Page 22 of Two Weeks to Fall in Love
Two Weeks to Tell the Lies
As soon as Noah dropped me off, I collapsed onto my bed, face-first.
It had been two hours since the whole teach me what love is debacle, and no matter how hard I tried to rationalize what had happened, I was unsuccessful.
I blamed the fact that I was physically incapable of backing down from a challenge. Noah Archer was proving himself to be the biggest challenge of my life.
Groaning loudly into my pillow for several extralong seconds, it took all my strength to get off the bed to charge my phone. As soon as it turned back on, there was a flurry of sounds as the influx of notifications filled the screen.
185 new text messages .
I wasn’t that surprised, really. While I’d been getting myself into even deeper trouble with Noah, our BFF Messenger group had been taken over by Melissa and Lily.
I scrolled through the messages, attempting to catch up, rolling my eyes every few seconds.
Mel : they sure be taking their sweet sweet time
Mel : wonder what other sweet sweet things they be doin
Lily : MEL OMG u know Sky would never
Mel : I mean technically she would
Mel : why anyone would choose that over gorgeous girls is beyond me
Lily : because pretty boys!!!
Mel : *eye roll emoji*
Lily : speaking of gorgeous girls tho
Lily : our gorgeous girl went offline on the friend finder app *thinking emoji*
Mel : wait what if she was murdered and dumped in the desert
Lily : omg lol
Lily : someone’s been binging bailey’s videos again
Mel : can you blame me
Mel : srsly tho you think we should be worried
Lily : nah knowing Noah I’m sure he’ll take good care of he r
Mel : oh right
Mel : forgot you dated him too
Lily : ohhhhhh yessss for the most amazing two weeks
Lily : I’m sure she’s having the best time
Lily : Mel? you here?
Mel : yeah sorry just busy
Lily : okay . . .
And then crickets.
I ran my palm across my face, mentally apologizing to Melissa for Lily’s total obliviousness. It seemed that Melissa wasn’t completely over Lily, even though I thought the distance might help. I needed to be her dedicated wingwoman after this whole dating-Noah fiasco was over.
I typed out a message and officially entered the chat.
Sky : yes I was murdered
Sky : this is Sky’s ghost speaking
Mel : omg sky go back to 2005 with that joke
Lily : Skyyyy how was it?
Lily : where did u go?
Lily : did u have fun?
Sky : yeah it was pretty cool
Sky : took me to his family’s botanical garden
Lily : wtf they have a botanical garden???????
Mel : so he RICH rich
Mel : geeeeeet it girl
Sky : wait he didn’t take you there Lil?
Sky : I thought that was his prime date spot
Lily : I mean idk maybe it is but he didn’t take me there
Sky : well you didn’t miss out on much
Oh, the lies I tell . But knowing Lily had genuinely liked Noah before dating him made me feel a bit guilty that he’d taken me to such a personal site. Honestly, I was already feeling enough guilt about this bad decision of mine.
Lily : sheesus sky, just let yourself have fun
Lily : you hate the guy for no reason
Mel : PREACH
Lily : come on sky
Lily : it’s like ur forcing urself to hate him
Sky : you’re not completely wrong
Lily : yeah see
Lily : it’s ur senior year
Lily : why not just let go and enjoy urself
Sky : I think I should just sleep on this
Sky : thanks for worrying about me tho
Sky : and being here for me
Sky : love you both, gnight!
They were right, I was already aware of that. It was hard to convince myself what I was doing was justified when he kept being the perfect boyfriend. Or at least he was acting like one in a very convincing way.
Letting out a sigh, I unlocked my phone and scrolled through Noah’s messages.
If someone just superficially looked at how we communicated to each other, without context, I would definitely be seen as a witch with a capital B .
Groaning, I was about to just ditch my phone and go to sleep when a new text message popped up in the conversation.
Okay, that was it . There was no way this guy wasn’t psychic or something. Despite everything so far, a strong part of me still struggled to believe he was just an ordinary human.
Jerkface : thanks for coming with me today
Jerkface : I had a lot of fun with you Skyler
I stared at the text as if it had wronged me for existing. Because I knew I couldn’t be rude when he was this nice.
Sky : me too, I had fun today
After writing back I paused, fingers hovering over the screen and heart in my throat. Knowing he hadn’t brought Lily on a date to the garden made me wonder if this was another first for him. If it was, it felt wrong to just leave it at that.
Sky : I loved the garden, it’s beautiful
Sky : and thank you for trusting me with your family stuff
Jerkface : yeah . . . for some reason you make me want to tell you everything
Jerkface : wonder why that is
Sky : my irresistible charm
Jerkface : or maybe it’s your weird mind mojo
Sky : hey now!!
Sky : that’s you, not me
Jerkface : *laughing emoji*
Jerkface : not from where I’m standing
Sky : then stand somewhere else
Jerkface : hmmm
Jerkface : only if I can stand next to you ;)
When did my room get this hot? Warmth spread through my whole body. Was he flirting with me ? This was definitely flirting . My mouth felt dry. I had no idea what to say, so naturally, I said something dumb.
Sky : didn’t you stand next to me enough today already
Jerkface : no
Jerkface : not nearly enough
Jerkface : not even close
Oh my gosh , I needed to stop texting him now, before my face ended up combusting into flames. It sure felt hot enough for that already.
Sky : I’ll take that under consideration
Jerkface : damn I feel like I just won something
Sky : what does that mean
Jerkface : usually you’d tell me to stand as far away from you as possible
Jerkface : preferably on the moon
Jerkface : so that’s some serious progress right there
Sky : shut up just go to sleep already
Jerkface : sweet dreams to you too babe 3
This was trouble. Noah was trouble. And I was definitely in trouble.
Before I could actually think things through, my fingers went into the contacts of my phone and erased what I’d saved him as. The change was instant, the text message thread on my phone now showing a different name.
Noah .
Staring at it made me annoyingly happy. Shit .
In frustration, I basically slammed my phone onto my bedside table and rolled onto my stomach. Burying my overly warm face into some cold pillows felt nice, and within minutes I was lost in sweet dreams. Of a boy with ocean-blue eyes.