Meet Me In The Meadow

Chapter One

"Liz!" I keep walking to my English class, even though I heard the voice. "Elizabeth!" I keep pushing my way through the hall, and am almost into the class room. "Elizabeth Jones!" I abruptly stop in front of the class room door. "Pardon me for trying to get us a decent seat." I turn around and Grayson is standing there,"Whatever." I roll my eyes, walk in, and grab two seats in the back. Grayson sits down, and we still have two minutes till English starts.
Mrs. Gregory is sitting behind her desk, and isn't paying attention to what's going on. "So this is our last day of middle school." I roll my eyes, and turn to him,"No? Really?"
We joke around till the bell rings, and Mrs. Gregory starts talking roll. I start zoning out, and don't pay attention. I feel a nudge on my shoulder. "No Jones, Elizabeth?" I shake my head,"Um.. yeah? here!" Mrs. Gregory looks above her reading glasses,"Oh am I glad I don't have to deal with you much longer Elizabeth." I smirk,"Likewise."
I look over at Grayson, and he is trying to hold back his laughter. I can't blame him, Mrs. Gregory and I haven't liked each other since day one. We've been holding back the urge to kill each other since then.
Mrs. Gregory then continues to yell at us about why we need to remember what we learned this year and how we had the most educated teacher for our eighth grade year (haha sure). Grayson and I don't talk because last time we did, she gave us a citation. When she's done yelling we have five minutes left of class. She said we can talk for those few minutes. So we do.
Grayson turn around in his seat. "I'll help you murder her." I smirk,"Im gonna need all the help I can get. She probably has demons as guard dogs." Grayson laughs and I just raise an eyebrow. "It wasn't that funny." Grayson stops, it's just the way you said it." He turns around in his seat, and looks at the clock.
The bell rings and I stand up. I wait for Grayson, but he just walks past me.
Is it something that I said? Geez Liz. You have to ruin everything don't you? What did you do, idiot?
I hurry out of the room, and to my locker. I don't know why he just ignored me, but it kinda hurt my feelings. Geez I sound like a two year old.
I put my binder, and locked stuff in my backpack. That's when Zöe, my girl best friend, and locker partner, walks up. "Hey!" I smile,"Hey!" Zöe gives me a hug, she likes giving people hugs. "How was English with the devil?" I tilt my head,"I think you already know that answer." She starts putting her binder in her backpack, and talks about how someone in her Algebra got in trouble for talking too much, ect.
"Hey, sorry Zöe, but I've got to go." Zöe rolls her eyes,"Do you have to meet up with..." She raises her eyebrows and smirks. I roll my eyes,"Shut up." I turn around and leave.
I walk throughout the school, saying slight hi's/bye's to people in the hallway. When I get outside I see Grayson. Or Ethan. I'm not quite sure yet. As I get closer I realize it's Ethan. He's surrounded by his friends. "Ethan!" Ethan turns around, and says something to his friends. "Hey Liz!" I do a cheesy smile and walk closer. "What's wrong with Grayson?" Ethan raises an eyebrow,"What do you mean?" I shrug,"He just kinda started ignoring me at the end of class." Ethan looks at the ground and looks back up,"Oh..." I raise my eyebrows, and punch him in the arm,"You guys are being mean!" I make a pouty face. Ethan mimics me, and I roll my eyes.
"Whatever Ethan. I've got to go." Ethan I start walking toward where my mom picks me up, and I heard Ethan walking behind me. "What the heck Ethan?!" I stop and turn around. "You're taking us home, idiot." I roll my eyes,"Car-pool day." He does a cheesy smile,"Yeah."
We walk to my moms car, and I open the passenger side door. "I call shotgun." Grayson says as I open the door. I sigh, and roll my eyes. I hop in back with Ethan. "Hello Ethan, Elizabeth." Ethan responds,"Good. How about you?" My mom and Ethan talk till we get to my sisters school. When we stop, I move to the middle, and the car door opens almost immediately. "Ethan! Grayson!" My little sister, Ella, hops into the car, and attempts to give Ethan a hug from across me. She just finished sixth grade, so she's two years younger than me.
The car ride to the Dolan's house was filled with Ella talking on and on about how excited she is for middle school, and blah blah blah. We drive past the Dolan's house. "Hey mom. You just pasted their house." My mom turns around, and nods, and looks back to driving. "I know sweetie. They're coming over to our house for dinner." I close my eyes and fake smile,"Fantastic." We pull into our driveway, and I push Ella out of the car. I hurry inside, and take a shower.
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"Elizabeth! Dinner's ready!" I sigh, and walk downstairs. I sit down at the table, unhappily next to Grayson and Ethan, and say hi to their family.
The dinner was pretty uneventful. Afterword, Grayson, Ethan, and I went downstairs to watch a movie. "We should watch Red Dawn!" I grab the movie and am about to put in the DVD player, when Grayson grabs it out of my hands. "We've seen that a million times, Liz." I glare at him, and try to grab it,"Just be thankful I don't like romance movies!" Ethan cuts in,"Yeah, Gray. Just go through it. It's not that bad." Grayson rolls his eyes,"Liz. You make us watch it every time!" I smirk, and grab the movie back,"Because it's like the best movie ever." Ethan leans back in the couch, to watch Grayson and mine annual 'argument' about why I like it so much. "You only like it because Josh Hutcherson is in it." I open the DVD player, and Grayson try's to grab the movie out of my hand. But I put it in the DVD player. "At first: perhaps. But it's based in Spokane, Washington. And I wanna go to Spokane." I then continue to bore them with useless facts about the movie.
"I'm going to leave if you don't shut up." I glare at Grayson, and start laughing. "You always get so pissed. Chill." Grayson then sits next to me.
I press play, and start watching the movie. "We're missing something." I know Ethan's gonna offer to do it. And I was right. Ethan jumps up, "I've got the popcorn." He starts walking toward the stairs. "I was gonna offer Ethan! Geez." I roll my eyes.
I hear the door close after Ethan. And this is when I get to talk to Ethan. "Why were you ignoring me after English?" Grayson doesn't take his eyes of the movie, but I can tell he's thinking about what to say, because he moves his jaw back and forth. He doesn't answer for a minute. "Gray?" I bite my lip. Maybe it was a mistake asking. Gray swallows,"You have my number, right?" I nod,"Why?" He slightly looks at me,"You're gonna need it." I glare at him. "You aren't answering my question, Grayson." I smell the popcorn, and Ethan sits next to me.
"So. what part of the movie are we on now?"