Bloodlust: Grayson Dolan Love Story

Chapter One: New Jersey

𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭
𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗

Miami

I was going to miss everything about this place. I was going to miss the sun baring on my skin; the way it heated my skin glowing with it's every ray while high in the sky. I was going to miss the hot sand rubbing against my body whenever I was at the beach soaking up the ocean salt air whenever I was stressed. I was going to miss everything that made up Miami, Florida, but it was something I had to let go. I was moving to a place in New Jersey, a place where the season changed every month and almost everyone in the town knew each other from birth. It was called Avalon, population 1,406. I used to live there with my parents, but they divorced when I was five, and I moved with my mother, Caroline Kent and her wife Renee West.

I barely remember the whole ordeal, but I do remember the key moments that caused my life to shift from one state to the other. Back in 2005 my mom had gotten into an accident that injured her shoulder which resulted in her going to physical therapy with Dr. Renee West. What was suppose to be recovery for her injury caused them to fall in love to the point she divorced my father. My father, William "Billy" Steele, one of the most caring, push-overs, I have ever met. I didn't mean it in a mean way. It was just what I noticed from the whole divorce ordeal. You would think a father would throw fits over his ex-wife taking his daughter across the states, but he never did. He continued to pay child-support, but never argued with my mother or demand I be with him in the summer.

He just wanted us both to be happy and if Miami was the place where we would get it, we would get it there. In my words, I just think my mom got lucky when it came to ex-husbands. No one, perhaps not even Renee, could love my mother like my father does, but he would never admit it wanting to seem like he moved on. That's at least what he comes off as whenever we talk on the phone. I taped the last of my box looking around my empty room. This was it. The many days and memories I spent in this room were soon going to be nothing but memories. I would no longer walk into this house unless on vacation or something along those lines.

With Renee as a new sports physical therapist, I wouldn't be able to stick around with them. My mother's words. I wouldn't mind doing the rest of high school online and then moving in to a University of Miami dorm, but my mom had refused over a million times saying these last two years were meant to be amazing for High school. I think it was a load of shit. High school was bullshit and every moment made me want to slam my head into a locker. I just didn't find it fun. There was nothing fun about sitting along at a prep-rally while everyone else was with their friends. Nothing would change in Avalon.

" Violet !" Renee called me from the hallway." Don't forget your bag by the kitchen !"

" Thanks !" I shouted back, zipping my last bag and staring at my empty room.

I felt a pit at the bottom of my stomach. I just didn't know what to expect from this big move. The last time I had flown to Avalon, I was seven. By now, a lot of things had to change and I knew everyone in the damn town would gossip on how Caroline Kent and William Steele's long lost daughter had finally returned.

" Here we go."

I slung my bag over my shoulder before closing my bedroom door for the final time and heading to the kitchen only to see Renee in tears while my Mom rubbed her back.

" Renee." I whined, placing my bag on the floor and hugging her.

She laughed, squeezing me tightly to her body." I'm sorry." She cried, wiping away the tears as if it was wrong to show it.