People who bore one another should meet seldom. People who interest one another, often.
Ashley's POV
It went well than I anticipated, now everything's settled, Grayson and Devi are now acquaintances who look like they'd be really good friends in the near future. Right now, we're on our way to my house, Grayson and I.
"Thanks." I say to him.
He turns to looks at me with a why are you thanking me? lifted brow.
"For making peace with him." I smile.
He gives a mild shrug as he stares me dead in the eye and mutters, "That was the right thing to do."
I nod my head, "Right."
"Yeah." He deadpans and returns his attention towards the road before us.
After some time...
"Have you...?" I say whilst he says at the same time, "I'm expecting..."
"Go first." We say simultaneously. We look at each other and laugh.
"You go." I encourage.
He gives a light smile, his blue eyes brightening up, "I spoke to my dad and he's assured me my mum's going to be around today."
"That's... great." I grin.
"Do you want to join me?" He asks and I nearly choke on saliva.
What?!
"Uhm, isn't that like personal stuff?"
He places his hands on mine and with soft eyes, ask, "What if I want you to be there, would it be me asking for too much?"
"I'd love to but you have to do it alone, it's your personal boundary, I don't want cross my limit."
"What if I want you to?" He pursues, not backing down.
"Gray!"I scowl, he was really putting me in a really difficult situation right now and with the way he's staring intently at me it'd be hard to say no.
He sighs, "If we were together and I asked you for this favor, would you have agreed?"
Gosh, when did he become this person.
"You can ask me again when we're together."
"Soon." He says it like it was a promise.
I look out of the window, a tiny weeny smile on my lips.
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Omg! I'm hyperventilating right now. Just before I put my phone aside I received a message from Gray.
The message said, "Finally spoke to my mom, I listened to her own side of the story."
I'm certain as heck that he'd be expecting us being together since now he's fulfilled my conditions for us to be together. What am I gonna do? How to reply to his text?
Be like, "Hey, I'm your girlfriend again."
Or "We're together again finally."
Totally awkward!
"Great." My fingers type away and press send before I register what I'm doing.
I'm a such a sucker and a party pooper, ain't I? How the heck did this guy end up with me?
"So..." His reply comes immediately.
Ashley pleeeaase don't act dumb.
Hey if I do, it won't hurt right? "So?" I text back.
"I've done all you asked. Your conditions, I've fulfilled them." My phone chimes with his reply.
"Yeah." I text back.
"You promised." He sends.
Okay, so he might get emotional if I keep on dragging this.
"Ask your question. Ask me to be your girlfriend and I'll give you my answer."
His name immediately flashes on my phone's screen. I slide to answer and sit up in my bed, nerves on full alert.
Placing the phone to my ear, "Hi..." I mutter, trying to not sound breathless. Heck! did I sound breathless?, I freaking did and my heart was pounding furiously.
"Please be my girlfriend again." He mutters, sounding firm and out of breath at the same time. Ha! Guess I'm not the only one.
"Okay." I say like I'm not affected by the words he just spoke.
"Yes!" He yells over the phone in pure ecstasy, "I'll be over in fifteen," and then he hangs up.
I jump up and down in excitement and let out a loud squeal. Dropping my phone on the bed, I rush over to Lucas' room and without knocking I enter.
"Shit!" I cuss when I'm met with a making out Cam and Lucas. They pull away immediately.
I wonder when and how Cam got here. I thought we were supposed to be best friends, so how the heck did I not know she was in this house?
I meekly clear my throat and Cam was blushing like crazy, I could literally smell her embarrassment all the way from here, serve's her right.
Lucas was looking at me with a hint of annoyance displayed on his face. Did I interrupt him or something? He should better let me breathe. If he didn't want any interruption, he should have locked his door. Simple as can be.
"Hey." I smile broadly.
"How can I help you?" He raises a brow at me.
"Sorry." I scrunch up my nose when I have a flashback of his lips that was moving, same lips that were on my best friends' a while ago. Eeew, that is so not a good memory. I wish it deletes from my head after today and never come back. Wouldn't want to reminisce that, would we?
Remembering why I was here in the first place, a smile replaces my frown.
"Gray and I are back together." I mini-squeal.
He smirks, genuine happiness passing over his features, "Saw it coming."
"Puh-lease." I roll my eyes and my lips stretches wider into a grin.
I shamelessly peeked at Cam, she had her head buried under the pillow.
Poor soul, she's shy.
"So... you came all the way here to tell me this?" Lucas asks with amusement displayed on his face.
"Um, Yeah." Is that kinda like stupid or something?
Probably, a tad.
"That's great." His eyes suggestively motion towards the door and IÂ nod.
"Yeah, bye."
Good riddance to me, I guess.
I literally ran all the way to my room and when I enter, I plop on my bed.
"Yes!!!!!" I scream out in excitement and cover my face, fulfillment instantly washing over me.
Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!
We're back.
Grayson and I are finally together.
After everything we've been through.
"Aaaaaaargggghhh!" I scream into my pillow.
My phone chimes, halting me from another scream.
I pick it up.
Grayson.
"My baby, I'm here." his text said.
Baby. He called me baby.
I am his baby?
I throw my phone away and ran downstairs. I open the door and when I see him by his car, I ran towards him, grinning. He was equally smiling, as he catches me when I throw myself into his arms. He spins me around. I laugh and he laughs along with me.
Just then it starts to rain.
He puts me down, "I think we should go inside, the rain might get heavy," and whispers against my hair.
I ignore him and pull him into the rain
"Baby, you'll catch a cold."
"Says the one who came to me in the rain just to ask for forgiveness."
"That's different. You'll get sick."
"I won't." I grab his hands and place it around my waist, "You know, I've always wondered how it'll feel like," I place my arms around his neck, my fingers run through the hair on his neck that was stuck to his skin due to the rain, "dancing in the rain with the one I love."
"The one you love?" His voice was just above a whisper.
"I love you Gray."
He smiles, as our foreheads collide. "I love you too, a lot, a whole lot."
Warm bodies attached, we dance in the rain, heart beating, rhythmic to the promises of love and forever.
He promised, I am and will always be his reason to smile. I'd remain his reason to smile, now and in the future.
His Smile.
THE END
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I can't believe HS has finally come to an end.
A really big apology for not being available to update in a long while. Truth is, I didn't know fashion would be a course that would take up most of my time.
His Smile has finally ended. No more Grayson and Ashley, Cam and Lucas.