Fragile Hearts

Chapter 3- GRACE

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"Grace"

I hear a voice that sounds familiar. A voice that I used to once hear it frequently. I turn around to find it's Noah.

Noah? I thought he has forgotten me,

"What?" I manage to get out the words.

He doesn't say anything, instead he places a hand on my shoulders and pushes me to an empty locker room and asks me to sit, and I do.

"I want to tell you that I am sorry. I am sorry for every thing I have ever done. I am sorry for being a horrible friend who doesn't understand the heart break hypothesis. I am sorry for breaking your heart and making you feel like you are not worth it. I am for allowing you to give me your heart and then disposing it. I am sorry Grace. I am sorry." As soon as the last word comes out, tears start to stream down Noah's face.

"What are you even talking about?" I ask, not believing what he has said,

"About what I have done to you. About me leaving you when you needed me the most", he says and lowers his gaze to the floor,

"And I have realised that I need you more than you need me" he adds.

"What about Maria? Didn't you choose her over me?" I croak,

"I didn't choose her over you. I didn't even know that you had feelings to me. Plus she was the one who asked me out. I didn't ask her out. I was about to reject her but I decided to go along with it. I thought you would be okay with it. And to your information, I was actually cheating on her. I used to tell her that I loved her when I actually loved you. You grace mean he world to me. But you never saw that."

"Why are you even telling this to me?" I ask

"I read your diary." he replies

"Whattt? You what? So all of this time you stole my diary?" I shout.

"I didn't steal your diary! You lost it! I saw it by your locker and I wanted to give it to you but I thought of reading and finding out why you acted like this with me" He shouts back and handles me my pink glittery diary.

"I wonder if what you have written in your diary is true" he says and smiles shyly.

"Yeah it is" I say and smile,

"You shouldn't run away. Many of us need you. I need you, your parents need you, and Willow needs you." Noah says and places his thumb under my chin to make me look at his eyes.

"We all love you. Even if the entire planet doesn't, I do. You are worth it grace. Miracles will happen I promise you they will. Give life another chance grace". Noah says,

"I love you", I hug him and say,

"I love you too and I will forever love you" he says and kisses my forehead.