I walk out of school feeling tired and hungry. God I'm gonna eat the whole fridge when I get home.. okay no that's too much and I couldn't anyway. I mean, what am I? An elephant. I frown within myself. People call me that sometimes.
The walk home isn't so bad. The wind just puts me in a work out mood. I could actually walk another mile.. nah just kidding, I can't. I'm so happy when I see my house coming in view. My joy's overruled when my eye catches something. I stop in my tracks.
Noah helps Loren get down his car and she gives him a quick kiss on the lips before walking into his house. He follows behind. Loren's the leader of the cheer team and the same person who stuck a leg out for me in the cafeteria. Gosh, I can't believe he brought her home. He saw me cry about it and he.. he still.. ugh!.
Take deep breaths Abby, take deep breaths. I angrily get into my house marching upstairs to my room but I remember I'm hungry so I come back down paying the fridge a little visit before going upstairs. Bet it misses me.
Noah doesn't even care about me. I'm sure those girls were right. He's just using me to get his homework done. I'm so stupid. I've been so stupid. His been using me all this while and I let him just like that.
I spot Noah and Loren in his room so I go on all fours and crawl to my window. I take a peep careful enough not to get caught.
Noah goes to the bathroom while Loren adjusts her bra. What a whore. Noah gets back from the bathroom shirtless and I have my jaw dropping on the floor. My God, look at those solid mouth watery abs. His stomach is so defined and they looked so tanned.
Loren is about to take off her shirt but then her eyes turns to the window like she knows she's being watched. Her eyes widen when she sees me and I quickly duck. Shit she saw me. Freaking fudge nuggets.
I close my curtains before standing up. She's gonna think, no they're gonna think that I'm a complete weirdo. A loose nutcase.
I fall on my bed and groan. What was I even thinking? Looking out the window like a creep. I take a bite of my sandwich and chew. I'm upset.. and eating usually helps lighten my mood but this sandwich is not the cut.
After I've finished putting my homework in order. I hear the front door open, "And in three two one-",
"Abby", my mum calls out as expected. I roll off the bed and head downstairs.
"Here she is", I say walking into the kitchen where grocery bags were now in view. Ugh, I hate grocery bags but not what they contain though because they benefit me, offloading it is the problem.
"Sweetie help me put these away while I go change", she says in a plea. She knows how I hate offloading these bags.
"Sure", I reluctantly agree moving to the kitchen counter with all the groceries on top.
"Okay I'll be upstairs", she says then goes up.
I'm sure Noah and Loren are having fun with each others tongues down their throats. I put the pastas into the cabinet and other items too. I close the cabinet door in anger due to my thoughts. I should get a grip.. maybe I just need a nice meal with ham and extra cheese. Remember your weight loss Abby.
"Oh whatever", I tell myself rolling my eyes at no one in particular.
When my mum comes I'm already done with unpacking the items in the grocery bags.
"Thanks for unpacking dear", she says then starts making dinner. I help her out because I'm starting to get really hungry. Once we're done making dinner, we settle down to eat. I clear the table once we're done eating.
"I'll be upstairs mum", I tell her quickly going to my room so she doesn't ask me to do something else.
I walk to the window peeling the curtains gently. I push it wide open when I don't catch a sight of anyone across. Well that was a quick shag. They're not here anymore. I guess they had it quick and are gone now. And to think he said he'd come over today. He's such a liar.
I decide to take a shower with my favorite tracks playing. I'm a fan of vintage songs some from Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. Those are really great singers and I like they're songs a lot. Having a nice bath with they're songs playing and with me singing out loud to it is just a happy feeling.. kinda gives off a weird satisfaction.
I get out of the shower humming to the last song that played. I pause when I notice a tall figure standing in my room with his back facing me. What the heck is he doing here? I can't let him see me like this?. I slowly start to back away but I'm too late as Noah drops the photo frame he's looking at and turns around. He's eyes widen at the sight of me. I gasp clenching on to my towel like it's my only source of living. If this bitch falls then we're all damned.
His eyes trail over me and I can feel my heart beat fast against my chest. Why is he looking at me like that?
"What.. are you doing here?", I try my best to speak and it's like he recovers from whatever state he was going through.
Noah shakes his head and says, "I told you I'd come over right?". He was serious with that? I thought after he brought that blonde hair fling of his he'd disregard what he said and just forget about it. But I guess he's sticking to his word then.
"Right", I say then grab some clothes from my dresser before going to the bathroom. I hear him chuckle when I lock the door. Jackass.
I come out once I'm done. I'm regretting the choice of clothing when Noah stares down at me again. The shorts are too short. It's my fault for rushing to pick out an outfit.
"You don't trust me?", He asks taking a seat on my bed. I remain standing with arms crossed although he does the eye gesture thing for me to sit with him.
"No", I answer frankly. I don't trust him and he might think it's for the bathroom door locking thingy but it's not it's way more than just that.
He's face goes serious, "Why?", He asks.
"Because you don't give me reasons to Noah", I almost exclaim. He gets on his feet and walks to me. I take a few steps back. Being close to him weakens me and I don't want that right now.
"How? Is this about me not texting you back? I thought I apologized", he says and I sigh. Now that I think about it the reasons can't actually be thrown at his face just like that. I can't just go crazy and call it on Loren or the fact that he slept with her and he said he'd be coming over when he did infact come over.
"So why'd you want to come over? For me to help you with your homework?", I question putting my feet over each other. They were still bare and were getting cold.
Noah comes closer but walks past me. I watch him in confusion as he bends to pick up something from the other side of my bed. When he stands back up I realize he noticed my feet.
Noah places my slippers on the floor just by my feet and helps me put it on. He gets back up and is way closer than he was before.
"I didn't come for that and I'm sorry if you thought I was just using you to get good grades", he says and I look down at my folded arms. He sighs when I don't say anything and it confirms my belief in what he just said. For a moment I did think he was just using me so he's homework could be done before it's due but now I suddenly realize that I was focused more on what those girls were saying and not on the friendship Noah and I had.
"I'm sorry", I apologise.
"No don't be. It's my fault, I should have payed more attention to you", he says then gives me a mischievous smile, "Wanna hang out?".
I eye him with suspicion, "It depends".
"What are we doing here?", I ask him with a look of confusion as he opens the car door for me and helps me get down. His Wrangler is a bit high from the ground and I remember falling from it once.
"You'll soon find out", he says and I give him a weird look. We were in front of a house that I didn't know the owner of.
Noah leads me to the side of the house then brings out two spray cans from his hoodie pocket. I raise a brow when he hands me one.
"What am I supposed to do with these?", I ask in a whisper.
"Anything", he says then starts spraying on the wall of the house. My eyes widen.
"What the heck are you doing?", I ask again in a whisper a little harsher than the first one.
"Getting revenge", he says and I face palm. He brought me here just to get revenge on someone. This is not the definition of 'hang out' I wanted. A little date with some ice cream like the good old days would have been great.
"Why would you do something like this? It isn't right, we should go before-",
"It's Loren's house", he says and I shut up. Loren's house huh. I smirk.
I end up spraying way more than Noah himself. He takes my hand when he felt like we've had enough fun with the whole revenge thing and leads me back to the car. We hurriedly get in and drive off.
"I thought we were gonna get caught", I say and he chuckles.
"Well if we continued maybe we could have gotten caught", he says glancing over to me. I smile and he smiles back.
"So, why'd you want to do this?", I ask after a while. "I mean, you like slept with her didn't you?".
"I had a hunch you were the one behind the window", he says and I blush slouching in my seat. Great. "I didn't sleep with her though. I just drove her home",
I look at him. Is he serious about this? I guess that's why when I came back upstairs they had already left.
"Oh", is all I can say.
"I should have stood up for you.. but I didn't and I kinda felt bad about it", he says as the car rolls to a stop.
"It's fine, you don't have to fight for me all the time", I say looking out the window to see where we are. I gasp when I see my favorite ice cream place. I look back at him with a smile and he chuckles nodding.
"Yeah".
We get into the ice cream parlor placing our orders right away. Before Noah and I always come here on weekends. This place is known for having the best ice cream. I love coming here but after my size increase in June I stopped coming. It was hard burning all that excess fat away.
"You're wrong about what you said in the car", Noah says as we take a seat. "I don't like the idea of you getting bullied Abby and I'll do anything to protect you", he says and I'm perplexed. I don't know what to say. The fact that he still wants to protect me is wholesome. It's nice to hear him say that.
"Thanks", I say with a sheepish smile. He grins at me.
"Anything for my princess".