Noelle | ongoing

Chapter 11

[NOELLE]

   I don't know what happened to Nadia. When we were younger she used to be so protective over me. When I was in 5th grade I had a bully that was in 6th grade, I didn't take anything the bully said to heart because I knew it wasn't true. Nadia on the other hand did, when she was picking me up from school she saw the girl messing with me, so she decided to pick up a random Mcdonald's cup and dump the unknown liquid on the girl.

Now she's just like her.

"What did she say Elle?" Avery asks.

"Can we not talk about it? It's too much. I'm just glad we left her there."

"Alright we don't have to, and I'm also glad we left her."

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I wake up to my phone continuously ringing, it stops and I rub my eyes for what felt like forever, I check the time and it's 12:28 am, jesus. I unlock my phone with face Id and check the call log, 8 missed calls from my mom.

I kind of expected her to call me, not this late but I know it's because we left Nadia without a ride. I put my phone on do not disturb because I don't want to keep getting her calls, I'll call her back later.

I lay on my stomach and try to go back to sleep.

A few minutes pass and I can't, I sit up on my bed and take a look around the room for a minute. Looking at Avery's bed and she is sound asleep, leg hanging off the bed and blanket half on half off. She looks very comfortable...way too comfortable, I stare at her very carefully to make sure she's breathing. She is.

I take a deep breath and get out of bed. I walk to the kitchen to pour myself some water. Now that I'm sitting alone I have time to think, it makes me realize that I haven't been to group in a while but it's fine, I can go whenever. I hear the doorbell ring and I sit down the cup to go answer it.

"Oh, what do you want."

Nadia standing in front of me at almost 1 in the morning, she better be here to apologize.

"Can we talk?" she asks.

"Is that not what we're doing?"

"Just put on a jacket please, and this time I promise if you really don't want to talk to me after this I'll leave you alone."

Her face seems genuine, then again she is a good liar. I can tell this is going to turn out bad but as they say, curiosity kills the cat.

I go back to put on a jacket and some shoes.

"Where are we going?" I ask Nadia as I enter the car.

"Somewhere to talk."

"We couldn't talk back home."

She doesn't bother to answer me.

We drove for what felt like forever, I check our destination from the apartment and see that we are 45 minutes away.

"Nadia, why are we 45 minutes away from where I live at almost 2 in the morning?"

"Chill, we're getting out soon."

I let out a deep breath because she's testing my patience.

"Calm down, we're here."

She parks on the side of the curb, I look outside the window and we're at a club. Why would she bring me to a club? I'm literally in pajamas. She turns off the car, we get out and I check my phone to see how far we are from the apartment.

"Nadia, why are we almost an hour away? I thought you wanted to talk."

"Chill, it's 45 minutes, not an hour, and we will talk just inside there," she points to the club.

"45 minutes is basically an hour," I roll my eyes.

We step into the club entrance line which is unsurprisingly long, I mean it is a club and it is Saturday.

"I don't even have my I.D. on me."

"It's fin- dammit I forgot my purse, can you wait here."

"Yeah, sure whatever."

I waited, and I waited. She's been gone for a while till I finally check my phone with a text from Nadia.

NADIA: Now we're even

What?

I step out of line to go where the car is parked, she's gone. I try calling her and she doesn't answer. I swear she acts so immature.

I try calling Avery and she doesn't pick up. I suspected it she's a heavy sleeper.

If there's someone I know for sure is going to pick up...it's Hero.

I don't really wanna call him, what if he doesn't answer and he sees a miss call from me? He's gonna think I like him or something. Ugh, I sigh and scroll to his contact, and press call. It rings 3 times before he picks up, that was quick.

"Hello?" Hero answers, his voice is raspy, I can tell he just woke up.

"Hi Hero."

"Oh, Noelle sorry I didn't look at the name before answering."

"Can you do me a favor?"

"Yes," I feel as though he's smiling.

"Can you perhaps...pick me up?"

"Where are you?" I can hear him shuffling around.

"I'll send you my location."

"Okay, I'll be there soon." I hear a door shut.

I send him my location and sit on the side of the curb to wait.

About 45 minutes later a car light shines on me as they pull up to the curb. I stand up and open the door to get in.

I let out a breath, "Okay I get it now."

"Get what?" he laughs.

"Why your parents named you Hero," he waits for me to finish, "It's because you're a literal lifesaver."

I look at him and he's dusting off his shoulders, "I am a lifesaver."

I also notice he doesn't have a shirt on, he has a very toned body. I mean his shirts were tight enough to notice but I didn't till now.

"Take a picture it'll last longer," he lets out a slight chuckle.

"Shut up," I roll my eyes, "Where's your shirt?"

"Oh, I was trying to hurry up and get you so I just forgot, I almost forgot my shoes too."

I laugh, "Thank you for coming to get me."

"Anytime as long as it's you."

I smile at the words that seeped from his mouth.

Okay so I haven't uploaded in a while but that's because I started school on the 9th and it's a new school so I literally know no one and it's also in a new state, so it stresses me out so I come home so tired with no energy to even do my homework. 

That's irrelevant anyways next chapter I'm starting from where I left off but in Hero's POV I'm starting to write it right now so it should be up on Monday or Tuesday night Pacific time.

Oh and real quick please don't tell me how long it's been since I updated lmao it makes me feel like I'm not writing for fun, and I also know when the last time I updated is (I tried to say this the nicest way possible because I do appreciate all of you).