Leaving Hurts, Hate Burns, Love Heals (A Gruvia Fanfiction)

The Plan

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Leaving Hurts,
Hate Burns,
Love Heals

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Roses aren't always red
And violets aren't exactly blue
The society that we live in
never seems to speak the truth.
Smiles aren't always happy
and frowns aren't always upset,
people judge too quickly
and our feelings are what they forget

-(a.v)
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Chapter 16: The Plan

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Who would've thought that Juvia, the woman who loved her husband dearly, would still be mad at him a week later? Gray was shocked, to say the least. Usually, whenever they fought (it was a rare occasion, you'd barely find them fighting) it would only be a minor fight, smaller than the previous fight they had shared. It would mostly be Gray's fault, but Juvia would act like it was hers. Almost an hour later after them fighting, you'd find Juvia sobbing and saying too many sorry's to Gray, curled up next to him and begging for forgiveness.

So to say Juvia and Gray were still fighting because of Gray's unexcused absence for three months, was absolutely, positively true. It didn't just shock Gray, it shocked everyone else at the guild, too. The only couple who fought too much was Evergreen and Elfman, and sometimes Lucy and Natsu, but never Juvia and Gray. The guild was half expecting Juvia to have already forgave Gray, but the truth was that she hadn't. She was still way passed mad, furious.

Gray guiltily slept in a warm comfy bed while his wife slept downstairs, on a non-comfy couch crying herself to sleep, refusing to let Gray, without words, take her 'bed'. Gray had tried coming home earlier from to guild to get a head start at sleeping on the couch (like when you race to get the front seat in a car). But even when Gray fell asleep and thought he had successfully made it so Juvia could have the bed upstairs, he would suddenly wake up with a sudden force and pain from being forcefully pushed off of the couch by Juvia. Even then he knew not to fight it because one, they'd probably wake up Storm from Juvia raising her voice, and two, Juvia wouldn't give up her spot. So Gray went upstairs wordlessly while listening to the quiet sobs of his wife coming from downstairs.

Gray felt so guilty that he let that happen, but at the same time Juvia asked for it.

So he decided; he wouldn't sleep so it would match up to the back pain Juvia would feel from sleeping on the hard couch. Of course, the plan didn't pull through because as soon as Gray sat on that bed he was out.

Along with running out of ideas to be the same as Juvia with less sleep, Gray also was losing ideas of how to make Juvia forgive him. He tried all the thinking, and possible ways, but all of them would obviously end up in fighting. Storm was a big obstacle. Gray didn't want to fight infront of his son, but couldn't find a way to apologize to Juvia and not make her scream, cry, and yell and cause disturbance to Storm and make him think his parents were separating. That couldn't happen.

Sitting at the guild, Gray sat by himself while watching Juvia from a distance. It was at this time he actually found a smile on her face; watching her son play with Lilly and Gale, talking with Levy and Gajeel…..she looked truly blissful. She hid the fact that she cried every night.