Juvia came in from work desperately needing a shower so her allergies would settle down, working at a flower shop meant she came home covered in pollen more often than not. The walk from the bust stop had been awful in the sticky heat and the more she thought about it the more she longed for a relaxing night. Climbing the last of the stairs she finally reached her floor and had already wedged her hand into her bag to find her keys, squatting down she pulled everything from the bag hoping to find them hiding in a corner but had no such luck. A door opened as she loaded her belongings back in her purse to retrace her steps. "Hey' whats wrong?" It was Gray.

"I lost my keys, I can't get it and I am going to have to go back and hope I can find them along the way."

He thought for a moment before asking, "Does anyone keep a spare for you?"

"My brother does, but he doesn't get off work until fairly late I guess I could take the bust to his work and hope he has them with him."

"Come on," Gray moved aside gesturing for her to follow him inside, "Let's think logically and maybe we can make this less of a wild goose chase. Can you text him to see if he has them?"

"Yes," she said pulling her phone out.

"Ok, do that and if you can go grab them that's great, but what are you going to do if he doesn't have them with him?"

"Oh I don't know."

Gray said, "then you can stay here and hang out until he can get them to you."

"Oh but Gray," she felt flustered, "he gets off pretty late, I don't want to impose on you."

"Nope. It's fine, Shoot him a text and we will see what comes of it."

Juvia texted Gajeel and after a few minutes she updated Gray, "He said that he doesn't carry my spare on the keyring he carries with him to work, I told him I could stay with a neighbor if he could bring them by and he said that he would do that. But, Gray, are you sure you don't mind."

"Not at all." he replied.

Looking down at the pollen covered clothing she wore Juvia cringed, "Maybe I am not the best person to sit at your place, you don't want pollen everywhere,"

"Nah, you can take a shower here, you don't want to get back on the bus like that," he laughed, as he walked into his room and returned with a shirt and pair of athletic shorts, "Think you can make this work until your bother gets here?"

"That's fine, you're too kind."

He pointed to the bathroom despite them having the same apartment layout, "Towels are in the right side of the cabinet."

"Thanks."

Juvia emerged from the shower feeling refreshed, Gray's clothes were big but fit well enough for now. She turned toward the kitchen to see two pizza boxes sitting open. "I ordered some food, help yourself." he said.

Just as she moved toward the table they heard a hard knock and a familiar voice, "JUVIA!"

"Bora" she wishpered to Gray, looking down at the clothes she now wore, "this looks bad."

"No problem" he said, holding a finger to his lips and opening his door just wide enough to poke his head out to speak to Bora, "Hey man, she's not home."

"Where the hell is she?" Bora snapped.

"She said she forgot her keys and had to get a spare," Gray shrugged.

"Dammit, stupid girl, probably went to her brother and I aint goin there." Bora stormed off down the hallway and thundered down the stairwell.

Gray turned and locked his door, "I didn't lie," he said with a smirk, "your boyfriend is a jerk."

"Kind of." Juvia agreed softly.

"Eat," he said, sitting on the sofa and turning the television on, finding a movie and pointing to the other cushion, "sit, we've got time to kill."

They watched the movie together but nodded off toward the end, Juvia woke to the sound of her phone receiving a video call and the ID said Bora. Rushing to the back door she slid the glass door open and stepped onto the balcony to answer it. She waited for the screen to load before speaking and saw that Bora was unaware his phone had dialed her because he was laying on his bed with a blonde on top of him with her top off. "Wha- Bora!" Juvia screamed, "It's over, I don't ever want to see you again! Go to hell!" She ended the video call and fell to her knees sobbing while her phone rang over and over.

A warm hand landed on her shoulder as Gray tried to calm her, "Are you okay?"

"Did you see?" she asked, wiping her eyes.

"Yea," he looked away from her, "you can do better, I already said he was a jerk, so you know I think you're better off."

"He really was," she laughed softly through her tears.

"And an idiot," Gray said, "who accidentally video chats someone like that?"

Gray pulled Juvia to her feet and back inside, sitting on the sofa together once again he started another movie, Juvia was no longer crying but still looked uneasy. Halfway through the movie her phone chimed showing a text from Gajeel, I'm here where are you? Gray went to the door and said, "Your brother is here...and huge."

Juvia giggled as she gave Gray a quick hug, "Thanks for letting me hang out here," she gathered her clothing and bag, "I really appreciate it."

"Anytime, neighbor."

Gajeel unlocked Juvia's door and as they entered the apartment, he pointed to the hook next to the door where her keys still hung, "really Juvia?"

"Sorry," she blushed, "I was in a hurry, at least they were here and not lot on the bus or something."

Gajeel closed the door behind them and plucked at the fabric of the shirt she wore, "What the hell is going on here? You know your halfwit boyfriend won't like any of this."

"Well I don't have a boyfriend anymore, so there's no one to have an issue with anything," she huffed.

"I am glad to hear you don't have a boyfriend but I nominate myself as the person who won't like this," he scowled at her, "Juvia, you can't stay in a guy's apartment like that, you don't even know the guy."

"I have gotten to know him a little, and he isn't a bad guy." she defended.

"Yea, alright, whatever kid. Can you at least try to avoid getting involved with this guy?" Gajeel groaned, "they're all nice guys, until they're not."

"He's just my neighbor," she retorted, but she did wonder if someone like Gray would be interested despite having seen her issues with Bora firsthand.

"I mean it." Gajeel said sternly, "no guys. Take a break."

Juvia rolled her eyes at him.