Chasing Elliot Grace

No. 3: Spying is another form of lying

Graces POV
"Lauren!" I said into the phone happily. "Hey sexy." She replied using her nickname for me. "Has Casper picked you up yet from the airport?" I asked knowing by he call that she was off the plane. "Yes we have!" Casper and Joe yelled into the phone with their British voices. "Joseph, Casper, I think you busted my eardrum. How are you lads?" I scold. "I'm brilliant, and Casper here is still funny looking so I'm guessing he's okay too." Joe said and I could here the slap Casper did to him. "Am not you jerk! I'm amazing now that Lauren is here and not funny looking Joe! How are you Elliot?" He asked into the phone. "I'm okay, um hey Lauren?" I said needing to talk to my best friend. "Yes dahling?" She says in he terrible British impression. "Later, when your alone, I need to talk to you okay?" I said quietly not on speaker anymore. "Of course, Grace is everything okay?" She asked concerned. "Yes, actually no." I said my voice cracking. "Hang on, Elli, I'm alone now, what's wrong?" A single tear came down my cheek. Get it together Elliot come on. "They're here Laur, they're here." I said as more tears slowly came down my face. By now I was in my room sitting in the floor with my back to the door and my knees drawn to my chest. "Who's there? Elliot you're not making sense." She said. "Matt! Okay Matt, Nash, Johnson, Gilinsky, Cameron, a-and Hayes. Lauren I don't know if I can do this, when I'm around them I get so angry and want to scream at them. But when I'm alone all I want to do is cry, it hurts so m-much!" By now I was full on sobbing again, my emotions flooding back to the surface. Lauren is quiet for a few seconds and then begins again. "Okay Elliot, this is what you're going to do, you're not going to let them effect you, you're going to continue to act like you have been because you can. And your going to get through this because you are the strongest, most badass girl I know!" I give a small laugh at Laurens last sentence. "Thanks Lauren, your a great friend." I said drying the tears from my eyes. "Yeah I know now get off the phone with me and go be yourself, they don't know its you so act however you want! You are not that girl anymore!" She said. "Okay, I love you Laur." "I love you too,bye." With that the receiver went dead and I turned my Spotify playlist on playing it very loudly not caring about the people around me. I began to get ready, picking to go with a dressier outfit, which for me just consists of a skater skirt and sleeveless top. I pick my Alice top and pair it with my pink skirt and cashire cat knee leggings. I take a shower after that and begin to do my hair in a bun.  I begin my make up as one of Jack and Jacks new songs, California, began to play I started dancing and rapping along with Johnson as I did my mascara. Mid song I'm interrupted by laughs of my two best friends. "And that everyone is Elliot Dancing and Rapping." It was then I noticed that Jenn had been recording the entire time. "Jenn I'm going to kill you!" I screamed tackling her and attempting to take her phone. However I fail horribly, finding myself face in the floor. "No fair! You're taller than me!" I whine. "Sorry can't help your shortness." Jenn replied with a laugh. "How rude." I bickered. "Jerrel, Grace, we get it you've been married 50 years, but for the love of Justin Bieber, please stop bickering!" Andrea yelled cutting us off. I will say it wasn't the first time we have been called our elderly names. Andrea first came up with them six months ago when we were in London, Jenn and I always bicker like a elderly couple so Andrea decided to take it to another level. And thus Jerrel and Gracie were born. Jenn and I looked at each other smirking and then jumped up. Andrea lounged on the bed texting, I put my hand up in a countdown. 1, 2, 3! We both jumped on top of Andrea making a dog pile on top of her and she screamed from us scaring her. "Get the hell off of me!" She yelled slapping me in the back as Jenn and I laughed. "Who's bickering now?!" Jenn yelled back with a smirk in her voice. "Jenna, Elliot, if you don't get the hell of me right now I'm going to murder you in your sleep, don't think I'm joking!" She yelled again and started to push us. I felt Jenn fall from on top of me and then it was only me. "Elliot, I'm not going to say it again!" We heard the door open however ignored it since they were quiet. "You won't kill me you LOVE me too much!" I said now leaning to look at her. "Your right that's why I'm saying I love you when I do this." And with that I was flying to the floor. I crashed into the carpet nose first my head now hurting. "Really Andrea?" I mumbled. "Hey not my fault I told you to get off." She said smirking now back on her phone texting Kian. "Jenn! Andrea loves Kian more than us!" I fake cried sensing her standing at the front of the room. I sat up however to find 5 boys and 3 girls including Jenn standing in front of me. "What the hell? Jenn? What are the boys doing in here?" That brought Andrea out of her texting Kian induced coma and now she was sitting up as well. "I honestly don't know, I opened the door and they all came in. What are you boys doing in here? Leioni, Kayla, your welcome anytime but not them." She said the angered glance back in her eyes. "We were just coming to say its time for dinner, okay?" Hayes said with hurt in his voice. "Oh okay, we'll be down shortly." I said at least trying to be a little nice no matter how much they hurt me. "Cool. See ya." They left then and I turned to Jenn and Andrea. They looked at me confused. "I know that was weird, yes I didn't have some sarcastic comment. Look, I talked to Lauren, and she made a point, they don't know it's me, so I can act however I want. And do I hate them? I hate them, I do, but then again I don't. I need to figure all this out." They hugged me again and then each got their makeup done, since they didn't get their hair wet at the pool they didn't get in the shower. After that we were out the door and into the elevator again.
Johnsons POV😉
As this Elliot girl left the pool I had an off feeling about her, like I knew something about her it was just on the end of my tongue. I wanted to figure it out so I followed her, no, I'm not a stalker, I just feel like I know this girl from somewhere. I'm sure it was her eyes, they remind me of a girl I used to know, a girl that was always there that vanished. Grace Espinosa. That's not possible though, she's off at a boarding school in England. At least that's what her mom told us. Matt was crushed, he stopped eating for awhile and tuned everyone out, he blamed himself for her leaving, which I had to agree, it was. I don't think he's been the same since. Grace was a part of him, she brought out the best in him, and when she was gone its like he lost a part of himself. Hayes was next, he went numb, tuned everyone and everything out, just didn't care about anything anymore. He finally started to shake out of it in a few months, when we started to tour again, the fans started to bring him back. But like Matt he still is not the same. Grace was everything to him and it was like a punch in the heart when she left. Matt and Hayes have both slowly started to recover, Matt when he found Leioni, and Hayes, well he still has a ways to go, he's still missing the thing that took up most of his heart. Grace. I followed this girl I don't even know up to our floor, and listened. She was on the phone and finding that she went into her room I went into mine next to it. I could hear bits and pieces of what she was saying as she started to cry. "They're here!" She cried out and then was silent for a few moments. She then named off our names confusing me. Her voice got low after that for a few seconds but returned again. "It hurts so much!" She cried and I was confused again. I stayed there for a few more minutes while I couldn't here anything, water started running signaling her showering so I went ahead and got in mine. 5 minutes later I was out and ready to go. As I styled my hair, music started playing that I recognized my voice immediately, and another's that appeared to be hers. Weird, I don't get this girl, what did we do to her? Who even is she? She hates us one minute and the other she rapping along to California. I'm going to solve this. Gilinsky, who returned 10 minutes ago, yelled for me it was time to leave so we exited the room to find everyone but the girls next room over standing. "Ready?" Matt asked looking to me. I nodded as he finished and then knocked on the girls door as it opened I came in without waiting as did the others. We all remained silent at the sight in front of us. It seemed that Elliot was dog plied on top of Andrea who was screaming for her to get off. After about a minute of them arguing Elliot was pushed of the bed Andrea who went back to texting who turned out to be Kian. "What the hell? Jenn? What are the boys doing in here?" Elliot said as she saw our appearance. Jenn didn't take up for us at all which pretty much threw under the damn bus. Hayes was quick with a response though, I could tell the attitudes of Jenn and especially Elliot were starting to piss him off. "We were just coming to say its time for dinner okay?" He snapped clearly annoyed. I think Elliot surprised us all with her non sarcastic response leaving most of us speechless. We left for the lobby after this, most of us lounging on the couches, or if your Cash, making vines of random things.
Graces POV:
We exited out of the elevator laughing at Jenn's clumsiness, I don't get how you can fall over flat surfaces. Stares were thrown our way as we came farther into the lobby and our laughter died down. The boys, Kayla, and Leioni, were all sitting down on the couches in the foyer area beside the two idiots that go by the names of Cameron and Nash, who were making some kind of vine. Matt, seeing us now downstairs gets everyone's attention and we start for the limos. Arriving at the Mexican restaurant we are seated separately, the boys and their girlfriends at one table on one side of the room and me, Jenn and Andrea on the other. "Well this worked out perfectly! I don't even have to talk to them." I said sitting. "Jenn, did you ever hear from Lauren?" Andrea asked looking at her menu. "No I texted her she said she'd call us later." Jenn sighed flipping through the pages of her menu. I already had found what I wanted so I began to call the person that I've need to talk to all day long. Spencer Wood, still my best friend over everyone.
Call to Spencer launched at 7:24 PM
Spencer: Hello?
Me: Spence?
Spencer: Hey sweet thang.
Me: Hey. Um I need to tell you something, you and Blake and everyone, are here too right?
Spencer: Yeah, so?
Me: I need you to come meet me somewhere tonight alone, some stuff happened and I really need to talk to you.
Spencer: I need to talk to you as well, Starbuck on 28th street at 9:00?
Me: Perfect I'll see you then. Love you!
Spencer: Love you too!
I ended the call and looked at Jenn and Andrea. "Okay I'm going to go out for a few hours later to meet up with Spencer, is that okay with you girls?" I asked. They nodded in reply agreeing. I look over at the other table and realize that they were all looking to our table. But not at us, they were looking a Johnson, who was walking from our direction.
Johnsons POV:
I came back to the table with a plan. I will figure this girl out. "Okay, Johnson can I talk to you for a second outside please?" Hayes asked. "Sure man." Hayes started to head outside me following. We made our way to the bench outside and Hayes started talking. "Man what even?" He asked annoyed. "What are you talking about?" I responded confused. "You following Elliot around! Don't think I haven't noticed, its creepy man!" I then got it. "Look dude,  I feel like there is something off about Elliot. I'm trying to figure it out." I defended and Hayes face didn't change. "Just remember, spying is another form of lying Johnson."
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Hello its meh! Notice I've changed roles around some since the last chapter, Kami is now Kayla also known as Grier_Babee (go give her a follow😉) and longer chapter wooooo! Anyways see you later, bye beautiful people!
-Taylor💋