You Have To Support Friends Through Anything, Right?

Part TwentyFour

"I love you too."

I watched his head shot up from the bed. He's eyes were bright red, and his cheeks soaked with tears.

"Your- I- you-" Ethan kept spitting out words, obviously not knowing what to say.

I went to move my right arm to Ethan, put instead received a shooting pain through my arm. I hissed as I looked down to see a red cast going from in between my thumb an pointer finger, to just inches below my arm pit.

"You broke your arm." Ethan said quietly. I looked at his hands holding my one good hand, and saw a bunch of blood and bruises on his knuckles.

"Ethan what happened?" I said, trying to examine his knuckles.

"I-" He sighed. "I lost control and beat that asshole."

My breath got caught in my throat. I forgot about David. "Da-David?" I asked.

Ethan nodded. "Y/n, you don't have to worry about him anymore. He won't hurt you. I promise."

"What do you mean?"

"David died with the impact of the accident."

"Woah." I said breathlessly. "But I thought you said you beat him?"

"I did. But I didn't know he was dead when I did." There was a long moment of silence. "I thought I lost you." He said as his voice cracked and tears spilled.

I moved my hand from his, and extending my arm. He got the message, and lightly put his head on my shoulder. Ethan tried to calm his sobs to sniffles, as I rubbed his back.

"When I said I love you, I mean it. Not like a sister. Not like a best friend. More than that. More than I can describe." He said bluntly and fast as he raised his body to look at me.

"And I said I love you to." I said with a smile, which hurt because of a cut on my lip, but i smiled anyways.

Ethan's face broke out with the biggest smile. He's eyes slowly moved to my lips, as he leaned closer.

Before I knew it, his lips were on mine. Ethan kissed me, and I kissed back. Soon, he pulled away, looking down at me. But he soon looked up, at my heartbeat monitor which was beeping like crazy.

I closed my eyes and scrunched up my face. I totally forgot about that. "This is awkward.." I said slowly. I heard Ethan's deep chuckle.

I felt fingers softly gazing my cheek. I opened my eyes to see Ethan just as close to me as he was before. He took my good hand and brought it to his chest.

"It's ok. Mine is doing the same exact thing. Except we can't see my heartbeat with our eyes." He said with a laugh, which made me laugh too.

Ethan kissed me again, and as I was about to kiss back, we jerked our heads to the door as he heard a scream.

"HELL FUCKING YES!" Grayson said, with both fists in the air.

Ethan and I laughed, as he leaned back into his chair, not letting go of my hand. Grayson came over and kissed my forehead like usual.

"So... is y/s/n finally in place?" Grayson said overly eager.

"Well if only you gave me time to properly ask her to be my girlfriend." He said playfully glaring at his twin. The he moved his eyes to me. "Y/n Y/m/n Y/l/n, will you make me happy and be my girlfriend?"

"Yes." I smiled. Ethan leaned over to kiss my forehead. Grayson literally squealed like a five year old on Christmas morning. Which made me laugh.

"Thanks Gray. For always ruining the moment." Ethan said with a laugh spread in his voice.

"It's what I do best!" He said, leaning back, and resting his feet in the side of my bed.