The bird's chirping woke her up before the alarm clock got a chance to rudely disturb her peaceful slumber. The sun was barely above the horizon, but the light that had reached the surface shot up into the sky, giving it a pink and orange color. Cammie sat up in her bed and looked towards the sky. She noticed how the clouds were scattered across it, highlighted by a strong gold. The rush of the salty water couldn't be heard from where she was, but she could imagine the waves waking up, growing with every passing minute.

Cammie's phone rang, a light samba playing in the quiet of the room. She grabbed it off her wooden night stand and looked at the caller ID. A picture of her and Bex was placed behind the words 'Bex the Rex'. Compliments to Bex who decided to change the names of all Cammie's contacts during a period of boredom.

Cammie clicked on the green button that said 'Answer' and plopped back down on her bed.

"Hello." She mumbled into her speaker.

"Cam, get up, and get dressed. The girls and I are coming over and were bringing a friend. His name is Grant and there will be no protesting." Bex shot out. Cammie's eyes were wide, not understanding what Bex was planning.

"No." Her voice was stern, demanding, yet soft. She heard Bex sight on the other end.

"Cam, please don't run away from these things forever. You'll never be able to get a job or live on your own or even meet that your soulmate if you keep taking the easy path." Cammie knew that. Her doctor told her that almost as often as she washed her hands.

"Bex, please. I can't do that. You know how I am." Cammie got up and paced around her room. Knowing how her life worked, all she would do is pass out and wake up in a hospital bed two hours later. An even she does not want to experience a third time.

"Cam, this is going to be your late new year resolution." Cammie could hear Bex stand up. She heard the faint footsteps of her walking to her kitchen, echoing mysteriously through the hallway. Such a comforting thought.

"Bex, pl-"

"See you soon! Love ya." And the phone was silent. Cammie huffed in aggravation, pulling the planets over her head wishing they would eat her.

...

A sweet sensation covered Cammie's taste buds as she ate her vanilla sundae. Bex called over eight hours ago and she still hasn't shown up.

She didn't know what the girl was planning, but Cammie's nerves were growing with every passing hour. Heat flashes and periods of confusion and fear were placed out through the day as she waited for her friends' arrival.

Cammie hated the idea of this 'Grant' coming over. Even if she did ignore him, she would still know of his presence. The look of amusement would no doubt cross his face. Laughing at the poor girl trapped inside of her. Cammie couldn't look at that. She already knew she wasn't normal like everyone else. Boys often rubbed it in.

As Cammie finished her last bite, her front door opened and feet tapped down the hall.

"Hey Cammiebear!" Bex gushed. Cammie's shoulders became rigid. She didn't dare look behind her, not wanting to know that a new body stood in her kitchen.

"Hey Cam." Macey opened the fridge and grabbed a can of Root-beer.

"Hi Cammie. How was your day?" Cammie smiled at Liz, feeling slightly more comfortable.

Bex leaned over the counter, resting her chin in the palm of her left hand.

"Are you ready?" For a split second, Cammie actually forgot about the stranger that was currently in her house. Now that she was reminded of it, Cammie shook her head and dropped her smile. Bex bit her lip.

"He's a nice boy Cam. He's not going to hurt you." Bex thought for a moment. "He's not like Josh." A chill ran up Cammie's spine as she thought about Josh. The boy that could never take a hint and leave her alone.

"Cam, he's in the other room." Macey said after taking a few sips of her pop. "We'll all go in with you. You don't even have to say hi. We'll put him on the couch furthest away from you and put in a movie." Bex glared at Macey, not wanting Cammie to do anything until she at least semi-broke out of her shell.

"Well?" Macey asked. "It's better than having her start balling her eyes out." Cammie wanted to say the 'she' they were talking about was right there, but decided against it.

"Let's just go watch a movie." Liz said, also annoyed that Bex and Macey treated their best friend like a baby.

Macey and Bex ran in to the living room, already arguing about what movie they were going to watch. Liz, however, waited until Cammie washed her dish before walking into the living room.

Cammie looked down to the floor, praying she wouldn't lose it.

Deep breaths Cammie. Come on, it's just a boy!

After a few breaths of much needed oxygen, Cammie looked up coming face to face with a very tall and very handsome guy.

Her big blue eyes became slightly wide as she held her breath. Her hands started to shake but she still held her ground, even though she was ready to cry and barf all over the guy.

Cammie was ready for mock sympathy, laughter, and verbal abuse, but what she got instead, surprised her.

He smiled.

It was slow and easy, not mocking but friendly.

"My name's Grant. It's nice to meet you." Like that, the spell was broken. Cammie looked away, ready to go to bed. Her stomach hurt and she wanted him gone.

Instead of being rude, Cammie walked over to the side of her brown couch and sat down, tucking her feet under her legs.

"Were watching Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and that's final." Macey whispered with a growl, not wanting to worry Cammie or make her uneasy. Grant and Bex sat down on a love seat while Macy took a brown leather recliner. Liz sat down on the other side of the couch as Macey went to menu an played the movie. A few minutes in, when Many was showing his wife the home made playground, Cammie decided to take a glance at the stranger who was still in her house.

Grant was wearing simple dark jeans and a gray hoodie. His eyes were set on the TV as he twirled Bex's hair with his finger.

He didn't look so bad. In fact, he looked nice. He never gave Cammie a dirty look and knew well enough to not even try and shake her hand.

Grant forced his lips not to turn up in a smile. He could see this Cammie girl look him over with a curious look. It was enough to make butterflies of accomplishment flutter around in his stomach.

From the first time his eyes laid on her, he knew why Cammie was so important to the girls. She had a small delicate body with soft blonde hair and blue eyes that only added to her innocence. She already looked broken and full of fear and for whatever reason, he didn't like that she was like that.

He was going to change that whether she liked it or not.

"You like this movie Camster?" He asked. Cammie jumped in her spot on the couch. She looked towards him, her eyes landing on the wall to his right. Cammie nodded and went back to the movie.

"Okay. Yeah, I'll be over. Alright man, I said I'm coming!" Grant hung up the phone and stuffed it in his pocket. He leans against the counter in annoyance as Bex walked in.

"You okay?" She asked, grabbing his hands. Grant shook his head.

"Jonas called. Zach dropped his phone in the toilet while he was texting Jacie." Grants drew circles on the tops of Bex's hands, soothing for both of them. "She set up some event for our new album and the guys started freaking out. I gotta go."

Bex's fell slightly. She saw Cammie in the other room. Her best friend was finally at ease when it came to a new person, and now, the one guy who somehow managed to get Cammie to peak out from under her shell, was leaving.

Grant saw Bex's discomfort so he hugged her.

"She'll be okay Bex." He soothed. Bex's head rubbed against his chest as she shook it.

"You don't understand." she whispered. "Cammie was born with autism. Rachel doesn't know why it took so long for the doctors to realize it's more than anxiety, but it is." Grant squeezed her harder.

When Grant and the bad were signing autographs after a concert the year before, and autistic boy had come up to them. Frat tried to talk to the kid, but all the boy did was look down and flap his arms. The boys mother had spoken for her son. The one thing Grant remembered most, was the look of sadness in the woman's eyes. Sadness for her son, and sadness for the way he had to live his life.

"He'd like an autograph from- who was it again?" The boy held up two cards that had the names 'Grant' and 'Jonas' on them. "Right, well he'd like your names on the CD and the other two boys on his poster." The boy looked just like his mother, blonde hair, blue eyes, and a small nose. The only difference was that he had glasses to correct his crossed eyes.

Grant took the CD and smiled at the boy.

"And who do I make this out to?" He asked the kid.

"Gabe." Gabe's mother replied. Grant looked up a her. The woman wasn't looking at the boys, or at her son. No. She was looking at the families worth notable kids. Kids that waved their hands to friends and took selfies to post of Facebook.

Grant didn't want that happening to Cammie. He wanted her to be able to do other things everyone else could do. And he didn't want to see another mother feeling sorry for her child. Sadness was to common in the world.

"Stay away from Cammie." Were the first words to come out of Grant's mouth as he entered Zach's parents' house. Zach looked up from the TV to give Grant a 'what the heck are you talking about' look. Grant rolled his eyes.

"You know exactly who I'm talking about." Grant grumbled as he looked for the tools. "You told me to say hey for you when I got to her house. I didn't, by the way." Zach got up from the couch.

"Why do you care who I talk to? Your banging her best friend." This got Grant's attention. He slammed the drawer he was currently looking in and walked up to Zach so that they were only a few inches apart.

"I don't do relationships for sex and you know it. I said stay away from her, so stay away. That little girl doesn't need you to make her life any worse than it is now." He walked away, leaving Zach in the dust.

"Get your phone out your self."

Cammie sat in her couch, watching the credits scroll up on the TV screen. She thought about Peaches. How she was so innocent and happy. She had nothing to worry about except freezing to death and even that wasn't on her mind. Cam wished she could not have to worry. Life where everything was okay seemed only a Utopia.

Her mind flew to Grant. Cammie knew who he was the moment she saw him. She was thankful that her friends hadn't invited the whole band of 35seconds over. Zach was the last person she wanted to see. His eyes would make her skins crawl and her fingers itch to dig them out. That smirk would give her the perfect opportunity to smack him. And he was just like all those divine right rulers; he had to be the center of everything.

"Isn't he just the sweetest guy ever?" Bed asked with a smile. She plopped down on the couch next to Cammie and hugged a pillow. "You know, you could have a guy like that too... If you give Josh a chance." She whispered the last part, hoping Cammie wouldn't hear her, but she did.

Cammie scooted further away from her friend, not comfortable with the closeness between them.

"I liked him." The blonde girl, still upset with the fact a stranger was in her house and in the same room she was, liked him. He was kind and didn't look at her like she was some freak. And he actually tried to talk to her about something other than why she was so shy. It was something she wanted Zach to do. Cam didn't know why, but she had kind of wished the girls had brought along Zach as well. Not to claw his eyes out and yell at him for almond killing her, but because she- she-, well, she didn't exactly know why. Cam was supposed to hate Zachary Goode; no more, no less.

"I'm going to go for a walk."

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A/N~ Thank you all for your reviews! sorry this is so late, but I have been super busy with other things. I hope you liked it!

Any thoughts or concerns? Questions or comments?

What do you think is going to happen? What would you like to see happen? Do you like Grant in this? I love how other people write Grant as Cam's brother or brother like friend. It's so cute!

okay, so, I was wondering what you would like to happen on Cammie's walk.

A.) She run into Zach

B.) She runs into Josh

C.) She runs into Grant

D.) Your ideas

XYZ.) what do you want to happen with the choice you pick?

sorry this was so short. And sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes.

please please please review! I would really like feed back for motivation as well as to know how well you enjoy this story! A Winter With You should be updated tomorrow or maybe even tonight.

Review and tell me what you thought! Thank you so much!XD