Forever Gray

His Other Half

Math went by in the blink of an eye. As me and Grayson are headed to our next class - PE ugh - someone jumps on Grayson and they both end up on the floor.
"Oh my gosh, Grayson, are you ok?!"
"I'm fine." He laughs and helps up the other person.
"E, why did you do that?! You could've hurt someone." He laughs again and turns to the kid that knocked him down, which I realized looks exactly like him.
"Ethan, this is Alyssa, she's gonna come hang out with us after school." He then turns to me.
"Alyssa, this is Ethan, my twin brother and other half." He's smiling and I swear there's a choir singing and bright lights behind him.
Ethan looks at me and smiles a smile that could rival his brothers.
"Hi, you must be new here, if you don't mind me asking, where are you from?" Ethan says.
"Oh hehe, um, I'm from New Mexico, I just moved here." I smile back at him.
"Oh wow, you came from a long ways away didn't you."
"Yeah, I was getting bullied for....something, and my mom and I just figured it was time for a fresh start." I reply.
Grayson interrupts us "You guys we better get to PE before we get marked tardy."
"Oh right, lets go! Man I love PE, we get to play all kinds of sports in that class!" Ethan says.
I laugh at him because he's visibly excited and it's kinda cute, in like a baby brother sorta way.
I'm gonna have to give the teacher my "doctors note" for my "condition", otherwise I won't be able to keep it hidden and I'll end up getting bullied again...
We walk into the gym and Grayson tells me
"We have to go dress out into our PE clothes, that's the girls locker room over there." He points in the opposite direction of where Ethan is walking and turns to jog after him.
I was gonna hand the teacher my note but he already walked off somewhere.
I go into the locker room and sit on the nearest bench and wait until it's time to go back out.
After I finally get to hand the teacher my note I sit down next to Grayson as the teacher announces his plans for us today.
"We are going to go outside, the field is sectioned into four different areas, you can either play flag football, soccer, extreme frisbee, or just play catch with someone. But if anyone gets hurt just tell me and I'll send you with a pass and a partner to the nurse. Everyone ready? Ok let's go, you guys know where the field is!"
I start to get up when Grayson asks "how come you didn't dress out?"
"Oh um, can I tell you another time...I'm not really ready to tell anyone about my past..." I look away and he stops bugging, I watch him walk towards the exit with Ethan, feeling butterflies in my stomach and I wait until they are only a few steps away from the door before I follow after them.
How am I gonna tell them why and how my dad died?! It could ruin whatever chance I have at a fresh start...

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