Ever, Ever, After

Chapter 5

Gray tried to stop Lucy from leaving but by the time he managed to catch up with her she had already hailed a taxi and was gone. When he got back to his apartment Juvia was getting dressed in another room.

"Hello?" She said when he knocked on the door.

"You know what you have to go." Gray told her. "I don't care if you're waiting for Prince Charming."

"Prince Natsu." She corrected.

"Whatever! Point is I can't help you anymore! I'll get you a ride but that's it! I'm done!"

When she came out of the room wearing an ocean blue sundress with a flowing skirt. It was a pretty dress and it looked great on her but Gray didn't care about that. He was more concerned about where the dress came from and the color looked very familiar.

"Where did you get that?" He asked her.

"I made it. Do you like it?"

Looking over her shoulder he saw his new and very expensive ocean blue curtains that now had cut out holes in them.

"You made a dress out of my curtains?!" He shouted. "Are you insane?! These cost me a fortune! And they were brand new!"

"I'm so sorry I didn't mean to make you unhappy."

"Unhappy? Oh no I'm not unhappy! I'm angry!"

"Angry?"

"Yes it's an unpleasant emotion! Ever heard of it?!"

"I have I've just never felt it before."

"Well I'm feeling it all over right now! I am seething! You hear me?! Not only have you let stray animals in my house and ruined my curtains but you wrecked my relationship with Lucy! I was going to ask her to marry me but now she thinks that you and I-"

"Kissed?"

"Yeah... Something like that."

"Oh no. I am so sorry but I'll help you fix your relationship with her."

"Oh no! No! No! The only way our relationship has even a small chance of getting fixed is for me to get you back to wherever you came from." He glanced over at the clock on the wall. "Oh no! Wendy's school starts in fifteen minutes! I gotta get dressed and get her down there! You stay here, don't do move, and don't do anything!"

Gray went to get ready. Juvia just sat in the living room and waited for him and Wendy, unaware that Irene was spying on her back in Alvarez.

"Oh wouldn't she love to just come crawling back here and steal my crown!" She sneered. "Cast me aside like some royal rubbish!"

"Perhaps Prince Natsu won't find her?" Laxus suggested.

"Perhaps he will!" She snapped.

"You mustn't despair on that notion so much my queen. Remember Prince Natsu has terrible navigation skills."

"But he has the nose of a blood hound and the minute he picks up that girl's scent he'll track her down in no time."