Chapter Fifteen - When it Rains it Pours

It was Saturday, Aria was sitting in Noel's living room watching him put in the next disk of LOST. They had watched all of season one and two and were beginning season three. Noel sat down next to Aria and reached over her to grab the remote. Aria could smell his cologne and body wash as he leaned over her and it gave her butterflies. The front door closed and Aria figured it was Noel parents leaving for one of the business occasions, they were always doing something. Aria liked to hear the stories of were the Kahns had gone for business and vacation. They had been many places and Aria wished she could see so many things, Noel acted like it nothing to go to Paris for the weekend for Jamaica for the summer. Iceland had been the best place Aria had gone other than Virginia to see relatives, but the Kahns also had the money to go all of these places. Aria's family wasn't as wealthy as all the other Rosewood families but they weren't poor either.

"What's wrong?" Noel asked, snapping Aria out of her thoughts.

"What? Nothing's wrong" she said back.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah... Why?" she asked.

"Your just like starring into space"

"Oh, I was just thinking about traveling" she said.

"What about it?" Noel asked her turning down the TV to talk to her.

"I've never really been anywhere besides Iceland and I would just like to do things" she said.

"Well we can do things" Noel smiled.

"Oh yeah? Like what?"

"Whatever you want" Noel replied "We can go someone over the summer"

"Maybe if your not busy" Aria said remembering Noel telling her about going to look at colleges over the summer.

"As much as it might break my heart Aria I will choose you over college tours" he smirked at her, his humor just made her smile too.

"Your so weird" she laughed.

"Is this weird?" he asked lunging forward to her. Noel grabbed Aria and pined her down so she couldn't go anywhere and started tickling her.

"Noel stop!" she laughed.

"No, I'm weird remember?"

"Your not weird!" she laughed more.

"You already said it" he laughed at her.

"I'm gonna pee!"

"Ugh.. fine even thought it would be hilarious to see you pee yourself I'll stop" he smiled.

"I'll be forever in your debt" she smirked.

"I'll remember that" he said with a seductive face.

"I'm going to the bathroom" Aria said and walked out of the living room. The hallway was dark but she found the door she was looking for after her vision adjusted to the light difference. When Aria left the bathroom something outside the hallway window caught her eye. Was that a person she thought, she walked over to the window and looked around. The only thing she saw now was the clouds forming in the sky, they were almost black. I didn't know it was going to rain Aria thought when she went to turn around and go back to Noel.

"Boo!" Noel yelled when Aria turned around.

"Shit!" she exclaimed smacking Noel "What's wrong with you?"

"What's wrong with you?" he asked "your super jumpy"

"I can't imagine why!" she yelled "you just scared me to death"

"What are you doing anyway?" Noel asked.

"Oh, I was just looking... I thought I saw something"

"Like what?" Noel asked leading her back to the living room.

"I swore there was a person out there" she admitted.

"Aria A is gone for good" Noel said pulling her into a hug "There's nothing to worry about"

"I know..." Was there something to worry about she thought. There was someone out there, she was almost positive.

"Come on" Noel said taking Aria's hand and leading her toward the front door.

"What are we doing?" she asked confused.

"Were going out, to lunch, a movie the mall and whatever you want" Noel said smiling at her.

"Well it's gonna rain" she said.

"Then we can take an umbrella" he said grabbing one from a closet next to the door "See!"

Aria just laughed and went with it, it was clear to her the Noel just wanted to make her forget about A times and that was fine with her. Noel took her to lunch first, at a small sub place in town, she had never been there but she loved it. After lunch the weather was getting worse but it hadn't rained yet so they went to the mall. Noel made her go in every store, he said it was a game, they had to pick out one thing in the store that they liked so they went through every single store. There has to be like 200 stores in this mall Aria thought when they were finally done, her feet were killing her by the time they sat down in the food court.

"You know we were supposed to choose one thing" Aria said to Noel "Not everything in the store"

"I can't help that I like all of Victoria's Secrets" he said with the same smirk on his face he always gives her. Aria just laughed at him.

"Of coarse you can't"

"Is that Mike and Hanna?" Noel asked looking past Aria. Aria turned around to see Mike and Hanna holding hands. Were they becoming more exclusive? Were they really gonna be a couple, Aria was okay with it, it was just weird for Hanna.

"Yeah, you didn't know about them?" Aria asked.

"No, I didn't" Noel said.

"I saw them last Friday at your party and I asked them about it"

"I never pictured them together" he said watching them.

"I felt the same way about us for years" Aria admitted "I didn't even think you knew I existed until I came back from Iceland all grown up"

"I knew who you were Aria, you were always interesting to me but I didn't know how to talk to a girl like you. A girl who didn't care about just looks and money or what people thought"

"You can't be serious" Aria said surprised. Noel Kahn lost for words? That was a new one on her.

"I am... I should have just talked to you" Noel said looking down.

"I should have just talked to you but Allison had me convinced that you would never talk to a freak like me" she admitted.

"Allison knew a lot of things but that wasn't one of them" Noel told her before he leaned across the table to kiss her.

"I know, Allison had all of us fooled..."

"Do you wanna go back to the house now?" Noel asked, changing the subject. Noel could tell the Ali conversation was uncomfortable.

"Yeah" Aria said standing up with Noel "Maybe the rain isn't as bad now that we've been here like three hours and in Victoria secret for like another hour"

"Hey, it's not my fault they have awesome stuff" Noel said. Aria just smiled and followed him to his car. It was still pouring so Noel held the umbrella for them and held Aria close until they made it to the car. When they got to his house all the light were off and it parents were still gone.

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