Just Our Secret - Gruvia

Deja Vu

Dressed in a black, lacy, all in one piece which cuts before it hits my shoulders, I emerge out of the guest bedroom to be greeted by Lucy whose jaw drops as soon as she spots me. Around my neck is one of her mother's gold chain necklaces, and my makeup is darkly themed to a point where it perfectly suits my porcelain skin. Being winter, my shoulders have a velvet black jacket draped over them, which also conceals my sixteen week bump slightly, since the outfit I'm wearing has it on full display as it's quite tight.

"Juvia!" She squeals, "You look stunning!"

"Thanks." I blush at her compliment.

"Gray is going to be infatuated when he sees you like this."

Over the past week and a half, I'd had teasing and hinting from Lucy over the fact she thinks Gray is in love with me. When really, I doubt it. I'm only getting these comments since I'm pregnant. If I wasn't, I'd be receiving none of this nonsense.

After the party when my secret sleeping partner from a year back was exposed, Gray was a tad twitchy in the car. He keeps saying he doesn't care, but I can sense it. I talked to Loke a few days later, and he told me that Gray wasn't contacting him that much. How suspicious.

I was now at Gray's dad's house. The party was in less than an hour, Natsu still wasn't dressed and Gray only had his shirt and boxers on, the two lounging around the house.

"Shut up, Lucy." I say, walking down the stairs.

"I'm serious- you two still aren't dressed!?" Before Lucy could continue smothering me, she scolds to the two boys sprawled over the couches watching TV with Layla all glammed up sitting on the chair beside them, already sipping wine.

"We've got forty five minutes, calm down." Gray says, keeping his eyes glued to the TV.

"About half an hour actually," Lucy corrects him, "There's going to be some people arriving early, so go get dressed now. Both of you."

Groaning, the two stand up, Natsu heads up stairs, taking Lucy by the hand and not taking notice of me, and as I turn to turn to Gray, he's fixed in his stood position, gaping at me with his lips parted.

Wow, Lucy was surprisingly correct.

"Juvia..." He could barely fit a word out! "T-That um," Can't believe my outfit of choice is forcing him to stumble on his own words, "It's... really pretty. I haven't seen you in something like that since-"

"Since the night you two decided a shag was better than my birthday." I swear to god, Natsu...

Layla chokes on her wine as Natsu spits that. I had absolutely no idea Natsu thought of it that way, which made me a tad embarrassed. Mainly that Layla heard that.

"You should really get dressed." I distract the conversation from only being about myself.

He nods, glancing back and forth from the stairs and me.

Once he's upstairs, Layla decides to commentate,

"Boys only speak all jittery when they're in love, you know?"

Not another one! Heartfillia's are insane!

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Gray exits his room dressed up to the minimum. A suit, open collar and more casual. A similar theme was going on with Natsu. Lucy brushes her hands down his jacket and neatens his collar, as he twitches in discomfort.

Gray's appearance was undeniably attractive. Whenever I saw him in formal wear, my mood would shift to something a tad more frisky. I'm puzzled as to why we didn't sleep together sooner. Only recently, it occured to me how much we flirted. Platonic or not, it was frequent. From the moment I met Gray I knew there was this spark about him. Something inside me certainly changed the day I met him.