Books & a Baller

The Party Must End - Day 16

Cara

After the initial shock of the seeing the video had worn off, we made our way outside to spend our last full day at Casa Amor. I had been dying to get back to the main villa the whole time we had been here, but now I found myself dreading it. After seeing the video, and Noah with that girl, I really didn't want to go back and face him. I never expected this kind of behaviour from him. I just wanted to lay out here on the sun-lounger forever.

"Are you okay?" Hope murmured from beside me, I was so lost in my thoughts I'd almost forgotten she was there.

"Honestly, I don't know. I just can't believe Noah would do this."

"I've been thinking, maybe he didn't actually do anything." I rolled over onto my side and propped myself up on my elbow to look at Hope, she had done the same.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we never actually saw him kiss her. The screen went black before anything happened, for all we know, he pushed her away."

"I didn't look like he was going to though. The look on his face..."

"Shock. That was the look on his face, he wasn't expecting it. I don't see him as the kind of guy to do that Cara. He's so in love with you, he wouldn't do anything to jeopardise that."

"You think so?"

"I know so. The day before the recoupling, before we came here, I pulled him aside to talk to him about Nathan, and how I had a feeling Nathan was going to go for you as soon as he got the chance..."

"I know, Chelsea and I overheard you.."

"What?"

"We were in the dressing room."

"Oh, so you were just pretending to have just walked in the room? And that means you knew what Nathan had been planning?"

"Sort of, but we only heard the tail end of it."

"So you didn't hear the bit about Noah telling me that he was falling in love with you?"

"I didn't, no. He said that?"

Hope nodded. "He did. And that's why Nathan gets to him so much, because he just wants to protect you." We both looked up as the shadow of one of the boys blocked out the sun, it was Carl.

"Hey, I just wanted to see how you two were going? After the video this morning."

"Oh, I'm okay, thanks Carl."

"Why?"

"Well, the other guys and I were talking, and what the guys in the main villa were caught doing, it's just not on, you know?"

Hope and I both frowned at him.

"I just thought, you know we'd never do that sort of thing."

"We?" Hope and I glanced at each other before looking back at Carl.

"Yeah, like me and the other guys in here. We all talked about it, and we agreed we're better than that. I really mean that."

"Hun, we've known you for about five minutes, and now you're sitting around gossiping about us?"

"We weren't!"

"What would you call it then?" I scowled at him.

"Um.. a discussion?"

"Well why don't you go back over there and discuss something else then." Hope rolled back onto her back and flung an arm over her face. I shrugged at Carl and laid back down, closed my eyes and let the warmth of the Spanish sun wash over me as Carl walked away.