Fairy Tail World

17, Gruvia HAPPY WRITING

“Looks like we’ll be trapped for a while…”

-I’m sorry, this took me forever to write but it’s a lot longer than it was suppose to be, so I hope that makes up for it :)

Modern Day AU

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Juvia sighed, grabbing the strap of her bag as she waited for the elevator so she could go up to her apartment. She had been up since six, before being at her college at eight… Sure, her schedule seemed like a normal college students, but her college wasn’t normal… Fairy Tail was where only the best, most talented and gifted students went to. People went there to fulfill different dreams, whether it be something in sports, combat skills, or the arts. Juvia’s dream was to be a prima ballerina, which meant she had to work hard for what she wanted.

Juvia blinked, furrowing her brows as she pressed the up arrow for the elevator. What was taking so long?

Someone walked up beside her, and she glanced at them out of the corner of her eye. She focused her eyes ahead immediately once she saw who it was, her heart racing wildly. Standing beside her was none other than Gray Fullbuster, a senior at Fairy Tail. He was in the art program, and even though he wasn’t graduated yet, his name was out there… Companies were trying to get him to make new slogans, authors were looking at him to do illustrations… That’s how good he was.

Juvia’s crush on him began last year when he was selected to make the picture to go on the pamphlet for the ballet class performance of Swan Lake. He had went to the studio for a week straight, staying several hours at time. Juvia had met his eyes a few times, and each time she did she felt her heart beating faster and faster.

“Hey, are you getting on?” A voice called to Juvia, breaking her from her daze.

“Huh?” She glanced up, her soft brown eyes meeting with dark blue ones. She blinked, a blush lighting up her cheeks as she noticed Gray standing in the elevator and holding the door open for her. “Yes,” Juvia squeaked, rushing into the elevator.

“What floor?” Gray asked, his fingers his wrong above them. She noticed the 9 button was glowing. He was just a floor below her…

“10,” she whispered. “Thank you…” She said once he pressed it for her. He gave her a nod before leaning against the wall near the doors.

Juvia averted her eyes from him as she leaned against the back wall. She wanted to speak, but she was afraid that anything she’d say would come out weird… There was no way that he knew who she was… She turned her eyes towards the elevator screen, watching as the floors slowly went up… 4th floor… 5th floor… 6th floor… Suddenly the elevator gave a quick jolt and Juvia gasped, grabbing the rail to keep herself from falling.

“What the hell?” Gray muttered, glancing up and seeing that it was stuck on the 7th floor. He pressed the 9th and 10th floor buttons again, but nothing happened… He tried to open the elevator door, and still, nothing was happening.

“I-is it stuck?” Juvia whispered, her eyes wide as she leaned against the elevator wall. It felt as if the air was stuck in her throat.

“Calm down,” Gray told her, instantly sensing she was on the verge of freaking out. “I’ll call Macao.”

“W-who’s that?” Juvia’s voice shook lightly.

“One of the buildings repairmen, him and his friend Wakaba have fixed a ton of stuff in my apartment,” Gray informed her, pulling out his cellphone and dialing a number.

Juvia swallowed hard as she focused on her breathing. Steady… Even… She couldn’t freak out, not in front of Gray!

“Macao,” Gray spoke when the man answered his phone. “Hey, the left elevator is stuck on floor seven…”

Juvia could barely hear Macao’s voice, but he seemed a bit disgruntled.

Gray sighed, “yes, I’m sure… I’m freaking stuck on it with someone…”

Juvia glanced around the small space, breathing sharply through her nose as she bit her bottom lip. This could not be happening…

“Okay…” Gray huffed. “Thanks, Macao…” He hung up his phone before sliding it in his pocket and slipping off his bag. He sat down, his back against the right side of the elevator as he rested his side against the back wall. “You might as well get comfortable,” he told Juvia. “Looks like we’ll be trapped for a while…”

Juvia’s heart raced wildly… She would be trapped in a small elevator for who knew how long… With Gray freaking Fullbuster! “Um…” Juvia began, slowly sliding off her back and placing it on the ground. “How long…?”

Gray shrugged his shoulders, his eyes coming up to met hers, and she found herself feeling slightly dizzy headed. “Give or take an hour or two… So I hope you don’t have to use the bathroom.”

Juvia slid down the wall across from him in shock. Possibly two hours?! How was she going to live?!

“You go to Fairy Tail, right?” Gray asked. She looked up at him in shock, did he remember her?! He pointed to her bag and she followed his gaze, seeing the Fairy Tail insignia on it.

“Oh… Yeah…” She nodded lightly. “Juvia Lockser, junior,” she introduced herself with a small bow to her head as her cheeks tinted pink.

The left side of Gray’s lips curved up into a grin. “In the ballet program, right?”

Juvia looked at him in shock. “You remember…?” She whispered.

Gray bent his left knee, resting his arm on it. “You made a cute little mouse.”

Juvia was sure her eyes were bugging out of her skull… He remembered her! She could feel her cheeks heating as she made herself look away from him. “The painting you did for the play’s pamphlet… Was amazing… You’re very talented,” she told him softly.

“So are you,” he complimented back.

Juvia was sure it was Gray’s personal goal to catch her on fire, because her insides felt like that was what was about to happen… She swallowed hard, gaining her courage to look at him again. This was her time to get to know him! If he’d let her…

“How did you learn to draw to draw so well?” Juvia asked curiously.

Gray shrugged his left shoulder. “I guess I got my talent from my aunt,” he mused. “She’s always been amazing…” He let out a soft snort that made Juvia’s heart skip. “‘Cause I definitely didn’t get it from my parents… They can’t even draw stick figures.”

She giggled lightly, “is your aunt famous like you?” She raised a blue brow. If she was, she definitely had to research her…

“Well, Aunt Ur has her name out there a bit, but she doesn’t want to become too famous… She lives up north where my parents are. She prefers the solitude and the snow.”

Juvia blinked, her eyes becoming large. “You’re from up north?”

“Yeah,” Gray nodded.

“I guess that explains it…” She mumbled.

“Explains what?” He furrowed his brows curiously.

Juvia grinned slightly, “you’d come to school while it was snowing in shorts and short-sleeves… I always wondered how you weren’t a popsicle.”

Gray’s lips twitched, “the cold don’t bother me none…”

“You’re not going to start singing, are you?” Juvia raised a blue eyebrow.

Gray snorted, “believe it or not, I’ve never seen that movie… But anyways, what about you? How long have you been dancing?”

“Hm…” Juvia glanced up. “For as long as I can remember…”

“Really?” Gray raised an eyebrow. “Wow… No wonder you’re so good.”

Juvia felt her lips curling slightly as her face heated. “Well, Papa always use to say that Mama had been a good dancer, too. So I guess I got it from her.”

“Had…?” Gray asked in confusion. “Does she not dance anymore?”

Slowly, she shook her head. “Mama died when I was just two…”

“Oh…” His voice fell flat. “I’m sorry to hear that…”

“It’s okay,” Juvia assured him. “I was little when it happened.”

Gray frowned slightly as silence filled the small elevator. He couldn’t even begin to think about losing one of his parents, both of them had always been there. Even now, with them up north and him a continent away, they checked up on him regularly. He saw them at least three times a year.

He glanced at Juvia, her caramel brown eyes were looking at the floor a small frown on her lips… He hadn’t meant to make her frown…

“Hey,” he pulled out his phone and shifted his body so his back was leaning on the back wall of the elevator with his legs stretched out in front of him. “Look at this,” he pressed a video and tilted his phone towards Juvia.

She leaned forward slightly, inching a bit closer to him. She watched as a cat popped up on the screen… And was that a blue cat? She didn’t think she’d ever seen a blue cat before! He was scampering from room to room, his claws skidding slightly that made Juvia giggle. The person that was recording was laughing hysterically as the cat twirled, almost running into a wall before it ran and dashed on into a room and jumped on a bed, burying itself under the covers.

“What was wrong with that cat?” Juvia giggled lightly as she leaned back.

Gray glanced at her, surprised by how close she had gotten, perhaps only a foot away. He had been getting a whiff of strawberries the last few minutes and now that Juvia was so close he could smell it better. He swallowed hard, looking at her more closely. Her lips were so pink and full… The light pink shirt she was wearing really made her glow in a sense and it was low cut, exposing a portion of her rather abundant breasts… Gray swallowed hard again, avoiding his eyes from looking at her.

“It’s my friend’s cat,” he laughed a bit nervously, he could feel his cheeks hearing slightly and he cursed himself mentally. “He was high on catnip.”

Juvia’s giggles were like bells in Gray’s ears, making them ring. “Have you seen those videos of cats being scared by cucumbers?”

“What…?” Gray raised a dark eyebrow, shaking his head.

“They’re hilarious,” Juvia pursed her lips.

“I gotta see this,” Gray smirked, pulling up his YouTube.

XxXxX

An hour and a half later, Juvia and Gray sat side-by-side as they watched a video on YouTube. It had started with cat videos, but it soon escalated and it didn’t take them long to find out that they had a lot in common.

“That fight still gives me chills,” Juvia whispered as the final Agni Kai between Zuko and Azula stopped.

“Me too,” Gray nodded. “Book three was by far the best.”

“Oh, definitely,” agreed Juvia. “All of them had grown so much by then… And Zuko… Just wow,” she breathed.

“He’s my favorite,” they spoke at the same time. They glanced at each other in slight shock before giving small smiles.

“And he totally should have ended up with Katara,” Juvia added. “They were so perfect for each other! They balanced each other out and everything!”

“I actually thought Zuko and Katara would be endgame,” Gray admitted. “Every thing was pointing towards them being together, and I was sorely disappointed when they weren’t.”

Juvia smiled, about to reply, but the elevator doors opened before she could. A tall man with dark blue hair sleeked back smirked at them. “Am I interrupting something?”

Gray rolled his eyes, but he could feel the heat burning into his cheeks. “It’s about time you showed up, Geezer.”

Macao rolled his eyes, “I hope you two don’t mind walking, ‘cause Wakaba and I are having to shut down the other elevator, too. You’ll have to take the stairs.”

Gray stretched, realizing just how close Juvia had been when she shifted away to get her bag… Their arms had been brushing. He stood up, dusting himself off as Juvia did before grabbing his backpack and slinging it on.

“Thank you, Macao-san,” Juvia smiled at the older man as she passed.

“Hey, she’s a cutie,” Macao sent Gray a wink as he passed.

“Shut up,” Gray muttered, scurrying away as fast as he could.

Him and Juvia started up the stairs in silence, yet it wasn’t awkward, it felt peaceful. Juvia started slowing once they got to the ninth floor, but Gray grabbed her elbow gently, leading her up another set of floors.

“Wasn’t that your floor?” Juvia raised a curious brow at him.

“Yeah,” he nodded with a slight grin. “But I want to make sure you got home safely.”

Juvia grinned, a pink blush rising on her cheeks. “What a gentlemen you are, Fullbuster.”

He smirked at her, “wouldn’t you like to know, Lockser,” he sent her a wink.

They made it to Juvia’s floor, and Gray even went as far as walking her to her door. They stood in front of it for a few seconds, neither one of them wanting to say goodbye quite yet.

“Hey, give me your number,” Gray held out his phone towards Juvia before he could stop himself.

She took it, carefully typing in her number. She gave him a grin, “I would invite you in, but my place is messy…”

Gray’s lips twitched, willing to bet that his place was ten times worse… He had an awful habit of stripping his clothes and leaving them wherever in his apartment. “It’s cool… Maybe tomorrow after classes, we could get a cup of coffee?” He raised a brow.

“I can’t say no to coffee,” Juvia giggled.

Gray gave a low chuckle, “okay, get in there so I know you’re safe.”

Juvia smiled, unlocking her door. “Goodnight, Gray.”

“Night, Juvia,” he smiled slightly, watching as she went inside. He let out a sigh of relief once she was in. The girl he had been crushing on for a year and was too shy to ask out, gave him her number and agreed to get coffee with him… Gray would have to thank Natsu for keeping an eye out and removing the piece of paper taped to the elevator that said ‘out of business’ right before Juvia came in… Gray glanced down at his new contact with a smirk. Yep, he definitely owed Natsu at least a beer for that.

-So ever since I saw the Kdrama To the Beautiful You, I’ve had this Gruvia au stuck in my head where Fairy Tail is some elite school where only gifted children go. Except my original au has a shit ton of feels in it ;-; this is just kinda like an alternate version of it. Maybe one day I’ll actually write the au.

-Another thing, I will NEVER get over the fact that Zutara WASN’T canon. NEVER.