Pairing: Gray Fullbuster, Juvia Lockser
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Writer's Corner: OKAY, I've become addicted to Twice (Korean Girl Group) and their songs and instead of studying, I ended up writing this.
See the girl sitting on the bench alone, outside in the rain? That's Juvia Lockser. Twenty-five years old. Only child, heiress to the multimedia giant - Lockser Creatives. No experience in love. But why is she sitting alone on the bench under this heavy rainpour? Because that's what she saw on tv last night - the main girl waiting for her prince charming in the middle of a storm. So, Juvia figured, a heavy rainpour wasn't so different from a thunderstorm, right?
Was she waiting for someone? She kinda was. Did that person know she was waiting for him? He kinda didn't. You see, Juvia Lockser had experience in neither romantic nor sexual love. Friendship? She got a few real ones. Familial? There was nothing Juvia could ever ask for. But romantic? Her doting father made sure no one was ever enough for his only daughter. So here lies Juvia Lockser's quintessential problem, what even was romantic love?
She had no idea except for those she read from books and watched from movies. But, in a second now, Juvia Lockser was about to find out.
"Gray Fullbuster!" She called after the guy who just came out of the highrise building right in front of the bench where she waited.
Juvia stood from her seat and walked over to the man donned in a thick, dark coat, leading a group of people who came out with him from the Fullbuster Inc. Building. All eyes were on the young heiress, studying her movements. Her hips commanded attention and swayed in confidence as she approached the unknowing group. Juvia's ocean eyes were trained at the young man who had a honey-haired assistant holding the umbrella for him. He didn't look happy.
Gray Fullbuster looked genuinely surprised finding her there, an unwelcomed guest.
"What are you doing here?" He sharply questioned, irritation knitting his brows together.
She didn't say anything. Instead, Juvia Lockser raised a corner of her mouth, a dubious intention lurking in the way she slanted her smile. Then, she dropped her pink umbrella, the rain quickly drenching her wavy blue hair and furry pink coat. Without warning, Juvia grabbed the collar of Gray's thick navy blue jacket, jerking him down whilst she tiptoed to reach his height and then, kissed him. Right in front of Gray's whole managerial team, Juvia Lockser, his fiancee, pressed her lips against his.
His hands found her shoulders and shoved her back into the rain.
"Are you out of your mind?" He was furious, to say the least, passing his lips on the sleeve of his coat.
Juvia answered. "Maybe." She aimed for another kiss but this time, Gray was prepared.
"Get out of my way, Monkey." He easily sidestepped the woman. "Stop wasting everyone's time." He signaled Loke, his loyal assistant, to move along. His other team members, on the other hand, seemed rooted to their places; flustered on behalf of the Big Boss and yet to recover from what they all just witnessed.
Juvia didn't take offense from his 'endearment'. He never used her real name. But that never deterred her spirits. They have the rest of their lives for Gray to learn her name. Juvia spun around, shouting over the rain after Gray, who was barely a step away. "Hey!"
He jumped at the sudden call and turned around to shout back at her, "w-what?!"
Juvia, with a smug face on, pointed a finger at the man who had a permanent scowl on his face. His dark, sharp eyes crossed, meeting the end of Juvia's slender finger, to which Juvia caught on.
"Gray Fullbuster, I will make you mine." She confidently declared, then poked the confused Gray between his eyes. Taking advantage of his confusion, Juvia, once again, pressed a quick kiss on his lips before grabbing her abandoned umbrella on the ground and escaped before she hears another word from the grumpy man.
Gray, however, seemed to have forgotten the important meeting he was headed to before that clingy monkey showed up. He stood rooted on the ground, his above-average mind could not quite wrap itself around what just happened. Nor could it explain the way his heart beat along the pelting rain on his umbrella. He never quite met anyone like that monkey - insistent and persistent.
And a whole level of annoying.
"Man, I do all the work but you get the sugar?"
Gray pulled his attention away from the clingy heiress walking farther and farther away, and instead, directed his murderous glare at his useless assistant whose job it was to make sure Juvia Lockser could never get near him.
"What?" Loke raised his free hand in surrender. "I blacklisted her from the building. I can't block her from Magnolia, too. We don't own the streets, Your Greatness."
Gray gave him one last look before he fixed his collar and remembered his 10:00 AM appointment.
"Just get a restraining order." He suggested and he was quite serious about it too.
"Tried." Loke matched Gray's brisk steps. "Your father wants to talk to you about it." Loke almost collided against his grumpy boss when Gray stopped dead in his tracks at the mention of his father. Apparently, for that woman, Silver Fullbuster was willing to make time.
Gray didn't have to ask for Loke to explain, his homicidal glare asked for him but Loke, getting sandwiched between the 'my word is the law' Silver and this 'I'm so serious I forgot to have fun' second son, could only answer his boss with a shrug. It was hopeless. Gray's narrowed eyes returned to where the annoying monkey disappeared earlier.
"She's going to ruin my life."
"Or improve it. But hey, we're not here for that." Loke nudged his boss forward, towards the building opposite theirs before the irate young man caught on to what he just said. "We got a billion-dollar deal to nail."
Working for the uptight second son for almost half his life, Loke knew that money was the only thing that could stretch that mouth into an actual smile. And save his ass for today.
"You're right." Gray's mood had quickly bettered. "Let's put this one to bed."
He threw one last glance at the direction where he last saw the annoying monkey.
"I'll deal with that pest later myself."
Loke kept it to himself, knowing it was hard to look for another job in this economy but he wondered if his boss, Gray Almighty, was going to put that one to bed too.
