Falling Too Far - Gruvia

Chapter 4

Gray and I avoided each other for the rest of the morning. I'm only a few days in and I've already seen my roommate pretty much naked. The girls didn't tell Natsu or Gajeel about the incident, but I'm extremely sure that Gray will tell Natsu once they're out doing their own thing. Lucy and Erza had classes before I did, so I was now stuck here with the boys. Gajeel wasn't being too much of a pain, just tuning his guitar in his room, which I can easily get used to, meanwhile Natsu and Gray chose to play video games while I was in the kitchen trying to get on with my work. I decided to do it in there since the lighting was better and the chairs were more comfier, and they were purposely trying to put me off.

"Hey Juvia can you get me a beer?" Natsu yells, not taking his eyes off the screen.

"Natsu it's only 11:30." I remind him.

"Bah!"

These boys have a problem. I continue to try and shut them out, and focus my eyes on my screen. I hear a few swearing, slams, screams, somebody clearly isn't over a ridiculous video game. Just ignore it, shut them out, and get on with your pile of work. Within another couple of minutes, more shouting begins.

"Hey no fair! I'm on your team why did you kill me!?" Natsu starts.

"I didn't kill you why the fuck would you think that?" Gray continues.

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

"Ya fucking liar!"

If this continues I'll just head back to my room. I skim through my work, trying to zone out of the possible punches and slaps I'm hearing behind me. These two seem like the best of friends most of the time but they sure are sensitive to idiotic subjects like their precious games. I don't get the human male, even though they are so simple minded. The fight migrates towards my direction, which isn't good, so I begin to pack up my notes and head into my room, until I'm about to close my laptop, and that was when I lost it. Natsu had shoved Gray onto the counter, forcing his elbow to slam on the screen of my laptop, and as the weight of his body pushed down, the screen of my laptop was completely torn from the keyboard. My laptop was now in two, and all my precious work... gone.

Silence is what filled the room for many seconds. Natsu was standing and cringing, meanwhile I had to hold back a huge flood of tears from the miserable loss of all the work I had saved on my laptop, and no, I did not back it up. Everything was gone.

"Shit..." Gray mutters, taking his hand of the screen, "I'm so sorry, Juvia." Well at least I broke him, he's now saying sorry to me.

My eyes roll, I pick up my split laptop and decide to just head to my room. Gray decides to follow me. I hear him mumble a few things to Natsu then tail along behind me. Just before I open my door I feel a tight grip around my wrist. My body is twisted around and I'm practically being pushed against the wall.

Get off me

"Juvia, I really am sorry." His apology was surprisingly sincere.

While still holding the severed pieces of my laptop, I used my free fingers to push his grip off me, "Whatever. It was just an accident right?" I turn back and open my door.

"Yeah, but it was mainly just me and Natsu being stupid." 

"Yes, you were being stupid. Now just leave me alone." I go to shut the door, until his hand slams onto the wood and stops is, making my body shudder.

"Come on, I at least owe you some money. How much was it?" 

I do not get this guy! He can be such a prick and all of a sudden he's got this nice ego about him? I don't want his ridiculous money anyway, I need to learn to pay for things myself, which I should probably start by getting a bloody job.