September Third //G.D

Twenty two

Arabella
The whole room froze.

Matthew was staring at me expecting me to ignore Grayson and continue walking, but I couldn't.

I couldn't turn my back on him again.
Ethan was staring at me waiting for me to continue walking, but to his surprise and mine, I didn't.

I unhooked my arm from Ethan's and began to run as fast as I could.

Grayson's face was suddenly plastered with a look of relief, as if he was scared I wasn't going to run away with him.

I lifted my dress as running became more difficult.
Matthew was calling my name, but his voice was distant and easy to block out.

My heart was racing as I grabbed Grayson hand.

Grayson was smiling as we ran away from Matthew.
We reached the stairs and I stopped.
"Gray I can't do these stairs with my heels" I said quickly as I tapped him frantically on the shoulder.

"Take your shoes off" he said, a grin plastered on his face.
I swung my heels off and Grayson took them in his hands and threw them to the side as he picked me up and threw me over his shoulder.

I looked up and saw Matthew was running after us. I slapped Grayson's butt as I laughed hysterically
"Hurry" I told him as Matthew got closer to us.

"Arabella I'm going as fast as I can"

Grayson suddenly stopped in front of the garage entrance. He placed me down and grabbed my hand. The gravel was rough on my bare feet, but it wasn't unbearable.

"What are we doing?"
"We're taking a road trip." Grayson said as he hopped into the black jeep Ethan brought had us to the base in.

Grayson got in the driver seat as I got into the passenger seat.

Grayson started the car and began to drive onto the platform.
He put the code in and the platform began to rotate upwards, leaving Matthew very far away from us.

The platform stopped rotating and the Earth was revealed to us.

The desert was empty. I knew there weren't going to be people up here, but it felt odd to not see anyone. At the base there were thousands of people, all crammed together, busy with a specific job that served the base; but up here there wasn't order or chaos.

There was nothing up here other than me and Grayson.

I opened my window allowing the fresh air to hit my face and mess up my perfectly curled hair.

Grayson turned left and began to drive down the path that we used to take to the convince store when we lived up here.
"Where are we going?" I asked him as I took his hand in mine.

"Home" he said as he stroked the top of my hand with his thumb.
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After a while we arrived at the villa. Grayson parked the jeep in the drive way.

I opened my door and spun in my seat. My legs were outside of the car, my feet dangling inches away from the fresh grass.

"Come on" He said as he took my hand in his.

My feet made contact with the grass causing me to giggle. The fine blades of grass tickled my toes as I followed Grayson.

We walked in the house was the same. The sheets sloppy thrown on the couch, the cabinets stuffed with food and Grayson's car keys at the entrance.

Grayson pulled me into a kiss.

The feeling that we once had lingering through my body. I missed this place, I missed the feeling of me and Grayson being truly alone.

Grayson broke the kiss and looked at me for a moment. "I missed you" he said as he continued to kiss me.

I broke away from the kiss and turned my back to Grayson "Can you undo this?" I asked him

Grayson went to the drawers and grabbed a pair of scissors. He cut the material of the dress causing the dress to slip right off my figure.

I was left in my corset and underwear. I ripped the pearl chocker off of my neck and turned back to face Grayson.

He examined my body from my feet to my head.

"Arabella I love you" he said

"I love you too"

This was the first time he said it back to me. Before there was always this painful silence after I told him. He would never say it back to me because I was suppose to marry Matthew and he knew it would be wrong, but now Matthew and everything else that was stopping us was irrelevant and played no factor now.

He leaned in slowly, hesitantly bringing his hand towards my face. His lips made contact with mine. He kissed me softly and gently holding onto to every moment we spent together.

He pulled away and picked me up by the waist breaking the kiss.

I wrapped my legs around his waist and planted my face in the crook of his neck.

He rubbed my back as he held me. I warped my arms around his neck and held him tighter. Something about all of this felt too good, it felt unreal, like reality was going to kick down the door and tear us apart.

"Gray?" I asked
"Yup?"
"Can we just stay like, like this for a while?" I asked, my voice muffled
"Yea" he said as he nodded lightly.

A/N
I do not remember the last time I updated sorry :)
Happy Late DTT
thanks for reading and how many days till your 4OU show if you're going?? (I got 38 days left)