MEANT TO BE | GRUVIA

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Juvia opened his fridge and grabbed two Pepsi cans. She grabbed two glasses from the cabinet. She grabbed the bag of liquor. She poured it until the glasses were have full. She filled the rest with soda. She needed him to drink just enough to let her drink.

"Thanks," Gray said when she handed him the glass.

He started drinking it.

Juvia acted causal and started drinking her's. Since she drink once before, it wouldn't affect her as much this time. She wasn't even sure what would happen with Gray. Guys usually handled their alcohol better, but that didn't mean that he would. As long as he didn't throw up, everything would be okay.

"Is this an off-brand?" he asked. "It tastes different."

"Yeah, it is," she said. She wasn't even sure if off-brands tasted that different. He obviously didn't expect that she spiked his drink.

And she thought he was the smart one.

X

A little over an hour later, Juvia and Gray were laughing over nothing. They were sitting on the floor, drinking straight from the bottle.

Gray was a loud drunk.

"Purple banana egg ride!" Juvia laughed. She had no clue what she was saying. She didn't remember the first time she got drunk, so she didn't realize that she was the type that rambled on about nothing.

Gray grabbed the bottle from her hands and took a drink. Juvia giggled and took it from him mid-drink. She smashed her lips to his and drank half of the liquid. She sat up and laughed. He pushed her to the ground and kissed her again.

"That tickles," she giggled when he started kissing her neck. She pushed him away and grabbed the bottle again. She missed her mouth and some if it spilled on her shirt. "Dammit!" she screamed. She took her shirt and shorts off. She grabbed Gray's shirt and put it on her.

"God am I drunk," he laughed. He knew he was because he didn't even react when Juvia was just in her underwear. He barely even noticed, actually.

"You're drunk!" Juvia gasped. "That's not good! You are supposed to be drunk, not drunk!" She started laughing with him again. She grabbed the bottle and drank the last of the liquor. She giggled and tackled him back to the ground.

X

"Is that Ultear?" Ur looked behind her. Ultear was holding hands with Chase, walking towards them.

"Mom?" she asked when she reached them. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to get a gift for your cousin. Did you guys just watch a movie?" Ur asked. Ultear nodded.

"Oh, Chase, this is my mother, Ur" she introduced her mother.

"Would you like to come over for dinner?" Ur asked. "I just put a roast in the oven before I left."

Chase looked down at Ultear. She shrugged. "I'd love to," he said.

X

"Roast, roast, roast," Wendy sang, swinging Chase's hand. The young girl was at her friend's house, and when they stopped to pick her up, she immediately started playing with Chase. He didn't mind. She reminded him of his 'sister'.

"I'll just have to cook the potatoes before we eat," Ur said, opening the door. She smelled something funny. It smelled familiar, but she couldn't figure out what it was.

Wendy didn't even notice. She let go of Chase's hand and ran into the house. She skipped her way to the living room. She screamed. Everyone came running. Chase was shocked, but to everyone else, the sight meant a little more.

Gray was laying on the floor, shirtless, fast asleep. He had the bottle of liquor in his one hand. Juvia was face down on the floor a few feet away from him. Her shirt was pushed up to her stomach. Her clothes were thrown on the couch. Two glasses were sitting on the small table.

"Gray!" Ultear yelled, running over to her brother. She started crying, images of her father flashing through her mind. She started shaking his shoulders, but he didn't even move. "Wake up!" she screamed.

"Ok, I know" Ultear said. She sat beside Gray. She plugged his nose and put her hand over his mouth. Gray instantly sat up. He groaned and laid back down.

"Why does my head hurt?" he asked.

"Gray," Ultear cried, latching her arms around his neck. "I didn't think you were going to wake up."

"Stop yelling," he said. His eyes widened when he realized that she wasn't yelling. He remembered the day Juvia came to school drunk, thinking everyone was yelling.

He sat up so fast Ultear let him go. He didn't even care about his head. He looked beside him and saw the liquor bottle. He looked over to the sleeping blunette. "Dammit!" he yelled, grabbing his hair. "I told you not to touch that!"

Ultear awkwardly coughed. "Chase, this is Gray," she said. Gray looked over to the man standing in the room. He waved awkwardly at him. Quite the first impression.

"Gray Fullbuster!" Ur yelled. "Just what do you think you were doing?! Why is she wearing your shirt?! Why isn't she wearing her own clothes?! How did you even get that?!"

"I think she got some guy to buy it for her. I took it away from her, but she must have gotten it back." He stopped to think. "She spiked my drink!" he yelled. It just occurred to him.

"Take her to Ultear's room. Chase, I'm sorry. It usually isn't like this here. Gray, get your ass to your room!" she screamed. "AND NO ONE TELLS JENNIFER!" Everyone agreed. Chase didn't even know who that was, but he could tell that she shouldn't be informed.

Gray scooped Juvia up into his arms. Ur took Wendy to the kitchen to make dinner. Ultear started cleaning up the room.

"I really am sorry," she said.

"We just had bad timing," he said. "Who was that girl?" He followed Ultear to the laundry room. Juvia's clothes smelled like alcohol, so they needed washed.

"That's Gray's girlfriend." Ultear laughed. "Gray showed up here one day with her drunk. I guess she went to school that way. Lets just say you better hope you're not here when she wakes up. She has really bad hangovers."

They walked back to the living room. They sat down on the couch.

"Woo-ooh-ooh are you anyways?

I can't count how many days you weren't there.

The walls were closing in on me,

But I don't live in there no more."

(A/N: I don't own Set You Free by 3oh!3)

Ultear jumped at the noise. She knew it was Juvia's phone. She started searching for it.

"There's a place in my head

That repeats what you said,

That repeats what you said that day."

Ultear found it and saw a text from Jennifer, asking how she was doing. She didn't bother replying, since Juvia wouldn't anyways.

"Set You Free by Black Willow, huh?" Chase asked with an amused smirk.

"I guess you would know them, since you were from Italy," Ultear said, looking through Juvia's songs. "It looks like its the only band on her phone. She probably has some others on her iPod, but it must be her favorite. She takes her phone everywhere, but not her iPod."

"I'm glad there's a fan way out here," he laughed.

"Did you say something?" Ultear asked.

"Uh, just that I'm hungry."