Bring me the light

Chapter 24

"...and suddenly, all the love song were about us..."

Chapter 24: I'm still mad at you for saying it first.

Previously:

During lunchtime me and Noah walked around the school and I told him all about yesterday after he left, minus my father.

"I don't think she meant bad princess. It's how she saw it appropriate." Noah said.

"I know that, I just..." I huffed. "I didn't like finding out that Grams had lied to me."

"I get it. Listen princess, I'll be here for you but I think you should talk to her." Noah said stopping on his tracks and looking at me.

"I guess." I shrugged.

He smiled at me and threw his arm over my shoulders pulling me with him. "Come on love, we've got classes to attend."

I looked at him curiously and surprised by the name he had used but he looked so at easy as if he hadn't notice what he had said or he had but hadn't mind it. In the meantime my heart was getting wild and a grin broke into my face. Both things I couldn't explain.

I hadn't thought about love. I had given a lot of thoughts to like and love hadn't passed my mind not even once. But his words made me think. Did I love Noah?

I'll be honest I cared about him so deeply and I knew that it was more than like by now but I didn't know if I could call it love. It was too soon. And yet if movies have taught me anything it's that love has no time or age. It comes unexpectedly and builds a home in our hearts.

I'd have to think hard about love. You can't just say that word and not mean it. At least for me it doesn't work that way. And yet I could be overthinking and it's not like that at all, maybe he just said it as a name at the moment and it had no other purpose.

I don't know.

Now:

"I know this isn't the house you're used to and it's simply an apartment with no restaurant but-"

"It's great, seriously. If anything I feel weird about interfering in your life with Jasmine." I told him.

"For the thousand time, you are not. She doesn't mind, I promise." Denis tried reassuring me.

I had officially moved into his apartment,  I had cleared waters with Grams but hopefully she wasn't expecting a visit anytime soon. I know I'm probably being very immature but I can't help it.

"Den! I'm home." We heard a voice exclaim and then the front door slammed closed. "Is Riley here yet?"

"Yeah. We're in the living room." He yelled as well. Great communication.

She walked in and as soon as she saw me pulled me in a hug and squealed. "We're gonna have so much fun." If only she didn't have to pretend. I was sure she didn't resent me but I was also sure she wasn't this happy to have a teenager around her own house, a teenager she wasn't related to as well.

"Yeah, and let's all forget about Denis while we're at it." Denis sulked, furrowing his eyebrows and crossing his arms across his chest.

Jasmine smiled. "We wouldn't forget about you big baby. Who would go out to buy us food?"

If possible Denis furrowed his eyebrows even further and his face made me snort a laugh. For some reason I didn't feel comfortable laughing here so holding my laugh made me release a snort.

"Go ahead and laugh." Denis said and stuck out his tongue.

"I'm going to start making dinner. Josh and Martha are coming over." She started walking towards the kitchen but turned around when she remembered something. "Riley, you should invite Noah."