Series: Fairy Tail

Pairing: Gray Fullbuster/Juvia Lockser (mentions of Natsu/Lucy)

Rating: Slightly T for Teen

Prompt: Watching a Movie

Word Count: 2734

AN: Modern AU, implied high school.

"IIIIYAAAAH! Everything looks terrible!" Juvia Lockser's voice screeched through her small, one bedroom apartment. The young bluenette stood in front of her mirror, holding two entirely different outfits up in front of her; one a light green sundress with a sky blue shawl, the other a white sweater-vest with a pink blouse underneath and a khaki pleated skirt. She looked back and forth between the two in distress, then fumed out a "Oooo! Juvia hates these!" and threw them both to her feet.

Lucy Heartfilia, sitting on her friend's bed, pressed her palm against her forehead, running her fingers through her short blonde bangs. "Juvia, neither of them are that bad. You're over thinking this."

"That is easy for Lucy to say." Juvia barked, turning from her mirror to face her comrade, "Lucy looks good in absolutely anything! Even the bland high school uniform!" Juvia pointed at the young blonde accusingly. Lucy was wearing the same outfit as Juvia: a cream-yellow sweater, overtop a white blouse and blue necktie, and a blue pleated skirt on her bottom. The only difference being that Lucy had white knee socks on, while Juvia wore black tights.

Lucy scoffed and blushed a bit, trying to appear modest, but honestly enjoyed the praise. "That's ridiculous, Juvia. No one could look good in this junk of an outfit."

Juvia puffed her cheeks up in disagreement, but turned her head away instead of arguing with her yellow haired friend.

"Juvia must look perfect tonight. Tonight is very, very important." She stated, and moved towards to closet to flip through the dresses she had yet to try on.

Lucy placed her chin in her palm and rolled her eyes. "It's just the movies. Gray is such an idiot, he probably doesn't even realize it's a date."

"THAT DOESN'T MATTER!" Juvia shouted in Lucy's direction, causing the young lady to jump to her feet in surprise. Juvia spun back around with three more dresses in arm. "Lucy is only a little bustier than Juvia. If Lucy tries these on too, Juvia can see them all faster. Quickly, put this one on!" Juvia insisted, and tossed an orange dress and cardigan at her friend.

Lucy sighed, but saw no reason to protest, and went along with her friend's demands.

An hour later, Lucy accompanied Juvia across town to the movie theater to drop the young lady off for her date. Juvia had settled with a white and blue plaid sundress, the top of which buttoned up in the front. Lucy had insisted that she leave the all but last couple buttons undone if she wanted Gray to "notice her charm" tonight. Lucy had remained in her uniform, saying that she didn't care what she wore to the movies, though she had took the time to tie her blonde hair into a side ponytail with a white ribbon.

"You look great, Juvia." Lucy reassured her friend, who was lightly pulling at the edge of her dress's skirt.

"Lucy is just saying that…" Juvia mumbled, obviously nervous about the night's plans.

"That's not true, Juvia. You look just as great as I do in all your dresses." Lucy said, not realizing she was bragging about her own curves, "Oh, by the way—could I borrow that orange one some time? It was so cute!"

"No way." Juvia said, puffing her cheeks up again, "Lucy would only use it to steal Gray."

"Except I already have a boyfriend, remember?" Lucy waved her hand back and forth, signaling Juvia to get rid of her doubts. "And speaking of which…"

"Yo Lucy!" A male voice called from down the sidewalk.

Juvia looked up from the rim of her dress, where her fingers had continued to pluck, and saw Natsu Dragneel walking towards them, waving his arm back and forth excitedly. Right behind him was the man of her dreams: Gray Fullbuster.

Juvia became flustered again, thinking about going on a date with Gray, and looked down at her feet. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Lucy leave her side, and looked up as the blonde ran over and threw her arms around the pink haired man's neck.

Juvia admired Lucy's tenacity, she wasn't afraid to tell Natsu how she felt, and now they were dating. Though Juvia was very clear about her feelings for Gray, he didn't respond the same way Natsu had. Sometimes, it felt like her confessions caused them to grow further apart. Lately, she had tried to hold back any words that may cause a rift between them.

Juvia examined the boys' casual wear. Natsu was wearing a black pair of slacks, and a red dress shirt, which his signature scarf covered a good bit of. Juvia could remember when Lucy used to criticize that it ruined his outfits, but had given up a long time ago.

Then, there was Gray, looking up at the sky to ignore the lovey-dovey couple right next to him. Gray was wearing a dark blue t-shirt, made of a very hugging material, which made it easy for Juvia's eyes to trace his abs. He had a black choker around his neck and his favorite cross hanging on a chain a little lower. On his legs were a pair of white jeans, which dragged over most of his black sneakers.

Juvia didn't realize it, but she had raised her hands to her cheeks, and was softly pressing them together as she admired Gray's form. It wasn't until she saw Lucy waving her hand to get her attention that she realized she was staring so intently. She blushed and shoved her hands behind her with a light laugh. "Ahaha, oh! Hi Natsu. Hello, Gray." She walked towards her three comrades and blushed lightly as she stepped closer to the dark haired man. "Is Gray excited to see this movie?"

"Uh, yeah. I did buy us all the tickets." Gray answered, completely oblivious to the young woman's gaze on him.

Juvia pouted, but shook it off. She had all night to get him to notice her. She couldn't let a little thing like that get her down. She peered at Lucy, who had her arm locked with Natsu's, and reached slyly for Gray's.

"Yeah! I dig giant robots!" Natsu shouted excitedly, Juvia jumped in surprise and missed Gray's arm completely, stumbling a bit. The salmon haired man continued in his excitement, "This is gonna be a total blast!"

"Yeah, we're not going to see that." Lucy said with a sigh and roll of the eyes. She gave a yank at Natsu's arm.

"What? We're not?" Natsu whined, and looked confused at Gray, who shrugged, obviously just as out-of-the-loop as he was.

"I had Gray give me our tickets early and I exchanged them." Lucy held up their tickets, which were pink in color. Juvia noticed the tickets sticking out of Gray's pocket were yellow. She knotted her eyebrows, Lucy had not told her about this at all.

Natsu pouted, but Lucy leaned in close to his ear and whispered, "We're going to go see something a little more… romantic." As she continued, her words became less audible to Juvia, but she watched as Natsu's face turn from a frown to an excited smirk. Very excited.

Natsu suddenly wrapped his arm around Lucy's waist, which got a bit of a giggle out of the girl, and started running for the theater's entrance. "See you losers later!" He shouted, though his voice trailed off as he entered the building.

Juvia watched them dash off with one hand over her mouth. "Juvia is suspicious…"

Gray sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, as if to relieve stress. "It's better if you just didn't worry about it…" he grumbled, then dropped his arms his side. One brushed against Juvia's own hand, causing the girl to blush as her heart skipped a beat.

"Well, guess it's just you and me, Juvia." He said, and smiled lightly at the young lady.

Juvia could feel her heart beating faster and face glowing redder, but she swallowed softly, and nodded. "Yeah, let us be going, Gray."

The movie was even more exciting than Juvia had expected. She constantly found herself screeching whenever a monster came too close to the screen, and constantly threw her arms around Gray when she was scared; which Lucy had instructed her to do, but she would have done regardless.

When Gray was excited, she could feel his arm tense up, and her attention would be dragged from the flat screen, to his face—lit by only the projected screen. He had a certain glint in his eye that she never saw in anyone else's. It made her fall in love with him all over again.

Juvia was admiring that very feature, when out of the corner of her eyes, she saw one of the theatrical monsters leap at the screen.

"Oh my god! It can fly?!" Juvia screeched and nearly leapt out of her seat—attaching herself to Gray in her fuss. For just a moment, the bluenette thought she heard something pop, but her attention was dragged away by Gray lightly protesting her closeness to him. However, his struggling was short lived as he watched one of the robots Natsu had mentioned, drag the monster, which had scared Juvia, up into space to finish it off.

Juvia felt Gray's muscles tighten again, and she slid her hand down to his, which he quickly grabbed and entwined fingers with. She gasped lightly, and smiled; she wasn't sure if he was aware he was even touching her anymore, but it made her so very happy.

The movie's credits were part way through before lights began to fill the room again. Juvia was sitting beside Gray—instead of practically on top of him—and rubbing tears from her eyes. "The blond couple was Juvia's favoriiite!" She sobbed, "Why did they have to diiie?"

Gray sighed and patted the girl's back sympathetically. "It'll be alright. They died with honor… or something."

Juvia peaked at him through her tears, and Gray attempted to smile to cheer her up, but his comforting was less than substantial and the young lady began to tear up all over again.

Gray sighed heavier, and brought himself to his feet. "I'm not too great at this girl stuff. Let's got see if Lucy and Natsu are done with their movie." He suggested, then added on in a mumble, "And whatever else they were doing…"

"Alright." Juvia snuffled, and stood up. As she did, she heard something small and plastic hit the floor.

Before she could look to see what it was, she heard Gray start to stammer. "J-Juvia." He had over hand half way across his face. "Y-y-your top!" The dark haired man finally turned his head away, but kept his hand gestured towards her torso.

Juvia stared at him, feeling puzzled, but looked down to her bosom to find that what had popped during the movie—and fallen to her feet right afterwards—was one of the last couple buttons keeping her dress's top together. Her white strapless bra was almost entirely visible, along with a great amount of cleavage.

Juvia's face grew red as she put together what had happened, and just then, the rest of the lights in the theater flicked on, and Juvia found there to be many strangers around, staring in her direction, their attention drawn by Gray's voice and her earlier sobbing.

"N-Noooo!" Juvia cried and threw her arms around her chest, running over to Gray to shield her.

"Goddammit." Gray grumbled, his face bright red. He worked with quick thinking, and grabbed the edge of his T-shirt, before pulling it off over his head; eliciting some "oo's" and "ah's" from the surrounding females. Continuing to blush due to the situation, Gray pulled his T-shirt over Juvia's head. The bluenette was confused for a moment, but then realized what had happened while she attempted to hide form the public, and pushed her arms through the sleeves and pulled the shirt over her chest. On her, it was not nearly as hugging as it was on Gray, and was quite obviously a man's borrowed shirt.

She looked up at him with a teary smile. "Thank you very much, Gray." Juvia hugged onto his bare chest.

"Yeah… No problem." Gray mumbled, scratching the back of his neck with one hand, and rubbing Juvia's head apologetically with the other.

Ten minutes later, Gray and Juvia were sitting in the theater lobby, munching on left over popcorn. Juvia had her side pressed closely to Gray's arm, and was wistfully admiring the young man's features, when Lucy and Natsu emerged from their theater room. Juvia couldn't help but notice that Lucy's ponytail from before had been pulled down and out, and Natsu's clean dress shirt had been ruffled. She blushed, wanting to ask, but knew it was better to let it go.

"Hey guys! Have you been waiting long?" Lucy called, sprinting closer to the seated couple.

"Not really." Gray said, and held out his popcorn bucket in her direction, offering some.

Lucy gladly obliged and began to crunch on the slightly cold snack, before her eyes wandered up Juvia's outfit.

"Heeeeey…" She started, and swallowed the salty treat in her mouth. "What happened to your dress? We took so much time to pick it out, and now you covered it up."

Juvia and Gray both looked directly at Lucy with red faces, before looking in opposite directions of each other. "Nothing… really." Juvia lied.

"Yeah, I just… you know. She was cold." Gray's lie was even more obvious.

"Reeeaally?" Lucy sang curiously, looking back and forth between the two of them. "Nothing happened? Nothing at all?"

Natsu walked up behind Lucy to join them, "Well, something definitely happened in there," Natsu bragged, and glanced in Gray's direction to gloat. "If ya' know what I mean."

Lucy elbowed Natsu in the gut, getting a light "uff!" from the young man. "Shut up, Natsu." She rolled her eyes again, this time with a light blush on her face.

"Yeah, no one wants to hear about that." Gray said, and stood up, bringing a halt to the former conversation.

"Well, Natsu here is going to take me out to dinner now." Lucy said, stepping closer to her boyfriend and entwining her fingers with his. "Are you alright getting home on your own Juvia? It's dark out now."

Juvia glanced outside to see that Lucy was indeed correct; the sun had set while their movie showed. She looked back to her friend and smiled kindly, "Yeah, Juvia is fine. Have fun, Lucy."

"Will do!" The blonde cheered, and then spun around, dragging Natsu with her, "Let's go! I want something expensive!" She cheered. Juvia could hear Natsu whine about his allowance as the couple skipped out of earshot.

Juvia stood up and turned to Gray. "Well, Juvia will see Gray later than, Juvia supposes." She said softly, honestly not wanting to leave.

"Yeah, I guess." Gray started, then thought for a moment. "Uh, actually I um… really like that shirt." Juvia looked at the young man curiously, wondering where he was taking this. Gray scratched the back of his neck again, and stared at the ceiling for a moment, as if he was searching for the right words. He looked back to Juvia's blue eyes. "Why don't I walk you home?"

Juvia let out a soft gasp, and then smiled brightly. "Juvia would like that, very much."

End

AN: Can you tell what movie they went to? uwu Actually, knowing me, I probably mixed up the details and confused you if you actually did recognize it xP See you all tomorrow everyone.