Modern AU/College AU

Author's Note: I wanted to clarify ages so I thought this would be the best time. I don't want people thinking a 18 year old and 17 year old are sleeping together.

Lucy, Juvia, Levy Natsu, Lisanna: 22 years

Gray, Loke, Cana, Elfman: 23 years

Mirajane, Erza, Gajeel, Lyon: 25 years

I want to remind everyone that this was heavily inspired by BonneyQ's Fic. I give full credit to her for many things such as age, roommates, and places. Of course I will be putting my own twist on it. Now, onto the story.

Chapter 3: Together

That following Saturday, the group was having lunch at the Strauss family restaurant. Gray and Juvia sat next to each other and got looks from Natsu, Lucy, and Loke. Juvia just got embarrassed and Gray shot them dirty looks. At some point, the three stopped. Juvia had been ignoring Gray for the past two days, out of anger, and had only greeted him before they sat down.

At some point into the lunch, Gray placed his hand secretly on Juvia's thigh. She felt secure, somehow. Yet Juvia was angry. She turned and stared at him, with an eyebrow raised.

"My place, tonight?" he asked, very quietly.

"Juvia can't. Juvia has a date." this made Gray quickly retrieve his hand and it attracted Cana's attention. Juvia would never turn down a chance to spend time with Gray, this worried him.

"Juvia, you have a date?" asked Cana, not so subtly. This attracted more attention, causing heads to turn. Now the whole table was staring at her. Juvia felt her cheeks go pink.

"Juvia! What? With who?" asked Lucy, who was quite flabbergasted by the news. Natsu basically choked on his drink. It's clear it wasn't Gray, because he had an angry look on his face. Even though Gray tried to keep it subtle, Natsu could tell.

"A guy from work. No big deal. Juvia doesn't want to talk about it."

"When?" ask Levy, quite excitedly.

"Tonight."

"I thought you didn't want about it?" asked Gray, with a slight attitude.

"Shut it, Gray." said Cana as she motioned him off.

"Well Gajeel, it looks like we're at my place tonight, since Juvia's going to have someone over." said Levy with a wink. This cause Juvia to get red and everyone, but Gray, to laugh.

Erza quickly wanted to change the topic to her big news.

"Everyone, we have news." she said as she motioned to Jellal and her.

"We have decided to get married." he said awkwardly. The whole table eugot up and started congratulating the couple.

"But Erza! Jellal lives in a different city and we have exams soon. When will you get married?" ask Lisanna.

"We've thought about already! Jellal has been offered a job here in Magnolia and we decided to go get married at the end of summer. This way we have time to plan the wedding, and it's not near any major events." she said. The rest of the lunch was mainly discussing wedding plans, what kind of dress, cake, location, everything. Everyone was so into it except Gray. He couldn't get his mind off Juvia.

It had been 7:55. Juvia's date would be there any second. She spent the last few minutes she had available trying to make herself look perfect. Then her phone buzzed. She squealed and checked her phone. He was here. She wondered why he couldn't of come up, but she remembers that you need a pass to show to the bellman. Only close friends had those. Juvia ran out her apartment and to the lobby so she could meet him.

"Juvia… you look stunning." said her date.

"Thank you, Lyon-sama. You look very handsome yourself." she said while blushing.

"Shall we go?" he extend her his hand and she took it.

"We shall." she laughed as he guided her to his car.

It was a great date. First the went to dinner where they talked all night. She hasn't really talk to him before but that night she really notice how great of a guy he is. He left at some point and Juvia's mind wandered to Gray. 'Juvia should not have done this. This was a bad idea. But, Juvia should enjoy herself while she can.' she thought. Juvia cleared her mind of Gray and just had a fun night. When it came time to drop her off at home, she kissed him goodbye on the cheek and left. Nothing more, nothing less.

Natsu and Gray sat on Natsu's couch playing some dumb video game. Lucy had just left to Erza's for a night of wedding planning.

"So what you're telling me is that you fucked up big time?" asked Natsu as he beat Gray in another round of their little game.

"Sort of. I didn't want to." Gray threw his controller on the couch.

"But you did. You're such an idiot." said Natsu as he put down the controller.

"Okay I get it. I fucked up badly." said Gray.

"No, you don't." this got Gray's attention, "She had a lot of feelings for you. Whatever was going on between you two probably made her the happiest girl in the world. You turned a blind eye to her for most of the time that you knew her. And when you finally acknowledged her in that way, only to shoot her down and say you're just fooling around-"

"I didn't say we were fooling around." interrupted Gray.

"Shut the fuck up, yes you did. A million words can have the same meaning as two. You lead her on and she's now moved on." finished Natsu.

"In two days?" Gray asked vulnerably. Natsu shrugged.

"I guess. I don't know what goes on in her brain. I mean, she slept with you, something has got to be wrong with her." joked Natsu. Gray punched him playfully.

"Why don't you shut it and grab me a beer." said Gray as he picked up the controller. Natsu laughed all the way to the kitchen.

Over the course of a few hours, one beer turned into two, which turned into three, which turned into four. Natsu had to cut him off after that.

"You drunk idiot. Now I have to get you back home." complained Natsu as he picked Gray up and tried to lead him home. Natsu ended up driving him to his place, but he didn't trust him enough to go up the 6 floors he needed to got to his apartment. After what seemed like an eternity, Natsu got a very drunk Gray into his apartment.

"Fucking finally. Whatever you do, dot drink any more and don't, I repeat and emphasize, do not drunk call Juvia. It is 2:30 in the morning." Gray motioned Natsu off and with that, he was gone.

Almost immediately after Natsu left, Gray went towards the fridge, and grabbed another beer, then proceeded to sit the couch. He threw his phone next to him and just stared at it. Occasionally taking a sip of his beer. 'Fuck it.' He called Juvia, and waited for her to answer. It was 2:30 but Gray still hoped she was up, and alone.

"G-Gray-sama?" asked a very sleepy voice. This was followed by some inaudible mumbling from Gray, "Gray-sama, you're drunk!" this cause some more inaudible mumbling, "Juvia is coming, you are in no state to be alone." and with that, she hung up.

Not even 30 minutes later, Juvia was at his door. She didn't even knock and just barged in. There she saw a drunk Gray watching something stupid on T.V.

"Juvia." he said as he stood up, stumbling a little.

"Gray-sama, sit." she ordered, while grabbing him some water and throwing it to him. He failed to catch it, "Drink." Gray grabbed it off the floor and chugged the whole thing.

"Why are you here? Are you supposed to be at home with your date?" he asked with a slight sense of snarkiness in his tone.

"No, Juvia doesn't go home one the first date."

"Oh really?" he asked, "Then when do you go home with a man? After you've been friends for three years and then happen to get drunk with him?" these words shocked Juvia.

"How dare you, Gray?!" she asked, visibly angry, "You can't stand the fact the Juvia is not all over you anymore." at this point, Juvia was almost screaming.

"I don't need you to be all over me. Did you ever think you're not as important to me as I am to you?" just as those words left his mouth, he immediately regret them. Juvia wasn't looking at him, but he could hear the sniffles coming from her, and he could see her wipe away tears, "Juvia, I–"

"No." she put up her hand to stop him from coming any closer, "you're are right Gray. I am not as important to you as you are to me. That was very dumb of Juvia, to fall for your tricks."

"M-my tricks?"

"Your tricks. You lead Juvia on, acting the way a couple would, only to say you're only fooling around with Juvia." she said as she tried not to cry more.

"Juvia, you went on a date with some random guy."

"He is not a random guy, and that 'random guy' treats me better than you ever would have. I chose you from the start. It has always been you, but why can't it be me?" her voice cracked and she fell to the floor in tears. Her sobbing was uncontrollable and Gray didn't know what to do, except kneel down to her. He lifted her face to see it be all red and puffy from crying.

"I will always chose you, Juvia." he said as he wiped away a tear.

"Gray-s-sama." Gray hadn't noticed that Juvia hadn't called him 'Gray-sama' because he was in a fit of anger, but once he heard her say that again it made him light up inside.

"Forget what I said. I don't know how to deal with my feelings, and you, oh god, you made me feel like how I've never felt before. I like you too much to let go." he said, not breaking gaze. Juvia stared down and started to chuckle.

"Gray-sama. You're very cheesy when you're drunk. I don't like it."

"Shut up." he said playfully. He took her hand and picked her off the floor. Gray lead Juvia to his night they would just sleep, nothing else.

The next morning Juvia woke up before Gray, nothing unusual. She let him sleep, and had gotten up to make breakfast. Juvia put on one of Gray's shirts, and silently left the room. Almost right after she had finished breakfast, Loke walked in.

"Jesus Juvia, why don't you just move in?" he laughed as he grabbed a pancake and went to his room.

"Good morning to you too, Loke-san!" she giggled.

"Well, well. What's this?" asked Gray, as he stepped outside his room.

"Breakfast." said Loke as he exited his room, "I'm out for the day." and with that he shut the door and left.

"It's like he doesn't even live here, but instead lives in all the girls who he sleeps with apartments ." said Gray as he sat down to eat.

They sat in silence till Juvia broke it.

"Gray-sama, what are we, seriously?" it took all her courage to ask. The last time she asked, she got heart broken.

"Well, what do you think?" he said. Just then he felt a feeling in his stomach which he hadn't felt in a while. He shot up off the table and ran into the washroom. Juvia could only cringe. Gray came out the washroom embarrassed.

"Sorry." he said as he stat down, trying not to draw too much attention to the fact he threw up, "but as I was going to say, we are whatever you want to be. Together, apart, whatever."

"Okay, Gray-sama. Let's be together." she said as she grabbed his hands and smiled.

"Together." he smiled. The duo continued on breakfast before Juvia had to leave to meet Erza for more wedding planning. She had never been happier than she was now.

Author's Note: Heck ya, chapter 3 is finally finished! They had their first sort of fight. The next chapter will be a little about the girls and wedding planning.

The funny thing is that I ship Jerza the least out of the big four (love the ship, never got into it as much as the others), yet they're getting their own sub plot, not Gajevy or Nalu.

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