Chapter 73 — Mine

Noah's POV

As we reached outside our houses, I inwardly groaned and shook my head in annoyance.

I didn't want to let go Cupcake just now.

Hours of staying together at the lake weren't enough for me. I wanted to be with her every single fucking minute these days, and it was annoying.

I looked down and saw our intertwined hands together and smiled.

She was mine.

Happy was an understatement of what I was feeling at the moment. The feeling was beyond words. I mean the girl you love, yes I finally admitted that to myself and to her at the same time, says yes to your proposal then how the fuck are you supposed to react?

I certainly did not know.

Today when I kissed Cupcake, when I held her in my arms, I felt a weird sense of glee and thoroughness that I hadn't, ever in my life, experienced before.

It was overwhelming.

At first, I literally thought that she was going to yell at me for even thinking that but when she actually agreed I thought that she must find it funny to pull off a prank on me that was why she said yes but when she didn't say anything else like she actually looked into my eyes and met my gaze with sincerity and hope, I knew I was screwed.

She made me fall in love with her.

In that instance, I was certain about my feelings after ages and I knew that I was trapped.

Trapped under a spell of love, and worse, there was no way out of it.

Not like I wanted any.

I mean if Cupcake was happily willing to be my side for the rest of my life, who cared about the freaking world?

I looked up and saw Cupcake biting her lower lip, something she did when nervous, and smiling. 

She was smiling, like really smiling, the kind of smile you try hard to suppress but it doesn't go away but reaches your eyes and shines your face instead.

Her eyes were towards the ground and she was constantly biting her lip that made me smile.

It was good to know that I still made her nervous.

She didn't notice that we were almost outside our houses but kept her eyes lowered, lost in her own mind.

I gently nudged her and took both of her hands in mine, making her look at me. She looked up and realization dawned upon her and I swear I saw disappointment in her eyes but just like me, she was good at hiding emotions.

But I didn't want her to hide anything from me from now onwards.

I wrapped my arms around her petite waist and pulled her closer to my chest, making her gasp.

"What are you doing?" she squeaked in a low voice and started biting her lip again.

I brought my face down so that I was eye level with her and leaned in towards her.

She didn't say anything as I brought my lips to her and freed her lip from her teeth and bit it gently, making her shiver against me.

"What am I doing?" I whispered huskily against her lips.

I smiled as I felt her knees go weak and her balance go out. I hugged her tighter to my chest and she closed her eyes and lightly moan as I sucked on her lips.

Fuck it, it was my favorite sound from now on.

"Noah."

I held her head and tilted it to deepen the kiss. I snaked an arm around her waist and pulled her even close if that was even possible.

"Noah."

I sucked on the soft spot along her cheekbone and she shuddered, clutching onto my jacket as if her life depended on it.

"Noah."

I trailed off a series of kisses from her jawline to her cle—

"Noah!"

"Oh yes huh what yeah?" I fumbled over my words and internally smacked myself for being such an ass in front of a girl. My girl. 

Cupcake giggled and wrapped her arms around my torso, "We need to stop." She smiled.

"But why?" I whined like a five-year-old and yet again thought that what the hell was she doing to me.

"Because we're literally standing outside our houses and what if someone sees?"

"Does it look like I care?" I rolled my eyes and she chuckled.

"Of course, you don't," she lightly shook her head with a hint of a faint smile on her lips and to say that I was literally on cloud nine, knowing the fact that behind this happiness was me, was an understatement.

She unwrapped herself from me and I wanted nothing more than to sweep her up from her feet, throw her on my shoulder and run to my room.

Yes, I was that desperate if you haven't figured that out yet.

"We have school tomorrow," she said and I huffed before taking a step back and folding my arms across my chest.

"Bye, Noah. Goodnight!" she waved and took a step back, still looking at me in the eyes.

"Don't I get a goodnight kiss?" I raised an eyebrow and she gave me a look that literally said 'Are you kidding me right now?'

"And what was is that happened like two seconds ago?" she asked and I chuckled stepping closer her.

"Don't I?" I whispered in a deep voice and I saw her swallowing hard.

She sighed and stood on her toes, gently pressing her lips to mine in a soft peck and stepping back again even before I had to chance to taste her properly.

"That was it?" I asked in disbelief and she chuckled.

"You really need to get yourself together," she said and turned around, walking towards her house.

I huffed and sulked down my shoulders, giving in to her and looking at her sexy back while she slowly walked over to her door.

Sometimes I thought that she did it on purpose.

But nah, she was too innocent to lure someone purposely towards her beauty.

She looked over her shoulder and gave me one last before unlocking her door and disappearing behind it.

I started walking towards my own house with the widest grin ever and threw open the door before stepping inside and walking like the living room was a freaking ramp.

Okay, Cupcake was right. I needed to get my shit together I flew upstairs and plopped down onto the bed, replaying today's events in my mind and smiling like a total creep.

She had finally agreed to be my girlfriend. She had given me the right to hold her in arms and call her mine. She had finally allowed me to make her happy and let her see how beautiful she was from inside and outside.

I would've never thought that Cupcake would agree to be with me a few more days let alone be my girlfriend.

I smiled and hugged a pillow to my chest, imagining it as her.

When I realized what I was doing, I threw it away from me and pretended that it never happened.

She smelled way nicer.

Alright, shut up.

As I was thinking about today's events my smile turned into a frown as Aaron, the ultimate douche, crossed my thoughts.

I knew something was definitely off about the guy the day I saw him but I never thought he could reach such levels. 

I mean he practically tried to rape Cupcake. My Cupcake. And that gave me enough of a reason to rip all four of his limbs and feed them to a stray dog in front of his very eyes.

If it wasn't for her, I would've killed the shithead last night. I completely lost my shit and only I knew how much it took to restraint myself from jumping onto him and ripping his head off his neck.

Sure she might be his girlfriend at that time but still, it didn't give him any right to take advantage of that whenever he freaking wanted.

Okay, now I wanted to kill him.

I sat up straight on my bed and tried to calm myself down. I thought about the kiss. Her kiss. Her lips against mine. Her body in my arms. Her scent all around me.

And it was enough to make me smile like a creep again.

Okay, now I wanted to see her.

Bipolar, much?

I sighed and lied down on my back staring at the ceiling and counting minutes until I would get to see her again.

When I was certain that I wouldn't be able to sleep without hearing her voice, I dialed her number.

She picked up almost on the last ring, for a second making me think that she would not pick it up, "Ello?" her voice came out raspy and childish. I could practically picture her laying down on her bed hugging a pillow to her chest with her hair all over her face.

"You were sleeping?" I asked and took the blanket on me.

"Mhm," she hummed and I smiled.

"I can't sleep," I said 

"Why?"

"Because I miss you so damn much."

"Mhm," she hummed and I could feel the sleep in her voice.

Well, I actually woke the girl up from her sleep.

"You don't miss me?"

"Mhm."

"Cupcake?"

"Mhm."

"Cupcake?!"

"Oh, yes! yeah?" she asked, her voice was utterly bewildered that made me chuckle.

"I shouldn't have woken you up," I lightly shook my head in amusement though I really doubted regretting waking her up.

"Well duh," she said, obviously rolling her eyes and I smiled.

"Go back to sleep," I said.

"You called me in the middle of a freaking night to tell me to go back to sleep?" she asked, totally annoyed by me and I would lie if I'd say I didn't enjoy every bit of it.

"Yeah," I smirked though she couldn't see me, I knew she could hear it in my voice.

"Goodnight," she said and I heard shuffling on the other side like she was taking the blankets on herself again.

But she didn't cut the call and that only meant that she wanted me to be the other end too.

I smiled at the thought of it and pressed the phone to my ear before closing my eyes.

I loved all these little things about her.