Don't Listen

Chapter 25- Imperfections

Grayson's Point of View

I came home from dinner with Chloe's parents angry and defeated. Chloe hadn't told me she applied to RISD too. Only one person was going to get in from our area and I was almost positive now it wouldn't be me. I heard my mom knock on my door but I didn't answer. She came in anyway.

"How was dinner?" she asked. "Was the food too fancy for you?"

I didn't answer and her worried increased.

"Grey what happened," she said sitting down next to me on the bed.

"I feel like an idiot," I mumbled.

"Why?" she asked.

"Well first we went to this extremely expensive restaurant and her parents acted like it was nothing," I started to explain. "Then it felt like they were judging me the whole night, and I don't know, Chloe had warned me but I thought it was a good idea to get to know her parents."

My mom said and put her hand on my shoulder. "I'm sorry you felt that way, Grayson, have you talked to Chloe about it?"

"Well she seemed mad at her parents for how the night went, but then her parents let it slip that she applied to RISD too."

My mom was quiet for awhile. "Did you ask her why she didn't tell you?"

"I left," I said simply.

"Grayson," my mom said. "You can't be mad without knowing her side of the story."

"Well I don't care she should've told me she applied." I said roughly.

"But you didn't talk to her about it?"

"No."

"I think you should," she suggested as she tossed me my phone. I glanced at the screen. seven missed calls from Chloe. I sighed and put it down. Chloe kept calling, I put my phone on silent. Eventually, I picked up the home phone and called Gavin. I told him what happened and he listened intently.

"Dude, your mom is right, just talk to her."

"I'm too angry," I said.

"You're mad at her for what? Not telling you? Maybe there is a good reason," he suggested.

"What reason could she possibly have?"

"Maybe you should call her back and ask that. "

I sighed.

"Grayson you expect too much from people," he said finally.

"Chloe isn't perfect, and you want her to be, I think you've been hurt by people so you expect her to never do wrong by you," he explained. "She's human just like you. Humans make mistakes."

I ended the call and went to bed. My phone had forty-five missed calls from Chloe before I went to sleep.

In the morning, I had a hundred and thirteen missed calls and fifty-four texts from Chloe. She had even come by the house this morning but I guarded the door making sure my mom couldn't answer.

"Gray, this is getting real childish," Chloe yelled from outside.

She was probably right, it was childish, but I didn't care, I was hurt and angry. I felt like I had the right to be.

"Gray this seems really petty," Kendall said when I got to school. She and Gavin were walking with me to homeroom.

"You don't get it, she didn't tell me, I would've focused my energy towards other schools if I had known there was no way I was getting in."