Endurances

Part 6 - Secret Love

Rose gave me a schedule along with two bracelets. One of the bracelets was a watch, and the other was a bright pink bracelet, the one I was supposed to wear when I was on my period. The schedule told me when breakfast, lunch, dinner, and when my "sessions" were. My sessions with Grayson were every Tuesday and Thursday, at 9:00 PM, and my sessions with Ethan were every Saturday at 10:30 PM. I thought it was strange I had more sessions with Grayson then I did with Ethan, but I disregarded it quickly.

I checked my watch given to me by Rose, and noticed it was almost dinner time. By this time, Rose had already left for dinner, and by the looks of the empty hallway, the rest of the girls had too.

While I was walking down the hallway towards the dining hall, Grayson came up behind me and put his arm around me.

"Hey Ellie" he said with a slight chuckle.

I smiled, " Hi Grayson"

"You can call me Gray if you want, after all, I get to call you Ellie instead of Elliana." He said, winking.

"Ok, I guess that's fair, Gray" I said, winking back at him.

"Oh! I almost forgot! I have something for you Ellie"

"oh ya? what is it?"

He pulled a beautiful and VERY expensive Louis Vuitton watch. It was covered in diamonds and rose gold interior. It was absolutely stunning.

" G-Gray, I can't except this!" I exclaimed, astonished.

"Come on El, I bought it just for you." He leaned in closer and whispered "when I saw how beautiful it was, I thought of you and just had to get it."

I was shocked, I was starting to wonder if Rose was right, did Grayson have affection for me? I pushed the thought away, and accepted the watch from Gray. It was absolutely stunning. The diamonds on it glistened in the light, and I thought, maybe it won't be so bad here after all.

Gray and I approached the dining hall. As I stepped in, I noticed Rose was right, I did get way more elegant dresses then the rest of them had.

I walked around, trying to find my name tag, eventually finding it. I sat down at my assigned seat, and greeted the people next to me. Sadly, Rose was at the opposite end of the table as I was, but I was okay with it because I wanted to meet some new people anyway.

I turned to the girl on my right hand side.

"Hey, do you know when the food will be served? I'm starving, I haven't eaten since breakfast."

The girl smiled at me "aha you must be the new girl, and you'll know when the food is being served, the Twins will announce it."

I chuckled, "haha thanks, and ya I am the new girl I guess"

"oh well My name is Violet, if you ever need anything, my room is on the second floor!"

"Thank you so much Violet, and my name is Elliana."

Her eyes grew wider and her smile faded a bit. She caught herself quickly though, and replaced it with a fake smile now.

"That's a beautiful name. I'm surprised it's not after a flower."

"Ya me too, Rose was telling me everyone else has flower na--

I was interrupted by Ethan starting his speech.

"It is now 7:30 on the dot, you girls know what to do, LETS EAT!"

"Now now, hold on a second Ethan, we haven't introduced the newest member of our family, where are your manners?"

Ethan seemed confused and unsure about what Grayson was talking about. "oh u-uh ya you can introduce her I guess"

Grayson's smile got really big "Ladies, this is our newest member Elliana!"

The whole table fell silent, all side conversations stopped, and even a few jaws dropped. One girl in particular, I believe her name was Tulip, I suppose overreacted a bit to much, and Grayson gave her a very angry glare. She immediately closed her mouth, and smiled at me.

The girls' reaction was very strange to me, as the food was set on the table, my thoughts got the best of me. Why was everyone so shocked? and why did Ethan seem confused when Grayson wanted to introduce me? I would have to ask Rose when we got back to our room that night.