Lost But Found - Chapter Eight

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And finally. after four months. chapter eight.....drum roll please......

Eight

NOAH
I found Anna before cheer practice. She was putting on her shoes on the bleachers in the gym.
"Anna. Hey."
"Hey Noah. What sup?"
"Not much. Listen, I need a favor. Can you ask Laney to go to dinner at that Italian restaurant next to here? Oh and don't show up."
"Noah, I'm not really the type that likes to ditch my friends."
"Twenty bucks?"

LANEY
"One, two, three and four, five and six and seven.. ... Do it again."
I walked outside the gym to get water. Cheer practice is easier at my old school, but we practiced everyday. This squad practices only three times a week. I heard the gym door open beside me. I looked up to see Anna's face.
"So how are you liking this?" She said panting and dripping sweat.
"It's actually pretty fun even though its hard work." I said moving away from the water fountain so she could get water.
"So do you want to get together tonight to eat dinner or something." She asked me between drinks of water.
"Uh, sure I guess. Do you want to go to the Italian restaurant next to here?"
"Yeah. I love their food. How about at seven?" Anna asked.
"Sure."
Jane came out. The captain.
"Enough with all the socializing. Y'all better get back in the gym in ten seconds. Or else you'll run."
"Got it." I said and jogged back into the gym.

Two hours later I hop out of the shower and dry my hair. Anna is taking me to my favorite restaurant . Its pretty dressy-upy so I decided I shouldn't go in my practice clothes. I bounce down the stairs and tell my mom that I'm leaving. I'm late so I drive a little over the speed limit. But when I get there I realize I'm not the only late one. Anna wasn't there.
"It's for Milano."
"Yes, Right this way."
And I make eye contact with Noah. He's sitting at a table with TWO CHAIRS. And his butt is sitting in one of them. That leaves one for me.
"Do I need to pull up another chair?" I ask him as I sit down confused at all the math I just did.

"No. Why?" He looks at me as a funny expression flooded his face.
"Anna is coming. She didn't mention you, but I guess I'll let you stay." I raise one eyebrow as he stares into my eyes from across the table.
"She called me because she couldn't come. She didn't want to cancel on you." He smirked.
"For some reason, I feel like you set this up. And that Anna never really want to come to dinner tonight."
He laughed. "You could say that."
As we stood in the parking lot, I wished I didn't drive here. I wished he could take me home so I could spend more time with him.

He stepped towards me.
"Laney. I lied. I'm sorry. I don't just want to be friends." His foot took another step and because he was so close already, his foot ended up between my legs. He looked at me and before I had time for the caterpillars in my stomach to turn into butterflies, his lips were on mine.
I practically frolicked to my car. While driving, I looked at the picture hanging from my rear view mirror. Me and David going to the Spring Dance in Seventh grade. He had on a suit and I had a pretty dress on. It brought tears to my eyes as I thought about what he would think of Noah. He and Noah are the same age. They could have been friends. David was like a lion. He did whatever he could to protect me. I miss him.

Noah

I walk in to see my dad sitting on the couch.
"Where have you been, son? You look nice." He smiled.
"Laney and I ate dinner together at the Italian restaurant down the road."
"Speaking of Laney son..." But I stopped him before he could go any farther.
"How's Daniel?" I looked at him with begging eyes.
"He's fine. He can't wait to get out of school. He wants to see his family. And when I mentioned you and Laney to him, he said he wanted to see you."
"When do we leave?"

Laney

The CIA hasn't called. I don't understand why. I almost have the nerve to call them, but when I think twice, I think no. I see Katherine come around the corner.
"Hey, so remember that guy named Brantley?" She asked as she got some lemonade out of the fridge.
"Yessss. What about him?" I dragged out.
"Well, we've been talking and stuff." She blushed under her hair as she leaned over.
"And....?" I smirk.
"He asked me to go watch a movie tonight." She all of a sudden spoke quickly.
"Ooh la la. Katherine has a B-F!!!!" I shout loud because our parents aren't home.
"No. But can you sit in the back of the theater. Like get their early and sit, their so...well I don't know. I just want you there."
"Yeah. You want me to come by myself?"
"It doesn't matter."
"I think I can arrange something. What time does the movie start?"
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I picked up the phone to dial Noah's number just as it rang. It was Noah.
"Hello?"
"Hey Laney."
"Hey Noah."
"So um." There was silence on the line, so I took my chance.
"Do you want to go to the movies with me tonight. Katherine is going on a date-ish thing with a guy named Brantley, and she wants me there. We will have to sit in the back and get there earlier than them. But I don't want to go by my self and get bored, because Katherine wants me there."

"Yes. What time do you want me to pick you up?"
"Hold that thought." I put the phone on my collarbone.
"Katherine what time is mom taking you to the movies?"
"Five Fifty."
I turn my attention back to Noah.
"Five thirty. Is that okay?" I ask. I know its like an hour from now.
"That's great." Noah says without much enthusiasm.
"Noah are you okay?"
But I was answered with the dial tone. He had already hung up.
I put the phone down and ran upstairs to see what Katherine was wearing.

An hour later I hear the door bell ring and walk outside to see Noah already sitting in the car looking at me. I get in the car and he pulls out of the driveway without saying hello or anything. After a few minutes of dead silence, it got awkward.
"Noah, if you didn't want to come, you could have just said no. It wouldn't have hurt my feelings." I turned and looked at him. He looked drained of emotion.
"No. Laney I wanted to come."
"Well, are you sick or something, because you haven't-----" He cut me off with this.
"I'm leaving."
"Where are you going?" I asked kind of jokingly.
"No. Laney I'm going somewhere for two weeks."
" Well, I mean you can call me but, you didn't answer my question, Noah. Where are you going?"

"The thing is Laney, I can't call you and I don't know."
"Well, do you know what you are going to do when you get to....let's call it George. What are you doing in George?"
"I can't tell you."
"Noah! What is that supposed to mean? You can't tell me where you are going or what you are doing but that I won't see or hear from you for two weeks!?"
"Laney, please. Listen to me. I'm so sorry."
"Drop me off at the movie theater and please leave Noah."

"No, Laney. I'm not leaving, because that would mean another guy letting you down. I'm not letting you down. All I am doing is going somewhere with my dad."
"Noah, for all I know, you could be cheating on me with another person in another city. You could have one of those alternative lives. And I am probably just another girl that you play with and then leave for another."
He laughed and got out of the car in the theater parking lot. Noah opened my door and I slid out in front of him with basically no room to breathe. He stared down at me. He kissed me on my forehead and whispered,
"Trust me."

We walked into the theater and got our tickets. Mom would be bringing Katherine and Brantely to the movie in like fifteen minutes so we had to hurry through the crowd to get our seats and concessions.
"So we are sitting in the back?" Noah whispered while walking into the theater. He made his eyebrows go up and down so I would laugh.
"Yes. But only because Katherine said so." I playfully punched his arm. He playfully walked sideways and made me bump into the wall as we were walking up the stairs to the back.
"Sure. Laney. Sure."
About five minutes later we saw Brantely and Katherine walk in together. As they were sitting down, Katherine looked to the back, so me and Noah smiled at her as she was sitting down. A few minutes into the movie Noah leaned away from me, yawned stretched and his arm ended up around me. I started laughing because he made it so drastic. He looked down at me with one of his famous smirks.

"So I think we should stalk your sister more often."
"Yeah. I guess. It is kind of boring. I don't really enjoy animated movies."
He leaned down and pushed his lips against mine. He grabbed my face and pulled me towards him. I leaned into him and right before it went over the edge he pulled back.
"Still boring?" He asked with another smirk.

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