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Memories of you and I- Chapter four.

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
―Albert Camus


Gray was sitting in Lucy's apartment feeling very uncomfortable.

Lucy and Erza had taken him away from the guild and straight to the blondes' apartment. They said that a talk was needed, but Gray did not expect this kind of talk.

He was sitting in an arm chair while the two mages paced around the room in frustration. They sent him cold glances every few minutes as they contemplated on what to say.

Finally Erza turned to him and half yelled, "Gray! You stupid idiot!"

Well, that really didn't get us anywhere.

"Um, why am I even here?" Gray muttered, hoping that the Titania would spare his life.

"You really have no idea, do you?" This time it was Lucy who was almost yelling.

"No, that's why I asked-"

"Not about this! About Juvia!"

"Juvia? What the hell?"

Both female mages sighed in frustration and continued to pace around the room, both trying to resist the urge of harming the ice mage.

"How can we put this in a way you will understand?" Lucy questioned.

"How bout," Erza began as she approached Gray, "Juvia had feelings for you but now you have messed it up. Understand?"

"I know she does! Wait what! What do you mean by 'had'?" Gray asked with a slight panicked tone.

"Ugh! You really are that stupid!" The blonde celestial mage groaned, "Juvia really liked you, even when you completely ignored her! But now you have ignored her one too many times and she is moving on from you, I can see it! Otherwise she wouldn't of given Lyon a chance! Otherwise she wouldn't of kept wearing his necklace! And now you are trying to lead her on again when she is trying to move on, its so obvious!"

Gray was shocked, no, shocked was an understatement. His suspicions of Juvia ignoring him were now proven, but now even more had been added on. He knew that the water mage had feelings for him, but hearing someone say it to him so casually embarrassed and shocked him.

Juvia? Moving on from me? What does Lucy even mean. What did I do? Well I guess I do ignor- Wait, her birthday. That must have been it, so she really is upset. Wait, what necklace?

"What necklace?" Gray blurted out.

"That is all you got from that?" Lucy said disappointed, "Lyon gave Juvia a necklace on her birthday and she was really happy that even knew her birthday. Didn't you see her wearing it earlier?"

Now that Lucy mentioned it, he had noticed her wearing a necklace that he hadn't seen before, but he didn't think anything of it.

Then he remembered that her birthday had been over two weeks ago, and that she was still wearing it. The thought of Lyon even giving Juvia a present agitated him, but the fact that she was continuing to wear it was making his blood boil.

Shouldn't she know that wearing some guys necklace would make it look like she was 'his'.

He mentally punched his head for thinking of Juvia as Lyons'.

"So what are you going to do now?" Erza said, snapping Gray out of his thoughts.

"Huh?"

"I know you Gray, and I know that you like her. Maybe you don't know it yet, but I can tell."

Gray felt heat travel to his face and he tried to suppress any sign of blushing. "What are you saying!?"

"Ugh, still in denial." Lucy shook her head.

"Regardless of that," Erza said as she looked right into Gray's eyes, "What are you going to do now?"

What was he going to do? Gray didn't understand what she had meant. He was confident that Juvia would decline Lyon and she would go back to her normal routine of stalking him.

But what if she didn't? Shouldn't he be happy? He could finally have the privacy he wanted, and he wouldn't have to deal with her annoying clinginess anymore. She wouldn't follow him around anymore, and she wouldn't constantly be at his side.

But that thought did not sit well with him, in fact he felt a sharp pain in his chest when he imagined Juvia not following him.

But what could he expect? Now as he looked back on their relationship, he realised that most of the time he was ignoring and neglecting the water mage. But she constantly came back to him and she never gave up on persisting him. And that was something Gray liked.

He had gotten comfortable. That was the word he had chosen to describe it. Comfortable of the routine in his and Juvia's relationship. Comfortable about the fact that no matter how many times he ignored her, she would keep following him around.

And now, as he sat in front of two waiting eyes, he realised what he had known all along.

Juvia wasn't always going to be following him around.

No girl would chase after a guy forever if they didn't show any affection toward them, and in his case attention. Juvia wasn't going to wait around forever, she wanted her own life, her own love and probably her own family.

Juvia could leave. She could leave her habits of stalking him and trying to earn his affection. She could leave her persistent attempts in conversing with him and she could leave her constant fantasies about them.

Because somebody could make her fantasies a reality.

And if Lyon had his way, it would be him. Maybe Juvia would be better off with him, after all he did pay her attention and show his feelings toward her. But Gray couldn't stand the idea of Juvia returning those feelings, and showing all her attention on Lyon instead of him.

Stupid feelings. They seem to be constantly coming up around Gray, well, ever since Juvia had appeared. She was so persistent, so outspoken, she didn't get embarrassed when she expressed her love and she could openly, and in front of people, declare her feelings.

Juvia had wedged her way into his life forcefully. She didn't give up on him no matter how mean he was too her, which why he was so surprised when he heard Erza's next statement:

"She's left you, Gray."

He knew it, a part of him knew it the moment she called him 'Gray-san'.

Juvia could leave.

And as much as it hurt his heart, he knew.

She already left.

"So," Erza pulled him out of his thoughts, "How are you gonna get her back?"


Juvia fidgeted in her seat. She was nervous, especially since everyone was watching her every movement.

The guild was like any other day, loud and chaotic. But Juvia noticed, almost immediately, that a certain ice mage was absent that day. She was actually thankful that he wasn't there, it was too hard and painful to see his perfect face.

She didn't want to see the man she was so crazy for on the day she would go out with a man that was so crazy for her.

Juvia had decided to accept the invitation and go with Lyon to the dinner. After all, he did buy her a necklace and cheered her up when she needed it. And he was nice to her, maybe a little too nice. Despite his tendencies to make her uncomfortable, Juvia was a little excited to go out with him.

And it would help her get her mind away from Gray. Who, despite her futile attempts, still managed to appear in her mind.

She had thought that it would be hard to let go of her feelings toward Gray, but not this hard. She had barely changed since her resolution she had made to herself two weeks ago.

Snapping out of her thoughts she realised that Cana was tapping her shoulder and pointing toward the door, where a white haired man was standing.

Juvia gulped and rose from her chair, she could feel the eyes of her guild following her and it made her knees wobble.

"Juvia-chan! Have you made up your mind." Lyon smiled and greeted the said bluenette.

"Juvia has."

"Good, though I don't want to pressure you into it or anything."

Juvia smiled at the man's concern, he really did have her best interest in mind.

"Juvia will go."

Fairy Tail fell completely silent as everybody stood, open mouthed, staring at the couple at the door.

"It's the least she could do since you bought her a gift."

Lyon, who seemed to be the first to recover from the shock, smiled widely as he took the bluenette's hand and kissed it, causing the said bluenette to turn red.

"That is great! I will meet you there at seven? I gave Lucy the address."

Juvia nodded her head, "Juvia will be there at seven."

"I am so excited Juvia-chan! I cannot wait! Well, I'll see you tonight, at seven?"

"Mhm."

Lyon and Juvia shared their goodbyes before the ice mage left. Juvia returned to her seat while everyone roared questions in her direction.

The water mage sighed then excused herself and made her way back to her apartment at Fairy Hills. She knew that it was early in the afternoon, but she wasn't in the mood to be around the Guild, most likely because Gray was due back at any minute.

Juvia opened her door and fell onto her bed, a familiar warmth surrounded her.

She should be happy. She finally was going on a date with a boy who liked her. A boy who remembered her birthday, who had bought her a gift, who didn't ignore, who expressed his feelings toward her and a boy who paid attention to her.

She felt a tear escape the corner of her eye but she blamed it on the fact that she was tired.

Her hand made its way to her chest and she felt the silver chain that was still hanging off of her neck.

She should be happy.

So why was she laying in bed crying?

She wiped her tears and rose from her bed, making her way to her closet to choose a dress for her date with Lyon.

Date... with Lyon.

It just didn't feel right.


Authors notes- Wow I wrote this chapter in two hours! Yes! I am sorry if it was bad, I didn't plan it and I wrote it all at once, but everyone was so nice so I wanted to update. I am sorry Gray and Juvia had no interaction in this chapter, they do in the next one.

This chapter was really sad but the next one should be more fluffy.

Questions to be answered in the next chapter:

How will Gray get Juvia back?

What will happen at Juvia and Lyon's date?

What will Juvia and Gray say to each other when they meet?