Here's my first fanfiction on this website! I hope I didn't make too many mistakes...

So it's a Fairy Tail fanfiction, mostly about Gajeel x Levy, Fried x Mira and Evergreen x Elfman. There will probably be some other couples too. I don't know how many chapters It'll contain yet.

The Gajeel xLevy part in this story, is inspired on 'Faery-Keys' story 'Hello, baby'.

Fairy Tail and its amazing characters belong to the fantastic Hiro Mashima, I only own the storyline here, and the way it's written ;p

Enjoy!

They sat there together at a table in the Guild hall. She was reading a book -as usual- and he was chewing on some iron. Suddenly remembering something, the bookwurm looked up, and a smile appeared on her face. She turned to him and asked

"Gajeel, when is your birthday?"

"huh?".

"I asked when your birthday is"

"Why the heck do ya wanna know that?"

They had been spending a lot of time together after the S-class exam, at first it was subtle, with the rest of the guild around them, because of the magic tournament. But then it became more and more, he'd even join her to the guild library sometimes! And she loved it. Every second he was with her, she couldn't help but feel endlessly happy. She couldn't help but smile. That adorable smile that would make him melt, of course she didn't know it had such an effect.

But she did know she had to tell him about her feelings. Juvia had warned her, when you keep it to yourself for a long time, you'll get more and more shy, and start stuttering, and blushing, and sweating, and that sort of things. In a normal situation, that's be bearable, but Gajeel was a dragon slayer. And dragons get suspicious when their surroundings change, and then they'd move to another spot, to avoid the awkward change. If that were to happen, she might end up losing him forever!

That's why she'd tell him on his birthday.

"Well, you know." she started "On my birthday, everyone was there, and there was this huge party and-" but was cut off by the iron dragonslayer.

"and a lot of unnecessary brawls, remember you got that headache when you went home?" He growled fiercely. He told her he didn't like birthdays, why did she still go on about it?

"Yes but, I want to make yours special too! Maybe we could...ehm...go somewhere alone...away from the guild, so there can't be unnecessary brawls, right?" she stammered a little, a wide blush appeared at her face when she realized he might take that in a wrong way. But his next question gave away that he didn't.

"will Lily be there?"

"y-yes, yes! O-of course he will!" she quickly said.

She started doubting inwardly again...if he really didn't want to be alone with her so much...maybe it was best if she didn't say anything?

Of course he wanted to be alone with her, but he couldn't ... hell, he had no idea how to act around Levy! He wanted to be gentle with her, and make her smile, see those big brown eyes shine...But he'd get too nervous. He just needed Lily to be there with him so he could secretly ask him for advice. HE knew about his feelings for the blue haired mage anyway.

He had known from the first time he arrived in the guild after returning from Edolas. He had noticed Gajeel stare at her, and asked him if she was anyone special. Gajeel answered in a quite obvious way

"That's Levy", a sigh of pure admiration escaped his mouth as he spoke her name, "she's amazing".

"In what way?" the small cat asked curiously.

"All ways".

And thus it was said, he was damn lucky Mirajane wasn't there at the time.

"It's next week, Thursday."

He spoke in a low voice and was clearly lost in thought, but when he heard her "EH?" and noticed her shocked Face, he couldn't help but stare at her bluntly, a slight shade of red visible on his cheeks.

She pointed her eyes at the ground and then, she looked up and ran off, yelling a simple "See ya!" while she was already running.

Levy ran out of the guild, to Magnolia town, she had to find something for them to do, a place to go, and a present to give him! And as soon as possible, she still needed time to think of how she'd confess!

As she ran in a hurry, she almost ran over the small exceed that just returned form his groceries.

"Wow, Levy-chan, why in such a hurry?"

She looked down at the small creature and sighed in relief, gladly realizing it wasn't a street-cat or a little kid

"Oh, hi Lily! I was just ... ehm..." Her face got all red again as she looked away to face the ground. Pantherlily had seen enough.

"Does it have anything to do with Gajeels birthday?" He asked with a small smirk on his face.

"How did you know?" the script mage asked in full surprise.

"The idiot has been trying to keep it silent for quite some time now, he'd hoped it to be over before anyone could realize, but I assume that didn't work out too well?"

She shook her head and tried not to stutter while saying "I ehm...I wanted to arrange something to do on his birthday...not with many people of course, just ehm...the three of us..."

The feline smiled at the thought and asked "Did you have some place in mind already?"

She let out a sigh and muttered "unfortunately not, I just found out when it was a few minutes ago...Do you perhaps know what he'd like?"

"anywhere with iron around would be fine!" he joked, but her response surprised him

"No, Lily, I'm serious, I want that day to be special!"

He just stared at her for a minute and then realized what was going on.

Meanwhile, Gajeel still sat at the guild, he just finished his meal and was about to leave, when suddenly a figure appeared before him.

The iron dragon slayer looked up and immediately raised an eyebrow What the hell is that green haired freak doing here?

He straightened and growled "Whatdoyawant?" The runemage answered with a blank expression

"Mira wants to speak to you"

He shook his head in direction of the bar where the barmaid was waving at them. Gajeel stood up and as he headed to the bar, he glanced one last time at Fried, this time he had a very dark expression on his face.

"the fuck is wrong with that guy?" He said as he settled down at the bar.

When he turned around, he noticed Mira having the same, determined, dark expression on her face. Pointed right towards Gajeel. He gulped. What did I do this time? Mirajane let out a sigh, and then that angelic smile appeared on her face again

"so, Gajeel"

He looked at her hoping to get an explanation for this crazy situation, but he got a question instead. One that sounded very sheepishly but was demanding an answer

"How are things going between you and Levy-chan?"

His eyes widened and shouted in surprise "What the fuck are you talking about?"

she calmly answered him "Well, I've noticed you two hanging around each other more and more lately. Alone. Just the two of you. Don't you think that's a little suspicious?" Her tong rolled at the word 'little' and it reminded him the annoying blue exceed. He didn't like it.

"my cat's there too y'know" he answered while taking the beer that was placed before him and devouring the whole thing.

"Ah yes, but that doesn't change things, does it? How do you feel about her, huh?" She was leaning over at him on the bar, placing her elbows on the surface, and her hands under her chin.

Suddenly Gajeel knew what she was up to. Matchmaking.

"Fuck women! I aint gonna tell you anything 'bout my personal life!"

Was he really that obvious? Or did she receive some kind of hint from Levy? Could it be? Did Levy like him? No, he shouldn't think that way. He'd hurt her, it didn't matter how many times he saved her for amends, it was unforgivable. Plus, he still had the unsolved problem with Raven Tail, because he had been away for 7 years, he had no idea if his cover was blown or not. The now enraged dragon slayer abruptly stood up, and stormed out of the guild. This time, both the green haired runemage as the matchmaking barmaid were looking at him with pleasure in the eyes, a smirk on their faces.

It was confirmed.

Pantherlily had helped Levy choose a destination for their trip. He had even talked to her about how she was planning to confess to him, but promised not to say a single word about it to the stubborn dragon slayer. Yet he couldn't help but let out a snort as the said one slammed the door of their apartment open and threw himself on the couch, grabbing a piece of iron that was lying nearby and started eating out of frustration. The exceed let out a subtle couch, making Gajeel look at his direction and tell him what made him so irritated.

"spit it out"

"fucking green freak and matchmaking chick were tryin' to make me spill somethin' 'bout the shrimp." he growled.

Lily had to try hard not to make his smirk grow larger. So even these two are helping now, are they? But that wasn't so surprising, since Mirajane was known for her ability to turn some gossip into actual truth.

After that, the two didn't see each other as much as usually, as to be expected, since Gajeel locked himself up in his apartment because he wouldn't be able to handle both his nearing birthday as Mirajanes luring. And Levy was busy looking in every store of Magnolia for a present, plus sitting at home trying to find the right words she could use in her confession. It was rare for her not to find the right words for anything, but this time, she was just helpless.

In the main time though, a lot of exciting stuff happened between the other members of the guild...

There you go, end of chapter one. Was it not too awful? Please let me know by reviewing!

I'll upload the next as soon as possible, I'm still removing the typing errors... ^^;