❝ ... ❞ Teeters from behind, strong arms coiling itself around her torso; gelid lips grazing along the delicate shell of her ear faintly.
&& then she thought of butterflies.
The kind of butterflies that forms inside the stomach when you approach someone you love no, not just that The kind that steals all the air from your lungs && all the strength of your legswithout mercy. The one that has the power to leave you DIZZY with only a single touch and that as much as it seems that you will fall, you wish to fall as deeper as possible. You crave for more. Desperately.
And the moment strong arms encircled her waist, Juvia catches herself panicking. Although it isn’t necessarily a happy moment or sad or in-between, the female panics because surprinsigly that was her first reaction - - because the moment the male touched her, everything that made sense disappeared, as if it had been extinguished. Vanished from her own wills && leaving only the desire to be closer.
She can feel him around her; his armour, dented and rusting due to all the damage inflicted during the journey, used, but still protecting every inch of his body, now pressed against her own. From the start, they have been just that; companions, pushing themselves through the challenges, until they had held each other for so long, so tirelessly, that when they eventually reached the sun, he exposed himself, and it was all for her only. When she stood by his side, it was a VOW, to be by his side forever.
Yet it still feels so unusual to use love, to speak it, to express it. Once it fell as an forbidden word. A feeling that must not be uttered. A secret held within the silence. Kept in the deepest place of the vast ocean. Still, she was now free to express it, to show it. To accept && return it.
&& when icy lips grazed along the delicated exposed skin of her ear, she shuddered. The whole structure of her frame shivered in response, begging for more a jealous, passionate, selfish part of her wants him ALL TO HERSELF. She wants the world to go away, and for them to be alone in the wide quiet universe, and that’s what will make her happy now.And suddenly, happiness was so near. For herself, for him, for them both.
Then Juvia slowly slides her hands down the length of Gray’s arms around her waist, until she reaches his hands, where she gives a slight squeeze, assuring him that she has liked. As much as she had no experience and did not know exactly what she was doing, she loved him. She loved him with every piece of her soul && she wished it was enough.
So she allowed herself to think she was worthy of his love. That she was free to demonstrate her feelings, her wishes, her desires. To be allowed to react && seek for it.
And then, with one more tender squeeze on his hands, Juvia tilted her face to the right, turning her body so it would face his without breaking the embrace, and with the feel of his lips grazing her ear still in mind, the female leaned her lips against his neck, kissing the warm spot slowly. Again, again…. and again.
Slidding one arm between their bodies & curling her fingertips against his ivory chest, she pressed it agaisnt the flesh, not strong enough to bother or hurt, yet strong enough for him to feel moving closer. For a second, Azure irises gazed into the dark ones, a tender & happy smile stamped over her lips as she whispered to the other. ❝ Juvia loves you, Gray-sama …. ❞ one second, and then even the smallest space between them was fullfied in the form of a passionate kiss.