~ Grayson’s Train of Thoughts~
Hi you! Yes, you reading this. Hi! I’m Grayson. Grayson DeLoughrey. Yeah, THAT DeLoughrey. Have you heard of my dad? He’s prettyyyyyyyy awesome right? Well guess what? I’m pretty awesome too. FIRST OF ALLL, don’t listen to my brother, he’s a liiiiiaaaaarrrr. Him? Cute? Ha. That’s hilarious. Look at me, then look at him. CLEARLY, I’m the adorable one. Do I have a double chin? No. See. Cute = Me. Yes, ME. Glad we got that out of the way. I’m sure he tried to tell you alllll about how he was cuter than me, but now we both agree he’s wrong. Plus I’m suppppeeer smart tooooooooo. Whenever mom and dad come around, I know exactly how to get allll the attention. A little bounce here, a little smile there, and bam - I’m the first one in their arms. Maybe Ethan was the first one out into the world (I’ll just get this on record now, he PUSHED me out of the way. I was totally supposed to be first born), I’m still the first in their hearts 
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Annnnyyyyhowwww. How did Ethan start this talk? Oh yeah, he was telling everyone about life as an 8-month-old. He wasn’t wrong (even though he usualllyyy is), it’s prettyyyyyy great. Grayson had just mastered the art of crawling and it wasss soooo much fun to have dad chase him around and then pick him up and throw him in the air. But… that was the problem. Where was dad? Dad should be doing that right now. And where was Mom? Gray wanted to playyyyyy but his boring nannies were just holding him up, talking to various people. He didn’t mind people - he honestly liked it when they came and kissed him and talked to him but here’s the problem, his nanny was too busy talking to this one guy and he was getting NOOOo attention. He tried to wiggle out of his nannies hands but noooooo, she just kept telling him to stay still. Rude. At least he had his brother to talk to, who told him to stop hogging the spotlight but what could he say? It was hard being the better-looking one in the family, and Ethan knew it which is why he was spouting that nonsense earlier.
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So of course he told his brother No. Like, how do you ask someone to just stop being sooooo good looking? You can’t. Duh. But then his nanny started saying something and picking him up higher so he was a little distracted when mom came out or he would have gotten her attention first. The second Gray realized Ethan had beat him to mom, he tried pulling ALlllLL the stops. Bouncing, waving his hands, and everything - ignoring the fact that Shay, Zoe, and Aidan took the moment to dissapear - but he wanted mom and it wasn’t fair that Ethan got her. Buuuut all mom did was pinch his cheeks, kiss him and take Ethan away with her. WHAT? HOW DARE SHE. THIS WAS TREASON. Fine. FINE. If mom would take Ethan, than Gray would just go find his dad. Duh. But first… how do we escape annoying nanny number 1? (his is obviously number 1 because he’s better than ethan, so ethan’s nanny was number 2).
Well, WELL Grayson didn’t have to think about it too hard because after a few seconds she put him down on a chair, grabbing a drink that the man who she keppppttt paying attention to INSTEAD OF HIM handed her with a funny high pitched laugh. Anyways, BINGO. Escape. The chair was kinda high but it was a GOoood thing Gray wasn’t scared of heights because he soon pushed himself off, using the chair to stabilize on two feet before going on all fours. While we’re on this conversation, why would ANYONE want to walk on only two feet? It was sooo boring. All fours was wayyyy better… (and gray wasn’t saying this because two feet were really hard and the last time he tried he fell). Oh well… on that note… BYE ANNOYING NANNYYY he thought in his head, using one hand in front of the other to escape her.
Now comes the hard part: finding his dad. Why did people have to be soooooo tall. Sitting on his butt in the middle of the party, Grayson had to loookkk all the way up as people came and went to figure out who they were. He saw his sister Shay with Andy, but he was irrelevant right now. Crawling away (and dodging people walking) He alsooooo saw his auntie Elo , and his cousin Lexie. Smiling at her, Gray took a second to tell her “ffeaddd addaddeepfad babbea” . What did he tell his cousin? Oh just “Ohhhh you look pretttyyyy,” to which she told him he didn’t look half bad himself and asked whereeee was he going? “aadddad cceeeemm bbbeeeee” he responded back, basically telling her thanks, he knew he looked good, and that he liked to live on the wild side and she should try it too. I mean… did you know she only drank formula milk? What a weird girl, but she told him she liked the taste. But nooo, she was a good girl or whatever and told him she was happy with her mom and to have fun. Oh well. ANnnnnnyyywayyyys. Back to finding dad.
Let’s just say, Grayyyyy basicallyyyy spent hourrrsss looking for his dad. He was tired. His arms were weak and he felt like he’d never find him. Okay maybe not hours… maybe months… days? Okay leave him alone, he didn’t know how to tell time yet and he almost got stepped on FOUR times. Stupid girls wearing stupid heels. Why would people do that? Well, good thing he was an expert avoider of feet. Anyways, It had been enough time that he needed a break and a break was exactly what he got as he sat in a corner, looking around. Looking at the party, Grayson noticed one specific thing. What were these cups of liquid that people were passing around? His nanny drank one earlier and it was confusing. The best food came from mommy right? So what was this? Either way, Gray wanted toooo try it. So new goal in mind, Gray climbed a chair near a table with a lot of those little drinks and then crawled on the table. Going near the tray, Gray stuck his tongue in the weird cup and tried to lick the liquid but the little taste he got was DiiisgusSTing. Before he could try more, someone grabbed him and he found his grandma looking back at him.
“gammmmadeee afappeeaaaae dadddadp” he told his Graddma Addie, asking if she knew where his dad was. But she just started being like How did you get there little guy and who let you out darling and boo. At least she played with him though. She took him to Emmy and Will annnnddd Granndppaa Harry and FINALLY Gray got some attention, and kisses, and love (like he deserved). BUT THEN grandma addie brought him back to the mean nanny who told him she was looking alll over for him. Hmph.
BUT GOOD NEWS. he FINALLY found his dad. Or his dad found him. BUT WHY WAS ETHAN WITH HIM? This just was unfair.
”Hey buddy, you having fun? Know where your siblings are?”
“adddead mmpeedd papfffd ddccemm” he told his dad, trying to negotiate with him. Basically, he told his father he’d take him to their siblings IF HE WOULD TRADE ETHAN FOR HIM. I mean, come on dad. Look at him - cuter kid right here. BUT NO. His dad left too. How rude. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE JUST PLAY WITH HIM? Andy? ANDY WHERE ARE YOU YOU’RE NO LONGER IRRELEVANT. COME BACK TO ME. Sigh. This was hard.
@astxrism - Daddio
@CerealKiller - Andy