The Boy Next Door

Chapter 9: Answers He Doesn't Want to Give

      Author's Note: First of all I hope you enjoy this chapter and please vote and comment on it to tell me what you think. Second of all can we talk about the awesome new cover to The Boy Next Door! All the credit goes to LadyCailou for making me these awesome covers. Go check out her wattpad as she has other wattpad covers she has mad on there and they are really cool. If you want a new cover for your book, she's the one you want to go to. Thanks again for the cover, I love it so much!

Noah's POV:

      I'm sitting down for lunch with Jace after the first four periods of the day. I don't remember school being this boring, but Emilia should be here anytime now and she's the highlight of my day. I feel like I should text her, but as I look up I see her with an emotion I've never seen before on her face, I think it might be anger, but it's still Emmy so it's cute.

     "I need answers now, Noah," she says, obviously pissed off about something. I'm so confused, I didn't do anything that I know of. "Emilia, what are you talking about?" I ask. "Alec told me to ask you about the party, the night before we got together, I was really drunk and I need to know what happened, because obviously Alec is just trying to start shit with us," she says. I wish I could tell her nothing happened, I really do, but the reality of it is I made a lot of mistakes that night..."Emmy, you have to promise you won't be mad, because technically we were not together as a couple that night," I say.

    "Okay, I promise not to be mad," she says. I know she'll still be pissed at me anyways, and why the hell did Alec tell her to ask me, he knows I felt like shit after doing what I did.

    "Well sit down first," I say. She looks at me wearily, but she does as I say anyways. "Well it all started when I took you back from the party," I start. She nods at me to continue and I sigh. I really don't want to tell Emilia this. "I was still wide awake, so I decided to go back to the party. When I got there, you know how Jason threw the party, well his girlfriend Veronica said that he was passed out so she had to pick everything up. Everyone else was gone, so I decided to help her pick up around the house and we kinda.." I drift off.

    "Noah, what the hell did you do," Emilia says, looking like she's near tears. "Emilia please don't cry. We started to kiss, but I realized how much of a mistake it was, and Jace stopped us before we could do anything stupid," I say. Jace had been there for me that night, a guy he barely knew, but he also knew I still have feelings for Emilia, and he had messed up before, he didn't want me messing up like he did. "

     "Noah, I know we weren't together, but maybe you don't like me, maybe this, us, whatever it is shouldn't be happening, because obviously you didn't care enough about me that night to not kiss Veronica," she says. I can't lose her, we just got together three months ago and I'm the happiest I've ever been. "Emmy, please don't do this, I love you," I say. She looks at me in disbelief, "No you don't, you just think you do," she says before walking away. I start to run after her, catching her arm, but she jerks it away as Alec enters the cafeteria. "You asshole," I snarl before punching him in the stomach.

Emilia's POV:

      I can't believe that he kissed Veronica. I just want to curl into a ball and cry. How could Noah do this to me? I just want to go home, so that's what I do after texting Noah to sleep somewhere else tonight. I still go to the last two periods of the day, but after that Amy and I go to my house where I tell her what happened with Noah while we eat out of a tub of mint chocolate chip ice cream.

     Amy is furious at Noah, and pissed at herself since she didn't know. She was at that party too, but she left along with the entire party, so she couldn't have known what happened while they were cleaning. I don't blame Amy, I blame Noah for being so stupid, and I also blame myself for being so stupid and thinking that it would work out with a player. I don't know what to think anymore, so I send Amy home so that I can be by myself, I need time to think.

     I just feel like there may be something Noah left out in the story, something he isn't telling me. Obviously Veronica was there, but I'm not going to ask her, but Noah said Jace was helping clean up too, I could ask him! After a google search and 5 wrong numbers, I finally get the right Jace. "Who is this," he says after he picks up on the 5th ring. "Hey it's Emilia, the only reason I'm calling is because I feel like there is something Noah didn't tell me, about the party," I say. "And..," he says. "And I was hoping you could tell me about it, from your perspective," I finish. I hear him sigh on the other line, "Okay, but you can't tell Noah it was me," he says. I agree, and so he starts to tell me about what he saw that night.

    "Okay well I was helping clean up after the party, I don't know why, usually I'm hooking up with a girl instead, but for some reason I decided to be helpful that night," He says. " Anyways, all of a sudden Veronica tried kissing him, and he kept talking about Emila, about how you wouldn't like that he was kissing her, and that he shouldn't have left you at your house," he continues. "He was still kissing her, and that's when I came and told him he needed to go home before something else happened," he says. "What Noah did was honestly messed up, sleeping with girls in Montana and kissing Veronica here, but he only did it to forget about you Emilia," he says. I quickly thank him and get off the phone. Jace is nicer than he acts like he is, and I guess I should give him credit for helping out a guy he barely knew, that was his best friend now. 

    I don't know how I feel about the slightly new information, and I still don't know if I should get back together with Noah. I don't want to feel like this, so sad and broken all because we aren't together. Maybe I should be with someone who won't cheat on me, maybe it would have been better if Matt and I would have gotten back together at the party..maybe everything would be better if Noah hadn't come back to Oregon at all...

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