Eight Members (A NaLu, GrUvia, JeRza, GaLe Fanfic) [COMPLETED]

Ch. 25: Gray - Thinking Juvia Is Beautiful

{Gray's POV}

Last night, I couldn't sleep. I don't know if it's because of what Juvia gave me or the fact that tomorrow would be the announcement day. I know that this would cause great trouble and bashing on social medias, but we have to face it. It's for the sake of Mavis and Zeref being our managers.

I was really curious of Juvia's gift, from all the gifts I received. Well, except from Natsu and Lucy. They haven't bought it—they told us the story behind what happened that day at the mall. I couldn't blame the fans though. We were gone for a long time. So back to Juvia's gift, I'm curious and nervous at the same time. She actually gave me her gift with a strange smile on her face.

But anyways, the real problem is that I'm going to be the one telling the public of the news. Isn't that great? I will be the first one to receive all the bashes from The Color of Girls's fans, hooray! Note the sarcasm.

I will be asked all the questions you could think of. Especially the issue between Juvia and me. That has been controversial for weeks, you know? People don't forget things like that easily.

"Juvia's gonna get into trouble, too." I mumbled more likely to myself. I'm worried. She's kinda sensitive when it comes to things like this.

"Dude," Jellal's head was to be seen by the doorway. "you ready for your "big speech"?" he had this blank face that I never liked. It seems like he's bothered by something. Again. Well, I'm not surprised—he always looked like that. He rarely laughs at serious matters like this one. Bet he's nervous about the people's reaction.

Luckily, it's still TOMORROW. I still have 18 hours left before the big revelation. "I'm always ready, dude. Practice time again?" I asked. Yeah, we're—I mean I—am going to practice my speech. Let's just say that my bandmates are so kind that they decided to just cheer me on.

"Yeah. Downstairs at the living room. Don't worry, you'll not practice for the whole day. We're gonna eat ice cream on a mountain." he grinned excitedly, jumping up and down. Weird. A mood swing.

"Wait what? Eat ice cream on a mountain? Seriously?" I lifted an eyebrow at him.

The door opened wider than before and revealed Lucy, "Yep. Got a problem with that?" she inquired with a poker face. I swear, I only see her smile once a week. A very serious person, indeed. Scary.

"I'm so excited!! Strawberry ice cream!" and you know who said that line. The one and only Erza Scarlet.

"I'm gonna eat all the ice cream we have!! Yum!! I don't care what flavor it is, but as long as it's food, I'll dig in!!" That's Natsu for 'ya.

"If you ask me, I'm not that excited. It's really okay if I'm gonna stay home all day, reading books while listening to music and eating chocolates and watching Supernatural," Levy shrugged. She's not really into this one, but I could tell that she's anticipating this one of a kind trip too. But on the serious note, why would we eat an ice cream in a mountain? Are we going to bring ice cream on a mountain? If yes, then the ice cream is gonna melt before we even get to the mountain.

"I agree with her." Here we go again, Gajeel, agreeing with Levy. As always. He's like an under to a wife. Under? Hey. Wait a minute....

I smirked, "Hey Gajeel. I've been wondering for quite some time now. Why are you always agreeing with Levy? Do you like her, perhaps?" I teased with a snide smirk. His reaction was priceless.

He's gonna overreact now. "What?! No! Like, who would like a shrimp like her? She's small, and nerdy, has a messy blue hair.... no! Definitely not! Besides, she's mad at me for ages. How would I like her, right?" Then I saw a strange, scary aura around him. Oops. It doesn't belong to him. It belongs to Levy. Shrimp, huh? Good luck wih that, pal. I was only messing with you.

She crossed her arms. "Oh, really? I wasn't mad. But that was before. Now is different. C'mere. I'm gonna teach 'ya a lesson." She's weird when she's mad. Her way of speaking becomes a little bit off. But even if she's like that, boy. Never make her mad. I experienced her wrath back in fourth grade, where I teased her for being small. I don't wanna remember those things anymore.

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"I never thought that we'd really do this. Luckily, the ice cream never melted." I commented, glancing around towards the forest we were in. We were on top of the mountain, and, yeah, eating ice cream. Sure is good. Chocolate flavor.

"Dude, how cool is this? Oh, look, sunset!" Jellal pointed ecstatically to the round, orange sun that was beginning to disappear slowly on the horizon. We all looked at the sunset, and wow. It was totally breathtaking. I accidentally glanced beside me and saw Juvia. Her face was the color of the sunset, probably because of the light eminating from it. She looked gorgeous. Wait what?

"What're you lookin' at?" My dazed state was ruined the moment she turned to me and spoke. Oops, I've been caught staring.

"Maybe he's staring at your face because he found it beautiful." Gajeel chimed in, snickering. I threw him a piece of paper from my pocket. Well, I never said anything. It was true anyways. But I will never admit anything at this rate. They will all tease me until we get home.

Juvia stood up, never really caring about the situation. "Guys, I think it's time to go home. Gray's upcoming speech will be tomorrow, and so he needs to rest." She declared, stretching.

"A-re a-re, Juvia. Too worried about Gray, eh? What is this? Is this what they call love?" Lucy giggled along with the others, while Juvia rolled her eyes, telling Lucy to cut it out.

We then went down the mountain. I checked the time and wow, took us long enough. It's 7PM already? Almost 2 hours of climbing down the mountain, huh? I didn't know that eating ice cream on a mountain is time consuming.

Getting into the van, I wanted to sleep peacefully, and so I settled on the seats at the back. Ah, I can really sleep peacefully without any disturbance.

Unfortunately, (I don't really know if I'm that unfortunate), Juvia was forced to sit along with me at the back. I know what these guys are planning. Tsk. So much for sleeping peacefully.

A few minutes later,while the ride was ongoing, I was surprised to feel something heavy and almost round on my shoulder. What the heck is this? Oh, it's Juvia. She's asleep. She's the one who's tired, I guess.

Ah, she's so beautiful when she's like this. What the heck. Why am I like this today? I was never like this when we were kids. In fact, I always tease her when we were little because of her eyes. Yeah, right. Maybe I'm just tired and stressed from everything that was happening.

An hour later, I felt that my eyes are about to give up on me any minute, and so I closed my eyes. Much better. I'm exhausted. I wish I should've slept when I was home, doing nothing and staring at the ceiling.

"Hey love birds, wake up. We're home." Levy informed softly. Us? Oh. Juvia and I.

I mumbled sleepily, "Love birds? Stop, Levy."

She smiled, "He-he." Creepy.

The guys also smiled at us evilly, like they have schemed something. I was super curious and suspicious at the same time. I was beginning to think that what they have planned might piss me off. Lucy was the ones who had the creepiest smiles of all time. Kinda like the joker smile. And yet she rarely smiles....

I took a move backwards carefully, "I don't like those smiles. Not one bit." Juvia woke up from the commotion.

"Hey, we here yet?" she queried. I nodded my head and looked at each one of the guys. Now they're all inside? How dare them, leaving us here on the van? They're certainly scheming something evil. Wonder what it is, though.