User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 154: Only Enough Time to Pass By One Another, Review./@comment-4718355-20121028145058

I hate that jellal pushed her away, but in my opinion, if he didn't, he wouldn't love her so much. It's not that he didn't want to kiss her, deep down he would have loved to do so because he loves her, but he feels that he doesn't deserve her, that she's too good for him and he'll just drag her down with who he is since he's a fugitive and believes he'll drag her into the darkness since he stated she is his light. Because of all the stuff he did to Erza, Jellal feels that, from making her suffer pain, causing her to cry, trying to sacrifice her and even hurting her friends and killing Simon, he doens't believe he deserves her and should continue to punish himself. It's not that he feels he can't fall in love with her, it's that he feels that he DOESN'T believe he has the right to fall in love with her and only wants her to be happy. He lied to protect her from himself, that is what makes me respect Jellal so much, willing to do anything for Erza and continuously punish himself for her sake and to protect her. Even if Erza is willing to forgive him due to him atoning so much and doing a lot of good in the past 6 years, Jellal himself can't seem to forgive himself and decideds to continue to punish himself. But for me, they will have more scenes like this, I can feel it, especially since Jellal is kinda interacting with Fairy Tail so much lately. I know this is a "they will" in the future when Jellal is able to move on from his past.