Forever Gray

The One

The next day at school Gray sits next to me but doesn't say anything.
There's a sense of awkwardness between us and it's all coming from him.
I tap his shoulder and whisper "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, why?" He whispers back but I know he still feels weird about what happened before we got in the pool yesterday.
"Don't worry about what happened yesterday," I tell him. "I should have gone home and got my swimsuit." I give him a shy smile.
"I should have controlled myself better." He scolds himself and I put my hand on his thigh stoping him from saying anymore.
"You're fine, this might sound weird but it made me feel good inside knowing now that I could do that to someone without trying." I wink at him and he smiles.

                                             ~•~

I walk over to my locker after class and Grayson follows me. Once I get there I open it and a paper falls out, I pick it up and this is what it says:

Iᗰ ᑕOᗰᗰIᑎG TO ᐯIᔕIT YOᑌ ᔕOOᑎ, I ᕼᗩᐯE ᔕOᗰTᕼIᑎG IᗰᑭOᖇTᗩᑎT TO TEᒪᒪ YOᑌ ᗷᑌT ᗪOᑎT ᗷE ᔕᑕᗩᖇEᗪ I ᗯOᑎT ᕼᑌᖇT YOᑌ.
          ~ ᔕIᑎᑕEᗩᖇᒪY
             YOᑌᖇ ᖇEᗩᒪ ᗪᗩᗪ - ᒪEOᑎ

My real dad.
My dads name was John and he died a year ago.
I look up at Grayson feeling extremely confused, almost distraught, I had no idea what to do.
"Alyssa, are you ok?" Grayson asks me with genuine concern written all over his face.
I shake my head slightly. "I need to go home, or something, I-I-"
He takes the paper and reads it.
"Come on, let's call your mom-"
"No, I don't want her to know."
"But what if she already knows?"
"But what if she doesn't?" I say to him.
"Fine I'll take you back to my house we can just relax and hang out and if you're feeling up to it, maybe we can talk about it, ok?" He looks into my eyes as if he'll see all the answers to his unspoken questions there.
"Ok, but what about school? My mom said that I can't dit-"
"Don't worry about it," he cuts me off. "I know the username and password to the attendance thing so I can log into it later and say that me and you were in every class, I'll text Ethan and tell him to get a ride from our friend Jack."
"Ok." I finally say and walk with him down the hall.

                                            ~•~

We get to Grays house and head inside, but as soon as he closes the door I drop my stuff on the floor and hug him tightly but not tight enough to hurt him.
He seems shocked for the slightest second but then shakes his head a little and hugs me back.
"Is everything o-"
"Shhhhhh," I cut him off. "Don't talk. Please." He nods and kisses my forehead.
Skinny dipping would be nice.
Oh my goodness Alyssa stop! He might feel the same way about you as you do about him but you can't be with him, you might hurt him.
Physically.
Or maybe you can control yourself? Ugh this boy will be the death of me.
I finally let go of him and walk over to the couch.
"Can we go swimming?" I ask.
A nice dip in that hot tub out there is all I need right now.
"Yeah, do you wanna go get your swimsuit this time or...?" He looks at me slightly embarrassed and I laugh at him.
"I'll go get my swimsuit this time don't worry." I wink at him and quickly go over to my house, which thankfully is empty.
As I walk past the kitchen I see a small paper on the counter, I walk over to it and read it.
It's for my mom:

ᗰᗩTIᒪᗪᗩ, ᑭᒪEᗩᔕE ᗷE ᗩᗯᗩᖇE TᕼᗩT Iᒪᒪ ᗷE ᐯIᔕITIᑎG YOᑌ TOᗰOᖇᖇOᗯ ᗩᖴTEᖇᑎOOᑎ ᗩᖴTEᖇ ᗩᒪYᔕᔕᗩ GETᔕ ᕼOᗰE ᖴᖇOᗰ ᔕᑕᕼOOᒪ, I ᗰEᗩᑎ ᑎO ᕼᗩᖇᗰ TO YOᑌ Oᖇ ᕼEᖇ I ᒍᑌᔕT ᑎEEᗪ TO TᗩᒪK TO ᕼEᖇ.

         ᒪOᐯE ᗩᒪᗯᗩYᔕ,
                                      ᒪIOᑎ

I don't know if I should leave this here or throw it away. I'm about to send a picture of it to my mom when I realize that she doesn't know that I left school early. She'd get really pissed if she knew that I came home this early.
I'll just leave this here, I have no idea what my "real dad" wants to tell me but something is telling me that it's not gonna be a happy homecoming.
I run to my room and grab my swimsuit which I decided to put away in its rightful place so that there would hopefully be less tension between me and Gray while we're swimming.
I highly doubt that having a swimsuit instead of a bra and panties was gonna make much of a difference but whatever.
I leave my house and hurry over to Grayson's, as I'm walking over to the bathroom I look outside to see Grayson already in the pool with some pool weights.
I laugh to myself.
He's seriously working out...in the pool.
I change my clothes in the bathroom, when I walk outside I see that Grayson's back is turned to me and I decided to sneak up on him by quietly sitting on the edge of the pool and waiting for him to turn around.
After a couple of minutes he finally turns around.
"AH," he yells and I giggle. "Damn, you scared the shit outta me." He starts laughing and I join in.
"I'm gonna go get in the hot tub." I tell him and he nods. "Wanna join me?"
"Oh um, yeah, one sec."
"Okay."
I then get into the hot tub and watch him, he gets out of the pool and puts the pool weights away on a rack near the pool steps.
Damn, He's so perfect.

GRAYSONS POV
I put away the pool weights that I was using to pass the time and turn around to see Alyssa watching me carefully.
I smile at her.
Fuck, she's so perfect.
I should ask her out...no, I'll scare her away, I haven't known her for very long.
But she obviously likes me...I'll just get in the hot tub and see how it goes.
I get in the hot tub and sit across from her, she smiles at me and I can't help but smile back.
"So how're you feeling?" I ask.
"Better, but I'm not sure if I'm ready to tell you yet..." she looks away from me and stares to the side.
"It's fine, you don't know me that well, you don't have to say anything." She looks at me again then swims to me.
Holy fuck.

ALYSSAS POV
I swim over to Grayson and straddle him, staring into his eyes.
I immediately feel him hard against my core, only our swim suits in between as a barrier.
He hesitantly puts his hands on my hips.
I need to tell him, there's a connection between us.
I have no idea what it is or where it's coming from but I feel like I've known him forever.
I sigh then smile at him slightly and look away again.
"Where do I start?" I look down at his abs and put my hand on them lightly.
"So, my life has never really been normal...ever since I could walk I've been...faster... than most babies my age at that time, and not to mention stronger." I look at him again expecting to see, feel, confusion, but it's strange, I can't feel his or his brothers emotions and that usually only happens when the person is... different, like me... instead of confusion on his face, his eyes seem to have brightened a little and he has this cute, goofy little smile on his perfect face.
It's contagious, but I try to keep my face straight.
"What are you smiling about?" I ask unable to keep my straight face anymore.
"You." He answers. "You're just like my family, I can't believe it." His smile is so huge and excited I can't help but be really excited too.
"Are you serious? You have to be joking." I tell him unable to comprehend what he's trying to say.
"But I'm not joking, Alyssa, I know we've only known each other for like two days but ever since I walked into our first class that day at school, I've felt a sort of connection between us..." he says and my heart flutters.
Man, he controls himself well, he hasn't tried to rip off my swimsuit yet.
"Will you go out with me?" He asks and I look at him shocked that he said that.

GRAYSONS POV
Alyssa looks at me in shock, it's clearly written on her face.
Shit, I scared her away-
"Yes!" She interrupts my thoughts.
"What?"
"I said yes, I'll go out with you." She says with the biggest smile on her face.
I blow out a breath of relief that I didn't know I was holding in.
Suddenly I hear something that sounds like running.
"What is that?" Alyssa asks.
She apparently heard it too.

Authors note:😈😈😈 lol sorry, I'm terrible at cliff hangers.