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About this dimension... I just don't know where they are.

I'm writing this with Argentina's things like educational sistem, climate, bla bla bla

But I will also write some festive days that are not from here!

So yeah, my dimension is kind of odd

But again, is my dimension!

Expect some mistakes minna!


~ 3 ~

"Hey, Juvia" the black haired guy said as he watched her moving in the kitchen.

"Hmm?" she almost ignored him as she looked for everything needed.

"What are you doing?"

They were back from grocery shopping and Juvia was really thankful for the extra pair of arms that helped her on carrying the bags.

"A strawberry cake" she said gleefully and took out a mold. "Tonight we're celebrating Erza's new degree".

Gray's eyes widened a bit and Juvia bet he suppressed a shiver. "D-don't tell me-".

The blue haired girl nodded. "Yep, now she's a third dan of tae-kwon do".

The silence grew in the room as she simply looked for the ingredients and he still pondered about her words.

From Gray's point of view, the fact that their friend, Erza Scarlet, gained another degree in her black belt of the said martial art meant that the beatings he and Natsu were going to get from her, were going to be much worse from the previous ones. "Titania", the karate freak as the boys called her when she was not around, was a motherly figure in their circle due to her concern and love, but mainly for being the one who scolded them all when they did something stupid.

Of course, her reprimands were through her fists mostly of the times.

"Already thinking in your future beating?" she asked mockingly.

"Jeez, don't read my mind please" he said going by her side.

She chuckled and broke an egg into the bowl, then she stretched an arm and he placed another egg on her palm. "I will be your dead man, with nothing but this blood on my hands..." she begun chanting for herself as she broke a third one and stirred them.

"So, Deadman Wonderland is your current obsession" he commented.

She nodded still beating with the whisk. "The manga is awesome and this month the last part of the last chapter is being published".

"So you are going to go all 'Rainy woman' while reading it" he stated smirking.

She nodded helplessly. "Without a doubt".

Much to Juvia's dismay, there was nothing she could do about that nickname. Her easiness when it came down to crying and conveying her feelings or emotions were the main reason her friends begun calling her 'Rainy woman'.

"Sugar, please" she said in a sad sigh as she realized she was going to be like that pretty soon. It was like her way of saying farewell to a manga; if the last page of the final chapter made her shear tears or she felt a hollow in her chest as if something that was there a few minutes ago had been ripped off from there, then that manga was a masterpiece and went directly to her favourites.

He passed her the sugar and she beat everything until it had a pale colour. "Oh" she said when she noticed her fingertip covered with the same light yellow blend. She was turning around and heading for the sink with the clearly intention of washing her hands when Gray grasped her wrist. "Wait a minute".

Juvia was going to ask him what was the matter but when her eyes looked at him she knew what was going on.

"Oh my god, oh my god" her inner self cried "He's going to lick my finger! He's going to suck the tip like those sexy guys do in shoujo mangas" she stared expectantly at his mouth, her mind already picturing the scene and her lungs holding her breath unconsciously. Gray brought her hand closer to him and she was going to squeak for that simple move throw oil on the flames of her imagination.

But he only cleaned her finger with his own before putting it between his lips.

"Mmm, beaten eggs and sugar are delicious" he let go of her hand as he made sure there was no mixture left to lick in his fingertip. "What?" he added with an arched eyebrow when he noticed her widened eyes looking at him.

She blinked and started chuckling after a second. "It's nothing" she shook her head slightly and looked for the next ingredient.

I'm such an idiot.


"Nii-san?"

After closing the door, Gajeel Redfox turned around and found her blue haired sister standing in the frame of the kitchen. The bags in her hand and the guilty smile plastered in her face spoke for her.

The dark haired man groaned and rolled his eyes. "Whose house is?" he asked opening the door once more.


"Thank you very much, nii-san!" Juvia gave him a quick kiss in the cheek and no time to complain for she was already out of the car. Her brother lowered the driver's window as she made her way to Levy's door. "You'd better call me tomorrow; don't you dare coming back on your own".

Juvia giggled while pressing the ring. "I know" she said a little loud for him to hear while waving her hand.

A voice from behind the door asked for an identification. "Hi, Levy" the blue haired girl announced herself with the greeting.

"Juvia!" the petite blue haired one known as Levy Mcgarden flung her arms around her as soon as she stepped outside.

This energetic welcome made the tallest girl giggle while returning the embrace. However, the sudden stiffness in Levy's arms surprised her. Juvia parted from her friend to see her face and found out that she wouldn't know how to describe those features. She couldn't tell which one of them were betraying her -maybe all of them were- but the fact that her friend was embarrassed was undeniable, and it took her a few seconds to realize her brother was the responsible of that.

Levy had a tiny smile on her lips as her eyes looked shyly at the guy in the car. She waved her hand a bit and blushed when the guy lifted his own in response. As for Gajeel, Juvia couldn't help but giggle after seeing an equally timid smile on her brother's face; it was a smile without showing his teeth, something odd in him since he always smirked rather than smiled. She made her way inside leaving the other two behind.

"Congratulations, Erza!" was the first thing she said handing the bag in her right hand to a scarlet haired girl who was seating in an individual couch. "Your favourite cake is here!".

Titania's jaw dropped a little, moved by the gesture. "S-strawberry cake?" she asked and almost jump in excitement after the blue haired girl had nodded. She instantly aroused and placed the cake on the coffee table of Levy's living room. "You shouldn't have bothered" she said with a wide smile, her arm surrounding Juvia's shoulders and bringing her closer to her frame.

"Next time, give her the cake and run for it before she catches you in one of her deathly hugs, Juvia!" the advice was given by a brown haired girl sitting on a large sofa. The white haired one right next to her laughed. "Erza, I think she's not breathing".

The titania patted the blue mane roughly and finally let her go. She picked up her cake and went to the kitchen to put it on the fridge. Juvia rubbed her neck giggling as she greeted Cana and Lisanna. "Huh, Lucy's not here?".

"I'm right here, darling" a mocking voice replied from the kitchen. Lucy stepped into the room with five glasses piled up as Levy closed the door.

"Should I order the pizza, then?" the blue haired host asked.

Cana made a devilish smile. "Oh, no. I will do it" she said standing up and going for the phone. "You just stay there and keep on waving your hand to her brother" she said pointing at Juvia.

Levy ended up laughing along with the others after a moment. She didn't try to neglect anything for her crush on Gajeel Redfox was already a fact.

"Ne, ne; why don't you go with him to the spring festival next weekend?" Lisanna suggested.

"Wa, there's no way I could do that" the petite girl covered her face; the simple thought of asking him out was enough to make her shiver with embarrassment.

Cana tsked shaking her head. "Come on, Levy. Mama is going with papa as usual" whenever Jellal Fernandez was called 'papa', the four girls giggled and the scarlet haired one lowered her gaze to the floor, unable of saying anything since that was another undeniable fact. "Lucy is going with her flame idiot" Cana went on and the blond mumbled something. "I'm going with Bacchus and Lisanna with Bixlow; and as always, the only ones who have no dates are you two, blue haired idiots!" she said pointing at Juvia and Levy with an accusing finger.

Juvia shrugged. "It doesn't bother me; it's spring festival after all, not st valentine"

Cana folded her arms over her chest. "I'm truly concerned, Juvia. At least Levy likes your brother, but you" Juvia rolled her eyes as Cana pointed her finger once more "you don't even like someone!"

Lisanna tilted her head a bit. "Ju-chan, haven't you liked or at least found some guy attractive in your seventeen years?"

Juvia sighed. She knew that her 'utter purity', as her friends called it, was going to be the topic of chat occasionally, but she didn't expected it to be so soon.

"Of course I found some men attractive as we all do. But I had never liked some one before" she shrugged again.

Cana was shaking her head, feigning disappointment. "It's just so unfair to us" this sentence made the other four look at her with puzzlement. "We can't even call you "bitch" when we are mad at you!"

"H-hey! I think that's a good thing" Juvia defended herself.

"Should I call you "nun" during those times then?" the brunette asked with arched eyebrows.

"Enough with the names" Erza butted in and looked at Cana. "Stop it already; there's no need to rush when it comes to matters of love"

"You are just defending your favourite daughter because she brought you a strawberry cake!"

After they all laughed for a while, Cana spoke again. "Oh, I'm so silly" she said as she had forgotten something and was just remembering it. "I'm worrying too much". The brunette smacked her head lightly. "How could I forget about your already assigned soul mate, Gray Fullbuster?!"

"WHAT?!" Juvia's voice came out really high-pitched.

Lisanna nodded nonchalantly. "Now that I think about it, you do get along well" she said with a finger under her chin.

Juvia tried to regain her normal tone before speaking. "Oh, no. We are just friends".

Cana shook her head. "They all say that at first, but then, BAM!" the sudden raise in her voice made Juvia jump.

"Come on, Juvia. You spend a lot of time with him"

"You share the same interests" Levy nodded.

"Stop it right there; we like manga and thus, 99% of our conversations are about that; the remaining 1% has to do with other things. We don't really know each other pretty much".

Cana whistled. "So, you two are that close just by talking of anime?"

Juvia couldn't say anything but thankfully, Erza came to her rescue. "I'm hungry, so stop asking her about the stripper and ORDER THE PIZZA ALREADY". It was not only the command in her voice but her piercing eyes that made them leave the topic; after all, Erza managed to point a sword at you just by locking her eyes. Juvia smiled at her as Levy called the delivery, and Titania winked in response.


They were all asleep except for Juvia; she had been staring into the darkness for quite a while.

She had told the truth back then; she didn't know him that much apart from the basis. And they did talked about manga or anime a lot; after all, they became friends thanks to that. The only thing she knew about his personal life was that he lived with his sister and mother. Of course, she had no idea of what happened to his father; after all, Juvia never asked people about their matters for she herself was truly reserved about her own.

It was strange but even without knowing him from head to feet she did felt him a dear friend of her; one of the dearest indeed.

And it was not the first time some one asked her about him; she always replied calmly, hardly listening to them. But this time, some memories came to her mind after hearing his name and her voice almost hit the ceiling.

She sighed and decided to have some tea. She got up trying her best to not make too much noise or stomp over someone's head or limb, and slipped into the kitchen.

She chanted a random song as she waited for the infusion to be ready. When she liked the colour of the beverage, she took out the tea bag and turned.

"Lucy" she jumped when she spotted the blond leaning her shoulder against the door frame. "You scared me, idiot!" she said with her free hand over her chest, feeling her raced heart after skipping a beat.

Her friend unfolded her arms and made her way to Juvia. "W-what?" she asked her as she noticed the scrutiny gaze on the other's caramel eyes.

"What's up with you?" she asked in a low voice.

"Huh?"

Lucy lifted an eyebrow. "Don't play dumb with me, you know that I can see right through you" she said as her fingers pointed first to her eyes and then to Juvia's. She folded her arms once more. "So split it up; why did you act like that when Cana mentioned Gray?"

"I said we are just friends like every time you ask about that" she shrugged and brought the cup to her lips trying to sound natural about the subject.

The blonde didn't move nor say anything.

"F-fine" she finally sighed admitting defeat. Lucy took the cup from her hands before seating in a chair. Juvia's seat was signaled by the waiting tea placed on the table in front of the chair across the blond.

"I'm listening" her friend smiled and rested her chin on her entangled fingers as she always did whenever she was going to provide silence for a while.

Juvia looked away from her while sipping her beverage, trying to find the words. After a few minutes she left the empty cup on the wood surface and glanced at her.

"D-do you remember last night at his house, when the lights turned off and you went home leaving me alone in his room?" she asked and received a roll of eyes that meant of course I do, that was yesterday as confirmation. "Well, I'm probably over thinking this but something strange happened".

Lucy simply nodded. Go on.

Juvia inhaled deeply and decided to say it without a prologue.

"We kind of, ended up sweaty and exhausted after a tickling match that was nearly a wrestling round" she felt the blush creeping on her cheeks and couldn't maintain eye contact. "We were really close all the time and somehow he even rested on top of me. And my scumbag brain keeps on replaying the episode; his breath in my ear, his smirks, the way his fingers touched my skin-"

"Hold on right there!" Lucy broke her silence abruptly and even held her hand up claiming for hush. "Juvia, you are narrating this as if you two had tried to have sex with your clothes on, so please-" she was going to ask for another choose of words when she looked at her friend's features; the lips clutched in a fine line, the color on her cheeks and the look her cerulean orbs were giving back. Lucy's hand smacked her forehead and slipped down her face. "W-what did you two do?"

Maybe the prologue is needed after all. And Juvia explained the events with every detail.

"JUVIA!" the blond couldn't help but yell after listening the story and her friend hushed her with a finger on her lips; the last thing she wanted was waking up the other girls. Her mind was not strong enough to even think about Cana learning about that.

"I'm sorry". Lucy sighed and Juvia waited for her to say something. After a brief gap, the caramel eyes looked up and a crocked smile was drawn on her face. "Who would have thought you are the kind of girl who takes the lead" she begun with her thumb under her chin "I mean you actually seated on top of him".

Juvia covered her face embarrassed. "Please, don't say that; I have no idea of why I did it".

"And you even moaned" she added. Juvia grabbed the spoon from the cup and hit her forehead with it. "Ouch!"

She held the utensil up at the other's eye level. "Have you seen "The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon" by Richard Gale? Beware or else you are going to be the next" she said menacingly.

The blond nodded while rubbing the impacted area and the spoon was left on the table.

"Don't worry Juvia, it was just a game" Lucy folded her legs and embraced them "A little odd but just a game between two childish friends".

"I know that's what I said a hundred or so times to myself". Her blue locks danced as she shook her head. "But I actually moaned, Lucy, like an animal! And my body moved on its own account due to my mind was gone to just the Lord knows where" she was all red again and looked at her hands. "To top it all, like I said before, I'm the only one over thinking it. This morning, he acted all casual, as if nothing had happened, even after seeing me without a shirt!" she cupped her cheeks. "I-it's not that I was expecting him to jump over me or anything but-"

"JUVIA!"

"W-what?!" she looked up.

"Natsu had to wait at least eight months before looking at me without a shirt and you are telling me Gray had already saw you half-naked?!" her hands moved frantically.

"I-it's not like I wanted idiot!" her clenched fists flung in the air. "Jeez, listen to me first" she said before explaining.

"As you can see, it was just an accident. I was the whole morning thinking how I was going to act the next time I saw him and it turned out he was already there" she finished covering her eyes with her right hand.

"Juvia" Lucy's voice made the other look up at her. "Are you two stuck in the so-called 'friend zone' by chance?"

"Of course not" she answered annoyed. "You are friendzoned when you are helplessly in love and the other person is oblivious to your feelings. And since neither he nor I have feelings for each other apart from those of friendship, we are far away from there". Deciding that the chat was over and it was time to sleep, she picked up the cup and left the table.

Lucy looked at her with disbelief. "Then, if you are so sure of this, how would you explain what happened in his room or your nervousness about seeing him?" she stood up too and stretched her limbs. "Nothing like that happened to me with any of my male friends, only with the pink idiot" she assured putting down her arms. "Anyway, I'm not pushing you with the matter. Do as you think since you are the only one that listens both, your heart and brain" she shrugged before stepping out of the kitchen.

Her words seemed to lower Juvia's movements. As she thought about her friend's words she placed the cup on the sink with too much care, far from needed.


Keep ond denying it Juvia, but you are going to fall for him without a doubt. Muahaha (?

I hope you could bare with it. I'm not fully satisfied with this update, but I simply wanted to write this to get it out of my mind. Maybe I'll be able to study now -.- So sorry for the bad update haha

I made Juvia a bit of an otaku for obvious purposes: her theatre like imagination! And yes, YOU MUST READ DEADMAN WONDERLAND.

And I do cry from time to time after reading a great manga, so I had to include that on the story xD

Btw, I can't wait to write Gruvia moments! Be patience people, next time is spring festival and some cute moments are coming, yay!

I too hope life to be nice to you and not so bitchie like she has been with me lately xD

Till chapter four :)

Yumeko nee.

Pd: the latest pic Mashima posted on twitter about Gray and Juvia is soooooooooooooo sweet! There's no way I'm not using it in this story, for summer time!