most beautiful tragedy || g.d.

f o r t y s e v e n

"Ow!" Grayson exclaimed and flinched as I touched it softly, examining it.

"Sorry." I said pulling my arm away from him and onto my lap.

"Just don't touch it." He replied irritated, looking out of the window.

I sighed, feeling a little hurt because of his tone.

I was just trying to help...

I then looked up at Ethan driving and Lina who was sitting shotgun. They looked at each other and widened their eyes, indicating their awkwardness in this conversation.

In the corner of my eye I saw Grayson look back at me. He put his left hand on my arm amd stroked it gently.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get irritated by you. You just wanted to see if I'm okay. I'm just pissed at what just happened." He said softly.

I looked over at him and smiled. "It's your own fucking fault you broke your hand." I chuckled.

He smiled and rolled his eyes. "You were about to get your ass kicked real hard so I had to save you, like the superhero I am."

"Sure." I laughed. "Thanks by the way."

He gave me a soft smile. "It's never a problem saving my princess from danger."

"Oh my knight in shining armor." I said sarcastically as I chuckled.

He chuckled and leaned closer to me, kissing me on my face temple.

"We're here." Ethan said as we came to a stop. "Let's put that weapon of yours in a cast, buddy."

"I think you should wrap your hand too, E." Lina said pointing at his bruised hand. "It's bruised pretty badly."

"Yeah okay, fine." He sighed.

•••

"Tammyyyyyyy!" Grayson yelled from the TV room.

I rolled my eyes. "What do you want, you baby?!" I yelled back.

"Get your ass over here!" He yelled again.

I groaned, rolling my eyes while walking out of Ethan's room to the TV room.

"What?" I asked as soon as I stood in front of him, crossing my arms.

"Can you maybe make me some breakfast?" He asked with a cute smile. Damn he's good.

"Your legs aren't broken, you can do that yourself." I said resisting his charm.

"But you make good food." He groaned.

"So do you." I laughed. "Even better than I do. I'm not even that good, Bailey."

"Ethan doesn't like my food." He rolled his eyes.

I followed his action. "I promise you he just doesn't want to admit that you make good food."

He sighed and looked back at the TV. "Fine."

I started walking away when he called me back.

"What now?" I asked dispirited.

He took the remote, turned off the TV and patted on the open seat next to him on the couch.

I sighed and sat next to him, crossing my legs.

He placed his casted hand on my knee and rubbed it with his thumb.

"I have a better idea." He smiled. "Let's go get breakfast somewhere, then go do something afterwards. We haven't done anything alone in a few days."

"I like that idea better than me making breakfast." We chuckled. "Ethan and Lina are out, so why can't we go out too?"

"Exactly." He smiled again before giving me a soft kiss. "Should I call the uber so long?"

"Yeah, I just need to grab my jacket." I smiled and stood up.

He smiled and did the same, heading to the kitchen to get his phone.

I walked over to Ethan's room and grabbed my jacket. I also went to my/Ethan's bedside table where my phone was charging.

I noticed a missed call from my mom, so I texted her and told her that I would call her later because I'm about to go out with Grayson.

I slipped my phone in my jacket's pocket and headed out of the room. When I got to the door, Grayson was already out the door and waiting for me. I noticed he put on his pink snapback, wearing it backwards, and I smirked at him.

"What?" He chuckled as I walked outside.

"I really like that hat on you." I said pleased as he locked the apartment door.

"Oh you do?" He smirked back as we started walking down the hall to the elevator.

"Grayson in snapbacks is my weakness." I said. "So is your cute flop."

He took my hand, which was next to my side as we walked, in his and kept his smirk on his face. "I'll make sure to wear them more often." He winked.

Please read the following message. It is extremely important <3

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HELLO

holy shit.

I am terribly terribly sorry for not uploading in like what? Almost a year? Fuck. I'm really sorry. I probably lost many dedicated readers due to my inactivity. But it's okay because at least I still have you. Thank you for sticking with my story for as long as you have <3

Anyway you are probably wondering wtf happened to me during this year and why I became so inactive and uninspired. Quick fun fact: most of this chapter was written a year ago. So. I'm terribly sorry.

Okay so, MY REASONS :

~ The 2nd biggest reason. I was slowly but surely growing out of the fandom and the massive fangirl phase. Don't get me wrong, I am still a MASSIVE fan of the boys, but not as big as I was. I think I was beginning to get irritated that everyone started liking them, because when I was a hardcore fan, people made fun of me being a fan of theirs. And now lately it's a big trend. Which bothers me massively. But I still love them to pieces and I guess I always will.

~ I was literally PILED with work from school and a wattpad fanfic was the last thing on my mind. It was my first year having art, design AND business. Which is really big subjects with LOADS of work if you didn't know. I am a little more used to it a year later and I have only one year left before I graduate. * insert whoo hoo *. But yes I am grade 11 now and my grades are extremely important this year, as I will use it to get into university.

~ And lastly, and probably the biggest reason: I got a boyfriend. Yes y'all you heard me. So you're probably wondering why getting a boyfriend influenced this story so massively. Well that's because while writing this story, I always imagined me with Grayson. And how me and Grayson's relationship would be if we were together irl. And when me and this boy became more and more comfortable with each other, it just felt weird to write about a love story between me and Grayson when in real life I am with a completely different person. It also felt wrong I guess but I felt bad that I wasn't updating my book because it was getting more and more support. So I wrote a little now and then, but not much. So me and this boy were basically just a thing for a huge amount of months. I think from march until december 2018. Then we started officially dating in december. It was also a very emotional roller coaster so being sad didn't give me much motivation either. Oh and yes btw I am still with him he is literally the best boyfriend in the world. I couldn't be more thankful. ANYWAY.

Guys thank you so freaking much <3 I have almost reached 10k reads on this book and I will always be eternally grateful for y'all <3 you are my motivation.

I will definitely be trying to finish this book officially soon.

Love y'all forever <3

- T