Grant was 17 when he saw Skye again.

Entering his senior year, the world was at Grant's fingertips. He had the best girlfriend, he was the first in line to be captain of football team (baseball was too much of a pansy sport for him anyways) and he already got tentative offers to the best schools in the country. Life was a breeze, that is, until it all came tumbling down.

It was a Friday night, and he was at a party. No surprise, seeing as since sophomore year he's been involved with the same crowd. He walked through the crowds of party goers' searching over their heads. The summer between sophomore and junior year he grew a foot and a half. His mother had complained that they needed to buy him all new clothes. The increase in muscle from sports also didn't mesh well with his old clothes. Consequently, he was a good head taller than the rest of the party goers, and often had to push people out of the way to get through.

Raina had texted him an hour ago, telling him that she had arrived, and that she would meet him outside by the pool. When she didn't show up, he got worried and went looking for her.

The party had doubled in size from the time he had arrived. The bass made the room vibrate and the strobe lights did little in the way of showing Grant a clear path through. All around him there were kids jumping and gyrating to the music. He held back a grunt of disgust when he went past 2 heavily intoxicated teens making out in the middle of the dance floor. The girl had her legs wrapped around the guys torso and Grant could visibly see the the boy getting excited in his jeans. He considered throwing a condom their way, before pushing on.

Grant finally escaped the dance floor and found himself in the living room. The scene seemed no different, drunk, horny teens on top of each other with no apparent care in the world. He gave a quick sweep of the room, searching for the black beautiful curls of his girlfriend. He found none. He was about to walk out of the room when a flash of brown hair caught his eye. His eye's widened and his heart beat faster when he recognized the person to whom the hair belonged.

"Skye?" The girl turned at her name, her eyes widened and a wide smile appeared on her face. She jumped off the couch where she sat and ran to him. She threw her arms around him and squeezed.

"Grant! Oh my god what are you doing here?" Grant returned the hug.

"I could ask you the same thing! I thought you lived a town over, with the Hansons?" Skye stepped back, and Grant thought he could see a frown form on Skye's face. He didn't get the chance to study it, as she quickly returned to smiling,

"Still do! But Miles told me about this party, and I just couldn't say no!"

"Miles?" Skye gestured to the boy still sitting next to where she had sat. Grant looked over at the boy. He seemed a little older than Skye, probably a junior. Based off his goofy smile and his half-hearted wave, he was either high or drunk, probably both.

"My boyfriend." Grant's felt a pang of doubt, but didn't let it show. He wanted Skye to know how happy he was for her, "We started dating a couple month's ago." Grant looked over at the boy again. He looked a bit frustrated.

"Skye, babe, who is that?" Skye looked back at him,

"Just a friend Miles!" The boy groaned and shifted from his position on the couch,

"Babe, can you get me another beer?" Grant thought he saw Skye stiffen, but the smile never left her face.

"Sure thing!" She turned back to Grant and gave him a sad look, "Well I guess I'll see you around."

"Ya I guess." He watched Skye walk away and disappear into the kitchen. He shot Miles another doubtful look before continuing the search for Raina.

He finally found her at the foot of the staircase. She seemed a little flushed, but overall still gorgeous. He leaned over and pecked a kiss to her her cheek, and she gave him a smile.

"Where have you been? I've been looking for you everywhere." Raina shrugged,

"I got caught up talking to Garret. He wanted to know about what school I'm going to." Grant smiled and wrapped his arm around his girlfriends waist, leading her through the crowd,

"Well that's understandable, I'm sure you went on and on about your scholarship to Stanford and all the research you'll be doing." He leaned down and brushed his nose against her cheek. Raina blushed and turned her head away. Even after a year and a half together, Raina still got embarrassed by PDA. Grant lead her towards the now empty couch and then went to go get them drinks.

He was in the middle of pouring the drinks when he heard angry shouts coming from outside. His curiosity got the best of him and he wandered outside. A crowd had already begun gathering.

"You stupid bitch. Don't you think I saw you making eyes at the guy over there? I'm not blind!" Grant recognized Mile's voice. He moved in closer to see what was going on.

"I don't know what you thought you saw, but I definitely was not 'making eyes.'" His heart gave a jump when he recognized Skye's soft voice. He moved through the crowd with renewed vigor. When he finally pushed through the crowd he did not like what he saw. Miles was standing next to the pool fists clenched and chest heaving with anger. Skye stood in front of Miles, arms crossed and looking decidedly unimpressed with the whole situation.

"I know what I saw."

"You didn't see jack shit, because nothing happened." Mile's hand was moving before anybody could so anything. Next thing anyone knew, Skye was on the floor, her cheek bright red. Rage burned in Wards chest. He ran forward and stepped infront of Skye.

"Don't you fucking touch her." Miles didn't seem to fazed by Grant's build or anger. He just laughed,

"Who is this? Another one of your boyfriends? Are you fucking him too, whore?" Grant didn't even realize what he was doing until Miles was bent over, crying out and holding his nose.

"Grant! Stop!" Grant ignored Skye's pleads. He knelt down and looked Miles in the eyes,

"Call her a whore again. I dare you." Mile's eyes narrowed and he removed his hands from his bleeding, possibly broken nose. He glanced at Skye then at Ward before speaking again,

"You won't get away with this slut. Big boss man won't be here to protect you all the time." In one fell move, Grant lifted the scrawny boy off the ground and brought him to the edge of the pool.

"Grant!" Grant felt small arms grab at him from behind, but rage coursed through his veins. He mustered all his strength and tossed the boy into the pool. Grant didn't even look to see if the boy resurfaced. He turned, focusing his attention on Skye.

She had gotten up from the floor and was glaring at him. There was a red welt on her cheek from where Miles hit her.

"Are you okay? You're going to need ice for your face." He reached out to asses the damage but Skye slapped his hand away, fury in her face. "What?"

"What the fuck was that Grant?" Grant drew back, confused,

"I was helping you! He was hurting you!"

"I can take care of myself!" Venom entered her voice, "I've been doing it for years, no thanks to you!" Grant took an involuntary step back,

"I was protecting you!" Skye scoffed,

"Protecting me? You're not my brother, you're not my boyfriend. You're not even my friend!" Skye's words felt like a slap to the face,

"But I am your friend?"

"Really? Some friend. You don't talk to me for months when you get a girlfriend, and then when I leave, you don't even call to check up on me! And now, 2 years later, you think you can just step up and be the knight in shining armor?" Grant stood speechless. He didn't know where all this anger came from. "You leave me the hell alone Grant Ward." Skye gave a final huff of anger and stormed through the crowd.

Grant watched her disappear through the crowd. He suddenly became very self conscious of the crowd that surrounded him. They had gone silent while Skye yelled at him. Many had their phones out, no doubt recording the whole incident. He caught sight of Raina's black, beautiful curls. He moved toward her but she shook her head and turned to disappear in the crowd.

Grant was left alone in the middle of crowd, wondering what the hell had just happened.

Oh shit. Shit just went down!

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