User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 453: A Father's Job, Review and Commentary/@comment-26822192-20150919183230/@comment-25111584-20150925135858

That didn't really work out as he imagined during the GMG arc tho ... And Juvia doesn't really seem to care about his opinion on the matter if it is not to her liking.

Gray doesn't really have a choice here. Either one of them dies or Gray accepts her feelings. If he doesn't, she just pretends that he is playing hard-to-get and continues to chase him. :/