"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Noah

Hundreds of questions went through my head. Who was the guy? Why did she not respond to his 'hi'? Why did she kiss me? Especially in front of him? I guess I'm not the only one hiding something.

"This is my favourite! How did you know? This makes me so happy," Lexy is squealing as she looks through the candy I got her. Her eyes widening animatedly each time she takes something out of the bag.

"Do you like what I got?" I know I was confident when I left to get the snacks but it took me a solid 10 minutes to figure out if I should get the regular sour patch kids or the berry-flavoured ones. Ultimately, I decided on the regular because you can't go wrong with those.

Lexy leaps into my arms. All the candy squished in between us, I get a whiff of her delicate fragrance of all the spring flowers blooming at once and her sweet-smelling hair falling on me as she gushes, "Are you fucking kidding me? I love it, Noah." Fuck, why is she so adorable when she talks about something she loves like candy. God, I love er- I meant I like her.

"You are welcome, Sweet," I don't know what got on me because I never call anyone by a nickname except of course Lotte. And to make matters worse, I called her 'Sweet' of all things. To be honest, it wasn't really a slip of the tongue because truly she had an ambrosial scent and just the way she carries herself is in the sweetest way possible. None of these things make it okay for me to call her that though so I've mentally noted that this was the last time I'm thinking of her in any way other than a friend.

She quickly releases her arms from around my neck and I wish I was lying but I immediately missed the warmth of her body on me. She places herself in the seat and as she places the candy back in the bag she raises one of her eyebrows, "So... you like shopping?"

Thinking about it for a moment, I realise that I strongly dislike shopping for myself but for someone else, I think I kinda like that. "Not really but I for sure like shopping for you," why did I say that? I sound like I'm whipped.

Her cheeks turn a crimson-red as she smiles, "Noah, I-"

"I don't know why I said that either so let's just pretend that that didn't happen, okay?"

Her eyes stare right ahead, "That is not what I wanted to say. What I was trying to tell you was that there is someone walking towards the car." Right at the moment, I look outside and I see her walking towards us. It's Julie, one of my drunk hook-ups. That night, I didn't want to do anything with her but when I was drunk I just gave in to her desperation. She was fucking obsessed with me ever since and I was so glad when I left this place because then I didn't have to see her but of course the exact moment I decide to come here, I had to see her, especially when I was with Lexy. I don't want Lexy to think I'm that person who sees women as objects because I don't. It was a mistake.

Lexy senses that something is wrong, "Are you okay?"

"Can you do me a favour?" I ask her exactly when Julie greets, "Noah, sweetie, where have you been? And who is she?" The moment she asks about Lexy, I can see the snarky face she makes.

Lexy sees it too, "I'm his fiance so you can look for some other person to sweetie." My eyes widen as I take in what she said. I didn't even know that there was this side to her and I fucking like it.

Julie begins, "You do know that Noah and I-"

Before she could get another word out, I push myself onto Lexy and we make-out for the second time tonight. Her soft lips feel like heaven on mine and she tastes like cotton candy. Each time we make-out I know that we are just doing it to make another person jealous or to make them leave but every time we kiss I let myself think that it's real. That we are real.

I love the way her small body melts into mine. The way our lips fit like two puzzle pieces. The way she relents as I play with her hair and hold her tighter and tighter. When we break away after what seems like ages she looks at me with her cheeks flushed and panting as if she had run a marathon.

We don't talk for the rest of the ride home but I can't help but notice how her cheeks are lightly tinted pink and the way her eyes light up each time she sees the Christmas lights and decorations on the streets.

"We're here, Sweet," I smile as I place my hand on her knee. After promising myself to not call her that, I still called her 'Sweet' because promises are meant to be broken, right? Not really but I'm still going to roll with that.

Walking up to the door Lexy turns to me and asks, "Why Sweet?"

Right at that instant, Lotte opens the door to shout, "What were you guys doing at the store? Making a baby?" Next to me, I could see Lexy biting her lips and turning bright red.

Quickly I respond to avoid any more embarrassment, "Lotte, where is Mum and Dad?"

"They gave up trying to wait for you two and went to sleep. The movie night is cancelled."

"Lotte, why don't we do something else?"

"Like what?"

"What about Truth or Dare?" I hate that game with all my being but Lotte always seems to enjoy it so for tonight I'm just going to have put up with a horrible drunk teenagers' frat party game. Great.

"You really want to play that, Noah? I can't believe that you just suggested that game but since you've already put out that option, you can't take it back. Just give me a sec," Lotte is dying of laughter as she goes into the kitchen to grab something.

"Truth or Dare?" The sweet questioning voice takes me aback because, during the whole conversation with Lotte, I forgot that Lexy was listening to everything.

"Eh, not my favourite game but if I didn't suggest a game like that, Lotte would have burned me alive for ruining tonight. I'm sorry for putting you through all this shit," I let out a chuckle.

"I'm back," Lotte comes into the room with a bottle in her hand, "Let's start!"

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