imperfections - grayson dolan

five

It's currently Wednesday morning. I have a quick shower, making sure I'm nice and clean. Grayson said he'd meet me at my locker during lunch, the butterflies in my stomach are going absolutely crazy!

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As class is dismissed, I rush through the busy halls and successfully make it to my locker without getting knocked into today. Wow, I really am getting better at dodging all these freaks at my school.

As I'm in the middle of completing my lock combination, I feel a light tap on my left shoulder.

My body jolts in fear, and my books and pencil case fall straight to the floor. This is when I notice that it was Grayson and I had just made an absolute fool of myself, by getting scared at such a little thing.

My cheeks begin to flush and an embarrassed expression falls over my face.

"I'm so sorry! Let me help you with that," Grayson says, bending down at my feet to pick up my belongings he had caused me to drop.

"Thank-k you. Sorry, it's embarrassing I know, I just get scared really easily..." I say, thinking he's eternally laughing at how much of a dork I am.

"No, I should be apologising. Don't worry, its kind of cute when you're embarrassed anyway." He says, handing me my books.

Isn't this the kind of thing that happens in the movies? You know, like the popular kid falls for the girl who well... doesn't love herself?

"I honestly can't wait another whole day. How do you say we change the date to tonight?" He asks, staring straight into my eyes with his mesmerising hazel ones.

"I uh- I have a maths test tomorrow, but I guess I studied long enough last night. Sure, we can change it to tonight," I say, although deep down I am worried about the small amount of studying I actually completed last night.

Maths has never been a subject that interests me.

"I want you to ace that test. We can spend a few hours together later tonight, but I wanna make sure you finish all your studying before hand," he says, leaning against the wall of lockers.

He lifts my spare hand into his, intertwining our fingers as he does so. I stare down at my hand locked with his and he notices and chuckles.

"How about you meet me at my place at 8, we'll take things from there. Don't stress about it, I have everything planned," he says, lifting our locked hands and kissing mine, before letting our fingers softly seperate from each other's.

"I'll see you then," I say, as he begins to walk away. As he walks down the hall, the turns and notices me staring at him. He gives me a small, slight smirk and then continues on walking. I can't help but smile.

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"Where is he taking you? What are you guys gonna eat for dinner? Wait so he kissed your hand, but not your cheek?" Steph asks, bombarding me with multiple questions at once. She has a habit of doing that when she's excited about a situation.

"He told you you're cute when you get embarrassed? omg omg omg!" Summer exclaims.

"Guys, give Brooke a second to answer your first questions. How can someone even process all the things you're asking at once?" Sarah says giggling, causing the rest of the group to giggle.

"I'm not sure where he's taking me, or what we'll be eating for dinner, but youse better get your heads outta the gutter. Nothing is gonna go down tonight," I chuckle and they all laugh along too.

"So uh, if you get to have Grayson, can I have his sexy twin? That's only fair right, you get Grayson and I get Ethan?" Sylvia asks jokingly, although we all know she is 100% serious.

"Sure, he's all yours" I laugh, causing the other girls to giggle.

These are the girls I mentioned earlier, the girls in mine and Alexia's friendship group. (Sorry if you get confused because they almost all start with 's' but they are girls I have a groupchat with and deserve to be mentioned in the story hahaha).

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Grayson: *sends address*

Brooke: ok thank you, I'll be there soon. what should I wear?

Grayson: you don't have to get too dressed up. you'll look gorgeous no matter the outfit anyway.

Brooke: omg you're too sweet

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I pull up at this gorgeous two story house, here in New Jersey. The nature surrounding the house, sure is beautiful.

I cross the road and start walking up the driveway of the address Grayson had messaged me.

Knock knock

I step back from the door, and just patiently wait, before Ethan opens the door. I can't help but think about what Sylvia had said earlier and I try not to laugh. To do this, I just smile and ask "is Grayson home?"

"Yeah, come in," he says, moving out of the way to let me into their house.

As soon as I walk in, I see a big living room to my left, a room with a piano and drums to my right and a staircase in the middle of my view, with halls on either side of it.

"Grayson tells me a lot about you," Ethan says, "he's really excited to take you out tonight."

"I'm just as excited," I say, smiling widely.

"Gray, Brooke's here!" Ethan shouts, standing at the bottom of the large staircase.

Damn, Grayson must've said something about me, Ethan knows my name. None of the popular kids ever know my name...

"Coming!" Grayson shouts, as I hear a door close upstairs.

Grayson's P.O.V.

"Coming!" I shout, closing my bedroom door behind me.

I quickly walk down the stairs and notice her looking up at me.

She's wearing a pair of black jeans, that aren't ripped and a nice singlet type top, with a slight floral pattern. She also has cute sandals on. My goodness, she's beautiful.

Brooke's P.O.V.

Grayson comes down the stairs quickly and smiles as he notices me looking at him. I glance him a smile back, and then Ethan sees himself out of the room.

"You look beautiful," he says, looking me up and down.

"You don't look too bad yourself," I add, doing the same as he did to me.

He's wearing black, torn jeans, "Old Skool" Vans and a plain light blue t-shirt. I must say, the t-shirt sure does make his biceps look AMAZINGly massive.

This should be a fun evening.

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Thanks for reading, I really hope you're enjoying the story so far!

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-Eliana x