It's been three months since all of that happened, Noah hasn't recover and he has been struggling with it
"Noah this way" Audrey says, Noah is like numb most of the time, sometimes she ask him what is he thinking of but he never answer her
"Oh look here's Emma"
"I don't care, can we go to class?"
"Ah yeah sure"
"Hey noah" Gustavo approaches them
"Hi"
"I bought it"
"What?"
"The videogame, you know? I told you I was going to cheer you up and I'm doing it" Gustavo has been trying everything since the very beginning, he even tried to be his co-worker on his podcast
"Enjoy, I heard it's a great game" Noah smile at him but he could see how broken he still is
"I want you to teach me, you know I'm not good at this, not like you"
"I don't know, I-"
"Tonight, I'll go to you house okay?"
"Fine"
Noah was waiting for Gustavo to call him, he wanted to cancel their plans he didn't feel like hanging out, he hasn't feeling since the incident.
"Honey? Your friend is here" his mom said
"Fuck" he whispers
"Hi there" Gustavo said hugging him, it's always relaxing to Noah, having him that close
"Just so you know, it's been a long time since I play so... It's not my fault if I'm a bad teacher"
"What? I want my money back" Gustavo joked and made Noah laughs
" I missed your smile, you should do it more often"
"There's no reason for it" he said putting the items on their place
They played over an hour
"And this is you not knowing about games!" Noah said
"What do you mean?"
"You're pretty good at this" Noah said with a huge smile, he was having a good time, for a minute he wasn't suffering because of the past instead he was enjoying the moment
"Am I? Oh my god I guess I learned from the best" he said and they start laughing again
They went quiet and they only hear the two steps that Gustavo made , he kissed Noah
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that" Gustavo apologized
"Ah...you need to go" Noah said looking at the floor
"But Noah let me-"
"Gustavo, leave... please" Noah said and Gustavo just pick up his stuff and leaves him
They didn't talk at all, Noah didn't answer any of his messages
"Noah can I talk to you?" Audrey says when they were in school
"Yeah?"
"Listen, Gustavo told me what happened" she says but Noah didn't say anything
"Noah... He cares about you and honestly the very first weeks he made your days you know? You were sad and he made you smile and I saw that I saw how he could change your humor so don't tell me you don't care about him"
"I do, that's why we can't be together"
"What?"
"Everyone around me dies, I can't lose him ... I won't "
"Noah that's no-"
"It is true! Audrey you know it! Riley, Zoe they're dead because they were close to me and now Gustavo... I can't do this to him"
"Are you going to tell him?"
"No, that would only make him stay"
"You can't do this to yourself Noah" Audrey said without knowing what else to say
"I'm doing this for him, if he's alive then I'm happy" Noah said leaving Audrey there, he didn't want everyone to see his tears
