"Fuck, Ethan, I'm going to drop kick her."
Ethan was sitting on a stool at the end of the counter, hands folded neatly in his lap. He bit his lip softly and looked at her through sad eyelashes. His lip was split and swollen, there was also a growing bruise under his left eye. Caleigh's blood was boiling.
"Cal, it's fine."
But it was not okay, not at all.
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A/N: Not a lot of Grayson in this story but I love him equally
"The tears don't stop coming, but I can't feel them come out anymore. I want to run, to leave this place, to get away from here, as far away as possible, but then I hear a soft 'Excuse me.' And freeze. I quickly wipe away my tears, trying to act like I hadn't been bawling for the past 30 minutes, put the best smile I can on my face, and look up."
"And with that, I start to walk over to Bench Girl. I get there a whole lot faster than I originally thought and almost want to turn around, but now I'm close enough to hear her. And it breaks me even further. It's like she's trying to catch her breath in between each sob, but it's not working so she can barely breath each time a sob escapes. I take a deep breath and as polite, calm, and not-trying to scare her, give a gentle 'Excuse me.'"
What happens when Grayson finds a newly, cheated on and broken up with girl? What happens when they start to become friends? Will they become more? Or will their lives always be too different?