Chapter 35
“I know, me too.” Megan agrees as she turns around for the fifth time since class ended.
“What’re you looking at?” I ask, trying to look behind us but she doesn’t let me.
“Here let me take you books back to the dorm.” She snatches my books out of my arms.
“Megan, what the “I cut myself off as someone grabs my wrist and start dragging me away.
I snatch my arm out of the person’s grip as we reach an empty lecture hall.
“What the fuck, Noah?” I almost shout as I glare at him. His greenish–blue eyes are cold, just like when I first met him.
“Why’d you leave?” He questions calmly, but his eyes are anything but calm.
“I wrote you a letter, Noah.” I start, fiddling with my necklace through my hoodie. “You’d know why I left if you read
“I’m not going to read the letter, Carter.” He tells me, walking closer to me. “Tell me to my face.”
I shake my head, running a hand through my short hair. “I can’t do this right now.”
I turn around and walk to the door. Before I can open it but Noah spins me around and pushes me against it, his arms caging me in as he leans close to my face.
We stare into each other’s eyes for a moment before his eyes flicker down to my lips.
“Why’d you leave?” He whispers lowly.
“Noah-”
“Why’d you leave, dammit?!” He shouts, slamming a hand on the wall next to the door.
“You want to know why I left?! My aunt showed up to take me back to New Zealand! My mum went to rehab because she was an alcoholic and a druggie and she was abusive! I left because I’m dying! Is that what you wanted to hear?!” I yell, forcefully pushing him away from me, making him stumble back a few steps.
His eyebrows furrow at the last sentence but I slam the lecture hall door open and storm out before he can say anything.
“Carter, stop!” He runs after me. “Carter!”
He grabs my hand and spins me back around to face him.
“What the hell do you mean “you’re dying?” He questions, his eyes searching my face. His eyes are worried and
scared.
“I–I cut myself off, shaking my head. “I have cancer, Noah.”
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Chapter 35
-Nevaeh-
(Your hair’s grown a little longer
Your arms look a little stronger
Your eyes just as I remember (oh)
Your smile’s just a little softer}
“Wha–what?” Noah lets go of me, running his hands through his hair. “No. No! You’re lying!”
I take this time to look at him. Really look at him.
His hair still looks the same, it’s just a bit longer then it was two years ago. His biceps look a bit more muscular so you can tell he’s been going to the gym and working out more. His eyes are still the same greenish–blue I knew a couple of years ago. And his smile…well, he still doesn’t smile.
“Why would I lie about something like this?” I question rhetorically as he grabs me and hugs me to his chest tightly.
“You can’t leave me, Carter.” He whispers into my hair, his voice cracking. “You can’t leave me.”
I bite my lip. “I can’t help it, Pebble.”
[And I, yeah, I never prepared for a moment like that.
Yeah, in a second it all came back, it all came back}
He chuckles slightly before pulling away. “You’re never going to stop calling me that, are you?”
“Nope.” I grin. “I remember what you said that day. I’m sure as hell not letting you leave this house calling me Pebble‘.” I mimic in a deep voice. “And guess what?”
He laughs–actually laughs- making me fall for him all over again.
He shakes his head, still chuckling. “You left the house calling me Pebble.”
“I left the house calling you Pebble!” I exclaim, still grinning.
He shakes his head again, still chuckling a bit. “You want to go for a walk? Catch up a bit?”
I smile softly. “Yeah.”
[ Cause after all these years
I still feel everything when you are near
And it
it was just a quick “Hello,” and you had to go
ever know
And you probably will never know
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Chapter 1
You’re still the one I’m after all these years
(Oh yeah)
“You tried to get a bagel out of the toaster with a metal fork?” He repeats, his eyebrow raised. “And you wonder why your aunt told you not to do anything stupid.”
We walked for about five minutes until we came across the woods behind campus. We walked in and sat on a large rock. Noah said he comes here when he needs to think, but is too lazy to go to the field in next town over.
“It was pretty stupid now that I think about it.” I grin sheepishly, “But ”
“But if your bagel ever got stuck in the toaster, you would shove a metal fork in it all over again, even if it means
being electrocuted.” He cuts me off knowingly, a small smile on his face.
“But if my bagel ever got stuck in the toaster, I would shove a metal fork in it all over again, even if it means being electrocuted.” I repeat, chuckling softly.
