Telling our families

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It's been two weeks since me and Grayson started dating and I can honestly say I love him. I know I've only known him for about 3 months but knowing I can talk to him about anything and having the distance between us has made it so much easier to fall for him. We decided that we would tell our families and that would be it. We have to hide it from our fans but we need to tell our families especially if our relationship is serious.
It's Saturday which means I don't have to anything today besides record our group day video which is the 100 chicken nugget challenge but that's not til 3 and and it's only 11 right now. I decide to get ready for the day before sitting down with my mom to tell her.
45 minutes later and I'm ready with my makeup done and everything."Mom" I yell.
"Yes Ari" she yells back.
"Can I talk to you!"
"Yes come here!"
"Hey mom" I say walking into her room and sitting on her bed.
"Hey Mimi" she says back "what's up?"
"You know that guy I told you about Grayson?"
"Yea, what about him"
"He kinda asked me to be his girlfriend like two weeks ago"
"He did! Wait you didn't tell me?"
" I wanted to wait a few weeks before just to see if we would last specially since it's long distance so yea"
"Well i told you as long as he doesn't hurt you, he isn't using you, and you don't do anything until your legal I'm fine with it. Oh and i get to meet him even if it's on a FaceTime call "
"He wouldn't do that and of course to the legal thing and the FaceTime thing. So your okay with it?"
"Yes I'm okay with it. My babygirl has her first boyfriend" she says emotionally.
"Mom" i whine. " thank you for accepting this I love you mommy"
"Love you too Mimi"

Grayson p.o.v.: ( a week later)
I've never really kept anything from Ethan so this should be interesting. Me and Ari decided to tell our families about us so I'm about to tell Ethan and then I'm just gonna text my parents and sister about her not going into so much detail about the age thing .
"Ethan! E!" I yell into the hall.
"What Grayson!" he yells back.
"Can we talk please?" I ask .
"Yea sure" he says as we go to sit down at the table. "What's this about"
"You know that girl I've been talking to Arianna"
"Yea What about her"
"So ever since we met we started messaging and about 3 weeks ago we had our first FaceTime call and it was amazing"
"That's great man but what's this gotta do with us sitting down here. There's more isn't there?"
"Yes. During that same call I asked her to be my girlfriend and she said yes. So basically what I'm saying is that we're dating dude. She's amazing when you two meet I feel like you'll get along with her and her cousins they actually have their own channel too"
" congrats bro and really whats it called"
"It's called Cluz. It's her , 2 of her cousins, and her brother"
"You wanna go watch some of their videos"
"Yes" i say excited to watch Ari being herself on Camera. We load up YouTube and search Cluz and notice all different types of videos. We open their channel page and see vlogs,challenges, song covers, baking videos, and more. We click on the most recent group video to see the dynamic which is "the 100 chicken nugget challenge"

An intro video pops up on the screen. As they appear on the screen one by one youngest to oldest doing some of their hobbies while "live while we're young" by one direction plays in the background.
"What's up fellow cluzins? We're back!" They all said in sync.
"Welcome back to our channel guys as you probably know it's Wednesday which means it's group day" Mark said
"We thought we'd give you guys an epic challenge video this week since we really haven't done that in a little while" isa said
"By a while she means like 2 weeks " Mika said.
"So as we were saying we'll be doing a challenge that we've been wanting to do for a while but that just cause we're huge and like to eat" isa said continuing totally ignoring Mika's comment.
"Today we'll be doing the 100 chicken nugget challenge. So to the dining table" my girl said cutely.
"As you can see we have everything set up out here cause we went out and ordered 5 orders of 20 piece nuggets so here is the 100 and a ton of bbq sauce because it's bbq" Ari said once they got to the table.
"Basically we're gonna get 10 minutes to eat as many of these chicken nuggets as we can" Mika said as they all sat down and looked at each other giving a small nod.
"10 minutes on the clock" Ari said
"3...2...1...GO!" They yelled in sync as Ari started the timer and grabbed a nugget.
2 hours later and me and Ethan have watched tons of videos including song covers, challenges, and prank videos. "Thank you Ethan" i said suddenly.
"For what?"he replied
"For accepting my relationship and watching her videos with me for the last 2 hours"
"No problem. Their really funny actually and they have a ton of variety"
"Yea they are well let's go eat"

Arianna p.o.v.:
I'm glad telling my mom went good now I just gotta tell the rest of cluz shouldn't be too hard right? Wrong there totally gonna be mad. We promised to be honest with each other but I kept this hidden for the past three weeks.
"Hey guys" I say shyly walking into the living at the entrance of the house.
"Wassup movie day?" Isa asks
"Sup, Popeyes?" Mark asks after.
"Sounds good" "yea" me and Mika say at the same time.
We leave the house with isa driving us to Popeyes and 20 minutes later are back home. I'm pretty sure they can see I'm nervous. Buzz I hear from my phone and quickly pull it out.

My heart❤️: I know your telling them today and your probably nervous so keep calm and know that I'm here and I'm falling for you hard Arianna Samira.
Me: aww baby thank you so much and I'm falling for you too Grayson Bailey.
My heart❤️: call me later and let me know how it goes okay babygirl? 😘
Me: okay I'll let you know bye gray 😘
My heart❤️: bye beautiful

I suddenly feel this confidence knowing that I'm secure with my relationship and now after seeing that text I'm so sure that I love him it's been about a month but i know deep down that I've fallen and I've fallen hard. I look at my cousins and brother. "Hey guys, you remember that guy from LA. The one I meet at Gucci?" I say
"Yea" they all reply.
"What about him?" Isa says eating a fry.
"About 3 weeks ago he asked me to be his girlfriend and I said yes. I know I said we'd tell each other everything but I just wasn't ready to tell you guys yet but I love him and I know it's soon but I know I do deep down with all the conversations we have especially since I can't see him face to face well besides FaceTime. I know so I hope you guys support this even with the age difference." I say looking at them.
"Arianna, of course we do and I understand I kept my relationship hidden from you guys for a long time so you doing this for three weeks I'm fine with that it's good to keep it hidden for a little bit" isa said coming to hug me which means a lot her being the closest thing to a sister I have.
"Your my sister and yea my relationship was kinda open since the beginning but I'm okay with it I watch some of his videos and they were really funny, we totally gotta have them on eventually" Mark said smiling at me.
"I'm fine with it, as long as Nate gets to beat him up if he hurts you. And yea we gotta have him and Ethan on the channel one day maybe you three could do the boyfriend/girlfriend tag" Mika says
"Thanks guys I love y'all even if I don't say it that much. And of course I'll tell Gray later but I haven't even met Ethan so yea maybe Gray first. We continued to eat and start up Infinity war on the TV. I pull out my phone and text Gray.
Me: it went great they were supportive and would like to have you on our channel soon lol.
My heart❤️: that's great and I would love to be on your channel babygirl let me know when and I'll make my way over. I can't wait to see you and pick you up and hold you and kiss you.
Me: aww baby I can't wait either. I'll definitely let you know when but I gotta go right now cousins movie day. Ttyl Gray
My heart❤️: talk to you later babe ❤️😘.

With that I put my phone away turning my full attention away from Grayson and onto this cousin day feeling relief that I can finally be open with them about this part of my life.

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