From The Ground Up- Writen By: Aurora Clair

Chapter 22

 Laila looked up at Grayson and Grayson looked over at Ethan. "Wait... w... w... what?" Grayson said in disbelief. "It was me with Elizabeth, not Elijah. I wanted to make it seem like him so Mia would hate him and come cry on my shoulder and she'd know how much I loved her. But now I made a huge mistake." He said wiping his brow. "Well... Do you regret it?" Laila asked. "Well... yes and no because Mia still doesn't like me, but Elizabeth had done that before and I haven't and it feels good to say i'm not a virgin anyone." Ethan said laughing. "But E... what about Grandma and mom and dad, they believe that Sex is for married man and woman. That's what Laila and I believe." Grayson said.

"I don't know, it just feels good to be different you know." Ethan said as he took his last drink of Orange juice and washed off his plate and put it into the sink and washed his hands. Grayson and Laila just kinda pushed it off and Laila asked "So boys, what should we do this weekend?" "Oh I have an idea for today." Grayson said. "What's that?" Ethan asked. "There is this indoor trampoline park called Sky Zone. It's about 2 hours north east. We could drive up there, jump for a good hour. Go look at the beach, go get dinner and picnic on the beach as the sunsets." Grayson said. Ethan's phone started to ring, so he answered. "Hello... Hi! ... good you... sounds great... okay... bye." and he hung up the phone. "Sorry you hopeless romantics but Ciera is coming over in a half hour." Ethan said as he ran upstairs to get dressed.

Grayson and Laila started to get ready for the day. Grayson put in his stupidly cute flamingo ear ring, a red beanie, Red flannel on top of a black t-shirt and black jeans with white shoes. Laila put on a similar outfit, a red long sleeve high low shirt, black leggings with "X" cutouts on each side of the leg and red keds. She straightened her hair while Grayson put gel in his. Laila did her everyday makeup that took about 35 minutes. They both grabbed their wallets and Grayson grabbed the keys and Laila grabbed her purse and they were out the door while Ciera was just walking in running late.

The 2 hour drive to sky zone was spent singing a whole bunch of different songs and holding hands. "Were you in choir?" Grayson asked. "I was and still am, I love singing and acting." Laila answered. "I know you love acting and singing, and i know you're still in theater but I didn't know that you were still big into singing." Grayson added. "Yah well I don't have the best voice so..." and the Grayson cut Laila off with a "You are a beautiful singer and you should be a super star." Laila smiled and they pulled into Skyzone.