the image out of her head of Lucy's face when she told her. Her eyes looked so empty, like they'd lost the fire that lit the candle of her happiness. Lucy had looked so heartbroken and fragile, as if she had lost anything that had mattered.

Her boyfriend immediately turned to look at the girl in a bit of a confusion. He hadn't heard a thing about the other man since highschool and hearing about how he had contacted Lucy, shocked him even more.

Gajeel hadn't realized the pinkette went to the rival school he played not even twenty-four hours ago. The black haired man wasn't stupid, he was just too competitive to care who the players on the opposite team had been. So he hadn't known that Natsu went to the nearby college besides theirs.

"Are you kidding me? What did she do?" He groaned loudly, expression taken aback.

"Poured coffee on his head." Levy said with a light sigh, moving her thin arms down his muscular one to lace her fingers with his.

Gajeel chuckled, "Yeah, that sounds like her," not paying much attention to the hand holding besides giving a light squeeze.

"I don't know what Lucy is going to do about things though.... He's probably going to try and pry some more since now he knows she's in town. You know how he is," The bluenette sighed, furring her eyebrows just imagining what lengths he'd probably go to just to find Lucy again. The couple both remembered that Natsu was very persistent in everything he was passionate about.

"Gajeel...what do I to help Lu?" Levy sighed looking towards the ground, feeling despair for her friend. "Who knew he'd still hurt her even after all this time?"

Her boyfriend slightly pursed his lips not sure what to say to her, he wasn't the best at words of advice much less dealing emotional conversations. He knew that Levy was feeling sorrow for her friend though, so he knew he had to at least to try and help.

"Just give Bunny Girl time, you know she's tough as nails. I'm sure she can handle anything thrown at her," Gajeel said using his old nickname for Lucy, hoping to liven the effect of his words to not sound so sad.

"You're right, I shouldn't worry."

"Let's focus on something else," he said sweeping his girlfriend up in his arms.

"Gajeel, put me down!" The blue haired girl shouted being thrown over his broad shoulder, and she pounded her fists against his back lightly trying her best not to let a giggle erupt from her.

She loved him without a doubt, and she enjoyed playing around with him as much as he did. She didn't like being picked up by anyone, it always made her feel so helpless. However, he was always that one exception.