Chapter4. Let me tell you one thing

Summary. He anticipated for her words. Her smile got larger, the corner of her eyes wrinkling.

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The blue-haired girl stretched her arms forward, she tried to blink her eyes open but her lids were heavy, her mouth open in a large yawn.

Across the room, a black-haired man sat at the corner, watching the woman in the bed.

Juvia rolled on her side, lying on her stomach, she sighed happily as she clutched the soft pillow beneath her. The soft expression she had on her face disappeared when she sniffed the said pillow. It smelled so differently than her own pillow. She buried her nose further at the fabric and she found herself relaxing as she finally realized what, or who's smell it belongs to.

"Gray…" she mumbled on the pillow.

The said man perked up from the floor, bringing as well the pillow he had use the whole night.

"You don't look like a morning person to me." Shrugged Gray as he placed the pillow beside her. This time, Juvia forced her eyes to open. It bursted open, blinking rapidly as the drowsiness from her system slowly drifts away.

She immediately sat up and look around her, her blue hair disheveled and tangled. Her eyes widened even more when she saw her boyfriend at the side of the bed, her face almost bumping into his abdomen.

"Good morning." He smirked.

She scampered away from him, squealing cutely. She looked down on her and found that she's still dressed as the same as before, minus her boots.

"G-good morning!" she said abruptly, cheeks staining red. She brought down the blanket she has gathered to cover herself –just in case- and sighed. "W-why is Juvia here?" she whispered, unable to look up at him because of the embarrassment.

It's her first time to sleep in his bed! No matter how happy she is, she couldn't help but to feel guilty because she trespassed his private quarters (because she promised him that she would not do anything that would make him uncomfortable).

She looked around again and saw the door open, outside, she could see the yesterday's party's left-over's.

"Gray-sama's birthday!" she stood up and looked at him. Gray crossed his arms in front of his naked chest, looking lost with her reaction.

"Yeah? It was yesterday." He shrugged again and walked closer to her.

He offered his hand to her, and she gladly accepted it as she stepped down from his mattress.

She narrowed her eyes and flicked her fingers on her forehead, she forgot to give him his present!

'This is a disaster, why did Juvia end up sleeping?! T-the gift was inside her small bag! Where is it?!' she thought disappointedly. 'B-but Juvia needs to fix the bed first!' she turned around and saw the ice mage fixing it already.

"No," she immediately grabbed the blanket away from his hands, "J-juvia will do this, I-Im sorry Gray-sama." She bit her bottom lip, looking down on her toes.

Gray stood up straightly, towering over her. He bumped his forehead on top of her head and sighed.

"You don't need to be sorry." His fingers twirled a lock of blue hair and he inhaled. "I'm not angry too."

Juvia clutched the cloth close to her chest, gripping it tightly as she slipped her head to rest on his chest instead. Gray was so warm that she felt like sleeping again.

"H-how did Juvia end up here?" she breathed on his skin. "What happened yesterday?"

Gray's brows furrowed forward, his eyes narrowing as he recalled what transpired yesterday. He decided not to worry her and rubbed a palm on her back.

"Nothing," he said. "You fell asleep while watching the movie."

Juvia grunted.

"But Im happy though." Gray leaned on her closer, he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her body closer to him. He needed to feel her, he needed to know that she's here with him, breathing and awake.

"Gray-sama?" Juvia asked at the sudden tightening of his embrace. "J-juvia hasn't give you her gift yet." She blinked.

He chuckled on her ear. "I told you, this is enough."

"B-but-!" she struggled to get out of his hug but failed. "Juvia needs to fix your bed now."

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"Uhm," Juvia fidgeted on her spot while Gray watched her closely.

"What is it?" he arched a thick brow at her. She determinedly lifted her head up to him and smiled shyly. "C-can Juvia use your bathroom?"

He blinked.

Oh.

"S-sure!" he immediately went out of his room .

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He knocked on the bathroom door first before yelling to Juvia that he had hanged the towel on the door knob. The blue-haired girl answered him with a surprisingly high pitched voice.

He went back in his room and decided what clothes he should lend her for today. Gray hadn't notice but a thin sheet of sweat had formed on his forehead, his room has becoming more and more hotter. He shook his head and let his magic slip through him, cooling the whole area.

He heard small padded footsteps coming from the hallway and looked at his bedroom's door.

"Gray-sama~!" Juvia called, her teeth chattering. She appeared behind the door, wrapped only in a thin, white towel, shivering as she rubbed her pale arms back and forth.

"Damn," he immediately went to her and gave her a white buttoned up shirt. "Wear this." His magic disappeared immediately and he exited his room.

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Her wet hair was not combed when she joined him on the kitchen.

"These are the party's left over yesterday." He placed the food in front of her and she smiled happily. "I hope you don't mind."

"Itadakimasu!" she clapped her hands and grabbed her fork.

"Your hair's dripping." He commented as he grabbed his own spoon.

She nodded her head, "Juvia does not uses her magic to dry her own hair, Juvia want's it to dry normally."

"You'll catch a cold then." He looked at her worriedly.

She shook her head enthusiastically. "Juvia's immune system is working really good! She doesn't get sick easily, you see." She smiled.

A silence passed between them as they eat their meals.

A few heart beats passed and Juvia broke the silence.

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"Juvia didn't get the chance to give this to you yesterday," she smiled sheepishly. "Happy birthday, Gray!"

She thrusted a medium sized box, wrapped in a blue gift wrapper with snowflakes imprinted on it.

He took it with a frown on his face. "Thanks, can I open it now?"

She grinned, nodding excitedly.

He tore the wrapper apart and opened the box.

"Happy Birthday!" she moved beside him and jumped to kiss him on the cheeks.

"Y-you know that I always strip right?" he asked her, chuckling as he lifted the shirt up to his face.

"Juvia has a matching one too!" out of nowhere, the said partner of his shirt was now on her hands. "It's a couple shirt! Isn't it sweet?!"

Gray couldn't believe it.

His shirt says, 'GRAY LOVES JUVIA' while hers says, 'JUVIA LOVES GRAY MORE'

He looked down at her and smirked. "This is silly, you know I'll never wear this." Gray couldn't help but think that when it comes to Juvia, there's always more.

She pouted at him.

"Unfaaair, we will wear it tomorrow at the guild, and even in our missions together!"

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He was watching her silently as she looked at his window.

"People always associate sad things with rain right, Gray-sama?" she said out of the blue, her eyes fixed on the heavy down pour of the rain outside. Gray chose not to reply, knowing that it was a sensitive topic for her.

"Juvia is rain, that's why they also assume that Juvia is a very sad person." She sighed, prompting her palms under her chin. "But…" he saw a glint in her blue eyes. Slowly she turned to look at him with a gentle smile on her face. "Juvia has learned one nice thing to do when it's raining."

"And it was…"

He anticipated for her words. Her smile got larger, the corner of her eyes wrinkling.

He blinked and caught her head turning invisible. It was slow and more like the fading type.

First, her hair then her forehead, next is her smiling eyes then down to her lips and -he blinked.

"Gray-sama, what's wrong?" she asked worriedly, reaching for his shoulders but before she could even make a contact on his skin, his hand shot forward and he met her hand half way, pulling her to his chest.

"W-what is it?" she mumbled.

He gulped the lump on his throat and realized that he had stopped breathing. For a moment, Gray thought that she disappeared.

No way… she really disappeared, and it wasn't the first time.

"Juvia…" he breathed on her hair.

"Hm?" she wrapped her arms around him and forced to turn her head on the side so she could look at his face but ended up looking at his jaw. "Im here." She assured him. "What is it? Gray-sama looked like he saw something not nice? Was there a dirt on Juvia's face? Does my hair look weird?" she continued to mumble different possibilities but Gray only drowned himself with her presence.

The water mage blinked her eyes. "Maybe Gray-sama already knew what Juvia learned what to do during rainy days?" she smiled.

A thunder rolled outside, the rain weighed down in great density.

"It's to cuddle, you see?" she smiled to herself, burying her face on his neck. "Aww, Juvia doesn't know that Gray-sama likes to cuddle too." She laughed.

But her positivity was the opposite of Gray. He continued to hold her, not wanting to let go.

AN: And that's it! Thank you hanako-sempai, TheRedSin, stinghotdork! Im sorry that some of you had been confused all this time, it's a multichaptered fic, hehe! I forgot to note it but please enjoy the story!

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