Noah's POV:

I woke up with Carter leg tangled with my own and her head buried in my neck.

I slowly removed myself from under her. Being sure not to wake her up.

I need a cold shower. Now.

After last night it took me a good two hours to fall asleep. I finally did when Carter did and she cuddled into me.

I take my shower quickly because it's damn cold.

Obviously you dumbass, it's a cold shower.

Anyways. I get out and wrap a towel around my waist and go back to my room.

Carter's not in the bed and my hoodie is gone from the floor. I smile to myself as I put my clothes on and then walk downstairs. On the stairs I see my mom smiling like an idiot.

"Why are you smiling?" I ask happily because I haven't seen this happy in a while.

"Oh nothing," she says shaking her head to herself and giggles.

"Okay..." I say skeptically.

I walk down the stairs and I see Carter sitting at the kitchen table.

"Hey, what's up?" He grabs my arm pulling me to a stop.

"Why's mom so happy? You guys weren't plotting my death down here were you?" I say playfully as I grab an apple from the kitchen.

"How'd you know? Eavesdropping is wrong Noah." She says slapping my bicep.

"Ha ha. Very funny Carter. You ready?" She lets out a heavy sigh.

"As I'll ever be."

She starts to stand up and I notice that she IS in fact wearing my hoodie. That's a turn on. How can one look hot in an oversized hoodie and leggings

"Nice hoodie." I say, smirking.

"Thanks I got it off this deadbeat dude with a massive crush on me." She says rolling her eyes.

I laugh because she has no idea how close she is to being right. But I can't have her know that

"Your egos already too big there Carter, I wouldn't want to feed it back even dignifying that with a response." I say, but I notice her smile waver but she looks down before she thinks I noticed.

Shit I fucked up.

I pull her arm to get her to stop walking.

"Hey, what's up?" I ask gently.

"Nothing," she forces a small laugh. "It's stupid don't worry about it." She pulls her arm out of my grip and get in my truck. Closing her eyes with a sigh and resting her head against the window.

The entire car ride, thoughts filled my head about our conversation. What did I say that upset her? Was it something to do with her dad or brother? Fuck what if it was just me? She'll usually explain it if it's about her family.

Damnit Noah.

Despite my confusion I can't take my mind off her kiss. And the feeling I get in my stomach when her fingertips brush against my skin. Or her nails slightly digging into my shoulder.

Sure, after dad died I went through the faze of fucking everything with a vagina that breathed. But never has a girl made me hard just by kissing her. And she wasn't even doing any of that other shit. She literally just has her hand on my hip and that's started it and then her authority when she just pulled me down and kissed me. Damn and the way she moaned my name makes me want her to scream it loud enough to wake all the neighbors.

I don't say anything to anyone as we both get out of the car. I don't say anything to anyone as I walk Carter to her locker then to class. Don't ask me why I did this. It's just like a reflex to make sure she's safe. I don't say anything to anyone in math, even though the guys are talking around me. And I don't say anything in bio. I'm not mad or anything. I'm just confused and I can't stop thinking about Carter. She can't just kiss me like that then we don't talk about it. She can't not know how mad it makes me when every single guy in school looks like they want to just grab her and fuck her in the middle of the hallway. She she can't not notice the stares of jealousy she gets from the other girls. She can't not notice that I'm literally sitting a couple feet behind her boring a hole in my desk with my eyes so I don't look up at her and give in to every nerve in my body telling me to grab her and push her against the wall and fuck her until all she remembers is my name. And with that thought... I'm hard again. Fuck. In the middle of bio.

Finally the bell rings and everyone leaves the class. Thank god I decided to wear jeans today otherwise, this would've sucked if everyone could see that I got hard in the middle of bio while he was talking about fucking cells and their organelle systems. I promise Mr. Hamilton it has nothing to do with your lesson and everything to do with a certain dirty blonde that I had pushed against my counter at 3 am.

All six of us walk out of the class and as soon as we're outside the class Seth grabs Carter and hugs her. Which don't get me wrong makes me mad, but I know he's with Mads so... Same thing with Dylan and Ollie. Hell, Ollie's gay, and Dylan's been in love with Kena since he first met her in preschool. I just don't like other guys hands on her.

Before She can say anything Josh runs over and practically jumps on her and he kisses all over her face and head. I noticed Ollie go from his usual demeanor to rigid. I think she also notices this. Just like how I think she notices I look like I'm about to kill him. She whispers something to him and he laughs stepping away from her.

"Sorry girl, I'm taken!" He says grabbing Ollie's hand. Ollie smiles at their intertwined hands. "No more boy toys for me." Ollie's smile disappears just as fast as it came. I almost laugh then I remember how mad I am.

"Good for you guys!" Carter smiles brightly at them. They smile back. Then she turn to Kena. "You owe me $20."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Kena replies. This earns them both a glare from Ollie, while Josh just laughs.

"I don't really like hugs." he says

She laughs.

"Me either bitch but if you don't come here and hug me right now I'll kick your ass." Okay so now she's basically begging this guy to hug her. Their hug is awkward though which makes me feel better because, it's never awkward when she's in my arms.

"I'm glad your okay." He says and pulls away from her.

"Yeah me too asshole." She replies smoothly.

"You can't just let me say one thing without being a bitch?" He says in a joking manner

"I could but what would be the fun in that?"

He scoffs, "You're a bitch."

"Come up with a new insult." she smirk at his expression which is now looking annoyed.

"Hey Carter can I talk to you for a minute?" I ask when I think I've calmed myself down enough.

"Sure." And with that one little word I grab her wrist and pull her into an empty classroom.

"Look if you wanted to fuck me, you couldn't have taken me on a date fir-"

I cut her off by pushing her against the wall.

I trail open mouthed kissed down her jaw and neck finding her sweet spot just below her ear.

"Noah..." She whimpers as I suck a little bit there.

"What was that about me fucking you? Because I'm down." I reply still lightly kissing her neck with a smirk on my face.

"Noah Eades, I will not fuck you in an empty classroom during lunch." She replies. Now my face breaks out into a smile.

"Ah- but you didn't say you wouldn't fuck me."

"I must not tell lies," She smirks, "Why are you being like this, though?" Her voice turning serious as she asks me this

I sigh and take a step back knowing that if I'm standing that close to her for any longer I'm going to have no more self control.

"I don't know, we were talking this morning and then we stopped and I got confused and then I see you at school with all these guys drooling over you, and you don't even notice and after you kissed me like that last night I haven't been able to focus on anything besides trying to remember the feeling of your lips on mine." I say and huff out a breath trying to get my thoughts together.

"Noah..." she says with a smirk creeping onto her face, "We're you jealous of boys drooling over me?"

I cross my arms. "Absolutely not." She takes a step towards me and reaches her hand out and traces over the tattoo on my arm. My rigid body relaxes under her touch and my jaw involuntary slackens. She takes another daring step towards me so now she's pushed against me and brushes her fingertips against my hip where my other tattoo is.

"You sure?" She asks looking up at me.

I'm unable to respond with her this close to me. But any self control I seemed to have is thrown out the window. I grab her hips and push her against the wall and smash my lips onto hers. Then the lovely Mrs. K slams the door open looking more annoyed than mad. This expression drops when she sees Carter though.

"You guys aren't supposed to hook up in vacant classrooms." She says with a small smirk on her face. "But because it's you Carter, I'll make an exception." She winks at Carter and closes the door.

Carter laughs and still has her arms wrapped around my neck.

She pushes me off much to my dismay.

"Come on, our friends are waiting for us." She says knowing that's not a valid excuse for me.

"Wait." I say and pull her hand yanking her back to me. I kiss her lightly and then pull away a little bit and fix her messed up hair.

"There. Nothing to be suspicious about now." I say pretty sure that she doesn't want our friends to know about what just happened

"Noah," She says trying to sound sarcastic but it comes out sadly. "Are you ashamed of me?"

That's a thought. Ha! Me ashamed of her? If anything she should be ashamed of me. I'm the bad boy. She's the smart, funny, gorgeous, and amazingly badass new girl that doesn't take shit from people and everyone wants. I'm the one with the rep. No i'm not ashamed of her. But instead of voicing this because I know she'll try to fight me on this. I just grab her again and kiss her more harshly than last time.

"Fuck no." I whisper against her lips.

It's not much. Neither of us really confessed anything. But at least now we both are aware that we are each other's. And I hope we won't just ignore it now. I'm not good at expressing my feelings but I think she knows that. And she never tries to push me into telling her things. She understands me and she gives me butterflies. Goddamn butterflies, like Jesus.

All I know is that when I look at her, I see her standing by my side, throughout everything. And I know she would. Now all I need to do is not fuck it up.

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