Destiny

Catching Up

Gabi's pov

"Grayson?, wh-what are you doing here?"

He faced me and stood up, "Gabi?"

"What are you doing here?", we said in sync.

"Okay, you first", again we said in sync.

We talked for a bit. We had a chance to catch up a bit. It's just been so long...

Grayson and I laughed and chuckled for a bit. I realized, I still didn't have a problem talking to him. He stood up from sitting on the floor and walked over to the edge of the balcony. He gestured for me to come towards him, "Come here, I wanna show you something"

I walked over to him, and he sat on the edge. I felt uneasy, the building was very high, and I kind of didn't want to die, "Grayson, are you crazy?"

"Come on, its okay, I got you", he said as he held out his hand. I slowly walked over to him held it. I sat down next to him. We were so high, but Grayson held my hand tighter, "Look", he said. It was almost morning and I could see the sun coming up.

"Wow, it's..it's beautiful..", I said not taking my eyes off it.

I still wondered why Grayson was here, "Hey, um, what are you doing here anyway?", I asked him.

"I sometimes go here to watch the sun come up...and also it's like a getaway from reality for me.....how about you? Why you here so late?"

I looked down at my hands, "Well believe it or not, this is where I escape too sometimes, to think about things, relax, calm myself down.."

"What things do you think about?", he asked.

I remembered why I came here and what happened. Tears started running down my cheeks and I looked away to wipe them away. Then I felt Grayson's hand turn my chin so I could face him and felt his soft thumbs wipe away my tears.

Grayson's pov

I rubbed her tears away. I didn't know why she was crying. I wanted to find out.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

She sniffled and cleared her throat, "It's nothing..."

"Gabi, I know you when something is wrong, just tell me."

She looked into my eyes and then looked down at her hands, "Um, well..it was Elijah...he..he almost..um...".

She started to cry again. I helped her off the edge of the balcony and we stood up. I hugged her, both arms wrapped around her. I held her tight and she continued crying. Her tears started to go away. She started to speak again, her head still resting in my chest.

"He..he tried to ra-rape me"

I let her go and clenched my fists, "What?..."

"Well, he prepared a dinner because I got promoted today, so we celebrated, and he gave me this huge surprise thing, and he ended up just wanting to have sex tonight, but I wasn't ready, I didn't want to do it....but he still tried to.."

She looked down at her feet in shame and embarrassment. I lifted up her chin.

"Gabi, that's not right, why is he hurting you like that?!", I started to get red with anger and rub my fists.

"Grayson, it's okay, he didn't intend to hurt me, it was just an acci-"

"NO GABI! He can't just get away with it like that! God! I'm going to.....you should stay away from that guy!"

"Grayson! He's my fiancé, I still love him, and I can't just leave him."

"After what he did to you, you're still going to go back?!!"

"Grayson, he's my soon to be husband!". I almost threw up to the thought of it. I scoffed and was so annoyed. She still wants to go to him.

"BUT GABI I.....I don't want you with him anymore!!"

"Why do you care Gray?! It's my problem, I can deal with it myself!"

I couldn't say anything
Not yet
It wasn't right
Not the right time
I couldn't tell her that I still had little feelings for her...not right now.

I walked over to her, face to face.

"Look, it's just that..I..I don't want you to get hurt...I'm still your friend, I don't want anything bad happening to you.."

She looked into my eyes, her eyes shined so big & bright, it was beautiful.

A tear ran down her face, "Thanks Grayson, you know, you're still a cheesy dude."

We laughed and our faces were still inches away from each other. I just wanted to stay there all day, looking at her pretty face. I missed her. I missed seeing her everyday.

She backed away a little and cleared her throat, "Um, I think I should..um..I'll just go ahead now, see you around Grayson..."

"Bye...Gabi"

I couldn't stop
I just felt so protective of her
I couldn't help it
I didn't want her to hurt
She still mattered to me
Is this the right thing to do?
I can't explain it
But I wanted to make sure she was safe and happy
But if Elijah is going to cause problems
Then I'll deal with him myself...