Melted Ice & Frozen Water(Gruvia)

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Gray sat at Erza's foldable table with his feet up, staring up at the ceiling lost in thought. Briar sat next to him, wearing his jacket. She blew on her nails, checking them to make sure they were dry.

Natsu and Gajeel were sat at the table as well playing cards and smoking the six packs they had bought earlier that week.

Erza sat in between Jellal's lap on the windowsill, the two cuddling as they talked quietly to themselves.

"I'm boooooored." Briar complained, puffing out a large breath of air as she slouched in her seat.
Gray rolled his eyes and Erza spoke up.

"Well, why don't we go get dinner or something? We could go to 8Island?" Erza suggested.
Gray listened as everyone hummed in mutual agreement, and then stood up as everyone began to gather their things and get ready to leave for 8Island.

Once everyone had migrated outside, they stood aimlessly in a large group.
"Who's car are we taking?" Jellal asked, his arm around Erza.
Gray mentally scoffed at the sight of them, annoyance flooding his veins.

"Let's take Gajeel's shitbox, it's the only one that'll hold all of us." Gray suggested, his tone clearly cold.
The others shrugged their shoulder and Gajeel mumbled something about his car.

'nothing important' Gray thought to himself.

Gray walked up to the old van, sliding the door open and sitting on the very last seat on the left.
Everyone filed into their seats and Gajeel was able to start the car within a minute(his personal record for his shit box car) and the van was off towards 8Island within a matter of minutes.

Gray sighed silently and put his head in his hand, watching the dark clouds move above them as cars raced by the van.
'It's seems like it's going to rain.' He thought, sighing silently to himself.

'I hate the rain.'

•••

As Gray walked into the bustling restaurant that was 8Island, he felt Briar slip her hand into his.
Mentally he was annoyed at her, but on the outside he just looked at her with a bare hint of a smile.

The next thing Gray knew he was walking behind Natsu and Gajeel as a hostess guided them to a booth, leaving menu's for everyone at the table. Gray sat on the right side of the booth in the outside seat, Briar in the middle and Gajeel on the inside. Directly across from him was Natsu.

Gray began to take in the surrounding area. He looked out across the room at the scarce amount of people eating; granted it was a Tuesday at 8:30 PM.

He scanned the room back and fourth, stopping and focusing on a booth near the front.
It was the last booth in the row, the thin white curtains that covered the window open to let moonlight in.

Gray felt a small smile tug on his lips, the memory of the first time he had ever eaten at 8Island flooding back into his mind.

•••

~~~~~~~~~~~4 Months Ago~~~~~~~~~~~
"Come on Gray-sama, Juvia knows you'll love this place." Juvia said, smiling back at Gray as she practically dragged him inside the small restaurant.
Gray chuckled lightly at her, a soft feeling of pure happiness swirling around in his chest as he felt her smooth small hand grasp his.

"Ok ok I'm coming jesus." Gray replied, the impatient tone in his voice doing nothing to hide his genuine excitement.

Juvia dragged him inside, and before he knew what was happening they were ordering their drinks as they sat across from each other in the large booth.