Ok so the story's focus is on Juvia becoming Lucy's new roommate. As she starts her studies on Fairy Tail University she learns what it means to have family and how hard it can be to accommodate a number of things such as her scholarship, her part time job, her passion in swimming and of course her not so well working love life. Concentrates on Gruvia, but also on Nalu, Gale and Jerza.
I do not own Fairy Tail. It's all to Hiro Mashima.
Please be patient with my language and spelling. I'm no native speaker.
Chapter One: In Desperate Need For Feminine Companionship.
„Uhhh...I'm gonna kill Natsu and Gray. Can't they at least do the cleaning once in a while? They have their own apartment after all", Lucy sighs, walking around her habitation in the morning and collecting dozens of bottles. I told them not to stay up all night. Yet it looks like half the campus drank the night away here. As the young woman tries her best to clean up the mess her so called best friends had left her with, she wishes to find a new roommate that would shurely not be an alcohol addicted. And she needs to find a new one as fast as she could. Another month more and her bank account wouldn't pay off for sleepless nights like these or new trendy dresses she just coulnd't resist to tear off of the many mannequins she passed when shopping with her favorit companion Erza. Now that she thinks about it, Lucy still needs to send more pictures of the flat to a rather odd than promising girl. She seemed to be the only oneleft interested in the way too expensive room since it's near the campus and the public swimming pool. She didn't say much about herself. To be more precise it sounded as if someone else was writing her application.
Juvia is really looking forward to moving to Magnolia. Ever since she got her approval she is so excited. She will have to work hard on her Biology studies and swimming lessons because she's got a scholarship. But she would like to also make new freinds and spend much time with them (….). Juvia would bounce around if receiving an answer. Sincerly, your new roommate (hopefully).
If not too messy, lazy or crazy, Lucy would appreciate finding a new mate. Ever since her last one moved out the boys would hang around even more often than before and besieged the empty room with two foldout mattresses. They teased her in the morning when she woke up with her hair looking like a bird's nest. They expected her during lunch time to serve them some kind of casserole. And they send her off in the evening to get them a sixer of beer. Geez, they could be a pain in the ass. But still. She loved them all. Her bullying yet most understanding one Erza, her most of the time half naked half hungover Gray and most of all, her Natsu. How to describe Natsu? He was a dull, loud, hoggish, almost broke person. But above all: He was fun to be around. He could always turn her sad expression into a happy one. After failing in an exam he would tell her not to give up, to study harder and give her a greatly intense and deep look in the eyes that would affect her in her heart. But he never realised how he could make her feel,
After finishing her hard work Lucy grabs her mobile phone in order to take more pictures. Just then, she's a little scared when her phone starts to ring in her hand. Thinking of the devil it's her practically new roommate.
„Yeah? Juvia it is, right?", Lucy asked.
„Y-Yes, this is Juvia. Juvia haven't heard from Lucy yet, so she called to make sure whether she still stands a chance for the apartment or not. Uhm...so.."
She appears even shyer than expected with her voice going more and more quiet along her sentence. „Hey listen, no worries. I was just about to send you more pictures. But since I got you on the phone, why not make a video call? I could show you around right now.", Lucy suggests.
Juvia joyfully approves and turns on her camera. Now looking at each other the two of them greet again. Lucy then starts her little sightseeing, holding her phone like making selfies so Juvia could see her along the tour.
„Ok, now this is our corridor. Your room is to the right.", she turns and enters the light-flooded rectangulared room,
„Sorry for the chaos, the matresses on the floor will be moved out. But you can keep the bed, the wardrobe and the desk."
„It's really bright and large. Juvia's never had such a big room before.", Juvia points out.
What's up with this girl? Talking in 3rd-person again... Lucy wonders, lightly looking confused.
„Well, I'm glad you like it. Now let's go to the kitchen. It's next to your room and at the end of the corridor. Very simple, isn't it? The table here on the left is an extending one and the sofa to the right pretty mch fullfills its usage as a sleeper everytime Erza or Gray passes out after having too much to drink You will get to know them, they are pretty funny to chill with...", Lucy stops after already going to much into detail. She doesn't want to scare Juvia off, so she better not go into that any more.
„Ähm, well. ..", she chuckles, „the best part of the kitchen is the balkony. We barbecue during summer time, like, once a week at least."
After showing Juvia the bathroom while boasting about their large corner bathtub she shares her own room with her. Lucy's is a little smaller than the other one, since its size and the size of the bathroom together match the extend of (Juvia's) room. On the one hand Lucy keeps her room always neat, at least as best as she could having Natsu around her. On the other hand she saves all the little things that remind her of her friends and detects more little spots to put them. Photos with the gang of when they visited Crocus, her Secret Santa gift (a special edition of Lucy's favorit book series) by her fellow student Levy, postcards and other stuff like that. Lucy then turns her phone and switches to the front cam so she can see Juvia's face again.
„So, what do you mean?", she asks Juvia.
„Juvia finds your apartment very lovely and Lucy seems like a very lovely person herself, the way she talks about her apartment and her friends. Juvia would very much like to move in. But she understands if you need more time. There must be many more interested parties, so...". She really is some kind of weirdo, but Juvia also appears to be honest, polite and btw very pretty with her long blue wavy hair. Perhaps Juvia is the feminine support she needed to finally regain some sorf of order in her little world of male chaos. After all Erza couldn't possibly fill that role. As a conclusion Lucy couldn't see a reason why not to try this with Juvia. And besides, she is tired of searching any longer.
„I don't think I need more time. You can have it. Be prepared to make new mates and great experiences during your college life", saying that, Lucy twinkles and they end their call shortly after. What Lucy cannot know is that Juvia piercingly yells back at her home, so happy she finally found a place to stay. What Lucy does know is that she will have to work on Juvias way of talking. Who on earth would talk in 3rd-person...