I hurry and stop the person from walking into the water. How did they know who I was? The could barely make out who they were until they turned around and my heart dropped. "Gray."
"Elle?" He whispers and I nod. "Why were you calling my name?" I ask and sit down on the sand along with Grayson. He shrugs, "I guess I was having some serious hallucination or something."
"What do you mean?" I ask and he clenches his jaw and unclenches it. "I could have sworn I saw you out there, you were drowning or something and I was so afraid. Elle, I-" I cut him off by sitting in front of him.
"Shh, I'm here and I'm okay. Just breathe." I say and he pulls me onto his lap. I wrap my arms around him and rest my head on his shoulder. "I miss this." I hear him whisper and I nod.
We sit like that for a couple minutes until Grayson breaks the silence by asking a question that breaks my heart. "Am I a monster?" I gulp and pull away from him and look him in the eyes. "Why do you ask?"
"I ruin everything. I ruined your life. I ruined any chance of me and you having a future. I ruined Vanessa, she committed suicide. I ruin a lot of things. I'm a monster." I shake my head furiously.
"You're not a monster. There's good in you, I've always seen it." He leans in slowly and I do the same, closing my eyes. Our lips brush against each others and his hot breath fans across my face. This was wrong, we broke up.
Our lips finally touched, they molded together perfectly, as if they were made for one another. It was so wrong, this shouldn't be happening, but I couldn't bring myself to pull away. I missed him, I missed this.
I wanted to be his again so bad but I knew I couldn't. Grayson is the first to pull away, I was afraid if he didn't we could've kissed forever. "Elle? Can I ask you something?" He asks and I nod.
"Are you and Jacob together?" I shake my head instantly, "No, do you think I would be stupid enough to go back to him? I mean, yeah, we are friends again but I don't feel anything for him, I still love you, and I always will love you."
"Then why did Ethan and Alissa tell me that you guys got together right after I got sent to the hospital?" He looked just as confused as I was. "They want us to stay away from each other. That's the only reason I can think of."
He nods and agrees. "But I don't understand why." He says and I sigh, "Who knows." Grayson smirks, "Wanna go back to my place." I roll my eyes, "Ew no, you horny ass. Plus, we broke up, we shouldn't even be here, together, right now."
Grayson whines, "That's no reason for us to not be together right now. You miss me, I miss you, what's holding you back?" I stay silent and Grayson scoffs, "Its Jacob, huh? I should have known it."
He takes me off his lap and gets up and walks away. I sit there and look down at my nails, I couldn't tell him why. I get up and sigh as I take out my phone and turn on the flashlight and make my way to my mom's car.
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I wake up to my annoying alarm clock. I get frustrated and unplug it so it would shut up. I slide out of bed and shuffle into the bathroom. I splash my face with cold water to wake ne up more and I walk back into my room to get some clothes.
I grab a light pink hoodie that has "New York" along the sleeves. I pick out a simple pair of black leggings and get changed.
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I brush my hair and put on my usual makeup, eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara, and of course fill in my eyebrows. I grab my Adidas and grab my mom's car keys along with my backpack and walk out the door and get in the car, driving off to school.
I put my backpack away in my locker and head to first period. I sit down right as the bell rings and I watch Grayson as he walks in and makes his way to his seat. He looks over at me and I look away, even though he caught me staring.
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The bell rings for lunch and I make my way out front and sit down on the grass, pulling out my phone and scroll through Instagram. I hear a huff and then look up to see Ethan sitting down next to me.
"What are you doing?" I ask and look away, not in the mood to talk to him, after what he told Grayson about me and Jacob. It wasn't true and I don't understand why they would want to keep me and Grayson away from each other.
"I haven't talked to you in a while, wanted to come talk to you. Why the sudden attitude?" He asks and places a hand over his heart dramatically.
I roll my eyes, "Why did you and Alissa tell Grayson that I got with Jacob right after he got sent to the hospital? You know that's not true." He looks down in guilt.
"You need to stay away from Grayson. That's why." He simply says and I scoff, "That's not a good enough reason, Ethan! I need a legitimate reason why you had the audacity to tell him something that's not true." I yell at him.
He holds his hands up in surrender and makes a weird face, "Alright. Calm down. Because we don't want Grayson, or you, to get involved in anything bad anymore. You guys are so toxic for each other and its so bad when you two are together."
I curl my hands up into a ball and my nose is flared by now. "That's a stupid fucking reason to keep two people, that love each other, away from one another. But go ahead, cause thanks to you and Alissa, Grayson is pissed off at me for something that is a lie."
I stand up and brush off the grass from my leggings and storm off, getting my backpack and putting my books away. I was leaving this hell hole and no one could stop me.
{A/N:HEY GUYS! Are you all excited for Christmas? Book is ending in 3 chapters 😥 Comment what you thought😄 I love y'all, STAY SMEXY 😘}
