Juvia had decided, after many doubts and many chats with her friends, with Gray-Sama, with herself, with her mind, and most importantly with her heart, to confront her ex, Bora.

The girl reunited with her ex at a bar where he had told her that she could find him.

"Baby, good morning, you don't know how happy I am to see you and that you finally accepted my invitation."

"Good morning, Juvia is just here because she wants to tell you a few things," she said with an impassive look.

"Of course, we've got a lot to talk about. Why don't you take a seat and we can eat together?"

"Wasn't Juvia sufficiently clear? She's not here to sit at a bar and talk to you like in the old days."

"So you remember our bar dates where we'd eat together."

"Yes, Juvia remembers."

"See? Now that the rain doesn't follow you, we don't need to shelter ourselves indoors, we can stay out here in the sun."

The water mage abstained from slapping him only because she had more planned.

"Juvia doesn't want to sit down, she wants to talk, but she doesn't want to do it here and she certainly doesn't want to sit with you."

"That's fine, whatever you want, let's go where you want to go," he said, standing up to follow her.

"Good."

"You know that the sun makes you even more beautiful, you don't look as dark and depressing as when we were dating."

"If Juvia was so dark and depressing for you, then why did you ask her out?"

"Because I liked you and was very intrigued by you."

"How strange, Juvia thought it was because of the bet that you made with your friends on the rain woman, or so you said."

"It was a stupid bet, but I only accepted it because I was interested in you, in fact they offered me that bet after our first encounter in Oak Town."

"Ah, there are more details, Juvia thought that when you dumped her you had revealed everything."

"Tiny details, but like I told you, you really did matter to me."

"You weren't interested in Juvia, otherwise you wouldn't have never accepted that bet."

"It was just a bet!"

"To you."

The two of them, after a long walk, finally reached their destination.

"Baby, why are we here?"

"Oh, you recognize this place?"

"Of course! It's the park where we used to meet at times."

"Where you dumped Juvia."

"I remember."

"Juvia hopes that you remember every tiny detail, including the most trivial, because she remembers it all," she said, turning back to look at him with a serious look.

"You're still mad at me?"

"No! Mad no, she had been for a long time, yes, but the anger has now disappeared, there's only a desire to fix things."

"You know? I was thinking that now that the sun is shining, we can finally have that picnic that we were never able to have."

"Juvia already had a picnic, with Gajeel-Kun and her friends from Fairy Tail."

"Come on, baby, how did you end up in that guild? I heard about the war with Phantom, but I never understood it well."

"Juvia found in Fairy Tail was she had been looking for her whole life, a place for her, cozy, happy, where there is love and where they accept you for who you are."

"That's fine, honestly it's not important, although I'll admit that it surprised me."

"Juvia found out that you stole Natsu-San's identity."

"Oh, that was a misunderstanding, Salamander was wrong."

"Wrong like the sentencing to put you in jail?"

"No, I'll admit that perhaps I deserved it, it helped me, I learned a few things in jail."

"Thankfully you can admit that you deserved to be in jail."

"But darling, now I'm a changed man, I swear."

"Juvia always knew that you were arrogant, ambitious, a playboy and all that, but she never thought that you were capable of being a human trafficker."

"Oh, that blonde was far off, I swear, I wasn't trying to sell her exactly, it's just that…"

"Another misunderstanding?"

"Yes."

"You say you've changed but you're still denying the truth."

"What did those two tell you about me? I'm sure they're exaggerating!"

"Juvia doesn't believe you!"

"Why are you accusing me? When you yourself did the same!"

"What are you talking about?"

"The Element Four kidnapped that rich heiress, I know, you know?"

"Juvia profoundly regrets doing so, it was an error, but she has already remedied it, she is remedying it and besides you are the last person she will allow to judge her."

"Of course! Because I'm the bad guy, while you're the poor victim, right?"

"No, Juvia is not a victim, she's dumb, she'll admit it but she's certainly not a victim."

"Why are we fighting? I don't want to fight with you, honest."

Juvia sighed and promised to remain calm.

"And Juvia doesn't want to yell."

"Then quit attacking me."

"Juvia is not attacking you."

"You know? It seems like a great idea coming to this park, it ended here and here we can start anew, honestly, I regret having broken up with you a lot, when I saw you again on the communication lacrima at the games, I remembered all of our good times, I want to make up for it."

"Yes, it ended here, but it won't start here again, Juvia will not get back with you."

"Is it because of Fairy Tail? Because of that friend of yours, the Iron Dragon Slayer?"

"Gajeel-Kun and Fairy Tail have nothing to do with this."

"You know he almost beat me to death? He was gonna kill me, his behavior with you has always been ambiguous to me."

"Juvia has always told you that Gajeel-Kun is just a friend, who worries about her, in fact he's like a big brother."

"Those Dragon Slayers hit hard, even Salamander has mortal blows."

"Maybe if you wouldn't get near their friends."

"They're the ones who are exaggerating."

"Either way, Juvia is here because she has a few thoughts that have remained and she wants to tell you them."

"Let me talk first, I know that I haven't been a good boyfriend but…"

"Ah, you've realized that?"

"You weren't a good girlfriend either!"

"You're right! Juvia also committed her errors but that doesn't justify your actions."

"Well, the point is that it was your fault that things ended badly between the two of us!"

"Then, why do you want to get back with her?"

"I told you! You've changed! You've improved! The rain doesn't follow you anymore, you're no longer dark and depressing, you've become more beautiful and now I can assure you that you are sexy, you're practically a different person."

"And you, in turn, have gotten worse."

"I'll show you that you're wrong."

"No, Juvia doesn't want you to proove anything."

"Then, what do you want? I don't understand!"

"It's true that Juvia has changed, she opened herself up, she opened her heart, she finally allowed herself to show herself to the world, and she did it because she took the opportunity to do so."

"You could have changed before, it would have been easier."

"Do you know why it was always raining?"

"I always asked myself and I asked you too but you never knew how to give me an answer."

"Because it was raining in her heart! Because there was no love for her! There was no piety, no friendship, there was nothing for her."

"See? Here you're the victim!"

"When Juvia finally had love in her life, she also had the sun."

"Yeah, of course, so it was a miracle?"

"It was! A gift from above."

"Baby, see how dumb you are. It could be because you've learned to control your stupid powers."

"Juvia met Gray-Sama and he showed her the sun, opened the doors to a new life and brought her to Fairy Tail, where Juvia had a second chance."

"Gray-Sama? The ice mage?"

"Him, Juvia learned many things with him."

"Like?"

"She learned what love is."

"A bunch of nonsense! And why Sama? You never called me that!" he said, upset.

"You never deserved it!"

"Is that why you don't want to get back with me? Because of that ice mage?"

"Juvia wouldn't want to get back with you either way."

"Come on toots."

"And then what? Now you can show off your trophy? Now you can brag about your girlfriend?"

"Well, I couldn't before, you were too sad and depressing."

"Yes, now you can show off your sexy girlfriend in her place."

"Exactly!"

"Because before you couldn't brag about her beauty and power bothered you."

"What are you talking about?"

"Juvia found out that you threw Lucy-San's celestial spirit keys overboard saying that they were worthless."

"What does that have to do with this?"

"You've always belittled women's power, you always thought that whatever magic they had was useless."

"Baby, I already told you, a woman shouldn't use magic, only a man should."

"Sure, because if a woman were to have too much power, then she rebels and hurts your masculine ego to know that a woman is stronger than you."

"Why are we talking about the difference between men and women now? What does that have to do with this?"

"See? You're still the same!"

"Can we talk about us?"

"There never was an us, because it had always been a game to you!"

"You've always been too paranoid and you still are."

"Yes, it's true, but now Juvia is also brave."

"You know what? You need to calm down! Don't raise your voice at me!"

"Bad for your ego, right?"

"What happened to you? What's all this rebellion?"

"The freedom to be oneself."

"Well, I don't like it, baby."

"And quit calling Juvia baby."

"You always like it."

"That's not true!"

"Well, it doesn't matter anyways, baby."

"This isn't going how Juvia planned."

"And what did you plan?"

"Juvia wanted to tell you who she felt."

"Why?"

"Because she needs to?"

"What you need is to remember the old times."

"Juvia doesn't think so."

"You know, I still have my old yacht, the one where we spent those lovely nights together."

"The one that you said was our special place and instead took each and everyone of your lovers to?"

"Then that's the problem!"

"What?"

"Is it because of the horns? You still haven't forgiven me?"

"Juvia still hasn't forgotten how you insulted her."

"I'm a man, baby."

"And?"

"You never gave me anything other than a few kisses!"

"So then the fact that Juvia didn't physically hand herself over to you justifies your infidelities?"

"Of course!"

"That's absurd!"

"What's absurd is that you blame me for going out to find what you wouldn't give me, it was your fault."

"Juvia felt guilty."

"Well, it was your fault."

"For so long she blamed herself for not having the courage to take that step, believing that if she had done so it would have worked between the two of us."

"That's how it goes, baby."

"But afterward she realized that no, it wasn't her fault, that nothing would have changed, because there was no love and without love it can't work."

"What are you talking about? What does love have to do with this?"

"Juvia has spent a lot of time regretting that decision, but now she's proud of herself, because now she knows how important it is and she's proud and happy that one day it will happen solely and exclusively for love."

"Baby, sex has nothing to do with love."

"Juvia knows."

"Well, it doesn't look like it, listen, you need to remember the old times, our kisses, our embraces."

"Juvia doesn't want you to kiss or touch her! Don't come near! Otherwise she'll hurt you and Juvia doesn't want to."

"Did you come here to humiliate me?"

"No, Juvia isn't like you, she didn't come to humiliate, blame, or persuade, no, she's here for herself."

"What's your objective?"

"To let it out!"

"Let it out?"

"To tell you that Juvia doesn't want to know anything else about you, that she has forgotten what little there was between us and it doesn't count anymore, that she has a new life, that she's much happier, that she feels different and that she will never let anyone play with her feelings."

"You should be thanking me! No one would have been with you in those days! And now, don't go thinking that you've changed a lot, you're still the same paranoid fool, you can find someone only for your beauty, but you'll never have love."

"Juvia is grateful because you showed her the type of man that she doesn't want, you showed her who to say no to, you showed her that she deserves something better than someone like you, you showed her the errors that she should never commit again."

"You'll never find anyone else like me."

"That's the idea."

"You'll be alone."

"But at least Juvia will have love in her heart and the affection of her friends."

"I'm just wasting my time with you."

"Like how Juvia did with you! You know Juvia really hopes that you have changed for you, she wishes you no harm, she just wishes that you understand your errors and that you become a better man in the future."

"I don't believe a single word you said! But either way I calmed you, I left you alone forever, I thought that we could have had a second chance, but I see that in the end you've gotten worse."

"Juvia has one last thing to say."

"What else do you want?"

"You were Juvia's worst mistake, but also the best lesson for me, goodbye Bora."

Having said that, she picked up her heels and she left, looking at the sun that was shining brighter than ever that day, and she felt like she was shining too.

Many years before in this same park, Bora dumped Juvia with cruel words under the rain, while she cried in despair.

But now Juvia, in this same park and close to the same bench, closed this past chapter with Bora, telling him everything that she felt and had felt and she left with the sun shining and leaving her ex-boyfriend bewildered.

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Author's corner!

Here's a new chapter.

I admit that it didn't come out exactly how it was in my mind, but I'm still satisfied.

The next chapter is the last one and it will be the confrontation between Juvia and Lucy.

There will be a few pleasant surprises.

Thank you very much to those who read, comment, and we'll see each other next time.

I hope you like it; we'll see each other next time!

Thank you to BotanG for translating it.

Thank you everyone, even for just reading and until next time.

GruviaSilver.