Neavy's Note:

This is my sixth story for Gruvia Week 2015. This time, I used a high school theme. Meredy as the main character. She told us how two people with dark history can help each other and guide them to the light way.

Prompts: Light

The Path of Light

By Neavy

How do you feel when you are falling in love?

There's lots of answer. You can feel happy, or pain, or anything. But there some people who cannot feel love and even they cannot fall in love.

But that's not my point… because I want to tell you a story that happened to my two friends, how love can change them, and guide them to the path of light.

I am Meredy, I am a second year student in a high school of Magnolia, and I am a chief of Swimming Club. I have a closest friend, her name is Juvia. We were not at the same middle school; we met at the junior year in our high school year. She's a sweet girl but she's a highly sensitive and also a very shy person, she likes everything that handmade like knitting and painting, no wonder that she is a member of art club.

She secretly likes a guy from senior year who is he is our friends, his name is Gray. This guy is a popular guy in our school; he is infamous with his smart brain and his cold character. Well, looks like he is the other side of Juvia, my friend would never chance to have a relationship with him, right?. So let me finish my story.

My Juvia had a problem of having friends. Her shy nature made her always feeling awkward with others. She told me that she was getting bullied by her middle school friends, and her shyness made this thing got worse. She was bullied because she is a poor student. Our friendship makes her wants to change herself for good. She is now living with her crafter brother, and in her free time, she works as a part time worker of a thrift shop in Magnolia.

And about Gray, well… I've meet him a few years ago when he was a third year student in his middle school. He worked as a part time worker on my father's café, he was a troubled kid back then, he was always came with bruises and scratches on his face and body. My father had warned him and that was not working, but after he went to a high school for a few months, he has changes; he even showed his smart side and became an icon to his school.

Later, I discovered their story. I meant their chance encountered.

Before I meet Juvia and only knew the bad boy Gray. Both of them met on the bad time. When Gray was heavily injury, the junior year of high school student was getting a help by a bluenette girl who was still a third year student of middle school. She helped him to get an ambulance even Gray rejected her help. But she insisted Gray to get an ambulance.

That was a stormy day, and Juvia held Gray in her arms while they waited for ambulance.

"You shouldn't help me, you know." He said.

"No." Juvia rejected his words, her eyes were watery but rain washed away her tears.

"You are a stubborn girl…" Gray smirked coldly.

"Don't your life feeling better if you can do useful things? You don't need to pick fights just because you are lonely, your life should be meaningful for yourself." Juvia told him because both of them stay silent until the ambulance came.

But he wasn't taking a look at her when the ambulance came, let Juvia lone on the rain and wet. They never meet each other again after that day.

But in my timeline after that storm meeting, Gray changed a little bit, he came earlier than before, and he learned to smile, I knew it because I peek at him that he had a little mirror on his locker.

They never thought that they will meet again, but I thought God had set their path or I may say their light path.

A few months after that, I was preparing for my tests and my father told me that Gray took a course after school, so my father need my help when Gray didn't come. That day was a second encounters for both of them.

Juvia was getting a physical harness when Gray helped her, her friends cut her long hair until her bluenette hair length became a medium hair. Gray came to them and intimidated them. Juvia was saved but her hair wasn't, she should cut her hair so her hair looked better, Juvia's face had bruises.

Gray was so mad that day and he became so upset when he knew Juvia was only crying.

He didn't come on his course; he accompanied Juvia to the barbershop where his mother owns it. He walked together with Juvia.

"I never thought that I meet you again." Gray said.

"Juvia thought so… thank you for saving me." Juvia spoke to him slowly.

"Yeah… is it funny, right? One day you told me to be a useful people… but now, you let them to do that bad things to you, didn't you feel so useless now?" Gray asked.

His words cut Juvia's heart, that girl sobbed harder.

"I KNOW THAT I AM A USELESS PERSON! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW!" Juvia yelled, her face looked so red because she was mad.

Gray smirked, but later he hugged her.

"See… you can mad too… if you let them hurt you, it means that you are killing yourself. You should stand for yourself. You are not a useless person, you are a good person, you may be a weird girl, but I know you are a strong girl." He said, Juvia was shocked, this guy help her this time.

"We need to cut your hair." Gray added.

"No, I didn't have money." She said and shook her head.

"Don't worry about that, it's free… I am Gray by the way… I am a junior year student of high school. And I should thank you for your help that day." Gray said and smiled.

"I am Juvia." Juvia answered shyly, that was a first time someone introduce himself to her, her body was trembling, and her cries was stopping.

Juvia's heart began thumping, that smile made her falling in love with him. Since that day, they became close to each other, until the first day of high school year when I met Juvia for the first time.

That was 2 years ago and I amazed when I heard their story. Juvia admit that she is falling in love with Gray since 2 years ago, but she's afraid to confess because she afraid that will ruin their friendship. But, from my point of view, Gray is in love with Juvia too, but this guy is a cold person so I think that will be hard for both of them. Gray likes to come to Juvia's club and accompanied her until she finish with her crafting things, and Juvia will makes bento for Gray and me, oh ya, Juvia is good in cooking too, so I am kind of jealous with her.

This noon, they are surprised me. Juvia showed me her flip phone, she showed me her picture together with Gray, but this time, I felt something different.

"Hm… You guys want to tell me that you are dating now?" I asked.

Both of them nodded with their blushing face.

"Who confess first?" I asked them once more

"I did." They answered together which made me laugh.

"Congratulations!" I said and hugged both of them.

I am so happy for them, they were on the dark path and now, they are together on their path of light. Life is unexpected you know.***