brutal | grayson hawthorne

throwback

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Triple Dog Dare by Lucy Dacus
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Liz was officially free to frolic the halls of Hawthorne House with her right arm in a pink sling, Xander finally met his father who has turned out to be very cool, Avery went to see Vincent Blake and pulled some very badass chess moves to get what she wanted, and currently, Liz is leaning over Xander's shoulder, Grayson to her left, Jameson beside him, Avery beside him, and Nash kneeling in front of her, all 6 staring at Xander's computer screen as Liz gives him her two USBs and Avery gives him hers.

"Do the video first," Grayson instructs, everyone tense as they prepare themselves for what may be the last things that Tobias Hawthorne has left them.

Xander plugs in what he needs to plug in, the second USB just seems to be some program that he downloads, then plugging in the first USB to drop the garbled video into it, the image starting to clear, and Liz more easily making out the hand that starts with covering the screen.

Xander hits play.

"Okay, I think it's on," video Liz's face backs up from the camera, showing both her and Emily on the screen.

The camera seems to be perched on something, a shelf probably, and the two girls are standing in Grayson's room.

"Okay," Emily starts with tossing an arm around Liz's shoulders, Liz reciprocating the action, her other hand taking a swig out of her bottle of tequila. "Welcome to the Emily and Liz Show." Liz offers the bottle to Emily who shakes her head before continuing. "Today, we are the the crime scene of what is left of Grayson Hawthorne's 18th birthday party," both girls are giggling now.

"Okay, here," Liz doesn't put the bottle down, just reaches her free hand to grab the camera and points it towards Emily.

"Okay, so," Emily begins like she's a talk show host. "The party was in fact held in Grayson's bedroom, because there were only four people in attendance and one of them was his brother," both Emily and Liz burst out laughing at this.

Real Liz can hear real Jameson snort from the other side of Grayson.

"But, anyway," Liz says behind the screen, video her knowing at this point that Grayson would probably be watching this, because it must've been his camera they were using.

"But, anyway," Emily repeats. "Allow us to take you through a tour of the night," she walks - stumbles - backwards towards the corner in the room that's between the bookshelf and a wall holding a large, framed photo of the front of Hawthorne House. "Starting with this corner, where Liz spent the entire night sexting Adam Devlin-"

"Okay," Liz in the video interrupts loudly, immediately spinning the camera to the other side of the room like that would do anything. "I think we should start in this corner, where Emily was alternating between making out with Grayson and Jameson-"

"Okay, okay, wait," Emily comes into frame and turns the camera around, so it's facing the two girls again. "I may be a horrible person-" she tries grabbing the camera from Liz, shaking the video a bit.

"Wait, you're gonna break it," Liz is laughing, but even drunk her knew Grayson would murder them if they did.

"Okay, I may be a horrible person-" Emily is possession of the camera again, and Liz seems to have walked off, bottle of tequila still in her hand, "-but at least I have taste."

"That second part is heavily debatable," Liz muses on the other side of the room, her voice far from the microphone in the camera.

Emily shifts the camera to show Liz taking out random books on the shelves and putting them back.