cuffed • g.d

35.

My head began to throb from crying so much, I sucked up my tears and Grayson helped me off the ground, my eyes were filled with water so the world around me looked like colorful blurs. "Don't listen to him. ever!" I heard Graysons voice sat next to me. I nod and agree, I tried to walk but my legs went numb but gray held me up with no trouble. Just as we were about to walk out we hear dad mutter under his fading breath, "pathetic." he turns his head and spits towards us before laying back down.

Grayson, in a terrible rage, sets me down and attacks my father, punching his sides. I tried to yell and tell him to stop but my throat was so dry everything I said was faint. Struggling, my dad still managed to fight back while trying to reach for some sort of button that was flashing red. Once he got ahold he held it down and in a couple seconds nurses were running to his room. It took 2 nurses to pull Grayson off dad and drag him out the room. The female nurse stopped to help me off the ground, as we headed out the door I waned to look back at him but the thought of looking at him again made my heart stop and my head ache so I shook it off and kept walking.

The other nurse who had took Grayson off my dad had called security and they were escorting all of us out, Lani was no where to be found I tried to yell for her but I couldn't, I wasn't even going to try anyway I already had an idea of where she was and what she was doing. She is never there when I need her the most, none of my family is. The only person who could made it worth living was Grayson. We get tossed out of the hospital and we stand there on the curb waiting for Lani to finish her "business" with Zach to take us home. I was breathing shakily through my mouth with dried tear stains on my red cheeks staring out into the street. Grayson was pacing back and forth trying to control himself and after moments of silence between us I finally spoke.

"t-th.." I swallowed hard trying to moisten my throat, Grayson stopped pacing and sat by me and grabbed my hand in an instant, "what?" He asked soft. "thank you." I sniffle. He nods, "Of course T, no one should talk to you like you're nothing especially not your own father. I was just doing what was rig-"
"Not just for that gray." I stop his sentence quick and continue, "but for literally everything, it seems like in every situation you end up saving my life. And I can't thank you enough." I say seriously. He puts my hand to his cheek and smiles and closes his eyes. "You're worth saving." He whispers. I smile at him and lay my head on his shoulder and he lays his on my head. We sit on the dirty curb for another 10 minutes before we just decide to leave.

"Let's just go, I can't wait for her anymore! I don't want to be here." I snap. Grayson sighs and nods his head in agreement. He jumps up and holds his hands out to help me up. We clasp hands intertwining our fingers and we walked down a path not knowing exactly where it was going but anywhere but here was perfect. Grayson's leg started vibrating, he scoffs and grabs his phone that was in his back pocket: 'Aaron 😈', it had read across the screen.
'Me and Lucas gave up on finding Jake and we're headed back to Junos but we might stop to get some food at Ricos. Y'all coming?'
Grayson looked up and showed me the message and shrugged his shoulders, "you wanna grab something to eat with Aaron?" He questions in a light tone.

I really just want to go home and rest but I know Grayson wanted to go out and maybe seeing Aaron and chilling for a little might ease my mind after everything that just happened. "I'm down." I say weakly. I fake a smile and continue to walk. Gray smiled big "sweet" he says happy under his breath. I smirk at his peppy remark and once he was done texting Aaron back he grabbed my hand and started to sway it back and forth. We walked for miles until we were close to Ricos, we took a stop at Grizo Park to sit down and relax our legs from walking so much. I sat on the bench and stretched.
"I'll call Aaron and see if he saved us a spot." Gray tells me as he takes his phone out his pocket and starts pacing up and down the sidewalk. I nod and continue to stretch as I see a shadow underneath the slide, a shadow that was way to familiar to my comfort. I perk up and call for Grayson who possibly didn't hear me because he was on the phone.

I stand up and inch towards the figure and suddenly it moves to the light.
"surprise.." Jake says quietly. He begins to laugh maniacally, I yell for Grayson who looked up instantly when he heard me and once he saw Jake a bolted towards him. Grayson grabbed Jake by the shirt and banged him against the slide causing the whole jungle gym to shake, "what do you want?" Grayson said through gritted teeth. Jake just giggled. "relaaaaaaax." Jake says chill taking Grayson's hands off his shirt and wiping away the wrinkles, "it's not me you have to worry about, I just came to warn you. Something is gonna happen and someone is gonna get killed."