Reunited (Hayes Grier Fan FIc)

20: Back

Hayes~

When I woke up Eliza wasn’t there and I panicked a little bit, but heard humming coming from downstairs and figured she was making pancakes.  I had to dress somewhat fancy today for the surprise, so I put on a gray button up shirt and black pants.  Then I put my hair in its usual quiff and walked downstairs.

It’s kind of crazy that I’m only 17, almost 18, not even a legal adult yet, and I’m married and am living with my beautiful wife, the love of my life.  Most 17 year olds are in 11th or 12th grade, but I’m a junior in college.  Most 17 year olds live with their parents; I live in my own house.  Most 17 year olds don’t even think about marriage, I’m married to the love of my life.  I guess you could say that neither of us are like normal 17 year olds.  Whatever.

I walked into the kitchen just as Eliza was setting out the plates.  She smiled at me, “Dressing up today?”  I nodded and smiled, “Yeah, I have a surprise for you, so put on something dressy, but not too fancy.”  She nodded as we sat down, “Ok, and Nash called while you were sleeping and said you need to call him back.”  I nodded and we dove into our delicious breakfast.  Her pancakes are the best.

After breakfast Eliza went up to change so I decided to call Nash back.  He picked up in the middle of the first ring, so I know it’s something important.  “Hayes!  I need to tell you something!”  “What is it?  Are you ok?”  I chuckled lightly.

“Hayes this isn’t funny!  They let Shawn out of prison!”  I gasped, “WHAT!?”  “Yeah, and he called me this morning and said to be on edge for his ‘plan’.”  I groaned, “Why didn’t you tell Eliza this?”  He sighed and I could tell he shrugged, “I didn’t want to worry her, and you’re better at telling her stuff.”  I chuckled lightly and so did he. 

Then Eliza came back down.  “Hey Nash, Eliza just came down, I’ll tell her but I have to go.”  “Ok, be careful.”  “I will, bye.”  “Bye.”

She must have seen the look of worry on my face because she came over and sat next to me, “Hey are you ok?”  I sighed, “No, I have something to tell you, but you can’t freak out.”  She nodded slowly, “It’s ok Hayes, you can tell me anything.”  I nodded and sighed, “Nash called to say that they let Shawn out of prison early and Shawn called Nash and said to be on the lookout for his ‘plan’ to start.”

Eliza’s eyes were wide with shock and worry and horror.  Her mouth formed a small ‘O’ shape.  “Oh no, not again.  No, no not again.”  I hugged her and rubbed circles in her back to calm her down, “Sh, it’s ok.  We will just hang out here for a while.  It’ll be ok.”  She nodded, “ok, but what was my surprise?”

I sighed, “I was gonna have the people at the fair put up the pictures from the shoot we had for the billboard for the ‘Tunnel of Love’ we did the first time we went there as an official couple.”

“Awe, that is so sweet!  Hayes, you’re the best!”  She hugged me and I hugged back.

Like I said, I love her so much it hurts.

So instead of the fair then dinner on the cliff, we hung out in the house.  We played hide-and-seek and tag and a bunch of other games.  It’s funny to see a married couple acting like 4-year-olds.

We played until we got tired so we snuggled up on the couch and watched TV until the phone rang.

Eliza~

I answered the phone, “Hello?”  I heard a deep and all too familiar chuckle, Brian.  I froze when I heard his voice, “Hello Eliza, long time no see.”  I have to be strong.  “What do you want?”  I said, trying to keep the fear out of my voice.  “You.”  My eyes got wide and Hayes looked over worried.  I mouthed ‘Brian’ to him and when he understood his face went as pale as mine probably was.

“Eliza, I will succeed this time because I have help, right Shawn?”  I heard footsteps then Shawn’s voice, “Right, and then there’s Adam, you remember him right?”  Oh god.  I’m really dead this time.  “Have fun Eliza.”  Then they hung up.  I dropped the phone and stood frozen.

I felt Hayes hugging me.  Not talking, just hugging me.  After a while he pulled away just enough to look into my eyes.

“Eliza, what happened?”

I just now realized that I was crying as I replied, “B-Brian is b-back and-and he h-has Shawn and A-Adam h-helping h-him.”  I stuttered through tears.  I knew Hayes was scared, but he never showed it anywhere except his eyes.  He hugged me again, tighter this time.  “I won’t let them hurt you again.  That’s a promise.”  I smiled at him and hugged him tighter. 

“Hayes, I love you.”  “I love you, too, Eliza.”  We stayed like that for a while before pulling away and moving the cuddle-fest to the bed where we fell asleep wrapped in each other’s arms.