Blair POV.
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"I appreciate the compliments, but no."
He sighed in defeat. "Ok." The bell rings signaling its time to go to first period. "Want me to walk you to class?" He asks.
"No its ok." I give a smile and he kind of returns one back. Guilt. That is what I feel. Guilt for not letting him use me. He gives me a nod before heading to his class.
I get into my first period and Natalie is there already sitting. "What did he want to talk about?" I really want to talk to someone about it. But Grayson said himself, he didn't want the guys to know he's upset.
And as much as I love Natalie, I can't trust her not to say anything to Zack. Yes, she is the girlfriend that tells her boyfriend literally everything.
"Nothing really, it was just about calculus."
"You suck at calculus, why would he be asking you about it?" She asks not convinced.
"I asked him for help and he was just giving me his notes." I sigh, "he didn't want to do it in front of you because he didn't know if I would be embarrassed."
"Oh, that's weirdly nice of him. Are you guys friends now?" She asks.
"I guess" I shrug.
***
I am now in third period, Art. We have to stay in class a couple of minutes after the bell to help clean up. I send Natalie a text, saying I'll meet her at the table. Emma and I are walking into the cafeteria together.
"Is it me, or does Grayson look like someone kicked his puppy?" Emma asks. "Oh that explains it." I turn my head to see Ashlyn making out with a guy at the end of their table.
Suddenly an idea pops in my head. I know I said I wasn't going to help him, but the look on his face makes me feel even more guilty.
Before I change my mind, I start with my plan. It's a stupid one, but I don't know what else to do. "Don't hate me Emma, I'll explain later" I mumble before walking away.
"What?" I hear her say. My heart starts to beat faster as I head towards Grayson and his table. The one filled with football players and cheerleaders. Noah is the first one to see me approach.
"Hey Blair?" He says when I walk up. Grayson's eyes shoot to mine when he hears my name.
"Is there any room for me?" I ask masking my nerves.
"Umm" Noah looks around clearly confused. There's no room for me, I can see that myself.
"We can make some" said Carter. Natalie walks over to the table also confused. Carter gets up and gets an extra chair and puts it between him and Zack.
"We're sitting here today" I say to Natalie, and motion her to sit.
"There's not enough room for both of us" she points out. I suck in a breath.
"It's ok, I'll just sit on Grayson's lap" Everyone's eyes widen and Grayson chokes on his water. "That's ok, right?" I ask giving him a small smirk.
He clears his throat. He gives me a slight confused nod as an answer. I softly lower myself into his lap, wiggling around to get comfortable.
"Please stop moving" he whispers in my ear. "What are you even doing?"
"I've decided to help you." I whisper back, and then let out a loud giggle. I know what that did, now I have a lot of peoples attention including Ashlyn. They all probably think that he's whispering inappropriate things, and I'm going to let them.
"Why?" He ask. I turn my head and smile at him.
"Because we're friends now." He smiles at me and kisses my cheek.
"You're the best."
"You've got to be kidding me." I hear Becca say from the other side of the table.
"Don't worry about it," this was Kate now. "He would never actually like trash like that."
"Whatever." I hear Ashlyn mumble back.
***
Lunch is over and I am now in Econ, when I get a text from Emma.
Umm.. what the actual heck- E
Meet me in the bathroom and I'll explain-B
I quickly raise my hand and ask to go to the bathroom. We are just working on a worksheet so I'm not missing anything important. I walk into the bathroom waiting for Emma. My phone lights up.
Give me 2 min-E
I might as well actually go to the bathroom while I'm hear. I'm in the stalls when I hear voices walking in.
"He wouldn't actually like someone like her." Kate.
"She's really pretty" Ashlyn sighs.
"He's honestly just using her for her body" laughs Becca. "It's actually funny how obvious, she's the one throwing herself at him."
"She has a great body." Sighs Ashlyn again.
"Yea, it's so obvious" joins Kate. "Plus, embarrassing to say, but I used to be friends with her. I know her and there's really nothing to like about her. Even her dad doesn't like her. So it has to be a sex only thing."
"She has problems with her dad?" Ashlyn asks.
"Yea, it's actually really funny." Laughs Kate. "Do you want me to tell you all the stuff she's told me?"
"No" mumbles Ashlyn. "It doesn't matter." I am relieved. I don't need more people to know about my personal life. But I also am pissed that Kate would tell them.
I wonder if Ashlyn knows that Kate likes Grayson. I bet they wouldn't be friends if she did. The door to the bathroom opens.
"Emma" Ashlyn says with distaste.
"Satan" she replies back. The girls scoff and walked out the bathroom. Once they are gone I walk out. "Oh shit, you scared me." I laughed.
"Sorry."
"Sorry for scaring me or sorry for having something with my cousin behind my back." She asks.
I sigh and tell her everything. About me walking into his room, seeing him upset, what he said to me today, and my plan to help him get her back. I did leave out the minor detail about what happened between me and Grayson in his room though. I don't think it's super important.
"Oh" she says shocked.
"You can't tell anyone though" I pleaded. "I don't want Grayson thinking I'm tell everyone but I needed to tell you. I don't want to think I'm using you to get to him."
She rolls her eyes, laughs, and gives me a hug. "I don't like Ashlyn, but if that's what he needs to distract himself then that's what he needs."
"Distract him from what?" I questioned. Emma's eyes widen, and she looks down nervous.
"Grayson going through something" she sighs. "It's not my place to tell anyone, but all I can say is that he's been in a rough place." I nod not pushing it.
***
We both went back to class after our conversation. My Econ teacher, Mr. Walsh, of course had to make a snarky comment about me taking long.
Class is over and I'm now about to walk into my Calculus class. I see Grayson waiting by the door when I walk up.
"Can we talk?" He asks. I nod, since we have a couple minutes to spare before class starts. "So what's the plan?" He asks.
"We get Ashlyn to beg for you back?" I say more like a question.
"Ok... how do we do that?"
"Well I already know she's jealous."
"How?" I then proceeded to tell him about what happened in the bathroom. Minus the part about my dad.
"That's bullshit, any guy would date a girl like you." This brought a small smile to my face and I roll my eyes. "I mean it Blair, every guy tries to get your attention." I roll my eyes again and laugh.
"What about my reputation as the ice princess? I know for a fact these so called guys that "want my attention" made that nickname."
"That's because they're embarrassed that you don't even know they exist, so they are assholes about it."
"Anyways," I say changing the conversation. "So we know that Ashlyn is already talking about us, so what do you think we should do?"
"I can court you" he beamed.
"Court me?" I laugh.
"Convince everyone that I'm the one trying to win you over. Beg for you to date me, you can play hard to get, and I'll put a lot of effort in."
"Ok" I laugh. "If that's what you want."
"What do you want for helping me?" He suddenly asks.
"Im not helping you to get something out of it."
"I know that, but I don't know. I feel like I owe you big time."
"It's honestly fine."
"Just pick something. Anything you want I'll get or do."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"You can help me with calculus?" I suggest defeated.
"Deal." He smirks "I can be your hot sexy tutor." I roll my eyes at him. "I'll even wear glasses to give you the whole experience."
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