The second mind boggling thing of that day was Noah walking down the hallway towards my locker.
Sydney was already nudging me, making me uncomfortable with all her quirky "go get him girl" statements whereas Jordan was just supporting me with his poker face as always.
" Hey Zoe!" said Noah holding his hand right in front of for a handshake I presumed.
"Hi"
"As you know I am new to this locality and this school, I figured you might show me around Missoula- the cafes and some heritages ."
"Yeah sure, why not? It'll be my...our pleasure" said Sydney with all her ecstasy and excitement, meanwhile I was just gawking at him. Realizing how embarrassing it would be for Sydney to answer questions meant for me, I said a plain "Yes" to his request.
"So what time"
"After school, meet us at the football court" I said.
"Woah, what just happened Zoe Boey?" said Jordan with a tinge of surprise on his face. He never questioned my decisions and he never judged me either. He is the only person who knows about my addiction and he only stopped me once.
" How could I say no? I mean he was pretty upfront and he clearly wanted to go with us..."
"To go with you, you mean" Sydney interrupted without letting me complete my sentence.
"So now what? Take him to the Chunkey's for a coffee." Jordan said.
"That's a pretty good idea I guess, I mean there ain't much to see in here apart from our pain and sorrows and Ashley's new hookup every week" I said holding Jordan's elbow while walking to the football court as always.
We followed a quite mundane routine of attending classes and meeting up in football courts for all our extracurricular activities which mainly constituted of our gossips and listening to music and eating our lunch.
I saw Noah standing near the fence waiting for us to show him around. I wasn't sure why he chose me when he clearly had Ashley, but something was strange in him and I could feel it in my bone. Something very different from all the FFHS students. But what was different? Well I could find that only after Chunkey's.
"Seems someone's pretty excited to see Missoula." Sydney said biting her lower lip to look a little flirty but it turned out monstrous.
"Yeah I am a punctual man, so where are we going?"
"We have this café we go to everyday, that's sort of our place and that's the best place in Missoula, so we thought we would take you there" I said clutching the strap of my bag hanging on my left shoulder with both my hands, attempting to not look nervous, but all in vain.
Chunkey's was a very old café where there were a limited options on the menu and there was nothing we didn't order. We were coming here from about 7 years and every waiter, every waitress by now knew who we were. They were so familiar to us they gave us a name- " The Jozney" constituting of all our names. We also had some perks of being a regular customer, we got coffees and croissants from the house on our birthdays. It had a cool ambiance with soft piano playing and sweet fragrance ,turquoise walls with brown furniture, a black board where people often wrote their precious life advices and some Pinterest copied quotes.
But today even they were surprised because they saw another boy entering to the café with us, they've never seen anyone with us and today there was Noah. Their puckered brows and constant stares made Noah uncomfortable.
"Am I an alien?" he asked to the waitress who served us our lattés.
"No, no. It's just that from last 7 years we've never seen anyone but these three together and you coming with them was quite riveting for us. I am sorry if we made you uncomfortable sir" said the waitress .
"No it's okay ma'am" said Noah with an innocent smile on his face.
After that we chatted for a while and got to know about Noah and his parent's split, and the reason of his shift from Phoenix to Missoula. He was living with his mom and his younger sister Lydia.
After about an hour or so we decided to check out and go on our ways to our homes. While coming out of the way I saw Noah going back to the black board, picking up a chalk and scribbling something, he was blocking my view. Sydney, Jordan and I rushed back to the board and saw...
JOZNEY WHITE.
*****I HOPE YOU REALLY LIKE THIS CHAPTER*****
PLZ BE PATIENT THE STORY HAS JUST BEGUN. YOU WILL FIND ALL ABOUT ZOE AND HER LIFE VERY SOON.
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Zoe Zabrowski
Romance" I am not asking for happiness, all I am asking for is a little less pain. Is it too much to ask for?" I said and burst into tears. It's all about me dealing with my drug issues, my daddy issues and my school issues. Don't know if you'll like read...
