Never Expected (a Chandler Riggs/Grayson Riggs fanfic)

2 weeks later

For the full two weeks all I've been doing was working on my story and I must say it is really coming together. Even though it's not finished yet. But when it is finished, and it's been edited and revised, I will be publishing it. I'm only on chapter twenty five, just fifteen more to go and then it'll be complete.
Today I worked on it for maybe three more hours and then I decided to put it down and go hang out with my family.
I left the room and headed downstairs.
Everyone seemed surprised to see since it had been two weeks since I left my room. Mrs. Riggs was the first to speak.
"What have you been up to these past couple of weeks?"
"I've been working on my story." I responded.
"You're writing a story?" Chandler asked.
"Yeah, I just finished chapter twenty seven." I answered.
I turned to Grayson and asked if I could talk to him for a minute.
Grayson got up and approached me. The two of us went into the kitchen.
"What's up?" Grayson wondered. "Wait, I think I know what this is about, it's about last night, isn't it?"
I nodded.
"I have a question for you."
"Shoot."
"How can you forgive me so easily?" I questioned. "And please don't say because we're family or because we're brothers. I want an actual response. Why do you forgive me so easily?"
"I just don't want to hurt you more than you are. Whenever you're apologizing you're crying. I just can't say, 'I don't forgive you.' just like that, that's just mean..."
"But you should. I don't deserve your forgiveness. I never will...Ever since day one..."
"I know what the problem is. You can't forgive yourself. You keep telling yourself that it's your fault, but...it's not. You're to hard on yourself. You got to learn to forgive and to forget."
"If that's all it takes, I'll try to forget that day."
"I have another question that I'm just curious about."
"Shoot."
"What would you have done if that was me getting bullied and you had to wait for the right moment?"
Grayson sighed. He thought for a moment and then gave his reply.
"I would've said yes, just like you. And there's something I have to tell you."
"What is it?"
"I saw my bullies bullying someone, I wasn't sure who, but I just watched and kept out of sight. I wanted to stop it, I really did but my gut was telling me no, even though I knew it was the right thing. I'm sorry. If I would've stopped it...I..."
"You would've killed me. That's what you would've done. I left out some details last night. You see, while I was being bullied Adrien said that if anyone tried to help me, they would have to watch as they slit my throat and stabbed me. They would've also killed the witness."
"So is that why Adrien had that guy cut my throat?"
"Yes. I saw one of them look away just for a split second and then I heard someone take off running."
"You know when I first saw you approach me I was scared shitless. I wasn't sure what you were going to do, but then you helped me up and escorted me home."
"Yeah, I did."
"Plus, you saved my life. I wouldn't be here right now if it wasn't for you."
"Yeah, you're right. Once again you're welcome."
"Thanks."
"No problem."
We then returned to the family. Grayson went to go sit down in his spot and I sat in mine. Just then the family dog jumped up onto me.
"Oh, hiya sparky. How are you?"
Sparky used my body to support himself and gave me multiple kisses. He then started licking my lips, were was kind of making me laugh. I let this go on for ten more seconds before I placed Sparky down in my lap. I wiped my mouth.
Mostly everyone else chuckled.
"So, what would you like to watch?" Mrs. Riggs asked.
"Let Grayson decide this time."
She smiled and nodded. Then she turned to Grayson and didn't have to say anything.
"Let's watch SUPERNATURAL."
"Sounds good to me." I commented. "Even though I am already caught up. But I don't mind watching it from the start again."
Since it was near noon we managed to watch two and a half episodes of the first season before we had to stop to start making lunch.
We didn't have anything special, all we had was two grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. At least we didn't have to wait that long for our lunch, it only took like twenty, maybe twenty five minutes.
We didn't watch supernatural for the whole day, only until two o'clock, Grayson, Chandler, Hana, and I left the house and walked to the park. As soon as we arrived Hana started shouting.
"LAST ONE ON THE BRIDGE IS IT FOR GROUNDERS!"
We all started racing, we didn't even matter if we pushed or tripped each other person. I tripped Hana and tried racing off but she pulled me down, got up and avoided me. I got up and started sprinting. Once I got to the structure I pulled Grayson off if the chain steps and just ran up them with no hands. After that I just walked to the bridge, it was just between me and Grayson. Grayson got up and ran up the steps just as I did and managed to get on the bridge before me, even though I was just one step away.
As I was sliding down to the ground everyone started singing.
"Daniel's it, take a fit, now he has to babysit."
"Ahh, the memories that little sing song brings back." I told myself and smiled.
I counted up to 14 since that's how old I was.
"Mind if we join?" A familiar voice asked.
"Sure, but you're it Adrien."
"The hell I am!"
"That's the rule. New comers are always it. Play by the rules or not at all."
"Fine. I'll be it. But why not make this more interesting. Why not everybody have their eyes closed? But they have to find a hiding spot like that and stay there. They also can't open their eyes until someone is tagged." Adrien explained.
"Sure, we could give it a try." I commented.
"Good. Now before the rest of you close your eyes, me and my friends here will be discussing about the order we go in to be it." Adrien announced.
Adrien's pals gathered around him and huddled.
"Everyone remember the plan?"
"Yes sir."
"Good. Remember Grab Grayson and his little saviour and place them in the trunk of my car."
It took a little while for them to get ready, but that didn't bother us.
"Ok everyone, once on the structure close your eyes."
Once all sixteen people were on the structure they closed their eyes, but while the others kept their eyes closed. Adrien and his goonies opened their eyes and followed their orders, but to keep us from screaming they covered our mouths and held their hand their pretty tightly. Once we were off the structure Adrien led Marcus and Dryden to his car. Adrien popped the trunk and then they placed us in there. Both Grayson and I were punched pretty hard. It was hard enough to knock us out for a whole.

10 minutes later...
Grayson and I had just woken up and we were still driving. I took out my phone and turned on the flash light so I could see Grayson.
"What do you think they'll do to us?"
"I'm saying nothing." I stated.
"But if you were to guess what would you say?"
"Grayson, if I had to guess I would say that they're going to kill us....but, they might just start with me and then they'll wait awhile and kill you next."
"I do suppose you are right. They did nearly kill me after all."
"I don't want to die, Daniel."
"Neither do I, but the only way to prevent that is if we can find a handle in here for the truck if not we'll have to kick out a tail light and hope somebody will see us and help us that plan would be useless we had something to signal the other drivers with. Our hands won't work. We need something like paint...white paint."
I shun the flashlight all around the trunk and it was empty besides Grayson and I.
"Grayson, I hate to say it but...we're out of luck. We can't escape. It was nice knowing you. I'll always treasure our memories together, even the ones with the whole family."
"We can make it. We will survive. I'm not giving up hope. I know we can make it if we work together."
"There's two of us and thirteen of them. We can't take them all. We're as good as dead."
"I can't believe that I'm going to die without my first kiss."
"Me too. That kiss with Hana was just a dare so it didn't count."
"Maybe we could..." Grayson suggested.
"Just this once and then we'll never speak of it again."
Grayson and I kissed for twenty seconds and I must say he had pretty soft lips. Thank god this was a one time thing though.