What Happens in New Jersey, stays in New Jersey... Right?

Three.

Kellie

We arrive back to the house and it's more or less completely in darkness, apart from the lights inside their house. "There you guys are! We were about to send a search party out!" Says Cameron walking towards us with a slice of pizza in hand. "We're back now, what are we watching?" Grayson replies, taking off his jacket and placing it on the stairs and then taking a seat on the sofa. "To all the boys I've loved before, can I just clarify that it wasn't my personal choice and that I would have preferred a horror" Ethan rolls his eyes, clearly not impressed. "The fact you've had to clarify that kind of makes it sound like it was your choice" I reply, winking towards him and taking my seat next to Grayson on the sofa. He leans over for another slice of pizza and takes two, giving one to me. "Wait.. Grayson. I forgot. You're outside tonight bro" Ethan leaps up and searches his bag for something. Grayson rolls his eyes. "I'm sorry" I mouth to him. I feel awful now. I wish I never even said that now... "It's okay" he mouths back, embracing me. "Take this, and film whatever you can. Would be good footage for a video" Ethan exclaims, giving Grayson a small camera.

Grayson gathers his necessities for the evening and I give him another hug before he leaves. "I'll see you in the morning" I say, seeing him walk towards the forrest. "Have fun G!" Ethan yells from the front door as myself, Cameron and Ethan watch him walk into the darkness until he's out of sight.

I hope he'll be okay.. of course he will be. It's Grayson.

*Several hours later*

I toss and I turn. Unable to fall asleep. I ended up staying at their house as by the time Cameron, Ethan and myself had finished stuffing our faces with pizza and watching anything and everything on Netflix it was too late for me to drive home, so here I am in Cameron's room, trying to fall asleep. It reminds me of when Cameron and I used to have sleepovers when we were kids and we would always try and prank Grayson and Ethan but it always backfired because little did we know at the time, they were also planning to do the same to us. I giggle, remembering the memory. I sit up, and look outside the bedroom window. The only light coming from the full moon outside. I wonder if Grayson is okay? I wonder if he's hungry? Thirsty maybe? I wonder if he found anywhere to sleep safely tonight?

All these thoughts run around in my head. Grayson and I have always been known to be the ones who overthink everything during a night.

I get up, put on a pair of boots and head quietly downstairs in the hope I don't wake Cameron, Ethan or the rest of their family. I put on the jacket left on the stairs - it's Grayson's. It smells of him. It's also extremely warm too. I zip it up, grab a box of left over pizza and head out the door.

Oh, it's a lot colder than I thought it would be. I get onto one of the quad bikes, turn the headlights on and head into the forrest in the attempt to find Grayson. "Oh shit.. I think I'm lost. This just gets better" I stop, in the middle of nowhere. "GRAYSON!" I yell, hoping he can hear me from afar. I squint my eyes, seeing what seems to be a fire in the distance. I continue to walk towards the light and end up seeing him led on a man-made bamboo bed. I laugh, why does this not surprise me. He always watches those survival videos on YouTube.

"Kellie? Is that you? What on earth are you doing out here?" He leaps up, carefully. Not wanting to damage his makeshift bed for the night. "I thought you might be hungry?" I reply, holding out a pizza box and two cans of soda.

He embraces me, he's still so warm. I guess he's pleased to see me after all. "Sit down" he says, moving to the side. I carefully sit down on the very well put together bed, and Grayson manages to sit down too, the bed only just managing to hold the both of our weights combined. "You really shouldn't have come out here by yourself K, what were you thinking?" He says, taking a bite into a slice of pizza. "I know, I couldn't sleep anyway and well.. you know what you and I tend to do of a night - overthink.." I reply, opening the can of soda. "Same here, it's always worse during the night isn't it.. even trying to clear your mind doesn't work. It's always there" he replies, comforting me whilst his mouth half full. "See, you were hungry Gray" I nudge him, causing a laugh between us. "Oh.. by the way. I'm not letting you go back to the house on your own, I'm either coming back with you or you're staying here with me until morning so I know you're safe either way" he says, putting the now empty pizza box on the floor. "Well you can't go back until morning, so I guess I'm stuck here with you" I playfully nudge him again.