Ever After

In My Head

2:38 A.M.

James blinked. He couldn't sleep. He'd been staring at the red numbers on his clock for half an hour now.

His eyes burned, but he couldn't get them to stay shut for longer than ten seconds. He sighed, turning over to face his wall.

Why did Grayson have to be such a dick the other day? James hadn't done anything.

The oldest reached for his phone, unlocking it to get on instagram. He scrolled for a little before switching to twitter.

James liked a few tweets, even retweeted some before coming across a tweet that made him frown.

Grayson Dolan @graysondolan

Why am I such an asshole?

I mean, yeah, but James didn't want Grayson to beat himself up over this.

The oldest checked the time stamp on the tweet; 2:17 A.M.

Maybe Grayson couldn't sleep either. James heard once that if someone else was talking about you then you wouldn't be able to sleep.

James wasn't talking, but the other boy was definitely on his mind. He wondered if it worked the same way. And if it did, was Grayson thinking about him? Was that the reason James couldn't sleep?

No, that was stupid, but James liked the tweet anyway for good measure. Maybe he did want Grayson to feel a little bad. After all, the younger was being far more difficult than he needed to be.

James didn't get a chance to finish his thought when his phone dinged, interrupting him.

Grayson 🖤

are you awake?

Grayson was giving him the opportunity to not reply, basically leaving it up to James to take the first step in fixing this. Whatever this was now.

James didn't want to, but he wasn't the type of person to ignore someone, so he typed out his response and stared at the screen for a good minute before hitting send.

James

Yes.

The oldest made sure to add a period after his message. He didn't want Grayson to think he could just text him in the middle of the night and then things would be okay.

Grayson 🖤

Can I come over?

James blinked, taken back. Come over? What? Maybe he wanted to apologize, but this was a little ridiculous. Hadn't he seen the period?

James

Grayson, it's almost 3 am..

There wasn't anything to do here at three in the morning. James knew Grayson wasn't coming to hang out, but it felt awkward to have him come over just to apologize. Especially this late, the sun would rise in a few hours.

Grayson 🖤

And this is important. I'll be there in a few.

James couldn't exactly stop him. He could refuse to answer the door, but both twins and Emma had a key to his house so there was no use in that. Grayson would probably just walk in anyway, he usually did.

James set his phone down on his nightstand to wait for Grayson. He hadn't noticed how tense he was til he breathed out. Why was he so nervous? It was just Grayson. He was coming to apologize, everything would go back to normal after tonight.