Choices Imagines

Count My Blessings

Pairing: Noah Harris x Anna-Rose Price

Word Count: 4.7K

Inspired by the finale of My Two First Loves. I wanted to write something for us who took the route of romancing Noah. Having Mason and Ava as friends. I do want to quickly disclaim that I chose to rename Ava to Samantha, to give Elijah one last chance and not turn him over to police, and to take the sweet route in the finale, not the steamy one. So this will mostly be fluff with slight steamy moments between Noah and Anna-Rose.

I am using the names of the characters in my playthrough, and I am referring to Noah, Elijah & Hazel's ma as Ms. Harris.

I will at some point replay the book a further two times so I can write something similar to this for both Mason and Ava. But I do ask you to just bear in mind that Ava might be called Samantha because that's what I'm choosing to call her.

Also, this is written in first person, which is different for me as I usually mainly write in 3rd person. But nonetheless, I hope you enjoy this fiction.

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The night after the recital, I sat around the dining table in Noah's home with his family. Ms. Harris had no idea what to make for dinner, so in my infinite wisdom, I had offered to pop by the store earlier in the day, and with the help of Mason, I was able to get all the ingredients I needed to make my favourite pasta dish. We'd also stopped by a clothing store to buy a couple of new outfits for me to choose from to wear for dinner. But of course, now being part of the family, I couldn't not get anything for Hazel. So naturally, I spent hours browsing the shelf for the little rascal whilst Mason went through the women's section, picking out potential options for me. I was starting to feel hopeless in the store we were in when I saw something that was screaming Hazel right at my face. Red is a colour that has always suited her, so when I came face to face with a beautiful red dress, with golden stars printed onto the material and a headband to match. I screamed, snatching up one in her size almost immediately. I was adoring the dress when Mason came rushing round the corner with what looked like a dozen dresses over his shoulders.

"Anna-Rose!" he panted, slightly out of breath.

"Mason? What is it? What's wrong?" I asked, confusion clear on my face.

"You screamed."

My face fell before breaking out into a wide grin and eventually laughter erupted from my throat.

"What? Why are you laughing? I don't get it."

"I just found the perfect dress for Hazel, I'm not in danger."

He scowled at me as I grinned at him before breaking out into laughter of his own, realising how ridiculous our current situation was. "Right... You didn't shout the.."

"Codeword of shobaloobagoobleflop."

"Yeah... that."

We stood in the moment for a while longer before heading to the fitting rooms for me to try on the dresses he had picked out and carried over his shoulder. After a further 45 minutes in the store, I'd narrowed it down to three options. A stunning silver bodycon dress, but it looked more like something someone would wear to an award show. A beautiful flowing sun dress in a beautiful midnight blue mixed with a little purple colour. And my personal favourite. A simple yet effective shirt dress in my favourite colour and made from my favourite material. Navy blue denim. I already owned a dress similar to this one, but in all the excitement of getting back to Eastridge to support Samatha at her first recital, I'd forgotten to pack it. And nobody can ever own too much denim. Or too many dresses. Right?