HEARTBURN • Noen Eubanks

Angel..

It's the next day. The morning actually.

Noen opened his eyes, his heart felt like he had just woken up from cardiac arrest. A million thoughts going through his head as he almost thinks that what happened yesterday was just a dream. Fortunately all it took him, was just looking down. There she was.

Sleeping. Noen swears, this girl could sleep through an entire world war and wake up like nothing happened. She's so peaceful, tangled in his arms, her cheek comfortably rested on his chest. Her breathing so rythmic as her chest heavies up and down slowly.

His lanky fingers brush the raven strands of hair out of her face. There's dried tears just under her eyes, her eyelashes so perfectly long and curved. Noen always told her not to wear any mascara since she already looked like she had a pair of eyelashes on.

She felt smaller in his arms than before, he doesn't want to think about it, but he shouldn't forget the fact, that she probably didn't eat during all of this. It was clear to him that she didn't. Her jawline, her collarbones, they all stuck out more and he didn't like that. He didn't like the fact that she starved while he comfortably sat this entire time with a roof over his head.

He moved a little and so did she. Noen thought he'd sneak out of bed and make her something warm and edible. However it seemed like it wouldn't be so easy since she didn't seem to want to let him go.

He moved again and Evelyn groaned in her sleep. Noen was waking her up by moving around, but he had no other options.

"Evelyn..." Noen looked down at her as he whispered, lightly caressing her cheek. ".. can I go to the kitchen?"

The girl opened her eyes slowly, the hazel brown eyes that always took his breath away, he'd feel so helpless under her stare.

"Good morning, angel.." Noen whispered again with a soft smile, wiping away the dried tears under her eyes.

Evelyn stared up at him, looking over his face, his ocean blue eyes. Dear lord...., for the love of god. Why does he have to be so handsome and everything above, she hates that he's like this. She hates that she can't hate him. He's being so obedient, caressing her face and looking at her with those pretty boy eyes. He's so good to her now.

"Morning." She mumbles and Noen's smile gets even wider now that he heard her sweet voice.

This moment was clearly sucking all of the worlds butterflies into his stomach as this girl that he loves is finally where he wants her to be. Eventually the two get out of bed, Evelyn isn't acting too comfortable around Noen, but he's not expecting her to.

The two sit in the kitchen, Evelyn finally charging her low battery phone as Noen is trying to chef his way into Evelyn's heart, making something she likes.

"Jeez.." She trails off as she looks down at her phone.

"What?" Noen looks back at her and then at her phone.

"I've got... only about a billion messages from Kyle."

Which makes Noen's jaw clench, but he tries to shrug it off as best as he can.

"He was worried about you I guess.." He speaks before going back to cooking, there's something off with his voice and Evelyn notices it instantly, though without comments.

Speak of the devil. The door bell goes off and Evelyn gets up to get the door, only to see Kule behind it.

The male seems to be energetic and happy, he hugs her with a smile on his face. "Evelyn! Dang, I missed you already. Are you feeling any better?"

Evelyn lets him inside as he showers her with questions, she closes the door and sighs a bit, catching the scary look on Noen's face.

"I'm fine, hey, you really spammed my phone, it's buzzing off of the table." As it really was it all the notifications.

"Hey, can you blame me? I've known you since forever, I was very worried." He tried to explain his actions as he went up to Noen and patted him on the shoulder.

"What'cha cooking, good looking?"

Noen only made a gagging face at his best friend and the latter laughed.

"Evelyn, sit down it's ready." He announced as he put the food on the plates for the two of them, completely dismissing a hungry looking Kyle that was eyeing the food very obviously.

"Hey!? What about me?"

"There's mcDonald's right around the corner." Noen simply answered as he put the plate in front of the girl while she sat down, moving his own next to hers.

Kyle threw a deadly glare at Noen before sitting down as well grabbing an apple from the counter.

Evelyn pushed her plate towards the male. "I'm not hungry, you can eat it."

"Hey, what are you doing? Eat it, you haven't eaten." Noen instantly pipped up and pushed the plate back to Evelyn, as the girl just grumbled and gave in.

Kyle on the other hand didn't have a say in anything, so he just ate the damn apple and eyed the two.

It was all fine for awhile, they all event chatted a little bit like the old times, however Kyles phone buzzed and he knew exactly who it was.
He unlocked his phone and read the notification.

[Noah]
Are you at Noen's yet?

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