ᴍᴏᴜɴᴛᴀɪɴ ᴅᴇᴡ; Ashtray

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That night she got a call.

She stirred around in her bed until her hand hit her phone, in annoyance she brought it to her cheek. "hello?" She called hoarsely.

"It's Maddie, I need to talk to you"

Greyson sat up and listened to her friend sob, immediately knowing it was serious. "I'm coming. Stay there." And with that short phone call, she rushed over to her best friend's house.

With her pink fluffy slippers still on she ran up the short porch of Maddy's house slipping the metal key she had in case of emergencies. Slipping inside she closed the door and ran straight up to her friend's room, "Mads?" She asks peering inside.

Greyson's heart shattered when she saw the state of her closest friend. Maddys was sitting in the middle of her bed with her knees pulled up to her chest rocking back and forth, staring at nothing.

Her eyes found Greyson, and the tears began to fall. "Grey" she sobbed out. Greyson crawled onto the bed and Maddy instantly fell into Greyson's arms. "Maddy? What the hell happened?" She questioned, laying her head flatly on her thighs while rubbing her back. Maddy sniffled back her tears, and Greyson could feel her shaking against her, She looked petrified. She'd never seen her so scared in her life.

"Nate, he came here. With a gun, and threatened me." When she was finished she fell back into tears. For the first time in a while Greyson was speechless, for years she thought Nate's only weakness was Maddy.

"he's such a dick" she muttered wiping a fallen tear off Maddy's face. The older girl peeled herself from her friend, "I'm just so tired of people using me, ya know?"

She nodded understanding.

"you think you can stay the night?" she moved closer pulling her into a hug. "Of course mads."

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"Greyson!" She was shaken awake.

She jumped up looking around. "What!" She relaxed when she realized it was only Maddy.  "Sorry." She mumbled, "but your phone is blowing up."

Greyson nodded groggily grabbing it off her palm. "It's from ash," Greyson told her reading all the worried messages.

Ash❤️,

Where are you?
Early run?
Hello?
Greyson.
I'm finna call 12 if you don't answer me
Delivered

                                           Hey, sorry Maddy
                                          needed me last night.

Finally. No problem,
But Fez is kinda
Freaking out,
He doesn't know
which tie matches.  

She let out an exhausted breath, "shit"

"Everything okay?" Maddy asks. She looked up from her phone grabbing her shoes, "actually fez needs me, and we gotta get to Lexis play."

"I forgot all about that." Maddie mumbled, "I'll drive us and we'll stop at your house on the way."

"Perfect," Greyson smiled. She borrowed an outfit from Maddy since she was wearing Pajama pants before they rushed out the door to fezcos.

For the last few months, Lexi had been talking to Fezco every day about the play mostly about what's it about. She was scared it was gonna upset people but Fezco eased her worry by being there for her when she needed him, and she was there for him. In different ways.

In less than ten minutes they got to the house. She knocked loudly on the door when she realized she had forgotten her key inside. "Ash!"

The door swung open and she stepped inside. "Final-fucking-Lee" the boy mumbled, she rolled her eyes kissing his cheek making him blush, they were together for almost a year now and she still affected him. "Shut up, I know you missed me."