no deal | g.d (book 2)

chapter seven

song for chapter: armor- landon austin

|a week later|
ethan's pov

12:03p.m
daniela: malia will get through this. she's a strong girl

12:05p.m
me: i know she is. but i just don't know how to tell grayson that the girl.. is here at college with him

12:07p.m
daniela: they will get through it together

12:11p.m
me: do you wanna hangout together on saturday so we can leave malia at the dorm alone and i can tell grayson to go there?

12:13p.m
daniela: are you going to tell grayson about malia being here?

12:15p.m
me: yeah. i just don't know how he's going to take it. it's been two weeks since he said he saw malia at the party.

"ethan dolan. what is the answer to fifteen?" the professor said, causing me to shut off my phone.

i look at the problem in my book, "five-thousand six hundred twenty nine pi."
i read my answers that i finished last night.

she nodded my head with a smile, "good job mr. dolan but next time, your answer won't be the only thing i'm going to ask for you to give."

i nodded my head; understanding her while some girls giggled, "of course ma'am." i smiled assuringly.

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|thursday|
[4:10p.m]
malia's pov

"m, take a nap or something," she told me while letting out a deep sigh.

i shook my head, "i don't want to."

"you stayed up all night trying to finish your stupid homework. you need rest, i'm worried about you," she groaned while getting off her bed.

she walked over to my bed and sat besides me to watch me do my work.

"i'm fine, seriously. i just wanna get this work done with," i said as my fingers continuously move to letter to letter on the keyboard.

my hand reached for the cup of iced coffee on the table besides me and started to take a few sips from it.

"and drinking coffee is not good for you. especially if you're going to do it everyday," she said as if she was my mom.

i sigh deeply while putting my laptop down on my side and held onto daniela's shoulders, "mommy. i'm fine. i promise you."

she scoffed with a laugh, "i'm sorry that i just love and care for you so much."

my eyes slowly looked down at her neck where she's wearing my necklace.

it looks beautiful on her.

"and i completely understand but you don't have to because you have your own things to worry about and same goes for me," i said as a fact while making eye contact with her again.