"Don't cry. I hate it when you cry." Gray kissed the top of his girlfriend's head while they hugged. He was leaving for his semester abroad and his flight was in just a couple of hours. "You promised you wouldn't cry."

He had spent two weeks with his parents and the last week before traveling, with his friends and Juvia, and even being prepared, it didn't stop her from cling onto him.

"Juvia isn't crying." She sniffed and looked up and even though she wasn't crying, she was close enough. "Remember what we agreed on?" He nodded but the blunette reminded him anyways. "Texts everyday even if it's just to say hello."

"Yeah."

Juvia tip toed and gave him a peck on the lips. "Calls every couple of days, at least."

"I know." Gray agreed. "Six months will be over before we know it."

"No, it won't." She sighed. "But we will make do."

"We will." Gray kissed her. "Now remember what I asked you to do?"

"Yes." Juvia chuckled. "Juvia is forbidden to get into trouble."

"Please." He groaned. "I can't be in another country while you are in trouble here."

"Juvia doesn't get into trouble." She wrapped her arms around his neck. "You, on the other hand..."

"I have no idea of what you are talking about." Gray chuckled when Juvia pulled him to a kiss.

'This is the last call for flight 413 from Magnolia to Vistarion. Please, head to gate 7B.'

Gray sighed once they broke the kiss. He touched her forehead with his. "I have to go."

"I know." Juvia whispered, eyes closed. "Call me when you get there."

"I will." He kissed her one more time before he grabbed the backpack he had put on the floor next to his feet. "Bye." He gave her a quick kiss and went to the line to get into the restricted area of the airport.

"Good-bye." Juvia whispered.

Right before it was his turn to get in, he looked in her direction and saw Juvia wave slowly and he did the same, missing her already.

#

"How was your first day?" Juvia asked and Gray groaned as he looked at his phone, where he was having a videoconference with his girlfriend.

"I hate first days." He said, lying on his bed – he had been in Vistarion for a week, then and he was ready to go to bed, but not without calling Juvia, like she insisted, after his first day. "I don't know anyone here so it sucked. At least the classes were alright."

"You have to be open to make new friends, Gray-sama." Juvia chuckled and smiled, making his heart flutter. Damn it, he missed her already. "I know you rather have our friends from Magnolia with you, but since you can't, you should get to know people while you are there."

"Argh." He complained. "I hate knowing people. They never meet our expectations."

"Well," Juvia tucked a stray lock of her hair behind her ear and offered him a sweet smile "you got to know Juvia. Did she meet your expectations?"

Gray snorted. "You are different."

"How so?" She raised one eyebrow.

"You were different from the first moment I met you." He admitted. "I had no idea why, then."

"You were different too." Juvia told him and he couldn't help it but to curl his lips a bit, trying to hide a smile. He coughed, trying to change the subject – the touchy-feely stuff wasn't really something he was good at.

"So, what is happening to everyone? Any news?" He asked, curious.

"Oh, remember when Juvia told you Gajeel-kun was going on a date with Levy-san?" Juvia was clearly excited and Gray nodded. "It is happening as we speak. Juvia cannot believe Gajeel-kun is actually dating someone she approves for once. You should see the women he was involved with before." She wrinkled her nose. "Not nice."

"It's their first date, anything could happen." Gray pointed out. "They might not want to have a second one."

"Not everyone gets to watch the Harpies on their first date." Juvia chuckled. "Juvia invested a lot into that night. She was super nervous."

"You were?" He was impressed. "You didn't look or acted nervous."

"Juvia didn't want to make a fool out of herself." The blunette shrugged. "She had one shot to make that night work, she couldn't stutter. Her heart, though, was beating so hard inside her chest..."

"I was nervous too." Gray admitted. "I hadn't been on a date in so long. But you were so... adamant about it. I thought 'hey, what's the worse it can happen?' and here we are." He sighed, pretending to be unhappy with the outcome.

"Gray-sama!" Juvia pouted, joking alongside with him. "You were the one who kissed Juvia, don't forget that."

"I haven't." He chuckled. "It was a good first date, wasn't it?"

"The best." She said and yawned.

"You should go to sleep." Gray said. "I know there is a two-hour difference and it's late here, over there is even worse."

"Juvia wants to keep talking to you, Gray-sama."

"I would like that too, but both of us need some rest. I have my second day tomorrow and I am not looking forward to that." He muttered, annoyed. "At least you know most of the people you'll have class with."

Juvia smiled. "Listen to me: get to know your colleagues. Juvia wants you here, but since she can't, she doesn't want you on your own over there."

"Fine, fine." He rolled his eyes. "I'll try."

"That's all Juvia's asking." She nodded, her eyes softening. "Good night, Gray-sama. Talk to you tomorrow."

"Good night, Juvia." He pressed the red button to end the conference and he sighed. If he were in Magnolia, he'd be lying next to her, listening to her soft breathing as she fell asleep. Since he wasn't, though, he'd have to sleep on his own for six months and try to do as she said.

The next day, he would try to know his colleagues.

#

Gray closed the door of his apartment when his guest was inside and he sighed mentally. Jerome and Gray had a project together and they decided to go to Gray's place, since Jerome had a very noisy roommate and they needed to concentrate.

Jerome was a tall man, Gray's age and he had a neutral expression. He had orange eyes and unkempt, shoulder-length blonde hair. He wasn't half-bad in Gray's opinion and the only guy he could stand hang out with. Jerome wasn't as chatty as the others and that suited Gray just fine.

Better than that idiot Invel Yura, who had the most ridiculous competition with Gray since he proved to be smarter. Asshole.

"Do you want anything to drink?" Gray asked, putting his backpack on the couch. "Water, soda, beer?"

"Beer would be nice." Jerome shrugged and Gray nodded, going to the kitchen to get himself and his guest a beer and when he returned to the living room, the blonde had the digital photo frame Juvia gave him as a farewell gift. Of course, she got more pictures of herself than of his friends to, and he quoted her 'make any girl who visited him, know he had a girlfriend'. Gray had rolled his eyes but accepted the gift. He really didn't care if she had only put pictures of herself, she was beautiful and he missed her. "Friends of yours?"

He glanced at the picture and he saw it was one of most of his friends, before he met Juvia, at a party. Natsu had his arm around Gray's shoulder, Lucy had her arms around her boyfriend, Cana was drinking a beer, Erza stood next to the group, smiling, Loke on their other side, mid-laugh.

"Yeah." He nodded and gave Jerome the beer. "Good friends."

"Hm." The blonde nodded and he was about to put the frame away when the picture changed to a picture of Juvia in one of her competitions – she didn't have many pictures since before dating him, most from her ice skating competitions. "Idol of yours?" Jerome had his eyebrows raised in question.

Gray snorted. "That too. She's my girlfriend, actually."

It was Jerome's turn to snort. "Sure she is." He rolled his eyes and muttered to himself. "Of course I got paired up with the crazy foreigner."

"She is my girlfriend." Gray frowned. "You don't believe me?"

"I mean, look at her." He pointed at the picture, that changed to another of Juvia, she was at the beach – he had taken that picture when they were at his parents' summer home and she looked beautiful, looking carefree and laughing at something he had said to her. "Look at you. You are not half bad, but you are a six, maybe a seven and she's a ten. Sorry, but this doesn't make sense."

Gray was feeling very insulted. Who did Jerome think he was to think Gray couldn't get a beautiful girl like Juvia? "I can't believe I'm doing this." Gray fished his phone from his pocket and unlocked the screen – the screensaver was a picture of Juvia as well, she had set it up before he left and he secretly liked it and didn't change – and went to his gallery. "I cannot believe I have to prove my girlfriend is my girlfriend." He whispered angrily to himself and chose a picture they took a few days before he left, one she had taken and they were kissing. "Here." He showed it to Jerome, who frowned and looked from his phone to the frame, comparing the two blunettes. "Do you believe me now?"

"How...?" Jerome looked up. "Well, color me impressed."

Gray rolled his eyes. "Can we drop this now and do the assignment?" He got his phone from the other man's hand and put it back in his pocket. "Jeez."

Getting his notebook and a book from his backpack, Jerome started to look for the page of their subject when he stopped and looked at Gray. "How did you do it, exactly? Did you exhausted her or...?"

"Fuck." Gray groaned. "Look, she's the one who asked me out, actually."

"No way." The blonde shook his head. "I'm sorry, there's no way this happened."

"Oh, shut up." Gray said and took a sip of his beer. "If you don't believe what I say, why do you ask?"

"This is so weird." Jerome drank his beer. "Now tell me, of these lovely ladies" he pointed to another picture of Gray's friends "which ones are single and more likely to come visit you?"

Gray couldn't help but to laugh. "Oh, you wouldn't be able to handle any of them."

"Feisty girls. Even better." Jerome said and Gray snorted and before he knew, he was sharing stories from his gang back in Magnolia, the assignment forgotten for the time being and for the first time in a month, he didn't feel as lonely as before.

#

"He called me a six, Juvia." Gray said and watched his girlfriend through the webcam as she laughed at his story. "I'm not a six. Am I?" He was actually worried, as crazy as that sounded.

"Juvia never thought you would be this vain, Gray-sama." Juvia had her back to him, she was facing her wardrobe and looked over her shoulder, at the camera.

"That's because you were called a ten." He mumbled. "If someone calls you a six, let's see if you are not vain as well."

"Juvia's not used of being called beautiful." She shrugged and returned her attention to her wardrobe. "She only started being called that when she began to perform, she knows she looks good when she does. Before she was just a klutz. Still is." The blunette took a dress from her wardrobe and put it in front of her body to see how it looked. "Don't worry, Gray-sama, Jerome-san was probably joking, you are not a six. You are very much a ten."

Gray frowned, ignoring her last sentence. "What do you mean you are not used to be called beautiful?"

"It's alright, Gray-sama." She smiled. "Juvia is aware of the way she looks."

"I don't think you are." Gray couldn't take his eyes off of her as she took off the towel she had around her body and started to put the small black dress and he sighed – it had been a month since he had any action and seeing her like that was good, but torture. "Jerome was right about something, you are a ten."

"Sure, Gray-sama." Juvia snorted and turned to the camera, looking down to the dress. "How is this dress?" She turned around herself so he could have a better view.

Gray's mind wandered for a moment as he saw the fabric hug her body perfectly, tightening in the right places and of course she looked great.

"I think the first one you tried looked better, perhaps you should try that one again." It was the third dress she tried on and even though she looked good in all of them, Gray made up something wrong with it so she would change.

It wasn't the higher point of his life and he wasn't proud of himself, but after a month he needed new material for his lonely moments.

"Juvia doesn't have time to change." She groaned. "Cana-san will be here any minute. What's wrong with this one?"

Seeing her distress over getting ready, Gray decided to tell her the truth. "Nothing, actually. It looks really good on you. They all did."

"Then why...?" Her frown changed and her face became red once she realized why he had told her to change. "Gray-sama! Did... did you...?" His own cheeks warmed up but he shrugged in a noncommittal way. "Oh my god."

"Isn't my fault you started to strip in front of the camera!" He tried to defend himself. "I miss watching you do that in person."

Her demeanor softened with his words and she stepped closer to her notebook. "Juvia misses it as well. Misses you." Gray smiled sadly. "One month down, five to go."

"Yeah." He sighed. "You should get ready to go out with the girls."

"Are you sure you are okay with Juvia going out tonight?" She asked.

"Yes." Gray rolled his eyes. "Cana is right, you haven't gone out since I moved."

"Juvia doesn't like to go out without you." She pouted. "She misses you."

"All I did was to stay by the bar and wait for you while you danced." He snorted. "Go and pretend I'm at the bar waiting for you and have a good time. One of us has to."

"Alright." The blunette sighed and looked at his image on her screen. "Juvia is very proud of you for making a new friend, Gray-sama."

"I didn't make a new friend." He frowned. "He's not my friend."

It was Juvia's turn to roll her eyes. "If you let him, he might become one."

"I don't know if I can be friends with someone who thinks I'm a six." Gray joked and Juvia laughed.

"And what score do you think Natsu-san would give you?"

Gray chuckled – Natsu would most certainly give Gray an even lower score. "Point taken." He watched her for a moment. "Text me when you get home, okay? I don't care what time it is."

"Okay." Juvia nodded and said softly. "Good night, Gray-sama."

"Good night, Juvia."

#

To: Juvia

15:03: I'm bored.

15:03: This class is so boring.

From: Juvia

15:04: Poor Gray-sama. XD You shouldn't be texting, though. You might get caught.

To: Juvia

15:04: I know I shouldn't but I'm too bored and everyone is silent just pretending to be somewhere else.

15:05: My imagination is pretty awful so I'd rather text you.

15:05: What are you doing?

From: Juvia

15:06: Juvia got home from school a few minutes ago. She had a very interesting class today.

15:06: She learned about the effects of sweet water on salt water and its ecosystem. Interested in knowing more?

To: Juvia

15:07: God, no. I'm texting you to NOT get bored. Tell me something I won't nap over.

From: Juvia

15:08: Well, Juvia has the night off of the diner today. She thought she could go to bed early today.

To: Juvia

15:08: Sleeping early is boring.

From: Juvia

15:09: Who said anything about sleeping?

To: Juvia

15:09: Now that's interesting.

15:10: What do you have in mind?

From: Juvia

15:11: Juvia was thinking she could wait for you to get home so she can call you and maybe we could try to take the edge off over the phone a little...

To: Juvia

15:12: Fantastic idea.

15:12: I'm a 100% behind this.

15:14: Juvia?

From: Juvia

15:15: Sorry, Juvia was doing something.

15:15: Since you are so bored, Juvia thought she might give you something to use your imagination with?

To: Juvia

15:16: Oh? What is it?

From: Juvia

15:16: -Juvia sent an attachment-

Gray frowned when he saw she had sent him a picture but the moment he opened it, his eyes widened and his mouth dried.

It was a picture of Juvia, even though he couldn't see her face, just from her lips down, he knew it was her, and she was lying on her bed and was completely naked with the exception of her panties. She had her arm over her chest but even then it left little to the imagination.

To: Juvia

15:18: Shit

15:18: Juvia, I'm in public

15:19: You can't send me pictures like that when I'm in public

15:19: Someone could see it or I could get a fucking boner

From: Juvia

15:20: You said you were bored, Juvia is just trying to help, like a good girlfriend. :D

15:20: Are you still bored? ;)

To: Juvia

15:21: You are a menace.

15:21: You won't sext me when I'm alone in my apartment but you do when I'm in the middle of a class

From: Juvia

15:22: Juvia needs to keep you on your toes ;)

To: Juvia

15:23: Consider me on my toes.

From: Juvia

15:25: Juvia thought she'd have to work more to make you less bored, so she took another picture...

15:25: She's going to send it to you. You know, to not waste it.

To: Juvia

15:26: Sounds reasonable.

15:26: If you went through all this trouble...

15:27: I'm going to regret this, aren't I?

From: Juvia

15:27: You tell Juvia.

15:27: -Juvia sent an attachment-

More prepared that time, Gray angled his phone so no one could see what he was doing and clicked on the attachment, preparing himself. It didn't work: the image still took his breath away and that time, his blood definitely went south.

That time, Juvia's arm wasn't hiding her breasts so he had a clear view of her breasts and for a moment he reminded himself exactly what it felt to have them in his hands, his mouth. Fuck, he missed her.

What made him almost groan in the middle of his class was Juvia's hand, that was under her panties and by the way she was biting her lower lip, she was enjoying going to bed early.

Gods, she was going to kill him.

To: Juvia

15:29: Fuck

15:30: Fuck, Juvia

From: Juvia

15:31: Not good?

To: Juvia

15:32: Too good.

15:33: I have this class for thirty minutes more, I take five minutes to go home

15:33: I'll be calling you in forty minutes at most

15:34: Great. I have a boner now.

From: Juvia

15:34: Sorry? :3

To: Juvia

15:34: You are not sorry at all, don't even pretend.

From: Juvia

15:35: Juvia is not. HAHA It's good to know she affects you so much even when she's in a different continent than you.

To: Juvia

15:36: I could have told you that, you didn't have to make me have an erection in public

15:37: I better stop texting you so I can focus on thinking about some disgusting things

From: Juvia

15:38: Juvia is going to entertain herself while you are not home, Gray-sama

To: Juvia

15:38: Oh no

15:39: If I can't, you can't either.

From: Juvia

15:40: What???

15:40: Gray-sama, be reasonable.

To: Juvia

15:41: Trust me, it's going to be better if we do this together

15:41: Just wait forty minutes

From: Juvia

15:42: Fine. >,<'

15:42: Juvia should have sent those when you were home

To: Juvia

15:43: And I shouldn't have asked you to make me less bored

15:43: I guess we both learned a lesson today

From: Juvia

15:44: Don't sext in public and don't send nudes while your boyfriend is in public?

To: Juvia

15:45: Yeap.

From: Juvia

15:45: Lesson learned.

15:46: Forty minutes will take forever, won't they?

To: Juvia

15:47: Oh yeah.

15:47: I'll make you worth your while when I get home.

From: Juvia

15:48: Juvia will hold you to that, Gray-sama

#

Gray was checking his phone every two minutes, worried. Juvia hadn't texted him yet, not even to say 'good morning' like she had been doing every morning since he left for Alvarez and it worried him, especially since it was his birthday.

What if something happened to her?

He looked down to his phone and texted her one more time, asking how she was. She hadn't even visualized his messages. He didn't want to sound crazy or too concerned, but he was. If he didn't have an answer until he got home, he would call one of his friends to check on her.

"You haven't heard from her yet?" Jerome asked as they left the university's building, two of his friends joined him and Gray, Briar, a dark skinned curvaceous woman, with white hair and dark eyes and Mary, a short pink haired girl who everyone thought was cute. They had been hanging out since Gray befriended Jerome and he actually enjoyed their company. Both girls looked at him, confused.

"No." They stopped when they reached the last step of the stairs and Gray turned to face the girls to explain. "My girlfriend hasn't texted me yet. I'm worried."

"The famous girlfriend." Mary chuckled. "I'm sure she is alright."

"It is his birthday and she hadn't texted him? Troublesome." Briar frowned. "Did you do anything to piss her off?"

Gray rolled his eyes. "No, I didn't do anything to piss her off. She was fine when I called her last night." He looked down to his phone again.

"Uh... Gray?" Jerome said.

"Yeah?" He didn't look up from his phone, thinking he should at least text one of his friends with his concerns, or maybe Gajeel.

"I don't think you need to worry."

"Why is that?" He frowned and looked up to the blonde man, who pointed with his chin to somewhere behind him. Confused, Gray looked over his shoulder and after a moment trying to find out what Jerome had been trying to show him, he did a double take when he saw a familiar shade of blue between all the people of the campus.

Just a few meters away, Juvia stood wearing her thick blue coat, with a small suitcase and she was looking around, searching for someone. Him, she was looking for him.

"What the fuck...?" Gray whispered to himself and started to walk in her direction, his heart beating like crazy inside his chest, his hands were sweating. Was he dreaming or was she really there? He couldn't contain himself and called for her when he was close enough for her to hear him. "Juvia?"

The blunette looked in the direction of his voice and grinned when she saw him. "Gray-sama!" She exclaimed and took a few steps to meet him in the middle of the way and threw her arms around his neck and started to kiss his face, wherever her lips could reach. "Oh, Gray-sama."

He couldn't help it but to laugh as she showered him with kiss, his own arms around her waist and he picked up from the ground. "Are you really here?" He asked and she finally kissed his lips in a desperate kiss. "What are you doing here?"

"Happy birthday!" She said between pecks on his lips – Gray was aware there were people looking at them, his new friends as well, but he didn't care; he hadn't had her in his arms for more than three months.

"How...? What...?" He tried to form a sentence but he was so overwhelmed, he couldn't.

Juvia laughed and gave him another peck before answering. "Your father won a plane ticket to anywhere he chose because he's a frequent flyer and neither he nor your mom could travel so he gave it to me to visit you!"

"Really?" Gray couldn't believe his ears. "How long are you staying?"

"Three days."

His heart leaped in his chest. "Three days? You are staying for three whole days?" She nodded, a big smile on her lips and Gray kissed her, feeling his whole body buzz in happiness; he would have his girlfriend with him for three days.

Three whole days.

He didn't think he would be that happy to have her for such a seemingly short amount of time for other people, but for him, damn it, for him it would be the best three days he could ask for.

Juvia laughed when he kissed her and the sound made him feel even happier, it was such a beautiful sound.

"Are you happy Juvia is here?" She asked when he put her on the ground again even though he missed holding her the moment he did, so he kept his arms around her.

"Like you wouldn't imagine." He answered and Juvia beamed in happiness, pulling him for another kiss.

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AN: Awwwwwn Gray is so happy Juvia is visiting! I hope you enjoyed the chapter. :D I featured the Avatar people because they were the ones Gray spent those six months with so it made sense. ;)