For Juvia being colorblind was now the norm. Shades of grey and blacks took up her world and she had forgotten what the thousands of colorful hues looked like.

And she hated it. Grey. It was the absolute worst color in the world and the one she was stuck with for the rest of her life.

She had been born with color of course but at the age of ten she was caught in a bad accident that resulted in her losing her sense of color.

She's constantly getting everything confused, from drinks to wearing colors that should be illegal to wear together. Although her friends helped her as much as they could.

The once crisp red of an apple was now a full sphere of grey and her favorite pink umbrella was a washed out white that just made her sad.

She was now twenty and was on her way to her work, of course it was a paint store, how fitting. She relied on the names of the paint to tell her what they were and she was thankful that the machine could match the colors with the simple code, but what made her mad were the weird names like Holiday or Summer Breeze.

Today was her boss Mira's birthday and luckily there was a floral shop on the way, so being the nice friend she is, Juvia made her way into the cute looking shop.

Inside was a jungle of flowers, and for once Juvia felt at peace. But inside she was sad that she couldn't truly embrace the beauty, since all the petals were like a sea of grey.

She quickly chose a sunflower bouquet because Mira was like the sun, bringing warmth to every person she met. Even though she couldn't see the bright yellow, she knew Mira was going to adore them.

Without looking she set them on the counter and fiddled with her purse until she found her wallet that was ripping at the seams. She would have to get a new one.

"That would be $8.45" the voice said and she looked up while handing them a faded ten dollar bill.

She froze as the man took her cash to give change. She had never believed in love at first sight but god was he gorgeous.

Like a fairy-tale, her heart tightened and an odd sensation of warmth ran through her blood. She could feel her cheeks warming up to a rose tint and she lips parted with an awe.

She took the few seconds he was looking at the register to look over him. Dark hair which she figure was actually black and a soft smile, not to forget those deep eyes that drew her in, even though she saw them for a mere second.

Their hands touched slightly as she grabbed the change and tried not to look creepy as she stared at him so she smiled politely.

"Do you want a ribbon tied around the flowers?" He asked. His voice was music to her ears and she felt her heart speed up even more.

"Juvia thinks that would look nice." He glanced at her with a weird expression but it quickly faded and she mentally scolded herself to stop with the third person narration.

"What color would you like?" He asked as he pulled a rack of ribbon from under the counter.

They all looked the same to her so instead of saying a color and embarrassing herself when it wasn't there she just pointed to a random one.

"This should work" she smiled keeping the third person in check.

"Matches your pretty hair." Ahh so it was blue, that she knew. Too bad she couldn't appreciate the richness it once held. Now her hair was a mop of unsaturated color.

He expertly tied it around the flowers and handed the stunning bouquet back to her.

"Thank you so much" She turned to walked out.

"No problem and Gray."

"What?" She asked. "Grey?"

"My name is uh Gray, you said yours or I assume Juvia is you so I thought I'd give you mine." His hand was on his neck rubbing it nervously and she could of died right there at how cute he was.

"Well thank you Gray, see you later." And with that she left to rush to work hoping Mira would like the flowers and not scold her for being slightly late.

Gray. Gray. Gray.

She took one look at the flowers and felt her heart flutter.

"Maybe grey isn't so bad after all"