i choose you // e.d

Familiar Faces

It's been a week since me and Ethan broke up. I've mainly stayed in bed, due to my broken heart. As cliche as that sounds, it's the truth. I truly am brokenhearted. He took a part of me with him when he left. 

But, today is going to be good. i'm going out with Gray. As weird as that may be, he's the only thing I have left. I can't lose him too just because of Ethan.

I'm currently listening to music while doing my make up. Letting my hair air dry, I put on my foundation. I decide to at least try to look cute today, so I put on some pretty eye shadow along with my look. 

I look at myself at the mirror and don't feel that ugly. I'm wearing ripped jeans, paired with a black crop top along with a cute black and white flannel. I also put on my favorite white sneakers. 

My music stops, indicating that I'm getting a call. I look to see who it is and it's Grayson.

"Hey, you ready?"

"Yeah, be down in a sec." I say and hang up.

I grab my brown purse and head out of my room.

I haven't seen my mom in a few days, which worried me but I tried to not think too much of it. 

Anyways, I grab a water bottle from the fridge, stuff it in my purse and head out of the door. It's currently 10 am so we're going to get breakfast at Waffle House. 

Gray apparently didn't feel like pulling the car next door, which was fine, so I had to walk over to his side of the yard and get in. As soon as i get in, he smiles at me.

"What?" I blush and turn away due to unwanted attention.

"You look pretty, Mak." He informs me.

"Thanks, Gray. You don't look too shabby yourself." I say with a wink. He just laughs at me.

"So, Waffle House, right?" He backs out of the driveway.

"Yeah, I mean if that's cool with you."

"Of course it is." He heads towards town and turns up the radio. 

We jam out to music and soon pull into the restaurant. Gray gets out and runs over to my door before I even have the chance to unbuckle my seat belt. I chuckle at him as he bows to let me walk first. We walk in and sit down the a booth.

I sit on one side, Gray on the other. A waitress comes by to get our drinks.

"Chocolate milk please." I tell her. 

Gray pretends to look over the menu as he says, "Me too."

She walks away and I laugh at Gray.

He eyes me and says, "What?" 

"I saw you pretending to look over the menu, when you literally always drink chocolate milk for breakfast." I say in a duh tone. 

"Oh shut up, miss know-it-all." He rolls his eyes and chuckles. 

I watched his eyes fade from sparkling to fear in a matter of 5 seconds. His gaze turned from mine to the door very quickly. I turned around to look at what he saw and as my eyes fixated on what had startled him, it made the sparkle of my eyes disappear as well. 

It was Meredith. 

My heart started pounding as her eyes met mine. She was smiling as she walked in, but as she saw me and Gray, her smile fades. 

As she walks over to a booth, I realize that she's alone. I decide to try and talk to her, you know, being the bigger person and all. 

"I'm going to talk to her." I tell Grayson as I go to stand up. 

"What? Why?" He asks me, looking concerned.

"I miss my best friend, Gray. With Ethan gone, I.. I have no one but you and I can't handle that." I walk away so he can't protest. 

I nervously stand up and make my way over to the booth that Meredith is sitting at. 

"Um, hey." I hesitate.

She looks up from her menu and meets eye contact with me. Her eyes looked sad, lonely. I recognized it because I've had that look in my eye before. 

"Hey, Makena." She says with nervousness in her voice. 

"May I?" I motion to the other side of the booth. 

"Of course." She replies with a soft smile. 

I sit down and awkwardly think of what to say. 

"How are you?" She asks me, breaking the tension between us.

"I've been better, if I'm honest. What about you? What's been going on in your life?" I ask, eager to actually know how she's been. 

"It's been a hard month, I'll tell you that." She looks down. 

"Why?" I inquire her, but deep down I already know why. 

"Mak, you know why." She looks up at me, then back down as her voice breaks.

"I miss you." I whisper to her.