Gray looked at the sundial on the wall and got off from the chair "have to go now!" he exclaimed

"Gray, Juvia should arrive at the station in 10 minutes and I was thinking that maybe you could start our plan..." the white haired girl smiled looking at her "naked torso" friend rushing in the street "well I bet he already knew it," she said

Gray reached the station and with hard breath and his hands on the knees stopped near a bench. He looked around but there was not a trace of Lyon. Weird! He'd bet the bastard would be there waiting for Juvia. However Juvia could arrive any moment and what would he tell her? He could pretend, perhaps, to just happened to be there because of some errands...

"Yes, this can work!" It was not even the first time he met her somewhere "by chance" and then they walked together to the guild.

Ok ok errands... But what?

"I got it" the mage exclaimed looking at a grocery store not too far "I just need to buy something so I can show Juvia the bag and play it cool"

Gray looked in his pocket for the wallet "oh shit!"

No wallet.

No pockets for the truth.

He hadn't trousers at all. Neither his shirt

"Goddammit" "how am I supposed to buy something like this ?"

The train whistled as it stopped at the station.

He had to think fast, He saw it: an old man was loading a million bags in his car but he had forgotten one in his shopping cart's so he went closer and took it.

He'd keep it just till Juvia see it and then he will give it back.

The train whistled for the second time and passengers begun to get off

"Gray sama?" a surprised familiar soft voice exclaimed

"Hey Juvia, you here?" the mage howled with an unnecessary too high-pitched voice. She almost caught him steal a bag from a poor old man.

The girl smiled wide "Juvia just returned from a mission, Juvia is so happy to meet Gray sama, She was really hoping it!" the water mage said excited with heart shaped eyes

"Hmmm you know, I was here for some errands. I really needed these things" Gray said lifting the bag in his hands and assuming an indifferent expression.

Juvia nodded and danced on her feet "Gray sama since we are here.. what about.. What would you say about eating an ice cream, together with Juvia?" the girl shyly asked with her hands behind her back and swinging slightly on the place.

"an ice cream uh?!" "Well today really is hot!" the ice mage said shrugging

"Oh Gray sama, Juvia is so happy!" the girl said throwing herself into his arms.

Surprised Gray dropped the bag and then he paled.

"Uhm Gray sama?" the water mage asked arching her eyebrows "Why Gray sama needed to buy: denture cleaner, constipation remedies, and hemorrhoid cream?

"Whaaaat?" the ice mage said while sweat drops fell on his neck

"Juvia had no idea Gray sama had this kind of problems" she muttered

"No, Juvia it's not like that!" he paled

"Juvia will be more careful with the food she will put in the basket! Juvia will avoid every harmful food"

"No, look Juvia.." he was about to confess but she looked at him with her sweetest smile "Juvia will take care of Gray sama, don't worry!"

He couldn't help the blood flow that came to warm his face. He passed a hand through his hair in the futile attempt to look casual. It was becoming harder and harder lately.

"By the way.. about this picnic thing"

"Yes, Gray sama, Juvia will avoid chocolate and spicy foods and…"

"Juvia wait, I am not.. I don't suffer from.." desolated he tried to explain

"Gray sama!" Juvia shouted her disapproval

"What is it?" he asked confused following Juvia's eyes on the floor where his full of shame bag stood.

Gray's face was drained of its color when he saw his Nakama taking from the floor a small red and black box. On the envelope, there was a boy and a girl sharing a hot chili with their mouth under the wrote "spice up your day"

She seemed really disappointed and he started to feel the ground opening under his feet to swallow him in a hole of shame.

"Gray sama should not eat chili candies with his problems!" she scolded him.

"..." "….." "...candies..." "You do believe that's a candy's box. Aehm.." "Yes" "You are totally right Juvia," he said taking the box from her hands and letting it slip in his pocket (yeah he had his trousers on again, thank God) and putting back the bag in the old pervert's cart.

They walked silently to the ice cream's stand and Gray looked at Juvia's face while she was picking her favorite flavor. She looked so happy and he knew that very image would be stored in his mind just to pop out when he would not see it coming during his day. His brain had its own way to remember him he was an idiot about his relationship with her.

"Juvia back to the picnic basket..." the ice make mage said licking his ice cream, the fruit flavored ice cream Juvia suggested him to take because apparently it was the best choice for his intestine. "Well, I can give you a hand if you want?"

Juvia looked delighted for a moment but then she started to look around conspiratorially "Gray sama" she whispered "it's against the rules"

"yeah, well I know, but if I help you I'll know for sure what will be your basket and so I will surely be able to fulfill my promise. What about it? And I was thinking you could make Jell-O shots, muffins with alcoholic cream or something like this..."

Juvia looked uncertain. Sure it was a tempting proposition but she didn't want to upset Erza-san among all people.

Gray couldn't let his plan to fall apart so he decided to bring out his best guns and he looked right into Juvia's eyes, a hand under his chin in an "I'm sexy and I know it" pose and smiled his best smile. Hoping all the talk about his intestinal activities had not ruined his sex appeal.

Smoke was pretty much exuding from Juvia's ears e with a loud bang she passed out on the glass coffee table

Good! He hadn't lost his touch! Gray thought smugly trying to wake up his Nakama

Juvia opened her eyes a moment later looking around and trying to focus on the place she was.

Cofee. Icecream. Gray's smile. "Oh my God I'm fainting again"

"Hey, Juvia?Juvia? Is everything ok?" the ice mage asked

"S..Sure" she stammered then she looked at her hands and "Gross!" her ice cream was half melted on her sticky fingers

"Oh no! Juvia's ice cream!" she whined

"Wait, Juvia I'll go take napkiiii..."

Too late.. the word died in Gray's mouth when he looked at the water mage.

Juvia was licking the ice cream from her fingers and the time seemed to slow down, like when in the movies the hot girl starts to run and smile and well time slows down.

Ok brain. Here you go with another image you will use to torture me later.

Gray felt his throat sore e the head lighter while his heart pushed southern all his blood.

Thank God he was still dressed, wasn't he?

He checked. "Yes thankgoddness"

Ok if this was a contest about who was the hottest here… Well, she was winning for sure.

Images of Juvia and Icecreams were mixing together in his mind creating unsafe terrains.

Gray shook those images and all the other ones that were running in his mind out of his mind together with one or two questions about Physic and Law.

How resistant could be a glass coffee table?

How many years in jail it was for Indecent Exposure?

*Spice up your day* the slogan popped out in his mind

It really was not the moment to think about the small box in his pocket and to how fast he would break the wrapping. Is there a record for this kind of thing, already?

He needed a distraction, he had to cool down, stop thinking about this kind of things.

Natsu with a bra. Gajeel's feet. Laxus in a pink tutu. Lyon.

Ok. It was working and do not forget he was a man on a mission

"So, Juvia? Your place or mine?" "...I mean… I wanna frost your muffin…"… "I mean, let's go put your bun in my oven" "..."

Well! Shit! Maybe this conversation turned out all wrong.