It Had To Be You

Chapter 17: Pain and Tears

Warning: Contains Verbal Abuse, Drug usage and Self Harm.

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Juliette's POV

I woke up to the bright sunlight on my face. I turned to face Eric who was sleeping peacefully. I smiled and kissed him on his forehead. I got up from the bed and used the bathroom. After brushing my teeth, I went down to make some coffee. 

I was stirring the coffee, when I saw Noella come down. She had this huge grin on her face and she was practically behaving like the protagonists in one of those rom-coms. Humming music, twirling around, etc.etc. What crawled up her ass this morning? This is so unlike her. 

"Jules! Good Morning!" she approached and hugged me chirping like a fucking bird. I set aside my mug on the kitchen counter top and hugged her back. 

"Noe, What's going on? Why are you so chirpy?" I chuckled and pulled away. I was hella confused at the moment. She went towards the drawer and pulled out a mug. 

"What? Can't someone be chirpy for no reason at all?" she giggled in a girly way and poured hot water in the mug. 

"Okay tell me what's going on? I need to know everything." I demanded. I didn't fucking care my coffee was getting cold as ice. Although I hated cold coffee. How do people even drink that shit? It's the worst. 

"Do you really want to know, honey?" she wiggled her eyebrows and took a seat on the couch, with the tea mug in her hands. I followed her lead and took a place beside her. 

"Yes now spill!" I was starting to get irritated by this. She took a sip of the hot tea and looked at me. 

"Guess what happened last night?" she said and blushed a bit. Oh my fucking god! No way! 

"You guys kissed!!!" I screamed, not caring that it was still 8 in the morning. Though it isn't going to affect anyone's sleep in the house, as each person sleeping right now is a heavy ass sleeper. 

"Not just that...." she trailed and bit her lower lip. 

"Oh you sly bitch! You are way ahead than I thought." She narrowed my eyes a bit at her. 

"We did not have sex, if that's what you are implying." she began. "It was just um kissing... a lot?" she said not being sure what to call it. I just laughed at her confusion. 

"You mean you guys made out." I shook my head at her naivety. "If that floats your boat, then sure we did." she chuckled. I got up laughing from the couch to make me another cup of coffee. 

"So did something happen after that? Because the wide smile on your face some minutes ago said there was more to this." I chuckled. After a few minutes later, I went back to the couch. "So?" I took a sip of the coffee and waited for her reply. 

"He asked me out!" she cheered. I almost choked on my coffee, surprised by what I just heard and also because of the fact that I fucking burned my tongue. 

"W-what?" I asked, coughing a bit. She immediately rubbed my back. "Are you okay Jules?" she asked me concerned. 

"Damn, that was really fast, girl! I've never seen him approach someone that fast. He really must be head over heels for you." I chuckled. She just gave me a huge grin.