#ethma

Summary: After a stressful couple of months, the twins, Emma and you decide to take a well-deserved trip to a Caribbean island. However, it’s not all that peaceful because your more-than-obvious crush on Grayson is making you lose your marbles.

Warnings: none

The twins, Emma and I were all meeting up at the terminal for our Caribbean summer trip. We were all going to Puerto Rico to spend a week away from all the LA stress. As I walked in, I saw Grayson’s tall figure standing above Emma and Ethan. His already tanned skin glowing as if he had descended from Olympus. As soon as he saw me he gave me his beautiful smile and wrapped me in a tight hug. We all hadn’t seen each other for a few days because of our crazy schedules and my book beingdue a couple of days prior. 

Those hazel-green eyes give me his undivided attention and I get this rush of feelings that make my cheeks red and makes me want to run away. I wish I’d know if he can tell that my heart is about to beat out of my chest and I don't even know what he’s saying anymore, I can't hear anything. 

“Are you ok?” Ethan asks grinning and Grayson stops talking, looking at me with caring eyes. His lips look irresistible and his eyes try to read my face as I just admire how his muscles look like they are about to pop out of his shirt.

“I’m good, just worried about the flight.” Which is true for the record, I’ve never even left the west coast before and Puerto Rico is kind of far. As I say this, I give them a convincing smile and go to finally say hi to Emma who has been editing a video this whole time. 

Grayson keeps asking me how everything has been going with the book and wants to know every detail of what I have been doing these last couple of days that we haven’t seen each other. The way his eyes crinkle when he smiles, and that dimple. His smile is his most beautiful feature. Yes, he’s built like Chris Hemsworth, but his sweet smile and childlike enthusiasm drive me crazy. This man is everything I have ever hoped for. My heart aches at the thought of ever losing him and the touch of his hand sends me into a frenzy. But we’re just friends, I am not supposed to feel this way, and I most certainly don't want to ruin what we have. 

He notices I’m staring at him in a weird trance, I guess he’s not that clueless. I’m sure he’s gonna say something about it, but then he puts his arm around me and asks while pointing at the window, “Pretty nice sunset, huh?”

I simile and nod, letting myself get closer to him and he tightens his grip around me. I don’t know what cologne he wears, but he just smells manly. Good enough to make just about anyone melt. 

The trip to get to the island goes by pretty fast because Grayson and I kept talking about the randomest things, with an occasional bickering with Ethan because of the differences in our opinions. Ethan and I are ridiculously similar and extremely stubborn. We get along great, but we do butt heads a lot. However,  Grayson leaves me quite impressed, he’s so much smarter than he lets people know and I like that side of him a lot. 

We get to the hotel almost an hour later after landing because traffic is crazy and Ethan suggests that we go to the beach right away. So we all get changed and go to the beach, the boys go surfing and Emma and I stay in the seating area on the sand. 

She looks at me weird and says, “you’ve been keeping your distance lately, why?”

“You know why Ems, I can't help how I feel and I have never been known to be one to be able to conceal my feelings very well,” I say not even daring to look at her. She can read me better than anyone, she knows things before they even hit my atmosphere. 

“Listen, I know you’ve gotten your heart broken by friendships in the past. However, we’re not like those people. We’re here for you, for reals and I’m so glad you did decide to come on this trip with us. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s happy you actually showed up,” she says giving me her quirky signature smile and a wink. 

My face is burning and it’s definitely not from the sun. “I’m sure he’s just glad I’m here to bring the entertainment, I’m pretty funny you know. Plus, being the third wheel is no fun.”

She glares at me, in a judgmental way, but then laughs a little.

“Y/N!!!” 

That unmistakable voice. The way he says my name makes me want to just die. In the best way possible of course. 

He gets closer to me and I see that his floppy hair is all wet and his clean-shaven face is all red from the sun. He’s soaked, but he’s smiling and jumping up and down.

“Look what I found, y/n! It’s a pearl! Here it is for you,” 

“Oh, why thank you, Peeta,” I say giggling like a schoolgirl, I’m so embarrassing.

He stares at me in confusion, tilting his head a little, I forget he doesn’t always get my references.

“I’m sorry, I forget you don’t like books. I like it, Grayson. Thank you!” My heart is about to fall out of my mouth and I am the color of the crabs that are sitting on the rocks. Fitting, to be honest, I am a cancer after all. 

“That was a movie,” Ethan says in his know-it-all voice, clearly done with all of this nonsense.

“There were three books and four movies, Ethan,” Emma corrects him while wiping the water from his face with a towel. 

Grayson shrugs, kisses my cheek and says, “You’re welcome. We should all get some dinner now, I’m starving.”

I just nod my burning face away and collect all of my stuff. 

At dinner, our saltwater soaked bodies are bathed by the summer island breeze. The sunset looks out of this world, the orange changes to purple, then pink. It’s the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. It’s really nice here and I am trying to calm down and take it all in. But Grayson is the only one not wearing a shirt, keeping up with his d-bag rep. His muscles are already tan and his abs look so good you would think they’re fake. 

Out of nowhere, Grayson says, “Put on your bathing suit cover.”

I stare at him as if I don't even understand the language he is currently speaking.

“The guy behind me is looking at you in the grossest way possible and I don't want to cause a scene by punching him in the face,” he says clenching his jaw. He looks angry. 

I look over to the guy and he smiles at me, giving me a flirty wink. He does not look bad at all, he’s quite handsome actually. Grayson notices that I am staring at this guy for too long so he then puts his shirt on me and puts his arm around my shoulder.

His face is red with anger and I understand, he’s just being a protective friend, you never know what people’s intentions are. Especially when it comes to men. So I just sit there while Emma smiles quietly to herself and Ethan rolls his eyes so far back into his skull, they might get stuck that way. 

After dinner and taking a shower, we all gather in one room. We were supposed to go out and walk around to enjoy the nightlife, but, although we are all adults, we don’t really enjoy that kind of scene.

Quite frankly, my mind is still reeling from all that has happened since we got here. So after a little while of talking to everyone, I leave to go to my room and I fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.

When I wake up, I decide to just go walk the deserted beach by myself so I could clear my mind. It’s so early the sun it's coming out just now. As I watch the dark sky turn to a pink-orange, I can’t help but to feel blue. It’s crazy because here I am looking at the most beautiful sunrise, the kind that makes you question just about everything you have done up until this point of your life, and I should feel peaceful. Maybe that’s the problem. 

Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me want him more, and because of my tumultuous past experiences with love and friendships, there is nothing else for me to expect but getting hurt and watch all of my closest relationships go up in flames. 

My head is spinning and I am going down a spiral when I feel something touch my arm. I jump at the feeling of someone touching me and fall in the water. Just another prime example of how smooth I am. 

“Did I do something to make you feel uncomfortable?” Grayson asks helping me up and drying me with his towel. 

“No, you just scared me.”

“Yeah, that I know, but I meant before. You’ve seemed kind of off this entire trip.” He looks concerned and looks at me as if to say, you can trust me, it’ll be ok. “We are friends after all, you know? You can tell me anything,” he says in the most reassuring way possible. I want to drown in this vast ocean and never come up again. 

“Oh, no,” I try to act surprised, as if nothing could ever be wrong, I’m clearly not that good at it. “I’m fine,” that’s so not true, it’s laughable really.

He doesn’t seem to believe half of my bs, but something stops him from questioning any further. I just look at him and smile, that is the one genuine thing I do in his presence. Words fail me and I am too clumsy to ever be a proper human around him, but just looking at him, his eyes, his smile, his body, all of him, makes this sunrise look like Tana Mongeau leaving day three of Coachella.

He gives me a genuine smile back and says, “Let’s disappear for the day.”

“What? Why?”

“Let’s explore the island together. Plus, it's not like Ethan and Emma won’t enjoy being alone for a day.”

I don’t even know what to think of this, I am paralyzed there as he keeps staring at me, excitedly waiting for an answer.

“Ok, let’s go, now!” I say grabbing his hand.

A/n: whoooo!!! first fic on this blog. pls give me feedback I would love it a lot.

Summary: You never were of a fan of people getting initials or names of their significant other tatted on them, but that is exactly what Ethan did.

warnings: cursing

 Grayson was about to go and get a tattoo next and of course, Ethan said he’ll go with him even though he didn’t know what to get.  But then, he thought of one that’ll make his girlfriend hate him (for only like a day).  Your initials tatted right on his ankle.  He remembers what she said a few months ago when he was thinking on what to get as a tattoo

“I don’t know, Ethan.” You said while tossing around the bed. “It’s late. Just ask Grayson.” “But Gray doesn’t have the same style as me.  He’s going to give me something colorful and it’ll ruin my vibe.”

“Hm I don’t know E I can talk about it in the morning when my brain can give you a good answer. Right now let’s just sleep.” Your eyes were slowly shutting into sleep until you felt he started talking again.

“Maybe I should get your initials tatted on me..” Your eyes opened wide and you sat up facing him. “NO” He starts to laugh at your sudden movements then went on saying “Why, what’s the big deal? I was joking anyway.”

“I don’t know, i just feel like it’ll jinx our relationship if you get it.  I see all those guys with girl’s names tatted on them and they’re like ‘oh, yea we broke up.’ And I don’t want that to happen to us.”

“Ok, I guess I have a superstitious girlfriend.” you roll your eyes while he lays down on the bed and pulled you closer. “But now I’m ready to sleep. We’ll think of one tomorrow.”

He started smiling at the thought of it and decided that he’ll buy a custom temporary tattoo of the initials when he gets there and make a prank video about it.

The day came and in the morning, he grabbed one of the cameras and went into the guest house to do the intro.

“Hey guys, by the title of this video you would already know that I’m going to prank my girlfriend with her initials tatted on me.  I already know that she will hate it because she told me a while back that she won’t allow me to do that.” He was talking with a mischievous grin the whole entire time.  “Oh yeah, I’m in our guest house right now because she’s still sleeping in our bed and I don’t want her to wake up and find out.  And today she’s going out to brunch with her friends which is perfect so Gray and I will go to after she leaves.” He stops recording and goes back to the house where you were already getting ready in the bathroom.

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At the tattoo place (i forgot what we call it ahhh), Grayson already got his tattoo and Ethan got an actual tattoo on his thigh.  But it was time to go back because Y/N was about to come home soon.

(In the car)

Ethan pulls out his camera. “Ok guys, we just came back from getting new tattoos and we’re rushing because I need to do something before Y/N gets home.”

“Guys, I don’t even know what he’s doing he just rushed us out there and now he’s telling me to drive faster, which I can’t” Grayson said while keeping his eyes on the road.

“Trust me, Gray.  Do it for Y/N.  You’ll find out when we get home.”

And soon enough, they got home and he brought the temporary tattoo to the kitchen where Grayson was standing.  His eyes went wide and even in the camera you could see the fumes coming out of his nose and ears.

“ETHAN! SHES GOING TO FREAK OUT!” E started laughing.

“Exactly, that’s the whole point of the prank.  Plus, it’s temporary so it’ll come off.”

“Well, I already know that you’re going to ask me to help you put it on, but I’m not going to help you.” “Why?” “Because I don’t want any part in this. Bro, she’s going to get so mad at not only you, but even me.”  Which is true, because although you seemed like you couldn’t even hurt a fly, when you get mad, you get mad.

Ethan rolled his eyes and went to the bathroom to try and put it on successfully.  After reading the directions for the longest time he put it on and waited for a few minutes.

“Okay guys, I think it’s done.”  He peels of the paper off and his jaw drops “Ohhohho my god guys… It looks so real.” He shows the full view of the tattoo.  It was a small tattoo on his ankle with the other cluster of his tattoos.  It was in a simple font and he actually thought that it looked so good that he wanted to get it permanently tatted on.  But he had to see your reaction first.

He showed Gray and all he did was shake his head and roll his eyes. Ethan went to put on saran wrap to make it look more real and give the impression that he really just got it.  After about five minutes, you came back and he was just casually sitting in the living room, hiding cameras all around the room and your guys’ room.

“Hey, E I’m back.  How was it?” You asked while sitting next to him on the couch kissing him on the cheek and waiting to see it.

“Good, do you want to see it? You’ll really like it.” You were smiling and he put up his ankle and began to take off the saran wrap.  When you saw it, it took a while to figure out it was.  But then, your face was slowly fading from a smile to a mixture of anger and disappointment.  

Your hand goes to cover your mouth then they both go up. “You got my initials tatted on you?! What the fuck Ethan!” He starts laughing a bit because he can’t keep it in. “Don’t you dare laugh.  You already know that I didn’t want my initials on you.” You say standing up and pointing your finger at him.  Gray tries to pass through the hall to go to his own room where he will be safe from you, but you already saw him. When both your eyes met, Grayson knew this was the end for him.  No reasoning will make you not mad at him.  

“And you!  You were with him and you still let him get that?!” there was poison in your voice and fear in his eyes.”I-I-”

“That’s right, no explanation.  I am so disappointed and frustrated with you guys… my god.” Ethan looked at each of the cameras in the room with his turtle face as you were walking to your guys’ shared room.  

“Y/N, wait.  Come on it’s not a big deal.  And it’s not like I’m going to break up with you; I want to stay with you.” “It’s not that, E.  It is a big deal. And I know that we will stay together but it just makes me anxious that we will end up like those couples that will break up and you will still end up with that. It just makes me think abut stuff I don’t want to think about and that tattoo doesn’t help.” And with that you shut the door.

“Babe, hold on.” With a smile still on his face, he goes into the bathroom and washes the tattoo off, pics up one of the cameras, and goes back to the door of the bedroom.  “Open the door, Y/N. It was just a temporary tattoo.”

“… are you kidding me.” You didn’t open the door but it could be heard through the door. “No I’m not.  Now please let me talk to you.” A few seconds later the door opens.  You saw the camera and immediately put your hands in embarrassment and went back to flop on the bed.  You just snapped at both of them right in front of everyone.

Ethan pointed the camera at you and started laughing. “I can’t believe that actually worked oh my goooddd.”

“E, you literally scared me to death I was thinking like ‘oh my god how am I going to live with this.’” Both of you started laughing. “Aww I’m sorry Y/N.  But you went off.”  You smiled and looked up at him.  “Damn, I did, didn’t I.”  You saw Grayson peeking through, still obviously slightly frightened from you a few minutes ago.  “Gray, I’m so sorry.  But you should’ve seen the look on your face.” He went into the room. “Dude, I didn’t have an explanation because I was going to spoil the prank. And E gave me the most threatening stare.”

“I even said that I didn’t want to help him with any of this because I didn’t want you to get mad at me or anything, which ended up with you still getting mad at me.”  Ethan cut him off before he could say anything.

“Ok ok I think that’s enough for you so get out and let me talk to my girl.” And he pushed Gray out, closed the door, and stopped recording. He jumped on the bed and wrapped his arms around you. “I’m sorry” “It’s ok.  Just don’t ever scare me like that ever again.” “Ok.” He kissed you on the neck. “Let’s stay like this.  It’s comfortable.”

He could see you go on twitter and type:

    Ethan got me good guys.  He got me good.

He smiled to himself but didn’t say anything about it.

“Yeah I did.” He said aloud shouting in your ear.

You did an immediate faceplam.

A/n: AHHHHH IM SO MAD AT HOW THIS ENDED IDK ITS JUST AWKWARD T.T tell me how you guys like it