Ch. 6 He's Finally Made His Move!
Today's the day of the S.A.T.'s and I'm actually pretty late and there's a storm, so there's traffic from my house to the school.
"Where are you at?" Hanna's text says.
"Sorry. I woke up late and there's really heavy traffic." I reply.
"Be careful, please!" she texts back.
After about 45 minutes of trying to get to school, I try to get into the testing room which is the library, according to Hanna.
As soon as I walk in, I see Hanna and Lucas chatting and laughing.
And due to how pissy the traffic made me, I decide to take my anger out on none other than Lucas.
"Hey there, Lady H!" I greet Hanna then turn to Lucas, "I know you also answer to that, Hermie. But I was talking to her."
"Nice bag." he tells me.
"Listen to you, in touch with your feminine side," I smile, "So, would that be your right or your left?"
They laugh for a few seconds.
"What's so funny?" I ask.
"Nothing," Hanna finally speaks, "You need to sign in."
"They know I'm here," I turn to Lucas again, "You can go now. This beauty doesn't need a beast."
He gives Hanna a hurt look, then leaves with his head down.
From the corner of my eyes I see what seems like Noel finally making a move on Aria and asking her out. Hanna and I take our seats, facing back to back and shortly after, Noel and Aria leave the library. That should make things much easier for me to ignore my romantic feelings for Noel Kahn, and focus on other things.
After about 30 minutes, I hear the sound of Noel playing the guitar and Aria singing. Not much has happened between that time. The only thing worth telling you guys about is that Hanna told me to leave Lucas alone and also that I needed to get a heart. I decide to stop with the insults, for now because doing anything to upset Hanna at this point is critical.
A few moments later, I turn to see Noel and Aria chatting again. Okay I know that I've said that this is a good thing, but this is pretty crazy. They've been talking to no one else but each other for like the past 4 hours (?).
It's time to go home and I stop by my locker. I look around to wait for Hanna, but she probably left earlier than me due to the fact that she doesn't want to see me. I see Noel who's not so far away from me, only to see that he walks past me and right up to Aria. They chat for 5 minutes, then Noel passes by me again looking all giddy.
"Hey, stranger!" I call out.
Noel looks around and stops to see me.
"Oh. Uh. Hey, Mona." he says, "I, uh, didn't think you'd be here today."
"It's testing day, from what my mom knows." I sigh, "It's mandatory that I be here."
"Ah." he says.
"So…" I try to break the ice, "I see you've been hanging around Aria recently."
"Yeah, I have." he says, "Ever since Sean and Hanna invited Aria and I over for a double date last Wednesday."
"Oh, so are you guys together-together?" I ask.
"I guess so," he chuckles, "By the way, where's your 'hottie' as you and Hanna would call him?"
"Oh, well he's out of town. His father just died, and he's in Arizona." I tell him.
"Ah," Noel says, "So would he be in town for your birthday? It's Friday, isn't it?"
"Uh. Yeah, but I'm planning on celebrating it on Saturday. It's an all-girls party, sorry Noel." I say.
"Oh, so can Friday be our day? We haven't really been hanging out much as of lately." he smiles at me.
"Uh, I don't really know," I tell him uncertainly, "Tell you what, I ask Connor if he'll be here for my birthday, but if he isn't able to make it, we could probably have Friday to ourselves."
He grins, "It's a date."
Ba-dump.
I smile and nod, "Okay."