HIATUS

26.HUHH......??OOOHHHHH......OKAYY!!

(I'm sorry for the delay fam... I have been soo busy and caught up with my work life ..I'm trying my best to squeeze in some time to write my next chapters. Thanks for being so patient. As you have read in the previous chapter about Emma and her letter. The boys plan to make things right for Emma. Stay tuned to know more about Noah's point of view and Emma's reply to Noah's confession)

Noah's Pov

The week after Emma's birthday, was one crazy week. I couldn't stand the fact that she was ignoring me. When I was at her place helping Mrs. Roberts with her garden, she walked away like I was invisible.

Mrs. Roberts asked me "Did you both fight? there is no bickering between the two of you." to which I replied "Emma is very worried about the exam, you know her too, how exams make her all tensed up" I replied and walked away to avoid further more questions.

I'm trying to study but my brain was frenzy from all the thoughts.

"Did I do something wrong? Was I rude to her? Did she manage to comprehend what I was trying to confess and now she doesn't like me ? Aaaahhhhhh!!!! why is everything so complicated????" I was now talking to myself and screaming like a mad person.

Meanwhile I heard the door bell ring and mom attended the door. I heard two familiar voices. It was Liam and Henry. I still lay on my bed pretending to sleep.

I could hear them talk to my mom. "Mrs. Stark , Is Noah at home?" they asked. "Yes, he has been quite weird this week, his mood swings seem to be terrific and he has been screaming, shouting and talking to himself like a mad man. Did Emma turn him down?" she replied and started laughing.

My mom and the boys got along well. After wrapping up Emma's birthday, they stayed the night at my place since it was very late. My mom and the boys were like a team. They pulled my leg together. My mom was like my bestfriend, she knew everything about me.

"It's something close to Emma turning him down. He hasn't completely confessed his feelings yet." Liam replied.

"Hey pervert! Get yourself out of the bed we have to be somewhere important." Henry and Liam rampaged into my room like it was their own.

"I'm not going anywhere, I have to study and show some respect I'm your senior at college?" I bluntly replied "If you say so, we will go meet Emma and go for a long drive with her and if you call yourself our senior then man up, my boy!" Henry replied.

"Actually I changed my mind, I'm planning on taking a break for today. I will start studying from tomorrow." I replied sitting straight up in my bed and walking out of the room in the same clothes I was wearing. "Let's gooooo!! "

"Stop! You are not going to meet her looking like a zombie, wear something presentable. Wait a minute" Liam pulled me back into my room and rummaged through my closet and gave me a pair of blue jeans and white t-shirt.

Blute was waiting for us in the car . "Hurry up and get into the car. Emma has been calling my phone non-stop. The plan is I have to convince her to come out for a long drive or for an ice cream date with me and that's the easiest thing for me to do. You three will be hidden behind the last seats without making a single sound."

"What are you guys upto? I don't understand a thing?" I questioned. "You just shut up and listen to what we have planned and you will eventually know what is to be done" Henry replied.

"Hey! I'm your senior have some respect" I retorted. "Then muster up your courage and complete what was left incomplete the other day and dare you do something to hurt her" Blute replied glaring at me.

In sometime we were in the parking lot waiting for Blute, who just went in, to get Emma out. An hour passed by and there was no sign of Blute or Emma. My hands were turning cold, my heart was pounding fast. Every moment of delay was just making me more and more curious about how things would turn out if I confess my feeling?

I stood there staring into the blank sky rummaging through my thoughts."Neither do I want to lose a friend I hold so dear nor do I want to leave my feelings unsaid. I have to do something about these feelings but with every passing minute I feel lost. It had not been more than a year since my last break up. Will she think that it is just a rebound and turn me down?"

I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard Liam's phone ringing. He informed that Emma was on her way to the parking lot. We were supposed to hide in the trunk of Blute's car.

Blute owned a huge, spotless, filthy white SUV.I would have been drooling at the sight of it but now was not the right time.It was little uncomfortable to fit the three of us in the trunk but we were well hidden by Blute's gym utilities that were shifted from the trunk to the middle seat.

Emma and Blute made their way into the car and I could hear Emma's voice.

She was going on and on about something and she was clearly mad at Blute.

Blute was trying to bring up the conversation about us and then I heard her saying "Noah was about to tell me something important on my birthday when you people splashed paint on us exactly when he was about to spill the beans and now I have been really curious all week since I wanted to know what it was about...... " And boom I hit my head to the seat because of the speed breaker and I couldn't hear the rest of it.

Damn that jerk he does things on purpose. Then we reached the destination and we stayed in the car for sometime. Emma kept talking and talking and all she talked about was only how mad she was at Blute and only partly about what her problem was.

I was jealous of Blute now, because he could effortlessly make her spill the beans. I wanted to be a important person in her life too.

When Emma was engrossed in a conversation with Blute, we made our way out of the car and we could hear Blute read out the letter loud. It made my heart melt and I was moved.

"Hmmmm.. I know it was too melodramatic and the reason I look troubled is I think I have some complicated emotions towards Noah. I don't know what it is but I wanted to talk to Noah but I don't want to lose a friend so I haven't told him anything yet" Emma replied looking down at her feet not realising I was there all this time.

I stood there dumbstruck when Emma admitted that she had some unresolved feelings for me. Even though I wasn't sure of what her unresolved emotions meant, I was very excited and I didn't want to lose my calm in front of people. When she turned around, her eyes were wide open and her expressions were easy to comprehend.

"I know you want to ask me about how much I heard from your conversation with Blute. I actually was here all the time." I winked at her trying to keep my calm.

"You sneaky pervert. I hate you!" She replied with not her usual rogue like tone but it was different.

Henry pushed her towards me and told Emma"Go finish your conversation that was left incomplete on your birthday, we can't see you bothered like this everyday and we are right here waiting for you".

We both made our way a little further away from the others. The atmosphere was getting tense and there was awkward silence. Neither of us spoke for a long time.

"Emms! I need to tell you something" I mustered up the courage once again to tell her. She wasn't looking at me but she was looking at her shoes and that was irritating me." Emms! Look at my face I'm talking to you" I stepped forward closer to her. She froze when I held her hand and told her" Emms I like you! It is not a prank or a foolish act of mine like last time. I have fallen head over heels for you. When you don't fight with me or you ignore me and stay away from me, It drives me crazy. Would you be my girl?"

"HUHH.....??OOOHHHHH......OKAYY!!!"this is all Emma could reply to all that I told and I didn't know how to react to her response. I couldn't comprehend what was going on in her mind.