It won't keep us apart

Prologue

Richelle's POV

I'm fuming after my conversation with Emily. Why did Noah go to her about this? I already find connecting with people difficult, but after hearing this, he made me feel even worse.

Although I don't want to do this, I must face him in Studio One for our duet rehearsal. I hurry down the corridors to the studio. He's already there, stretching. Noah stops and greets me. I take a deep breath. Here goes nothing.

"I just spoke with Emily. Don't you know I have a hard time connecting with people, Noah?"

He looks so lost at what I'm talking about.

"I didn't need Emily to tell me that. If we had a problem, why don't you come to me?"

Noah tries to tell me he's sorry. Then starts on about the chemistry between us. Wow Noah, look at you now. Everything you're saying is getting worse by the minute. Who knows what the chemistry between us is going to be like, since he decided to take me off this duet. Seriously I got it. You clearly want someone who you think is better than me to take my place? Not a chance.

"How about we forget all of this and start rehearsing?" he says.

This just makes me madder than before. I glare at him. He's trying to weasel his way out of this and that's definitely not going to happen. I scoff.

"I honestly don't know about this, Noah. Well, I'm going now." I huff and storm out of the room. 

"Richelle! What about rehearsal?" he calls after me.

I halt for a moment. Without turning around, I snarl, "Forget about it, Noah."

Then I continue speed walking down the corridor to the locker rooms. I plonk myself on a bench and there, I broke. The tears that were welling up in my eyes came out. All the anger and sadness that was trapped inside was flowing freely as I sat there crying.

It came to me after a few minutes that crying wasn't going to help me with my problems. So, I got up and began wiping the tears off my face. Then I took slow breaths to calm myself down.

It's time to leave all of this behind. Time to move on.

A/N: I had to add a backstory to this, otherwise the next few chapters wouldn't really make sense. What do you think of my own twist to this scene from Season 5?