toxic love

Not Home // 8

(Aria's POV)

                   After school I walk out and do the usual. Put my music on shuffle and put my earphones on to muffle out the sound of chatter from peers.

But this time is different someone lightly pulls my shoulder back ; Grayson.

"Hey want to come over today? " Grayson asks in curiosity.

"I guess , I have nothing to do anyway." I replied

Grayson gives me his number and I give him mine.

We say our goodbyes and part ways.

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(Grayson's POV)

After me and Aria exchange numbers I say goodby me and she says hers.

I see Ethan while walking to my usual place at the front of the school walking.

"Hey E! Over here!" I yell at him to get his eyes off of his phone and his attention to me.

"Yo wassup Gray what's up!" he spits out.

"So Aria is coming over to the house, we're just gonna hang out and get to know each other more." I admit to Ethan.

Ethan rolls his eyes in obvious annoyance.

" Yo bro what's wrong you good?" I ask out of curiosity.

"Nothing dude, don't worry about it " he replies.

"Okay, did you call Cameron?" I reasure him to make sure we have a ride home.

"Cam said that she's too lazy and tells us to take a hike." Ethan sighs

" so , we're walking home?" I spill out.

"yup." Ethan says

After we had that convo we walked in the direction that our home is with our faces stuck to our phones.

30 minutes later

I plop down onto my bed and go to the my messages.

I typed in Aria's phone number and start texting.

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Grayson ( me ) : 4:15pm
hey Aria, what time are you coming over?

Aria : 4:17pm
Who's this?

Grayson ( me ) : 4:17pm
Grayson lmaoo

Aria: 4:18pm
Oh hey gray what's up

Grayson ( me ) : 4:18pm
hey, and what time are you coming over??

Aria : 4:19pm
hb in 10? Is that cool?

Grayson ( me ) : 4:19pm
Yea sure lol just call me when you get here :)

Aria : 4:20pm
k. Send me your addy so I can Uber there

Grayson ( me ) : 4:21pm
It's house 4156 on 18th street.

Aria : 4:22pm
k thx

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(Aria's POV)

              After I get home I get a text from Grayson. We talk about what time I'm coming over etc. etc. We agreed on coming over in 10 minutes.

I pull off my tight tank top and pull over a baggy t-shirt over my messy bun.

I grab my phone and head out the door.

I call an Uber to his house since I can't drive yet and my dad's not home.

10 minutes later

           I call Grayson to tell him I'm outside and waiting for him to open the door.

He answers with a raspy voice, almost as if just woke up from a nap.

A few seconds later he opens the door shirtless.

"Nice muskles tough guy." I laugh out sarcastically

" thanks babe." He replies with a smirk on his face and winks at me.

"ewwww don't ever do that again!" I laugh out loud.

"I was just kidding." he says along with a giggle.

We've got comfortable enough with each other that he can call me babe in a friend way and I can make fun of him and he won't get butthurt.