Teenage Dirtbag / 5SOS

Chapter 5

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*Noelles' POV*

“Hello?”

“Michael. Hey.” I drop onto my bed feeling like the biggest idiot in the world. Why did I call him? Why was I only able to say ‘hey’?! How could I even remotely try to explain away what I’d done? Last night I had practically jumped on Luke right in front of my boyfriend.

“Noelle, I don’t know if-“

“No, please. Let me apologize,” I say, cutting him off quickly. I don’t want to know how his sentence was going to end, because there was no way that it ended well. “I lost my mind last night. I drank too much too fast, and I wasn’t really thinking. I’m… I’m so sorry Michael.”

I cringed as the words came out of my mouth. They sounded genuine, but also cheesy and planned. How were three little words supposed to make up for what happened?

“You kissed him. You kissed him right in front of me. Luke.”

“Mike I’m sorry. Luke’s like a brother to me! But you’re my boyfriend. You!” I’m beginning to panic a little. Am I about to lose my boyfriend over some stupid kiss?

“I don’t want to lose you, Noelle,” says Michael after a few moments of silence.

“You won’t,” I promise him.

Don’t make promises you can’t keep says a voice in the back of my head, but I ignore it. What was that supposed to mean anyway? I was with Michael. Period.

 I hang up the phone, tossing it onto my pillows and covering my face with my hands. I hear a little cough and I realize that my window is open. Through it I see Luke hanging out of his bedroom window, smirking at me.

“Hey babe,” he says with a wink.

But I’m definitely not in the mood for this today. After the conversation I just had, Luke calling me babe is not okay.

“Do not call me babe, Luke,” I say, crossing my arms.

“One hell of a night, eh?” he asks. Of course. Of course he’s back to his usual cocky self. I can’t believe that I kissed him. I can’t believe that I kissed my best friend. What was even going through my head? How could I have thought that was okay, an act that can ruin years of friendship?

“It didn’t mean anything,” I say. To my surprise, his eyes harden a bit.

“You can’t tell me you didn’t feel it, Noelle,” he says, using my full name, going all serious. So he had; he felt the spark that lit me up like a firework the second his lips her on mine. I shivered at the thought, and then shuddered at the fact that I shivered because of it.

“I have a boyfriend, Luke.”

He knows this, but I can’t think of any other way to respond to him.

“Does he kiss you like that?” Luke demands aggressively, leaning farther out the window. “Do you feel like that when he kisses you?”

I feel my face heat up and I look at the hardwood flooring underneath my feet, refusing to meet Luke’s gaze.

“Of course he kisses me,” I snap. “Of course I feel something.”

But he and I both know that I’m lying. It’s not like Mike is a bad kisser, not like I feel nothing. There’s definitely a spark when I kiss him it’s just… it’s nothing like when I kissed Luke. Nothing is like when I kissed Luke.

“Must be hard for you to pretend you’re not falling for me,” Luke says.

“I’m not pretending!” I shriek, and slam the window closed.