[TD NOCO] Barks And Bites

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Eva cleared her throat. "Hey. It's been a while..."

Noah narrowed his eyes.

"Uh... so, guess you're not with Justin anymore, huh? That's great news!" Izzy said, trying to lighten the mood.

Noah couldn't help but glare at them.

"Don't be like that, Noah. At least be decent..." Eva told him in annoyance.

"Decent??" He repeated angrily.

"Calm down, dude!" Izzy said. "We didn't come here to fight!"

"Yeah... we came to apologize... to Cody." Eva said.

"Right. Fuck me, then." Noah said in annoyance.

"Oh, come on! Don't act like we don't care!" Eva said back.

"You don't!" Noah suddenly yelled.

Cody walked out immediately at the sound of Noah yelling. "Noah?" He asked before noticing them. He gasped and stood in front of Noah defensively. "Why are you here?"

"We're sorry, Cody! We don't wanna fight with you!" Izzy said.

"You're sorry to me..?" Cody asked.

Eva and Izzy nodded.

"You're not sorry to Noah?" He asked again.

They both glanced at him.

"We have nothing to apologize for." Eva said.

"The hell you don't..." Noah muttered under his breath.

"See? You're the one with the problem!" Eva said.

"What the hell did I do then? Huh??"

"You knew about us first! And you didn't want to see us!" Eva said right away.

"I didn't know you were Cody's friends! I only found out when you found out! And Cody said that you didn't want to see me!"

"We only said that because you said that!" Eva said.

"What??"

"Because everytime they said to invite you... but I told them that you don't want to see them..." Cody said quietly.

"Yeah, see? So we thought you clearly had something against us." Eva explained.

"I didn't know it was you..." Noah said.

Eva and Izzy frowned at each other.

"You wanna start over?" Eva asked.

Noah hugged himself and looked away.

Cody put a hand on his arm and gave him an encouraging nod.

"Hey, if you think about it... this is all Justin's fault anyway. No reason why we should fight!" Izzy pointed out.

"I know." Noah said in annoyance. "But I haven't been the same since then..."

Cody smiled at him.

"Trust me, we noticed." Eva rolled her eyes. "Cut the gothic act for just a minute and look at us. We're your friends."

Noah looked at them.

Izzy grinned and Eva gave him a nod.

Noah frowned as he tried to hold back tears.

Izzy jumped over the counter and pulled him into a hug.

"Oh, actually you're not allowed back here..." Gwen said but no one heard her.