Why We Fell in Love

Chapter Seventeen

"No?" Noah questions. "No? Why would you say no? What the hell did I do wrong? Oh  my god I hate myself. I thought I had you. I really thought this was going to work out. What the fuck-"

"I'm just kidding," I say as he stops talking. He stares at me as I start giggling. He looks so pissed but he lifts me up and spins me around with a big smile on his face.

"I'm going to kill you one day," he laughs, putting me down but not letting me go. Instead, we just hug. "I'm going to be the best boyfriend ever. Let's go on a date."

I laugh," I would love to but I promised Lily I'd watch her little sister," I say as he rolls his eyes. "She's five years old, I can't just cancel on her... And you're helping me."

"What?! No. Me and kids do not go together," he quickly adds.

I take his hand," please Noah. For me?"

I try showing my puppy dog eyes and its clearly working because he had to look away," you're so lucky your eyes are beautiful or I would've walked out of here."

I smile before kissing him on the cheek," thank you."

"When is she even coming over?" he asks as the doorbell rings. I let go of Noah and walk over to the door. There stands Lily and Octavia. Lily was on the phone.

"Hey Abs, I'm in a rush, have fun Tavia, gotta go," she says, running back to her. Octavia comes in holding her unicorn.

"Hey gorgeous," I smile. giving her a hug. I swear she's the best little kid ever. "I have someone here that I want you to meet."

We both walk into the living room," Octavia, this is Noah. Noah, Octavia."

"Is he your boyyyyyfrienddd?" she coos as I nod.

"You're a clever one," I say.

She walks over to Noah and makes him get on his knees," don't hurt her mister or I'll hurt you. I have three dollars in my piggy bank and I'm not afraid to use it."

Noah smiles," well you can save that money because I'm not going to hurt Abby."

"Pinky promise?" she asks, sticking out her pinky. Aw, she's so cute. Noah looks up at me with a 'are you serious?' look but I gesture him to pinky swear.

He sighs before doing so," pinky promise."

"Great! Aunt Abby, what're we doing today?"

"We're going down to the shop and building a truck. After that, we can go eat a delicious dinner and take a walk," I explain.

"A truck? Do girls like that?" Noah questions.

"Give it a sec," I say.

"Yay! I love trucks! Especially the one daddy has! Lets go! Lets go!" Octavia jumps, literally pulling me out the door. I grab her car seat at the door and put it into my beetle.

"Noah, do you know how to put this in?" I ask as Noah stares at me.

"Me and kids don't go together. I shouldn't even be going with you guys," he says as I walk over to him, standing very close to him.

I sigh," Noah, give her a chance. And after today, you don't ever have to hang out with her again."

He groans before walking over to the car seat and attaching it to the seat quickly.

"I'm driving," he says as I help Octavia into her seat. I get into the passenger side and look at Noah. "Why are you staring at me?"

"Because you said you'd never drive in this car," I say as he rolls his eyes, leaving my front yard. The car ride consisted of Frozen songs playing and Octavia singing along.

"LOVE IS AN OPEN DOOOOOOOOOOOR" Octavia and I sing. "LIFE COULD BE SO MUCH MOOOOOOOOOORE."

"WITH YOU," she shouts.

"WITH YOU," I shout.

Suddenly the music stops and the two of us whine.

"We're here, stop singing," Noah says as we all get out. We go in and get everything we need. We see an empty table so we sat there. There was a lot of pieces and nails. I'm not good at this so... Awkward.

"Can I hit the nail yet?" Octavia says, holding the hammer. I put the nail into a hole in the wood. I see the hammer go up over her head.

"Whoa, kiddo," Noah says, immediately grabbing the hammer. "Tiny hits."

Noah's hand is on top of hers as he helps her hammer in the nail. He catches me looking at him so he pulls away but I know he smiled. Even if it was just a small one.

But turns out, Noah took over the whole entire thing while I was taking a billion pictures. We even had a person come over and ask if we were a family.

"Is it time for painting the wood?" Octavia asks as I nod. We all walk over to the painting table. "Noah, is there blue?"

"Uh..." Noah says, looking around the table before grabbing the blue bottle and pouring it onto a plate. "Why'd you choose blue?"

"Because its your favorite color," she says, painting away. Noah smiles, watching her paint. My heart is so fragile right now. This is too cute for my existence. "Can I have pink?"

Noah hands her the pink one," and you're using this because..."

"It's Abby's favorite color. I'm going to draw a heart on my truck because my whole heart loves her," Octavia says, focusing on her truck. Its like she doesn't even realize what she's saying.

"Me too kid," Noah says. Wait what?