Seven Summers Gone- A Kissing Booth Continuation (Fanfiction)

Chapter 1

7 years after the break-up.

I sit down on the tube and pull out my iPod for the trip home. I've just finished work and my brain hurts after a very long, tiring day.
I love my job but I also love to just switch off at the end of the day.

I scroll through my playlists and decide to go for my high school hits list.

I love reminiscing about some of the best years of my life. I go to hit play and think to myself 'what the hell' I'm feeling adventurous today so I put it on shuffle.

I smile as I picture my flatmate and best friend (apart from Lee of course) Renee telling me "if that's your idea of adventurous then we need to have a serious talk".

I sit back, close my eyes and start to relax until 'that' song comes on, the one we used to make out to in his bedroom and I'm flooded with memories of when Noah and I were dating.

I haven't seen or talked to Noah since I moved to London five years ago to study, but I still remember the feel of his kisses on my lips and his thumb stroking my cheek like it was yesterday.

Lee has kept me up to date with what he's up to, well as much as he can since Noah doesn't keep in touch with anyone much these days. But I also stalk his Instagram for good measure and to have a perv when I miss him every now and then, usually after a failed date.

I pull out my phone to have a look. I don't follow him of course cause that would just be weird but because his account is public I don't need to. He doesn't post much himself but he gets tagged a lot by his friends and people he works with.

He's a physiotherapist for the New York Giants so he's based in New York but travels around the country a lot and it seems there's always a party or event or something happening that someone is taking pics of and tagging him in.

Of course, he has a girlfriend as well, she's a cheerleader for the team, blond, blue eyes, big boobs and legs that go all the way up to my chin.

He's still gorgeous, fit, tanned, perfect hair and now he has that stubble look and man does it suit him.

They make a perfect couple which makes me feel like a plain, pathetic loser. Especially since I haven't had a serious relationship since Noah.

I mean I've been on plenty of dates but no one ever really made me feel the way Noah did and I find myself comparing everyone to him and they just never measure up.

I get annoyed at myself constantly for not moving on as he has, but I'm not going to stay in a relationship that I'm not committed too either just so I'm not alone.

But lucky for me I have three great flatmates, Renee from New Zealand and Annalise and Jaco (who we call A and J for short) from South Africa. We all met at Kings College here in London.

I did three years at the University of Washington in Seattle and my last year here in London.

My plan was to go home after I graduated but I had made great friends, was having a great time travelling and sightseeing around the UK and Europe, Lee was doing some travelling of his own with his girlfriend Lauren and Noah had moved to New York and moved on with a redhead named Mackenzie.

I gave up on the idea that Noah and I were meant to be and decided to move on with my life and stayed here in London.

Me, Renee and A and J decided to flat together, we found a great house just out of the city, near a train station. None of us owned a car and we all worked in central London, not that I was crazy enough to drive in London.

Not long after we moved in A and J started dating and have been together ever since and Renee and I have become super close.

I still see Lee as often as I can but he's teaching at an elementary school in L.A. and is engaged to his college sweetheart Lauren, it's not as often as I'd like but we Facetime at least once a week and Lauren is super cool with our friendship.

At first, I was gutted when he and Rachel broke up in our first year of college, but then he met Lauren a couple of years later and she's great.

They are getting married in just over a month and I can't wait.
Lee wanted me to be his best man/woman but Lauren wasn't super keen on the idea and also he wanted Noah to be groomsmen which would have been very awkward, so they decided to have Noah as best man and me as a bridesmaid.

We will be together in the wedding party but I'll have a different partner and be with the girls most of the time.

I'm really nervous about seeing him after so long but it will also be good to catch up.

Before I know it I'm almost at my stop, I put my things back in my bag and get ready to disembark.
I hurry home looking forward to the bottle of red waiting for me that I picked up in France the last time I was there.

I'm a French translator and do a bit of tutoring on the side and often travel to France for work. I may not have the man of my dreams anymore but I do have my dream job.

As I unlock the front door my phone starts ringing. I reach into the chaos that is my handbag and finally find my phone before it stops ringing and see it's Lee calling.

I wonder why on earth he's calling now it's like 9 am in L.A. he should be getting ready for school to start.