Chapter 3

Noah was taking me home after the hospital incident. The car ride was filled with silence, and while it was, I kept on remembering our high school days. The first time I saw him was when I was crying in the library because my dog died, and he patted me on the back and asked me if I was okay. Everyone liked him because he was a caring, friendly, and overall happy person once you know him. Strangely he was there whenever I needed someone to talk to.

" Hey, can I ask you something?" I said

I wanted to ask a question from the moment we met again how he remembered me when no one even recognizes me.

"Yeah?" he said, and I proceeded to ask " Uh this might come out wrong and out of place but ... how ... how do you still remember me when no one recognized me...".

He smiled at me and nodded, " Hmmm.. let's say I still remembered you because....." He took a long pause as if he was thinking about something, and then he had, a smirk on his face. He looked so cool but hot at the same time it felt like the time had stopped moving, then he added, "Why are you even asking? You should be honoured. I still remember you... Are you hungry, because I'm famished!"

Kay! That gave it away... he didn't want to answer me. Even in Reynold Oaks, he didn't speak that much. He was the quiet and mysterious one. But if you got to know him, he just didn't shut up.

" Yes, sir! I'm starving!" I say half-heartedly because he didn't give me the answer he just gave me a stupid sentence ...

" Okay, let's go ...?" he took me to this KFC, we took out the food to eat at home.

He went alone to order. We arrived at his place, after, I was surprised as he took great care of his condo.

Everything was in place, everything was clean.

We sat down to eat on the dining table when the lights went out... The electric board was in the kitchen, so he went into the kitchen to check if the lights were still closed. When I heard Noah's shriek in the kitchen, I jumped up and checked on him, and I saw a cake in his hands with candles on it. He was in the process of lighting up the candles when he burned himself... He saw me and said "surprise!.... Gosh this isn't what I had imagined" he pouted in the dark, I went up to him tears in my eyes I set down the cake and hugged him.

" Thank you..... Thank you so much.." my eyes filled with tears.. my vision was blurry. The lights were on now, and I didn't want to let go. But I still did, just for the sake of sanity.

He patted my head and reassured me that it was okay and that I am welcome anytime.

During dinner, I asked him, "Hey, something is weird here! Didn't you notice that the doctors didn't say anything about the big halo on my head... and why do you see it? Isn't that was weird! Why didn't I think about this earlier, and the neighbours did not say anything about the halo, and neither did my dad? I say, " I think .. wait" I process everything in my head before saying it to make sense. I raise my one hand and one hand on my chest " I, Sarah, am speaking her mind without anyone forcing me to... I think... yeah ... only you can see it."

I deadpanned.

"Well, I can see it because I have seen halos ever since I got into a life-threatening accident ." He said.

" Enough of that ...tell me something ... why did you become a Police Officer... I thought you wanted to become a lawyer all along and study abroad for higher studies..." he told me once he wanted to study abroad someday.

"I just did... after I saw how much you have to study to be a lawyer! and being in the police force was easier and quicker."

I didn't have words, " oh okay, so you didn't go abroad at all ?!" I asked fascinatedly.

"Well, that was because I wanted to go with you..." he started to say something, but he mumbled the last part out, and I couldn't make anything out of it.

" Okay okay, enough about me! What about you? What have you been doing after you transferred from Reynold Oaks? He asks in a cheerful voice.

" I have been doing well. After I transferred, I went to St.Lawrence University. I was doing a major in Psychology and a minoring in languages... of the ancient languages at the same time ." I answered.

After talking to him for a long time, I yawned, and then he said, " sleepy much?!" with a smile on his face, he then said, " you can take the room on the left ."

"Why do you have to sleep outside your own room? I can sleep on the couch... no worries," I said.

He said, "it's okay. And who said I was sleeping outside " to which I gasped in disbelief.

"Aren't you a little too straightforward?" I said "I knew that u weren't any good ..." I cried jokingly

"Oh come on, I wouldn't do the nasty with u now trust me ... fine u can have the bed, and I can sleep outside if u want," he said convincingly while smiling like an angel.

I went into his room... It was so spacious and had a colossal bean bag, I called him in and said, "why didn't you tell me that you have bean bags !! I'll sleep there while You can sleep on your boring bed.''

"So you want me to be in a room with you alone now, huh !?" he exclaimed while wiggling his eyebrows, giving a smirk.

I just couldn't sleep for like 3 hours on the bean bag, and when I did, I had a dream...