The Kissing Booth - The First Year

Lee's confession - Noah

Elle and I slept a lot the next day. We heard Rachel and Lee arguing for a while, but then everything went quiet again and we believed they were fine.

We still had to finish cleaning, but the hard part, take out all the garbage we had already done at the end of the barbecue, so we decided to join laziness life, since we would go to the Disney hotel only the next night.

Elle's father called and she left the room to talk to him, I kept laid in bed, sleepy. My phone rang and I did not recognize the number "Hello?"

"Hi Noah, I'm sorry to call you in the morning," the female voice on the other side was soft and worried.

"Sorry, I still don't know who it is ..." I replied with a vague impression that the voice was familiar, she replied "It's me, Cindy"

"Hi Cindy, how are you? Oh, no problem, we were already awake. What happened?" I found it very strange that she called me, we had not talked since the morning she left my room and I clearly do not remember giving her my number, but since I was drunk and I forgot everything about our night, it was not impossible for me to have given it.

"Nothing much, I just wanted to know if you talked to your girlfriend and how things were going... I was wanting to call you before, but I could not..." she stopped and laughed "You may think I am crazy... but I really liked you as a friend, and I needed to know if your love story had  a happy sequel" she laughed sincerely.

"Ah, yes ... I told her everything about us, she, of course, did not like it, but at least understood ... she is very mature ... if it were the opposite, I don't know if I would be so calm"

"Good to know, Noah, you deserve it... I just needed to know if you were okay, since our last conversation, or rather, the only conversation we had made me wonder how thngs would be. The way you were feeling for being away from her, everything . Good to know you're okay." She suddenly stopped, and then finished "Happy New Year to you, I'll see you back in Harvard. Goodbye"

"Bye, Cindy, thank you for calling and happy new year too." I hung up and Elle was at the door looking at me ... with a rather suspicious look

"So... who were you wishing happy new year to?" She asked a little exalted.

"Hey, please, you did not have to look so mad at me... I know you heard it was Cindy. She wanted to know if we were ok ... When I talked to her, I told her everything about the time we were appart and she realized how much I got sad over all that, so she wanted to know if I was better, that's all." I took her hand and pulled her back to the bed again

"Or maybe she just wanted to know if you were suddenly totally single and unhindered ..." she was still a little upset

"No! Elle, it nothing like this, come on... she's a nice girl, if you have the opportunity to meet her, you'll see ... please do not be like this ... I do not even have her phone number on my cell phone, I didn't know it was her and I do not really see any problem, since she called me to check about us... please? "I looked like sad puppy, she rehearsed a half smile

"Ok... but please tell this girl that your girlfriend is really jealous sometimes..." she was smiling now

"One day, maybe... but not now, come here" I kissed her and we stayed in bed for the rest of the day.

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The next day we went to Elle's house so she could pack her things, it would only be two nights in the hotel, but she did not have any other clothes at back my home. We got back, I packed a backpack and went down to find Lee and Rachel. We still did not know how things had been the day before, but we ended up not meeting them, so we just thought everything was fine, since the house was perfect, they've might cleaned it.

Lee was in the kitchen eating a sandwich "Hey you two, a full day in bed? When I grow up I want to be like you two," he teased smiling at us

"Yes ... Shelly did not want to let me out of bed, you know" I said using my sexy smirk

"Shut up, this is disgusting to me ..." Lee laughed and Elle was looking like she wanted to kill me

"You're amazing Noah ... you love making me feel ashamed," she said, smiling. "Where's Rachel?" She asked.

"Well ... I left her at home yesterday ... we kept fighting for almost two hours and I asked her to sleep in her house ... I was really upset with her, and I needed a good night's sleep to think about everything. I finished cleaning the house alone, btw " Lee was serious now, he continued. "You two know, especially Elle, that I really love her, but these little things make me very angry. She's really snobby sometimes and I do not like that trait of her personality. Please do not get me wrong, she's an incredible girl, but she's not like us. We were all raised with many privileges, but our parents taught us to be simple, unfortunately it was not the same with Rachel. Her mother taught her to be a snobbish woman ..." He stopped again.

Elle was by his side now and said, "I sometimes see some of her actions ... but I never thought that would bother you so much ..."

"Shelly ... when you're with someone a long time, some attitudes begin to bother, you know? Do you think I thought it was normal for her to be comfortably seated while we three were cleaning the house after yesterday's party? It was not fair to any of us, and that's the kind of behavior that makes me think: if we have a future, at Harvard living together, would you like to have a roommate who did not help you clean the house? "

Seeing things from that angle, he was really right...

"I know we still have at least 5 months to sort out everything about college, we do not even know if it's really going to be Harvard or if we're going to go together ... but I must start thinking about what I want for my future, if things do not get better, I don't think we're going to stay together for long." He said a little sad

"Well Lee ... if you think this is messing around so much, you need to talk to her... you can even use the example you gave us about living together in college ... I'm sorry to hear that you're feeling this way, I wish I had a chance to talk to you earlier today, if I knew she had not slept here." Elle was really sad to see him that way.

"Hey, do not be sad Shelly, I know you'll always be by my side. I also cannot be bothering you and ask you to stay away from Noah these days... you are facing a long distance relationship, I am always with her, leaving you alone ... I am happy to be able to talk to you both" he looked at me and smiled "I needed to let off before we left. I'll talk to her about it, but I'm going to do it after New Year's Eve, I do not want to ruin our party. We are going to have fun tomorrow, okay?" He smiled and hugged Elle. He came to my side and hugged me too.

We went to the cars, Lee was going with his car, Elle and I were going with my father's SUV.

"Do you think Lee and Rachel will breakup?" I asked Elle.

"I don't think so, at least not now ... but I know your brother so well, it's really hurting him, and I'm a little guilty about it... sometimes I think Lee expects his girlfriends to be a little like me, not in the love connection between man and woman, but on being simple, you know, I mean, by the way I am used to treat everything... let us hope that she understands his point of view. "

"Yes ... let's wait. At least I have the perfect girl next to me." I finished giving her a quick kiss.