Heart of Glass// Ethan Dolan✅

Chapter 23

"Ethan, please talk to me," I beg him. We sit in World History during a break in class. Our teacher seriously doesn't teach, and normally I would hate her for that, but today I am forever grateful.

Ethan doesn't say a single word to me. Yesterday when he left me on the cliff, I ended up walking home. Even though it took forever, I kind of deserved it. But now, he's not even talking to me. It's just a repeat of the two months all over again.

"Ethan," I beg.

"Mrs. McDaniel, sit down!" my teacher exclaims from her desk.

Oh, I'm sorry to disturb your teaching. Oh wait, you're not doing that so I don't see why it matters anyway. But I do it anyway because my mom would ground me for life if I got a detention.

"Ethan, I'm really sorry," I apologize, hoping that maybe he'll look at me. Eventually, he turns to face me with a sigh, also known as a sound that never brings good news.

"I'm not going to be that guy who waits for you to choose who you want to be with, Cara. I deserve better than that. If you have to make a choice between Grayson and me, please choose him," Ethan begs. "I don't want to be a decision that you have to make."

My heart stings with every word that escapes his mouth.

"What if I want to be with you?" I ask. "What if maybe I actually do care for you?"

"If you cared for me at all, you would've told Grayson about that kiss to begin with," Ethan sighs. "And it's pretty obvious that you haven't, so that tells me that you've already made a decision."

That shuts me up for the rest of the class.

I don't think anyone understands the difficulty of choosing between a set of twins. First of all, they're siblings, so one is going to hate the other in the process. Two, they look exactly the same so that just makes a person's life that much more difficult.

I like Grayson a lot... I really do. But Grayson was my best friend here... my first best friend that lives here. I don't want anything to ruin that. Grayson has been my rock no matter what, and he even helped me when my father wanted to speak with me. He has treated me nothing but nice and we have so much in common. And not only that, but it's also easy with Grayson... isn't that what every girl in the world wants?

Well, those girls haven't met the Ethan Dolan. With Ethan, it's like there's action, almost craziness going on in my life. For a solid month, I thought that he had hated my guts and then he kissed me, and that was the most unexpected thing to happen in my life. He insulted me, hated me, ignored me for a long time... so shouldn't I hate his guts? That's what most people would expect. But most people don't know that I'm the kind of girl that doesn't want easy; I want crazy.

I don't think that I say another word until lunch time. That's just how bad this makes me feel.

"Hey Care, what's up? You look depressed," Grayson comments as I approach the table. Between second hour and now, I've put my hair in the world's messiest bun that I could accomplish, which isn't that hard anyways. It's hard to care when other things are on your mind.

"Absolutely fantastic," I sigh, basically slamming my lunch table on the table. I glance at Ethan and Grayson somehow picks this up.

"Is that what this is about? You two having another one of your arguments?" Grayson asks suspiciously.

Ethan looks up at Grayson, shaking his head. He doesn't even have it in him to fight anymore, and that might be what hurts the most about this.

"You two were doing so good at ignoring each other. What happened?" Aaron asks from the side of the table. "Eh, at least you two are talking. I think."