ETHMA

15

‼️MATURE LANGUAGE IS USED‼️

vanessa's pov

"flight 754 from Los Angeles to New Jersey is now boarding. i repeat flight 754 from Los Angeles to New Jersey is now boarding." the intercom calls. all 4 of us stand up and get our bags ready.

"ready?" gray asks all of us. "yep." i smile at him. he winks at me. then he holds his hand for me to grab his. i place my hand in his. as we are walking to our gate we see a short-ish line waiting to board.

"guys lets get in line." ethan suggests. all of us follow and walk to the ending of the line and wait. as we are waiting grayson gets a message from his mother. he checks it and gasps. i grab his hand and comfort him. he shows me the message.

*text message*
dm- grayson i am scheduling your fathers funeral.

g- mom, can you wait until e and i get there or until cameron is there with you?

dm- okay i will wait.

grayson calms down. as he is calming down we reach the boarding check. we hand the lady our passports and our tickets. she checks each one of them. "have a nice flight." she says very emotionless.

*after plane ride*

"ready?" gray asks us. "yep." i smile toothless up at him. he winks at me in return. "haha you're so cute." i joke at him. then i think about what i just said. shit. "oh.. um sorry." i look away in embarrassment. "hey it's cool." he reassures me.

once we get off the plane, we go to baggage claim to collect our bags. as we are walking i see grayson's eyes getting watery. i wrap my fingers in his. "hey." i look up at him. "don't worry, i'm fine." he looks the other way. "gray. it's okay to feel sad." he tenses up. "no it's not. i should be happy and strong." he let's go of my hand and walks faster.

i know that he is sad and hurting but he doesn't want to acknowledge the pain. i have to understand that he can't just open up. i speed to reach the rest of the group as we grab our luggages off the carousel. grays grabs mine and wheels it over to me.

"hey, look. umm.. i really sorry about earlier. i'm just really stressed and i'm in a lot of pain right now. i sorry for b-." i interrupt him. "i get it, you are under a lot. i need to understand that. so i'm sorry." he smiles at me. "i'm truly sorry though." he apologizes.

"we are renting a car." ethan talks to the counter guy. "okay, dolan... um oh here!" the guy escorts us over to the car. "here is you're guy's ride. "be careful." he looks at ethan and grayson. they both nod. "bye." as the guy was waking away he winks at emma and i. gray and e both see.

"excuse me?" ethan defenses us. "what?" the guy turns back around. "i saw you wink at my girlfriend." ethan gets defensive. "why would i wink at her when there is someone much higher standing next to her." he looks me up and down and winks at me again. grayson steps in. "she's mine, fat ass!" gray yells. i put my hand on his chest to attempt to hold his back. "run along, ugly ass!" grayson yells as the guy leaves.

"too aggressive." ethan looks at grayson. "sorry." gray looks away. "i'm driving!" says ethan. he gets the keys and starts the car. "babe! pop the trunk." emma yells. ethan does as told.

as all of us pile our bags into the trunk, a guy walks past us. he stops. "hey! grayson? is that you?" the old man looks at gray. he turns around and gets excited. "garrett?" grayson smiles and hugs him. "it's been awhile. you guys doing okay?" he asks concerned. "i heard about your father. i am very sorry. tell your mom that if she needs anything go give me or annie a call." he comforts grayson. "same goes for you, ethan, and cameron. our doors are always open for you guys." he smiles at grayson. gray looks relieved and thankful. "thanks garrett." he hugs him again. "nice seeing you." the man walks away.

"that was sweet." i comment while getting into the car. "how do you know garrett?" i ask the twins. "well garrett when our father was younger, he was 1 grade above our dad in school and garrett always protected our dad and they were best friends going up. and his wife, annie. she actually was in the same class as our mom when she was in grade school." all of us smile at grayson explains to us about garrett and annie. "aww that's soooo sweet." i respond.
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