Chapter 68//"That's me, Elliott Grayson, knocking the breath out of women since 1998"
"Oh Christ, I can't breathe, I need an emergency call for an ambulance. Heart. Stopping. NOW!"
Everyone looks at Elliott who was falling to the ground.
Pretending to fall to the ground.
"Does he always have to do that?" Carter asks pointing at Elliott who was leaning against the wall.
Elliott stands upright then "Please you know you want to faint at the sight of her beauty, but you know I'll kill you if you show any interest in her"
"Your so annoying Elliott" I shake my head at him.
"But you love me" He grins.
"I love you but you annoy me than I ever thought possible. But I want to spend every irritating minute with you"
"You know I've heard there's a reason why engagement rhymes with entrapment and imprisonment" Daniel laughs and fist pumps Carter.
"Dan, when 3 people have sex, it's called a threesome. When 2 people have sex it's called a twosome. Now I understand why people call you handsome"
Everyone laughs at that joke while Daniel fixes his shirt.
"Elliott are you sure you aren't in love with me or something?" Daniel asks. Carter moves over to Daniel and whispers something in his ear. I see Elliott blush bright red. Well, I guess it took him long enough to understand what Elliott just said.
Elliott kisses my forehead.
"Stop making fun of my girl" he glares at them.
I feel my nose tickle; probably cause Elliott had so much cologne. Not that I was really complaining.
"Achooo" Well actually it sounded more like an elephant laughing.
"I'd bless you Dawson but you have me, and there is nothing more blessing than that"
Cue my eye roll.
Tonight was prom. One of the most important nights in a teen's life. That was my opinion anyway.
Winter, Emily and I had gotten our hair and makeup all done together.
My dress was light gray, where the top half was all sparkly and then when you went lower it was like a silky sort of material than a slit as well.It was also a strapless dress, don't you ever hope when you wear one of these dresses doesn't just fall down on you.
Of course it was too long for me seeing as I was tiny person, but nothing a pair of sparkly grey heels couldn't fix.
Do you ever have that one strand of hair that has been pulled back too tightly and it hurts too badly. But your hair has been put in this pretty undo with white roses in it and if you touch it, it will fall apart.
I bite my lip, as I look at Elliott "I got you this"
I pull the boutonniere from behind my back and hold to out in front of him.
"Well damn Dawson I got you a corsage" He smiles as he pulls it from behind his back.
White roses because red roses were too cliché.
"You look dashing in this suit," I tell him as I fix the boutonniere on to his black blazer.
"I know, I'm so good looking it pains me that everyone has to be so jealous of me"
I frown at him. Huh, cocky dickhead.
Elliott fixes the corsage gently onto my wrist. He turns my hand over to trace little circles on the lines of my palm.
"What can you read palms now" I ask him.
"Yes," He replies.
"So what's my future then?"
And the's when I can swear, his eyes like up like thousands of fireflies and a smile crosses his lips.
"Us."
He uses my wrist to tug me forward so I hit into his strong muscles breath.
"Elliott you just knocked the breath out of me"
"That's me, Elliott Grayson, knocking the breath out of women since 1998"
He leans down to kiss me in the most desirable way; I don't even care that my lipstick would be rubbing all over his perfectly sculpted mouth.
"Oh for the love of god, stop kissing" Daniel gags.
"Shut up Daniel, we're working out. I'm burning 6.4 calories a minute" Elliott barks at Daniel with extreme annoyance.
"Carry on eating each other's faces, I'm driving tonight and I'm about to drive off without the pair of you"
I think that was the only thing Daniel could have said to stop Elliott from kissing me any longer.
"Jealous prick" Elliott whispers under his breath as he quickly goes after Daniel.
"Wait for me, I have little legs" I call.
Elliott sat at the front beside Daniel. Alec was beside me as he was meeting his boyfriend at prom.
The drive is short-lived as Daniel decides to drives like some sort of demon on drugs.
Does no one understand my hate for fast drivers?
"So Cress I took into consideration how much you hate walking in heels and I have a solution" Elliott explain proudly as he helps me out the car.
Before I can ask Elliott what is the genius solution, he lifts me up and throws me over his shoulder.
I gasp out loud and begin pounding on his back, screaming at him to put me down.
"Elliott everyone can see my bum"
"Nonsense, I'd never let anyone see your ass but me"
As couples walked in looking really classy, Elliott and I walked in with me over his shoulder.
"You know when you put me down I'm going to kick you so hard in the balls that your and your future wife will never be able to have kids" I tell him angrily.
"Dawson you are my future wife" He laughs.
Am, I? Oh yeh, as you can tell I'm still getting used to being his fiancé.
He sets me down on sturdy ground and puts a piece of brown hair behind my ear.
He was doing that thing. Where he was trying to melt by heart only by looking at me.
"Ah Mr. Grayson, how did the exam go?" Our calculus teacher asks Elliott as he comes out of nowhere. The look on his face told us that he most defiantly wanted Elliott to fail.
I'm not even going to begin to explain how awesome the prank Aiden and Elliott pulled on him was.
If we had more than 2 days of school left, the two of them would surely have been expelled.
"it was freaking awesome, I think I got 100%" Elliott tells him smugly. Our teacher didn't look happy. He just grunts but before he can walk away Elliott begins to talk again.
"You know what your class has taught me one thing this year. And I will hold on to it for the rest of my life"
Our teacher narrows his gray eyes at Elliott.
"Go on Grayson"
"Sex is like math. Add a bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs and pray you don't multiply"
Elliott was already walking away while I stood there open-mouthed. I think I need a drink after that.
I pour in some of the punch into a plastic cup. I knew it was safe because Carter hadn't been near the table yet so he hadn't had the chance to spike it.
Suddenly the brunette from the football pitch comes up to me and pours some punch into her plastic cup.
"He's cute isn't he?"
Seriously why does she keep eyeing up my boyfriend. I grip my cup tightly in my hand.
"Yes, he is cute. And he's mine and I'm a psycho, just saying"
that's when her sweet façade drops and she glares at me.
"I'm his âex"
Well, that is strictly not true because Elliott hasn't ever dated a single girl other than me. He used to strictly keep it in the bedroom.
"I know that's not true but either way I'm the Up-grade"
And with that, I strut away from her.
"The way you strut in that dress you're giving me a boner" Elliott groans out loud.
"Well you give me premature ventricular contractions"
Right, I forgot Elliott failed science.
"It means 'you make my heart skip a beat'"
"Don't worry Cress, Elliott does that to everyone" Carter pops up behind me.
"So who's your date Carter' I ask him.
"He brought 3 different girls. Actually, he's in a bit of a pickle now, so he's hiding from them" Daniel replies for him.
"You deserve it, it's like all you boys think about is sex" I wrinkle my nose.
"Do you know I was thinking the other day..." Elliott says. Carter cuts Elliott off.
"Well, its good to know your good old brain works" Carter pats Elliott on the back. Elliott shoves him off before continuing.
"Sex is so weird. Like hey let me stick my hard extra limb into your tiny hole and then slams into you repeatedly cause they love you"
"After saying that Elliott we are never having sex again" I warn Elliott. I think we were all better off when Elliott didn't use his brain.
"Again? Am I missing something" Daniel shouts.
Elliott throws his arms over Daniel. "Don't be jealous baby, you know you would be my second choice"
"Get off me Elliott" Daniel tried and tugs Elliott muscular arms off him but Elliott was unmoving.
"I know what you need. Another kiss" Elliott playfully tried to kiss Daniel as Daniel tried to get away from him.
"I low-key ship it so hard" Carter elbows me.
"Same" I whisper back.
"Hey maybe the three of us can get married. I'm sure they will allow that in at least one state"
"Well, Elliott your such a bloody genius. Other than the fact that, that would be incest between Cress and me, you fool"
Carter and I burst out in laugher at Daniel's words.
Elliott ruffles Daniel's hair. "Don't worry Dan you're my number 1, just don't tell the Mrs."
Daniel fixes his hair glaring at Elliott.
"Oh before I forget Dan I have something for you" Elliott exclaims over excitingly. "So you see how I got Cress a corsage well..."
Elliott continues to ruffle though his pocket.
"Dan I got you some broses" Elliott grins. He holds up 3 roses that were beautiful, they were just a little lopsided and squished.
Daniel takes them, gasping his face glowing. He puts them in the top pocket of his blazer.
Daniel has this weird grin on his face as he begins to talk. "Elliott bro you read my mind cause..."
Daniel begins shuffling in his pocket.
"I got you some daffodudes" he grins holding a few daffodils. Elliott leaps with joy grabbing them and puts them in the top pocked of his blazer.
I look between them having no more words left in my mouth. They both high five each other and pull each other in for one of those mad bear hug.
Honestly, boys.
"I just can't wait till this is all over and it's Sunday. No more school, no graduation" Carter sighs. Yeah he always hated school. I mean if he showed up
"Sunday is my favorite day of the week. Just Cress and I in bed. All day. Doing some seriously naughty shit"
I blush at Elliott foul mouth and I think Daniel does too.
"Listen up class of 2017...." Our head of year begins.
She goes on about how she loves us all so much and how she was going to miss us. Please bitch we know you hated us.
"Now time to announce the royalty of this year's prom" She states clearly into the microphone.
"Jackson and Alec Crawford"
And I'm up on my feet clapping as loud as I can. I hear Elliott and Carter whistling and whooping.
Alec looks absolutely stunned that he and his boyfriend won. He looks over in our direction and we all give him thumbs up of encouragement.
Things between Alec and Derek didn't work out, so for the last few months, he had been dating Jackson. I would be lying if I didn't say I loved them both. They were the cutest.
Both fake crowns go on their head and I look at them both in delight.
Could I have asked for a better couple to win? I think not.
"Now if you excuse us, my fiancé and I are going to dance now" Elliott tells them as he shoves the cup into Aiden's hands.
Elliott pulls me on to the floor where there are masses of people dancing. He puts his hand tightly on my waist as I place my hand on his shoulder.
I look up at Elliott who wasn't looking me in the eye. He was biting his lip as he was lost in his own thought. I snatch this opportunity to appreciate his beauty.
His nearly black hair falling in his eyes, no matter how many times he brushed it away. His deep ocean blue eyes, I look down his angular jaw line and sharp cheekbone.
Then along the bridge of his nose and below his eyes were light freckles. They came out when he spent lots of time in the sunshine. When they were more vibrant they just seemed to soften all of Elliott's features.
And finally were his plump rosy lips, well they were sort of red with my lipstick right now.
It's a weird question thinking what my life would be like without this stupid boy. If he never walked into my childhood and made it a misery. And when he walked back into my life he became my life.
"Crescent can I ask you something?"
I nod.
"I know it's stupid to be talking with Ryan but he said something that got to me the other day"
If that creature was involved then I don't think this is going to be good.
"I'm not forcing you to love me, am I? I'm giving you a choice about everything right? Everyone keeps telling me I am not good enough for you" He continues.
I didn't see where all this was coming from.
"Your so brilliant Cress and I'm just any guy"
"You're not just any guy Elliott" I snap at him.
"And whoever has been filling your head with all this bullshit tell them to suck it up. And forcing me to love you? That's ridiculous! You're my last thought when I go to bed and my first thought in the morning. The whole day the only think ringing in my head is Elliott. Elliott. Elliott"
"I'm this girl who fell in love with, this awesome quarterback, who has me peeing myself laughing ever moment of the day. You have the magic touch to turn every sentence in to some sort of sexual joke. You're this super math genius that no one knows about. Your Elliott Grayson, the most gorgeous guy that walked the earth. If you ever doubt how much I love you I'm going to hit you with one of my heels"
Elliott watches me carefully as I give my little speech and finally when I'm finished I look at him closely waiting fro him to react.
He shakes his head "Your right I'm fucking awesome"
"See that's the cocky Elliott I know and love" I punch his arm.
We were still moving to the music but I couldn't concentrate on our dance steps. Just on Elliott.
"It's weird that we only have 2 days left of high school and then graduation" I really count shake the feeling about leaving this place.
Graduation was a like a week after we actually finish school.
"It's the end of one thing, but the beginning of another" Elliott replies. "But this time. I'll start it and finish it with you"
"You promise"
"Dawson I hope we both live to 100, except, I wish to live one day less than that so I won't have to spend another day without"
I smile hard at that.
"So yes Cress I promise"
He brings out his pinky and I hold on to it tightly with my tiny pinky.
"Elliott, are you going to start crying?" I ask him in surprise.
"No, don't be silly" He says waving his hand in front of his face as he looks up at a bright light.
"You know I learnt something in France that I never knew before"
I look at him waiting for him to explain.
"In French, you don't say ' miss you'. Instead, you say 'Tu me manques,' which means 'You are missing from me. that's how I feel everytime your not around me"
I place my head on his chest as he sways us both to the music.
The sound of his heartbeat was one of my favorite sounds because Elliott could mask his face all he wanted. Act like I didn't have as big of and impact as he did on me. But his heart gave that away.
His heart was beating out his chest.
*
I went to the bathroom and then when I come back I hang out with Winter and Emily.
I don't even need to explain what Winter is wearing, anyone could probably guess. But Emily was wearing a long silky red dress, all the boys should be fainting for her.
I still couldn't seem to find Elliott in the crowd. Whenever I saw someone with dark hair I assumed it was him. But it wasn't.
'Have you seen Elliott?" Daniel asks me with his eyebrows crease. Carter was also behind him.
"I was going to ask him if he wanted to go out for a smoke but I can't find him anyway"
"Actually maybe he and Conner have both gone out. I haven't seen Conner either"
I shrug. "I haven't seen Elliott for a while now"
*
We had the dinner they planned for prom and Elliott was supposed to sit next to me at our round table but he didn't show up. I was angry at him for just disappearing. Where the hell has he gone?
"Did you see Elliott outside?him" I ask Carter once he and Daniel come back inside.
"No"
My heart jumps out my chest. Oh god, where was he?
I try and calm myself down but so much worry was building up inside me.
I go to the front door of the hall and that's when I see Conner stumbling in.
He was in a bad way, he was holding his arm and his nose was dribbling with bloody.
I run up to him at he enters the building.
"Conner, oh my god Conner what happened?" I ask, worry consuming my tone.
His eyes snap on to mine. Those cold blue eyes.
"Where are the boys, Crescent we need to go now" He tells me firmly.
"No you need to get cleaned up"
"NO!" He booms.
"It's Elliott"
I feel all the blood drain out of my body when he mentions his name. My whole body feels cold and I panic.
"They got him, Cress. They've got Elliott"
Author note:
You should be crying cause you don't know what's going to happen and I should be crying cause I know what's going to happen.
I don't even know how I will be able to write the next chapter. Or if I'll have the guts to actually write it.
6 chapters to go.