Chapter 1: Stumbling

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I was walking down the street. My mom asked me to buy some pasta for dinner. I didn't mind because the store is not that far away from our house. I had my headphones in, blasting the Dolan twins diss track "Roasting ourselves". Of course I knew every word. Knotting my head and softly rapping along I crossed the street. I went into the store. I already knew where the pasta was so I walked straight to that aisle. Biting my bottom lip I looked up and down the aisle trying to find the brand my mom always wanted. The diss track had ended so I took out my headphones. As soon as I did that, I heard two voices. The voices immediately triggered something deep within me, I recognized them.
"No E, you can't tweet that. Give me my phone back you ass clown!"
I froze, goosebumps appeared on my arms.
"I'm gonna hit 'tweet'!" "Ethan! Stop!"
I put down my bag and walked up to the corner of the aisle so I could peep over to the next one. Could it be possible that the Dolan twins were here?
Then I saw them, Ethan laughing and holding up Grayson's phone, and Grayson, trying to reach for it "Ethan, did you actually tweet that? You piece of shit!"
Oh my god, oh my fucking god. I waited a couple seconds to gather some courage, I took a deep breath and stepped towards them "hey uhm, would it be-" but I was cut off, Grayson had jumped on Ethan's back and the unprepared Ethan had stumbled backwards. Their bodies slammed into me and all three of us fell on the ground. The ground was cold, Ethan laid on his back right on top of me and Grayson's face was hanging barely two inches from mine, I could feel his warm breath.
"Uhm, Hi" I said awkwardly looking Grayson in the eye's. Ethan pushed Grayson off of him and said "Oh my gosh, we're so sorry, are you hurt?" "No I'm fine, I'm totally fine." I said, which wasn't exactly true, my head had hit the ground pretty hard. Grayson stood up, dusted off his clothes, picked me up (like it was nothing) and said "Sorry that was so stupid of us." Ethan looked at him "what do you mean 'us'? You were the one that jumped on me." "Well, I'm sorry alright" Grayson chuckled "I didn't know you were that unstable." He winked at me. I could feel my cheeks glow a little and I awkwardly rubbed the back of my pounding head. "Are you sure you're not hurt?" Grayson said, clutching on to my arm. I said: "Yes, it's nothing, honestly."
"Well maybe this was just faith, that we 'bumped into you'" said Ethan, "literally" added Grayson. "Why, what do you mean?" I asked. "Well..." said Grayson looking me up and down "we could kinda use a girl like you right now." I chuckled "what do you mean by 'a girl like me'?" Ethan looked at me, "we have a YouTube channel. And we had this cool idea for a video where we would take a really pretty girl and let her go up to people and ask them for a hug. Then we..." he pointed at Grayson and himself, "would go up to the same people, and see if they are willing to hug us." "It's kinda like a social experiment thing." Grayson added.
I blinked. The twins looked at me, waiting for an answer but all I could think of was "really pretty girl" "really pretty girl".
"We understand if you don't want to..." Grayson said, looking at his toes. "No, no I'd love to!" I quickly said. "Just let me get my stuff."
The twins followed me to the other aisle, just when we turned the corner I saw a guy hurrying away, he was holding my bag! "Hey! That's my bag!" I said running after the guy. "My phone! My mom's wallet!" I chased after the guy while he was running out of the store. I was panting, he was just too fast for me. But then Grayson came running after me, as he passed me I could hear him mumble "not on my watch."
Grayson sprinted to the guy, grabbed his shoulders and pulled him to the ground. Ethan showed up and took my bag from the guy. "Here you go" he said and he gave me the bag. "Thanks" I said beaming at Grayson. He was panting, his tank top was hanging loosely and I could see his six pack. I tried not to get distracted and kneeled next to him and the guy. "Let go of me!" The guy was struggling under Grayson's weight but he wasn't letting go. I could hear Ethan behind me say: "Should we call the police?"
"Yeah probably," said Grayson looking at me. I looked back at him "thank you" I said softy. Grayson chuckled "you're welcome, princess".
Why did he have to call me princess, my knees weakened.

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