By Day, By Night || Caleb Finn & Noen Eubanks (UNDER EDITING)

20. Going on Good Terms

Ella Brooks

"I won't tell anyone, I promise," Ashley said as we held our pinkies together. We pulled apart and she looked at me, "Can I spend the night?" I nod and stand up.

"I need to talk to Caleb first," I tell her. She smiles then Noen walks into the living room. I knock on the bedroom door waiting for a response.

"Come in," I hear him say back. I twist the knob so it opens and I enter seeing him lying in his bed. I walked in closing the door behind me. He turned to look at me then sat up. He moved over so I could sit beside him. After two ... maybe three weeks of ignoring each other. I truly did miss him.

"You're sweet... and cute," I say genuinely but, he just rolls his eyes with a smile he's trying to hide. I lightly brush my shoulder against his causing him to sway to his left. I smile at him getting to him as well.

"Why do you want to talk to me?" He asked casually. I officially broke up with Ashton but, I did miss him (Caleb). I hated walking past him in my own home not being able to speak to him.

"I miss you ... and I want to apologize. Ashton did admit that he was in the van but, he didn't want me around you and Noen. That was his excuse or whatever," Caleb nods after I told him that. I just waited for something.

"So, me and Noen were his excuse as to why he's a shit boyfriend and sent men after you? That's pathetic," He said. Well, I'm either very naive or he put it perfectly in perspective.

"I was stunned you broke up with him.." He mumbled quietly hoping I didn't hear him but, I did. Clearly. I tilt my head at him, yet he looked towards me surveying my face. I turned away hoping he'd didn't see my smile.

"Why didn't you tell him Ashton hurt you in your bedroom?" Noen randomly walked in asking. My eyes widen when I just realized he's a mind reader. Caleb stood from his bed staring down at me.

"How?" He asked suddenly. His fists clenching tightly which concerned me. So, I stood up.

"He just slapped me and tried forcing himself on me... All because he found out I cheated... He told me he felt it between you and I..." I wasn't lying, either. Ashton knew I always talked to Caleb when I got home from work. So, the one time I just stormed past Caleb, he just knew. So, when I got into my bedroom with him. He hit me for cheating. At some point we were talking and after mentioning the van incident. He shoved me against my bed. And pinned my wrists painfully. He twisted and squeezed my wrists but, I kicked him in the nuts causing him to get off me. So, I opened my door and told him I believed my roommates. That's when he yelled and caught everyone's attention.

Noen obviously read my mind shaking his head side to side at me, filled with disappointment. "That's why we didn't like him around, Ella."

Caleb grabbed my wrists that were covered with a sweater. I yelped in response. He pulled up the sleeves to see bruises and his fingers dug into my wrist so skin was broken. Crimson colored blood was showing. Caleb looked hurt and I wanted to cry because the pressure he was putting on my wrist hurt.
Noen sighed exiting the room leaving the door still open. He came back a minute later with the First AID kit. And what looked like a wet wash cloth. Caleb held my wrists as gently as possible.

"Can I ask why you never told the police? You literally have evidence he constantly did this," Caleb asked but, I shook my head.

"They wouldn't believe me..." I said quietly. Caleb sighed letting me go gently.

When Noen put pressure on my wrist with the cloth on it I hissed in agony. I wanted to scream from how painful it was. He grabbed some medicine, bandage wrapping, and gauges. He put medicine on the gauges setting it neatly on my wrists. Caleb uses his finger tips to slightly put pressure onto it. While Noen wraps them up and the making sure it felt comfortable. Noen exits the room closing the door behind us. I sit there awkwardly.

"I'm sorry for what I said. A couple weeks ago..." I feel myself grow embarrassed since he hasn't fully forgiven me.

"It's gonna take some time, Ella..." I nod. We both sit there awkwardly ..

"Ashley is spending the night... She also knows everything. I told her..." Caleb nods but he doesn't say anything. I stand up walking to the door I feel his eyes on me the entire time. I open the door and close it behind me. I see Noen standing there leaning against the wall.

"Can we talk?" Noen had asked. I nodded as we go to my bedroom leaving Ashley in the living room by herself. When we walk in there I cross my arms against my chest as he closed the door behind me.

"I don't know if I'm able to tell you this but, Caleb has 25 days ... Then he and I would be huskies forever ..." I felt awful because time really was ticking.

"What happened to by September First?" I asked him.

"Ella, the witch decided last minute to make it by August first. So, when the sun rises on August first and Caleb gets the love in return ... He'll wake up a human ... If not, he'll transform into a husky and never be human again..." My eyes widen in shock. So, I move to my bed taking a seat. I really needed to process this. Caleb would no longer be human ... He wouldn't watch movies or listen to me read books. He wouldn't make me breakfast or dinner. He wouldn't lay next to me for comfort for the both of us.

No more kisses, hugs, cuddles, sexual stuff. No playing videos games, or dinner dates or sneak into movie theaters. No one coming home to see them occupied by something. No butterflies that I got when Caleb did something that drove me nuts. I would no longer get to hear him laugh or see his gorgeous smile or look into his bright blue eyes. All of the memories I've made with him in the past three months ... Would be gone. G-O-N-E.

I knew from day one he was going to wreck my life. The way his curly hair was and how much I thought of running my hands through those gorgeous curls. The way he smiled at something so hilarious or jokes he made. When he and I would sit outside when I smoked. The way the moonlight illuminated his facial features showing them more clearly in my eyes. Even when I was high ... I saw it visibly. It startled the absolute shit out of me that someone could be as gorgeous as he was. God, he made everything look so damn easy sometimes. Like, how can A person walk so smoothly or look so fucking hot after he got out of the shower. How his hair was in his face and curls. The water droplets on his body when his towel was wrapped around his waist. How he would do something or grab something from a higher part of the cabinet and you could see his muscles flex as he did it. I think I was a little too descriptive to things that drove me wild when I first brought him into my home.

After a while, he did. We didn't start off so well but, after a while things escalated quickly. I made out with him when Ashton spent the night. A month after we kissed again and almost got kidnapped. We made love and I went another month without speaking to Ashton. We made more love ... After I finally decided to break it off with Ashton. He found out Ashton has abused me for cheating. Now I have to get Caleb's forgiveness through time ...

I guess a lot did happen in the past three months.

Noen Eubanks

I crossed my arms against my chest as I watched her think about Caleb. After zoning out into her thoughts for so long she looked at me with an apologetic look on her face. 'Sorry' she thought. I waved it off basically letting her know it wasn't a biggie because it tends to happen a lot.

"So, what do you think will happen now?" I asked her. She shrugged and reading her mind she didn't know either.

"So, I know what to do ..." She gets up rushing to her desk. It looks like a book in her hand but it reads 'planner' on it. She sits next to me. She opens it grabbing her pencil that was in the pencil pocket in her planner.

"Let's make the next couple weeks the best of our lives!" I smiled completely agreeing with her. As we began making plans.