Baby I'm A Sinner novel Chapter 37

He snorted and nodded, before he let me walk past him into the room.

"Where's Noah?" I asked, and Jake pointed to the bathroom.

"Has he finished showering?"

"Yeah." Noah answered my question by stepping out of the bathroom with just a towel around his waist.

"Why is everyone in this room topless?" I asked.

"We have a topless rule. You should follow it." Noah suggested and I shook my head, walking past him and locking myself in the bathroom.

I took a quick shower and changed tops, then used Jake's hairdryer to dry my wet tips.

When I came out of the bathroom, Noah was smoking a cigarette and Jake was on his phone as usual.

"Let's go somewhere instead of dinner." Noah suggested, puffing out the smoke as he leaned against the windowsill.

"Where?"

"I found a Nando's ten minutes away."

"You found a Nando's?" Jake exclaimed, suddenly not interested in his phone anymore.

"Yeah. Let's go get dinner there."

"I don't really think I have any money for that." I lied, just trying to make up an excuse not to eat.

"I'm gonna pay for you." Jake told me and patted me on the back, pulling his jumper over his head.

"Okay then." I mumbled and saw Noah frown, but didn't make anything of it.

We met up with the rest of our group (Carly, Eleanor, Lucas, Harry, Jade, Luke, Kylie, Sean, Liam, Emma) in front of the hotel, and after Lucas assured us that he talked to coach Daniels to let us leave, we started walking in the direction that Jake's phone was pointing us at.

Ten minutes we indeed reached a Nando's restaurant that was glowing like a Christmas tree through the dark.

"They have Nando's in Scotland yaaaas!" Jake yelled and got first in line to order.

It took us fifteen minutes to get all the orders down and the boys waited at the counter to pick up the food while the girls went and found two tables of six that we then pushed together.

"Do any of you want to go shopping tomorrow night? There's a mall fifteen minutes from here." Eleanor asked before she took a bite out of her chicken.

Emma and Kylie also seemed excited about the idea, and decided to ask around tomorrow for anyone who wanted to join.

I didn't really want to go because I didn't have enough money for a proper shopping spree. And if I went shopping without any money, I knew I'd end up wanting a lot of things. It was plain torture and I wasn't a masochist.

"Do you want to go shopping tomorrow?" Luke asked me as soon as we were back on our way to the hotel, with full bellies and smiles on our faces.

He intertwined our fingers and smiled because he was warm.

"Not really. Don't have money for it. Do you want to?"

"Yeah."

"I think I'll just stay back at the hotel. You wouldn't mind right?"

"No babe." He smiled and leaned down to kiss me for a few seconds.

"Get a room." Noah commented laughing as he walked past us, pinching my ass without Luke noticing.

Luke rolled his eyes and laughed, pulling me forwards so we'd start walking again.

"Hey, do you know that our two month anniversary is in two weeks?" he asked smiling.

"December is next week? What the fuck?"

He nodded. "When do you turn eighteen?"

"In February why?"

"Just asking. So do you think you'll want me to take your virginity for your birthday?" he asked out of a sudden, and I frowned, confused as to where all of this was coming from.

"Um...I don't really care about the age...why?"

He shrugged and pressed a quick kiss to my lips to shut me up.

"Okay then." I fake smiled, not knowing what to say anymore because his question took me by surprise. Had he been thinking about it for long? Did he want us to have sex? I wouldn't have minded at all, since my virginity has never been to important for me anyway.

A short silence followed after that in which we both took two drags.

"So do you actually want to fuck him?" he asked and I let out the smoke, sighing.

"Well...I never really thought about my virginity like it was something important. I'm like, if the opportunity comes then that's that."

"So if I asked you to come back to my room right now and have sex would you?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I have a boyfriend."

He nodded and smirked, letting out another puff of smoke.

"Good girl."

I bit my lip at his nickname, but it probably meant nothing.

"You done?" he asked a few seconds later, after he'd put the cigarette off with his shoe.

"Yeah, almost. Don't go yet."

He buried his hands in the pocket of his jacket to keep him warm, jumping from one foot to the other.

"It's fuckin' freezing." He breathed, white clouds coming out of his mouth as he did so.

"No shit Sherlock." I laughed and threw my cigarette away in the snow, before we quickly hurried inside.

***

The next day was also spent skiing until late that afternoon, when more than half of the people attending, even three of the teachers, decided to go shopping.

"Aren't you going with them?" Noah asked when he saw me that day after dinner still on my phone in the restaurant.

"Nah. Don't have enough money."