In high school, Gray Fullbuster wanted to be a in the crowd type of person. He did not want to stand out in any way possible, he thought other people that tried to get other's to like them and look up to them were snobby and stuck up. This was Gray's second year at his school and the only people that really knew him where his circle of friends, some that he has known since childhood. Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Cana, Mirajane, Lisanna, and Elfman, he had more friends but they were his main circle.
As Gray waited for the last five minutes of class to end, he stared out of his window that was the best thing about having a window seat, he could watch the clouds for days a barely have to pay attention to what was going on around him especially since his school loved to gossip, and the hottest topic for the past few months has been "Queen", Juvia Lockser year 2 she transferred from a former school that had gotten shut down due to some incidents. As soon as she arrived she joined the swim team, and became a superstar over night. She made all the boys fall in love with her at a drop of a hat, that is except for Gray. He didn't really think she was all that, she never talked to anyone it was like her own presence was too good to talk to anyone else and no one ever really saw her she kept to herself and locked herself away in the school's pool.
The bell finally rang, and the class was dismissed as Gray walked out of the class he overheard fellow classmates chatting.
"Hey, did you hear the "Queen" has a national swim meet coming up in two weeks"
"Really, are you going to go"
"Uh duh, dude are you kidding. Anything to see that water goddess in a swimsuit."
Gray rolled his eyes. is 'she' all others could talk about. He headed to his locker to get some materials for his up and coming tests, until his line of vision was disturbed with a mass of pink hair leaning near him.
"Natsu, what do you want this time" Gray asked, he knew anytime Natsu wanted him to do something he would talk to him alone.
"What please, I don't need any favors." Natsu kept looking away. Until he saw Gray raise and his eyebrow, "Fine I just need you to do, one little thing for me."
Gray shifted his body to rest on the locker. "No, I won't do it"
"What really Gray, you don't even know what I was about to ask" Natsu gave Gray the puppy dog eyes.
Gray flinched it was weird when he did that, "Fine, What is it Natsu?"
"Well I need you to clean the pool for me, you see I got detention when I jumped through the window into the pool and the teacher was all like 'if you have time to jump in it you have time to clean it' and so I need you to do it cause I have a tutoring class to get to and if I don't go I might fail the grade. You don't want your best friend to fail do you!" Natsu spoke so fast and so loud that people started to stare. But Gray got the situation, even though he really didn't want to do it he had to.
Gray took a deep breath and sighed, "Fine, I'll do it .But wont the teachers see me there?"
"Not at all," Natsu laughed. "He has a meeting till 6, and as long as your done with it by then you'll be fine."
Natsu gave him a toothy grin and started running in the opposite direction. "Thanks Gray, I owe you one."
Gray gathered all the cleaning materials, and changed into his swim trunks. If he was going to do this job he wasn't going to do it half-assed, and he wasn't going to get his uniform wet either. As he stepped inside the double doors that lead to the pool, he saw a figure swimming.
'Great this person just has to make my job ten times harder' Gray thought, now he had to kick someone out. As he waited for whoever it was to come out of the water, he noticed that the figure was a girl and he also noticed that her hair was as blue as the water itself. He thought it was strange, but he just could not take his eyes off of the figure in the water. They way she glided and made the water almost move with her was mesmerizing. Then all of a sudden the figure stopped moving, and just stayed there.
After what felt like a minute Gray started to panic was the person dead, should he do anything? But his thoughts were all in vein because a couple of seconds after that the figure started raising themselves onto the edge of the pool. That is until she saw Gray standing there, only in his swim trunks. She dived back in and swam to the other side of the pool.
Gray stood there bewildered, that was Fairy Tail Highs sacred "Queen". She really was a stuck up person, to go as far as swimming to the other side of the pool just so she didn't have to talk or even look at him. Then an idea came to him. If she was going to act like this he at least was going to have some fun.
He dropped all of his equipment and dove in the pool, having some competitive swimming experience he raced to the side were the Queen had dashed. As he planned, he felt the water shift and saw her dash to the other side. This little race continued for several minutes until he cornered her.
Out of breath and water in his eyes, he laughed "Finally caught you." When his blurry vision faded he saw something he never expected.
She was crying, the Juvia fricking Lockser the school idol was crying. Had he caused this?
"Wh-what do you want from Juvia" Gray stared at her. Why did she look so scared?
Gray wanted to put her at ease so he answered. "Nothing, I just wanted to tell you to get out the pool I need to clean it."
She looked down like she was thinking, and then yelled out, "Then why are you half naked?"
Gray was dumbfounded how could him, being in his bathing suit be considered half naked.
"I thought I would get my uniform wet so I changed, is that a problem?" At this point Gray was really confused was this really the girl that everyone idolized over. Wasn't she suppose to be more snarky and bitchy.
To find out if it was really Juvia, Gray swam a little closer. This seemed to startle Juvia and she jumped tears still rolling down her eyes that were being swept away by the pool water. He saw her grab the edge of the pool and she hoisted herself up and ran for it. 'Is she stupid, running while wet' Gray thought it was such a rookie mistake to make.
"Hey stop, watch ou-" Before he could finish there was a loud crash. Then a high scream echoed throughout the pool area. "Kyyaaa"
Gray grabbed the edge of the pool and jumped out; when he reached Juvia she was tangled in all his cleaning equipment.
"Hey are you okay." Gray was worried if she was injured he had no idea of what to do.
She stayed as quiet as a mouse not saying anything and as Gray stared at her she started to feel more uncomfortable.
"Hey can you stand?" Gray asked reaching out his hand to her. Juvia stared at his hand for a few seconds finally before taking it.
She abruptly let go, and jerked back when she was finally standing. Gray made the decision 'he didn't like her!', as her turned away and started to pick up his equipment he heard the same sound again.
"Kyaa"
When he turned around he saw the Queen huddled over on the ground clasping her leg. Gray ran over to her and inspected her, he didn't know much about the medical field but he did know is that someone's leg should not be fully facing an opposite direction.
Now she was really crying, Gray started flailing his arms around asking if she needed anything. This just made her cry harder, he didn't want to touch her because he could make it worse but he also thought that he shouldn't leave a crying girl all alone. Gray sighed this girl was going to be the death of him, he made the a decision and he picked Juvia up bridal style. To his surprise her crying had calmed down.
"Whaa-a, please put Juvia down!" She said in between sobs.
Gray was kind of surprised; even with all she was going through Juvia was still polite to the end. No one ever really said please anymore so he didn't know what to think of it.
"No way you need to get your leg looked at, and I'm not putting you down till we reach the Nurse's Office."
Juvia stared at him he had so much strength a determination in his voice, even if he did say it a little coldly. She decided the best thing to do was be quiet a hope he didn't drop her.
Gray was some-what proud of himself he was helping someone like a prince in one of those fairy tales, the only problem was that the story did not say how heavy someone would be. As he was running through the hallway Juvia was slipping out of his arms, with all the movement that was happening and how slippery she was it all made him feel like he was climbing Mount Everest and fall all the way to the bottom.
"Don't drop Juvia"
Gray looked down, Juvia's tears had stopped but now she was just worried that he would drop her.
"I won't, I promise where almost there anyways." Gray gave her a reassuring smile. He didn't want to tell her that she was heavy and he sure as hell wasn't going to say it because he would come across as weak.
The farther they got down the hallway the more Gray noticed that people were staring at them, some gave him a dirty look others were whispering. From what he could tell he was about to become a target for getting to close to the school's precious "Queen".
Gray turned the corner and opened the Nurse's office door, while inside he explained everything that happened and put Juvia down on the bed. The Nurse then took a look at Juvia and said that she would be back in a minute since she had to call an ambulance.
Gray looked down at Juvia and sighed 'it must really suck to break you leg when you're on a team' he thought.
"Well I have to get going" Gray said while walking away from Juvia. That was until he felt a tug on his wrist.
"Thank you for bringing Juvia here!"
"No problem, just watch where you're running next time."
"But, it was your fault for chasing after Juvia" She stated looking down at the ground, smirking.
"What! No one ever told you to jump out of the pool like that." Gray was fuming how could she blame him for her breaking her leg. After all that he did for her, and why was she talking in third person? For about five full minutes they stared each other down, that was until paramedics came inside the room a hoisted Juvia onto a stretcher.
Gray was relieved she was finally out of his hair. He turned to the clock and noticed the time 5:30.
"Oh crap, I've only got 30 minutes to finish cleaning the pool!" Gray shouted and with that he ran off.