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CHAPTER 73

“Aah...I'll never get over how awesome your house is!” Charlie sighs happily as she flops down onto my bed, already making herself at home.

I chuckle softly placing my bag to the floor as Abby does the same before she joins Charlie on the bed grinning and I push shut my bedroom door.

“Aah! Oh I don't want to move! This is too comfortable!” Charlie stretches out across my bed, already snuggling into the covers as if she's about to fall asleep.

“No! You can't sleep, we have some plans to make!” Abby nudges her playfully with an excited smile coming to her face.

“Oh! Right....yes!” Charlie giggles, rolling over onto her back, “So....what colour dress you going to where?!”

“Uh, well we have a theme Charlie, so it's not like we can turn up In a florescent pink dress...” Abby chuckles as she pulls out a pad of paper from her bag.

“I knooowww....” Charlie rolls her eyes, “I mean obviously, what colour within the required theme...” She waves her hand dismissively as if she hadn't just forgotten about the piece of news we all got today, the all important decision of the theme of the winter formal.

“Remind us again Abby...” I speak walking over to sit on the corner of my bed with them.

Flipping open her note pad, the one Abby used to write down the information given to her while she and Charlie had a meeting for this dance.

“Okay...so yeah, the theme is winter wonderland...” Abby starts, a faint smile on her lips, “It's masquerade, so we're all expected to wear a mask, keep it all mysterious like and the colour scheme of the whole place will be whites, blues and silver. So with the colour sheme and theme in mind, we have to come up with looks that will all go, and Ms gave us colours such as, different shades of blue, whites, silver, light purple, things like that.....oh and there's going to be sparkles! Lots of them!” She grins, “It's going to look amazing! Oh you should see the ideas we have for the designs and things Lexi!” Abby grins, the sparkle of excitement in her eyes shine.

“But, she's not allowed to knoowww!” Charlie speaks in a sing-song voice with a smirk, “Should have joined the team, then you'll know..”

I roll my eyes with a smile “No, no way would I have joined the team..”I shake my head, “I'm fine with not knowing..” I shrug, “It'll be a surprise...” I smile to them, only really know having silently agreed that I will go, and am still waiting for Noah to see if he's wanting to go too.

“Okay well...I was thinking we should all wear a different colour, obviously...don't want to clash..” Charlie chuckles, “But! We can somehow...make it look....co-ordinated, but in a hot, sexy way...not a lame and ugly way.”

“Right...” Abby nods her head, jotting something down in her note pad as I just dumbly nod too, co-ordinate our colours?...right, okay. I have no idea what that really means.

“Oh and of course have our dates matching us dur!” Charlie grins, “You know, same colour tie, or mask, something like that..” She continues as she notices my confused look and I nod, still taking in the information, as I didn't really think we would do much. Just stick on a light coloured dress and be done with it.

But no, oh no there is a hell of a lot more to think about these next two weeks...

This is just the start.

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“Dude you need to have a colour that matches her dress!”

“What? Why?! I only have a black!”

“Well you better go get the right one, you've onlly got a few more days!”

I smirk to myself as I watch my two brothers, Blake and Evan getting frustrated as Evan seems to have forgotten what colour tie he needs for the dance, and Blake snapping at him to get the right colour of his date's dress. Poor old Evan doesn't seem to understand the reason why as he mutters under his breath as he walks briskly past me, shouting for mom stating that he needs a blue tie.

Shaking my head to myself at the boys, who are all in a flap as none of them whatsoever have even thought of what they shall wear to the dance at the end of the week, and it was only until mom brought it up earlier that they all have now registered the fact that it's pretty soon.

I'm now thankful that Charlie pushed me to join her and Abby out shopping to look for a dress weeks back, because now I am all ready and don't have to rush to get things. Unlike these boys.

Smirking, I mind my own business, pretending I'm not watching them in amusement and flash my eyes over to the TV, pretending I've been watching it the entire time.

“Boys! You should have done this all weeks again!” I hear mom groan as she enters from the kitchen, Evan hot on her tail.

“Why do you leave things to last minute..” She mutters with a shake to her head.

“We had other things to worry about!” Chris argues with a frown.

“Yeah!....like who were going to choose to go with...”Evan speaks, a sly smirk tugging to his face and I roll my eyes.

“..Chris hasn't even got anyone yet, so I don't know why he's bothering..” Evan adds on, giving a sideways look over to Chris who glares at him.

I'm actually surprised that Chris hasn't yet....

“Right! Okay, I'm just going to get a bunch of colours for you guys to choose from” Mom shakes her head looking exhausted from all this, “There's a colour scheme anyway, so you guys can't go wrong..” She says before disappearing out of the room, going to collect these ties from somewhere.

I chuckle to myself again, not realising that everyone could hear it until eyes dart over to me.

“And what are you going to be wearing Lexi?” Evan questions to me something that they are all wanting to know.

I blink at them before answering bluntly, “A dress”.

He narrows his eyes at me from my reply, “What colour?”

“Purple” I reply thinking back to the dress I brought a few weeks ago, one dress that I didn't repulse and could actually manage to wear.

“Who you going with?”

It was my turn to narrow my eyes at Evan and a flicker of a smirk appears on his lips as he likes the reaction he got from me.

“You know who” I nearly snap,”Noah.” Yes, Noah finally asked if I was going to the dance, and seemed to be happy that of the thought of going too.

“Great...” I hear Chris mutter and I shot him a glare which he returns with an innocent look.

“Don't start Chris...” I narrow my eyes to him

“Chill Lex! I'm joking” He laughs, “Noah's...cool...” he slowly says nodding, “...sort of..” He chuckles and I shake my head, knowing that even if before all this they liked Noah, I know that they may never admit that they do now, and still continue to have an edge towards him, but I know from the look in their eyes they are warming up to the idea.....even if it's weeks, no actually over 2 months of finding out about us.

That thought causes my stomach to flutter. Over two months of being with Noah. It seems so little time to what it feels.

“Ugh god, there's too much to think about....” Blake mutters “Why do we bother...”

I smirk to myself a little again, thinking this is how I was weeks back when I realised all the things I had to think about. Oh I do feel sorry for them....

Ha...no. No I don't.

I feel my phone buzz on my lap, and with ignoring the conversations of my brothers going on around me, a smile tugs to my face as I pick up my phone, already knowing who the message is from.

'Wanna come over & watch movies? :) xx'

The flutter of my heart happens as I smile down at my phone, not even having to think about the answer as I send a reply straight back.

'Be there in a min xx'

hoping up from the sofa, I step around my brothers without them noticing me as they're too busy discussing, well all except one, Seth notices, but I flash him a grin before hurrying into the kitchen.

Grabbing a pen and a scrap of paper, I quickly write a note, using large print so it's easily spotted and write ' Gone next door! :) - L' and leave it on the counter, mainly for mom to see when she comes back down.

Heading out the back door through the kitchen, I can't help but smile my whole way over to the fence, I'm always smiling now whenever there's something to do with Noah.

Even though those few weeks back, on the playing field when he was talking to Melanie, and the way he pushed me to go back inside, leaving them alone, it wasn't really as I thought, because he soon came back too and even with the constant looks from the blonde over the past month, he wouldn't pay much attention to her, well not the attention that she wanted anyway. And as long as she stayed in the background I was alright, because otherwise, I know I wouldn't feel...comfortable if she was closer.

Stepping up onto the Dean's porch, I smile as I knock lightly at the door, still not wanting to be rude and just walk straight in, even if that's what my brothers do.

It only takes a minute before the door swings open and a smile is still glued to my face as I wait for the familiar face to appear in front of me....but that smile drops as another familiar face appears before me, and one that I would much rather see...

“Oh....” April mutters as soon as she realises it's me, “I's you...” she sighs, looking as if she was expecting someone else. Ha..well she wasn't the only one...

I force a smile to my lips, one that probably comes off as a little sarcastic, as I take a step inside the house, scooting past the half open door which April's refused to open wider.

“Noah around?” I hum in question glancing around the hallway of any sign of my boyfriend, wondering why April had to answer the door instead of him.

Just as she's about to speak, a voice calls out from up the stairs.

“Up here Lex!”

Ah. There he is.

I smile, taking to the stairs without a glance backwards to April even thou I can feel her evil little eyes on my back, but I ignore, still never knowing what on earth my brother is doing with her, but shake it off once I reach the top of the staircase and see a familiar door wide open, waiting for me.

“Good Evening..” Noah smirks towards me as I enter his room. Himself led across his bed and he tilts his head to see me.

I smile even more, if that's possible and meet him on the bed, climbing beside him, “What are you doing?” I giggle as I sit beside his laying form, and then notice that the TV the opposite side is on.

“Getting comfy..” Noah replies, “Come join” He tugs at my elbow causing me to fall down onto my arm, just merely missing him and I chuckle before scooting into a position that's more comfortable, resting my head into my hand as I turn to my side looking over to the TV that's only just showing a blank blue DVD screen at the moment.

“What are we doing?” I whisper after a moment of silent, just staring at the screen, and find the urge to whisper from the silence around us.

Noah shrugs, the suddenly sits up, knocking my arm down so my head falls onto the pillow below as he does, “Don't actually know..” He states slowly before shakes his head, a grin forming on his lips, “Anyway! I'll go get snacks! You pick out the film!” He grins, slipping off from the bed and I want to laugh at how weird this boy can be.

“Oh!” he suddenly speaks as he gets halfway across the bedroom floor, turns and comes back, “I forgot something..” He smirks slyly towards me and I raise an eyebrow confused as he jumps back onto the bed and before I can blink again, his lips suddenly meet mine and my heat flips in those few seconds before he pulls away grinning and winks, “Be back in a bit!” He calls as he continues his abandoned journey out of the room, while I'm staring after him, trying to calm my racing heart that starting beating fast just from those few seconds his lips met mine.

Damn. I think with a small light chuckle, I will never get used to this.

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We end up watching a couple movies, while eating some snacks Noah brought up which includes some popcorn, but the majority of parts of the movies are spent talking as we would randomly strike up some conversation, usually starting with some question that's brought up through something in the movie, or...occasionally, they would be completely random.

But this is something that I love, because no matter the questions or conversations, I would always find out something new about Noah, which I love.

“You used play dress up with your sisters?” I suppress a chuckle as I look up to the adorable boy beside me.

“Yea...” Noah nods his head, slightly avoiding my gaze “I was twelve and didn't know what else to do!” He defends himself as my laughter starts to escape.

“Twelve?” I squeeze out through my laughter, “That doesn't make it any better!” I laugh loudly, thinking that he would have been at least six or something when he didn't really know anything else, but twelve?!...oh that's just priceless.

“That's so cute!” My laughter turns into smaller giggles as an adoring smile spreads across my face as I peer up at the flustered boy, who nudges me playfully but then glares towards me.

“Cute?” He scoffs and sits up so he's looking down to me, “No...don't say cute, anything but...that..” He shakes his head in disgust but I still a trace of a faint smile.

I giggle, biting my lip to hide my smirk, “It is cute.” I protest, “Cute that you would play with your sisters...” I crackle another laugh, only teasing him, but do honestly find it sweet of what he did, and probably still would do for his sisters, only warming my heart more as he's a big brother.

“No...” He glares down to me, my smile still present as I try to control my giggles and childishly stick my tongue out at him.

“Cute!” I chirp in a sing-song voice, teasingly and let slip another giggle but then let out a squeak of surprise as Noah is suddenly hovering over me with trapping me in between his legs.

“Don't..” His voice is low and runs through my like a chill, “Don't say that again...” I feel his brush my cheek as my head is turned to the side, his own head hovering that close to mine and I bite my lip again, swallowing as I've suddenly noticed my breathing become a little heavier....

Turning my head straight slowly, to be met with his, almost honey coloured hooded eyes peering down to me, causes a flip in my stomach and a sly smirk covers my lips, “Or What?” I challenege in a whisper, knowing he won't be doing anything bad, but the feeling I get from his low voice can almost be taken in the wrong way.

He makes a frustrated sound in the back of his throat, narrowing his eyes more to me as he lowers his head down towards my ear and I feel my breath hitch.

“Say it....and you'll find out...” His deep voice runs through my head and I almost close my eyes at the sound of it...and cannot help but to follow his, almost sounded threat.

Meeting his eyes once again,I flicker the corner of my mouth up, and repeat the word he so much hates.

“Cute..”

The dark look in his eyes almost scares me for a moment, wondering if I've completely got him wrong, but the next second when I find his lips pressed to mine, my body sighs in relaxation and his touch sends my senses to alert.

I don't stop him from trailing his hand fingers across my arms. I don't stop him when he deepens the kiss so it becomes heavier. I don't stop him when his lips move from mine to leave a trail down the side of my neck, and I don't stop him when his lips press back to mine with more passion and urgency than before.

But I do stop him when his hands start to trail away from my arms, across to my sides, and with only placing my hands on his chest, giving a gently push, his lips pull away from mine once again and a small lazy smile slips onto his face with both our chests rising and falling fast.

Climbing off from my, Noah scoots to lay down beside me, pulling me closer to him and I smile, happily snuggling closer. This is as far as we've ever got, we haven't gone beyond that, but that's probably only because of me as I have stopped him, and if I hadn't...I really dread to think how far Noah would have gone. But he's happy with it, and takes what he can really. I don't want to go into something I'm noway near ready for. I mean come on, it's been two months. Come back in two years and you might have a different story. But for now, it's perfectly fine the way it is. And I by no mean want to change that. Yet.

Tracing a circle in the palm of my hand, I smile at the calm, relaxing feeling it gives me as I lean into Noah a bit more. Just laying with him is enough, with hearing his heart beat under my head, and feeling his warmth.

“How's Leon?” Noah suddenly brings up curiously as he obviously remembers what I told him about my brother a few weeks back as I was feeling a little worried, and Noah still continues to trace the centre of my palm waiting for my reply.

“Hmm...quiet..” I answer, “Uh..I mean I know he always is...but like, he seems to be more now..” I tell him, a small frown forming on my face as I think back to the last few weeks, remembering the way Leon's been, with sneaking past everyone and not really talking. I was thinking it's just me over thinking things, with him being a teenager and that, it might just be him, but there's also a part of me thinking that is' not, and there is something bothering him.

“Hmm...I'm sure he's alright..” Noah tells me, his voice soothing my thoughts and I smile softly, “I mean...I can talk to him if you really want? See if I can find something out?”

I chuckle softly shaking my head, “Oh no...no, you don't need to do that..” I smile my chest warming with his words showing that he cares. “And I don't think he would really talk to you anyway...” I chuckle lightly, tilting my head to smile up at him, “But thank you..”

Flashing me one of his cheeky, charming smiles, he presses his lips to my forehead, my eyes closing briefly as he does and says cheekily the opposite of what I thought he would say...

“Don't be silly, your brother loves me..”

I smile to my self as I snuggle further into him...

My brother may not, but I can think of someone who can.

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Hope it was alright :)