Heart of Glass// Ethan Dolan✅

Chapter 20

All too soon, the rest of Thanksgiving break goes by way too quickly. In fact, it goes by so quickly, that I didn't even realize that today was Hannah's last day here.

"We have to do something really fun," I tell her, pouting a little.

"Let's go on a date with Aaron and Grayson!" Hannah exclaims. I give her a small smile. She doesn't know what Aaron told me and how bad it has affected me. I never noticed that Grayson and I were basically the same person until he pointed it out.

Now I see more of me in Grayson than I do in myself. That's freaking scary.

"Are you sure? Aaron is going to latch onto you like an eel when he realizes that today is your last day here," I point out and she rolls her eyes.

"Please, the guy hasn't even gotten the guts to ask me out yet," she rolls her eyes.

You would think that a regular teenage boy who likes a girl that likes him back would have asked that girl out the second he realized she felt something for him too. Then again, Aaron isn't exactly a regular teenage boy.

"That's just Aaron," I explain to her. "He's a real goofball but I'm sure that he's planning on doing it today. And if he doesn't him and I are going to have a nice, long conversation about how he's not supposed to mess with my best friend's feelings."

"You're so great, Care Bear," Hannah giggles.

"I know," I say flipping my hair. "But I agree. Let's hang out with them. I really want to go see a movie or something."

"A movie?" Hannah scoffs in disapproval. "That's not something really fun! We just sit there for two hours and stare at a screen without no communication whatsoever. Let's go bowling."

"Bowling?" I laugh. Hannah looks at me seriously. "Okay, since it's your last day here, I guess that you get to choose."

"Good. I was going to argue anyways and you saved me a lot of time," she huffs, relieved.

I jog to my room to grab my phone to call Grayson.

"Hey Gray, do you and Aaron want to come bowling with us? It's Hannah's last day," I remind him. He sighs into the phone.

"I'd love to come bowling with you guys," Grayson admits. "But I have channel stuff that I have to do. I'm sure Aaron would love to come, though."

"Gray..." I go to say. "Hannah would really want you there. She seems to like you and Ethan a lot."

"I seriously can't get out of this for another hour," Grayson sighs. "Hey, Ethan can go, though. Would that be better?"

I curse to myself quietly. "Um..."

"Come on Care. I know that he lashed out on you two months ago, but really, he'll probably only acknowledge Hannah and Aaron," Grayson says. "Please? He really needs it. Something has been bothering him lately."

Oh, I bet something has.

I let out a really large sigh. It would be really rude of me to not let Ethan come just because I don't want to see him. Besides, I need to focus on Hannah, not me, even though Ethan is really hard to ignore.

"Fine, whatever. He can come, but it's just to make Hannah happy," I remind him.

"You know, you're the best, babe?" Gray asks, and it's almost like I can see his smile. This causes me to smile as well and that alone puts me in an instantly better mood.

Hannah walks into the room with two different outfits on hangers, mouthing for me to tell her which one shows her personality more. I roll my eyes. Fashion isn't exactly my thing, but she listens to me anyways.