Just Our Secret - Gruvia

Sweet, sadistic memories

"What happened? What happened?"

Lucy called me around two in the morning, distressed and I could just about understand her. I was ordered to come to the Hospital immediately, as Natsu and Gray's recklessness throughout the night caught up with them. 

"They're fucking idiots, that's what." 

Lucy had been waiting for my arrival outside the entrance. Her arms were crossed with a scowl sewed to her face. She takes me inside by hand, pulling me to a couch as we enter a waiting room. Her eyes refused to make contact with mine, staring up at the ceiling as her rage eased and the tears replaced it. 

"Natsu and Gray went out drinking, got high and now they've got alcohol poisoning. So Natsu has a tube down his throat right now to help him breathe, and Gray..." 

By the way her frustration formed into apprehension, Gray's case was guaranteed to be much worse. 

My heart began to race before she was able to finish her sentence, my breath accelerating. 

"is getting his stomach pumped..." 

I fear my baby's future mistakes because of that man. Sometimes, I can't believe I'm having a baby. Others, it's strange to think I'm having his baby. 

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Lucy and I had been waiting for almost an hour. Every now and then she'd go and check on Natsu.

My day started off the usual. In terms of enjoyment, average at best. Gray and I hadn't spoken since yesterday, I had an assignment for work to complete, I grabbed coffee with Levy, Lucy and Mira, and I had my meeting with the head of department. 

My exams have been moved to September, when the retakes are being done. I've also been granted some sorts of special treatments; if I need to leave class I'll be allowed, if I need an extension of deadlines they have to obey my request. 

By ten, I was nice and cozy in bed. I'd messaged Gray some minor details of what went down in my meeting, and fell asleep peacefully. Four hours later, Gray's drunken habits just couldn't be concealed. Even though he promised. 

He promised me, that while I'm pregnant, he won't drink, or smoke. This was on his own terms, not my orders. He's aware that I enjoy my alcoholic beverages and how I envy my friends as they drink away the night. Out of sympathy, he swore an oath for the next months he won't drink a single drop, and especially not smoke around me. 

Karma had hit him severely. 

"Juvia, you look exhausted. Why don't you take a nap?" 

I couldn't. For the past hour Gray had been on my mind. He's taken a hit like this before, it took him weeks to fully recover. 

"I can't sleep. Not now." 

Lucy doesn't take my reasoning into consideration. Instead, her hand reaches for my shoulder and pulls me into her body, my head resting in the crook of her neck. Lucy pulls her rather large cotton coat off her shoulders, throwing it over the two of us in use like a blanket. 

"Please, Juv. If you don't sleep tonight you'll collapse on campus tomorrow. You and your baby need rest." Her voice gentle, and soothing as her hand crawls to my swelling stomach, caressing my bump from top to bottom in repeated patterns. 

My bump wasn't that noticeable. The shirt I was wearing accented it, revealing my pregnancy to strangers in the hospital. Around people who weren't aware I was pregnant, I'd be dressed in Gray's and Gajeel's oversized clothes. 

Being cradled in Lucy's arms assisted me in dozing off. I wasn't aware for how many hours I slept for, I was just relieved to get some shut eye. 

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