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What to Expect When You're Expecting

Chapter Fifteen – Larger

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"I'm in my bed, you are in yours. One of us is definitely on the wrong place." – Unknown Author

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After the weekend at his Mother's, Gray felt a lot more relieved to know that his family accepted Juvia with open arms. Of course, seeing Lyon almost give his girlfriend a kiss wasn't the highlight of it, of course. But punching him on the face, was.

Juvia was confused of what was happening, but Ur just laughed and took her away from the two fighting grown men that were acting like children.

'Get used to it, Juvia.' Ur said with a smile, leading the younger girl to the living room. 'Boys will be boys and if you're having one, you'll get used to know which fights to battle and which ones to just let them punch each other and figure things out by themselves. Hell, even if you are having a girl, sometimes you just need to let the girl pull her bff's hair. You'll understand once you're a mom.'

They returned to Magnolia on Sunday, both feeling relieved that everyone knew about the pregnancy and were happy about it, Gray and Juvia went straight to her apartment, where they celebrated with style all night long.

The problem was that during the whole week, they celebrate it all the time. She would send him a text during their lunch hour and between classes, so they could meet and… well, do it like bunnies.

Loki and Gray were playing video-game, in a Friday evening, when the dark haired man's cellphone chirped, informing that a text arrived. He took the phone in his hand

"Juvia wants me to come over." Gray groaned, getting up. "I like sex as much as the next guy, but… I just need a night off. These pregnancy hormones are killing me."

The orange haired boy rolled his eyes. "Yeah… there's a beautiful woman, full of hormones, willing to give you crazy monkey sex. I can see how difficult your life is."

Gray stopped for a second, thinking about the subject. Okay, so his life wasn't bad, he and Juvia did have crazy monkey sex. He smirked and grabbed his wallet and keys. "I won't complain again."

"You better not, otherwise the next time I'll have to kick your ass." Loki yelled as Gray left their apartment.

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The next day, all the girls got together for a friendly lunch at the Strauss' family restaurant, while the boys went to do whatever boys do together. Juvia was happy to be around them, laughing and exchanging stories.

"So… Juvia." Mirajane sat across the table from the blue haired pregnant woman with a kind smile on her face. "How are you feeling with the pregnancy?"

"Well…" The girl started to get flushed. "It's… fine."

"Oh… There's something you are not telling us." Cana said, putting an arm around Juvia's shoulder. "You can tell us, Juvia."

"I'm..." Juvia's face was as red as a tomato. "I'm..."

"What?" The other girls asked, now very curious about what was happening.

"Horny." The blunette whispered and the other girls blinked in confusion.

"I'm sorry, what?" Lucy asked.

"I'm horny. All the time!" Juvia whisper was high pitched. "It doesn't go away!"

"Oh my god." Lisanna covered her mouth.

"Well, I say: take the problems with your own hands if you catch my drift." Cana shrugged and the girls blushed.

"Cana!"

"What?" The older girl shrugged. "It's not like you don't do it!"

They were all silent.

"Well... Juvia tried to... Take the problem with her… own hands, but... It's not... Fulfilling." Juvia was almost vermillion with the subject. "And Juvia tried everything there is to try but it doesn't go away! So, Juvia needs to call Gray-sama to…"

"So, you are after Gray like a shark smelling blood on the water." Cana rolled her eyes. "Am I right or am I right?"

"We should not be talking about this." Erza's face was as red as her own hair at that point. "Gray is like a brother to me." She whispered the last part.

The girls looked with sympathy to their pregnant friend.

"Don't worry, Ju-chan." Levy said, taking one of Juvia's hands with her own. "Those are pregnancy hormones. Some women go crazy horny."

"You just have to endure it a little bit." Lucy said.

"Why?" Lisanna shrugged. "I say go to Gray every time."

"What?" Juvia, Levy and Lucy asked surprised while Mira just giggled.

"That's right!" Cana agreed. "He already put the bun in the oven. It's his kid and he did say that he would help you out."

"Not with that!" The pregnant girl hoped that a hole in the ground could open, so she could be swallowed by the earth. She should not have brought up the subject.

Levy was considering the other girl's words. "A side effect of the pregnancy is to get horny. I don't think he would mind helping you out with it."

"Besides, it's not as if men just turn down women that want to sleep with them." Lucy shrugged and taking a sip of her soda.

Juvia thought for a second. "He does walk around without a shirt..." She said.

"There you go." Cana laughed. "Jump his bones. He needs to be grateful that anyone wants to have sex with him."

"Okay. Let's stop the subject, please?" Erza groaned.

"Prude alert." Cana coughed the words out, but everyone could understand it.

"Shut up!" The red haired woman rolled her eyes. "I am not a prude."

"Right." The brunette said and the girls giggled, as the subject changed towards Erza and Jellal's relationship.

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Later that night, after Juvia had taken the advice of continue to let Gray help her out with the 'horny situation,' her boyfriend was fast asleep by her side, but she couldn't sleep: Juvia was craving. And not for sex, she wanted food.

Chocolate ice cream with pickles, actually.

Not just the ice cream. Not just the pickles. Juvia wanted both, together. And she never was a fan of pickles, but apparently, Bean was.

She looked to her side, to her boyfriend and then to the clock on her bedside. She really didn't want to wake him up at 4:30 in the morning to go get food to her; even though this was one of those things she knew women do, she was just a little bit over four months pregnant. She wouldn't get tired of walking a block to go to the 24 hour convenience store. She had done it before.

As quietly as she could, the girl pushed the cover away from herself and also his arm, which was above her stomach. After putting some pants and a shirt, she grabbed her coat and left the room, making as little noise as she could.

If Bean wanted ice cream and pickles. Bean would get ice cream and pickles.

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When Gray woke up, it was because he didn't feel the warm body that was supposed to be by his side. Truly speaking, said body would normally be all over him, which he welcomed it, of course. It was a very nice thing to have Juvia by his side when he woke up. They would talk for a few minutes about what both would do that day, together or apart, while he had his hand over her growing stomach; he wanted to feel Bean already! Juvia already felt like 'butterflies wings were fluttering on her stomach', her words. Gray just wanted to feel something, anything.

Sitting on the bed, he looked around, so he could see the clock. 5:56. Maybe Juvia got sick again? Even though the first semester was over, it was common for the women to still feel sick during the pregnancy, at least it was what the doctor said, and Juvia liked to stay in bed with Gray as much as she could these days. He especially liked these days; waking up with a horny girlfriend was not the worst thing in the world.

So, she leaving the bed before Gray was unusual, which led said man to get up to find his girlfriend. He hoped Juvia wasn't sick, or anything. It really sucked to see her like that.

Once he put his underwear on, the dark haired man left Juvia's room. It was easy to deduce where the woman was, since the television of the living room was on. She was watching some sci-fi movie that looked so trashy… but the blunette seemed to be enjoying, because she was eating some potato chips and looking at the television like her life depended of it.

"You left me in bed to see some random movie?" Gray said, sitting by her side.

"Don't scare Juvia like that, Gray-sama!" The girl put a hand over her chest. "This is a scary movie."

"Right." The man put his arm around her shoulders, as she snuggled closer to him. He ate a few potato chips as the movie proceeded. "I don't get it."

"Juvia doesn't either." The blunette shrugged. "She's hoping that the movie will make sense later on."

"I see." Gray chuckled as they proceeded to watch the movie, until something came on his mind. "Wait… You said yesterday that you didn't have any chips. How come you are eating some?"

"Oh…" The girl looked to the bag on her hands and then up to her boyfriend. "Juvia went to buy ice cream and pickles, so she bought a bag of chips. I don't know why, but Bean loves pickles. Couldn't let me sleep until I had some."

"Wait, wait, wait. What?" Gray removed his arms from her shoulders, placing her hands on it, instead. "When exactly did you go to buy these things?"

"Around 4:30, why?" Juvia frowned in confusion when Gray got up and started to walk from one side to another. "What is it?"

"Juvia, you cannot just walk around the town during the night, especially now that you are pregnant!" He said in exasperation.

"It's a block away from here, Gray-sama. Juvia hardly walked around the town." The blunette rolled her eyes and dismissed the subject with a wave of her hand.

"It doesn't matter, Juvia! It's not safe! There's a homeless man that lives on the ally, he could've…" Her boyfriend tried to reason.

"T-Pup is a sweet man who made a few bad choices, Gray-sama." The pregnant woman also stood up and started to walk towards the kitchen. "Juvia gives him a meal three times a week, he says that she is his angel and won't let anyone hurt her if she needs to go to the grocery store a few times a week at night." She chuckled.

"Wait… You know the homeless man? By name?" Gray was confused. "And when did he say that to you?"

"Last week. Bean wanted to eat burritos, and there's a place nearby that…"

"So last night wasn't the first time you…" The man stopped talking, to take a deep breath. "Juvia, what on earth…? How many times have you…?"

"Four or five times." Juvia opened the freezer so she could grab the ice cream. "Don't worry, Gray-sama. Juvia doesn't go out every night."

"You should've asked me, Juvia. What if you were assaulted? What if you were robbed and shot? Kidnapped? Fallen and no one saw?" Gray was getting restless and restless by the second. "I was right by your side today, Juvia!"

"It's no big deal, Gray-sama." Juvia assured him. "First Juvia was afraid, but neither you nor Gajeel-kun were home, and Juvia really wanted smashed potatoes, but we didn't have any potatoes here, so she needed to go to the store. T-Pup recognized Juvia and escorted her to the store, no harm done."

"You could've called me, Juvia." Gray stepped closer to his girlfriend. "I was right here…"

"Not the other times." The blunette shrugged, grabbing a spoon. "Juvia was alone at home and to make you come all way over here to bring Juvia potatoes or ice cream in the middle of the night? Juvia can handle go to the grocery store. Don't worry, okay?

"Of course I worry! You are pregnant, Juvia. It's already dangerous for a woman to walk on the street during the night, imagine a pregnant one? You are not as fast as before." Gray said and as soon as the words came out from his mouth, he knew he dropped a bomb. Juvia stopped her spoon mid-air to eat the ice cream when he said them.

"Did you… Did you just call Juvia fat?"

"No, no." Gray tried to calm her down. "I meant that pregnant women are an easier target, because they get slow…"

"They get slow because they get fat, like Juvia is right now?" The woman put the ice cream on the counter.

"Juvia, you are having a baby. You are supposed to get larger..." And he continued to dig his grave.

"Larger?" The pregnant woman poked into his chest. "Who got Juvia pregnant, huh?"

"Well…"

"This is your child Gray-sama! It's not fat, it's a baby! And yes, Juvia is supposed to get room on her belly so the baby can fit, since Juvia always had a flat stomach, her body needs to change to fit a baby with your large head on it! It didn't seem to turn you off until now." Juvia poked his chest again. "What is it now? Juvia's suddenly too fat? Don't you want Juvia anymore? Is that it?"

"What? I never said…" Gray tried to say, but was cut off.

"You didn't have to." She narrowed her eyes. "It's your baby making Juvia fat, so get over it! I'm taking my ice cream and I will go to finish seeing the movie." She grabbed the ice cream and started to walk to the living room. "Grab the freaking pickles, your child wants it! And if Juvia just even dreams that you are thinking that she's eating too much..." She left the threat in the air.

'What the hell just happened?' Gray thought as she watched her go. 'Mood swings? Oh, great. I preferred when she was at the horny-phase. Didn't appreciate it as much as I should.'

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AN: Juvia with mood swings is funny to write. I know Gray's head is normal sized, but well… No head is small enough to pass through the birth canal, that much I tell ya.

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06/01/2013 ~ BonneyQ