
█▐ ❆ ࿐ᐤ FACE SOFTENING, his eyes crinkled in their regrets.
( Even if they don’t… live together anymore. )
For such statement only deepened his already overbearing GRIEF. Gray knew Juvia basked in the domestic juncture of time that they shared together, yet he was the reason for its ultimate demise. Although, he’d never dare to advocate any vestiges of guilt aloud, nor would he words of endearment, Gray cannot help but pondered in the wondering pit of frost ; questioning that if they were to RECREATE those moments they spent catching each other’s knuckles, it would still feel the same as it did before.
His gaze is riveted upon her simper, the SMILE so soft that ignites him from the inside out ( upside down. traversing him ) ; Gray is enamoured by that expression, cannot burn it deep enough, bright enough into his mind —— without craving MORE of it to soothe out his heavy soul.

❝ …Of course, Juvia. ❞