Misunderstandings

Moving in

After her shower and washing her clothes Jacklin stepped out of the bathroom with her clothes and hat in hand when someone laughed. She looked up to see both Ann and cliff laughing at her and she knew it was the dress with its frills 'damn you spawn of evil' she cursed herself.

"You two are horrible" then a devilish thought crossed her mind. "Hey cliff" he looked at her face and went white, he knew jack and when she wanted to get even she did. "Did you tell Ann about the time you –"he covered her mouth to make sure she didn't tell Ann anything. If she told Ann anything she'd probably just refer to it whenever she wanted to, to make cliff blush making his life hell. "What about what?" Ann asked. Removing his hand from Jacklin's mouth; he sheepishly replied "Nothing, it's nothing" Ann couldn't believe that she was missing out on something about cliff; and having it to do with another girl made her jealous. Just then, Jacklin gave her the 'tell you later look' washing away the little green monster.

Ann pushed jack into the room locking the door so cliff couldn't interfere with they're conversation. "Spill. Now!" It took twenty minutes for jack to tell Ann the whole story and by then she was both agreeing with what she had done to gray and laughing at pictures of her and cliffs class and the play that cliff was so embarrassed about. "I'm gonna go check on cliff and max now Kay?" Ann nodded handing her the photo album "you should show him those" Ann mentioned while grinning evilly. "You know me too well Ann"

She walked down the hall and knocked on the door next to her and Ann's and herd cliff yell help and couldn't help but laugh at the sight. Cliff was being attacked by the playful dog, who was playing tug of war with his ponytail. "Messy! Is that you mommy baby." And as soon as she said that he lunged at her, only to be caught. "What did you do to him? Last time I remember he was a sweet puppy and now he's the devils little helper." He groaned rubbing his sore scalp "so I'm the devil now?" Jacklin asked emotionless which scared him; he didn't want to get her angry like the girl who cut her in their sophomore year. She broke the girls legs and bruised her face pretty badly in one of her rage attacks; being a hockey player only made her more intimidating. "Devils little helper attack!" she called laughing as the dog resumed his game of tug of war. "See he even responds to the name" cliff cried.

"Alright, alright I get your point, come here max" and the dog let his hair loose again. Giggling she sat next to cliff showing him the photo album; as he fumbled through pages he made many discomforted expressions and asking "did you really show this to Ann ?" she nodded and all he could do was blush and shove her playfully as the dog lay on their feet. "Oh, happy birthday, I almost forgot with the whole disappearance thing" he replied coyly handing her a bunch of flowers he picked earlier from the nightstand. "That's so sweet you remembered something as silly as that" jack answered hugging him, but through their moment they didn't hear the door open.

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Grays P.o.v

After my head stopped throbbing Trent let me go home, walking in the inn it was quiet, dad wasn't even out there I sighed and looked at the clock, it was 10:15. No wonder it's so quiet; then gray herd someone call 'help me' followed by giggling. Curious gray went up the steps and herd cliff say something about 'being a devil' then someone calling max. 'Who's in there?' I asked myself while grasping the door handle and pulling the door open; the people in the room didn't notice him come in. sitting next to cliff was a girl with shoulder length hair that was both curly and spiky with a cowlick. She had a dress that was frilly and lilac purple with a bow in the back, then heard her say "that's so sweet you remembered something as silly as that" her voice wasn't exactly feminine, in fact it could have been mistaken for male; but it was familiar and had a somewhat inviting aura to it. The girl hugged cliff and half of her face was facing towards gray, freckles on her cheeks and an apparent blush with a smile that dared to split her face in half.

Even though those two didn't hear the door open, the dog did. Quick and alert the dog tackled me to the ground, letting out a playful growl as he pulled at my neckerchief. They both turned around to look at gray, cliff was trying not to look at my face because of my scowling eyes boring a hole in him, only caused by this dog; and the girl got up quickly, looked at me and turned red then fainted on cliff, only to leave us confused.

"w-what just happened?" cliff asked, he seamed startled by the girl falling on him being caught seconds before impact on with the floor. Gray chuckled before cliff gave him a quizzical look, "what happened to your face?" cliff asked in horror as examined grays from afar. "Some guy in a green and black sweater attacked me, and then ran away after a mishap at the clinic." His voice lowered when he paused leaving a light blush on his face. Cliff looked down at the girl then my face and mumbled something under his breath like he was gonna scold her or something.

Cliff picked up a book and then the girl, "I gotta get these guys to bed" he replied opening the door "Max come here boy" the dog immediately let go of my neckerchief and followed cliff out the door. I got ready for bed and laid down as I realized something.

'Cliff was really chummy with that girl unlike how he had been with Ann and himself just a year ago. He didn't stutter at all with what he heard and cliff was stuttering when he was talking to me. Maybe he'll tell me who she is when he comes back.' Gray could fell his eyelids weighing down on him, 'I've had a long day…. I'll just ask tomorrow' he told himself as he entered his dream world of false memories.