Baby I'm A Sinner novel Chapter 30

Twenty minutes later I was back in front of Noah's house, with a backpack slung over my shoulder and a heavily beating heart. I wasn't sure why I was here anyway, why I got myself into this. It would've been much easier to go to grandma's.

I rang the doorbell once again, but this time Noah opened the door, a lit cigarette hanging from his lips.

"Hey." He said and left the door open for me to step in.

"Hi. Um. So I came."

"I can see that." He laughed and closed the door behind me.

I followed him back up the stairs and into his room, where I saw Liam sitting on the couch, a controller in his hand. I immediately felt out of place because I'd never talked to Liam in my life, and I think he hated me for whatever reason, that I bothered him for being here.

"Hi." I awkwardly said and he turned his head to look at me.

"Hey." He smiled and that wasn't half as bad as I would've expected it to be.

I placed the backpack on the desk and then turned to look at Noah, who was bending over to put out his cigarette in the ashtray on the coffee table next to the couch.

"So how long are your parents gone?"

"Until Sunday, but I'll probably go over to Jake's tomorrow."

"Okay."

He didn't offer for me to stay over one more night, so I decided to drop it. We didn't have anything to talk about anyway, and I knew it would be a bad idea from the start.

I sat down next to Noah on the couch and watched them play for a while, until Noah finally had enough and said he wanted to order pizza.

My heart stopped because I managed to go two days without eating; I wouldn't give it all up now. I was down to 57 kilograms, which was great.

"I don't have money for pizza." I lied.

"I'll pay for you."

"You can't just-"

"What do you want?" he asked and handed me the flyer for Domino's. I told him my order before he called.

"Isn't Emma coming?" I asked Liam, trying to make conversation.

"She texted me five minutes ago that she'll be here in an hour."

"Oh." I smiled. Finally, someone to save me from this awkward situation.

Liam got up and said that he was going to the bathroom, which would've given me some time to come up with interesting topics to talk about, if Noah hadn't sat back down with a bottle of beer in hand, and the remote in the other.

"So why didn't you go help your boyfriend babysit?"

"How do you know all these things?" I asked.

"I talked to him yesterday when he brought weed over."

"I thought you two were fighting."

"Please, boys aren't like chicks. If we fight, we stay mad for like an hour, and then go back to normal."

"And girls aren't like that?"

"No." he snorted, taking a sip from his beer. "So why didn't you go?"

"Because I didn't want to go and end up getting cockblocked by five year olds. Speaking of five year olds, where are your siblings?"

"Grandma's. And I noticed you changing the subject by the way."

"Can I have one?"

I pointed to the Marlboro pack on the table.

"Go ahead." He shrugged and started surfing through the channels on the TV. "Aren't you uncomfortable in jeans?"

"I am, but I'll change when Liam comes out of the bathroom."

I placed a cigarette between my lips and lit it up, before I took it between two fingers and crossed my legs under myself on the couch.

"So what do you guys do at sleepovers? Do you braid each other's hair and talk about girls?"

"No. It's a manly sleepover. We drink beer, play FIFA and smoke weed." He snorted.

"So are we going to smoke that weed today?" I asked him.

He turned his head to look at me, surprised.

"You're coming out of your shell." He snickered.

I ended up joining Noah on the balcony, who was now smoking yet another cigarette, even though he had just finished his joint.

"They're going to have sex on your bed."

He laughed.

"I don't think so." He said, shaking his head.

"Why not?"

"Because Liam is the private type."

"Really? I would've never guessed."

"Well." He shrugged, putting off his cigarette against the railing.

We walked back inside five minutes later, to see that Liam and Emma were now gone.

"See? I told you Liam was private." He snickered and sat back down on the couch.

"What time is it?" I asked.

"Half past twelve."

"Do you think they'll finish until midnight when Emma has to leave?"

"Duh. It doesn't take half an hour to have sex Dani. Well, it depends on the girl, if she's hot, you can finish in five minutes. If she's not, it can take all day."

"That's rude."

"It's the truth. Speaking of sex, did you and Luke do it yet?" he asked, folding a leg under himself to face me.

"Um, that's none of your business."

"So you didn't."

"No Noah, we didn't. If we jump into it too quickly, we'll break up soon."

He snorted. "You think it's going to last with you two?"

"Uh, I hope so?"