Edited by me i have rewritten chapter 1 im tired of waiting I've been waiting since April so ill just edit the rest as i go! Please let me know what you think of the chapter, as soon as I get a chance to write it i will write and upload chapter 2 but enjoy :)  ps: this is grayson's house what do you think about it?

TW: slight physical abuse and language reader discretion is advised.

Grayson's pov
"Grayson, we have a dinner at the rubistoe house tomorrow night." My moms voice rang through my mind from yesterday when I got out of the car locking it. I put my keys in my purse and went in the mall entrance. I took a deep breath before going to the first store, I picked out a few dresses then I went to the dressing room to make sure they would fit 2 out of 3 fit. The one that didn't I left in the room. I headed up front to pay for the two dresses, I grabbed the bag and headed to the next.

After going to a few more stores I found a nail salon in the mall. Thankfully they weren't too busy so I carried my two bags and the lady walked to me. "Pick color and sit at 3." She said, and I gave her a smile and went to the nail color sets she was pointing at. I usally stuck with fake nails but, today I would just get my nails painted, I chose a nude color and went to the seat she told me to sit at.

"We do nails?" She asked even though she didn't know me. I've never been to a mall salon, I usually go to the nail salon 30 minutes away from the house. But I was already at the mall and heres a salon so here I am getting them done here.

"No just gel today." I said and she nodded.

"Okay." She said and started to take the previous color off. Then she started painting my nails, I was pretty excited about this dinner because I've never met their son Bentley. I let out a low laugh. "This okay?"

"Oh yes I have plans tonight and I was thinking about them." I said with a smile, "I like them very much."

"Oh okay good." She said letting my nails dry for a moment before putting on another coat. She was finishing up my hand massage when another customer walked in. We went to the register after I grabbed my bags. I handed her my card she charged me and handed it back. I quickly walked out so i could do more shopping.

I went to the 3rd store to look for another dress, I walked around a few sections and found 2 more dresses. Even though I had plenty I wanted to fetch a few more dresses so I would have some new choices to chose from tonight. I couldn't wait either.

I realized I had been shopping about 4 hours, the blazing weather of June made me feel sticky after trying on all the dresses and the mall AC wasn't really helping me cool off. I headed home, I got home about 5:15 I started going upstairs to my bedroom, I laid my bags down on my bed. I then knew I wouldn't have much time to shower so I walked to the bathroom where I quickly took a shower.

I got out and dried off then went to my room to pick out one of the new dresses from today. I put on a long sleeve black dress that showed my back and had fur on the wrists. I went to the bathroom to do my hair, I curled my hair a little bit then put some hair in a ribbon. Once I was happy with my hair I went to put some shoes on. I chose a pair of black and sliver heels to match.

I grabbed a purse from my closet and headed downstairs where mom, dad, and max stood. Mom and dad were holding hands, they looked at me. "Ready?"

"Yes I am," I said with a smile, we followed them to dads suv and got in. Dad started driving to their house once we were there we got out dad locked the car then we walked to the door, mom rung the doorbell. We waited about 3 minutes before Victoria came to the door and let us in.

"Thank you." We all said, and followed her to the kitchen where their chef was still cooking. Thankfully it was only 7:15 and whatever it was it smelt good. I wasn't quite sure what he was cooking for us but I couldn't wait to find out.

"Please have a seat, or drink." She said with a smile.

"Grayson you can have one drink tonight." Mom said, and i followed her to where the drinks were. "Do you like martinis?"

"Sure I do," I said with a smile. She fixed it for me and put a olive in it and handed it to me.

"Take your time with this we dont need you drunk," she said knowing I have drank and ended up drunk due to leaving me around dad him drinking, I was 15 that was a terrible experience but living with a drunk abusive father you get use to it.

I walked around the corner to the living room to watch everyone else who came to the party. There were a quite a few people who were invited I thought it was just going to be us and them not several people, I noticed Victoria wearing a strapless white dress with her blonde hair in a curled like bun while Jacob her husband was wearing a tux with a white shirt underneath.

I looked around and and noticed a teenage boy around my age wearing a white button up shirt with beige pants to match who I guessed was Bentley their son. There wasn't anyone else I really recognized from the party. It was mostly grown ups mom and dads age then you have Max, Bentley and myself.

"Dinner is ready." Jacob announced amd I smiled I followed mom to the table where there was 20 chairs set up. There was some flowers set up in the middle of the table steak and veggies were served with wine and martinis of choice. I finished my martini and started on the water in front of me.

The steaks were to die for so were the veggies. "This is great." Everyone said and the chef smiled at us.

"Thank you," he said and walked away, once we were done he walked back to the kitchen, "ready for dessert?"

"Sure." We said, he put out homemade strawberry cheesecake. It was my favorite dessert ever besides strawberry ice cream of course you can never go wrong with ice cream.

Oh grayson this is Bentley our son," Victoria spoke up, "I know you haven't met yet." I looked at him and we shook hands. "He'll be joining you in school soon he's been homeschooled."

"Hi, nice to meet you I just turned 17 a few weeks ago." I said with a smile I hope hes nice, not a rude person. I cant stand rude-ish people not including my family their terrible exept mom she's pretty cool.

"Hi Grayson," he said with attitude in his voice. What the fuck have I done? We just met, my god this guy is thought. Hes a read fucking peach real nice. I let go of his hand and took a sip of my water. I just stared down at my shoes not wanting to say anything else.

Since everyone is finished are you ready for a game of poker?" Jacob asked.

"Yes." Everyone said I stayed quiet. I didn't even bother looking at him. They stood up and walked to his poker room. He looked at me.

"We have a Mario Kart game, if you want to play it." He said pointing to the living room tv then headed there himself. Even Bentley and max went to play with them. I knew how to play so I dont know why he didn't want me to play as well. I sighed as I walked over to the tv and turned on the part I needed to use.

After about 8 rounds of races which was probably 45 minutes or so, they were done with the poker game. That was a quick game I know because we usally play 2 to 3 hours at a time. I wonder what made tonight different. I shook my head and put the controller away after turning the tv off.

"Let's go Grayson," mom said and I quickly stood up following them to the car. Dad drove to the house he parked in the garage we got out and we went our separate ways to bed. I shut my door and took a deep breath. I put on my pajamas on which was a pair of lace white shorts and a matching tanktop. I then went to my bathroom to undo my hair and to French braid it for bed.

I was about to lay down when my door opened but it was so i couldn't see who it was until they grabbed me and threw me on the ground making me groan. I noticed it was dad. Why the hell was he trying to hurt me at 12:30 in the morning? "What the hell daddy?" I asked smelling whiskey on his breath even though I knew he had other drinks, but it was the strongest.

"Oh shut up you should've been more talkative at dinner and drinking? What the fuck Grayson?" He hissed and picked me up by the arm. I could feel the bruise coming out already.

"Well I'm sorry, I just wasn't talked to so no, I didn't talk to anyone okay?" I asked, "what else could I possibly do other than be quiet the rest of the night."

"Yeah I know, but you could've talked more to Bentley or something." He said.

"That damn boy was rude to me." I snapped back, and he threw me on the floor pretty hard making me hit my head against my dresser then came to me and kicked my side, and stomach I grabbed my stomach in pain wanting to cry.

"Don't talk back to me girl." He said and slapped my cheek and randomly left my room. Slowly getting up I went to my bed and laid down I cried myself to sleep because I was hurting so bad, I mean I was use to to being hurt but man did it hurt this time, at least tomorrow was Sunday and wont be anywhere important hopefully.