Grace Notes

Chapter 20

Lola' POV-

The next day, a half an hour before I was supposed to leave for the campus, I heard the doorbell ring. I assumed it was probably Harry, so I got up from where I was sitting on my bed doing some writing to answer it. When I opened the door, I was surprised to see Grayson.

"Hey" he smiled.

"Sarah's not home" I told him.

"Where is she?"

"She ran to Walmart to grab some things to help organize her stuff" I replied.

"Oh, how long is she going to be?"

I shrugged. "She just left"

"Oh, can I wait here?"

"I really don't think-"

"Cause I drove all this way" he added quickly.

I sighed and moved out of the way.

"Thanks" he brushed past me and went to the kitchen.

I watched him while he opened the fridge and pulled out a Bud Light. Those were ones Sarah had put in there, because she was definitely a beer drinker. I guessed she had also put them in there for him, as well.

"Did you do the quiz?" he asked, cracking it open.

"Yeah, did you?"

"No, I was going to do it when we got to class. I glanced at the summary, though, and I swear he hasn't gone over key signatures yet"

"He went over key signatures last week" I frowned, though honestly wasn't surprised that he had forgotten since he was always on Steam in class.

"What's the rule for that again?" he walked around the divider and propped up on it.

"Do you remember him talking about the circle of fifths?"

He shook his head. "Want to explain it to me?"

"So you start on C, which has no sharps and flats, then you count five starting at C. C, D, E, F, G. So G is the key that has one sharp. Then G, A, B, C, D-D has two sharps and so on"

"So how do I know what the sharps are?"

"You use the sharp that comes before the note of the key, but add the previous ones to it. Like F comes before G, so the sharp in G major is F sharp. And C comes before D, so you would add the C sharp to the F sharp in that major key"

"What about minor?"

"He hasn't gone over that yet" I shook my head.

"Maybe you can ask him to give me an extension on the quiz?"

"Can't you ask him?"

"He'll say 'no' to me"

"He would wonder why I'm asking instead of you" I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Cause he likes you"

"No, he doesn't"

"He literally does"

"Just ask him yourself"

"I'm sure he will do anything for you if you suck his dick" he smirked.

"That's a little inappropriate of you to say" I said slowly.

"Everyone knows you want to" he rolled his eyes. "Or you can just do the quiz for me and I'll give you something in return?"

"What the fuck, Grayson?!" I cried. "Why would you say that to me?"