𝐉𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐘 || 𝐆𝐗𝐆 ||

CHAPTER FORTY SIX

Noa

She looks so...empty. Her strokes are slow, she seems to be distant as she paints and there's an ache in my chest just watching her. The way she looked at me after I told her, she was heartbroken.

I watch her from a distance but soon return the the art we have to do. I don't even know what's getting done, I'm just painting my thoughts. So when you look at my piece, all you see is black, yellow, pink, brown, and stars. Black for the sky, yellow for the hair, pink for the feeling, brown for the eyes, stars for her.

The paint is just everywhere so there's nothing much to see if you don't understand the meaning, it just looks like I've thrown paint at the canvas.

There's a knock on the door and in walks my brother and I look over at him along with everyone else.

"Can we help you?" Mrs Dawson asks and he gives a brief smile before looking at me then at Zara, and then at some other person.

"I just need some equipment." He says and the woman nods. He has football so why on earth will he need art supplies? That boy confuses me.

I go back to the painting and take a random colour and brush and start going over the edges of each colour and adding more stars.

It hurts, I really hurts. I can feel it all through me, the pain in my chest that just grows every second, the twist in my stomach that physically hurts until my head is pounding.

The bell rings through the school and I sigh and take my bag along with four paracetamol and then make my way out of the classroom.

"You didn't need to take that much." Her voice calls out from behind me and I look over my shoulder to see her coming up to me so I walk quicker and almost run to the pe changing rooms since that's my next lesson.

I reach there quicker than I thought and I sit down on the bench and look at Karen who is making out with Juliette.

I roll my eyes and see Zara walk into the changing room, she throws a jacket at the girls who pull away and I roll my eyes and unbutton my shirt.

"You look miserable." Karen says as I finish with my shirt and I raise a brow, "You look like you're going to cry."

"I'm not though." I shrug and she nods as I put on my shirt along with pants and then take a seat.

A girl came into the room, she looks familiar but she doesn't at the same time. She came over to me and leaned down to my ear.

"You are absolutely beautiful, how's your girlfriend?" She whispers and I chuckle.

"Thank you but I am not in a relationship, why are you asking?" I ask and she smiles and lifts my chin up to meet my eyes.

She looks like Zara but a brunette and I'm guessing she's new?

"Wait for me after class, I don't know the way back to the hall." She offers and it's clearly a lie, she obviously knows her way back but just wants me to walk with her I am guessing.

She then kisses my forehead which makes me feel very uncomfortable. The girl then walks away with a grin on her face and I wipe my forehead.

Zara looks at me like someone took her heart from her chest, crushed it, and then gave it back to her. It broke mine also just seeing her like this.

"What the fuck was that?" Karen questions and I look over at the girl.

"I don't know," I respond with a shrug and then take a sip from my bottle of water and then put it back away with a small sigh.

We all leave the changing rooms and head into the hall where we are assigned to pick a partner for the warm-up.

My heart goes for Zara, my mind goes for Zara, my eyes go to Zara.

She was already walking over to me.

That's until the girl from earlier was standing in front of me.

"Partners?" She asks and I nod and she smiles and takes my arm before taking me away from the three already waiting for me, "My name is Savannah."

"Wonderful to meet you, I'm Noa." I smile and she returns the smile as I pick up one of the balls from the bag.

"Are your parents the head of the school by any chance?" She asks and I nod as I pass her the ball, she catches it very quickly which makes me raise a brow, "I used to play basketball."

Not bad, not bad.

We head over to the side where we work on passing the ball between the two of us and I see the blonde sitting at the side watching us. But she looks away once she caught me watching.

"So what's the deal with that blonde girl over there? She keeps staring at you." The girl asks and I sigh, "Did I say something wrong?"

"No no, it's okay. She and I broke up not long ago, just over a week ago." I explain and she gave me a regretful look which makes her apologise a few times, "It's okay don't worry!"

"Are you sure? Things look tense between you." She whispers as she picks up the ball and I hum.

"We will be okay," I answer and she nods as we continue with the game.

I say that "We will be okay" when I know we want nothing more than to be up against the wall with each other but it's not the right time, we both know this already.