Lucy tried to wake her up Tuesday morning before she left the house, knowing she had a hot date. “Levy come on you have to get up, what if he shows up and you're still asleep?” Lucy whined, shaking her friend. “Luce I just got home from work I need like 2 more hours, he knows I work nights.” Lucy sighed and let the blue haired woman sleep. “Sorry Dean looks like it’ll have to be cereal this morning” Lucy grabbed her purse, ruffling the boys hair as she left the kitchen. “It’s ok aunt Lucy let mom sleep I can take care of it myself, I’m almost eight Im not a baby anymore” Lucy looked over at him sitting at the table pouring milk into his bowl. “Yeah you're right. Ok you know the rules buddy, and get her up in two hours!” she closed the door behind her. Levy stretched, last night was a rough one for her, Cana was sick so her and Juvia had been picking up the slack. Levy was the bar manager last night and was in charge of cab calls and cut offs which meant a lot of pissed of drunks. A light knock on her door made her sit up. “Mom aunt Lucy said to wake you up in a few hours, you up?” Dean called from the other side of the door. “Yeah I’ll be right out hun” she called back. She went to her closet and pulled out her favorite orange dress and slipped it on over her head, brushed her hair and grabbed her phone. She walked out into the living room looking down at her email not noticing they had a house guest. “Oh!” Levy said looking up. Gajeel was sitting down in front of the TV playing video games with Dean. “Hey mom, I figured he was ok to let in, Lucy said he was coming by” She looked at the boy and then at Gajeel “Gihee, he’s pretty good at these games, haven't beaten him yet” He gave her a big grin and ruffled the boy’s hair. “Well that would make two of us then” She laughed sitting down on the other side of the kid and picking up a controller. “Lets see how well you do two against one boy” she teased, jostling him with her shoulder.


“I can't believe you still beat us!” Levy threw herself back on to the carpet. Both the boys laughed at her over dramatic reaction to the loss. “Shouldn't have come as a shock mom I am a level 95 and you two are only level 12 and 13” He said sarcastically. “Come on you two lets get out of here and get some lunch” Gajeel stood up, popping his back. They drove down to a pizzeria  a few blocks away, sitting down inside sharing a huge double cheese, double meat pizza. “This is awesome! I never get to sit down at a restaurant, we always have to get take our or eat at home.” Dean looked around at the pictures on the walls. Gajeel looked over to at Levy who had a hint of sadness on her face, he nudged her slightly trying to get her to stop internally beating herself up. They ate in a comfortable silence. “So I was thinking shorty that there’s a fair right outside of the city ya wanna go?” Dean’s eyes snapped up, looking pleadingly at his mother. “Please mom PLEASE” Levy looked at the two boys, both giving her the most ridiculous puppy dog eyes she’s ever seen. “With y'all looking at me like that how can I say no?”