Running Into Noah

RIN/Chapter 9

When I woke up the next morning it was seriously not the way I thought my 3rd day back home would be, mostly because I wasn't home and was at Noah's. The jerk who apparently doesn't care what I think of him anymore. And he shouldn't. We shouldn't worry about each other anymore- we were nothing, probably not even friends anymore.

I took a deep breath as I sat down next to Mike at the dinning table and just played around with my cereal. "What are you doing today?" I ask Mike who kept his eyes on his phone ever since I came in the dining room.

"Meeting up with an old friend." He replied as he texted something and had a concentrated look of his face until he finally looked up and smiled at me, "Why?" He asks and I shrug my shoulders.

Think of a lie, or anything!

"You haven't been out much, so I thought you were going to stay in again today." I said and smiled to myself, it was true and I doubt he will expect me only saying it so I wouldn't sound like a loser trying to hang out.

"I could say the same thing about you." He smirked at me and I just smiled back. "Noah's going to get some christmas things for his mom tomorrow at their little cottage, you should go with him just so you can be out a little more." Mike says and I wanted to laugh.

"Yeah, right." I said as I rolled my eyes at him and he looked at me dead serious.

"I'm serious, Dani." Mike said, "Have some fun or just relax. Plus they have a double room in the cottage so you two won't have to sleep together or anything, and you can just relax next to the frozen pond while he packs the things up."

I shake my head and frown at Mike, "I don't think so, Mikey." I said as I started to eat so Mike would drop this.

But of course Mike has to say something more, "Is this about yesterday?" He asks and I look over to him.

"You guys were being nosy again?" I asked him and he just smiled. "And no, not really." I lied. It did have to do with yesterday, Noah said he didn't care of what I thought of him and even though I knew he shouldn't I felt upset about the whole thing. Honestly, I did.

"Liar." Mike coughed and I just glared at him.

"Oh, shut it." I said and he just kissed my cheek before leaving to meet up with an old friend.

I sat alone in the kictehn and just ate my food silently until Tori walked in with a cup of tea in her hand. She smiled warmly at me, "Good morning, how are you feeling?" She asks but its like code name for- "Tell em everything that happened last night, now."

"Eh.." I replied as I took a spoonfull of coco puffs.

Tori kept looking at me and I knew she wanted to know everything that happened last night even though she heard it all.

"You know.." Tori said as she whispered and leaned in closer to me, "He made that girl leave right after you two argued." She said and I looked over to her in shock.

He did?

I smiled even though I was proabably a huge 'cock block' on Noah's part. It just made me happy he didn't sleep with her.

"Really?" I whispered back and she nods her head. "Did he say anything to you?" I asked, hoping he did.

Tori shook her head no and frowned, "He just stayed in his room the rest of the night. I think he just went to sleep."

Right then Noah walked into the dinning room with a cereal bar in hand. He has on gray sweat pants and just a plain black hoodie, he looked tired and pissed off. He looked extremely hot today.

Before Tori can say anything else my phone went off and I smiled when I saw Tom's name flash on the screen, I quickly answered it, "Hello?"

"Hey, babe." Tom said and I smiled to myself. "Just wanted to let you know that I got to Richards cottage and couldn't text you yesterday because I was on the road." He explained and I nodded my head even though he couldn't see me.

"Okay, are you having fun so far?" I asked as I played with the coco puffs in my bowl.

"Not right now, everyone's still sleeping but it is very quiet this year." He said and I just smiled.

I didn't know what to talk about since Tori and Noah were just staring at me. Tori looked like she eagerly wanted to ask me something while Noah just had a blank face as he chewed down on the cereal bar.

"Hey, can I call you later- or text?" I said and Tom groaned.

"We can never talk properly." He said and I frowned.

"Well, we will just not right now." I said and I heard him mumble something but couldn't make it out.

"Fine." He said in annoyance, "I love you."

I smiled, "I love you, too. Have fun."

I hung up the phone and looked over to Tori who had a big smile on her face, "How are you and Tom?" She asks me and I smile to myself.

"Tom and I are perfect." I told Tori and I could see Noah rolling his eyes at what I just said.

"Really? I'm sure because I remeber that boy and the kiss that one day.." Tori said and I smiled at the memory, good times.

"Yeah," I said dreamly. "He told me he always loved me." I said happily and she placed her hand over her heart.

"How sweet." She cooed and looked down at her tea. "Oh, I need to refill, be right back." She said as she got up and left me and Noah all alone.

I looked over to Noah who was glaring at me, "Problem?" I ask him, amused of his jealously of me and Tom.

"You've never changed have you? He asks me and I frown at his tone, he is going to say something bad. I just know it.

"What do you mean?" I ask him and get up and walked over to him and he stood up too.

He just looked down at me with a serious face and he said, "You're still the same lying, selfish, manipulative bitch that you've always been, huh?" He said and after the words left his mouth it was like a stab into the heart. Lying, selfish, manipulative? I guess I am really all those things.

I felt my bottom lip wobble and Noah just kept his cold icy glare. My eyes started to water up and I nodded my head.

"Yeah, I guess I am." I said as I turned around and ran upstairs to the room and sat on the bed, softly crying.

How could he say that to me?

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