most beautiful tragedy || g.d.

t h i r t y f i v e

"Lee? You here?" I shouted into the apartment as I walked through the door and started jogging to Ethan's room.

"Yeah. I'm in the bathroom." I heard her muffled voice.

I turned to the direction of Grayson's bathroom.

I knocked on the door lightly as soon as I reached it. "Can I come in?"

She mumbled a 'yeah' which I barely heard then went inside. She was leaning on the basin, where she was surrounded by dozens of tissues.

"Hey." She sniffed and gave a weak smile through the mirror. Her eyes were still puffy and red.

"You okay? You need any more tishes?" I giggled, trying to make a joke.

She chuckled. "I've had enough tishes, thanks."

"Good." I chuckled. "But seriously though, are you okay? We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."

"No it's okay." She turned towards me. "It's just my, uh, Mom. She was in an accident."

"Oh my gosh is she okay?" I asked concerned.

"Yeah it was just a small thing. She just has a wound on her head. I tend to overreact." She said before grabbing another tissue and blew her nose.

"Oh okay good." I pulled her into a hug.

For some reason I had a gut feeling that she wasn't telling me the truth. I know her really well and I really think something else happened and that her mother is perfectly fine.

"Lee?" I said still holding on to her.

"Tams?"

"Are you sure that's what happened?" I let go of her.

"Yes, Tammy. Don't worry. I wouldn't lie about something like this, especially to you." She gave a weak smile again.

"I'm sorry. I guess I'm just worried." I said, regretting that I asked.

Maybe she was telling the truth. Maybe it was just a stupid feeling and her mother really was in an accident. I don't know, but for some reason I can't shake this feeling.

"It's okay." She chuckled. "Now, let's go play some video games. I wanna see if I coupd beat your ass like I did to Ethan."

I smiled to her mood change. "Oh I'm gonna beat your ass."

•••

I walked into Grayson's room and sat on the extra bed where Ethan's been sleeping for the past couple of days. I sat with my back against the wall cross legged. Grayson was went to take a nap when we came back from the Paul brothers' apartment. He was laying on his stomach with both of his hands under his pillow, wearing only grey sweats. He looked so peaceful so I just had to wake him up. He's been sleeping for two hours now so it's time to wake up anyways.

I stood up and walked over to his bed. I pulled out my phone to take a snapchat. He was still sleeping restfully so I started recording the Snapchat with the camera facing me. I licked my finger then turned the camera to Grayson as I gave him a wet willy. He immediately flinched and wiped his ear with his shoulder as he opened his eyes. I started laughing and ended the Snapchat.

"Tammy!" He exclaimed, sitting up and dried off his ear with the sleeve of his crew neck.

I just kept on laughing.

"Did you film that?" He asked as he stood up and closed his door.

"You know I did. It's on my Snapchat story." I giggled.