Rejection

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I open my eyes and try to take in my unfamiliar surroundings. I stretch out my arms and the early morning sunlight leaks through the slit in the curtains. I pick up my phone and look at my notifications.
Nothing from Finn.
I sigh and roll back over into the comfort of the bed. As I feel myself drifting back off to sleep a light knock comes from the door.
"Come in." I croak, sitting up.
The door opens gently and Noah walk in with a tray and a cute smile. "I brought you breakfast." He announces in a sing-songy voice.
I chuckle and give him a smile. "Thank you. Yay, you got me bagels." I say and take the tray off of him. I start eating and he sits on the bed next to me.
"Good sleep?" He questions. I notice that he edges closer to me.
"Yep, totally." I carry on eating.
"Do you wanna do anything today?" I feel him staring at the side of my face.
"Em, yeah, sure. What do you have in mind?" I look over at him. His face is so close to mine.
"Maybe we could go to the mall." He raises his eyebrows and waits for a response.
"Ok, wait I don't have any clothes though."
"You can look in my sisters closet if you want." He suggests. I nod as he starts to get up. "I'll leave you to get ready and then we'll go ok?" He grins at me and walks backwards towards the door.
"Ok, I'll be ready in like half an hour." I say and then finish my food.

~50 MINUTES LATER~

I run down stairs and see Noah waiting in his kitchen.
"Ready?" I say and he jumps.
"Yeah, yep, ready, let's go." He says, quickly getting up while I giggle.
We walk to the front door together and then down the street. Luckily the mall is only a few blocks away. We walk in silence at first our arms brushing each other, eventually he talks.
"Have you spoke to Finn?" He says, looking at the ground.
"Nope, I don't think he wants to talk to me right now." I nervously rub my arm and awkwardly laugh.
"Do you want to talk to him?" Noah asks with his eyes wide.
"Of course!" I exclaim, "I want to set things right." I let out a sigh.
"I'll take your mind off it." Noah says and squeezes my hand. I jump at his touch and then give him a small smile.
"Thanks Noah, also, are you sure your mum doesn't mind me staying?" I say, subtly making a gap between us and trying to change the subject.
"I'm sure." He nods.

Silence again.

I cough to clear the silence. "So, what are you getting at the mall." I ask him.
"I might look at the sneakers, what about you?"  He gets closer again.
"Probably watch you look at sneakers, I didn't bring any money." I laugh.
"I'll buy you something." He smiles at me.
I just smile back and we small talk for the rest of the walk.

~AFTER AN HOUR OF SHOPPING~

We flop down on a bench, exhausted after shopping. I sip the iced latte that Noah bought me.
"Wow, I'm so tired." I sigh.
"Same, do you wanna go home?" Noah says, looking at me. As I turn to look at him I realise how close we're sat, but I guess I'm used to that by now so I leave it.
"Yeah sure, I just need to sit down for a bit." I tell him and he nods.
After sitting in silence for a bit Noah says, "Y/N?" I turn to look at him. Before I can do anything he leans in quickly and kisses me.
"Woah." I push him off me, "what are you doing?"
"Oh, I thought-" I cut him off.
"Noah, look, I like you, I just can't though."
"Why not?" You and Finn have broke up." He says, confused.
"That doesn't mean I don't love him anymore. I know I kissed you at the party, but that was a mistake, I'm sorry." I say, about to cry but I stop myself.
Noah lets out a sigh. "It's fine, I get it. Let's go back to mine." He cant look me in the eye.
"I'm sorr-" I start to say.
"I said it's fine." He snaps and gets up. "Come on."
I get up as well and then we walk out the mall and then home.
As we walk I start to get notifications on my phone. I look at the screen and see that I'm getting tagged in loads of posts and I'm getting about a million dms, I look over at Noah and see the same is happening to him.
I open Instagram and see a video of me rejecting Noah, it's all over social media.
"Oh my god." I hear Noah say.
"Someone must have been watching us." I say, panicked. I almost forgot how hard it is constantly being watched by the public.
Noah looks like he's about to cry, just as I go to comfort him I get a text.

Finn:  I saw the video, call me.

My heart leaps and I smile to myself.

Does this mean he's forgiven me?

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