4 a.m. ☞ dt

1.0 - grayson

4 a.m.
1.0 - grayson

"she is so beautiful. i watch her sleep at night. i doubt she knows. i don't think she'd want to know. it's not a creepy habit. i admire her beauty. her effortless beauty. she doesn't ever try to. look good, but she always appears stunning. in this moment she is everything to me and i will never forget it. she is asleep, resting beside me. dreaming of me, i fantasize. god only knows she is all i dream of. her lips are parted. they look soft enough to kiss. her hair has fallen over the left side of her face. her eyebrows are untamed. the three freckles underneath her eye are visible. my god. she is gorgeous. she is my god. my saviour. my motivation. my light. she is the reason i was put on this - "

charlotte inhaled deeply and blinked her eyes a few times. she was startled to see me already awake, but she recovered quickly. "good morning," she yawned.

i grinned at her. "morning."

she eyed my notebook in my hand and raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

"whatcha doing in that thing?" i shook my head at her and smiled softly.

"still not gonna tell me?"

"maybe some day." i answered simply. i'm not ready to give up all of my thoughts and emotions to her yet. not just yet. but in the meantime, she can have the rest of me. she already does. i roll out of bed and hold my hand out for her to grab.

"come on, let's go to work!" i said.

she groaned and laughed. "how do you say that so excitedly?"

"because i get to see you all day," i winked, throwing her the red polo that was our uniform. charlie has started working with me at safeway and our shifts were usually pretty similar. every now and then i would work a day she didn't or she'd close the store a day i worked mid or the other way around, but overall we worked together often.

we weren't together. not officially yet, anyways. but i knew she cared. she knew i did. how could you not? how could you spend every day with your best friend and not care for them? she meant so much to me and we had only known each other a couple months. it's crazy how that works, isn't it?

we went to work together and went off to our different stations. i was at checkout eighteen and she was working fifteen so we made eye contact many times. it certainly helped that i was staring at her almost my entire shift. i couldn't help it. she was beautiful. at the end of the day i checked the clock that hung near me and saw that we only had twenty minutes left until we got off. i only had three people in my line and charls had five people in her's.

"hey, how's it's going?" i said, greeting my customer while i looked at charlie.

a deep voice answered, "fine," he laughed, "trying to remember my brothers favourite food."

i glanced down at his items and saw a frozen pizza and canned pineapples.

"can't go wrong with pizza," i laughed. once charlie and i made eye contact i smiled and looked to my customer. he was looking down at his phone. his dark, unstyled hair covered his face.

"that'll be $9.34, sir."

he took a twenty dollar bill from his orange phone case and handed it to me. it was the first time i saw his face and the first time he saw mine. i froze.

"what the fuck," he mumbled, "what are the odds?"

"ethan?"

"do you see other guys your age who look exactly like you?" he scoffed, smiling at me. i still held the dollar bill in my hand, unable to move.

"what are you doing here?" i asked, my voice shaky.

"i came to visit you and dad. duh." he rolled his eyes.

"hey man, i get off after this line is empty. can you just wait for me over there?" i asked, pointing to the chairs that lined the windows over by starbucks.

"sure, man."

quickly, i rushed through getting everyone's groceries checked and started over to charlie, who had just finished her line as well. she looked at me suspiciously.

"what's up?"

"uhm, so, ethan is here and i need you to wait for me so he and i can talk." i scrambled out of my mouth, looking over to him.

"ethan?"

"my brother,"

"oh, right," she sighed, "i'll grab a coffee and wait for you." i nodded and i walked over to my twin brother. he looked up at me expectedly, like i had some grand ole' speech to present, telling him how much i missed him. but i didn't. i missed him, of course, but i was beyond angry at him for leaving me.

"i don't live with dad anymore," i blurted.

his eyes widened, but he remained calm. "i can understand why. never thought you could do it. so, you got your own place now?"

"no," i scowled, "i work at a fucking grocery store; how do you think i would pay rent?"

"i don't know, bro,"

"i stay at a motel with my best friend," i informed him, "charlie and i split the bill every night until we can afford to get a place together."

"i'm glad you're making friends," he notes, a sincere glaze in his eyes. but i couldn't take it.

"like you'd know if i had friends or not. you haven't been here the last three years. i could be ducking dead! you haven't tried in the slightest bit to keep in touch while you stayed with our aunt and i was home getting beat up by our own father!" i growled, glaring at him as if my looks could make him drop to the ground.

at first he didn't say anything. he looked to the ground guiltily, not knowing what to say. "he started hitting you?" he whispered, mostly to himself, i think.

"yeah," i nodded.

i looked away from my brother and gazed to where charlie sat, on the other side of the coffee stand. we made eye contact, and i smiled at her. she smiled back and raised an eyebrow, as if she was asking if she could join us now. i motioned with my head for her to join me. she got up anxiously and walked over to ethan and i.

"hello," she said, breaking the silence between ethan and i. he peered his head up and smiled at the girl. my beautiful girl.

"it's nice to finally meet you," she said politely, "i'm charlotte, but you can call me charlie." she acted like i spoke gentle, kind things about him frequently,  although she knew slim to nothing about him.

he embraced her in an awfully friendly manner before whispering in her ear, "i'm ethan."

A/N

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