Seven Summers Gone- A Kissing Booth Continuation (Fanfiction)

Chapter 23

Later in the evening after the rest of the extended family have left, the rest of us gather at a big outside patio area for a BBQ.  It's just close family, the wedding party and a few close friends of Lee and Laurens.
This is our last evening together before we all go our separate ways and Lee and Lauren are off on their honeymoon to Tahiti.
"Hey, I was thinking, do you have to go back to London tomorrow?" Noah asks.
"Why?" I ask, knowing where this is going.
"Well, I thought since you haven't been to New York before, maybe tomorrow would be the perfect time to go see it."
"Oh, would it just! And why would tomorrow be the perfect time to go?"
"Because then I don't have to travel all that way to my lonely apartment on my lonesome," he says looking at me with sad puppy dog eye's.
I can't help but laugh, he looks so adorable.
"I can ask my boss for a few extra days off I suppose.  But I'm meant to be flying back with Renee."
"Oh, you don't have to worry about Renee,  she's already changed her flight to go to Georgia with her lover-boy Chad."
"Haha, is that right?  Have you two been up to no good altering our travel plans?"
"All for a good cause, I promise," he says smiling at me.
"I'll send an email to my boss after dinner,  It should be fine, she tried to persuade me to stay a bit longer when I submitted my leave, but I wasn't too keen after... well-- you know," I say looking a little sad.
He pulls me off my chair and onto his lap and puts his arms around me.
"You don't know how sorry I'm am about what happened in London, but I'm done with wasting time.  You only live once and I'm not prepared to waste one more day without you."
He leans in and kisses me gently on the lips.
"Whether here or London, I want to be with you and only you," he adds.
"Oh, that reminds me," I say as I grab his face in my hands and plant another kiss on those luscious lips of his.  Then I stand up and grab my wine glass and a fork, cause that's all I can find nearby and I ding my glass.
Everyone stops talking and turns toward me.
"Sorry to interrupt everyone, but I have some news that I've been wanting to share for a while now but decided to wait till I had all my closest friends and family together.  After a heartbreaking event this year where we had to say goodbye to a wonderful father and husband, I started thinking a lot about home and more importantly, family.  I've been away for a long time now and after that sad reminder about how short life can be and how fragile it all is.  I've decided it's time to come home."
I see a massive smile break out on my dad's face, then I notice Renee with her mouth wide open.  I feel bad not telling her sooner, but I really wanted to do it with everyone together.

Later after dinner when I've been smothered in hugs Renee drags me off to a quiet corner.
"What the hell? I hope this isn't because of Noah!"
"I'm sorry, I just sprang this on you, I wanted to tell everyone when we were together, so it didn't leak back to my dad or anything.  And I thought the wedding would be the perfect place to do it since everyone I care about is here, and no it wasn't because of Noah.  After Mr Flynn's funeral, I started thinking about how one minute we can be here then the next gone.  I want to be close to my dad again."
"Did Noah know?"
"I only told him last night, as you know we sorted a lot of things out and I needed to be honest with him if we were going to get anywhere."
She rolls her eyes at me,
"I suppose."
"Do you forgive me?"
Now it's my turn for the sad puppy dog eye's.
"How can I be mad at you for wanting to be close to family again and to be honest I kinda saw this coming.  Things have definitely been different since your visit to L.A. for the funeral."
"And this is why you're my favourite female."
I give her a big hug.
"Also......I was thinking, maybe you would want to come with?"
"Is dirty dancing the best movie of all time?" She says to me with a smile.
"Haha, if only you were a man, Renee."
"I've been thinking the same thing about you for years Elle."

After an event-filled evening, which also included Lee and Lauren being all loved up, Chad and Renee disappearing for an hour and Liv completely avoiding me and Noah, we decide to call it a night.
"Well, night then. I'll see you in the morning," I say to Noah.
He stares at me dumbfounded.
Then I laugh at him.
"Come on you goose, your room or mine?"
He makes a face at that,
"Definitely not mine, the only person whose been sleeping in there is Bethany and I'm not about to change that fact."
"Ugh yuck, mine it is!"
As we walk to my room, Noah asks me about my move home.
"So which city exactly are you thinking of moving to?"
"Well, my plan was going to be Chicago, but now I'm not quite sure.  It will still depend on where I can find work though."
Then he stops on the stairs and turns to me,
"Just so we are clear.  I do enjoy my job, but I can do it anywhere.  I can't lose you again, so where ever you are, I am."
I start getting a little teary-eyed and lean in for a kiss, he deepens it and I wrap my arms around his neck.  All it takes is a second to go from zero to a hundred.  Noah lifts me up and I wrap my legs around him.
We break contact for a moment as we navigate the last steps, then his mouth is back on mine as we fumble our way down the hallway to my room.  After banging into the wall a couple of times and nearly knocking over a plant, we finally make it to my room.
Noah puts me down so I can open the door, then puts his arm under my legs and lifts me up again bridal style and carries me over the threshold. With my hand in his gorgeous hair we make out frantically, then all of a sudden he breaks the kiss and throws me on the bed. 
After I bounce a couple of times I look up into his eye's and he has I wild look in them like he's about to charge.  So I decide to tease him a little and sit up on my knees and oh so slowly I start to pull up my top and before I can even get it over my arms Noah yanks it off and pushes me back down onto the bed and then he's on top of me.
I rip his shirt up over his head and in a frantic rush our clothes end up spread from one side of the room to the other.
It feels so good to be in his arms again, like coming home and this time I know this is exactly what he wants too, with nothing in our way we can finally be together.
He starts kissing my neck then keeps going down, down, down, I marvel at the feeling of his lips on my body. 
In a state of pure euphoria, I close my eyes and smile to myself.
A girl could get used to this!