Chapter 56: Indigo

"Hi Indi!" Bea shouts as I walk up to her, she's laying on Mavs back on a towel that they've laid out on the sand.

Grey tags along slowly behind me grumbling about how hot it is and that he has work he needs to do. I turn around and send him a glare to which he stops talking and sulks even more.

"No, I packed the whale towel not you..........well too bad girlfriend, you should've been quicker" I hear Oakley tell Amelia as I put the beach bag down on the sand.

Amelia lays down a towel with a whale pattern on it next to me and sits on it, she smirks at Oakley who lays down in the sand and puts a hand to his forehead.

"My struggles are incomparable" he complains and Bea laughs.

"Are you forgetting world hunger and war" Grey points out as he lays his head in my lap and closes his eyes.

Oaks scoffs and Am shoves greys head off of me.

"Move bitch, that's my headrest" to say the two have a competition going about who gets my attention the most would be very accurate.

"I got here first" grey retorts and flicks her forehead, she glares at him and kicks some sand in his face.

He rubs his eyes and then turns to me. Amelia eyes him suspiciously as he pouts and causes a scene.

"That is against every rule ever, you don't put sand in peoples eyes, did you see her blue, I think I'm blind" he whines and I pull his face down to my level, I get out my water bottle and open it I spray some water on to his eyelids and he sighs when I rub my thumb over his eyelashes.

"Thanks" he mumbles and I kiss his lips, he turns and smirks at Amelia who reaches into a pocket that isn't there and holds up her middle finger.

"Oaks?"

He hums at Amelia and she reaches for the sun cream in her bag, she's wearing a light blue bikini that makes her look really pretty, I keep greys t-shirt over my white one and watch as Oakley takes the suncream out her hand and tells her to turn over.

He shakes the bottle and in doing so it literally pours on to Amelia back like Niagara Falls. She squeals and oaks bends over in laughter. She glares at him and reaches for the whale towel he seems to love so much.

She raises her brows at him and rubs the towel over her back and wipes of the suncream, he screams and reaches for the towel but it's too late. It's already covered in suncream.

"I cannot believe you, you hurt my heart" he says and Bea hugs him.

"It's ok oaks! You can borrow my bumble bee towel! It's funny because my names bea and the insect is called a bee!" She exclaims and smiles brightly at him.

"At least someone in this group is nice" Oakley sasses and hugs bea, she looks absolutely tiny in his arms but even smaller when Mav grabs the back of her bikini and yanks her towards him. She falls into his lap and she shakes her head at him when he wraps the bee towel around her small frame and kisses her nose.

"No" he says to her and she smiles at him and squishes his cheeks, he looks incredibly unamused and bored at the action but the twinkle in his eye is a dead give away to how much he loves the ball of sunshine in his lap.

She moves to the left slightly and giggles at him.

"No?"

"I like the towel" he states and she releases his cheeks and gets off his lap. My eyes widen when they catch sight of a small tattoo at the bottom of her back.

It's a semicolon and it doesn't take long for me to remember the meaning.

My eyes soften and water slightly. I can't deal with knowing someone so sweet ever had a reason to hurt themselves like that.

"Hey sweetheart what's wrong?" Grey asks delicately and wipes the run away tear from my eye, Bea looks over to me and pieces it together. She nods and stands up as grey looks to me with concern.

"Come on girls, let's get in the water" bea says and Am lifts her head from my lap and follows Bea down to the ocean.

"Careful baby!" Mav shouts after Bea and she turns and winks at him while sticking her thumb up in the air and grinning.

I stay sitting and grey looks at me knowingly. He goes to say something but I stop him.

"Shut up" I anticipate what he's going to tell me and his grey eyes soften at the moisture in my eyes. Jesus Christ indigo stop crying.

I fiddle with the hem of the shirt and grey grabs my hand. After a couple of minutes I look up at him and he brushes a piece of hair out my face.

"My perfect girl" he says and places a soft kiss to my lips. I smile slightly and he runs his hand up my thigh until he gets to the raised scars that litter my skin. Courtesy of myself and Franco.

"The only thing I wish I could change about you is the way you see yourself" he tells me and kisses the scar on my jaw.

"If you want to swim blue you fucking swim, don't let anyone ever intimidate you, you're indigo knightly. Chin up and shirt off" he instructs and I huff and nod.

Yes indigo, you're an assassin, you've killed more men than you can count and you're a bad bitch. I think to myself and lift the shirt over my head.

"You have no idea what you're doing to me baby" Grey mutters and grips my thigh in his massive hand.

I get up and mav looks over to me, the scars I have are everywhere, from belts and nails, cigarettes and knives. I know people see them and I know that oaks hates it when he sees them.

I see Oakleys fists clench and his jaw tighten.

"They weren't fucking there before" Oakley rarely swears, and he's never serious but I know he's seen the marks on my thigh as he narrows his eyes at grey and pokes the inside of his cheek with his tongue.

"Dont fucking glare at me oakley" grey snaps in defense and Oakley looks to him.

"You're supposed to look after her you fuck, don't tell me to not glare at you when you're clearly not" Oakley snaps back and grey tenses.

Oakleys a big guy, 6ft 2 and muscular but greys taller and stronger and more trained than Oakley is. Grey is as deadly as he is handsome and if you piss him off you're fucked.

"Quit it both of you" I say and walk towards the ocean.

"Don't you Fucking dare" I hear grey growl and Oakley sighs in defeat and sits back down from his advance toward grey who when I turn back around Is just as relaxed as he was when I left.

He knows Oakley would never be able to beat him but he's still a cocky asshole.

I reach the water and Am and Bea wave and smile at me enthusiastically. I wade over to them and watch quietly with our arms swung loosely around each others necks as the sun slowly sets creating an orange glow in the sky above our heads.

The silence is comforting and when Beas ready she begins to explain her tattoo.

"When I was five" she takes a deep breath and I hold her hand as Am kisses her cheek.

"My dad hit me for the first time, at the beginning it was just small slaps but it progressively became worse until one night when I was 16 I'd had enough, 11 years of abuse and I was finally over it. I picked up a knife I found in the kitchen and slit my wrists" a tear runs down her face and I squeeze her shoulder.

"He found me though and I was rushed to hospital, that's were I met mav. He was waiting in ER with a gunshot wound that he told the receptionist was a small cut so he wasn't seen for 6 hours" she rolls her eyes and laughs through her tears.

"He accidentally walked into the room I was in and as usual I began to ramble to him, I began to cry and despite me being a complete and utter stranger he hugged me and the rest is history" she finishes and I smile at her happy tone.

"We love you to Bea" Am and I say at the same time and we all hug each other for a while. Until Am blurts out a plan.

"Hey indi pretend to drown and then grey can be scared" she says and I look at her weirdly.

"You're so Fucking random but I like it" I agree and we begin to swim around.

I learnt to swim when Franco chucked me into an ice lake when I was 6, what can I say, I'm a fast learner. From all the dunking I also learnt to hold my breath for a long time. I'm practically a fucking mermaid.

I pretend to splash around a bit and go under, I hear Am and Bea shout for grey and in the next 10 seconds I'm yanked up from the water in a pair of strong arms.

"Indi baby?"

"Indigo this isn't fucking funny" he panics and sets me on the sand.

"Do CPS" I hear oaks say and I hear Amelia smack him

"CPR you idiot, CPS is child protective services" she corrects and he mumbles a whatever at her.

I open my eyes and Burst out laughing when grey tries to do compressions on me. He picks me up and chucks me back in the water.

"You're so fucking annoying" he complains as I walk back out the water and towards our towels.

Mav is wrapping Bea in her towel  and Oakley and am are wrapped up in a blanket.

"You scared the shit outta me" grey says and I open my arms for him. He walks into them and leans down, he hooks his hands under my thighs and lifts me up from the ground. I wrap my legs around him and he kisses me slowly.

"Keep it PG assholes" Oaks complains and grey chuckles, I guess they made up.

After an afternoon spent at the beach we all pack up and head for greys Jeep. Mav and Bea are staying over with us and so are oaks and Am. The ball is tomorrow and because mav works for grey and oaks works for Enzo all of us are going.

I get in the back in between Maverick and Amelia, Bea sits in the front because she gets carsick and grey's driving. Oakley is sitting in the extra seat at the very back in the boot.

"Hey......hey guys....I FEEL EXCLUDED!" he shouts and Mav turns around and whacks him with his slider.

"Get over it"

"GET OVER IT?" Oaks exclaims in disbelief and huffs.

"I may as well just jump out the car, nobody will miss me anyway, I'm so unloved" he whines and Bea turns around to him and looks over Mavs shoulder.

"I love you Oakley" she says with an innocent smile and mav glares.

"Fuck off with that shit" mav demands and she giggles at him

"Don't cuss Maverick" she scolds and he looks at her with soft eyes.

"Sorry baby" he says and she reaches back and he holds her small hand in his.

"Whipped" I mumble and Mav glares at me.

"So what" he sasses and I mock him.

"Shut up" he says and I flick his ear.

"Shut up"

"Indigo seriously that's so Fucking annoying" he says and I copy him.

"Indigo stop it's pissing me off" I copy his gruff voice and do it again. He whacks the upside of my head gently and I pull his hair not so gently.

Grey steps on the breaks and Mavs head smacks into the seat. He rubs his head and grey smirks.

"Dont touch her Maverick if you want your hands in tact tomorrow" Grey says and we begin driving again.

Luckily we're practically in the middle of nowhere so no one was behind us at the time Grey stopped. The drive back home is a decent hour and half and it's already dark 15 minutes in.

I yawn and my eyes droop, I feel my head drop slowly and my eyes close.

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"Wake up little shit" I hear a voice say and I lift my head, I see Mav and I also realize that I've been sleeping on his shoulder. I scrunch my nose at the thought of touching him and he pokes my cheek.

"You look like a chipmunk" he comments as he gets out the car and I stick my tongue out at his immaturity.

Grey laughs and we all head inside to go to bed and prepare for the ball tomorrow. Hopefully there will be no surprises.

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