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Chapter 1

I could sense her presense behind me. I truly hated ignoring her, but I had to. It was for her sake. I would end up ruining her, and just the idea of that made me sick. She spoke to Mira at the bar. "Juvia can't wait to visit Gray-sama, Juvia thinks this method will work!" I groaned. Oh God... Juvia had been trying different ways of getting me to notice her, each one getting harder to resist. The first one consisted of making a fool of herself; I was quite shocked when she put a frog costume on, and started hopping around the guild murmuring "ribbit."

If I thought about it, I suppose she had gotten my attention, but I knew that she didn't like how I responded to it. I had given her a loud speech about disturbing everyone and making a herself look like an imbecile in front of everyone. It was really harsh, but it was the only thing I could do to try and stop the torture that she was placing on me.

For her second attempt, she decided that she would sing a song to me. It was one of the most adorable and endearing things I had ever seen, but me, having a heart of ice, only stood up and walked away. The sound of her softly begging me to come back broke my heart over, and over again, but all I did was keep walking.

Yesterday, on her third attempt, she fell to the table I was sitting at with a bang and commanded that I talked to her. It was hilarious. She was so cute when she had been ranting. I started laughing, knowing that she would take it the wrong way. After she had ran away crying, and I had started banging my head on the wooden table, Mira came over to sit beside me. "Gray, why do you do this to her? She tries so hard to get your attention, and all you do is throw it back in her face. If you really want her to stop, you have to tell her. And do not be cruel!" She stood with a sigh.

"Mira," I started,"It is killing me to do this to her, but she needs to stay away. I will only up hurting her in the future!" I had gotten the entire guild's attention.

Lucy asked,"So what does that mean, do you like her?" Everyone's eyes stared at me expectantly.

"I...uhhh...well..."I stuttered, trying to find the right way to say it. Suddenly, it was like an explosion went off.

"GRAY LIKES JUVIA!"They all screamed. Everyone started to rush towards me with questions.

"Gray! When did this happen!?"A bewildered Natsu asked, and Happy thought it would be a great idea to add,"They liiikkkkeeeee each other!"

Erza yelled,"Why do you keep rejecting the poor girl?! She tries so hard!" Everyone nodded in agreement, questioning me.

"Well, it's not like I enjoy hurting her feelings! It breaks my heart every time I do it! But I am NOT good enough for her! I doesn't deserve her!" I screamed. It went silent. They all looked at me like I was stupid.

"Gray, why the hell wouldn't you be good enough for her?! I think she would love you, no matter what you did!" Erza stated. I hadn't realized that everyone would care so much. I stared at them blankly. There was no answer to their question. I didn't know why I thought I wasn't good enough. It had just always occurred to me that I didn't deserve her. I opened my mouth to answer, then closed it because I couldn't up with anything to say to them.

"Is this idiot serious?!"Natsu yelled.

"Watch it buddy! I don't see you making a move on the girl you like!"I retorted. That sure shut him up. I was glad that he had let that one tidbit of information slip one night while he was dreaming, now I always had something to hold against him. "Well, since everyone here is a love genius, how about some advice!?" I yelled at them, considering they were all still looking at me.

"You moron! The next time she tries to talk to you, talk back! If she tries to make a move on you, play along! Don't reject her!"Lucy screeched.

I replied with a simple,"Oh."Pause."Okay." After another ten seconds of the guild boring their eyes into my head, everyone turned away and proceeded to continuing what they had been doing before.

Wait. That was it? That simple? Wouldn't she be mad at me from all the past situations we had had? All the times I had been cruel to her? I didn't understand how someone could forgive me after all I had done, but I guess I would find out soon enough.

I listened intently, but didn't watch, as Mira said a good luck to Juvia. I sucked in a quick breath and waited for her to reach my table. What method was it this time? I wondered... It didn't matter! I would talk to her no matter what it was. I would finally get what I wanted so badly.

Her footsteps were heard behind me. So, of course, I panicked.

So, yeah, I know it's been forever since I uploaded the first chapter of Lurking in the Shadows, but ya know...**sigh** life is busy. I promise the next chapter will be upload soon. I hope everyone likes this new story! ;)