Baby I'm A Sinner novel Chapter 73

Luke doesn't answer.

"So the conclusion is..." Mr. James continues, looking around the room and stopping when he sets his eyes on me. "Did you use a condom?"

Noah and I are both silent.

"Did you use a condom?" Mr. James repeats himself, this time louder.

"No."

"What was that?"

I sigh. "No."

"Dammit! Weren't y'all listening when I was telling you about the risks of practicing unsafe sex? What if you get pregnant? What with happen then? Are you willing to jeopardize your future because you had sex once and weren't careful enough to use protection?"

I look down at my hands.

He has a point. But I'm supposed to get my period this Saturday so I have a few days left before I need to start panicking.

"I didn't come inside her." Noah says, and Lucas bursts out laughing, unable to contain himself anymore.

Everyone else is quiet.

"Seriously?" I ask, shaking my head. "You couldn't have kept that information to yourself?"

I find myself incredibly angry with Noah, treating this whole ordeal like it's nothing, like my privacy doesn't matter.

"Why are you going off on me right now? I took your side-"

"Just drop it, okay?" I sigh. "Nevermind. Let's just change the subject."

Noah looks at me weirdly before he sighs and turns his head back towards Mr. James. I stay silent for the rest of our time in detention, even though it's not that easy because I have to listen to all the shit Luke says to one of his friends who is always in detention, and Emma's rambling about why Liam should stop drinking so much during the week.

Mr. James appears to be immune to all the irrelevant subjects that were debated during detention, because at six pm sharp he gathers his stuff and leaves with just a quick 'bye'.

"Dani." Noah calls my name as I make my way out of the classroom, but I don't listen to him. I'm still mad about what he said just a couple of hours ago, so I continue walking down the hallway towards my locker.

He stops a few steps behind me, and leans against a nearby locker. I know he's waiting for me to gather my things so he can ambush me on my way to the exit, but I pay him no attention.

I close my locker and put my bag over my right shoulder, before I start walking away.

"Seriously? Stop." Noah says and grabs my arm, making me stop and turning me around to face him.

"What, Noah?"

"Why are you mad at me right now?"

"'I didn't come inside her'? Really? That was such a shitty thing to say."

Noah lets out an exasperated sight. "Oh come on, it just slipped. Who cares?"

Noah calls Jake to let him know he just left the house, so I call for Jade and tell her that we're leaving in five.

Jade comes out of her room a couple of minutes later, and after we check for our wallets and phones, we're walking down the stairs to put on our shoes.

My mother is in the living room watching TLC, and she tells us to have fun and to call her in case we need for her to come pick us up. We both know though that she'd rather not move from the couch until she has to go to sleep, so I say goodbye and we're out the door.

Noah's Bentley pulls up in front of my house one minute later, and I get in the back after Emma and Jade. We're still not talking, and I'm not about to start now. I know it's probably really rude and ungrateful of me to do so since he paid for our tickets and made this possible, but I still can't forgive him until he apologizes. That's all I really need, an apology. For him to realize that he was wrong and for once not right.

The concert is being held at the Manchester Arena, and we're supposed to be let in at five, so we have two more hours to kill before we can go in and find our seats.

We meet up with the rest of our group at the entrance of the arena, and decide to go and explore the merchandise stands and the food carts to kill some time. We then sit down on a curb to smoke and eat, until it's time to go in.

At five pm sharp we're at the gates and two guards finally let us in, so we hurry to find our places right by the stage. I end up between Noah and Emma, just my luck.

The concert starts in less than two hours, but I don't think I can put up with Noah for that long. I can feel him looking at me when he thinks I can't see him, and saying something to Lucas about me.

When the lights go out and people start screaming, I try to focus on the stage and not on the boy just a few centimeters away from me.

It turns out to be harder than expected since most of the songs Arctic Monkeys play are sexual or about love. It wouldn't be such a big deal if I were standing next to Jake or literally anyone else, but the thing is that these songs make me want to dance and Noah is the only one available right now, since Emma has been making out with Liam for the past five minutes.

When 'Do I Wanna Know' comes on, I suddenly the urge to dance with Noah but I try to refrain myself from doing so. The urge to touch him and kiss him is too strong, because as much as I may deny it, I want to kiss him and I've missed him so bad for the past few days.

Damn, I must be bipolar since I'm mad at him one second, and then want to forgive him the next.

So I turn to my right and decide to put everything behind us, even though he didn't and probably won't apologize, because I want to talk to him. I place my hand on his lower back and grip into his shirt so he looks at me with surprise written all over his face.