Unplugged | d.s (2) ✔︎

XIV // Unplugged

I ran down the hill. Sweat dripping from my forehead. James Arthur sang into my ear, "Say you won't let go."  My playlist now consisted of so many sad songs I thought I was going emo. I see the roof of my house and begin to smile. I had been running for three hours because I decided to do the run up the hill than my normal flat run around the lake. 

My feet land onto my doormat. I open the door and pull my headphones out, "Morning," I say. I look around and no one was up. My head looks down at my phone. It started to vibrate non stop. 

I pull my phone out the arm piece. Taking my headphones out of my phone. I look to the kitchen and a plate of waffles and strawberries. I walked up to it and picked up the white note beside it. 

You have been out for ages so I hope you make it back in time for these. We are all out at work or school but I should be home around lunch. 

Hope you tell me Noah, I hate to see you this way. 

Love Nate 

I smile before taking the breakfast to the couch. I grabbed the TV remote and turned the TV on. My thumb hovers over the Netflix button before clicking it. I press That's 70's Show and it begins to play. 

My phone vibrates beside me. I sigh before picking it up and accepting a dm on Instagram. The user reads smilingnoah. 

smilingnoah: You okay? Kelsey tweeted something dark.

noah.faith: Thanks, darling for worrying. I am going through something right now but no need to worry. 

smilingnoah: OMG YOU REPLIED?! Well, I just wanna say if you want to take time away. 

noah.faith: take time away?

smilingnoah: like off youtube and social media

noah.faith: that would probably be good. thank you beautiful 

I go to my Instagram story. Hovering over the text button. She was right, it would be good to get off for a while. I type to the shining stars that I will not be on any social media apart from Instagram and some days Twitter. I posted it on all social media's and emailed Youtube. 

I looked out the window, wind brushed by the glass. I did miss LA weather. Although I had to head back up and get my jeep and Nugget. I just couldn't fly with him because I forgot his cage at the boy's house. 

A text from Nate comes up on my phone. 

nate ❤︎: meet me at the cafe place on Heather street. 

noah ✰: be there in five. 

Heathers Street was only around the corner. I walked up the stairs and into my room. Clothes laid on my bed, a nice red summer dress. I smiled and began to change. 

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Nate grabbed my hand and pulled me into the little cafe. He sat me down in a big red booth. He gives me a wait sign with his right hand. I raise an eyebrow, he runs off behind the counter and disappears. 

I looked around the store, this place looked new and not like the old one. No one was here yet, Nate just dragged me in here. 

"Read it," He instructed. I look down at the paper he slid on the table. I speed read it, my eyes finally landing on the words I assume he wanted me to find. 

"NATE?! YOU OWN THIS PLACE?" I yell. I look up at him before jumping in his arms. This cafe was a huge part of the neighborhood. It was owned by Arthurs family. His grandma was practically mine and Kelsey's wise grandma. She taught us everything about cooking the best pancakes and making the best milkshakes too fixing our boy problems. 

"Well Jude and I bumped into one another with Arthur and they talked about how they were going to sell the place and Katherine said it would be a waste if the family didn't get it but Jude said that she classed us as part of the family. She said as long as the name and heart of the place remained the same as it was all mine," he explains. I pull away from the hug we had stayed in for a couple minutes. I looked around at the 50s style cafe and smiled. 

"We reopen on Saturday with a new menu, apart from the milkshakes obviously and pancakes," He explains. I was glad I finally had something to smile about, which made me feel like I had to tell Nate. 

"Nathaniel," I mumble. He looks up from his fingers and looks at me with a cold face. He nods to tell me its okay to explain. I rarely called him Nathaniel so he knew what I was about to say. 

"Noah," He says. I breathe in before sitting down in the booth again. He slides in opposite me and waits. I shut my eyes and remember what the last days have consisted of. 

"So..." I begin to tell him the story. The story of my boyfriend and best friend, the story of heartbreak and sorrow. This could be a book, my life could be with all the drama happening. What am I two?

"That asshole!" He yells. I sigh, I knew how Nate was going to react. He had reacted the same way with Arthur, the same way with everyone who hurts me. "I told him to take care of you. I trusted that little bitch. He just goes along and does that?! AND KELSEY? She use to have baths with us. She is your best friend there was nothing separating that, she just goes along and! I am gonna bash them Noah, I swear to g-"

"NATHANIEL!!" I scream. The front door of the cafe swings open and Norman and Katherine walk in. Norman raises his eyebrows at the face Nate was now making. Pissing of Nate was a thing not to do. 

"What happened?" Norman asked. Hoping over to us with his crutches. I run my hand through my hair and begin to explain the story again to Norman and Katherine. Nate just sits there shaking his head again and again. Ignoring the fact I was cheated on again. 

"Wait but it's your Daniel, he would never," Katherine says. I feel a tear slide down my cheek again, here they come. She was right, he was MY Daniel, I had thought we would go to the moon and back together. Who thought he wanted to with someone else, that someone becoming my best friend. 

"Well when we go get Nugget I am gonna hit him and her in the fucking face," Norman says. We all snap our heads to him. "What he made me so angry I said a swear word, I am 13."

"We will go down tomorrow and dad, you girls stay here. I don't want you near either of them again," Nate says. Katherine slides next to me and hugs me. She pulls me in and allows me to cry into her shoulder. The boys can go ahead and get Nugget and my jeep, I am not gonna stop them. 

My phone begins to vibrate in my pocket. I pull it out and the contact reads COLE. I raise an eyebrow before bringing it to my ear. "Excuse me I have to take this," I say to Katherine. She moves and allows me to step outside. 

I click answer and cole begins to speak, "Whats up Lakeheart, I heard your back in Toronto for good without Kelsey and those boys." How in the hell did Cole already know this stuff?

"Yeah what's it to do with you?" I questioned. He laughed quietly in the phone. 

"I am having a little get together by the waterfall, I have something for you," He explains. I looked up at the mountains in front of me. A little get together wouldn't be too bad. 

"Fine. See you there Cole," I mumble. 

"You won't be disappointed," He says. 

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AN: Sorry this took like two weeks to finally be published but I have my exams coming up and have been studying for that. I have also had work later than usual and was away for five days down on the south island because I saw P!NK who was a queen. She is amazing to see perform and urgh what a beauty. 

- Piper