Fantasy |g.d.|

chapter eleven

November

-Grayson pov-

"You cheated on me!" She cries, tears streaming down her face.

"No, no I would never do that to you, Anna!"

"You did! With Natalie, I saw you!"

"I would never! I promise!"

"Stop lying! You slept with her!" She wraps her arms around herself. "I thought you cared about me."

"I do, I do care about you."

"Then why did you sleep with her?"

-Annalise pov-

"You look, hot babe." Jacob kisses my cheek, his arm gracefully wrapping around my waist.

"Thank you, my mom wants to get some pictures."

He frowns, glancing at my waiting mother. "Fine, but quickly, the guys are waiting."

"Oh...okay."

Jacob and I pose, smiling as his arm is around my waist, pulling me into him. Once my mom gets enough pictures she sends us on our way. Jacob drives us to a local restaurant, where we are going out to eat with some of his soccer friends and their dates. When we get inside we are all seated at a large table in the back of the restaurant. I take a seat between Jacob and Mark, the latter of which is with his date, Danielle.

I order water and a salad since that's what all of the other girls are having, even though I could really go for a hamburger. The conversation is mainly about the last soccer game, which is happening tomorrow afternoon. They made it to championships. The girls gossip or randomly tell the guys how good they'll do tomorrow and that they will be there to cheer them on.

I say maybe five sentences. We leave and separately go to the dance. The car ride there Jacob rants about the team they'll be up against tomorrow and how they 'cheated their way to the top'. By the time we get to the school and go inside, I'm ready to go home. We meet back up with the group and the guys immediately start talking about soccer again.

Before I can scream at them to shut up I politely excuse myself to the bathroom. I take a few deep breaths in front of the mirror, wash my hands, and make my way out. As I'm stepping out of the door I walk right into the goddess.

Natalie squeals. "You look so good!" She touches my deep purple dress.

"Um, thank you. You look amazing as well."

Natalie twirls in her light blue dress, embroidered with small pink and yellow flowers that are spread out over her bodice, and slowly come closer together in an ombre effect. "Thank you, Grayson helped me pick it out."

"Oh." I force a smile.

"Yeah, I think he's going to ask me to be his girlfriend tonight. We made plans for after the dance."

"Oh," I say again.

In the past week, Grayson and I have been friends. Nothing like it used to be, but how friends are. Talk during class, wave in the halls, smile when making eye contact. Of course, this is all done when Jacob is on the other side of the building, but it's nice to be talking to Grayson again. More than nice. I didn't realize how much I missed him.

I also didn't realize how close he and Natalie had become. She treads her arm through mine, walking slowly back toward the gym.

"He and I have become so close over the past week." She explains. "After that fight at the party, thank you by the way for helping him."