The Baby Project

3. I need space

I SAID I NEEDED SPACE~ CHAPTER 3:

~~I need space~~

INTRO:

"We leave in 10" she sing songs and I check my notification, and Grayson has now started to message me, his last message reads

please, call me, I love you - gray

Instead of throwing my phone at the mirror or out the window like I want to, I reply back

I need space.

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MY PHONE VIBRATES from the spot beside me on the blow-up mattress. I stare at the screen, Grayson's face appearing, it's a picture that he took when he spammed my phone.

His eyes are squinty and he's pouting, his lips planting a firm kiss on my cheek, and you can see me I'm laughing trying to pull away from him.

I look back at the blank wall in front of me, a lone tear rolling down my face.

"What is that? The fifth time he's called you today" Billie says, and I lift my head up to look at her, she's leaning against the door frame, her hair flattened, skinny jeans and a black tube top on, she's got a pair of frilly socks on, and a scrunchy around her wrist.

I lay back down.

"I don't know, better, I don't care," I say and she walks over to me, lifting the duvet cover sliding in, I face her, laying on my side

"Your hair is straight, your going to mess it up" I reply, knowing how Billie is with her appearance especially her curly hair which she tames everyday, and she laughs,

"I can do it again," she says "anything for you," she says dramatically and she drapes herself over me and I am hit with a powerful memory

...

I place the straightening iron down on the towel that I placed on the vanity, smiling at my masterpiece, I finally have tamed my wild, always knotty, dirty, ugly poop colored- according to Saskia, wavy hair, into a neat, straight hairstyle.

I smile looking up at a shirtless Grayson, he's on his phone, playing some stupid game that we are both addicted to.

"Gray baby," I say and he looks up at me and his mouth turns upwards in an enormous grin

"Wow," he says and I get up twirling, he laughs and I smile "you're hot," he says

I walk over to the bed, and I climb onto his lap he smiles and runs his fingers through my hair, he then smiles taking them out, so I climb over him and put my head in his lap,

"You're gonna mess your hair up love," he says to me

"I can do it again" I reply "anything for you" I reply and he leans down to kiss me, smiling into the kiss.

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"I've got nothing" I whisper

"You have your girls," Billie says "You need to be strong for them, you need to be their mother," she says