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Fact no.16: Punching a guy might lead to hooking up with the named guy

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We spend the next day in Barcelona.

Although Kai and I have been there thousands of times so far, it is Dia's first time in the city. Noah has been here when he was younger once, so he also doesn't remember much about the place. Cami offers to give us an insider tour, given the fact she has lived here all her life.

We start with the usual places: Sagrada Familia, Casa Batlló, Park Güell and Casa Milà. For lunch we stop at La Boqueria where we have some fresh fried fish. We continue our tour of the city and Cami insists we go up on a hill to Tibidabo, a fun park with a view of Barcelona. Trusting our tour guide, we decide to go there.

After a bus ride that takes ages, we arrive at the fun park and I immediately know this has been the right decision. The place is amazing. It really is. I can't help but squeal and force everyone to hurry up. We go to the roller coaster first. The ride goes exactly at the top of the mountain and you have the feeling you're flying. I sit together with Dia, Cami with Kai, and Noah sits behind us all, sharing the sit with an eight-year-old who wouldn't stop screaming. We have photos as proof of Noah's "excitement".

Our next stop are the bumper cars, with the same seating arrangement as before. Noah gets a new seat mate this time, a woman who hates when he bumps their car into others. Given Noah's personality, one can already guess what happened. Noah bumps their car into every single other car on the arena, making the woman scream every time. As the ride ends, she looks at him and curses him a few times in Spanish. Noah can't stop grinning.

We also go inside the haunted house, Dia closing her eyes the entire ride. She opened them once and that's exactly when the figure of a creepy clown popped in front of us, making my bestie scream so loud she almost slapped the figure in his face. I couldn't help but laugh, which made her turn pink in her cheeks. I only stopped laughing as a loud bang toned throughout the room followed by a bat appearing out of nowhere. I screamed my guts out earning myself a smirk from Dia, who was now laughing in return. I couldn't stay mad at her for more than one minute and joined her in laughing seconds later.

As we exit the haunted house, someone screams at us and throws themselves in front of us. I obviously did the first thing I can to protect my bestie and me. I punch the person. Hard. In their nose. It appears the person was Noah Coin, who decided to make himself less useful than he already was.

"Are you kidding me?!", he asks, putting his hand on his nose to reveal blood rolling down from there. Oh boy. I just got him a nosebleed. "Are you planning on killing me, precious?", he continues, blood staining the white T-Shirt he's wearing. From behind, we can hear someone gasp and someone laughing out loud. Cami looks at us shocked, just coming out of the haunted house, holding hands with Kai, who can't stop laughing.

"She kicked your ass", my brother lets out, the words fumbled between his laughter. Cami's mouth also twitches involuntarily.

"Asshole, you were supposed to be on my side", Noah growls at him. It only makes Kai laugh louder.

I can't help but smirk at my brother, who gives me a proud look.

"I'll help you get cleaned up", I tell Noah.

"What?", Noah lets out at the same time Kai says: "Why?".

Oh boy.

"I just punched a man. It's not good for my karma", I answer to Kai, not wanting to let him know about what happened between Noah and me at the paintball yesterday.
Noah grins now, giving me a That's my girl look.

We might be on speaking terms now, but I still hope he rots in hell.

"Come on", I say. I then look at Dia, who makes me a sign she'll wait with Cami and Kai. I haven't told her what happened yesterday, but she somehow got a hang of it. I guess that's what happens when she's your bestie.