My Journey

Lil Hike

04/09/2017

Grayson's POV
"Hey E. Wake up. Wanna prank Alba?" I asked him as I woke him up.
"What? Why?"
"She's pranked us both, and more than twice."
"And? Let the girl be."
"Hey, she's talking to Lucas and Mario. On FaceTime. Come on!" I said shaking him so he would wake up.
"Okay, but can I wait for my raspy voice to go away?"
"She loves your raspy voice. Come on." I said as he finally got up.
"What are we gonna do, bro?" He asked as he stretched his arms.
"We'll just scare her. Come on." I then started to walk out my room. Ethan and I were topless but we had our pants on. We reached his room and we saw Alba talking to them. We creeped our way to Ethan's room and when we got to the door frame ethan put his pointer finger on his mouth signaling to Lucas and Mario. They either saw us or ignored us as they didn't say anything. As we got a few inches away form Alba we put our heads close to hers and we hissed at her to scare her.
"Hisssssssssss!!!!"
"AH! WHAT THE FUUUCK?" She yelled as she jumped and fell off the bed. "Why?!?!?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Ethan said as he bent down to hug her.
"Why would you do that?" She said as she grab Ethan's arm with her hand. Ethan had already sat down behind her.
"You've pranked us both a bunch of times already. We haven't since we met you. I thought it was only fair to prank you." I said as I stopped laughing.
"Ethan, you aren't gonna win any points doing this." Lucas said as him and Mario were laughing at their sister.
"Shut up. Only you loose points when you scare me cause you've been scaring me and pranking me for 16 years orrtty much everyday. Ethan does get to win points, he's only scared me once." When she said that ethan kissed her on her temple, and the she giggled.
"Jeez, I'm not prepared to see my sister with a boy." Mario said as he covered his eyes.
"Shut up. It's not like I haven't been with any else..." She said to Mario.
"Oh boy." Ethan said as he looked at her.
"Some sass over here..." I said pointing at her.
"Ready for the hike? Grayson and Cameron are gonna go and shop for the picinc and come back to prepare it, but you and I are gonna go now." Ethan said as he stood up.
"I still have to get dressed."
"Do we have to go?" Lucas and Mario said, with a sad face.
"You have school in a couple of days, you should get started with your stuff." She said. "I'm gonna hang up, bye." She said hanging up before Lucas and Mario got to say bye.

Alba's POV
"Why are we leaving without them anyway?" I asked Ethan as Grayson walked out of the room and I threw my phone on the bed.
"I have something up my sleeve."
"Pancakes, froyo or pizza?"
"Neither. Surprise."
"But I don't like surprises..."
"You liked it when Vanessa visited you."
"Yeah, seeing my sister that I hadn't seen in over a year... That was obviously gonna be a good surprise. Plus I didn't know it was gonna happen. This one I know."
"Touche. But I swear it will be a good surprise."
"Okay..."
"You trust me?"
"Now that you ask, not really." I said as I walked to my suitcase and grabbed what I had prepeared the previous night.
"Come on."
"Yes Ethan, I trust you."
"Okay, then get dressed and we'll go." He said as he walked out of the room very excited.

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*all this is set up where Ethan and Grayson were in Life Back Home, where it was all green and beautiful*

"Where are we going? Can you tell me?"
"No. It's a surprise, I can't."
"Come on. Are you kidding me?"
"Come on, just 5 more minutes in the car and a 10 minute walk, okay? I promise."
"I don't trust you Ethan Dolan... I don't know what you have up your sleeve..."
"It's nothing out of this world, I just wanted a true alone time with you."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"You could have had it whenever you wanted to, in LA even."
"But I wanted it to make it especial. I told you."
"But we're not going to the beach, we're going to the mountain."
"And I know you prefer mountain over beach. That's why you've always wanted to come here."
"How do you know?"
"I might have done my research...."
"Meaning..."
"Meaning watching all the videos I could get info of you from your channel. That makes me a stalker."
"When did you do that?" I asked him surprised.
"Since that night at the beach..." He said and paused for about 5 seconds. "I really like you Alba. You know that, right?"
"Yes, I do. And I also really like you Ethan, I hope you know that."
"I guessed." He said as he put his free hand on my thigh and I put mine on top of it.
"Do I know where we're going? Like, could have I ever seen it?"
"Um.... Yeah. I think so. It's all very green and cool."
"Okay... Videos or TV?"
"Only videos."
"Okay... I think I have an idea of where we're going."
"Probably, cause all of that just gave it away." He said as he looked at me for a second. "You are a very good persuer..."
"I've heard that from my siblings. And my dad. And all the people I know."
"Not Gray or Cameron."
"Yet. Just you wait."
"We are almost there, we just have to go up this hill...." He said as he drove up the hill.
"This is beautiful, E." I said getting out of the car and samtanding in front of it.
"You haven't called me that since Wednesday..." He said as he came next to me.
"You count'em huh?" I said as I put my arm around him.
"I count everything with you." He said as he turned me to look at him and he out his arms around my shoulders. "Is this especial enough?" He looked down at me.
"For what?"
"What do you think?"
"I don't know... What would Ethan Dolan want to make very especial...?" As I said that I felt Ethan pull me closer to him. We were really close at this point, close to the point where the only thing we could look at was our eyes. Was this gonna be it? When that question went through my mind, the answer was clear. I felt his lips on mine. This was meant to be. I was dying to kiss him ever since that night at the beach, at the end of it, where we got very cheesy and saying we felt like that night was one of the best ones we'd ever had. It felt right, him and I. Never in a million years would have I thought I was gonna be in New Jersey, with Ethan Dolan having our first kiss. Wow.
"Maybe this?" He said after he pulled away form my lips.
"Maybe." I said as I left tiptoe position. Yes, we are going to be that cute couple that she has to fmget into her tiptoes to kiss him. Yes.
"Was it?"
"Very much..." I said as I pulled him in for another kiss, but this time I wasn't going to give him everything. I was gonna leave him hanging.
"That was all I wanted."
"And you got it. And me." He had his left hand on my neck from us kissing, so I lifted my left hand and put it on top of his.
"So do you." He gave me a peck on the lips. "If Gray and Cameron don't see us where we said, they're gonna kill us."
"I guess we'll have to go. Even tough I don't want to." He nodded and he then backed up leaving more space between us. "And where do we have to go exactly?" I asked him as we started to walk.
"We have to walk for about 10 minutes if we take the safe route. Then there's the Dolan route, which is a bit harder."
"In what way?"
"In the way that it has more rocky surfaces."
"Let's take the safe route then. I am not planning on breaking any bones in this trip."
"Right."
"What? I'm a safe person."
"We will see about that..." He said as he looked at me and started to run.
"You dirty teen!!!!" I started to run after him and I caught up with him. I started to punch him on the arm.
"Hey! I'm old, don't do that to the elder." He said turning around and poking me with his finger under my ribs.... AND IT TICKLED, VERY MUCH.
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" I said as I slapped Ethan's hands when they reached for me. I finally got a considerable distance between each other so I quickly put my arms out so he couldn't reach. "Ethan stop! I am very ticklish. I don't like it."
"Alright, alright. We'll just walk..." He turned around and continued walking, but two steps in he turns around again and he pokes me again.
"Stop!" I said slapping his hand again. He then laughed and continued walking. We got there and it was a beautiful view of New Jersey, but the previous view was a lot better.
"I like this."
"What? The view or being here with me?"
"Being here with you, with this view." I said as I went next to him and put my arm around him.
"You managed to save it there... I also like it here. In my home town, my favourite spot, with my favourite girl."
"That was cheesy."
"I know. It sounded better in my head."
"But it's cute."
"Aaww!!!" He then paused for a couple of seconds. "Would we be that cringy couple?"
"Nah, I don't think so. But we can be sometimes. It won't matter cause we will be comfortable around each other. And we are both goofs."
"True." He said as he looked down at me and his phones started ringing.
"Who is it?" I asked him.
"It's Gray." He said as he picked it up.
"What's up?....... Yeah we're here.......... What?............. Yeah, where Cam said........ Alright, bye." He then hung up. "They're coming. They won't take long."
"Oh no, I love it here with you."
"You will still be with me."
"Yeah, but I won't get to do this." I said going in front of him and standing on my tip toes. Once I was close enough I leaned in and he then crashed his lips on mine.
"Yes you can." He said as we pulled away and putting our foreheads together.
"I'm not gonna do it infront of Grayson and Cameron. It would be weird. Plus, Gray already feels left out enough. I feel bad for the kid." I said taking a step back.
"They won't mind. It's fine."
"No, Ethan. I won't kiss you when they're around."
"Then I will."
"No, Ethan. No kisses when we're with them." I said. "But now, if you want, you can sleep with me."
"Really?"
"Yeah, it's your bed after all. Plus I wouldn't have minded if you did since the first day here.
"Well, I didn't cause I felt like you didn't want me to."
"I didn't want to, I wouldn't have minded. That's a whole different thing."
"Yeah, but we didn't, when we could have. Do you know how bad Grayson snores? He's a legit ogre, like Shreck."
"Hey! I heard that!" Grayson said as he climbed up a different way we did.
"Jesus Grayson. You scared us." Ethan said putting his hand on his chest.
"Talk for you, you lil bitch." I said with a joking funny voice.
"Hey, I get scared easily."
"I can see... What I guy I've got for myself..."
"Ouch, I'm very manly you know."
"Whatever you say, E, whatever you say...."
"Okay, we have some sandwiches and a potato omlet... Is that right?" Cameron said looking at me.
"That's a Spanish recipe! Did you really make it?" I said very surprised.
"Yeah, I did. Grayson would've ruined it. He searched the recipe."
"At least I did something, you know. I deserve some recognition."
"Yeah, congrats on knowing how to use a phone Gray... Must have been hard."
"Fuck off. I searched high and low for it." Grayson said as he started to walk towards the picnic table behind us.
"Come on Gray..." I said as I laughed going after him.
"Nope, I'm done with all of this." He said as he turned around threw his arms in the air. "I'm quoting the Dolan Twins."
"Grayson! There's no cameras around us, don't joke." Ethan said.
"Chill, I'll always joke about it." Grayson said as he put his hands on the air.
Once we sat down at the table we started eating everything. And I do have to say that the omlet wasn't bad at all. For the first time. I'll tell Cameron some tricks to kill the potato omlet game.
"The omlet was pretty good, but you guys have to try something if you ever come to Valencia. Which will happen. Obviously."
"What is it?" Cameron asked.
"Paella."
"Pa- what?" Grayson said looking at me with his mouth full.
"Paella, you guys just pronounce it in a really weird way. You don't really know how to pronounce the double 'l'."
"Jeez, the hate is coming. I'm feelin' it." Ethan said before taking another bite of the omlet.
"Yeah, and all the hate you give me for my accent. All the mocking..." I said to Ethan sounding offended.
"That is because we love your accent. It's cute, and we are mad deep inside that we don't have it." He said timidly.
"Aaawww." I said.
When we finished lunch we packed all of it and put it in the car. After putting everything inside the cars, we headed up again and began adventuring into the New Jersey woods. Once we had been walking and climbing and hiking for over two hours Cameron and I were exhausted.
"I can't anymore!!! I'm tired!!!" I said as I dropped myself on a rock next to me. "Can we at least take a break?"
"Yes, please. I highly need one." Cameron said sitting next to me.
"Really?" Grayson said letting out a giggle.
"Hey, don't laugh. I don't even remember the last time I worked out." I really didn't remember.
"Wow, when we go back you're coming to the warehouse. We'll work out together. Before you go back to Spain." Ethan said looking very serious.
"Alright mate, chill." I said after taking a big old breath just to say that.
"You sounded so fucking Scottish then." He said surprised, I knew I sounded very Scottish then, just did it to see their reaction.
"I know." I said with a proud face.
"Okay, we can have a 15 minute break. And then we can go back home. How does that sound?" Grayson said as he sat on another rock.
"Sounds great, sounds like a plan." Cameron said. After that Ethan stood in front of me and signaled me to sit on his lap, so I stood up, he sat down where I was sitting down and I sat on his lap sideways, meaning I had my arm around his neck and he had his hand on my thigh. Then Cameron and Grayson excluded us and started to talk with out us. RUDE!
"Do you like it here?" He asked me as he patted me on the thigh.
"It is really pretty. I'd rather live here than LA honestly."
"Gray and I as well, but LA has better stuff for YouTube, so we just stay there." He said, agreeing with me.
"Same with Valencia, I mean, there are barely any opportunities for cool stuff for Spanish YouTubers which means even less opportunities for me. I wanna do cool stuff with my channel and get back to my viewers. You can't really do that in Spain."
"You are very committed to your channel and I love that."
"Why?"
"Cause if you weren't this dedicated I would have probably never met you." He said looking at me.
"Aw, this does deserve a lil kiss."
"But what about them?" He said pointing discreetly at Cameron and Gray.
"They're in their own world. They won't notice now." I said as I leaned in and give him a little peck. "And that was kind of cheesy, what you before." I said softly laughing.
"I know, but you love it."
"Not on overdose. You'll have to control yourself though."
"I am the only one saying this stuff." He said embarrassed.
"I think you are hot and handsome. And I'm also glad Mario went and talked to you and Gray at the TCAs. I would probably have never come to New Jersey if not." I said feeling bad.
"Aw. You're right, it's very cheesy."