Deserves It

In the room, unfamiliar faces welcomed Noah and Gabby as they met them, laughing at a joke.

With eyes scanning the fresh face, the leader asked Gabby to introduce her friend. Noah said his name as they created a space for them to sit around the boardroom tables.

Many eyes were on the new guy, and most jokes made were not that familiar to Noah, making him smile when others were displaying their glads. Gabby included.

She sat on the other side facing Noah, who was sitting between a guy and a girl. He faked a smile once when a random guy joked about Gabby.

He said," Gabby, bet we should call you Grabby how you grabbed on his pants enough to convince him to give you a push."

Although it was insulting, Gabby took it just fine, because she knew that wasn't the case. That only gets the guilty.

Noah felt bad for her, though. That was the hottest burn he had heard from in there. And everybody agreed by the way they looked at Noah, as if trying to figure out if it was true.

Threatening and pushing Gabby to the corner makes her thrive.. She opens her mouth, trying to lessen the effects that joke had on her

"Dear Kev, at least when I reached down there I found something to grab on, What's in yours? ", Noah blushed to be talked about like that, but the secretary was relieved that Gabby had directed the narrative away from herself.

But now it was no Noah, who had nothing to say to get the ball rolling. He just took the joke and listened as they exchanged offensive words for almost an hour.

After the meeting, Noah saw Gabby talking to Kev, the guy who had insinuated that she gave Noah a hand job for him to be with her there

Gabby is a showman, and so are the rest of her team. Noah knew he wouldn't have talked to that guy ever again.

"It gets heated in here, ", a guy said to Noah as he waited for his partner.

Turning to face him, Noah said, "I wasn't prepared."

As if daring, the green-eyed guy asked Noah, " I bet you will never consider it. Should I wait to see your presence next time?"

"Absolutely, ", Noah said, noticing how competitive a stranger was being towards him.

That's when his mind opened. The guy must have been someone Gabby dated, and that's why he is excreting a bitter ex vibe. Noah didn't give him the satisfaction of telling him about his relationship with Gabby. He wanted him to get sour.

"Bet the bulls aren't fighting, ", Gabby said from behind Noah. Noah and the green-eyed villain he had made faced Gabby holding mixed emotions.

"See you around Noah, ", he said, leaving them to it.

"Bitter ex?"

Noah asked Gabby as they made their way out, to which she replied, "Yap."

"What about the Kelvin guy?"

Noah is always curious. He wanted to know what the deal was with Kelvin that they went into destruction mode on each other like that.

"Uh, that one too, "" Gabby confessed. "We went out for two weeks."

Noah's eyes questioned Gabby's by just staring at her, she knew what he had on His mind.

"No. We didn't get to that part."

To make her feel better, Noah replied, "Probably you were right."

"Haha, I'll take that."

Gabby joked as they went down the stairs, then said goodbyes. She gave him an assuring smile, walking away as Noah halted to check his socials.

****

A week has passed since Noah got acquainted with Amelia and the night he did more than make out with Cora. He boasts about it to himself every time he thinks he isn't enough for her

The details of his perfect day are fading out. Except for today, he hadn't seen Gabby since that day, not even in the class they met at. He scanned the room for her, and not seeing her familiar face meant she had skipped it.

Since then, he has tried talking Cora into letting him visit, but she puts him off, asking for Noah to focus on his studies and find a girl he likes to date. Of all the things on Cora's mind, being Noah's only choice is not one of them. She wants him to be a teenager, and do the silly things teenagers do. She never wants to dwarf his light or give him mistaken hopes.

As the urge to kiss her got intense, Noah had planned on meeting her after he had hit the gym and was all fit for whatever she would throw his way

In the cafeteria, on the ground floor to the twined and gym rooms, Amelia sat on her favorite spot sipping on decaf.

In the very corner of her eye, the keen girl saw a figure she suspected to be Noah's, and out of curiosity, she investigated

She saw him talking to the same girl as the other day and how they smiled at each other's jokes. Amelia was relieved that he was doing fine, now that they were friends. She swallowed hard thinking about Noah as her friend. Maybe it was still early.

She speculated those two must be dating because of the fun they seemed to share.

Deep in her veins, Amelia felt the bad blood circulating her body as if she was jealous of how close Gabby was to Noah. But Amelia wasn't. She just admired how sweet the two looked together, as if meant for each other.

Amelia was not the one to raise attention to her observations. She glanced at them in a measured pattern, making sure that every eye laid on her never caught a whiff of what was going on. She always has an audience wherever she goes.

When Gabby left, she saw Noah take out his phone and look keenly at it as if checking something. She saw just how happy Gabby looked and agreed that Noah can make a girl feel like that.

Instinctively, Amelia pulled her phone out of her expensive handbag then logged in to her Instagram where she hesitated to click follow.

In regret, Amelia followed Noah and watched as he browsed through his phone, unaware she wished for him to notice that she had followed him back.

Since that day, Amelia had known about Noah's habit of keeping tabs on her social life, on all socials. He liked her every post. At the moment, Amelia had the idea of her following him back.

Not like she follows many, if not family and friends, she hardly bothers to follow or check how many love emojis they comment on her posts with.

Amelia is more in control than most people are online. She doesn't check the comments section, because she knows there are always those hateful seeds planted there to ruin her life with negativity.

And she had seen profane comments before, so much that she puked.

That was her teenage self, not the mature woman she was shaping herself to be