The Kissing Booth: After The Break-up, Elle and Noah

Elle's POV

After our talk and agreement we met back up with Tuppen and Margot.  The guys decide to join a game of volleyball while Margot and I lay out on the blankets to catch some sun and watch them play.  It's cute Noah is flirting with me. Every time he catches me watching him he smirks and winks at me.  Margot and I hear the girls sitting behind us.  One of them excitedly says to her friend that the hot guy with dark hair wearing black swimming trunks keeps winking at her.  Her friend doesn't think its true but then they both see him wink again.  The first girl says, "see I told you.  The second girl says, "you should go up to him after the game." I wonder how he is going to handle this.  Once the game is over Margot and I watch as the guys start walking towards us when a girl approaches Noah and lays her hand on his chest.  I see him peel her hand off him and he says loud enough for me to hear, "sorry that wasn't for you, not interested." Walks over and sits next to me. The look on his face makes me giggle, he rolls his eyes at me.  The guys are soon asked to play another game.  Margot says that the girl is still watching Noah, I look at her, shrug my shoulders and say to her, "It's something that always happens. I used to get jealous and react to it, but it's not like we are a couple now I don't have any right to stop it if he wants to hook up with her."  I see Tuppen say something to Noah, he looks over at me and says something back to Tuppen.  Tuppen grins and I see Noah smirk.  What are they up to?  I see Tuppen hit the ball towards me, Noah starts to run for the ball when he stumbles and lands on top of me. I hear Margot burst out laughing.  Noah is looking into my eyes and I see him slowly closing the distance between us.  He places his lips against mine in a simple kiss.  I can't help it my eyes start to drift closed.  I feel his tongue brush my lips seeking to deepen the kiss. I part my lips and his tongue slides into my mouth. Sweeping my tongue with his and deepens the kiss even more as I kiss him back. I run my hands up his back pulling him closer to me and my hands start playing with his hair like I always used to.  He pulls away and lays his forehead against mine.  We are both breathless.  I hear him say, "Damn."  It makes me giggle as I reply, "Yeah." We grin at each other remembering our reactions at the kissing booth.  We hear Tuppen wolf whistle and yell, "come on Flynn this isn't the kissing booth we are in the middle of a game."  I start to blush when Noah gives me a quick peck jumps up and rejoins the game.  I hear Margot still laughing, I look over at her so I don't notice Noah watching me. I'm smiling and blushing because of what just happened when Margot says, "oh my god you should have seen her face when he kissed you."  I blush even more, and start to giggle when I notice that girl and her friend have left.

When the game is over the guys walk back over to us and Noah says hes hungry and asks if I want to get something to eat at the arcade. I agree we ask if they want to join us, but they have plans. We all promise to get together soon and go our separate ways.  After storing our things in the seat of the bike we walk to the arcade, our hands brush and he takes my hand intertwining our fingers.  It feels like old times so I leave my hand in his.  We separate, me to find a table and him to get our food.  It didn't even cross my mind to tell him what I wanted to eat.  I found us a booth and had just sat down when some random guy asks for my number.  I smile and shake my head no, hopefully he just leaves, but nope he has to push and say, "oh come on sweetheart you know you want to give me your number."  I try to think of something to get him away from me.  It's been such a good day so far and I remember how Noah gets when he sees guys trying to hit on me.  I say the first thought that pops into my mind, "I don't think so, my husband doesn't like me giving out our number to strange guys." He replies, "where's your ring if you are married?" Before I can respond Noah sits down next to me, leans over and kisses me, then says, "sorry it took me so long, babe." "it's okay honey," I say. We both look up at the guy. He says, "sorry" and walks away.  We just smile at each other and start eating. I could tell seeing that guy and him hitting on me bothered him, but his reaction and how he handled it surprised me. This was definitely different. As soon as we are done eating he asks if I'm ready to go.

We get on the bike and head out. He doesn't take me home.  He rides around for a while. My hands had started to wonder again. After my hand brushes the waist band of his jeans he removes his one hand from the handlebars and takes my hand, brings it to his lips and kisses it, then places it back on his chest.  I grip him tighter. It's almost sunset when he pulls up at the Hollywood sign. We get off the bike and walk to our spot.  We spread the blanket and sit down to watch the sunset.

I'm thinking about the first time he brought me here.  I'm watching him, he turns around to look at me and I can't help it I say,"and how many girls have you made out with in this spot?" He chuckles, "I only come her alone, until now."  It was the beginning of our conversation the first time we were together.  Then he says, "I've still never come here with anyone, but you. This is our place and holds the best memories of us.  It's where you finally agreed to be mine and gave me the greatest gift anyone has ever given me." I smile and blush he is talking about it being my first time. I look down and my hair falls hiding my face, but its not because I'm ashamed of what we did.  I'm trying to calm myself down. Being here with him I'm feeling the same giddy excitement I did that night.  I want him, but I don't think we should jump into a physical relationship while still trying to work out the past. I feel his hand under my chin and he tilts my face up to his, "Elle, please don't be ashamed about that night.  What you gave me that night was the greatest gift anyone could get." I think he is talking about my virginity again, but he goes on. "I'm not talking just about your virginity, I'm talking about all of it.  You gave me your complete faith, your virginity and yourself that night.  It was the most amazing gift and the best night of my life ever.  You completely changed me that night. You made me want to be a better man, a man that truly deserved the gifts you gave him. I'm just sorry I had to fuck it up in the end."  I lean up against him and kiss him.  When we come up for air I'm laying on my back with him on his side half on top of me. I can feel him against my hip, but he says, "As much as I want you right now and I know you cant feel how much that is," he grinds his erection into my hip, "I don't think we should let this go further than kissing right now.  We have to think about Nate and how all of this will affect him if it doesn't work out. Plus, I don't think I could handle losing you again.  I want to take things slow and get it right this time." I had sat up while he was talking.  I agree with the things he said, I was going to say pretty much the same when he said it.  He gently pulls me back down next to him. Snuggling up to me with his chest against my back and his arms holding me close to him. "I never thought I would get to hold you in my arms like this again.  For now this is enough." he whispers. I couldn't agree with him more, for now it is enough. We fall asleep.

I wake up, it's still dark. It takes me a few moments to realize where I am.  I feel Noah's arms still wrapped around me. I try to turn over without disturbing him.  He rolls onto his back I can see his face. He starts to get a bit restless. I lay my hand on his chest, he relaxes and says, "I love you, Shelly." He is still sleeping. I think about the day, I'm glad we spent this time together and I'm happy we finally resolved a lot of what happened in the past.  He had never been so open and honest with me about how he felt and thought about our past.  It was always so hard for him to deal with all the "emotional crap" as he put it but I see he has gotten past that.  We had never really talked about how he felt about our first time together. I knew he said he was always happy he was my first, but that doesn't even begin to explain how he felt.  His revelations last night has me stunned.  I agree with him stopping things last night I think jumping back into a physical relationship could cloud our issues and halt the progress we've made. I want us to be together, but I want it to last a life time. I snuggle closer to him and lay my head on his shoulder, my hand still on his chest and drift off to sleep, smiling.

He wakes me up and says he needs to get me home.  When he drops me off he doesn't get off the bike and as I step closer to him he asks if he can pick us up later and spend the day with us.  I quickly agree. I step even closer to him, he wraps his arm around me pulls me against him and kisses me. I watch him ride away. I can't stop smiling as I walk into the house. I'm so glad I've finally come home after all this time.