XLI

XLI
The texts that came through my phone from Noah were texts that would have been normal for two people who had hooked up before and wanted to do it again. Since I didn't want it anymore, it was worse than disgusting to see. It hurt my eyes to read the texts.
That night he sent me a water splash emoji, I turned off my phone so I wouldn't see any more messages from him. My friends knew about it the next morning and laughed until their bellies hurt. I rolled my eyes at them, they'd laugh, they weren't expecting to be put in seventy positions in seven minutes.
"What do you plan to do now?" Mariana asked me as she wolfed down her breakfast.
"I planned on eating breakfast this morning, but you finished all the cereal." I shake the empty cereal box for emphasis.
"You cannot harrass me, I was hungry, besides, it's pay day soon, I'll get a new box soonest. But I was asking about Noah, you can't avoid him at the office by turning off your phone."
She had a point but was I going to tell her that? No.
Truthfully I hadn't thought about it that far, he jumped right out of my mind. I was occupied with something else.
My lips parted to give her a half assed response, at the same time, Quinn pushed the door open and practically ran inside.
"Big news!!! Big news!!"
Her excitement this early in the morning just made me want to bash her head in. I hurriedly fixed myself a cup of black coffee and going back inside my room to change into my work outfit.
"You're not going to listen to this news?!" Quinn shouted at me just before I slipped into my room.
I banged my room door in response.
The coffee scalded my tongue but a few sips was what I needed to jump start my day.
Standing before the full length mirror, I wore a full body chiffon top, it covered every inch of my skin, from my neck to my wrist, it was a very business top, and my skirt was penciled but not so short. I was not going to be attracting Noah anymore. The goal was to get him as far away from me as possible.
By the time I picked up my purse and walked out of the room, only Mariana stood there.
"Whare is Quinn?"
"She has work too."
"Okay, I'll see you later." I tell her as I walk hastily out of the house. I didn't want to miss the bus.
"Turn on your phone!!" Mariana reminded just before I shut the door.
Sighing, I dug through my purse, finding my phone and turning it on, the messages that flew in made the device hang. I couldn't even do much, but look as the messages flood in.
I gasp in amazement, he must have texted at least a hundred times, the first few messages asked me if I got home okay, I scoff, he remembered to ask that after a water splash emoji.
He went to state how worried he was getting, then he assumed I had fallen asleep without plugging in my phone and checking my messages. Then he called me cute.
The last phase of the messages, I'm willing to assume his phone was stolen and it wasn't him that texted those things, because how could be worried about my safety one minute, then assume I was asleep and then start sexting the presumed sleeping person. What is wrong with the world?
I ran into a person as I continued reading Noah's messages. My eyes flew up to the person's face. He was frowning down at me. Forcing me to take a step back. His features were an average, maybe because he was frowning. He didn't look familiar, everyone that lived here did. He looked like this was his first time here. But he blended in because of his black clothing.
"I am so sorry, I didn't see you there." I apologize quickly.
"Of course you didn't. Pay attention to the road, I could have been a car." His voice reminded me of the character Zuko from Avatar the last Airbender.
I couldn't stop the laugh that spilled from my lips
"Trust me, you wouldn't have been a car."
He raised his eye brow at me inquisitively.
"Look around you." I gestured with my hands. Me explaining this to him only made it more obvious he didn't live here.
"This isn't a place cars waltz into, the least we can walk into is the bus, and it's bus stop is way over there..." My eyes find the bus stop. The bus was arriving and I was not close to it.
I cursed and started running, well running ish, since I was wearing heels.
"Wait for me!!" I shouted towards the bus, I couldn't miss it today, or else I would be so late.
I heard someone running beside me, when I looked it was the stranger.
"I have to catch the bus too."
He suddenly held my hand and dragged me along with him as he ran, I was stunned for more than a minute. What the hell was that?
We caught up with the bus before it's tyres started to roll away. We sat together at the very back. We were panting heavily as we sat there.
For no reason at all, we both start laughing.
"Thank you." I tell him, I didn't know who he was, but he saved me from having to pay a cab.
"Nah, I probably held you up, you'd have been at the bus stop if I didn't get you talking." His Zuko voice explained.
"If I had avoided you, and not bumped into you, we wouldn't have had the conversation. So it's my fault."
He laughed a bit, and actually he was okay. Not crazy hot and amazingly beautiful like Friday night guy. Okayyyy. I needed to put an end to comparing every guy I met to Friday night guy. It was becoming alarming. Granted he was sculpted by the gods but It was a huge city, who said I was ever going to run into him again, I needed to focus on the guys in front of me that I run into.
"You seem lost in there." He said looking at my forehead.
I laughed.
"I'm sorry, I was wondering if I knew you, you don't look familiar, and everyone in this neighborhood does."
He chuckled, "that's because I just moved in."
My eyes widened,
"Okay, I'm Lisa."
"I'm Adam. Nice to meet you Lisa."
As he shook my hand, the bus stopped in front of Bavard.
"It's my stop." I tell him.
His eyes widen, "mine too."
We get down together before the bus zooms off with us in it.
"You work at Bavard?"
He chuckled, "nope, the coffee shop there, new barista."
I Look over to the shop he pointed. It was the one I frequented.
"Looks like we'll see each other often.
I spotted Noah coming out of the building, I quickly loop my hand with Adam's.
"Bear with me for a minute."
At that time, Noah's eyes found me. Without thinking, I place a kiss on Adam's cheek.
Noah turned around and walked in. I saw Zach shaking his head at me. And I knew I fucked up.