The Stepbrother - Noah Centineo (COMPLETED)

Epilogue

FINAL CHAPTER - THIRD PERSON

One year. One whole year it took for Arielle to grow a pair and speak to her father, he welcomed her home with open arms and begged her to never leave him again. She missed being in his arms, she hadn't felt that safe since Noah.

Noah. Oh yes. Noah. That once sweet, beautiful, caring young man turned into a complete stranger. He didn't even know himself, he was completely lost.
Roaming the streets late at night whilst drugged up to the eyeballs and pissed out of his head sure would give people the wrong impression. The short stubble soon turned into a beard, his toned stomach had bloated out from all the alcohol and his eyes were dead, big black circles permanently coated the skin underneath them. This wasn't Noah at all, at least not the one Arielle remembers.

Kelly and Michael had broke things off between them two years later, reassuring Arielle that it most definitely wasn't her nor Noah's fault but Arielle knew better than that. Kelly was worried for her son, as was Arielle. The pain she felt when he left her never left, she just learnt how to live with it as time went on. She didn't ever think she could love again. That was until Isaac, you know, Michaels work friends son. Yes.

Isaac chased after Arielle for months, begging for her to let him cook her a romantic dinner but she thought it was so wrong. She still loved Noah and prayed every night that he'd come back to her but when he hadn't shown his face for 3 years she just assumed that he had forgotten about her and moved on too. Isaac had been given a chance, a chance to prove his worth to Arielle and she fell in love within months. The love she felt towards Isaac was never as strong as the love for Noah but she would never admit that to herself. She kept telling herself to not compare them. They were two completely different people.

Noah on the other hand has got progressively worse four years down the line. His addiction to drugs and alcohol was overwhelming and he wanted a change. He wanted to go back to that boy that looked his age, not 30 years older.
In the fifth year he had stumbled into Arielle, his eyes locking to the man on her arm. Isaac. He wasn't mad, he couldn't get mad. He left her so she would find someone better for herself, she seemed to have done just that. Isaac was the perfect boy but he wasn't the right boy. Not for Arielle anyway.

So the fifth year was the year that made Noah change his life around again. Rehab was his saviour, and his love for Arielle. He was determined to get her back, even after all these years. To him, she was still as beautiful as ever. She hadn't changed, not one bit.
Soon enough he had finally landed himself a job, a very successful one at that. He had his dream home, dream job, dream car but he didn't have his dream girl. Call it cliché but it's true. It took him six years to get to where he's at now. Six years. And he's still madly in love with Arielle Hartman. No other girl was right for him. He needed her. She gave him strength.

For Arielle, she was still living in her dads home six years later. She was out busking on the streets everyday for money whilst Isaac worked his ass off as a bartender. Unfortunately they hadn't yet scraped up enough money to move to Hollywood where she could pursue her dream of being a singer. They blamed it on the fact that they didn't have enough money or was it that she was still holding on to something back here in Florida? Or perhaps a certain someone.
Arielle was clueless as to where Noah was or what he was doing. She had no type of communication with him nor Kelly. Its almost like they just completely vanished.

As for Jason and Brandon, their love story continues. They brought their first proper house together on the third year then by the fifth year, they were expecting. A lovely lady named Tanya was carrying their first child, making sure it was healthy for the two guys. Arielle had insisted on being auntie Ari, seeing as though George didn't want his child to have any knowledge of the poor girl. Jason and Brandon gave her the god mother title instead. Cute.

Seven years down the line and here we are. Noah's a recovered alcoholic and drug addict with the life any person would die for, except he's missing the one thing that ever made him truly happy, her. Arielle was in a long term relationship with someone whom she loves beyond words, her life was coming together slowly but surely and she was the god mother of the beautiful Lily Rose Clover, yet somehow, she still didn't feel complete.

They were both missing something and that something was each other.