Fame or Fate // Noah Beck

8

I dance and sway to the beat of the music.

Piper disappeared a while ago with henry so I've been left alone.

I feel someone tap my shoulder and I turn around.

"You're Alexis right?" A boy asks me.

"Yeah who are you?" I ask moving to the side so I can hear him better.

"I'm Morgan Harrington."

"Nice to meet you?" I say kind of like a question.

"So.. Noah told me to come get you for some reason?" He asks me.

"Beck?" I ask surprised.

"That would be him."

I look around but I don't see him.

"Where is he?" I ask him.

"Come with me." He says walking off and I do as he says and follow him.

We walk through the crowds of people and down a hall. He opens a door and steps aside for me to go in. I give him a questioning look before stepping into the room.

Noah turns around when I step in and Morgan comes in behind me.

"I feel a little uncomfortable right now Beck." I say looking at Noah in front of me and Morgan behind me.

"This is Morgan, he's my best friend. You don't have to worry about him." Noah tells me.

"And you?" I ask Noah.

He takes a step forward.

"You should probably worry about me." He whispers.

I roll my eyes.

"So why did you send a minion to come get me and not come get me yourself."

"Hey!" Morgan argues

"No offense." I add.

"I wanted to talk, Montgomery." Noah tells me.

"So talk. I came to this party to have a good time and forget about life and I'd really like to get back to that. So please, talk." I explain.

"Look Montgomery I want-," he stops when his phone rings. "Give me a second." 

He turns around and answers the call.
"What? Yeah I'm here. Ok. Yeah give me a minute. I'm just doing something give me a minute."

I turn Morgan and mouth 'do you know what this is?'

Morgan shrugs.

"I have to go, Heather is here but can we talk later?" Noah asks.

"Noah.. no. Go see your girlfriend. We're not friends. We've talked what, twice? Im done here. I'm going to get a drink." I say pushing past them and walking out.

I go to the kitchen and grab a new solo cup because I lost my other one. I turn around and jump when I see Morgan right behind me.

"Jesus now what?" I ask him pour alcohol into my cup.

"Look I don't know what's going on between you you and Noah but he's been acting weird lately." He tells me.

"Nothing is going on between us Morgan. Like I said we're not even really friends." I take a sip of my alcohol and close my eyes as it travels down my throat.

"Right. Well just don't hurt him." He shrugs.

I scoff. "How would I hurt Noah Beck."

"I heard my name." Noah says coming into the kitchen.

I gulp down the rest of my drink and Noah goes to say something when heather walks in and beats him to it.

"Ugh she's here." She rolls her eyes.

"I need another drink." I mumble pouting more into my cup.

"I think you've had enough." Noah says.

"Why do you care?" Heather asks him.

"I'm not a child Beck and I'm barely even buzzed." I gulp down that drink and immediately pour another.

"Alexis." Noah calls but I shake my head and walk out of the kitchen.

Piper comes downstairs and I meet her at the bottom.

"Hey." She says nervously.

"Hey where have you been?" I ask her.

Henry comes downstairs buttoning up his shirt and my eyes widen.

"Oh ok." I answer myself.

"We're going to go back to Henry's place for a bit, I can drop you off at my house I'm on the way if you want." She suggests.

"I Uh," I'm cut off when Morgan's comes over.

"I'll give her a ride home." He says.

"Not a chance who even are you?" Piper asks him.

"My names,"

I cut him off, "it's fine piper I know him. He can just drop me off, plus I'm not ready to go." I tell her.

She nods giving me a quick hug before heading off with Henry.

"You don't want your friends to know who I am?" Morgan asks me.

"Look Morgan I just, I don't know what's going on... why'd you even offer to bring me home?" I ask him.

"Well I'm not actually. Noah saw you talking to her and told me to tell you I would but he's actually bringing you home. He knew you'd say no if he stepped in." He tells me.

I look across the room to where Noah is. He has his arm around Heather but he's looking at me.

Our gazes meet and I can't look away. His hazel eyes are beautiful even though I can't really see them from this far.

Heather looks over at me and I look down.

This is wrong. He has a girlfriend. I need to leave him alone.

I turn to Morgan.

"Can you take me home Morgan?" I ask him.

"But Noah,"

"Please morgan, I want to go." I plead.

He looks at Noah who's now making out with heather.

"Yeah come on." He says and we walk through the house until we get outside.

We walk down the street and stop at a silver convertible mustang.

"This is not your car." I say in disbelief.

"It is." He says pulling out a key and unlocking the car.

I climb Into the passenger seat and he climbs into the driver's.

"So I haven't seen you around school." I say as we pull out.

"Yeah I go to a private school a town over." He says concentrating on the road.

"Oh... how do you know Noah?" I ask

"We grew up  together I used to live here but moved a the beginning of highschool." He tells me.

"Oh."

The rest of the ride to Pipers house is quiet.