Unordinary

Chapter 2: A Rollercoaster.

To say Gray Fullbuster was feeling bad was an understatement. He was feeling like absolute shit. He just wanted to dive in a ditch, crack his neck, die, and then revive himself, just so he can do that to himself a million more times to satisfy his guilt.

Though, not even that could work.

'I mean, you really did just make her cry, on the second day of school, what's not to feel like shit for?' Gray scolded himself.

If Gray was being completely honest, he was really getting tired of the bully act. 'Come on Gray! Stop being a little scaredy-cat, and tell her how you feel! We're not little immature kids anymore!' He was trying! He really was, but every time he sees her, he sees something beautiful, something innocent that shouldn't be ruined or damaged. Like a beautiful, fragile, flower that he didn't want to ruin or step on.

Yet, he was rude and mean to her even when she was her kindest, he was always trying to protect her from bad things, when he wasn't even protecting her from himself. She was all the way on the other bright side of the spectrum while he was on the dark side. So, he tried his best to keep his distance.

But you can't control love can you?

So, he promised himself he would try. He made a promise that he would keep. It was just that he was trying so hard to keep it and made such little progress doing it! But alas, he was going to go through with that promise. The only thing was that he made that promise..

The first month after he met her..

..and he still had only 1% progress out of 100%.

'This is going to be one hell of a rollercoaster' Gray thought. But all he wanted to know, was if the girl he loved was alright. He wanted to make sure he would keep his promise, and he wanted to start now.

"Asshole." Juvia swore as she sat in the nurses office. She was angry, sad, and scared. It was only her second day of school and she was already having a horrible time. She embarrassed herself in front of the whole fucking pack of werewolves, and she showed mercy to Gray Fullbuster, which she promised not to do.

'Curse that fucking, hot asshole.' Juvia thought.

Juvia knew she couldn't deny it. Gray was extremely attractive, he had the perfect body, hair, and he was extremely handsome. The only thing was that he was a total ass. He didn't care about anything or anyone, she didn't even know if he even knew there was other people in the world other than him! It was like he was emotionless, or he was a robot!

Ever since the day they met he did nothing but hurt her time and time again. He would call her names that made her ball her eyes out every night, he would physically hurt her, and he would even ruin her life by trying to get rid of her friends.

It hurt, really badly, to be harassed every single day by the same person not knowing why they do it. Sadly though, even if it did hurt, she couldn't do anything, so she had to just suck it up and get used to it, because there was something about Gray that made her hold back.

Which somehow has led her here, in the clinic, from having a break down..

"Dear, Mavis!" This was going to be a long year, and she knew it.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door from none other than Gajeel himself, who seems a little upset to see his sister like figure in the clinic with red puffy eyes and dried tears on her face.

"What did Gray do this time?" Gajeel sighed, knowing he would have to most likely beat someone up again. He has had to beat so many people up for Juvia it was hard to count!

"He was being his usual asshole self." Juvia answered with an eye roll. She was still letting the fact that she broke down in the lunch line sink in to her brain.

"Of course he was. I swear to god Juvia, sooner or later, I'm going to kill that bastard!" Gajeel replied growling, his inner wolf was really coming out, you could tell. Though, it was only because was getting tired of Juvia coming to him in tears or anger because of that guy! Gray just wouldn't leave Juvia alone, he would keep going and going until she would eventually fully break apart.

"I just don't understand why you can't just defend yourself better against him! I know you can, trust me I would know, but you choose not to! Juvia, at this point I need an explanation as to why you let him get away with it!" Gajeel said speaking his mind.

Juvia sighed."I get where you're coming from Gajeel, but you don't know something about Gray that I do-" Juvia was the cut off by the man in front of her.

"Then please, say why Juvia?! What don't I know?! The fact that you let him hurt you?! That you cry every night he bullies you?! Oh, or maybe that he actually has physically hurt you Juvia?! You have even said so many times you hate him and you wish he didn't exist! What is there not to know?!" Gajeel questioned obviously full of anger. It was hard for him to see his sister be hurt all the time and he has had enough.

Juvia didn't know what to say. She usually would know what to say, but this time she can't say anything. Not yet...

Juvia sighed yet again. " Gajeel.." she started, how would she say this? "..I-it's just that- that it's complicated. As much as I would love to scream the reason i just can't right now. So for now, I understand you don't want to see me get hurt, but I need you to know that I'm fine. I can do this. I can get through life easily, even if Gray is there. I'm sorry though, that you have to see me like that around Gray, so I promise that for you, I will be a little more strong..." Juvia replied to Gajeel trying to explain as well as calm him down. Seeing that it did, in fact, make him more calm, by the way he wasn't as tense and his eyes softened.

".. and trust me, if it was that easy to go against Gray I would have done that a long time ago.." She told her friend, trying to calm him down, "..but sadly, I just can't do that, and later on I will tell you why okay?" Juvia spoke trying to now lighten the mood a little bit.

It was Gajeel's turn to sigh. "Fine, I will let you, do your thing, if that is supposedly letting stripper bully you. But don't think that for a second I won't beat him up every time he does." He said with a threat directed towards Gray, who wasn't there to know it.

"Okay, you can beat him up. Only if, you don't kill anyone. I don't plan on seeing anyone going to jail because of Gray Fullbuster." The bluenette said trying to negotiate. She really didn't feel like being a witness again, 'been there, done that, not fun..' Juvia thought to herself.

"I do." Gajeel mumbled audible for the blue haired girl to hear. Said girl rolled her eyes at her overprotective friend.

"Of course you do."

"Yup, and when I see that little shit, I'm going to make sure to wrap my hands around his neck, turn him around, and stick a pole up his-!" As if on perfect timing, said person walked in with a nervous look on his face. To say this was amusing to Juvia was an understatement.

"Speak of the devil himself." Juvia spoke her mind, doing a quick turn as she spoke in a cold manner towards Gray.

"Um, hi?" Gray said with two pairs of eyes looking into his very soul. 'Well this is awkward..' he thought. This was not how he planned it to go down, he thought she was alone god damn it! Instead, she was with the person who hated him the most!

"What the hell are you doing here, Gray?" Gajeel icily questioned the man at the clinic door.

"I just came-" Gray didn't even have a chance to explain because Gajeel was already going at it with him.

"You came to what huh? Make fun of Juvia because she cried? Or the fact that she won't show her wolf form?!" Gajeel yelled, yet again with anger. While, Juvia was on the bed, beginning to think that Gajeel just loved to yell and interrogate the people he was angry with. Gray, at the moment, was his target.

"No! That's not what I came here to do! If you would just let me explai-!" Gray again tried to compromise with Gajeel, but said man was having none of it.

Gajeel then grabbed the collar of Gray's shirt firmly.

"You don't need to explain shit, Fullbuster! I'm tired of you hurting Juvia, so if you keep it up, I will not hesitate to find you and beat you to a bloody pulp in front of the whole entire school!" Gajeel threatend Gray who now had a look of anger.

"It's none of your business about what I do! I'm not scared of you, Gajeel! I can explain whatever I want, to who I want, when I want!" Gray said now pushing Gajeel back. As soon as that happened though, Gajeel then threw a punch to Gray's nose, which stared to bleed.

Soon, the two boys were in an all out fight. With Gray on top of Gajeel punching him, and Gajeel punching Gray from the bottom. Seeing how much it escalated Juvia tried to stop it.

"Guys, stop it right now!" Juvia yelled stepping towards them. She was trying her hardest not to use force, but seeing the won't listen to her verbally, they will have to listen physicaly.

"I said.." The bluenette started stepping next to Gray, "Enough!" She then yelled, forcefully yanking Gray off of Gajeel and on to the ground. Though, when she pulled him off she used a little too much force and sent them on to the floor of the clinic with her on top of Gray, who was currently wondering what the hell just happened.

Realizing she was on top of Gray and unusually close to his face, her face quickly heated up. She could also feel his really structure-

"Um, you gonna get up blue?" Gray asked with a blushing face, trying to control himself from pouncing on Juvia right then and there.

Realizing that she was practically drooling over the raven haired man, she quickly shook her head and got up. What was up with her? Maybe it was her wolf betraying her. Unlike her, her inner wolf had a very direct personality, and would constantly admire men that they thought were attractive. Though, Juvia didn't expect her wolf to drool over Gray.

"Obviously you dolt. I don't plan on getting the asshole disease." She retorted the lame comeback to Gray, trying to hide the light blush on her face. 'Keep your cool Juvia, remember, he is a big douchebag!" Juvia thought to herself. That was one way for her to not think Gray was attractive. Even if she didn't like him, he was cute.

"What? No, he isn't cute stop it Juvia! Bad!" The bluenette thought, reprimanding herself. "Though you secretly know he is a big box of goodness.." her wolf replied. She really needed to stop her from making those horribly embarrassing comments.

"I don't know about that, cause from the looks of it, it's already spreading." He replied with a smug look as well as a pink tint.

"Yeah? Well I suggest you shut up before your face gets even more messed up." Juvia replied now realizing that gray had a black eye and a bloody nose. She then felt a little bit guilty.

Gray chuckled, "Oh please, it didn't eve-" just then Gajeel appeared.

"Don't even think about saying it didn't hurt Gray, we both know I beat your ass!" Gajeel said in anger. Gray obviously didn't agree with that statement so he of course defended his ego.

"As if! You don't look any better than me you lying prick! If anything you look worse! You're just too pussy to admit it! Gray replied with an equivalent amount of attitude. As much as Juvia would hate to say this, Gray wasn't wrong. Gajeel was as equally battered up as Gray, also wearing a black eye and busted lip.

"Listen here buddy, I don't know who you think you are, but you're definitely not a person that's gonna tell me bullshit lies like that!" Gajeel reprimanded the man while jabbing his finger at Gray's chest. Which made Juvia fly into action before yet another fight broke out.

"Alright that's it! You already had your bitchy girl fight, okay? I don't need to deal with watching another one so just stop!" Juvia told the two boys, standing in between both of them to try and prevent them from making any fist to face contact. She really needed to get these two away from each other. So, in order to do that she needed to talk with Gray so he would leave, and let Juvia be with Gajeel in peace.

But in order to do that she needed Gajeel to leave so he wouldn't be up their asses the whole time.

Why did her life have to be so god damn frustrating sometimes?

"Okay, Gajeel I need you to stand outside the room for a second so Gray can tell me what he needs to say alright?" Juvia asked Gajeel, even though it was more of an order than a question.

"No way am I letting you sit alone in the same room as h-" Gajeel defended himself, but cut off his own sentence when he saw Juvia give him the bitch stare that was clearly stating, 'I wasn't asking, do it right now' and as much of a big guy Gajeel was, the 'Juvia Stare' would always scare him shitless, forcing him to listen.

"Fine." Gajeel complied, leaving the room grumpily mumbling to himself as he did. Leaving Juvia and Gray finally alone.

Juvia sighed, "Now what was so urgent that you had to tell me Gray, because as you can see I'm not too happy with talking with you right now, so it better be good."

Gray then took multiple deep breaths. Being very conflicted at the moment. He didn't know it would be this hard now that he was finally alone with her with no distractions. Yet, he was struggling so much to let it out.

Seeing his obvious stress, Juvia was a little confused as to what was happening. It was really rare to see Gray ever having a hard time telling her things. She just thought he was going to rub it in her face about what happened, but seeing that wasn't the case, she was extremely curious about what he was so nervous about.

"Okay, usually I would be very angry with you for stalling, but I'm actually wondering what is happening right now?" Juvia asked in a bit of concern. Gray, at the moment though, looked like a deer caught in headlights when she asked.

"I-I.." Okay, now this was getting weird for Juvia and she was thinking that Gajeel must have really gave him a good whack in the head in their little altercation. So, being the actual angel she was she took Gray's hand into hers and led him to the couch so she could check his temperature.

Gray was then caught out of his daydreaming when he felt her small, yet soft hands against his own. To Gray, it was one of the best feelings ever. The way her hand perfectly fit into his was making him slightly more happy.

He then felt her push him on the clinic bed and asked if he was alright. He was still a little more focused on their connecting hands when he finally came back to the real world.

"I-um.. yeah! I was just feeling a little weird don't worry about it." Gray replied to her question, snapping back to life.

"Um, alright then. Well, if you're fine can you now can you please tell me what you wanted to say? Gajeel is a very impatient person may I remind you." Juvia replied with an intrigued look on her face, now wanting to know what he wanted to tell her.

"Okay, um..how do I say this? Juvia, I want to tell you something that might affect the both of us in a really big the way, depending on which ever answer you have." Gray said with a cautious yet serious and firm look. Juvia had never seen Gray this serious before, unless he was concentrating on work or something. She was a little nervous herself now, what did he mean it might affect the both of them?

She definitely wasn't ready for this.

"So, ever since fourth grade we have kind of always been enemy's, and we ever since I've been a huge jerk to you..." Alright, something was most definitely wrong with Gray, because never in a million years would he ever let go of pride and say something like that, so now she thought he may have been high on weed before he came or something.

"Um Gray are you sure your oka-"

"...and I know that you have been nothing but kind to me before I even talked to you." Gray said ignoring her question. He was now fully committed to making it up to her now.

"If I was being completely honest with you , I'm the worst at expressing what I'm feeling so I hide behind a mask to cover it, which has caused me to make many mistakes in my life..." Juvia was shocked at this point. She was now expecting him to laugh at her face and say she was stupid for thinking he would ever apologize to her.

"...one mistake including me sabotaging us actually having a relationship in any sort of way. I always wanted to be your friend when we were kids, but I didn't want to let you know that. So instead, I really hurt you, and I am so sorry for what I did, and I feel completely horrible for making you cry today, because people like you don't deserve me taking my anger out on you when you're one of the best people I know." Gray said looking deep into her eyes. Juvia would be lying if she said didn't feel her heartbeat increasing, or her stomach having butterflies fluttering all over.

"So I want to say it right now, because I'm never going to open up like this again, it's just too out of my comfort zone. Though, you have felt that ever since we met so you deserve to see me being nervous for once.." At this point Gray was terrified with what her reaction would be.

".. I know that a simple apology won't fix all the bad things I've done to you, but I am going to make sure that I can make up for it any way I can, no matter what, because you deserve that. You deserve to know the real me, instead of the obnoxious asshole that I have showed you. Which leads me to my next question." Gray said as he took a deep breath in anxiousness. Mean while, Juvia was just as anxious and was even blushing for some reason she didn't know.

Though, she was actually getting a tiny bit emotional with Gray's speech. After all the years he made her feel less than what she really was, she would pray that one day it would all change, and that she would hear these words that Gray Fullbuster was saying, some day.

"...Juvia Lockser, can we please start over?" Now, to others it may seem like a stupid and generic question. They would probably think it was a whole speech leading up to a pointless question, but for them it held so much more meaning. This was Gray basically saying that he was sorry and that he actually liked her! He never hated her like she thought. Through all of the years of pain she went through dealing with Gray, he finally wanted to apologize and make things right between them. Though, Juvia was a tiny bit skeptical about whether to trust Gray or not, she decided to go with her gut and try.

"Yes, Juvia would love that." Juvia said with a beautiful smile on her face, which to Gray, made her glow. So with instinct, he leaned over and wrapped his arms around her waist. Which actually made him surprised with his own action, it was probably one of the most brave acts he had ever done. It was so worth it though, her scent was so soothing to him and made him feel so calm, as if there wasn't anything wrong in the world.

But what suprised him even more was when he felt a pair of arms wrapped around his waist as well.

Juvia had actually hugged him back!

Said girl was actually enjoying this moment with Gray for some reason, maybe it was that she felt safe in his arms, or that he smelt of peppermint, or even the fact that she felt so giddy inside. Which made her more confused about her feelings, she wasn't the biggest fan Gray, but as soon as he spoke what was on his mind just now, she had a whole new perspective on him as a person. It was almost as if he was a mystery that she so badly wanted to solve. She kind of wanted to get to know Gray more surprisingly, even with what he put her through.

For some odd reason, that thought was something that she and her wolf didn't completely oppose of.

She then felt a sudden bump in her chest.

Finally finished the second chapter! I apologize for my absence by the way, I was just focusing on other things in life at the moment. But now it's all done! Now, I know this chapter is very out of order near the end, and that's because I wanted to portray Juvias real personality a little bit more. Because she is a very unsure person when it comes to feelings, unless when it comes to gray, but when they first meet she hates him, likes him, then hates him, then falls in love with him! Because he took away her sadness and rain. Like how the gray in my book apologizes and then hugs her, making Juvia feel a type of way, because he was trying to take away and fix all the bad memories they had together. Which makes her feel "weird" with Gray ;). And now they are going to try and move past it and have a healthy friendship, which becomes a little more later on hehe. Anyways, Juvia is now unsure because all of a sudden Gray is all kind to her after the years of Bullying she went through with him. But don't forget, Juvia has a little secret of why she never fully stook up to Gray ;). So, there you guys go! Love you the most!

~Alfy