Find My Way Back || g.d.

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Grayson's POV

The next day, I walked into bio and Malia wasn't there. But thankfully, she walked in a few minutes later.

"Okay today class, we're gonna be dissecting stuff and I'm gonna need you to get into groups of four."

She looked around and the teacher pointed at us. She grabbed her stuff and headed this way with the assignment in hand.

"Is this seat taken?" she asked softly. It was the seat right next to mine.

"Go for it." I answered.

"Thanks. Oh. Here's the assignment by the way."

"I'll take that thank you." Ethan held out his hand.

I turned to her, "is everything okay?"

"Yeah. Peachy keen."

"Malia, I know when you're lying."

"I'm fine. Let's just get this assignment done." she tried to smile.

15 minutes went by and she asked to get some air outside.

"I need some air too. It's stuffy in here. And I'm like really sick."

Our teacher nodded his head.

"Let me go talk to her." Ethan said. "You've done enough yesterday."

Malia's POV

I have no reason to cry over this. We're not together anymore. He's moved on. It's time I do too.

Ethan came outside and sat next to me.

"Hello."

"Oh. Hey." I wiped my face.

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing."

"It's not 'nothing'. If it was nothing, you wouldn't be sitting out here crying. You can talk to me."

I cleared my throat, "can I trust you enough that you won't tell Grayson?"

"Of course."

"I miss him. I still have feelings for him, E. And yesterday, I drove over to the house and he was kissing someone else. I don't understand because he wanted to get fro yo and all of a sudden he's kissing someone else?" I looked at him, "was it all a joke?"

"I'm sorry." he put his arm around me, I leaned on his shoulder. "She means nothing to him. I want you to know that."

"What?"

"We should get back in there before the bell rings." he got up and held his hand out. I took it and he helped me up.

I wiped my tears and walked back into class.

"I finished while you were out there.

"Is everyone's name on the papers?" Ethan asked.

"I made sure I spelled your name right." Grayson looked at me.

"It's not that hard to spell, but thanks." I sniffled.

Me: can you come pick me up? I can't handle dis

Morgue 💀: you need to learn how to deal with it. You can't run away from him forever okay?

Me: fine.

Morgue 💀: stay strong string bean ♥️

I locked my phone.

Dorsel Fin 🐬: you okay?

I never changed his contact name. I never had the heart to even delete his number.

Me: always :)

Dorsel Fin 🐬: you sure?

Me: yeah

Dorsel Fin 🐬: you promise?

Me: the bell's gonna ring soon. I'm gonna start packing my bag 🤙🏼

Grayson's POV

"What'd she tell you?" I whispered to Ethan.

"Promised her I wouldn't tell."

"Ethan."

"A promise is a promise. Sorry bro. Try talking to her yourself."

I parted ways with him and went to her locker. Sure enough, she was there switching out her books and binders.

"Hey." I said.

"Hey." she took a quick glance at me.

"Please tell me what's wrong."

She shrugged, "nothing to say because nothing is wrong."

"Malia. I know when you're lying."

"I've changed in the past two months. Your radar might just be off."

"If nothing is wrong, why were you crying?"

"Grayson. It's nothing. I'm fine."

"You need to open up to me."

"It's done. We're over. We've been over. I have nothing to say." she shrugged, "there's nothing to say. You didn't have to come all the way over here just to try to talk to me."

"I needed to know if you were okay."

"Now you know I'm fine. I'm gonna go now. Oh. And please don't ask me out if you've got someone else on the sidelines. I'm not a game."

She turned back around and started walking away.

"But you're the only one I want."  I said to myself.