Chapter Twelve

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"TEENAGERS SCARE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME!"

Noah and I are belting out the lyrics of Teenagers while Cooper and Dustin cover their ears. "My Chemical Romance, really?!" Cooper yells over the loud music and our singing.

"The boys and girls in the clique, the awful names that they stick. You're never gonna fit in much kid!" I jokingly yell in his direction as Noah snickers and laces our fingers at the gears. We haven't completely figured out what we are yet but we're doing good.

"Oh oh, gosh. My ears are bleeding!" Dustin cries out and falls out the door as we park Noah's black Range Rover. I roll my eyes at him.

"Why are your ears bleeding?" Tori asks as she falls instep with us. "They can't handle Noah and I's fabulous cover of Teenagers." Tori bursts out laughing as Dustin scoffs and Cooper fakes hurt. Moments like these are what I live for. They make me feel normal, like I wasn't held captive from the world for 5 years. I love the feeling.

Soon the whole group steps into the hallway and we head to our lockers. Noah walks with me to my locker since we found out our lockers are in the same row.

"Can't believe it's school again." Noah groans from where he's leaning against the locker next to mine. I shut my locker and look at him. He's a top student. Why would he not like school? "Why?" He pushes himself off the locker. "Because I want to have you all to myself." His voice drops dangerously low towards the end of the sentence.

"All students report to the gym."

I frown as Noah and I make our way to the gym. Is there an emergency? On the first day back? Most people are filing in and we take a seat next to Tori and Cooper. "I wonder what this is all about." Tori comments as the principal silences everyone.

"You are probably all wondering why I have called you here. First off, I'd like to welcome you all back." The whole school erupts in an applause. "Secondly, I want to inform you all that we have implicated a new dress code." A loud groan passes in the crowd. Mr Walter holds up his hand. "Now now. Before you moan, I'd like to call out the students who have volunteered to present the new uniforms." Two guys and two girls come into the gym.

"For the gentleman." The one guy is wearing black long pants with a white shirt, wine red tie and a black blazer with white lining. The other also has black pants on with a black sweater over his white shirt.

"And for the girls." The one girl has a checkered red and black skirt on with a white shirt and a checkered tie around her neck. The same black blazer is hanging over her shoulders. Her legs are wrapped in red wine knee high socks. The other also has a skirt on with a black sweater over her white shirt. She has black tights on instead of the red knee highs.

Noah groans from next to me and I look at his outfit. He's wearing blue jeans with a black long sleeve fitted shirt. His boots peak out underneath his jeans. Damn he looks so hot.

"They will be available from tomorrow on. Please purchase any of the uniforms. The hair and jewellery code will remain the same. We have also changed the school terms. You will have a break two weeks from now. After then we will give you a time table for the new terms. Thank you."

We dismiss and head to class. My first class is French with Dustin. "Gosh, you and Noah are terrible singers." He laughs as he plops down behind me. "You haven't heard me yet." I smirk over my shoulder as Mrs Le Roux walks in. "Cours du matin." "Matin mam." We all answer in unison. "Go to page 37 s'il vous plaît." French is going to be a breeze.

I can hardly focus on the lesson because Noah in school uniform is driving me crazy. He would look so hot. I can't help but stare at his ass sometimes. He is fine. I pull out his schedule copy from my binder as I check what's his class.

Physics

I wonder what he wants to do when we graduate. At least we still have a year left before all that happens. The principal really mixed things up with changing the school terms. We're probably going to have to start a new year after the break we're getting.

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My first three classes flew by and I'm sitting at the lunch table between Noah and Ally. Cooper is telling us about Noah's pretty awesome Spanish accent.

"I swear Noah knows more about Spanish than she does." We chuckle at Cooper. He seems genuinely interested by what Noah did in Spanish class.

"It was so awesome! She's like talking about stuff and when she put him on the spot, Noah just recited a perfect sentence. Her face was priceless!" We all laugh at his exaggeration.

I feel Noah's hand around my waist and I lean into his side. I feel so safe knowing he's here. His chest vibrates against my head and I smile. He has been an amazing friend and I love spending time with him.

"I'll be right back." He says and kisses the top of my head. We watch as he stands up and leaves the table. Everyone falls into a hushed conversation.

"The whole break thing falls in perfectly with Noah's surprise party. We could totally pull this off." Grey smiles.

"The band we got are Australian and we all know how he wants to go there some day so he'll love them." Tori beams.

"And the drinks are sorted. All we need is to get him there." Alice smirks at me and I nod. "Already have a plan." The whole group shuts up.

"What's wrong?" Noah asks as he sits back down. "Oh nothing. Cooper just made some inappropriate joke." I say and shoot an apologetic smile in his direction. Everyone nods and Noah eyes us suspiciously. "Ok."

Noah's 17th birthday is January 21st. The break starts the 19th so we have enough time to get everything sorted. I don't really know the band Tori got but apparently they're Australian. We'll see what happens. Noah's favorite place is Australia so I guess it's a good thing.

Noah doesn't know about any of this and it's not hard to keep it a secret. None of us have slipped up yet so we'll probably throw an awesome party.

"Come on, Lay. We have to go to Calculus." I groan as I reluctantly follow Noah to class after we had a make out session against my locker. He probably tried to get answers from me by trying to make me soft. He tried to get some answers from me after lunch but I stood my ground.

Damnit, Noah. Why do you have to be so irresistible?

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A lot is going to go on later❤
Building up to Noah's party and then bam .. something gonna happen ❤
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Trace xxx

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