Find My Way Back || g.d.

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Grayson's POV

We got to the Broken Yolk and ate in silence. After we paid for everything, I took her to our spot.

I didn't mean to lash out on her like that. I was just so frustrated.

I sat down where we usually sit in but she sat closer to the water today, skipping rocks.

"Mal?" I walked over to her.

"Yeah?" she continued skipping rocks, not taking a look at me.

"I'm sorry."

"Okay." she shrugged.

"Malia."

"Yes?" she stood up.

"Can we talk this through?"

She wiped the water off her fingers and walked over to the tree. I sat facing her.

"What'd you wanna talk about?"

"What did you mean when you said we were 'moving too fast'?"

"We didn't work things out like we should've. We only talked about our lives during the breakup and how it impacted us. We didn't talk about how to better the relationship. This is our second fight and we haven't even been back together for a week." she said as she pulled some grass. "We didn't take it step-by-step like the beginning. You know. Going on dates and stuff then you asked me out. We just kissed and admitted we still love each other and boom, we're suddenly back together."

"Oh."

"It's just an opinion though."

"It's okay. I see where you're coming from."

This is awkward.

"I didn't mean to lash out on you earlier. I just feel that recently, it's only been me apologizing for what happened."

"What did I do?" she looked up at me.

"You didn't wait."

"For?"

"Tor me to come back to explain myself."

"I felt that I was going to feel neglected by my own boyfriend. I didn't wanna feel that way."

"Did you?"

"If we were still together, yes I would have. But we were broken up so not really. I felt lonely though. Things I'd usually come to you for, you know for you to comfort me, I didn't have that anymore." she shrugged.

We remained silent.

"At least we're getting somewhere." I said.

"I do still love you. I'm fine with working all of this out. I don't want to argue anymore. I just want to make this work and make us happy like we used to be." she said softly.

"That's why I wanted to talk all of this out and try to fix anything and everything. I want to make us work again and rekindle everything we lost. I don't wanna lose you again."

"A lot of the damage has already been done, Gray. There's nothing we can do to fix that."

"Hey. Look at me." I lifted her chin, "I'm not giving up on us and I know you won't either."

We got interrupted. Right when we try to fix one problem, another one arises.

"Well well well. If it isn't Malia Prince."

She stood up, as did I.

I noticed Malia was shaking. She couldn't speak.

"Who are you?" I asked aggressively.

"The question is: who are you?"

"Her boyfriend."

"You never told me you had a boyfriend."

"What do you want Jared?" Malia asked.

"Malia, who is this?"

"He uh..." she hesitated.

"Yeah Malia, who am I?" the guy taunted.

She looked down, "he was a bully of mine."

"Why didn't you tell me about this?"

"Enough of this sentimental claptrap. I'm here to get revenge on you for beating up my girlfriend."

"Who's your– Emily." she said.

He retrieved a knife from his pocket.

"Let's get your boyfriend first."

He was going to stab me but Malia pushed me out of the way, like those cheesy moments in the movies and he ended up stabbing her waist.

"Hm... technically I did hurt you... this'll work." he knelt down to her level, "hurt her again, and this'll be way worse."

He smirked and walked away.

How'd he know where to find us? I'll figure that out later. Right now, I need to get Malia to the hospital.

She put her hand over her waist and grunted.

"We need to get you to a hospital." I picked her up bridal style and sat her in the car.

"Can someone help me please? My girlfriend was just stabbed."

Nurses put her on a stretcher and rolled her into the ER.

A few hours later, Marissa came into the hospital.

"The others got stuck in traffic. What happened?"

"Did you know she was bullied?"

"Jared did this?"

So everyone but me knew. Okay cool.

"He wanted to 'get revenge' on Malia for fighting Emily the other day. He was gonna stab me but Malia pushed me out of the way and took the blow."

"Family of Malia Prince?" a nurse called.