Cliché// Ethan Dolan

Chapter 4

     "So, class. I need two chapters read for tonight, and don't forget to actually read and not just spark note it!" Ms. Haley crossed her arms and waved us off. I loved English, I don't know why. It's just a piece of me. I gathered my things as the bell rang, grabbing my backpack off the floor.

    "So, how do you like Hollis?" I heard Maya ask. I could tell she had a little thing for Grayson. When she finds a guy attractive, she keeps asking questions. When she likes someone, she'll find any way to talk to them.

   "It's nice. Really cool people and cool teachers." Grayson stated. I turned to see Grayson and Maya just talking back and forth like they've known each other forever.

   "Rowan, I was thinking we should like read together tonight." Callie said.

   "All you want me to do is read out loud for you, so that you don't have to spend money on audible.com." I rolled my eyes, walking to the locker rooms.

   "It's so expensive! Please!" She whined, I swear she's too lazy.

  "No, do you work for once!" I laughed as she put a pouty face.

   "Can we read together?" Ethan asked, finally speaking up from the side of me.

   "Who are you again?" I squinted my eyes at him. He simply laughed and winked. We walked in a bit of silence to the locker rooms with Grayson and Maya's laughter filling it. Soon enough, we reached the locker rooms and I began to go walk in the girls'.

"Hey, so are we reading tonight?" Ethan pulled me aside. He had his hand wrapped around my bicep and pulled me close. It was more a whisper than actually talking. His warm breath hitting my ear.

"I guess so, bitch." I wiggled out of hold, a small smile played on my lips.
"I'm not a bitch!" He yelled, with a slight laugh. I ignored him and walked in the room. I went to my locker, where Maya was already present at the one next to mine.

"So Grayson??" I wiggled my eyebrows at her, putting in my combination. She already had her locker open and grabbed her leggings.

"Shut up!" She whacked me with her leggings and a slight blush racked her cheeks. "It's nothing. We're friends."

"Yeah, nothing. Mm, sure. Well he's coming over soo..." I smirked. I saw her smile widen. "Actually, I assume he is because Ethan's coming." The smile immediately turned into a smirk. Oh, great.

   "Oh, Ethan!" She wiggled her eyebrows and crossed her arms. I changed into my leggings and put a hoodie over my shirt.

   "Not like that, still annoyed with him but kinda just letting it go. You know, new kid probably just wants to be liked. I think we've all been there." I put on my sandals, grabbed my jazz shoes, and we left the locker room. We headed to the dance room, which was right next to the locker room.

   As we got inside, I took off my sandals and got on the dance floor. We usually stretch by ourselves as our teacher plays music. Maya was still a bit new to dance but I got her into advanced dance. She fit right in, though she's still not used to all the stretches but I explained to her, she doesn't have to all the ones I do since they're a huge mixture of ballet, jazz, and regular stretches.

   I went to the bar to stretch my left leg. My left leg is literally the least flexible and I hate it. I have to work twice as hard on it.

    I was stretching into the bar, when my teacher called us to center to go over the dance. The song we were doing was WILD by Troye Sivan. I loved Troye Sivan so much. His music is just amazing.

    The dance started with two main people. Me and a girl named Christina. We had to do three pirouettes and a kick, which we held until the rest of the group came on. I put on my jazz shoes as I've always been scared that I was going to burn my feet with turns. I don't know, I'm weird.

   After Christina put hers on, we began. We ran through the dance seven times and then worked on our second dance we were doing for recital.

Practice always feels fast but in reality it's 2-3 hours. Anyways, we finished at 5:30 and I grabbed my stuff from my locker. I was a sweaty mess, my hair in a messy not cute bun, capris leggings, and Nike sweater.

I waited outside for Maya, as she actually wanted to change back to her clothes. I saw that football practice had just ended, and the boys were getting out of the locker room.

"Hello." A voice whispered into my ear. I jumped a bit, but soon realized it was only Ethan.

"Don't do that again. I almost punched you." I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms. He moved to the side of me.

"Sorry, babe. So, am I showering at yours?" He winked at me. Disgusting.

"Um, no. We're barely friends, go shower at yours. I'll just text my favorite Dolan, Grayson, my address." I smirked and walked away. Maya and Grayson were walking together to us, but I met them in the middle.

"Let's go, hoe. I'll see you at mine, Gray?" I used a nickname as if we'd been friends forever. He nodded and we walked to my car. Maya was too scared to start driving by herself, which is fine because I get scared driving home at night.

We reached my car, and once onside I immediately grabbed my auxiliary cord. We usually always fight for it.
I stuck my tongue out at her as she frowned. I played Alessia Cara's album Know It All.

"Mayson!! That's your guys' ship name!!" I jumped a little from my seat, smacking the steering wheel.

"Bitch, don't scare me like that!" She had put her knees up to her chest and she had her arms spread out. I started laughing as we neared my house.

"I'm just saying." I parked in my garage and texted Grayson my address. We headed into my house, dropping our bags at the kitchen table.

"Imma shower! Grayson said they're coming in 20 minutes, so you have time to get ready for himmmm." I said in a sing song voice. I heard her groan and started running upstairs.

   I grabbed my maroon Brandy flowy shorts and my "I grew here, you flew here" black tee. I went to my drawers and grabbed my undergarments and a pair of black fuzzy socks.

  I headed to my bathroom, making sure my towels were behind my bathroom door, before starting to shower. I did my regular routine and instead of blow drying my hair after I was done, I decided to put it up in a bun.

    "GRAYSON, I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR YOU FLIRT WITH MAYA. WHERE IS ROWWY?!" I heard Ethan yell. I grabbed my book and went downstairs.

  "Rowwy?" I chuckled, putting a hand on my hip. He smiled and ran to me. He went behind me and hugged me.

"Oh, thank goodness. Let's go somewhere. Please. Just us. I can feel the sexual tension in this room." I turned to my head to see his face. His eyes were closed and he still had his smile. He started swaying us. I felt my stomach get a weird feeling- no. Nope. Not gonna happen.

  "Me too. Let's go to the movie room." I twirled around and grabbed one of his large hands off my waist. I started pulling him toward the room, which was downstairs. I saw Grayson and Maya very close together on the couch sharing a boom because Grayson "forgot" his book.

   "THERE IS NO SEXUAL TENSION!" Maya screamed. We just laughed and me & Ethan finally made it to the room.  Even though we all met just today, we all already feel comfortable with one another.

  The night just consisted of me and Ethan reading, gasping at the 'Did that just happen' parts, and joking around with each other. And Maya and Grayson? Well they kept getting closer every time we went to get snacks. The boys left at 10:30, my dad came home at 11:00, and Maya and I fell asleep at 1:00 just talking.

A/N HII! Okay I've been really busy this week bc birthday ( I was born a day after Ethan and Grayson ☺️☺️) and I had my party thing yesterday, but yeah it was fun! I hope this chapter was good, it was kinda messy but yeah okay bye (: