The Bachelors: a tiktok story

27: Noah

You walked into the gym and immediately spotted Noah lifting weights in the corner. You watched as the muscles down his shoulders and the back of his arms tensed and released moving the path of tiny sweat droplets running down his skin. His body was definitely the kind of fit that said he was a regular here but his face was all sweet boy next door. 

Noah turned his head as he lifted the water bottle to his lips. His chest rose and fell as he chugged down a fair amount of the liquid. He must have turned enough to notice you because a smile flashed across his face as he wiped his lips dry:
"You made it!!!"

You tried to play it cool:
"I'm warning you now… I have no clue what I'm doing."

Noah took your jacket from you and hung it over an empty machine:
"I'm so glad you decided to come out tonight."

You: "Do you always come to the gym when it's empty?"

Noah: "Of course. I'll show you a secret..."

Noah jumped up onto the seat of a machine to reach a shelf up high on the wall. He fiddled with a few things as you watched in awe of how easy it came to him. Suddenly the quiet pop music from last decade turned off and a louder, heavy beat rap song filled the air:
"When I'm the only one hear, I can change the music to something that was made while I l've been alive."

Noah then led you to the treadmill:
"We gotta start with warming you up. We can start off slow enough to talk while we walk, though."

It only took 10 minutes for your legs to feel like jelly and you realized you really did need to work out more. You laughed:
"I think work wore me out so we might have to make it a short workout tonight."

Noah: "Deal, but next time we are gonna hit the elliptical, it's my favorite."

You: "Next time?"

Noah smiled:
"Well sure. You're cute and sweet aaaand you agreed to try and work out with me. I'd absolutely love to see you again."

His happiness over just the simole act of seeing you and how much effort he already put into making things okay for you was already lightyears ahead of any othef guy you'd gone out with:
"Tell you what. Why don't you show me that machine you like so much. I've got a little more in me."

This boy was darn near perfect. Built like a Greek God and personality of a total sweetheart. You hadn't even thought about how Jaden took off earlier or even the fact that Josh hadn't called you all day after making out in your car all night. Noah was absolutely perfect, you could get used to this... that is until you looked down and saw a message from Josh.

Next is our date with Griffin that doesn't go so well. Do we eliminate him before the date even starts?