To Infiniti & Beyond

Chapter Eleven

I come back to consciousness and the world around me feels slow.

One of the nurses speaks, "Just wait here for a few minutes while the anesthesia wears off, okay hon?"

I give a week "mmhm" and she exits the room.

My mom comes in and asks how I'm feeling. As good as I can be I guess. I just got my wisdom teeth taken out.

"Phone?" I ask my mom. She gives it to me.

GRAYSON

Grayson: how are you feeling?

Me: drugged asf brotha

Grayson: haha send a pic

Me: neva eva

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The rest of the day drags by slowly. As the drugs wear off my pain increases.

I spend my day resting with the occasional text from Brynn, Eva, and Maya to pass the time.

Grayson called me on his way home from work as he has done on multiple occasions since the day he picked me the daffodil. I ended up sending him a picture of my "chipmunk cheeks" as he calls them. He didn't get it tax free though, I made sure he sent me one of him from post surgery. A fair trade.

The next day I get a call from Grayson asking how I'm feeling. I take him up on his offer to come hang out for awhile.

He arrives around noon. We put a movie on and end up falling asleep.

I wake up to his head on my chest and arm draped over my stomach. It's a comfortable weight, and although there are no blankets on us I am not too cold.

I shuffle around lightly to grab my phone, this wakes him. He smiles up at me.

"Good morning," I smile down at him.

He asks me how I'm feeling, to which I respond that I'll have to take my meds shortly.

We lay like that for another few minutes before he flips so his head is now using my stomach as a pillow. I play with his hair while we watch what he scrolls through on his Instagram reels.

We get takeout for a late lunch, he drives and once again refuses to accept any form of payment.

After lunch we restart the movie we fell asleep to, actually watching it this time. He sits in the corner of my bed and lets me snuggle into him for the while duration of the movie.

As he puts his shoes on to leave he makes a comment about how he came over and all we did was nap. I let him know that he was more than welcome any time even if all we do is just nap.

I note that he spent one of his two days off this week caring for me. Not only that, but he wanted to. I didn't ask, he offered.

It's day two post surgery and I'm really feeling the pain today, but that won't stop me from tonight's plans.

Brynn is on her way over so we can run to Walmart in preparation for Jaxon and Grayson to come to my house tonight. What they don't know, is that we're planning a spa night.

Way too much money spent at Walmart later... on our way back to my house we ask the boys what they want to eat from a local restaurant.

The boys inform us they're on the way. Brynn and I scramble to pick up dinner and set up our activities.

Jaxon arrives first, and Grayson shortly after. We let them know we have a treat for them, but first they have to change into their matching outfits.

The four of us now sit at the dining room table, all wearing grey sweatpants and a black t shirt. How we convinced them to do this? We have no clue.

We make our way back to my room. Brynn and I have the guys sit on the bed as we each pull out a bag of tricks.

They try to refuse spa night, but not hard enough. Before we both know it, they've got a fluffy headband holding back their hair, a face mask, and a lip mask on.

Brynn and I bring out the newly bought mineral rollers we used spa night as an excuse to get. We roll their faces for the remainder 5 minutes of the recommended 15 that the mask is supposed to stay on for. Then, we take their masks off and massage their faces until all the serum is absorbed.

The final trick up our sleeve, plucking their eyebrows. It was borderline physical to get them to finally agree to it. Brynn and I succeeded nonetheless.

"Now do we get to do this to you?" Grayson pokes.

"If you buy the products, then yes." Brynn says slyly.

The boys roll their eyes and we chuckle.

Brynn and I clean up our mess while we have the guys run to the kitchen for our snacks and drinks.

We all settle down and snuggle before deciding on the movie Tag.

The night is over too soon as the guys head home due to them having early starts to their day tomorrow.

As we say our final goodbyes and I shut the door, Brynn practically jumps at me as I turn to face her.

"Kie! Your eyes quite literally sparkled as you looked up at him while he pulled you up from the bed!" Brynn gushes. She rarely ever gushes.

"Are you serious?" My hand flies up to cover my humongous smile, but you can tell by my eyes that a very large smile is present underneath.

There's just something different about Grayson and the way I feel for him. I don't get butterflies like I used to with all of my previous crushes. No, instead I feel an instant calming sensation when he's around.

I never have an urge to check the time when I'm with him, it just floats by at a steady pace - never too slow, only too fast when I see how much time has truly passed.

It feels like I've known him forever, I only hope that I can get to know him for a true eternity.