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Thank you to Shadowhunterchronicleslover13 for the favorite, CaptainWho112 and Cinder Dragneel for the follow, and Zorleo for doing both.

All lyrics are going to be in italics.

Juvia POV

I'm working on my garden in front of my house, my earbuds in playing my favorite songs as I work. A few of them are a little old, but I don't care.

feel something so right by doing the wrong thing
An feel something so wrong by doing the right thing

Someone taps on my shoulder, but I ignore them. I haven't heard this song in forever and I would like to get through the chorus once.

I could lie, couldn't I, couldn't I?
Every thing that kills me makes me feel alive.

"Juvia!" the person shouts, but the sound is muffled so I can still play it off like I didn't hear them.

Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
Baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But, baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be-we'll be counting stars

"JUVIA!" the person shouts louder.

I take out my earbuds and turn around to see who just had to interrupt one of the best songs ever written in my opinion.

"What do you need!?" I snap as I turn around.

My eyes go wide in shock as I look to see who I yelled at, "Gray?"

I'm so humiliated. I've had a huge crush on Gray ever since high school, and now I just had that huge outburst. What if this causes him to hate me forever? I don't think I could live with myself if that happened.

"Listen I need a favor," Gray says in his normal cool demeanor.

"Oh anything for you, Gray darling," I reply.

"Alright well, I kind of told my dad that I had a girlfriend," Gray says, "now he wants to meet her at our family poker party this weekend."

"But you told Juvia that you didn't have a girlfriend."

"I don't, that's the problem," Gray says.

"Juvia doesn't understand what this has to do with her," I admit.

"Could you pretend to be my girlfriend so my dad doesn't know I was lying?"

Wait, Gray wants me to be his girlfriend?

"Oh, Gray darling this is the best day of Juvia's life!" I shout, throwing myself at him.

He doesn't move away like he usually does, making this day even better. I wonder what could come next.

"Okay, now just remember my aunt and cousins are coming too," Gray says, "so try to behave."

I let go, still with a bright smile on my face, "Of course, wait did you say poker party?"

"Yeah," Gray says, "it's almost a family tradition to have one once a month. Why?"

"Well, Juvia has never played before," I say, "and I don't really have a whole lot of spare money for gambling."

"Don't worry, I can walk you through it," Gray says, "and we don't use real money, we play with the poker chips you buy at stores."

"Alright, Juvia will give it a shot!"

I was counting down the days this past week, but now Saturday has finally come. Gray picked me up from my house about fifteen minutes ago, we spent the ride in silence. I wanted to speak but I had no idea what to say, so instead I just sat there holding the bag of chips I decided to bring.

The driveway has three cars in it, and there is one in the driveway. Gray takes the last empty space in the driveway and stops the car. He came around to open my door (isn't he such a gentleman!?), and the two of us walked to the front door of the house. Gray has his key with him so we were able to walk right in.

"We're here!" Gray shouts.

"Finally, I want to meet my future daughter-in-law!" a man shouts back.

Gray opens his mouth, most likely to yell that the two of us aren't an item, but closes it once he remembers what the rest of the family thinks. Gray leads me to the kitchen, where there are four people, two men and two women.

One of the men bears a striking resemblance to Gray, I assume that this is Gray's father. The females also look very similar, the major difference that I can notice is the hair length. Both of them have dark purple hair. The last male doesn't look like the others in the room, other than his spiky hair, but his hair is as white as snow.

The female with longer hair is texting on her phone. The short haired female is helping the white haired boy get an even amount of poker chips at each seat. Gray's father is placing some Chips Ahoy cookies onto a plate.

"Ultear," Gray says, "why aren't you helpin'?"

"Me and Meredy are trying to set up a shopping day to look for a birthday present for Uncle Meta. Plus, I don't see you doing anything either," the long haired female says calmly.

"I just got here, because I was picking up my girlfriend," Gray emphasizes the word girlfriend, trying to get them all to believe that we are a couple.

The girl looks up from her phone, "Wow, you weren't kidding about that. I'm Ultear by the way."

"Nice to meet you, I'm Juvia," I say.

The girl goes back to her phone and the other people look back up at me.

The girl with short hair walks up to me smiling, "Hello I'm Gray's aunt, but you can call me Ur. Those two are my children Ultear and Lyon, and that is my brother Silver. He's Gray's father. Welcome to the family."

She embraces me for a short hug, before going back to help her son.

"Lyon," Ur says, "you don't need to get two glasses for everyone."

"It's just in case someone wants water and a soda," the white haired boy says.

"Oh, Juvia brought some chips to eat while we play," I say holding out the bag in my hand.

"You didn't need to bring anything," Silver says, "but that isn't gonna stop me from enjoying them."

"Are you sure that she is actually your girlfriend?" Lyon asks, "Juvia seems way too polite and beautiful to be stuck with you."

I blush. Gray's cousin is attractive, but I don't see myself wanting to be with anyone other than my darling. I just don't think that Gray sees me in that kind of way, this is my chance to change that.

Gray gets angry at Lyon's comment, "Back off man, she's my girlfriend alright."

"Come on boys," Ur says, "we have a guest."

Everything gets set up quickly and everyone takes a seat. Me and Gray sit next to each other so he can help me learn how to play the games. Ultear won the last time the family played poker so she gets to deal first.

"Alright people, we'll start with no peek," Ultear says.

She finished shuffling and started to deal out cards face down in a clockwise direction, dealing herself last. I go to pick up the card in front of me, but Gray stops me.

"You can't look at your cards in no peek," he says.

"Oh," I say moving my hand away from the table.

Ultear continues to give out cards until everyone has seven cards each. Then she places a poker chip in the center of the table. The rest of the family follows her lead, and I follow them.

Lyon is sitting to the left of his sister, and he flips one card over. The card is the eight of hearts. Lyon then places another chip in the center of the table, with everyone else doing the same.

I am sitting next to Lyon so I guess I go next. I flip one of my cards over, it's the queen of spades.

"Alright, Juvia," Gray says, "now that you are in the lead, you get to make the bet."

I place one of my chips in and everyone places in the same amount. Gray goes next, his card is the three of spades.

"Damn," he says, "Juvia you get to make the bet again."

We all add another chip in. Ur goes next with a six of diamonds, Silver gets a five of hearts, and then Ultear has a jack of clubs.

"So Juvia is in the lead with a queen," Ultear announces.

The next round is similar to the last. Lyon gets the two of clubs, I get the jack of spades, Gray gets the four of hearts, Ur get the four of clubs, Silver gets the five of clubs, and Ultear gets the two of diamonds.

"Uncle Silver is in the lead with a pair," Ultear says.

"Take that Ur!" Silver shouts.

"I'm still in this," Ur declares.

Over the next few rounds I get the ace of spades, king of spades, two of clubs, three of diamonds, and the last card delt to me is a ten of spades. I bet in a chip, but everyone else folds.

"Why are you all folding at the same time?" I ask.

"You have a royal flush," Ultear says.

"That's an unbeatable hand," Gray tells me.

"So Juvia wins?" I asks.

"Yep," Ur confirms, "You know get all of the chips in the betting pile."

"I say it's beigners luck," Silver declares.

"You are just too stubborn to admit that you lost," Ur says.

Over the next few hands I learn baseball, follow the queen, the good the bad and the ugly, hurricane, and seven card stud. Over the course of the games the family talks about events that are coming up. The biggest one is a birthday party for a good friend of Silver and Ur. They are so close that their children refer to him as uncle.

They invited me to come with them since they think I'm Gray's actually girlfriend. I told them I would have to see what my schedule will be like, after all, me and Gray agreed to tell them we broke up in a few weeks.

Gray POV

I find it hard to concentrate with Juvia's laughter. Hell, just her sitting beside me is enough to make me go crazy. I thought that if I let her meet my family that it would be easier to ask her out on a proper date. Yet, it seems like it will be so much harder now.

At the end of the night Ur wins, with Juvia in second and my dad throwing a fit while my aunt rubs her win in his face. I got real nervous when dad asked Juvia to come to uncle Meta's birthday party. With how she is I thought that she was gonna just say yes right away.

After we say goodbye and get all of the last minute hugs, me and Juvia get back into my car so I can drop her off at her house. We sit there in silencec again. This time I don't want to, I want to make my move before I can't. the timing is just right, it's time for me to grow some balls.

"Hey Juvia," I say.

"Yes?"

"I was just wondering if you maybe wanted to go on a real date next time?" I say, ripping it off like a bandage.

I swear that her eyes turn to hearts, "Oh Gray, Juvia would be so happy to go on a date with you."

When we get to her house I walk her to the door. She goes through her purse to pull out her keys. Before I let her unlock her door, I give her a small kiss on the cheek. I walk back feeling confident, with Juvia still standing at her doorstep in shock.

Sorry about the lack of updating last week, it shouldn't happen again. First you should know that I deleted all of my author's notes. Second, I went back to the doctor Monday to check my wrist again after last week. It is fractured. Anyway, next week will be Zervis movie night with the Dragneels again, so I hope you are looking forward to it.

Guest: thank you, I will get to writing about the party eventually. It will most likely be a one-shot I make after this is over.

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