The mafia ball.

29| Grayson Blackwell Is No More

Nova's POV

"I really fucking hate you right now!" Kelly shouts at me.

"Yeah, I'm starting to hate me too!" I yell, dragging my body across the floor.

"Come on! I need fast people. Fast!" Alex yells as he follows beside us.

I groan at his yelling. That's become his favorite thing to do. If I wasn't currently dragging my body across the floor, I would kill him. But here I am, on the floor with many other people dragging my dirt-covered body across the floor in the middle of an obstacle course.

Something to do with 'being ready for anything mentally roll my eyes.

I pick myself up from the floor and run to the rope wall. My hands grip it and I haul myself up and begin to climb it.

"Care to race?" I look to my side seeing Grayson climbing beside me.

"Oh your on!" I accept his challenge and begin to climb faster.

"It must be pretty hard to resist looking at this!" Confused I look towards him and my eyes go directly to his bulging muscles, his tattoos standing out through his tanned skin. The sun shone down on him making a glow appear.

"Couldn't resist!" He laughs and I just noticed he's way ahead of me. Groaning, I began to push myself faster using my thighs to help me get up faster. Not long and I'm stood by side by him.

"Thought I'd let you know, I'm not wearing any pants." His head snaps to mine and down to my exposed thighs. I watch him swallow and smirk at how easy it was to distract him.

Funny thing is, I am wearing pants. What he doesn't know can't harm him.

I push ahead of him straddling the wall and jump down onto the ground. My feet hit the hard ground and immediately my legs begin to ache from the impact. I ignore the pain and run ahead not even daring to look back. I dodge the pop-ups skilfully ignoring the yelling of Alex and other trainers. I quickly turn my body to the side as a fake attacker pops up. The closer I get to the end the more pop-ups come up out of nowhere. I slide under one of there's legs, ignoring the scraping on my skin.

I finally come out from them coming up to water. I pause momentarily looking at the water that's probably freezing cold. Do I really want to do this? I mean what are the odds that I have to jump in the water for god's sake.

"No time to think, Angel." I look behind me and see Grayson running up. Without another thought, I dive in at the same time as him.

Just like I thought, the water is absolutely freezing. I try to ignore the cold, which feels like needles stabbing my skin, as I come back up and move my arms and legs as fast as they can go. My eyes stung as the water worked it's way to blinding me. I let out a gasp as I come to the end of the water and push myself out. Water drips off from my head to toe.

Me and Grayson connect eyes. I look over his drenched T-shirt making it cling to him. His muscles bulging through, his dark hair even darker as it hangs in his face with droplets dripping down his face. His lashes are longer and darker as they too have water dripping off from them and slowly sliding down his skin.

Both of us let out harsh breaths as we stand side by side.

"Looking fine as always, Angel." He cracks a smile, pushing his hair out off his face.

I let out a laugh looking down at myself. I don't even care that my top is now see-through and you can see my nipples that have hardened up from the cold.

"Yeah, I mean Ethan always said so right?" I glare at him teasingly. He runs his lip across his bottom lip.

"I'll admit, I was being an ass." I nod my head with a smile.