CHAPTER-2

:in which juvia tries

to swear, and fails miserably

"Levy-Chan is kidding, right?"

"I'm afraid not, you will have to stay here for a few more hours."

Juvia let out a long groan, and stared at Levy incredulously. She loved the girl, really. but sometimes her love for the one-of-a-kind library cum café, which is open 24/7, was insufferable.

"Oh come on Juvia, don't be like that. You should have listened when I told you there was a change in schedule." Levy smiled in that way that could melt anyone (even Gajeel and he was practically made of metal)

"Juvia doesn't remember when you told her. What did she say about telling her stuff when she is busy?" Juvia grinned triumphantly, there's no way Levy could get out of that one.

"Well, you were busy sleeping…"

Okay, then.

"But, can't you stay here? You love this place more than Juvia!" Juvia tried one last desperate time.

"No can do. Gajeel wants me to cook dinner for him." Levy smiled sweetly.

"Okay, Juvia will fucking do the damn job." Juvia grumbled.

"Ok, great." Levy turned and started walking towards the exit. "Oh, and Juvia?"

Juvia perked up, hoping that Levy will say that this was all a joke and that she could go home and rest these tired muscles of hers.

"A new shipment of books came in, stack those up by author. And swearing doesn't suit your third person prose so I suggest that you stop."

And with that last careless comment, Levy bid adieu and went on her merry way.

Juvia groaned one last time, before heaving herself up. This exchange reminded her of what Gajeel had once told her,

"Levy is small. Levy is cute. And Levy is the spawn of Satan."

Juvia was in a very bad mood. It was not like she didn't want to do her job, she knew what she was getting into when she signed up, but it had been a particularly bad day.

Yesterday she had so much fun with Lucy and her friends (along with Natsu and Gray, Gajeel, Levy, Erza and Wendy came along) that they lost track of time and stumbled home at around eleven o'clock. Then, in the morning, she had to wake up for a marine biology seminar with a professor who didn't know the meaning of time. And then she had the most gruelling swimming session ever, when her coach Aquarius made them do twenty laps around the pool.

Then, she rushed to the Library to get started on her shift, where Levy told her that the schedule had changed but didn't allow her to go home because quote, "we need an extra pair of hands to push these shelves around." Unquote.

So, here she was, after she started on her real shift, with only a cup of coffee to keep her sane, sitting on a ladder and stacking books.

She glanced down at the book she was holding now, When Good meets Bad, was the title. On the cover was a picture of a cute girl with long, flowing golden hair and green eyes. Holding her hand was a man with kind black eyes and sorta spiky black hair.

Wait a second… she knew that woman… Mavis Vermillion, founder of Fairy Tail. People said that she wanted to make people happy and therefore made the sprawling university that is now Fairy Tail, a place for the orphans and poorer people to get their education. She had a rare type of blood cancer and died a year after Fairy Tail opened. No one knew where or when she died, just that she was travelling around the continent.

It was a curious story, one, that nothing was known about. No one really gave any thought to it either and yet, here, almost a decade later a book with her on the cover was found.

Juvia made a mental note to borrow the book later on, and to research on Mavis Vermillion, when she felt someone shake her ladder.

"Hey, do you have a book on- woah!"

The last part was because the strangers shaking had sent her flying of the ladder and falling on the floor with quite a few books falling on her.

"Ow." Juvia moaned.

Suddenly she heard laughter. Opening one eye, she recognised a raven haired man through her hazy gaze.

"Okay, what the hell? First of all, you're the one who made Juvia fall and then you have the nerve to laugh at her?"

Juvia regretted the words as soon as they left her mouth, because standing before her was Gray Fullbuster.

Wow, she really had a knack of embarrassing herself in front of him.

"I don't really like clothes."

"No." Juvia gasped in mock horror, bringing her palm up to her heart.

"Yup." Gray chuckled.

The fact that he didn't like clothes was no surprise, he had stayed half naked the day before and even now he was playing with his buttons, seemingly ready to pull his shirt off.

(Juvia really wished he didn't, just sitting here with him was already bad for her faint heart.)

After the falling-on-her-butt-accident, they had sat on one of the tables and started too get to know each other. The books that were supposed to be stacked up, lay forgotten in one corner of the library.

Honestly, Juvia didn't care. Getting to know Gray was much more interesting and it wasn't as if Levy wasn't expecting a rebellion from her. And if she was angry, then Juvia would just feed her some stories about Gruvia (The newly entitled ship name for her and Gray, which she honestly kinda liked.)

"So, Gray-Sama…" Juvia started, then promptly turned pink. She hadn't meant for the Sama to slip out, it just happened so that when she had a crush on someone she gave them utmost respect.

"Sama?" Gray looked at her with something akin to amusement. "What are yer' respecting me for?"

"Oh, Um… Since most of Juvia's friends are either too vain or too bookish girls and in the case of boys, two idiots who think they have fire and metal powers respectfully, Juvia thinks she has a right to call you Gray-Sama."

Nice save.

Gray looked at her confused, "what about Erza? Or Wendy?"

Spoke too soon.

Instead of showing her inner turmoil, Juvia faked an incredulous façade and said, "Is Gray-Sama crazy? Why on earth wouldn't Juvia call Erza 'sama', do you know how scary she is?"

Gray nodded," Fair enough. But Wendy?"

Juvia shrugged, "While Wendy does deserve insane amounts of respect for putting up with all of us, she is a bit too young."

"Ok, then. But I still don't really like it." Gray scowled.

"I'll try my best to not let it slip out." Juvia promised.

Gray glanced at her, "So, we're all meeting up tomorrow again after class. Wanna come?"

Juvia almost fainted again.

A date. A date. A date… with a lot of other idiots too, but still a date!

The next day, when Erza came back from an ancient armoury she had gone to visit, she was surprised to see Juvia clinging to her legs and wailing, "Please, please let me call you Erza-Sama in front of Gray-Sama!"

Hello readers!

So… second chapter is up! This is more of a filler and I'm not too happy with it… but ehhh… I'm waaaay too lazy to fix it. XD

Phew, writing in Juvia's third person is HARD.

So a story on Mavis and Zeref, Eh? Wonder where that's going…

Anywhooo,

Hoped you enjoyed!

Ciao,

-BookNerd, out.