Gray was sitting on one of the benches they had in the school grounds, laughing, and joking with his friends as usual. He was having a good time at least until he saw Bora strolling down the hall, not very far from where they sat, with his hand draped around the waist of the girl he was with.

The group's laughter was cut off when Gray suddenly asked, "Are Juvia and Bora still together?"

Loke turned to where Gray was looking at and saw that Bora was holding a girl. He wasn't the smartest, but he knew very well that the said guy was clearly flirting with the girl he was with. He muttered a "Tch." before turning back to his group again, not wanting to look at such an annoying sight. Loke was known to be a playboy but he surely didn't hit on other girls every time he had a girlfriend.

Natsu and Elfman didn't even look at the sight and just shook their heads in disapproval.

"Good thing Gajeel's not here. We know very well what would happen to that douche if Gajeel witnessed what just happened right now." Jellal said, somewhat relieved but still a bit irritated with what they just saw.

"That Bora isn't being a man!" Elfman commented.

"Kinda wish metal-face was here." Natsu said.

"Yeah, that dick could really use some beating right now. Such a dick-face dick." Loke added.

"Why don't Juvia just break up with that guy? I mean, what's there to lose? He's clearly not someone worth holding on to." Gray butted in.

Jellal answered, "Apparently, Juvia doesn't want to. I kinda overheard Gajeel talking to her about how stupid she was for even thinking about starting a relationship with Bora. She just told him that she needed to move on and find someone new or something."

"Did she have a boyfriend before him?", Gray buzzed.

The boys stared at him all at the same time. Natsu was the one who broke the silence. "Seriously, Gray. Just how dense can you be?"

"We're in our fourth year already and you still don't know?" Elfman commented.

"Know what? And I'm not dense! That coming from you, flame-brain? I'm clearly insulted!" Gray dramatically put his hand on his forehead and acted disgusted.

"Oh yeah? You wanna go at it ice-princess?" Natsu answered back.

"Stupid slanty eyes!"

"Droopy eyes!"

Loke, Jellal, and Elfman just watched as their two dumb friends went at it again like it was such a normal thing.

After "fighting" with Natsu, Gray let the other guys head on to football practice first and went on to find his lost shirt. "Damn Ul for this stripping habit." Gray kept looking for his shirt until he spotted it near a tree. "How did this even get here?" Gray said both exasperated and impressed with how much he unconsciously strips everywhere.

He put his shirt on and decided to go to training when a familiar set of blue locks grazed past his eyes. He saw Juvia walking at the hall, obviously in deep thought. He went after her and pulled her backwards slightly just before she hit the pole in front of her.

"Wow, either you're thinking deeply or you're going blind for walking straight to that pole alright." Gray said, amused.

"Ju-Juvia was just- I wasn- I- the post-." Juvia tried to come up with words.

Gray laughed. 'She's cute when she does that.'

"It's okay, y'know. Just don't go bumping into other poles next time." He said, smiling.

"Yes!" Juvia replied.

'Might as well ask her about what happened earlier.'

"Hey, listen. About Bora. I thought I saw you two earlier and did he-"

"Sorry! Juvia forgot she's got an errand to do! Bye!" and she dashed off.

'Really? Just like that?' Gray thought.

"Oi stripper!" Gajeel called while running towards Gray. "Coach told me to drag your late ass to practice. Said he'll kick you outta the team if you take one more minute before you go there."

"Tch. Race you there, metal-head." Gray answered back.

Gajeel glared at him but ran to practice nonetheless.

'I miss the old Juvia.' Gray thought as he dashed towards the football field.

Hi guys! I'm still trying to build the story up and I want this first encounter to give off a glimpse of Juvia and Gray's relationship by showing this part from both of their views. :) Thank you guys for the reviews on the first chapter! Those type of stuff really encourage me to try and do better. Comments and reviews are very much appreciated! I'm already working on the next chapter since I still have free time now. But most likely, I won't be able to update this week since it's our exam week. It's really hard to deal with university stuff. Actually, I started writing this story so I could relieve myself from some of the stress. Okay, enough babbling hahaha. You guys are such amazing readers!

I changed some parts here. I can't believe I forgot to include that last line when in fact, it's supposed to be kind of the highlight of the chapter. T_T