A/N Just a short one. Hihihi. So, okay yes I'm feeling a little bit down lately. And my Gruvia feels suffered because of that. So, I'm wokring on She's In Your Court next chapter. Please look forward for that.
Wedding Blues and It's Not Even Juvia's
"This is not happening. This is really not happening."
Juvia dumped the Chinese take-out on top of the swamp of books occupying the table and dropped her weight on the couch like a hot potato. She let the comfy futon swallow her and her distress.
"Manners." Gray pushed both her feet off his coffee table after clearing his throat. He then picked up an old-looking, thick book littered on the table.
"This is not happening to Juvia." She said dejectedly, eyes looking straight at nothingness.
"First it's Erza-san. Then Mira-san. Even Levy got into the trap. And now, Lucy?" She turned to the serious study-bug slouched beside her on the couch and pulled him by his arm to face her. "Marriage is taking away everyone from Juvia!"
For the first time that day, or the entire days of hell/exams week for that matter, laws and constitutions did not stare Gray in the face. Instead, he was looking at blue, alarmed eyes. Half-heartbroken, half-distressed for losing another girlfriend to marriage. It was cute, actually. How she overly worried about trivial things. Some guys might fall for it. Abandon the task at hand and cuddle the cute little dramatic to appease her. But not Gray. The raven-haired was used to all of Juvia's charms by now. He clicked his tongue and pulled his arm back to his side and returned to his Torts book.
"So, Gray-sama knew before-hand."
"A man will not make such a decision without asking his best friends, will he?"
Juvia opened her mouth and closed it again. She realized it was a question that needed not to be answered.
The week before Natsu's wedding proposal, he gathered the boys to their favorite pub and treated them for a drink. That's when he told them all about his plan to marry his long-term girlfriend, Lucy Heartfilia. Of course, they were all happy for him. It was a new step for the couple. And their three brothers, who already succumbed to the appeal of marriage and their lovely wives, were more than happy to share their great ideas on popping the question.
"Everybody is getting hitched and Juvia is nowhere near an actual, romantic relationship." Juvia sunk deeper on the couch, mulling over her dooming fate. "There's no one interested in Juvia."
The lack of response from Gray brought her up to her feet. She paced the law student's floor like an anxious dad waiting for her daughter to come home from Prom.
"Juvia, sit down. You're making me feel dizzy."
"Why doesn't this concern Gray-sama? Juvia is already twenty-six! And no one seems interested in Juvia. Almost everybody in our group is getting married. And Gray-sama is not getting any younger. Gray-sama doesn't even have a girlfriend."
She ignored Gray's warnings and continued.
"But it's not a problem from Gray-sama." Gray knew where it was going. "Girls are falling in line to get his attention. You can probably just pick out one from the line." When she caught Gray's dissatisfied frown, Juvia sat back to the couch and apologized. They had this kind of conversation too many times and it always ended up with Juvia letting her insecurities eat her up.
"Juvia knows it doesn't work that way." Her ungraceful panic subsided a little. "But still… Juvia hasn't even…" She trailed off, not really that comfortable to talk to the raven-haired about the lack of fun in her bedroom. Her cheeks started to burn.
"Why are you so red?"
"What?" Juvia covered her cheeks with her hands. She looked away from Gray immediately, knowing how good he was in interrogating people. Plus, she did not want her eyes to give her away.
"Don't worry, if you're thirty and still single, I'll marry you." Gray made it sound so casual that Juvia thought he was promising to get her a new shirt if she ruined the cute one she was wearing.
"Gray-sama must not joke about these things." Juvia had to calm the storm Gray's careless words started in her. But it just got worse when he leaned over her, dark eyes boring through her.
"Why? Does Juvia not see me as a man?"
"Eh? G-G-Gray-sama, has the studying messed up your head?"
The twenty-six year old virgin stuttered. She tried to back up when her back hit the armrest. There was no more room to move and she was trapped between Gray's muscular arms. Her thoughts became clouded with the way his lean body rested over hers.
"Are you scared to die a virgin?" He was close.
"J-J-Juvia never said that." Too close.
"If you're that scared, then should I just claim you?"
Words failed Juvia. It was already winter and the room was fully air-conditioned but it felt like she was basking under the summer sun and the warmth, whether it was Gray's or her own, radiated through-out her body. Juvia's eyes shut instinctively as she anticipated the kiss.
The kiss that never happened. When she opened her eyes, Gray was back at his side of the couch.
"Get lost woman. I'm trying to study."
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