Pandora's Box 11

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Gray's POV

We're very close to Eunjang now. We'll be there very shortly. I can see my friends walking to the school. Why are they carrying a box? I guess I'll have to wait for them. 

...

Did I just get a text?

...

Oh, it's them. 

{Gray, was that you?} (Eugene)

{Yes, what's in the box?} (Gray)

{It's a surprise. Sorry that you're going to have to wait for us.} (Eugene)

{It's okay, you're bringing me a surprise so I have no reason to complain.} (Gray)

...

I have a missed message as well...

Oh, it's from that guy again. 

{When you have time, let's talk more.} (Donald)

...

I guess I'll talk to him when I get home. 

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Teddy POV

I got a donut with chocolate frosting and cream filling for myself, a vanilla frosting donut with strawberry filling for Gray, and a donut with maple frosting for Gerard. Chocolate and cream because I wanted it, strawberry and vanilla because they're almost Gray's colors, and maple because of maple trees for Gerard. 

Eugene got a plain doughnut for himself and a cream-filled doughnut for Alex and Rowan got a chocolate strawberry-filled doughnut for himself and a chocolate cream-filled doughnut for Ben. I don't know their reasoning behind their choices, but whatever. 

We saw Gray's bus pass us so he should be waiting for us right now. I hope he likes it. Eugene volunteered to drop the rest of the doughnuts off for the rest of the guys. I need to check on Co after we get Gray so I can't go with him. 

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Eugene POV

There's Gray. It looks like he's just patiently reading while waiting for us. 

"Gray!!!" (Rowan)

"..." (Gray)

"Um... how was the uh... the test?" (Eugene)

"We've got something for you." (Rowan)

"Hmm... I am confident I did good. And what did you bring me?" (Gray) 

"This." (Teddy)

[Strawberry filling and vanilla frosting... These are... his colors? It tastes good...] (Gray)

"Thank you..." (Gray)

[He seems distraught, does he not like it?] (Teddy)

He looks like he's enjoying it. (Eugene)

[Note to self, Gray loves strawberry and vanilla.] (Rowan)

[Nevermind, it seems he likes it.] (Teddy)

[... Why are they all staring at me so hard?] (Gray)

"So uh... I'm going to go deliver the rest of these. Take care!" (Eugene) 

"I'm going with you!" (Rowan)

[Shoot, everyone's leaving. Um...] (Teddy)

"I uh, I need to check on Co. Um- bye." (Teddy)

[I'm too scared to be alone with him. He's on a completely different level.] (Teddy)

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Ben's POV 

"You guys are the best!" (Ben)

"Yeah, thanks!" (Alex)

Eugene and Rowan randomly dropped by the pool house to give us doughnuts. 

"Wait, where are you guys going? Play a round of pool with us." (Ben)

"Oh, uh... We have a doughnut for Gerard as well. We were going to go give it to him." (Eugene) 

"Come on, one round won't hurt. We could probably bring him coffee as well." (Rowan)

"Uh... okay." (Eugene)

"How did Gray do?" (Alex)

"He said he was confident that he did good." (Eugene)

"I hope he's right, he deserves it." (Alex)

"Hell yeah." (Ben)

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"Uh- thanks!" (Gerard)

This is unexpected. Eugene and Rowan brought me a doughnut and coffee. My preference is tea, but this is still really nice. 

"How did you guys find me?" (Gerard)

"We did some investigating. It was really difficult, but we pulled it off." (Rowan) 

[We just asked some random people and they helped us.] (Eugene)

"Well, thanks. I've never had this happen to me before." (Gerard)

"Teddy picked the doughnut, but he had to check on Co so he couldn't come with us." (Eugene)

"Who's Co?" (Gerard)

"His cat." (Rowan)

"Oh, so he takes care of animals?" (Gerard)

"Yeah, I guess so." (Eugene)

[I did see him feeding Co milk that one time.] (Eugene)

"That's good." (Gerard)

"Yep." (Rowan)

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Gray's POV

... Should I text him?

There's nothing stopping me.

Text him?

He did ask to talk again soon. 

I'm going to text him. 

{Hi.} (Gray)

{So you're ready to talk?} (Donald)

{Yes, what do want to talk about.} (Gray)

{How about the Olympiad.} (Donald)

{How do you think you did?} (Donald)

The Olympiad? It does make sense to start there since that's where we encountered one another.

{My hope is to have placed. I do not lose so I must get the best score possible.} (Gray)

[The best score possible? So he wants first. Unfortunately for him, he's going to have to settle for second or less. First place is mine.] (Donald)

{I was thinking the same thing.} (Donald)

{Losing is unacceptable.} (Donald)

It seems that he won't settle for anything less than first. He wants the best and only the best. 

{So you plan on never losing? Then let's hope you did your best at the Olympiad.} (Gray)

{The same goes for you.} (Donald)

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