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Chapter Sixteen

Tomorrow is Noah's party. We've been together since this morning and I'm sleeping over tonight. Alice went to Tori's to set everything up and is spending the night there as well.

"Pizza?" Noah asks from the kitchen. "Yes please." He comes out with a box of pizza and drinks. I'm so lucky to have him. "I put Goon on, is that ok?" He nods and wraps me in his arms as he sits on the couch. I lean up to kiss him and he tightens his hold. "Wait." He laughs and pulls away. "Let's watch the movie." I press play and lean into his side. The movie starts as an ice hockey game being played out.

Goon is about a guy who's a security guard who beats up a guy at a hockey game. The coach recruits him and he begins beating up other teams. Then he moves to the Halifax Highlanders and helps a guy out that was beaten by another team. He gets a girlfriend and then they win a game.

Right in the middle of Doug kissing Eva, Noah turns to me. His eyes flicker down to my lips and back again. Then he turns us over and starts kissing me passionately.

"What's going on?" I breathe as he moves to my neck. His hands rest on either side of me and I feel around his back. "So today, you're all mine." He whispers as his nose traces along my cheek. I nod. "I was wondering if you'd like to be treated." I swallow my spit. "But I'm the one treating you?" I ask and he continues moving along my neck and face. "I know." Shivers move down my spine as his lips connect to my neck.

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I wake up with Noah pressed against my back. We fell asleep on his couch. I reach for my phone on the coffee table. The screen is flashing.

Tori 🐾

"Hello?" I get up from the couch and move to the kitchen.

"You and Noah ready for tonight?"

I move the phone away. It's 2 in the morning.

"It's still so early."

She sighs. "I know. But Alice and I are meeting the boys at the beach later and getting everything ready."

"Give me a few hours. Noah is still sleeping." I rub at my eyes.

"Ok. We'll see you tonight. Bye!"

She hangs up and I sigh. Her energy so early in the morning tires me out and I try not to yawn as I walk back into the living room. Noah is sprawled out across the couch. I shake his shoulder slightly and he sits upright. His hands find my waist as I tangle mine in his hair. "Let's go to your room. I can see you're tired." His head rolls into my lap and I wipe away the stray hairs on his forehead. His eyes pierce into mine. "Ok." His voice is quiet. We walk up the stairs and fall on his bed. As soon as his head hits the pillow, he's snoring.

My alarm starts blaring and my eyes fly open. "Shit." I mutter as Noah starts moving around. His arm drapes around my waist and he pulls my back against his chest. "Morning baby." His husky voice fills my ear. "Morning Noah." I turn over to kiss him but he beats me to it. We pull away and I take his face in my hands.

"So today, we are going to do some fun stuff. But I have one condition." I look at him pointedly. "Yeah?" He cocks an eyebrow. "No beach. I'm tired of it." I'm so lying but he doesn't know. Who can ever get tired of the beach?

"Hmmm then I have one condition," he pulls me across his lap. "We have to go to that new arcade." I lean down to kiss him and his hands grip my ass. "Sure. Let's get dressed. And you need to shave mister," I run my finger along his jawline. "That stubble is making my face itch." I laugh as I get off him. He looks at me in disbelief. The stubble actually looks pretty sexy, but he can never know that.

Noah Huntington, you are so perfect.

"I'll have you know, this stubble makes me look like a man." He rises to his full height and towers over me. I stare up at him with a smirk playing on my lips. "Oh yeah, a caveman." Noah's smirk falters but then he bursts out laughing. I join him and soon we're clutching our sides. Nothing is ever so serious with him and I love it.

We get dressed and head downstairs. I had the chance to check out his house last night, and it is truly a beautiful house. Noah jingles his keys in front of my face. "You done?" He cocks an eyebrow at me. I glare at him. "You looked like you were about to drool." He laughs as he says it so I grab his keys and throw open the front door. I hear Noah's footsteps thud behind me. "Give 'em back to daddy." He grins at me. I shake my head and, like a two year old, hide the keys behind my back. It's like 8 in the morning. We can kill some time at home. Noah smirks as he tries to reach behind me but I move out of the way and he stumbles forward slightly. "You can't even drive my car!" He argues but runs after me. "Shame!" I chuckle and sprint down the street. I'm about 7 meters away when a strong arm wraps around my waist and I'm being hauled over Noah's shoulder. I scream and kick my legs as my head hangs upside down. To anyone, this would've been quite a sight. Noah carrying me, kicking and screaming, over his shoulder up a street that is known to house mostly young mothers and fathers or old people.

I'm about to say something when a hand comes flying down on my ass with a loud slap! I yelp in pain and grind on my teeth. "You fucktard!" I yell so loudly, I swear I heard a baby crying a few houses back. Noah's body vibrates as he chuckles. I'm being set down next to the Range Rover as Noah pulls the keys from my grasp. "Just get in, Archer." He laughs and the driver side's door closes with a click.

While we drive down to arcade they built next to the pier, Noah and I listen to the songs playing from his phone.

Some things are meant to be secret
And not to be heard.
So if I tell you, just keep it
And don't say a word.

Yeah when the doors are all closing,
It's bound to get loud.
Cause all these bodies are hoping to get addicted to sound.

Oh, not everything is so primitive.
Oh, but I'm giving in.

If these walls could talk,
I hope they wouldn't say anything.
Cause they've seen way too many things.
Cause we'd fall from grace.
We're fallen.
Yeah we'd fall from grace ...

I swear my face is probably tomato red right now. What is this? Noah must've picked up my embarrassment because he turns down the volume a bit. "You ok?" He looks me over. "What are we listening?" I ask slightly startled. "Oh, this is 5 Seconds of Summer. They have a new album out, Youngblood. This is If Walls Could Talk. You don't like it?" He asks. Isn't this ...? "It's very ... sexual." I comment. He chuckles slightly, the sound is quite pleasant, and turns the volume up again just as a new song begins playing. It's slower. It sounds better. "Now I wish we never met cause you're too hard to forget. While I'm cleaning up your mess, I know he's taking off your dress. I know that you don't but if I ask you if you love me, I hope you lie, lie, lie lie, lie to me." Oh damn. Not better. Who hurt them this bad?

I notice as we pull up at the arcade, that Noah looks at me longingly before killing the engine and getting out. I hope my plan works out.

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Hellooo dear readers. So glad you made it as thus far. I'm a horrible person for not updating a lot. And yes, I know 5SOS released the album late June/early July but this is fiction and I can do what I want. Comment, vote. All that jazz.

Edit: I started this book in grade 11 and now matric is catching up with me. There is a lot of stress going into this year, I have to apply for university this weekend and I'm writing my most prestige exam for Voortrekkers. It is part of the reason why I started this book. I have autumn school this break starting from the 25th to the 29th of March. All those Americans reading, that's fall school. Honestly, 7 hours Biology on a Monday is a piece of fucking shit. I'd rather binge Riverdale, but this is South Africa and I have to wait a week to get an episode. Just think of me please.