I don't own Fairy Tail, which I hoped I did :P
Martygruvialover - I understand. Her is one of the flirty women Juvia is jealous of. Loke is Loki just a nickname (sorry it wasn't clear!). I truly want to see what do for her now that he understand what he is losing!
Guest(1)- can you see the feelings flowing from theirs. We as humans fell so much every single moment and most of the time it the precisely opposite and it doesn't make us hypocritical and neither Gray and Juvia, they are humans like us.
Releina Artemis Rockefeller- I understand you completely. In a few years and when the time is right she could press the button but who knew what the future holds for us?
Guest(2)- I can see where this is coming from, but I hope at the end of this chapter your opinion will change.
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The Begining of the End.
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Start over.
Today was a hot sunny day, as always. The summer itself was still sweating, and the location of the city didn't help at all. The proximity to the sea was a five-minute ride at a slow pace like a turtle.
The humidity was thick, and you didn't have to try to sweat. Just stand in the sun for less than two minutes, and you're already dripping with sweat. It wasn't a day to go to work or get out of the air conditioner in the house, but Juvia knew what she had to do, if she stayed home, she would start thinking, and unwelcome thoughts would come to visit.
She rises quickly before the unwanted thoughts return to her head. She washed her face and dressed in a tight but modest dress and hurriedly put on makeup. Juvia tried to get to the car as soon as possible without becoming a puddle on the way.
Today she begins her new job. She would start working in journalism, she was halfway to her degree in literature, and after a book, she wrote but couldn't bring herself to send it to publishers companies.
The trip didn't take long, about half an hour without traffic. Juvia went into the office for the first time, and the blue color caught her eyes. The secretary's desk was blue, the floor rug was furry and blue, and the walls were blue too, painted sky-blue, even the air smelled blue, the smell of blueberries and sweetness. Luckily the secretary wasn't blue or wore an item that resembled blue. Juvia went to her after a moment's wavering.
"Welcome to the newspaper 'Noga.' How can I help you? " Said the secretary pleasantly.
"Hello," Juvia said formally, "Juvia Lockser, the new writer for the entertainment section."
The secretary beat at her happily.
"They informed me that a new woman was joining the newspaper," she said.
Juvia smiled and thought to herself that she might be happy here.
The office spread over the entire floor. The departments were many. Sports, politics, economics, gossip, general, entertainment, and so forth.
Each of the department had a room divided into three small cubicles. 'Noga' was not as big as New York Times or Weekly Sorcerer, and that was just because it was spread for the first time a year and a half ago. Juvia got the job after one of the writers went to work for New York Times.
She parted from Rose and went into a room that was marked "Entertainment" in decorated and curly letters. She knocked twice on a door and opened it. Juvia forced herself to smile but could not get rid of the tension in her body.
"Hello?"
She said in a small voice. Two men were waiting for her. One of them was wearing an open blue blazer, an elegant black shirt, matching black trousers, and black moccasins. His dirty blond hair contradicted the whole outfit. The other is a short bald man in the most flowered shirt Juvia has ever seen with tight red slacks.
"Juvia Lockser, isn't it? Chris told us you'd come," the bald man said.
"You're too early." The blond grumbled.
"I didn't know how long it would take me to get here, so I left early ..." she finished in a whisper.
The bald man held out his hand.
"Lewis Kurmet and the jaunty blond is Ryan Shous."
"Very nice to meet, Juvia Lockser." She pressed his hand and moved to Ryan, who was looking at her hand as if offering to touch a dog's poop without a plastic bag. She pulled her hand back and smiled at them. It would take her time to bond with them, and she was okay with it. It's like the first day of high school, and all you have to do is what she always did. To be herself.
She felt a shaking from her purse. She took out the cell phone and saw a message from Lyon.
Lyon: "Beautiful, good morning, hope you will have a good first day at your new job ... love and think about you."
She quickly typed an answer.
Juvia: "Good morning, favorable here and the co-workers are a bit hard to crack, but I'll break them with my magic, love too."
She looked at Lewis who had said something to her, and she hadn't heard him.
"Sorry, I didn't hear" she played with her hair and was determined to listen this time.
"Chris has already explained pretty much everything, hasn't he?"
She remembered the conversation with Chris that the entertainment department was dealing with new books coming out, movies, restaurants, shows, standups, singers, albums, radio stations and so on. She nodded.
"Because you're new, you'll be in charge of two things this month, books and albums. You have to be in the office three times a week like you did decide with Chris, and if there's something urgent, we'll call you and send it to you in an email or a messenger."
Juvia laughed. His expression when he said books and looked at her like she was ready for her to run out screaming.
"There can be no better than that," she chirped.
Ryan looked at her as if she had fallen off the moon.
"He said books" he stressed.
Juvia gave him a look of 'shut up, I'm not dense.'
"I love to read. I always will love to read, analyze and get money on that, this my dreams work."
They were stunned, here is a 25-year-old woman who loves to read. She knew that people like her were extinct in the digital world. They gave her a list of books and their copies. They point her to her table. She started with the first book. "The Dream of an Immigrant" She was drawn to the book until she felt a tingle on the table and saw two messages from Lyon.
Lyon: "I give them half an hour before they fall in love with you. Of course, we're going! Think about what movie you want."
Lyon: "Just reminds you that you should eat, don't get too occupied at work."
Juvia: "Thank you, they brought me a book to read, and I got into it. Maybe something of Marvel, I'm going to eat outside to get to know the surroundings a bit."
Lyon: "If you find a nice spot, we'll sit there when I come to visit you (Imogi Kiss)," he said.
Juvia: "I'm going to talk to you after lunch, I'll sit down to learn a little bit, love (hearts)."
At lunch, she went to eat alone in a restaurant close to the office. She knew I would be hard to make friends in the competitive environment of the newspapers. She knew it would take time, so her co-workers at the office to open up to her. She didn't worry about it.
She ate peacefully while she tried to learn a little for the test that she has in two weeks at the university. It's the final exam of her second year. While she was studying, she tried not drop pieces of mashed potatoes on her summaries but without success. Suddenly she heard someone sit down on the other side of the table.
"Juvia," said a familiar voice, a voice she hadn't heard in nearly two years.
She raised her head and saw the same person she thought she would never see again, the one she had gone out of her way not to run into again.
"Gray" she breathed heavily "What are you doing here?".
He raised his eyebrows and didn't answer.
"How are you?" He asked with a frightening calmness.
He was more subtle than she had ever been. She didn't find some smart answer to remark, so she was satisfied with the good old "okay and you?".
She didn't see him for two years and all of her choices, at first she thought she would be able to break entirely with him and still keep her friends in their group, but it did not happen. She and Natsu became distance and talked only once every few months, and Loki always met her once a month, but it was not like it used to be.
Not like when they were twenty-one when they went to the movies and then went to the bar and the night was still young. The meetings are now more focused and shorter.
Gray looked the same, only more authoritative and more mature. The same black eyes that contain your soul in a glance, that wild black hair and the smile that captured her for the first time.
"Fine, working and studying like everyone else," he replied monotonously.
"You busy yourself as always, do you enjoy life at all?"
She hated herself for rolling with the conversation but he sat opposite her, and after two years Juvia hoped she could have a conversation with him without falling in love with him again.
He laughed and moved his lips as if to say something and regretted it.
"I make the time reasonably now, are you working around here?"
"Yes, today is my first day at work, I work at 'Noga' now."
She replied with a smile and remembered how easy the conversations were with him.
"Well done, I work across the street." He looked at the clock and got up quickly. "I'm late."
He waved at her quickly and came out of her life as fast as he'd come in two minutes before that. Juvia didn't occupy herself with "Why did he talk to her at all?" Or 'Where is he late?' But only in the fact that she would have to see him most of the time because he was working in the building opposite to her. Her luck can be suck sometimes.
On that day she received a message from Natsu asking her 'how is she?' Juvia had chosen to drop the new job, University, Lyon or anything real about her and answered with the causal 'everything is good and how are you?' and went on with her life. What she didn't prepare herself was to see Natsu the next day at the corner cafe next to her job looking for her.
"Gray told me you're here."
He sat down while she took a slip from her boiled coffee. She coughed and spat out straight into the napkin that was within reach.
'How did he know I was here?' She thought, No one knew she was here, not the best friends, neither her family nor her Lyon.
"How did he know I was here?" She asked as soon as the feeling of her burn tongue returned to her.
"He saw you from the window."
Natsu solved the matter with a brief sentence.
Juvia sighed, she knew she would draw again as soon as Juvia saw Gray again at the moment he sat opposite her yesterday and now that Natsu had decided to surprise her.
Juvia wanted to be everyone's friend, but it wasn't possible in the past, and she didn't know if she wished to didn't know if she wants to throw her quiet normal happy for the crazy fun comic gang of friends of theirs.
Natsu passed his hand through his new long pink hair. He moved to feel more comfortable in the strange chair he had sat on and ignored the dependent look Jvia had sent him.
Juvia has always been known for her tactlessness, always. In childhood, she found it difficult to keep her thoughts inside and still found a way to express herself even if not in speech. She moved the textbook into the big case beside her and folded her hands in objection.
Natsu chose to ignore her mad look, he looked aside and studied the little cafe. They sat outside by well-kept trees in a small glass table suitable for only one man. The waitress approached and asked if they would like to order anything else. Juvia said she would be glad for another coffee and Natso asked for her soda.
"Can you explain to me why you're here?" Juvia asked after the suffocating silence.
"That's a trick question," he murmured.
"No it's not, I just want to know why you came for," she said. "I want to know why you're here after I have not seen you in two years."
Natsu stared at her in bewilderment. " You're the one who cut the friendship. I always wanted to keep in touch."
Juvia watched him try to figure out what was going on in his head. He knew she had broken off with Gray, and Natsu had always wanted to bring them back together so they could talk and Juvia wasn't prepared to deal with it.
"We would have maintained contact with you wouldn't have tried to bring Gray every time we met."
She remembered the amount of material she needed to learn before her exam and was annoyed that he was taking these crucial minutes that she could do something more productive with her time.
"He needs you, Juvia." He tried to justify himself.
"No he did not," she argued.
"He is, I'm his best friend, I know," he said so decisively that even Juvia was surprised.
"He broke down after you cut him out, he went into work and studies, without going out and spending time with us."
Juvia recalled dozens of times that she had come to a cafe or a bar she had arranged a hangout with Natsu and saw him and Gray sitting there waiting for her. She remembered her heart had once been in chastising pain when she saw them waiting for her. Juvia had smiled sadly, the tears water her eyes and she had left without looking back.
That's how she met Lyon. The last time she left a coffee house by the ocean she bumped into Lyon and fell. She began to cry but not because of the painful fall, but that Natsu and Gray might see her in a cafe. Lyon apologized and helped her up. Juvia tried to run away without saying a word but he followed her to the car to ask forgiveness, and she explained to him that it wasn't him at all. He made her laugh and asked if she wanted to sit down and have a cup of coffee with him.
And after that, their relationship began.
"All the times were about to meet. You always brought him with you, so he didn't lie. Gray go out. I didn't break him" She said coldly.
"But they were the only times. Gray came because he wanted to see you, you were the reason, Juvia." He sounded sincere and wretched until Juvia began to feel sorry for Gray.
"No!" She said aloud that she remembered Gray's smile and his glittering dark eyes. "You will not do this to me Natsu!" She got up and was about to walk toward the cash register, but Natsu was quicker than her and grabbed her elbow.
He looked at her with begging eyes. Natsu asked her not to go without words, and her hard looks subdued. Juvia remembered all the conversations going into the middle of the night, all he knew about her, and she knows everything about him, it was a real friendship, and it was only because of this Juvia sat back in the strange chair.
The coffee arrived, and she took a long drink, waiting for Natsu to start talking.
"What's the going on with you honestly?" He asked, as always. He saw beyond her defenses. Just like her Lyon, but there were always things she could not tell anyone.
She smiled a little.
"Life is finally good," she said. "The studies are going well, they are hard, but I am enjoying myself, Lyon and I are moving in together next month, I have a job, and they give to read books."
He laughed.
"But something is missing." Juvia finished in a sad tone. "What about you?" She asked.
She didn't want to give him a chance to answer. Natsu was news as the one who always forgets what you talk about if you give him another subject, he always had a problem of lack of concentration. This time he seemed to have found the focus.
"you know what's missing," Natsu said and reached for her hand, which was resting on the table, he gave her comforting press. Juvia ignored him.
"What about you? you still want to study medicine?"
He understood that she wanted to change the subject.
"I chose the research at the end. I didn't have the strength to do another P.E.T test ONE MORE TIME. 760 It's still and always will be an unreasonable demand. "
"How long did it take you to forget him?" He asked, again leading her to a subject she didn't want to talk about.
"I don't want to talk about it," she replied.
"Go out with us tomorrow, one time, in memory of those days, bring Lyon with you if you want."
The offer was very tempting. Getting out of the house with her friends and not just with Lyon sounds too good.
"Who came and where?" She asked "The usual gang and Temple Bar" Juvia didn't jump up happy to hear it.
"And Gray?" She asked.
"Not sure coming."
She sighed with relief. When Gray said 'not sure' was a big fat 'NO.'
"Ok we'll come"
They kept talking and staying until her lunch break was over. Natsu insisted on paying for her and she went to work with a smile on her lips. Juvia dialed Lyon, who answered her immediately.
"Remember all the friends I've always told you about?" Juvia spoke excitedly
"Of course" Lyon laughed at her enthusiasm.
"We're going with them to Temple Bar today," Juvia announced and almost jumped in place.
"Ok, love, if that's what you want, but it means you owe me an hung out with my friends too."
She laughed.
"I love your friends. You had to request for something else."
"And they love you, but because of the tests they did not see you for a month, and they start teasing me and asking if we broke up." He sighed at fake despair.
"what!?" She said aloud. "Why should they think that? I'll take a break from studies on Saturday night, tell them I will meet them then. "
Juvia was at the entrance to the office.
"Ok I'll talk to them"
"I need to get in. I love you."
"Love you too, Juvia."
They cut off the call.
Ryan looked at her strangely and came in almost skipping to the office and sat down at the table. Juvia finished the book 'The Dream of an Immigrant.'
"The book 'The Dream of an Immigrant' describes of an 18-year-old boy who left his entire family behind in Egypt and came to London to study and grow, where he encountered social difficulties because of the complicated political situation and challenges in studying at the level of education. The book is well written and pulls you into an entirely different reality from what we know here in Magnolia and makes you wonder what is happening outside the beautiful bubble that we have painted over the years. Better to understand that life isn't what we thought but in spite of all Good things in the book, topics and lacks its own unique voice. I strongly recommend reading the book to book's fans but is not empowering reading experience and useful tool learn new thing."
Juvia handed Lewis a review to the first inspection and stood there while he read the paragraph. He finished and nodded.
"I'll send it to the editing department." He put the page next to him and looked at her with narrowed eyes.
"When did you get to read the entire book? You have a whole month for five books and five albums."
"My love for reading knows no boundaries" She sent him a dazzling smile and returned to the table to start the first album on the list, some punk music.
Sweet Pie.
She listened to the bites that they were going to increase consistently. When it was five o'clock in the afternoon, she took her bag and went back to her house.
Juvia took a shower and sat down to study until it was time to get prepared. She wears a tight skirt and a bright gray shirt. Juvia collected her sky blue hair into a high ponytail and put on little makeup. Juvia heard her cell phone ring (Lucky by Jason Marz) and went out to meet Lyons under the apartment she had rented with two partners. She reached his dark blue car and went into the seat beside him.
"Hey," Juvia said, closing her belt and leaning down to kiss him. Lyon looked at her with the big black eyes and closed them during the long kiss. He put his hand on her neck and held her close to him. She sighed and surrendered quickly to the embrace. She forgot her studies, her work, and all the reasons for the tension she had in the last few days. She pulled away from him and played with his silver-white locks and looked at him fondly.
"How was your day?" Lyon asked as he rested his forehead on hers.
"Okay, but now it's great." She closed her eyes and smelled the body soap and lemon that his skin had spread.
"was good but perfect now," he said, kissing her cheek. "we have to move if you don't want to be late." She straightened up in her seat with an apparent objection. Lyon knew she didn't want to be late, but she missed him even though she had seen him last night.
"Right, will we move?" She took his hand and joined their fingers. He always drives with their hands mingled. Juvia raised their hands and softly kissed the back of his hand and put them on her legs. He laughed softly and gave her a loving gaze. She stuck out her tongue and looked back at the road.
The ride was short, and they parked quickly and entered while their hands still joined. They came to the bar and took out their identity cards.
At the corner table, Levi, Gajeel, Erza Jellal, Loki, Natsu, and Lucy were waiting for them. Juvia eyes water of seeing them again. She misses them so much.
Everyone was surprised to see her and stood up to hug her. Soon she and Lyon drifted into conversations and ordered beer and chips.
She was not surprised that Levi and Gagil were engaged now, Erza was still with Jellal, and two were even at the University of Margaret, and they happened to be in Magnolia today. Loki told her that he had progressed and was a junior editor at a presumed television station. Suddenly Juvia felt a chill in her spine and leaned against Lyon, tried to soak up his heat. She saw from the corner of her eyes that another couple had joined and that Natsu had given her an apologetic look.
"Juvia, what a surprise," Gray said, and the table fell silent.
"You" He stared coldly at Lyons."Gray, I can say the same thing," the blue-haired woman said, and all their surroundings flinched back from her harsh icy voice.
"And his new girlfriend, I guess?" She looked at the little girl sitting next to him. She looks very much like her. Abundant blue hair, dark blue eyes, and a model's curves. The girl nodded and swallowed hard. "Luria" she managed to squeak in response.
Juvia looked at her and smiled, "Very nice to meet you, my name is Juvia, and this is my Boyfriend Lyon."
She kissed him lightly on the cheek. Gray put his hand on Luria and held her close to him, but he still kept his eyes on Juvia.
"So this is the famous Gray?" Lyon whispered in her ear. His voice was nodded and said, "He wasn't supposed to be here." He stroked her shoulder, and she shut her eyes. "You don't have to be so tense because overcame him, your life is good, and you have me. " Lyon kissed her slowly, and Juvia returned the kiss and bit his lower lip lightly. For a moment she forgot that they were in a bar in the middle of a table and raised her hands to wrap his neck to draw his face to her and continued to kiss him until someone cleared his throat. She pulled away from Lyon immediately.
Juvia saw Gray's burning gaze, and she felt ashamed. She got up from the table and went outside. She took one cigarette from the box she had barely used in the past year.
She didn't know why she was reacting like that. Juvia usually gave a smug look to those around and went on kissing Lyon, but something in Gray's gaze made her ashamed of the way she behaved with her boyfriend.
Juvia wanted to light the cigarette, and the understanding fell like a small coin in a candy's auto machine. She didn't take a lighter with her.
"Do you need fire?" Said a voice behind her. Juvia sighed because she recognized that voice.
"Yes, thank you." She didn't look at Gray while she smoked the cigarette.
"It's the second time in two days that I see you," he tried to develop a conversation.
Javier grunted and turned away.
Gray caught her. He looked at her with his black eyes that drilled into her as always,"Why we can't be friends? We can go back to what we once were."
"Because I don't want to," she said, trying to free himself.
"Why not both in a relationship, can we go back to talking?" Gray implored her.
"You've broken my heart, and I've never been the same again," Juvia said in a tiny voice.
"And you broke mine, in the same conversation, but I know I don't want to live without you in my life, whatever you give me," Gray responded, and she heard his dread of losing her again in his speech.
She shifted to him. Juvia knew the moment Gray asked her, She will give him everything, she loved Lyon, but he never held her heart.
Gray in one conversation, in one look, one request reached her heart again. He asked that she be in his life and she would be but under her conditions right now.
"The only thing I can give you is dry words and hateful looks," Juvia said and hoped he would leave the little hope that they would speak again, but he surprised her.
"As long as it means I'll see you I'll take it." Gray pulled her to him and held her for a second before she pushed him away.
They came in, and Juvia came back with a half-angry, half-confused look. As soon as she sat down, Lyon wrapped her in a loving embrace. She remembered Gray's embrace. The heat from him and how Juvia pushed his harms away. At the end of the table, she saw Gray whispering something to Luria, and she nodded.
Juvia said aloud. "I think we'll go."Lyon broke himself off her and began collecting things, and she picked up her bag. At the other end of the table, Gray and Luria got up too. They paid and separated from their friends.
Her friends didn't understand the early walk.
"You've just arrived!" "Not yet 23:00 pm". They just waved goodbye and didn't stop for a quick and Luria were a few steps away.
"You want to explain to me what happened between you and Gray?" Lyon used a flat ton.
"Gray asked me to get back in touch, to be friends. At first, I didn't want to, but he managed to convince me." Juvia sighed, trying to get some of her feelings out of that sigh but everything stayed inside her.
Lyon suddenly stopped. "Are you going back to talk to him?"
Juvia saw where it was going and she could hardly believe he could think of her leaving him for Gray.
"Lyon, do you think I'm going to leave you, what we have because I agreed not to ignore Gray?" Juvia said and demanded Lyon to know what he was feeling.
"You once told me about someone amazing you went out with him, but you didn't feel what you felt for Gray and said broke out with him, you can't blame me for what I think."
Juvia laughed. The situation was not funny, and the conversation was not funny, everything was not funny except for one thing the comparison between then and now. The white-haired man waited for Juvia's sudden laughter to pass.
"In the past, I knew I loved him, and I tried to forget him, and that's what I didn't have to do, I hurt a fantastic person, maybe I ruined my ex, but when you came to me, I forgot about everything but you.
If you compare between you, Gray is poison, and you are warm. Two completely different things, at two different times."
Juvia didn't notice that a crowd was gathering around them and part of him was Gray and Luria. Gray didn't seem interested and was busy with his cell phone, but she could see the narrowed eyebrows that told her he had heard everything and Luria stood stunned beside him.
Juvia looked at Lyon, who smiled at her and pulled her toward him. "Your strange metaphors always made me laugh, let's get you home."
Sometimes Juvia wondered if Lyon was hiding something from her, he never talked about his feelings except 'I love you' in messages, and his past is completely erased, and he wouldn't share it. She wanted to know what was going on inside of his head, but he didn't share. In their fights ended all the time with a joke after he made her pour her heart and he said something detached and hugged her.
Juvia lay down on her bed and checked the cell phone. There were all kinds of messages. Natsu sent he will speak to her tomorrow. Lyon posted a goodnight blessing and hearts. Cana asked if they would be meeting at a coffee shop next to the university tomorrow. And there was one message she didn't expect to arrive so fast.
Gray: "Poison? Really? Is that what I am to you?"
Juvia sighed. How could she explain to him about the ten months she had been fall in love with him and couldn't get him out of her mind, day and night.
Juvia: "That's just what you are."
Gray: "How am I exactly a poison?"
Juvia: "Because you don't get out of the blood system no matter how much they try to drive you away."
Gray: "When did you try to drive me away?"
Juvia: "You're kidding me, aren't you?"
Gray: "No no, when did you try to drive me away before the conversation?"
Juvia: "How I didn't miss your questions and answers."
Gray: "Are you sure of that?"
Juvia: "(furious Imogie ) Goodnight."
Gray: "Good night to you too (sleeping Imogie)
Juvia connected her cell phone to the charger and hoped he would forget that she had agreed to go back to talk to him. That everything will continue to be as it has been in the last two years.
The little cafe in the side alley next to the university was deserted in early morning except for a waitress, a barista, and a two of friends who sat inside where the air conditioner was the best. The Joe Coffee shop gave the people a warm pub feel that was open on the day. There was a wide variety of beers besides many kinds of coffee beans. Cana and Juvia sat with two cups of coffee each and textbooks open wide, though they didn't seem to have been used. They didn't delve deeply into learning. Cana and Juvia had known nearly nine years. From the first year of high school. Their meeting was the fate, but the friendship was only their action.
"He doesn't stop?" Cana said at Juvia's last cell phone little beep of messing.
"He's trying to catch up two years of detachment," Juvia said, turning the cell phone.
Juvia knew the message had been from Gray. He'd sent her a message every half an hour since last night. The morning she got up she discovered four new texts from him.
"Natsu told you he was depressed for a long time?" Cana continued the conversation.
"A year from what I understood." Juvia drank her last sip from the second cup of coffee.
"Did he realize I loved you?" Cana had a unique way of seeing things and making Juvia uncomfortable in her thoughts. She always led to the claim that Juvia could not understand alone.
"Juvia was always trying to control her voice, the subject was still sensitive to her, but Cana always liked to mention it every few months, not that Juvia forgot, but she didn't understand why Cana ever raised the subject back it was in the past.
"It took you far extremely long to move on."
"A year and a month." Juvia was specific.
"A year that took him go out of depression." Cana clarified, and Juvia raised her eyebrows in question.
"What you trying to claim exactly?" Juvia asked and wasn't sure she wanted to know the answer.
"It took you almost the same amount of time to get over each other," Cana said as if that were the explanation everything, but Juvia still was in the dark. She didn't understand the intent behind the conversation. She felt the conversation moving in a direction she wouldn't like.
"and...?" She said, trying to figure out Cana's line of thought. Most of the time Juvia understood Cana before she finished the sentence but not this moment.
"It could have been real and not just in your head."
So far Juvia had not looked at her, but after the sentence, Juvia couldn't keep her eyes on the table. She stared fixedly at Cana's brown eyes.
"Did you think that all this time, my feelings for him, were only in my head ?!" She almost shouted in the isolated place. Cana raised the thin eyebrows at a challenge.
"All right, most of the time it was like that, but it wasn't like that with him." Juvia breathed.
"That's what you always say." Cana grinned, and Juvia snorted doubtfully, but she knew it was true.
They continued their little fights until Cana returned them to the real purpose of the conversation that Juvia hadn't yet get.
"You still love him, don't you?"
"Of course you do, you know me, as soon as I love someone, I love to the death and back."
"Will you split from Lyon?" Lucy moved uncomfortably, and Juvia didn't know why.
"Absolutely not." She thought of Gray's expression of rage that he saw Lyon and her together.
"It's hard to find men like him. He's pretty amazing." Juvia smiled knowingly, thinking about all the times she'd spent in his apartment as his girlfriend.
"Yes, he's the kind of ring."
Cana said and looked back at the open book that had not been touched for more than an hour.
"Umm is not sure, but he's the closest I've ever met." Juvia murmured.
Another message came, but this time it was from Natsu.
Natsu: "avoiding Gray?"
Juvia: "Are you his bodyguard or something?"
Natsu: "No, but didn't you say you'd go back to the friendship?"
Juvia: "Kind of, I said l hatred looks and dry words."
Natsu: "Then you answer dry, he is hurting."
Juvia: "You're still together all the time, at least it has not changed."
Juvia sighed and went into her chat with Gray.
Gray: "Juvs, want to sit down for coffee sometime?"
Gray: "to talk."
Gray: "Juvs"
Gray: "I understand the feeling now."
Gray: "What you felt then"
Gray: "Wow, sure you're hurt."
Gray: "Are you going to answer?"
Gray: "Sometime?"
That was the last message
Juvia: "hatred looks and dry words don't sit together for coffee."
Gray: "So what?" The answer arrived quickly.
Juvia: "You'll be the target in the paintball, and I'm the only one with the rifle." She's typed on a keyboard with a wicked smile on her lips.
Gray: "May I wear a shield?"
Juvia: "It's the best for you, but I don't agree on much."
Gray: "I think I should give up this pleasure."
Juvia: "clever."
Juvia returned to her chat with Natsu.
Juvia: "Satisfied?"
Natsu: "Very, he smiles like a fool."
Juvia: "like the fool he is."
She sent the text and put the cell phone aside.
"What happened?" Cana asked about it.
"Natsu, Gray, Natsu" Juvia simplified the process, and Cana didn't ask for more information. She knew that if it mattered, Juvia would have already told her herself.
AN: finally all done! I hope you like it!
Juvia still hurt deeply from Gray, and he tries to fix their problems.
She is confused. She loves Lyon, but still feel a deep emotional connection with Gray. Let see what happened next.
