Don't Bet On It

Chapter 8 - What a Day For a Daydream

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed the last chapter.

I've added Maddie to the cast list on the right, we get to know her better in this chapter. The picture on the side is her.

There are two songs for this chapter, you'll see why. They're both great songs and I couldn't choose between them:

'Ho Hey' - The Lumineers

'The Cave' - Mumford and sons

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Soft lips, hot sweet tongue, hands roaming my back; I couldn't stop thinking about Noah or that kiss. All last night and all this morning I couldn't concentrate on anything; I always came back to the kiss and how good it felt. I didn't have any schoolwork to distract me, so I tried watching a movie but that didn't work.

Reading was even more useless, I picked up my favourite book - Pride and Prejudice; I always read it when I need cheering up or my mind taking off something. However I kept remembering Noah, everything Mr Darcy did reminded me of him, there was no escape.

I'd been sidetracked all through Sunday lunch, both mum and grams wondered what was going on and of course I wasn't going to tell them it was all because of a guy.

An hour later I was lying on my bed listening to The Vaccines, trying to clear my mind. My laptop pinged, sighing I got up; my weekly Skype call to Maddie in London. We'd missed it last week. I smiled to myself, finally something to take my mind off Noah.

Signing in, she popped up on screen; smiling from ear to ear. I was unbelievably happy to see her.

"Hey Stitch! How's life across the pond?"

"Good Maddie thanks!" I sighed smiling at her, we'd been friends since we met at primary school; we sat next to each on our first day and became friends when we shared our sweets with each other. I missed not seeing her everyday.

"What's wrong?" Her smile transformed into concern, she could always tell when I was off colour, whether I was sick or just been in an argument with my mum; she always knew.

"Nothing. I've just been distracted that's all." I plastered a brilliant smile on my face trying to cover my thoughts of Noah.

"You want to talk about it?" I shook my head, I wasn't planning on sharing what had happened with anybody, it was between Noah and me and even then I wasn't sure what to make of it.

"No it's nothing, just school stuff. How about you? You seem extremely happy for - what - 10:00pm on a Sunday night."

Her grin stretched wider and her pale blue eyes sparkled, her wavy brown hair draped over her shoulders as she leaned closer to the computer and the camera.

"It's been a brilliant week! You remember that guy Jamie I told you about a couple of weeks ago?" She asked expectantly, I remembered back to our conversation; when she told me about a guy she'd met at the library.

"The cute one with the perfect hair." My mind instantly jumped to Noah, I chastised myself inwardly; stop thinking about him, focus on Maddie and her love life.

"Yeah, well he's just moved here from Nottingham and guess what? He just started at Haverstock Hill last week! We have two classes together, so I offered to show him around, him being new. So he ended up asking me out on Friday!" I smiled, she was literally buzzing with joy.

"My brother's back aswell, he's moving back to London, he's got a job at some newspaper."

"You said he was looking for something closer to home. How is he?"