Sunflower. [Noah Centineo]

Fifty two

Those three weeks Noah and i hardly talked because i was avoiding all his calls and texts. Even the times he was at my front door. It didn't look like it, but all i could think about for those weeks was Noah, if i could forgive him or if i should, the times on set together, our first date, our firsts everything actually. First kiss, first movie we watched together, first hug, first 'i love you'.

Noah was all i could talk about for those three weeks. James and Ethan were getting tired of me always talking about him so they decided i needed to focus on something different, hence the pink hair. I liked it i guess, it was very different, but also fun.

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Right now, i was on Noah's front porch. I walked al the way to his house because i still didn't have a car. I wanted to press the doorbell so bad but i kept hesitating and taking my hand back at the last second.

Noah must've seen me because the fiftieth time i was trying to press the doorbell, because before i could even press it the door opened. I let out a little scream and wanted to run away like a scared little girl, but i only took a couple steps back.

"Hi- Haley?" He said surprised, he was looking at my face and i looked at him

"Hi.." i said giving him an awkward wave

"How-, how are you?" He asked still weirded out by me being at his house

"I'm doing okay." I said crossing my arms, "and you?" I asked blank not wanting to show any emotions. Noah didn't look good, he had huge bags under his eyes, his hair looked weird and he was wearing some weird oversized pyjama.

"I'm doing good." He said giving me a fake smile

"Damn this is really awkward.." I said quietly and looking down

"Yeah-" Noah said uncomfortable, wait? He heard me?!

"You heard that?!" I said looking at him with big eyes

"Yeah, but its true. I don't know what to talk about with you anymore.." He said and i took a step closer

"Hey Noah?" I asked standing only 3 feet apart from him, "Are you really 'good'?"

"No." He said taking a deep breath.

"Me neither." I said with tears in my eyes, and without thought i just wrapped my arms around Noah's waist. When i realized what i had done i pushed him away making me almost fall of the little steps, luckily Noah caught me.

"Why did you do that?" He asked

"I don't know, i always hug someone when they are sad, i cant help it. It was stupid, i shouldn't have done it. Sorry." I said looking down at my feet

"No thats not what i meant," he said and i looked up at him, "I meant why did you pull away from the hug."

"Because i'm scared," I said with a tear falling down my cheek

"Scared of what?" He asked wiping away the tear from my cheek, i put my hand on his hand and more tears started flowing down.

"That someone like Penelope will come again and ruin everything."

"You don't have to worry about that, i promise that'll never happen ever again." Noah said giving me a small smile and i gave him a weak smile in return.

After a while of just looking at each other i broke the silence, "so.. friends?"

"Yeah, 'friends' " Noah replied giving me a playful smirk

"I should go i think," i said wanting to walk away

"No! Wait Haley, its been three weeks, stay here." Noah said, almost begging me to stay

"And why would i stay?" I said with an almost smirk on my lips

"Because we need to catch up on everything i've missed and thats what friends do." Noah said grabbing my hand

"Ugh okaayyy," I said finally giving in and walking inside.

Noah's house looked even worse than him. There were a lot of unwashed dishes in the kitchen, it looked like he was sleeping on the couch, there were pizza boxes all over the place and the worst part was Noah just looked okay with it.

"Noah what the fuck happened to you?" I said giggling sarcastically

"Well-" He began saying but i cut him off

"We need to clean this up." I said determent

"What? No! You don't need to.." He said

"Uhm, yeah i do. Look how you're living!" I said grabbing a few of the pizza boxes of the table

"Okay." He said rolling his eyes

"Okay." I said smiling, "lets get cleaning then."

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I had thrown away some old pizza boxes, washed some dishes and now i was sweeping stuff up from the floor and Noah was doing the same.

"i missed you.." i said looking at my sweeper

"What?" Noah asked clearly not hearing what i just said

"I said that i missed you,"

"I thought you hated me.. after i called and texted you and you kept ignoring me, i went to your house.. Remember? You were there but just stayed silent, that was the moment i knew you would never forgive me.." Noah said genuine

"Really?" I said soft

"Yeah," He replied nodding his head a little

"You know, all i could think about for those three weeks was you. I kept ignoring you because i was scared, scared that Penelope would do something again, and i was just to scared to give you another chance because i knew i was gonna screw it up the next time-" i said looking at Noah and still sweeping, "Wait, whats this?" I said bending down to a piece of paper that was less crumbled than the rest of the stuff on the floor

"Haley wait! Don't read that please!" Noah said, but i already opened the note

"What the hell?!" I said angry, "i can't believe i- i came here, to try and make things right! Noah what the fuck!" I said crying. I picked up the piece of paper and threw it in Noah's chest.

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Uh oh! What do you think was on the piece of paper?