Why We Fell in Love

Chapter Eleven

"Welcome back from your winter break, hope you had a good new year so far," Mr Drew says, walking around the classroom and passing out papers. "We will begin our discussion on American-"

"Can we not," a guy says from the back. "We only just got back and you're making us do work."

Mr Drew rolls his eyes," I don't want to be here just as much as you don't. You'll be graduating in five months... Hopefully. And you're already behind, we must get to work."

Noah walks in late as usual but this time he had a bruised eye. If I actually cared about him today, I would ask what happened but after Christmas, he said our relationship had to be 'secretive' and I declined so I don't want anything to do with him.

"Mr Evans, what's the excuse today?"

"People are dumb asses," Noah grunts.

"Watch your language-"

"You watch yours," he spits back. "I'm 18, I'm a legal adult. I can fucking curse if I want, I don't need someone telling me no. I'm done with your crap so just shut the fuck up for a minute."

Mr Drew stares at me with a familiar look. He knows I'm the only person that can calm him down. I shake my head because I don't want anything to do with Noah but Mr Drew gives me a stern look. I groan before getting up and walking out the door. Shortly after, I was followed by Noah and we went outside because that's where he's more calm.

"What is your problem? Can't you act like a normal human being for a second?" I yell. Noah continues staring at the floor and his knuckles were really red. I take a deep breath. "What happened?"

"So now you care?" he asks, looking at me now. I don't show any sign of emotion as he sighs. "My dad caught me smoking in the backyard and he bugged me about it."

"By beating you up?" I ask. I'm not going to bother with the whole cigarettes thing.

He rolls his eyes," I initiated it by punching him. He really aggravated me. And then he hit back hard by punching me in the face. I feel like he got a membership to the gym to train for beating me up."

"Well, that's upsetting... Ready to go inside?" I ask, beginning to walk back in but he grabs my hand.

"Fuck," he curses, rubbing his knuckles. Ok, he's in a lot of pain. I have to help him, I can't just stay here and watch his pain get worse.

"Come with me," I say, walking to my beetle. I open the trunk and take out bandages and a gel. "This is going to sting a bit."

As I'm rubbing the gel on his cut knuckles, he winces in pain and snatches his hand away," this is useless."

I stare at him," Noah, please," I say calmly. He gives me his hand back as I continue rubbing the gel. When I'm done, I bandage his knuckles. "See, good as new. Now can we go back inside?"

"Thank you," he mutters. It was barely audible.

"Yep," I say, walking back into the school.

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"Wait, so you two made out on Christmas, like hard core made out and now you're not even speaking to him?" Meghan says. "Man you are really weird."

I shrug," it doesn't matter ok? He doesn't want to be seen with me so why bother?"

Meg sighs," yeah but Abby, the question is do you want to be with him?"

"... I did. He's not like other guys Meg. He seems like a total dick but he's actually really caring and nice. Plus he's hot. Who wouldn't want to go out with him?" I explain. "But if he's too embarrassed to even walk around school with me, I don't care."