Meet Me In The Meadow

Chapter Six

I found out that Peyton takes the same bus as me. It's November now, so Peyton and I know each other pretty well.
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"Liz!" I turn around,"Yeah?" Peyton smiles and catches up to me. "You should sit with me on the bus." I smile back,"Sure." We walk with each other to the busses.
"So, um, do you have a, um, boyfriend?" He put his hand behind his neck. "Uh..." I look at him, and he bites his lip. He looks down at me, and sees me looking at him. I blush and stop where I am. "Um, no. Not really."
He nods, and waits for me to continue walking with him. We walk to the bus, and are about to get on when someone behind me calls out my name. I turn around, and sigh. "Yeah?" It's Tristan, thank god. "Hey Liz! Um, I wanted to know if you, um, wanted to go out some time?" I am stunned. "Uh, sure?" He smiles, and walks up best to me. I smile too,"This'll be fun, right?" He nods, and follows me into the bus.
I walk by Peyton's seat, toward the back of the bus.
Me: you don't mind if I sit with Tristan right?
Peyton: already ditching me with the boyfriends right
I just stared at my phone. Is Peyton jealous? Tristan sits next to me, and grabs my hand,"Something wrong?" I lock my phone. Peyton will be fine. I fake a smile,"Nope," I say piping the 'p',"Everything good."
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The bus gets to my stop, and I stand to get out of the bus. "Do you mind if I come over?" I roll my eyes,"Whatever, Tristan." He follows me out of the bus. He grabs my hand and walks with me to my house.
I start to pull my hand out of his to get the key, but he won't let go of my hand. "Tristan, kinda need my hand right now." he lets go, and I laugh. "what?" He asks. I keep laughing as I open the front door and walk in. I close the door after him. "Nothing it's just..." I keep laughing. "I don't know..."i keep laughing, and he soon joins me.
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Tristan and I sit on the couch, his arm across my shoulder, me working on math homework. Ella opens the front door, but I don't hear her.
"Liz! I need-" her eyes widen. "Oh...um... did I interrupt something, or..." I jumped off the couch, my binder flying to the floor,"No. No, um, of coarse not. Not at all. Nope." I say popping the 'p'.
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We kept dating for a couple of weeks. He has friends who are girls, I have friends that are guys. I didn't think much of it till one of his friends, Lana, posted a picture on Instagram of them kissing. I was so angry, and disappointed.
I called him up and asked him what happened, and he said she kissed him. I didn't think much of it.
Till Thanksgiving.
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"Elizabeth! Someone's here to see you!" I jump off my bed wondering who it could be. It was Thanksgiving. People don't usually show up at people's houses unexpected on Thanksgiving.
I hurry upstairs, and see Grayson, Ethan, and their parents upstairs. "Hey." Grayson says his arms wide open. I give him a big hug.
After greetings, Grayson pulled me aside. "Hey can we talk?" I nod.
"Hey mom. Grayson and I are going on a walk."
Grayson and I head outside and start walking toward the elementary school near my house.
"So. What'd you want to talk about?" I look at him. "Uh.." my phone rings. "Hold on a second."
I look at my phone
Tristan: hey. I just wanted to let you know that I don't think we should be together. I can't really do this anymore. Sorry.
Me: so your breaking up with me via text?
Tristan: sorry?
I put my phone back in my pocket, and my eyes start filling up with tears. "Hey. What's wrong?" He puts his thumb under my chin, and pushes it up to face him. The tears start coming, and I just wrap my arms around his neck, and put my head on his shoulder. He soon wraps his arms around my waist. "Hey. It's okay. It's going to be okay." He says, rubbing my back.
After a few minutes of that, I pull away. "So what happened?" I tell him everything. "So he broke up with you via text?" I nod. "That's low." He pulls me in for a side hug. "Buts it's going to be okay." He says then kisses the top of my head.
I get butterflies in my stomach. I guess I do like him.
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So I guess Grayson and I kind of dating. Does that make sense? I don't think it makes sense. But it's the best description of what 'we' are. So here's what happened.
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"Vamos a la playa! A mi me gusta bailar! A rico de la noche! Sounds of fiesta!" I scream the lyrics out the window, and so does Grayson. Ethan just sits there dying from laughter.
My mom is driving and just keeps smiling.
We get to the Starbucks that is further from our house, and the twins and I jump out of the car, and thank my mom. She waves and drives away.
We walk into the Starbucks and I order my Carmel Frappucino. I sit down and wait for Ethan and Grayson. I look over at the door, and there are two girls whispering to each other and looking at the twins. I smile and shake my head. They became kind of famous off of Vine and then YouTube. I stand up and walk toward them. "Hey." They barely notice me,"If you want a picture with them you should just go ask for one." One of them looks at me,"But... what if they don't!" I laugh,"They do. Trust me. They love meeting you guys." The second one looks nervous,"I don't know." I laugh again,"They're just people." It silent for a minute and they look at each other. "I can ask them for you..." The first one smiles at me,"Can you?" I smile back,"Of coarse."
I walk up toward them,"Gray, Ethan! Hey." They turn around, and Ethan says,"Yeah?" I smile, tilt my head, and motion for the girls to come over,"These lovely ladies would like to meet you." The two girls start mildly freaking out, and I go back and sip my drink.
When they are done, the two girls come over and thank me. Then a few moments later, Grayson and Ethan join me. "Did you like that?" I smile. Grayson sits down next to me, and wraps his arm around my waist, while Ethan sits across from us. "Yeah." He sips from his drink.
We just sit there for a while drinking our drinks. Then we start joking around. When we are all done with our drinks, we throw away our trash. "I think there's a park around here somewhere. You wanna go?" They seem to think about,"Will we get in trouble?" Grayson asks. "I don't know. We'll find out." I smile. We start walking out of Starbucks.
We talk a joke around while we walk. When we were about half way there, when Grayson reaches for my hand. I look up at him, smile, and grab his hand. We keep talking and joking. And at one point Grayson squeezes my hand. I smile, and look at the ground. I can tell my face is getting red.
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The rest of the day was nothing too exciting. We went to the park, and played on the play ground, I think we scared a bunch of kids.
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"So when do you guys leave?" I spoon another spoon of ice cream into my mouth. We are all sitting on the floor of my room. I look at my phone, it's 1:30 a.m. "We leave on Sunday night I think." I nod.
Ethan stands up,"I think I'm going to call Abbie." He walks out of the room. I raise my eyebrows,"Him and Abbie, eh?" Grayson smiles,"Yeah." I bite my lip, and nod. It's silent for a minute. Then stand up. I throw him his shoes and then put on mine. "Come on." I grab his hand, and pull him after me.
"Where we going?" He laughs. I smile, walk backward, and grab his other hand. "Just going on a walk."
We walk outside for a bit, and we talk about nothing. We joke around, and then he puts his arm around my waist. God, I want him to kiss me.
What the hell. No. Friends. Just friends.
He stops, and puts his hand on my cheek. My heart starts beating. He tilts my head up toward his. And he kisses me. I go on my tip toes and kiss back.
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Basically, I had an amazing Thanksgiving weekend. But God, I miss him. I miss both of them.