"Hey." // E.G.D.

Chapter eleven

~Lexee's P.O.V~

[After school]

"Yo, Lexee!" I heard Grayson's voice echoe through the halls as he came towards my locker. I was putting away books. I slammed the locker shut as he came to me.
"What do you want?" I said, kind of harshly. He gave me a confused look.
"Wanna hang out?" He asked me with a hopefull smile. I rolled my eyes.
"No, I actually do not. Go hang out with that asshole that you call your twin brother." I said to him and started walking away. He grabbed my wrist so that I would turn around and continue to talk with him.
"If this is about the whole thing that happened at lunch.." He said and did not finish his sentence. I started to feel pain on my wrist. It actually started to hurt really bad.
"Sure, I'm not just another toy for Ethan. You fucking lied to me, Grayson. I actually thought that Ethan has changed, but clearly, he's still the same." I said to him, yanked my wrist out of his hold and started walking away at a fast pace. Jade was waiting for me outside of the school. I rushed to her.

"Your house?" Jade asked me once I came to her and I just nodded. I looked down at my wrist, it was red and was turning slightly blue. Jade noticed the slowly changing color on my wrist.
"Lex, what the frick happened?" She yelled at me as she took hold of my wrist in her hands. I grunted in pain.
"Oh my, sorry." She appologized and let go of my wrist.
"Grayson did this to me." I blurted out as if it was nothing. Her eyes went wide.
"I never thought Grayson could be so aggresive." She shook her head.
"Me neither, it's whatever." I said to her and we then reached my house.

I unlocked the door and let Jade go inside first.

"Hello, Mrs. Smi-" Jade started but I cut her off.
"She's not home, she is at work." I said to her as I went to the downstairs bathroom. I got out the first aid kit and cooled my wrist off with some ice.
"Whatcha doing? Jade asked me as she popped her head inside the bathroom.
"Trying to ease the pain, idiot." I said to her with a laugh. She acted offended and put her hand over her heart.
"I thought we were besties." She said and pretended to cry. I laughed at her amazing acting.
"Yeah yeah, go order a pizza." I said to her and her face lit up. She instantly ran to the living room.
I then lightly rubbed some medicine on my wrist and wrapped it with a rolled up bandage. Once I was done with it, I put everything back to place and went to the living room where Jade was supposed to order a pizza.

"Did you order the pizza?" I asked her as I plopped down on the couch and went on my phone.
"Duuh." She said to me like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"What type?" I asked her with my eyes squinted.
"Hawaiian, your favorite." She answered me with a smirk. I nodded my head in satisfaction and went on my phone, again.
"Do you wanna do homework while we wait for the pizza to get here?" Jade asked me and I almost dropped my phone.
"We have homework to do?" I asked her as I locked my phone and placed it on the coffee table beside the couch.
"Yep." She said to me with a smile. I sighed and she giggled as she clapped her hands.

[Like an hour and a half later]

"I'm stuffed from that pizza." Jade said as she poked her belly. I laughed at her and did the same.
"Shouldn't you be go home?" I asked her since it was 5 p.m.
"Oh shit, I kinda forgot." She said as she collected her items that she had brang over from school. I laughed at her again. She put on her shoes.
"Is Cameron picking you up?" I asked her, she nodded at my question.
"Welp, I'm gonna get going. Don't think too much about Ethan, he's a bitch for doing that." She said and hugged me. I hugged her back and she left the house.
I cleaned up the mess that we have made.

My phone all of a sudden dinged, indicating that I got a message. I decided to look what I got.

From Ethan 😈😝: We need to talk. I'll be over in a few.

I did not reply anything. I was slightly scared.
A few minutes had passed, a door bell was heard. I slowly got up from the couch and went to answer the door, the person on the other side of the door was most likely Ethan. I opened the door.

"What?" I said to Ethan who had a smirk on his face. He pushed open the door and slammed it close once he got inside the house.
"Missed me, babe?" He asked me in his low voice as he put his hands on my hips, gently. I looked down at his hands.
"Not at all, sweetie." I said to him and pushed his hands off of me. He was shocked at my actions. Where is all of this courage coming from?
Ethan let out a light chuckle.
"Why were you hanging out with that Mere-bitch?" I asked him as I crossed my hands over my chest. He looked at my hand placement and smirked.
"It was a test. I wanted to see how would you react if I was "cheating" on you on the first day of our official relationship." He said as he put air quotes with his fingers once he mentioned the word cheating. I looked at him with a cofused look.
"Are you actually serious? Did my reaction satisfy you?" I asked him as I scoffed.
"You didn't do shit, you just stared at me." He said and rolled his eyes.
"What did you want me to do? Come over there and beat the shit out of her? I was so close to doing that, but I was with Jade and I did not want to put myself that low." I explained to him, looking him dead in the beautiful eyes of his.
"Honestly, that would be entertaining to watch." He said with a laugh. I rolled my eyes at him.
"You're an idiot, for sure." I said and sat on the couch. I went on my phone, trying to ignore his presence. He sat beside me and put his head on my shoulder.
"C'mon, princess." He said it so sweetly. I refused to attack his face with kisses and moved away from him. I heard him sigh, then gasp.
"What happened to your wrist?" He said as he gently traced his finger on the bandaid. I looked at his hand, then at mine. I slightly frowned at the sight.
"Oh, now you noticed." I said, annoyed. He frowned. Then he clenched his jaw.
"Who did this to you?" He asked me, he was getting slightly angry.
"Do you really want to know?" I asked him as I turned my whole body to him. He nodded his head.
"It was your brother." I said to him. His eyes turned light, it looked like they were filled with sadness, anger.
"And who did this?" He asked me again, he traced his finger off of the bandaid and on to my arm. His touch was so gentle, it didn't hurt like the blades did.
"Y-you." I said to him as tears slowly started to fill my eyes. He looked at my eyes and kissed my cheek. He looked down at my arm again. The scars.. they never heal, they never disappear. He lifted my arm closer to his face and gently kissed the spots on my arm which were filled with cold and empty scars. A tear slipped down my eye, down my cheek. He looked at me once again and wiped the tear away.
"I'm sorry that I did this to you." He whispered to me and brang my head to his chest. I let more and more tears stream down my face, soaking his shirt. He held me closely to him. He was so gentle and sweet.
"Shh." He whispered to me and made me sat up properly. He gave me a sweet kiss and held my hand. He then pulled away and I put my head down.
"Hey, look at me." He said in a soft voice. He lifted my chin up.
"I'll protect you at all costs. I'll keep you safe." He whispered to me and caressed my hand with his thumb. I weakly smiled at him and pulled him in a tight hug.