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"I promise."

He said and she smiled. He kept caressing her right cheek...his touch was so gentle and tender...she was at the peak of closing her eyes and leaning into his touch. "Are you confessing?" She snickered while joking and looked up at him. She paused once her hazel orbs met his gray ones. The look he had in his eyes forced her to gulp. She can feel her heartbeat getting faster.

She lashed her gaze away once she realized they were staring into each other's eyes for quite a while now. "So...uh...we need to do something about that fatty. I've told Mia to take Gordon and go to the principal office. We need to complain about that fatso." As soon as Leah said that, Igneel grabbed her shoulders tightly.

She frowned and looked up at him.

He had a huge frown on his face. It was the first time she saw him frowning like this. Did she do something wrong?

"You shouldn't have." He said and her eyes narrowed. "Why? So they can continue to bully you? It's enough." She asked and he shook his