It's Been So Long: A Grayson Dolan Fanfic

Don't Bring It Up Again...

A/N: THIS CHAPTER'S VIDEO IS "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER!" It goes so well with the chapter's message and yeah....on with the story!! btw: this in in the viewpoint of Melrose

I couldn't move. I couldn't even stare at my phone. It was 3:30 pm on Tuesday and I knew the boys had uploaded a video. I couldn't bare to look at the face of the boy who crushed any of our chances of being together. I still don't understand why; he's the one that initiated all of our relationship choices.

I had to admit myself however, that I was not the perfect girlfriend in our time in our relationship. I can't even bring myself to say it. I can't because it was so horrible and affected Grayson without him even knowing it.

I cheated. I cheated on Grayson. It was a really bad time for both of us and I don't know whether it was actually cheating considering the fact that we were both on a break from one another.

The worst part that affected Grayson, indirectly: I cheated on him...with Ethan. How could I have been so stupid to cheat on him with his twin? That's like a stab in the back to him.

I'm remember the hurt similar to the hurt I'm feeling now and I'm feeling myself being pulled into a dazed memory...

Flashback

I was walking around town, kicking every pebble and rock I saw. I was so unbelievably pissed. Grayson and I had our first fight in our relationship.

One of my pebbles had kicked at least 4 feet in front of me. I had that much anger and hostility built up in me.

Apparently he was at an event and a girl was canoodling against him and he didn't make any effort to stop her. At the end of the event he even kissed her on the cheek. Like what the hell? He said it was only for the cameras but news outlets are saying that this girl Madison Beer and Grayson were like a thing.

I left his house after our heated argument and now I was traveling nowhere. That's when I realized I was in front of the Dolan household, waiting for no one. Grayson had a meeting with a company here in New Jersey.

I took a seat on the concrete sidewalk right in front of their house. My eyes were wandering all around me and I noticed a tree across the street that had a leaf that fell. Even though it looked like it, the leaf never hit the ground. It instead got picked up by the wind and carried itself over to were I was sitting. I touched the leaf on my lap, feeling like it was fate.

While examining this leaf, I noticed Ethan walk up to me and lay a hand on my shoulder, "You ok?" Ethan was my best friend ever. I could talk to him about anything, anything, including shit about his brother.

"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at that meeting?" His eyes seem to sparkle more surprisingly on the gloomy day. And his body looked more sculpted than usual.

"Actually, my brother decided to go on his own, but he is speaking for the both of us. So why don't you tell me why you're outside my house, sitting here, examining a leaf?" he says confused. At that moment, I was helpless and needed someone to talk to. I needed a shoulder to lean on and know that this person would always be there for me. I knew Ethan was that shoulder for me.

I lean my head on his shoulder, taking in his boyish scent. He smelled good. In that moment, it was like it was just the two of us against the world. He was protecting me. He was holding me close, keeping me safe. "Honestly, your brother and I had a fight. He was hanging out with some girl named Madison at the event you guys went to last weekend. He kissed her on the cheek for crying out loud! Obviously I would get mad. He thought I was overreacting. Was I?"