My Roommate. My Savior.

Chapter 16

(Ali's POV)

At the end of my paper I said, paraphrasing of course, I said that if given the chance I would love again. But now that Grayson has given me the chance I am so scared and I don't know what to do about it.

Do I take a shot? Do I shoot him down? Or do I let it go for the six months I gave him and see what happens?

I get out of the shower and dry myself off. I then get dressed and french braid my hair. Then I walk out of the bathroom.

I walk into the kitchen and turn the light on. When I turn back to walk to the fridge Grayson is standing in front of a small table set up with candles and and beautiful plates, glasses and silverware.

"What is this?"

"I have six months. I didn't want to waste any time. Ali, will you please join me for dinner and dancing afterwards?" He asks holding his hand out to me.

I nod. "Yeah. I guess I can do that." I say when on the inside I'm saying, 'fuck yes'.

"Thank you. I would have felt horrible, in more than one way if you had said no." He sighs.

I chuckle. "Well, I didn't so you don't have to worry. So what's for dinner and is it homemade?" I ask sitting down.

"Well, you should know me well enough to know it's not homemade and that we are having pizza." He says sitting a pizza down on the table.

I laugh. "It is so like you to do this." I joke with him.

"Yes it is and I must warn you, when I do in fact get you to fall for me, we are probably going to have pizza all the time." He says putting a piece on my plate.

I pick it up and take a bite. "So, tell me about yourself. I mean, I know we did the whole where did you grow up and what's your back story but I want to know what you notice about your personality. Like do you know that sometimes you are class A dick?" I laugh and he laughs with me.

"Ok. Fine. I am very opinionated. I am sarcastic and in some cases I am a class A dick." He laughs. "But, I am working on it. The hardest part is admitting it."

"Well, at least you aknowledge you dickedness." We chuckle.

"I think we should play a game." He says.

"What game?"

He smiles evily. "I used to play a game with my friends and basically what we do is exchange pick up lines and whoever has the worst ones wins. Are you in?" He explains the rules.

"Ok. I bet you are pretty good at this game and I'm curious." He cringes.

"I don't know whether to take that as a complement or not." He laughs.

"I'll go first." I tell him. He nods.

"If you were a chicken, you'd be impeccable." I say and we bust up laughing.

"That was terrible."

"Your turn."

"Ok. Are you ready for this? If I had to rate you between 1-10 I would make you a 9 because I'm the one you're missing."

"Oh good god. That was so dumb."

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go."

"Ok. I lost my teddy bear, will you sleep with me instead?"

"I would love too." He laughs.

"Yeah well, I don't really do that on a first date." I say but laugh right after.

"Oh hey, are you from Tennessee? Cause you're the only ten I see." He says winking. I laugh.

"Cheesy."

"What no its not." He defends.

"Whatever. Do you like bacon? Wanna strip?"

"And you thought mine was cheesy." He laughs.

"Hey baby, wanna sit on my lap? We'll talk about the first thing that pops up." He leans back in his chair and pats his lap. I laugh for the 20th time in the past five minutes.

"My doctor says I'm lacking in Vitamin U."

"Oh. Really?" I chuckle. "Well, if only there was something I could do?"

"Shut up and take your turn." I say punching his shoulder.

"Are you Cinderella? Cause I see that dress coming off by midnight." He winks.

"Who's cheesy now?" I giggle.

"Whatever. I'm winning."

"If it helps you sleep at night." I shrug.

"I'll have you know that it does." He snaps his fingers.

"Whatever. You remind me of an overdue library book, cause you got fine written all over you." I say.

"Once a nerd always a nerd, even with pick up lines." He shakes his head.

"I'm not a nerd! I'm a Dreamboat, or so I've been told." I say back.

He gasps. "Moving on. You like math? Cause I want to add you to my life, subtract your clothes, divide your legs and multiply ourselves." I laugh so loud I probably woke the neighbors.

"That was horrible. And so sexual. Very you though, I must say."

"Oh. So I'm horrible and sexual. I guess I can live with that...with you by my side." He winks again.

"Oh god. Grow up!" I laugh.

"Take your turn."

"Aside from being sexy, what do you do for a living?" I say as if I'm sincerely asking.

"Yes!" He throws his hands in the air. "You finally realized! That just goes to show. Cause I think your sexy to so two positives do not make a negative meaning us being together is going to have a positive outcome." He stands and walks to my side of the table. He kneels down in front of me.

"We are both going to school at UCLA. We are both in dorm 333. We are both from Redding. And we are both sexy." When he says this I laugh. "We are ment for each other." He grabs my hands and kisses my knuckles.

"I don't know Grayson. You still have six months."

"When have you ever seen someone fall in love with someone else when they haven't already dated? In every good movie the couple breaks up then when they get back together and they are more in love than ever. And I think, our break was the past two weeks." He explains.

I look at him skeptically. "One week and if by the end of the week you don't like it than we will break it off and go back to the original plan?" He begs.

I think about it. "One week." I say then I get up and walk into the living room.

"Thank you." He says sitting next to me on the couch. I get up and sit on his lap.

"Just don't break me. Please." I beg him. "I told myself if given the chance I would love again but if you break me more than I already am, I may not ever heal."

"I promise you that I will not break you. And if I accidentally do, I swear to pick you up and put you back together." I nod and he kisses my forehead, then I lay my head on his chest and sigh.

We sit for a while until I fall asleep. Then I don't know what happened but I didn't worry because for whatever reason, it has been easier to trust Grayson then it has to trust anyone else, and that worries me.

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P.S. Who do you think won the game?
P.P.S Should they dance say in the morning cause Grayson deserves his dance?
P.P.P.S. What song should they dance to?