She would always dread lunch break. She did not mind being alone. She was afraid of being seen alone. All her life, she was always alone. Her parents abandoned her. Her friends left her. One by one everyone left her. Every time someone was with her it seemed gloomy. She made people feel gloomy. She was too boring. Having lived her life in an orphanage with everyone avoiding her, she never knew what to talk about.

At the age of 15, she was taken out of the orphanage and was placed in a high school. They found that she had quite a talent for science - she really excelled at that subject. The orphanage seemed eager to kick her out, she remembered the gleeful smiles on their faces when Emily had announced she was leaving the orphanage for a scholarship. She hated those faces, those faces she had grown up with.

Still, she was extremely thankful she could finally get out of that orphanage, she hated the people there and had bad memories that she did not want to remember. She sighed as she unlocked the door, placing her bag near the shoe rack. She walked lazily and plopped onto the sofa.


"Thank you." The old man nodded, and went away with the glass in his hand. He took a sip and smiled to himself, swirling the remaining liquid in the glass. She just beamed to herself. Although her job was tiring, she actually enjoyed her job, serving drinks and seeing the happy faces of her customers. Even though her parents left her with a lot of money in her bank account, she wanted to be independent, and help herself. Maybe her parents could be watching her from up there, and be proud of their daughter. Without her noticing someone was in front of her.

"Oh! Ano.. Juvia is s-sorry, Juvia did not see you. What can Juvia get for you?"

"Get me a glass of whiskey." The man in front of her grunted.

"S-sure! Coming right up. " She replied with her usual bubby self.

"Tch. Hurry up." the man looked away, and to her it looked like he was in deep thought.


Fucking Natsu. Gonna kill him. Why the hell did he had to break down my freaking window? Couldn't he just use the freaking door? Bastard. Stupid.

I quickly took a swig of the glass of whiskey I ordered. I pushed the glass towards the barmaid and ordered more whiskey. As she turned her back towards me to prepare my drink, I noticed her... nice round.. er.. ass. Since Natsu had made my day shitty why not stare at a barmaid's ass? Yeah, great thinking Gray.

"Here you go! Thank you mister. " Juvia bowed down to thank the man in front of her.

"Tch. You dont have to be so formal. Im your fuckin customer for goodness sake. And I'm not a mister! Dont make me sound like some hentai loving pervert. AND! Arent you a little too young to be working here!" Gray HAD to get this anger out of his system. He wanted to scold someone. He wanted to kill someone. He wanted to hire someone to stalk Natsu and watch his every movement and kill him and fry him and...

"Mister! Mister!" He opened his eyes and saw the barmaid waving one hand on his face.

"What. The. Fuck. Do. You. Want. AND, I AM NOT A MISTER! I AM GRAY FUCKING FULLBUSTER AND I WILL KILL NATSU DRAGNEEL!" He slammed his hands on the counter and stood up. He stared intensely into the barmaid's eyes, making her cower in fear.

"J-juvia iss s-sorry.. S orry..!" Everyone in the vicinity stared as Gray as he took deep breaths to calm himself down. He slowly sat down back on the chair.

"No. . Its okay.. Sorry. I just had a bad day, thats all." Her next response surprised him.

"Do you want to share it with Juvia? Juvia doesn't mind listening.." He noticed that she did not stutter at all.

Gray started to tell her, that some stupid idiot broke his window, and the said idiot did not want to pay for the repair of his window. He was also running short of money and couldn't afford to pay for the repair.. yet. So he came to the pub to get some drinks to take his mind off his window-less house.

"But Gray-sama, if you don't have any money how are you gonna pay for your drinks!" Juvia shrieked, she was scared if this Gray guy did not pay, business would go down and her boss might fire her. She did not want to get fired, she really enjoyed her job and it was something she considered fun.

"Who are you calling Gray-sama! And look I have money in my.. wallet... " As he clutched his side to find his wallet in his trousers he noticed there was no bulge there. Not that kind of bulge, but the bulge of his wallet. He looked down.. to see that he was only in his boxers. "Shit.. Shit shit shit?!" Gray was panicking. He sounded so sure that he had his wallet a minute ago but now his wallet was missing, and so were his trousers. He heard the barmaid sigh. He looked up and saw a look of sympathetic on her face. " It's okay Gray-sama, Juvia will pay for your drinks this time, but you have to return the money to Juvia!" Gray sighed in relief. He thought that this girl/woman would bring him to the police for not paying up.

"What is your name, o lovely barmaid?" Gray decided to play things around. He was tired of being angry for the whole day.

"D-dis Gray-sama not hear? Juvia's name is Juvia. Did you not notice?" Then realization struck his head. She was talking in a third person speech all along. He thought she was referring to someone else. Pft. He was so stupid.

"Okay then, Juvia, (he noticed she blushed when he said that) thank you! See you tomorrow!" He put on the best smile he could offer and turned towards the direction of the exit.

Juvia could only look at his back surprise. Tomorrow?


Wednesday. She sighed as she carried her heavy bag with her towards the library. Since nobody wanted to sit with her during lunch break, she just went to the library to study, or to read books. Today, she decided she would look through the forbidden section of the library.

"Wow.." Juvia murmured as she looked through the shelves. She didn't know such erotic titles even existed. Some had kinky titles while some had weird book covers that had.. pictures that were.. yeah. Juvia went to look at the highest rack on the shelf. She spotted a book that was black in colour. She retrieved the book and proceeded to read the title.

"50 shades of.. Gray? Gray-sama?" Her mind went flashing back to the strange man she met while working yesterday. The title of the book had piqued her interest. She definitely had to read that book.


"Good evening Gray-sama!" Juvia greeted him enthusiastically as he sat down on the chair.

"Yeah, yeah.. Whatever." He grunted in response.

"So Juvia. How much do I owe you?"

"Er... Ano.. Gray-sama doesnt have to pay Juvia back yet. Juvia doesn't mind if Gray-sama takes his time. Juvia will do anything for a friend." She managed to say all of that in one breath.

"Wait. We are friends? Since.. when?"

" Y-you m-mean G-grray s-ama doesnt want to be friends... With J-juvia!" The barmaid sobbed, a few tears flowing out of her eyes.

"No - no! What I mean is I barely know you, all I know about you is your name! S-stop crying!" Gray panicked. He didnt want the place to be drowned with tears. He also didn't want to make people think that he was the cause of her tears. It would be so unmanly.

"So.. G-gray sama wants to know more about Juvia?" She was smiling a little.

"Er.. Yeah. Anything. " Gray managed to give a small smirk. Maybe he should be friends with her.


It was four months since she had met him. She never knew that such a stranger who forgot to bring his money to pay for his drinks would become friends with. Every night, she would excitedly wait for 11 pm to strike for the man to appear and talk to her. She enjoyed the presence of him, to keep her company while she was doing work. One day on a Tuesday, he did not appear. She was confused. Did he already get bored of her? Was he going to leave her like all of her friends did? She could not help but anticipate the arrival of that man.

At around 2 am, the bell on the door rang, which meant that someone would have came in. She did not bother looking up, there would always be more people coming at around this timing.

"Oi Juvia! Get me a bottle! Wait no, give me two!"

She looked up from wiping the counter. There he was, all in his half nakedness looking at her. She noticed though, that his left arm was around someone's else shoulder. She had long wavy hair, her brown curls falling on her shoulders. She was only wearing a blue bra, and she had the same tattoo that he had on his chest. Hers was near her waist. Does that mean... they are together? Is that tattoo a sign of their love? I was so stupid. Maybe I was the only one thought me and him, would have something more than just friends. Maybe all this while, he only came here to be friends so I would pay for his drinks every time he came in his boxers. Was I... used? She gave him his two bottles and went over to another customer. Every time she glanced at them, he was smiling and laughing. If he's happy, then I'm happy too.


Thursday. Gray did not show up yesterday. She sighed. She was used to everyone ditching her after all. She sank comfortably in her sofa, and proceeded to read the book she had picked up 4 months ago. She only read it on a few days, and today, she was only left with the last ten pages of the book.

"Are you reading about me?"

She dropped her book. That voice... She turned her head to her right and saw..

Yeap. Gray fucking Fullbuster.

Somehow he trapped her in between his arms and his head was on her shoulder.

"G-g-gray ssama! W-w-what are you doing!"

His reply was silent. His right hand went into her skirt pocket. She felt his fingers brush against her thigh. She felt everything. His hand finally found it and took it out of her pocket. He punched in his number and called it, so that both him and her would get each other's number.

"See you later.. Ju-via. " He lingered near her ear, his hot breathing making her spine tingle in excitement.

When Gray had walked away from her, a few giggles could be heard from another shelf.

"So that's the girl you l- mmmfhebb!" Gray had silenced the pinkette clamping his hand onto his mouth.

"Sorry! I'm Natsu, and I think you are Juvia? Buahaha! Stripper has told me so much about y- mmddhhbb - Gray! Stop it! "

"Sorry Juvia. Bye." As the half naked guy and the pinkette walked away, Juvia couldnt help thinking.. Was Gray gay?


She was having the shock of her life. Yes. When 11 pm struck, a whole gang of people came into the pub. She noticed that all of them had the same tattoo as Gray did.

L-love harem? , she thought.

"Juvia. "

Gray sama?

"Ju-vi-a."

"Yes Gray-sama?"

"These are my friends, the one from Fairy Tail. The club that I told you about. " Gray had to speak a little louder since the said club was making a lot of noise.

"Eehh? Fairy Tail?!" Juvia was surprised. She didn't expect Fairy Tail to be this rowdy. Behind Gray's back, she could see the same pinkette that was seen with Gray at the library yesterday. This time, he was wearing a vest and black trousers.

"Yo, Juvia" Natsu said, his arm around the shoulder of a blonde.

"Hi Juvia! I'm Lucy."

Why were they all talking to her...?

The brown haired girl she had seen on Tuesday came up to her. " Juviaaa. Bring me a bottle."

HOW DID THEY ALL KNOW HER NAME?

"Fine. Juvia, come here." Gray gently tugged her wrist and let her to the storage room.

'B-but.. the bar!"

"Tch. You care more about the bar than me."


I'm not sure if I should continue this, so leave me some positive feedback if I should continue this or not. ^-^

~mitchhy