"Okay so like this" I say making the hand gesture on the screen of my laptop.
Ethan nods at me smiling as he teaches me sign language. Him and Grayson have been teaching me for about 3 weeks now and I'm getting pretty good. I can understand it but not do it myself.
I smile at him as we laugh.
(A/n: Whenever I use ' ' it's Sign language)
'I love your laugh' he says to me with a smug smirk on his face.
"Stoppppp" I say hiding my face from embarrassment. My face turns red with blush causing him to laugh.
I stare at him with a pouty face then bite my lip.
'I love your lips too' he smirks at me
I think of last week. He kissed me. We didn't talk about it after that. He flirted non stop but I didn't mind.
It was funny and made me smile.
I giggle and walk over to my closet.
"What should I wear tomorrow?" I ask him placing my hands on my hips
'Options?' He says to me
"Okay so this is option 1" I say showing him an outfit
He scrunches up his nose and nods his head no
"No need to be rude" I laugh
"What about this one" I say holding up the next outfit
His eyes go wide and he smiles at me.
'I like that one' he says to me. I smile and say thank you
After another hour of talking I say bye to Ethan and go to bed. I barely sleep due to my parents fighting. Their loud yells echoing through the walls of our house. The occasional sound of something breaking.
Why can't they just stop.
I wake up tired and groggy. I struggle to get up and get dressed. I skip breakfast because I want to be skinny and walk to school since my dad had work. I walk to my locker and turn the lock. I open the small metal door and look in the mirror I have. Blue circles underline my red eyes and my skin was pale.
I'm so tired
I feel someone next to me and I slightly jump. I turn to hear a laughter. I look and see that it's Grayson and Ethan. Ethan leaned against Grayson with his elbow on Grayson's shoulder.
I laugh a little and smile. Ethan leans off Grayson and looks at me with a concerned face
'You okay' Ethan asks me
"Yeah um I'm just tired" I say looking down and moving a strand of hair behind my ear.
I shut my locker when me and the two boys start to walk down the hall. We start talking about Drake's new album when we're stopped in our tracks
"Awe look the losers found eachother" Ella and her boyfriend Kyle stand in front of us along with a group of other people.
"Who you calling a loser, bitch" Grayson says.
Grayson moves in front of me and so does Ethan. Ethan puts his hand out holding Grayson back
"What the fuck did you say" Kyle says squaring up to Grayson
"Gray just chill" I say to him with pleading eyes
"Yeah listen to the slut. Take your bitch boy of a brother and leave" Ella says.
"That's it" Grayson says angrily before punching Kyle. Grayson pins Kyle against the lockers and starts knocking him out.
Kyle pushes Grayson and throws him onto the ground. I see Ethan's eyes flood with rage as he grabs Kyle and shoved him off Grayson. He pushes away but he starts to storm back. Ethan turns around and knocks him out. I look at Ethan and he doesn't have a scratch on his face. He didn't even break a sweat. Ethan helped Grayson up and looked at the cut on his younger brothers eyebrow. Ethan looks up at me to see me terrified.
I didn't know he was so violent.
I turn around and run away.
Ethan's POV
I look at Grayson's eyebrow to see a red cut. I look up to see Ali but my heart stops when I do. Her eyes no longer glowing with wonder but quenched in fear. Her smile no longer laughing but a horrified frown. I move closer to her until I see her flinch.
Was she afraid of me?
Her eyes fill with tears as she turns around and runs down the hall.
I run after her. I can't see her. I run down the other hall looking for her. I got to the back of the theatre hoping to hear her sweet voice but I don't.
That's when I realized how bad I fucked up.
