After The Kissing Booth

Chapter 3

After the gallery show Lee was a mess, he and Rachel had decided to breakup a couple months back and he has been in a slump ever since and by that I mean he gets wasted every time there is alcohol involved and that was including tonight. Although I sold eight photographs my night was ruined because he decided to get drunk and be obnoxious. I love Lee, some might say I love him too much but tonight I strongly disliked him for being so selfish, he couldn't of given me this one night. Dylan and I decided to take him home around ten. "Elle can you spend the night" Lee asked repeatedly and even though I didn't want to spend the night at Lee's with Noah there I still agreed because Lee is my best friend and I know he would do it for me. We get to the Flynn's house and Dylan decides to just drop me off there, which I'm okay with since I always keep a change of clothes and a toothbrush at Lee's. We enter the house and since I'm pretty much holding Lee up I decide to find a way to lay him down on the couch, which by the way was a huge struggle. After I manage to lay him down I sit down next to him and he lays his head on my lap and speaks "why did she break up with me Elle, I just don't get it" he says while tears roll off his cheek and onto my dress. "I don't know Lee sometimes these things happen, but no matter what I will always be here for you" I say and my heart breaks at the sound of his cries. I hear foot steps approaching us and of course it's Noah. "Hey did you need to me to help you upstairs with him" he says and I respond "yeah that would be great". Noah picks him up and caries him into Lee's bedroom and lays him down and as soon as I leave Lee starts talking again "Elle, please don't leave," he says as he drifts off to sleep and Noah laughs. "Wow he's really a mess" he says and I reply "of course he is a mess he just lost the love of his life, your so insensitive" I say while grabbing my spare change of clothes and heading to the bathroom to change. After I change into my old blue knitted top and sweatpants I head down to the living room where I left my things and as soon as I enter the living room I see Noah. Great. I walk over to get my things and he speaks "hey I just ordered pizza if you want any, I figured you would be hungry" he says and I respond with an"okay" and he speaks again "Elle I know you probably hate me but I'm so sorry for hurting you, I just..." I interrupt "you just what Noah, just thought it was completely okay to break up with someone over text message and never tell them why, that's really shitty" I say and can see the look of sadness cross his face "I'm just. I missed you so much and I couldn't stand not seeing you anymore so I thought it was the right thing to do at the time and now I no it was a mistake, probably the biggest mistake of my life, Elle I still love you" he says and I don't know what to say, Noah is confessing his love for me, well he's confessing his love for me again and I'm completely speechless. I finally find the words to say "Noah, I'm in a relationship, I can't" I say as I realize this all feels like deja vu. "Elle, losing you was the worst mistake I have ever made, I meant everything I still love you and I will do anything to get you back" he says as he moves closer to me. My heart feels like it's going to burst out of my chest and I don't know what to do. He gets even closer to me and I get the sudden urge just to kiss him, but I can't bring myself to cheat on Dylan. "Elle please" he begs and I can't help myself I pull on his shirt to lower him to my level and I press my lips to his and it was the most passionate kiss I have had in a long time and even though I knew it was wrong I kept doing it. Noah Flynn and his sexy smirk got the best of me....again