Chapter 4: First Day

He's such an asshole and I'm a dumbass.

I actually unblocked him on everything I had and now I'm in an hour deep stalking marathon to see everything I missed in these last few years. I couldn't help but pick apart every photo of him I could find. How his facial features were getting sharper and the photos his family posted in the beach or in a pool party I would see how hard he worked at the gym. 

The wave of nostalgia that hit me when I saw Graham and Gabriella in a picture from 2 months ago. I think a tear even clouded my vision for a bit. I was always an only child but being his girlfriend and having his siblings being mine too was so special. 

The way Gabriella always tried to bake me cupcakes after watching cooking shows but failed miserably. They always tasted like shit, respectfully, but she tried her best to make me happy. Once she learned how much I loved whipped cream, she tried to make Nutella flavored whipped cream. 

I think I had diarrhea for 2 days after that. It's the thought that counts but I still can't understand how she messed up the recipe so bad that it had that effect on Grayson and me. She has a lot of talents but baking sure as hell wasn't one of them. 

There was a knock on the door and I immediately knew that by having these memories I unconsciously called the devil over to my apartment. I sure as hell knew that it wasn't for Sabrina since she was spending a lot less time in the apartment, she was mostly staying in Luca's place since his bed was a queen and ours are a lot less smaller. I can't exactly blame her. 

I opened the door to find my nightmare incarnate in front of me. "Hello gorgeous, miss me?" He didn't even wait for me to open up the door fully before barging in. 

"I really didn't and can you please stop coming in here like you own the place. What if I had someone over?" I asked, knowing I really don't like to bring people over here. I don't like my hookups to know where I live. 

"Are you having people over often?" He said and I immediately raised my eyebrows cause he knows just how dumb that question was. "I mean, am I going to have a problem with a boyfriend for spending most of your time from now on?" He tried to fix his previous question. 

"No, and I assume you don't either because any girlfriend sure as hell wouldn't want you to be in your ex-girlfriend's apartment so much" I walked into the kitchen, trying to get away from him and obviously didn't work since he followed me in. 

"What's wrong with me being here? It's not like anything bad is going to happen or is your dirty little mind thinking about doing bad stuff in your apartment?" He said getting a little too close to me for my comfort. 

I turned around to where his body was closer than I thought and smiled at him. "I did offer to do dirty stuff all over my apartment and you said no, so the offer expired. What a bummer though..."  I trailed as I inched even closer to him and bit my bottom lip slightly. My eyes examining his body cause even if I hate to admit it, his arms were in display. And boy do I love the sight of muscles.

"You did not just use a move on me" He scoffed but his intense eyes never left mine. It took him a second before he rolled his eyes and stared at anything in my apartment except me. 

Well this was a funny and unusual sight. I moved my body to wherever his eyes moved for a few tries before he made a big sigh and finally looked back at me. "What are you doing? You look ridiculous" 

"You're the one who can't even look at me" I said and that was the longest I was his main focus of attention before he moved uncomfortably and turned away from me. "Oh my god, it totally worked. You can't hide it, I turned you on. Wow that was even my weakest move, I still got it" I said overly excited just that he would get even more embarrassed.  

 And that's when my own words bit me in the ass, because he turned into Barry Allen for a minute and in a flash grabbed my waist and pushed me against the wall. His body flush against mine, forcing my head to look directly up at him. The closeness from before was nothing compared to this, everywhere our skins touched I felt so warm. 

It made me remember just how much I loved being close to him, just for this reaction. My body has a Grayson sensor, everywhere he touched felt like it was on fire and every time he looked at me with the intensity he is looking at me now, I could feel my stomach do summersaults inside my body. 

"Grayson" I gasped out since apparently I had turned into a dumb ass teenager again and couldn't even speak properly. I cleared my throat before I tried to speak again but he leaned closer to me, his delicious cologne knocking out my thoughts. Snap out of it Abigail. 

"You might have changed the way you dress and your attitude but your body will always react this way with me" He breathed beside my ear, it was embarrassing how as he said this my lower body yearned to reach out to his. I thankfully stopped myself before I embarrassed myself even further by proving him right. 

He gripped my waist even tighter, forcing me even more against him. I also now hate myself because I should resist more than I am right now. I'm so going to lose sleep over this moment for days to come. 

I could feel just how much turned on he was and I guess that was his plan. "And this is the way my body responds to you. So stop the little games if you're going to start something you're not going to finish" He almost growled out the last words before his stare turned almost angry. 

Why the fuck is he angry? He's the one that decided to invade my personal space.

"You made your point, can you get the hell away from me now?" I said pissed at myself now and trying to push him off me. He rolled his eyes before he separated himself from me and turned towards the door

"Come on, you're doing your first task for me. Isn't that exciting?" His tone had changed into an angrier one and he didn't even wait for me to snap out of my shock before he left the apartment. 

I took a few deep breaths to try to forget the feeling of his body on mine before following him out towards his apartment. He waited for me to enter his apartment before closing the door behind me. 

"You want me to give you a tour?" He said, his tone expressing he wanted anything else other than that. 

And this is the part where I play my cards right and be nice to him and try to get this to go as far as I can and never see him again. But that doesn't really sound like me, and I know how possessive he was of me so I just had to push him a bit.

"No, it's okay I know this apartment better than mine" I said nonchalantly as I fixed a couch cushion to the way it actually was supposed to look. 

Grayson followed my movement and his jaw tensed in response. He cleared his throat before continuing into his room. 

"So you and Rhyland..." He trailed on not letting the question he really wanted to ask leave his mouth. 

"Grayson, I know you are not asking a question you have no business asking" I said to him, hinting at something that made me nauseous to even think about. 

Rhyland and I are like siblings, even drunk we have never thought about it. It's unspoken between us but there is not a circumstance in my life in which one my best friends and I would even kiss. 

"Right, none of my business" He said more to himself than me. During that silence, I finally looked away from him to see the dire state of his room. 

"Oh my god, this is so bad Grayson. This looks like a hospital room"  I gasped once I saw the white walls and only the white furniture. The bed was completely bare with no colors. It all looked bland, without a personality. 

"Yeah, this is what I need you to do. I've been here for days and I just can't do anything about it. So it's all yours. I'll give you the budget, everything goes trough me before it gets bought though" He said to me as I looked around my playground.

"No" Was my only response. 

"What do you mean no? You have to, that was the deal" He said walking over to me. 

I rolled my eyes as he once again invaded my personal space. "You really need to get used to leaving at least 3 feet of space between us. And I'm going to redecorate your room but you're not going to supervise me. It's going to be a secret from you until it's ready" I said to him, trying to get a little bit of control back in my life. 

"You're nuts if you think I'm agreeing to that" He huffed and I pushed him back at least 3 feet like I had said. 

"There, that's the distance that you're going to keep if I'm ever going to be in the same room as you. And yes you are or I'm not doing it" I said defyingly. 

"Okay, have it your way. But I'm going to stay in your apartment in the mean time if that's how you wanna play it" Sabrina is going to cook him up and eat him for breakfast in the first two days. I'll enjoy seeing that. 

"Fine, now leave so I can finish this as fast as I can" I said pulling out pinterest on my phone. 

"Do I distract you?" He said smugly and I just smiled back before pushing him out of the room and shutting the door in his face. 

"I agreed to do this, but I'm not going to be looking at your stupid face while I'm doing it" 

"Reality continues to ruin my life"

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