Baby I'm A Sinner novel Chapter 63

Despite what Mr. Andrews had warned us about, although their accent is obvious, their English is great. And their high school might be even bigger than ours.

Everything is amazing and I'm extremely overwhelmed to see new faces and a new country.

We walk into the school and they lead us to their cafeteria where they've ordered pizza and other types of food, and we settle down at the tables with the exchange students to talk about random stuff.

They're all in their last year (just like us), and they're just as excited about this as we are.

After we eat they give us a tour of their school and explain how the education system in their country works.

"All right then. Now that we've given you a tour of our school, everyone can go home and do what they please. We're meeting in the parking lot tomorrow at ten so we can drive up to the city centre and look around. Have a good day." One of their teachers tells us, and then chatters start up again.

Nins drives us to her home, since she has her own car (lucky). She has a home that's bigger than mine, and two dogs, which is overwhelming.

Her parents are still at work, so she lets Eleanor and I settle in in her older sisters' room, who's now apparently at Uni in Switzerland.

"I can't wait to meet your exchange student!" Eleanor tells me as we unpack and place our clothes on the hangers in the empty closet. "Everything is so cool here."

I go to shower as she texts with Lucas, and when I come out, she's already got a change of clothes ready and heads to the bathroom.

It's not weird to hang out just with her, but it's still a bit new because out of all the girls in the group, Eleanor's the one I'm the least close to.

"So what are we doing tonight?" I ask Nins when she comes into the run to check up on us and see if we've made ourselves comfortable.

"Well everyone's divided into friend groups, and our group is going out for dinner tonight."

"Okay...who's in your group?"

"Natalia, Julia, Kacper, Oskar and Kuba."

I quickly try to remember who's got who. Natalia is obviously with Carly and Kylie, Oskar is with Noah and Lucas, Julia is with Emma and Amy, Kuba is with Zack and Liam, and Kacper is with Harry and Jake. Alright, so everything worked out.

"By the way, who's that blond guy?" she asks and sits down on our double bed.

"Which one?"

"The tall one."

"Noah?"

"Yeah, with the irish accent."

"Oh. He's...Noah." I answer, and I can't help but feel a sudden rush of jealousy, even though I have no reason to.

"He's cute. Is he single?"

"Yeah. Why?"

My question might have come out in a sharper tone than I initially intended.

"I don't know. I just wanted to know if he's available I guess. You like him." She observes and I look at her surprised.

"How can you tell?"

"You're a little possessive over him. I'm not planning on flirting with him if you like him."

"Oh, no. You can do whatever. I like him but it's not that serious." I lie.

When we go to bed that night, Nins reminds us that we have to get up around half past eight so we can have time to get dressed and drive up to school.

I chat with Noah on WhatsApp until I fall asleep with a smile on my lips.

***

It's sunny outside the next morning, so I put on a sundress and flats, and on top of it a jean jacket.

Nins' parents have already set up the breakfast table when we get downstairs, and since it's Sunday, they don't have to go to work.

They give their daughter some money and tell her to call them if we need anything, so after we finish eating we get in the car and drive to school.

The parking lot is full when we get there, and everyone's dressed up for a warm day.

Based on the weather app on my iPhone, the highest temperature today will be thirty-one degrees, which is something really rare to see in England.

I make eye contact with Noah as I try to focus on whatever Natalie is saying to Kylie, and he winks at me before looking me up at down. So of course, I do the same.

He's wearing black skinny jeans; a white V-neck, a jean vest and those Ray Bans that make him look incredibly good. The difference between him and I is that my glasses are fake, and he actually spent more than a hundred quid on his, not five like I did on mine.

We pile into the bus when Mr. Flack instructs us to, and I take my place next to Emma, who immediately starts telling me about how cool Julia's house is and how hot his brothers are.

The city centre is amazing and colorful, and on one side there are different buildings, each in different colors.

"Holy shit, this is amazing!" Emma exclaims as everyone from Manchester starts taking pictures.

"You get used to it." Nins laughs and crosses her arms.