Forever Yours (More Than A Feeling|Sequel)

Fifteen: Aubree Comes Home

Elise and I just stared back at Grace, who looked quite shocked. For once she wasn't smirking at us, like I'd caught her doing often in the past few days. My heart was pounding hard against my chest with panic, my arms still wrapped around Elise's waist. Her arms were still around my neck and she swallowed hard as she waited for Grace to do something, probably most likely run back and tell the others what she just saw. 

Then Grace started looking a little excited, and she asked me, "So you dumped the she-male!?"

I looked down at Elise and raised an eyebrow. "...She-male...?"

"She means Aubree." She answered quietly.

I nodded. "Ah." Grace stood there, waiting for an answer still, so I looked at her and said awkwardly, "Uhh, well.... not yet?" 

Grace gasped. "Jimmy! I am shocked. You're cheating!" I bit my lip, and then Grace added, "And I love it, especially the fact of who you're cheating on her with!" Grace narrowed her eyes at Elise, who refused to meet her gaze as she blushed deeply. "Wait." She said suddenly, looking between us. "What do you mean by, 'not yet'?" 

I let Elise answer that one. "Look, I'll explain more later, but the short story is that we decided to get back together without anybody knowing until he could find find out what Aubree really wants and then call it off. Then, when everything's said and done, we were going to tell the rest of you." She explained to Grace quickly. This is why I let her explain everything because somehow I'd find a way to screw it up. 

"And you didn't come tell me anyway!?" Grace acted offended.

"Well, no, we couldn't risk it getting back to Aubree in any way. I wouldn't even let her tell Matt." I said.

"Which is why you can't tell anybody, you can't even tell Zee." Elise added, and I nodded in agreement.

Grace sighed. "Oh alright, I won't tell anybody." Both Elise and I let out a breath of relief. "But I expect a good explanation from you later, missy." Grace pointed at Elise, and Elise nodded to tell her that she would.

I looked back at Elise as Grace turned to leave. "That was close." 

"Yeah, a little too close. We're lucky it was Grace and not one of the others." She said. "But you do realize that she'll tease us now, right?"

"Yeah, I know. But, I guess that's what we get." I shrugged. "We should probably get back to the others before any more of them come looking for us and we have more to cover up." Before we started to catch up with Grace, I kissed her once more. 

Elise stopped quickly in the kitchen to grab a Dr. Pepper from Johnny's frigerator so it actually looked like she'd gotten something to drink, and then we walked into the living room right behind Grace. The others looked at us, and Matt raised an eyebrow and demanded,

"Where have you guys been? Did you take a trip to fucking Narnia or something!?" 

"No!!! But that'd be so cool!!" Grace exclaimed, and he rolled his eyes.

"We just all kind of ran into each other as we were coming back." I covered.

"Yeah," Grace started. "Jimmy ran into a wall and I saw him and started laughing, so as Elise was coming back she heard my laughter and came to see what was so funny, and that's when she saw Jimmy on the ground and started laughing with me." 

I shot Grace a look that said, 'Oh, thanks.' and she grinned. "Thanks for not helping me up, guys. That's real nice."

"Hey, you shouldn't run into walls then." Elise told me.

I shrugged, holding out my hands. "I can't help it, I'm just a wall magnet." The others laughed at me, buying that story. Grace gave me a look as if to say, 'That's not the only type of magnet you are'. Elise is right, she's going to tease both of us undercover until we come out with it.