If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

Chapter Nine: Little Too Late

You wondered how you’d make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you’re looking for, is the one thing you can’t see.

(Noah's P.O.V)

It wasn't in that moment that I fell for her kindness or her beauty, it was in that moment that I fell for her whole being and if I didn't act fast I'd probably miss my chance. You'd think with that being said that'd I'd act act upon my feelings right then and there but I didn't and I'd soon learn to regret it.

I had taken Haley home nearly twenty minutes after we had gotten out of the lake and shared that face to face moment in the car. When I arrived home myself I was of course bother by the things you'd call siblings but I thought of them more as life obstacles. They were hard and annoying but I'd get over trough and over them and they'll be no bother to my any longer.

"Your school called you weren't in last period why?" My uncle Henry asked and I figured that I could just lie to him or compel him and this whole thing would be over but I owed it to him to at least tell the truth... Or half of it.

"There was some pep rally before last period and you know school functions aren't really my thing so I skipped out and went on a walk" I lied walking up to my room and he followed.

"Okay so explain the wet hair" He said and I ran my fingers through my hair to see that it was indeed still wet.

"It rained on the other side of town and I went for a walk hence the wet hair" I told him dropping my bag on the floor and turning to face him.

"Why are you questioning me? I told you before you didn't have to worry about me" I added in and he sighed.

"It's not you I'm worried about it's this girl you've been hanging out lately what if she finds about you, about what you are" He said making me laugh and I fell back on my bed.

"She already knows and she promised to keep my secret I don't understand what your so upset about your human you have nothing to worry about" I told him sitting him and he chuckled.

"Exactly I'm the only human in a house of three vampires two of which would have already drained my dry if it weren't for you" He admitted and this much was true. Kendall and Milo hated my uncle Henry since I could remember and with all that rage brewing in both of there soulless bodies I knew for a fact it wasn't long before one of them attempted to kill him. I wouldn't let it happen though, not on my watch at least.

"Don't worry alright uncle Henry I've got your back and you know I'd let nothing happen to you, you've been good to me and I wouldn't be able to live with the guilt" I told him rising from my bed and giving him a big bear hug.

"Thanks don't tell the others but your my favorite nephew and your father would be proud of the man you become living or dead" He said and something about that hit my in a spot where it really hurt. I didn't show it but I felt like him just saying that took a load of bricks off my shoulders.

"Thanks but I think we both know you were more of a father to me than my actual father ever was" I told him going and grabbing one of my fathers last journals and tossing it to him.

"1839, he said that I was nothing like him and he thinks that mother may have cheated on him, that Milo was the only real son he had" I told him grabbing another journal and opening it.

"1842,he said that Milo and I had become monsters and he'd never love a son of such coldness even then he still loved Milo more than I and let's not get started on how much he favoured Kendall but I understood that one she was the only girl and the youngest" I told him and he read a couple pages and laughed.

"Wow, You know I always hated being his youngest brother, There was six of us and I just had to be the youngest he would tease me all the time and get me into trouble, Noah it isn't that he didn't love you or that he loved you less than then Milo or Kendall he just had a hard way of showing it he always had" He said and I smiled.

"Yeah I guess, I'm gonna shower and head out to the diner" I told him turning and heading into my bathroom. After I showered I tossed on some jeans and a long sleeved shirt and headed out. Instead of driving I decided to walk since this town was small and almost everything was in walking distance. When I reached the diner I went inside and took a seat in the same booth Haley and I had sat in. When I looked over the menu I turned up my nose and frowned because the more I looked over the food the stronger my hunger for blood raged on. I pushed the hunger aside as best I could and my phone made a small bell noise thankfully taking my attention off of blood and on to it.

You look good in a gray sweater

I read the text and I chuckled lightly to myself as I looked around and saw no one. The text had been from Haley but I didn't see her anywhere in sight.

You're not gonna find me

She texted again and i chuckled again and I stopped for a minute and listened carefully. I muted everything around me and listen for her heart beat. Her's was dfferentfrom anyone's I'd heard so when I heard it I knew how close she actually was and I got up and headed outside.

Where are you going?

I read this text and smiled disappeared like thin air and I ended up at her car that was parked across the street from the diner just enough to see me but not for me to see her. She looked around for me and I slowly crept up on the side of her door and tapped on the window. She let out a piercing scream and I laughed in return.

"God you scared me I guess I really cant get anything past you" She said as her window came down and I nodded.

"Nope not at all you had me at first though I commend you on that i told her in honesty.

"How did you know where I was?" She asked and I looked around and smiled,

"I followed your heart beat" I told her and for some odd reason this made her blush.

"Well I guess it's true what they say than your heart will always betray you but lead you to the right thing" She said and I nodded in agreement.

"Yup, so what are you doing here?" I asked her as she got out of her car.

"Well my dad said he wont be home til late again so i had to come get my own food" She replied as we walked back across to the diner.

"Oh really? well let me treat you to whatever it is that's good here these days" I told her holding the door opened for her.

"So like a... like a date?" She asked going inside and I followed.

"Um Yeah, like a date" I replied as we both sat in the same booth i had been sitting in moments ago.

What am I doing? A date? I haven't been on a date since 1962.