Grayson Smith | ✔️

Chapter Seven. Secret Places.

Edited

Song for this chapter: A R I Z O N A- Oceans Away.

Wherever we were going, I was totally clueless. Looking out the window all I could see was the darkness with no buildings in sight.

 Maybe he is a serial killer after all... 

To be honest though even if the stars weren't illuminating the sky right now and I could see buildings, I still wouldn't know where we were since I haven't been an hour away from my home county of Santa Barbara before. So it was safe to say I would definitely be surprised when I see where he's taking me.

I remember when I was younger, I always wanted to sneak out in the middle of night and drive to the middle of nowhere and just lay on the roof of a car and stare at the stars and just think about the future. I remember back when I was seven I wanted to be a mermaid, I was always fascinated by their long wavy hair, beautiful voices and rainbow tails.I guess that's one dream of my childhood that won't come true. But just by Grayson bringing me to some secret place in the middle of the night in his Mercedes is already a dream come true.

We had been driving for nearly an hour by the time we made a pit stop at a petrol station, I really could do with some snacks right now. I had five dollars that surprisingly Jackson gave me since he started a new job at target a few days ago, it's about time someone started bringing money into the house.

The petrol station was called 'copperfields', which went with the whole copper theme they had going on, copper petrol pumps, copper signs. Basically any copper decor you could find, they had it. It wasn't a new petrol station, it was sort of run down but that's why I liked it. It had more of a rustic vibe.

After Grayson filled up his car which looked totally out of place here, I mean who would see a Mercedes in a run down petrol station in the middle of nowhere? I followed him inside making him look at me questionably with eyebrows furrowed together.

 ″What?″ I asked lifting up my hands, ″I want snacks″ I shrugged and walked into the shop with Grayson following closely behind.

I went to the wooden shelf where all the chocolate was and picked up a baby ruth, my favourite. I also picked up a Gatorade and a bag of cheese and onion lays. Walking to the till with Grayson following behind me, I put all my stuff on the counter and so did Grayson, just wait your turn kid.

 He only picked up a Gatorade anyways. About to pull out the five dollar bill from my bra I seen a few packets of Twizzlers. I know I said baby ruths are my favourite, but compared to Twizzlers, they were nothing.

So of course I also put a packet of Twizzlers on the counter, again going to take out the five dollar bill from my bra Grayson looked at me weirdly, scrunching up his face. I rolled my eyes at him.

 ″It's not like i'm going to flash anybody″ I huffed, and he shook his head smiling.

″What are you doing though″ He chuckled, still looking at me strangely.

 ″I'm taking out the five dollar bill from my bra″ I told him, the majority of girls would be too embarrassed to say the word bra in front of a guy, but me? I really couldn't care.

He shook his head smiling, and waited for the guy at the cash register to tell us the price of everything, the guy at the till was in his late 50′s early 60′s and looked like he was about to fall asleep any second. 

″26.99″ The old man told us, I handed over my five dollar bill on the counter but Grayson handed it back to me, now I was the one looking at him strangely with my face scrunched up.