(Repeat Dear February 3rd By Jorja Smith)
Zhavia's Point Of View
Monday
September 13, 2016
I didn't even sleep last night, I just kept thinking about the kiss with Grayson. Got to say, it's way better than focusing on my mom. Hopefully my dads date went good last night, the couch was quite uncomfortable. There is a bed for me in Cams room, just like she has one in mine, but she pissed me off. I sit up on the couch wiping the sleep out of my eyes.
"Oh, you're on the couch?" Ethan says sounding confused when he makes it to the bottom of the stairs. "Yeah, Cam pissed me off last night." I yawn covering my mouth, I got maybe two hours of sleep max. "I heard, I thought you went home."
"Nah, pops had a date. Didn't want to get in the way of him.. having a nice date." I say trying to beat around the bush making him laugh. "That, that is one way to put it. If I knew you were on the couch I would have given you my bed and took the couch, or just slept in Grays room." He shrugs before walking over to the kitchen. "Or I could have just slept with you."
"You still could." He says a little too excitedly making me laugh. "In your dreams, can you hand me a strawberry yogurt?" He opens the fridge, grabbing what I'm assuming is my yogurt, I get up going the kitchen, and he hands it to me. "Thank you." I grab a spoon from the kitchen drawer. He grabs bowl, he's probably about to eat some cereal.
"I know the last thing I need to ask you for is a favor but..."
"But?" I ask leaning against the counter behind him while he makes his cereal with his shirtless back turned to me. Very nice, shirtless back... not the point of course. "But you're really smart and I really need help with science..." He says sounding like he's ashamed to ask for help making me laugh, not at him, but the situation.
"Please, if I fail this class my parents will kill me." Thinking about this, my answer is a bit delayed. "I'll help, but it means after you pass. You're indebted to me Dolan, a very dangerous thing to be." I say the last part jokingly. "If you want to go on a date you can just ask me." He turns around facing me, while he eats his cereal. "Really it's that easy?" I joke acting astonished. "You ask, I do. I'm easy like that." He says making me laugh.
He looks me up and down making me smile. "What?" I furrow my brows completely lost.
"Nothing, it's just that, that's my sweatshirt."
"Should I take it off then, or I mean or you could take it off for me." A smirk makes its way to my face, it's always fun to say things like this to Ethan, the face he makes is priceless.
"You can joke about it all you want Zhavia, but one day you're going to be swimming in my hoodies. I'm just waiting for you to come to your senses. You should keep it, it looks better on you." He shrugs, that, that's the difference between Ethan and Grayson's combacks to the things I say. "If you say so. Is it okay if I use your shower?" I ask finishing my yogurt, throwing it away.
"Yeah sure, just don't do that cracked door thing. I don't like when you mess with my head like that."
"Don't act like you don't love it." I smirk walking away towards the stairs. I open the hallway door to Ethan and Grayson's bathroom and see a shirtless, wet Grayson in a towel.
"Damn, you just missed the show." He jokes making me act disappointed. "Darn it, here I was hoping I'd join you in the shower." I roll my eyes annoyed by his cockiness. I'm glad we can just act like we didn't kiss twelve hours ago. "Maybe next time, why are you wearing E's hoodie?"
"You like it? He said I can keep it." I say doing a little twirl. The look on his face right now, hot. "The bathroom's all yours." He says a bit annoyed before leaving it and going to his room. Wonder what kind of theory he's working on in his head right now.
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"Have you heard?" Olivia asks me coming up to my locker as we prepare for class. "Heard what?"
"Ah, so no. She's back, isn't it just marvelous." She? I look at her waiting for her to finish. She gives me a look as if I should already know. "Oh darling you truly are clueless, Julissa is back." Hearing her name make me feel, odd, wait did she just say she's back? "Julissa? Julissa Acevedo ." Her name alone peels back the folds, making me think about things I thought I barley remembered. "Who else? She looks amazing, she's apparently doing better. That's why they let her out, she's coming back to school."
I can't even express the feeling that I feeling. I missed Julissa, I almost forgot about her. She went to middle school with us, she's the reason Cam and became best friends after I kick her ass at the bus stop. She lived in our neighborhood until her Dad moved, she had issues. She and I both did, her worse than me.
"I, I can't believe it, I thought they were going to stay in New York, w-what happened?"
"They were, yes, but she begged them to bring her back. I think you should talk to her, I remember how close you two were. I wonder if you two will be as close after she finds out you took over her boys? Especially Grayson." She laughs making me feel a bit uncomfortable.
"They had an eighth grade play ground relationship, and I didn't take them. They belong to the streets." Hopefully me joking about this won't make if feel so serious. "Call it whatever you'd like, but they were undoubtedly in love. Remember how he took it when they took her away? He missed a week of school. He was in love, you always say you don't like him, for your sake I hope that's true." She looks at me sympathetically.
"Why do you say that?" I furrow my brows looking at her.
"Because it's only the beginning."