for the better. | grayson dolan ✔

twenty-four

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"wake up everyone!!" i heard my mom yelling, i could make out the sound of her hitting a wooden spoon against a metal lid and walking into everyone's rooms.

i heard annie and alex groan but abby was already dragging her suitcase down the stairs. i sighed and started my morning by putting on some light makeup and getting dressed. i decided to wear a comfy sweater and some comfy sweats. i put on a bucket hat on that Ethan had bought for me before grabbing my suitcase and dragging it downstairs.

"morning dad" i said, pouring myself a bowl of cereal and taking a seat on the island

"morning Ash, excited for the trip?" he asked, putting batteries in the camera. my parents love to record our travels and my dad was always excited to record every memory we all made together

"yeah" i lied, shrugging my shoulders and scarfing down my cereal.

"good morning ladies and gent!" alex screamed as he walked into the kitchen, my mom laughed while my dad ruffled his hair as he passed him by

"mornin" i replied through a mouthful of cereal, side hugging him. alex and i were close but it came to my realization that we really dont talk much anymore. i was going to make sure to spend more time with him from now on.

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"move over!" abby yelled, pushing annie to get more space on her seat.

we were on our way to the airport. mom and dad were sitting in the front, while the four of us were sitting in the middle/back. i put on my headphones and started playing my bts playlist. i moved my head to the music and looked out the window as the building whizzed by. we were going be at the airport in around 30 minutes.

i liked to think when i had my headphones in. random thoughts clouding my head. as of now, i was thinking of what I was going to say to alexis or adam. i didn't even want to think about how horrible this trip was going to be.

my thoughts shifted to grayson and ethan. everything between us was so confusing right now. i don't know what has gotten into grayson. ethan and i are friends again but he seems to be awkward lately.

there was too much stuff is going on.

before i knew it, i was being shaken awake by alex. "wake up! we're here!" he yelled excitedly, he had been ranting on and on about how excited he was to see mark, his best friend.

i scrambled out of the car, retrieving my suitcase from the trunk before rolling it into the airport. it was a blur as we went through security and sat at the boarding gate. i was honestly too tired to even function right now.

"ash!" i heard a familiar voice yell, i whipped my head around to see ethan running towards me and grayson behind him, walking slowly with his hands in his pockets.

"e!" i yelled, running to hug him back. he embraced me in a giant bear hug and we stood like that for a good minute. people around us 'awed', an old couple near by beamed at us

"you were really going to leave without saying bye" he pouted, pulling away from the hug.

"sorry" i grinned sheepishly, kissing his forehead (its a friend thing).

"well you won't believed what happened!" he exclaimed, opening his arms wide

"what?!" i inquired excitedly

"we're coming with you guys!!" he yelled

my jaw dropped as i looked from ethan to grayson and back. ethan coming was fine but that meant grayson was coming too.

just great.

note the sarcasm

i looked past ethan to see lisa walking over, pulling 2 small suitcases behind her

"lisa!" my mom squealed, running over to her and pulling her into a hug. they began to walk away as they talked about the plans they made on the phone.

i guess they talked on the phone when i wasn't there.

"don't worry, i'll take good care of them" my mom assured lisa, beaming at the twins

lisa laughed, hugging ethan and grayson goodbye. she took turns to hug us all too before walking back to the entrance of the airport, waving over her shoulder as she went

as we waited for the boarding gate to open, abby and i sat there trying to get ethan to like bts even though he always watched their videos with me (a/n we love a supportive friend)  grayson just sat there on his phone, occasionally looking up before gluing his eyes back onto the screen

"i'm a guy though" ethan said, laughing.

"so?! there's such things as fanboys you know. you don't need to be a girl to appreciate their talent" me and abby yelled in unison

we all burst out laughing, "ok fine, but first of all, who is who?"he asked, putting his hands up

"so this is yoongi. my baby dadyy" abby explained, pointing to yoongi's picture

ethan scrunched up his nose, "he'll never be your baby daddy".

abby whacked him lightly in the head, we all ended up laughing so hard until our stomachs hurt.

"planes here!" my dad informed us, a series of sighs and groans followed as we picked up our things and walked over to my parents.

"new seating arrangement!" my dad announced looking over to abby and then me. if i didn't get to sit with abby, i hoped i could atleast sit with ethan.

"alex and annie" he said firmly, the two of them highfived. they rarely fought and shared everything together, you would think they were twins.

"abby and ethan"

my heart dropped. i looked over to ethan, he looked sad for a second before abby whispered something in his ear and they both started laughing.

"ashley and grayson", i looked over at grayson, he looked up from his phone, shrugged and looked back at it.

this was going to be a long plane ride.

HEY GUYS! IM SO SORRY I HAVENT UPDATED, BUT DECEMBER BREAK STARTED SO HOPEFULLY I'LL TRY TO UPDATE EVERYDAY! -Z

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