Who is This??/Part 10/ Noah Centineo
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A/N: Holy shit ya’ll! It’s been a hot minute! I apologize for this taking so long. I’ve had a lot of issues going on in the past few months... I’ll explain more later!
Warnings: Language... As always. Ya’ll have waited long enough!
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Where we left off in Part 9:
In that moment, him lying in your hospital bed, his lips connected with yours, warm hand touching your face, you knew deep down that no matter what happened from here nothing else would matter as long as he was beside you.Together, you could face anything.
Or at least that’s what you would tell yourself for now.
LET’S GOOOOO!
Warm sunlight streamed through the curtains causing your eyes to flutter open. The silence of early morning filling your apartment, soft chirping from the birds outside your window echoing through the open window. There's a slight breeze blowing through the room causing goosebumps to rise on your skin. You snuggle further into the warm abyss of your blankets.
A heavy arm drapes across your waist, pulling your body impossibly close to the warm body laying behind yours. Soft lips grazing against to your neck, gentle kisses being peppered across your neck and shoulder, causing a quiet sigh to leave your lips. Those lips, perfectly pink and plump, could cause any girl to have palpitations, but here they were softly pecking against your neck, causing you to have a mini heart attack as your heart pounded away in your chest.
“Morning baby.” He lets out gruffly causing tingles to shoot across your body. Holy fuck… it didn’t matter how many mornings you woke up beside him, his morning voice is the sexiest sound you’d ever heard.
It had been 2 weeks since you’d left the hospital after an almost 20 day stay. Noah had been at the hospital every day from the time visiting hours started until they would kick him out, though he was very persuasive and always managed to stay later than he was supposed to. You were pretty sure he even tried bribing the poor nurses at one point. Once you were finally released to go home he drove you to your apartment and had been there every single day since. When he left for work Jace would come over. Not that you were complaining, being waited on hand and foot was pretty nice if you had to admit it.
There weren’t enough words to express just how grateful you were to Noah and Jace for everything they’d done for you. Though both of them assured you time and time again that none of what happened was your fault, you still couldn’t help but feel guilty.
You roll over so you’re chest to chest with him, your legs tangling with his own. You gently scratch his calf with the tips of your toes. Those gorgeous brown eyes gazing into your own, his hand rubs against the tiny sliver of skin where your shirt had risen. Your breathing hitches as his hand slides gently under your T-shirt slowly trailing up your side, reaching higher and higher. His hand stalls, passing over the red, scaly, patch of skin forming your newly acquired scar as he gently rubs his thumb down the length of it. Tilting his head he rubs his nose gently against yours, lips hovering over yours. Your hand slides against his side, mimicking him moments earlier as your thumb slides against his matching scar. You felt guilty that he even had a scar, because of you his body would be permanently marked.
A sigh leaving his lips as he presses them softly against yours. His lips mix with your own as one of his warm hands cups your cheek, the other grasps your hip and he pulls you underneath him as he hovers over you.
Fluffy tendrils of hair brushing against your cheek as your hands run up the plains of his broad shoulders, muscles rippling against your touch. Your fingers run through the unruly curls, gripping them in your fingers. The warmth from his naked chest radiating over you. Perfectly tanned skin pressing against yours where he had pushed your shirt up to your chest. A soft hum pouring out of your mouth has Noah pulling back from your lips to run down your neck and across your collarbone.
“I love this you know?” He sighs. A lazy smile on his face. Damn that face, perfectly chiseled, spotted with adorable freckles and one that you had come accustomed to seeing every morning. You knew he couldn’t stay forever but you could dream right?
“Me too but, eventually you’re going to have leave me you know that right?” you question him. You both had been dreading this day for the last few weeks.
“Wha… why…. Baby, I don’t….” he stammers. Completely confused as to why you would even suggest such thing.
A small giggle escapes from you as he stumbles over his words.
“For movie promo?”
His eyes widen and he grimaces as he realizes that he jumped to a way different conclusion then you were getting on about. He pokes you in the side as you let a small chuckle leaning up closer to him. The muscle in his jaw ticks as you peck kisses along the underside of his jaw. His slight stubble scratching against your lips. Grazing your lips down the side of his neck, tongue poking out ever so often to taste his skin.
A small sigh falls from his lips, “ Yeah, I hate I have to go”.
You pull back from him and look at him incredulously.
“Noah. Babe, you’ve been here every single day since I got out of the hospital, you’re running yourself thin.”
It was true, between staying with you and doing things for his newest film he was exhausted and you both knew it.
He plops on his side, so he’s facing you, draping his arm across your waist, reaching for your hand. His large hands engulf yours, your fingers slide in the spaces between his fingers that you swear were made just for you.
“I know that but, I feel like when I wasn’t around you got hurt, I’m afraid something will happen when I leave”, He confesses. His eyes looking anywhere but yours.
“Babe…” you rolled your eyes. You gently grasp his scruffy chin and pull his face down to look at you. “Jace will be here, nothing is going to happen. Let’s be honest, he’s been mother hen since everything. If it’s not you here it’s him,” you laugh. “ Plus, it’s just for a few weeks and then you’ll be back yeah?” God, he hadn’t even left yet and you were longing for the next few weeks to go by quickly.
“Yeah I guess so,” he huffs, running a hand through his hair and burying his face in the crook of your neck, pressing soft kisses and nips where he lay. You lay your head against his, wrapping your arms around his shoulders, you could die right now and be the happiest you’d ever been.
You didn’t know what it was about Noah but your heart had never felt so full. Maybe it was the way he was always asking if you were okay, even if you just stubbed a toe. Maybe it was the way that when he looked at you it was like he was looking into your soul not just at you. Or Maybe, just maybe it was the fact that after everything you had been through up until this point he had never, not once, made you feel like a burden, in fact he had fussed at you when you even mentioned it being a bother to him to help you. It wasn’t just the big acts of kindness that made you fall in love with him, it was the tiny, almost unnoticeable things that made you fall for him. Like when he would he would help you brush the tangles out of your hair when your side hurt. When he would warm your towels in the dryer while you were in the shower. When he would kiss your forehead every. single. time. before you went to bed, even when he could barely hold his eyes open himself. You knew it was the tiny things, it was always the tiny things that added up to a lot of acts of love, you just had to look a little harder for them.
Your eyes drift to the flashing numbers on the clock beside your bed, 9:30 a.m. your heart thumps wildly in your chest.
Noah would be leaving this afternoon for 2 months to promote his newest film. You were nervous. The chewed off nubs you call fingernails were an attestment to that. It’s not that you didn’t trust Noah or even thought he would do something to hurt you. It’s the fact that for 2 months he would be around the world promoting this film while you were here, and once the movie hit you knew his career would be even bigger and that meant more time spent apart. You didn't mean to sound clingy or that you weren’t excited for him, but you had just gotten him back and you really didn’t want to have to let him go again. The fact that worldwide there would be women falling at his feet and at his every beck and call did not help the situation at all. How could they not love him? A tall, dark, muscular being that was sweet as hell underneath it all.. yeah they’ll be falling at his feet just like you are.
Noah’s thumb tugging your bottom lip away from your teeth brings you back to the present. You really wished he didn’t have to leave. For the last few weeks you had been in this bubble where it seemed nothing could touch you. Your life was peaceful with he who shall not be named being locked away and couldn't hurt you. Now with Noah leaving your little bubble was being popped and the reality that while you had to go back to school and Noah had to go around the world came crashing down. How would you make this work, could you even make this work? You were an average college student and he is a budding movie star. What happens when you can’t? All these questions fill your head.
Almost as if he senses what you’re think his fingers gently rub your temples, easing some of the tension pooling there. His nose grazes softly against yours.
“ Baby, I promise I will come back to you. ”
“ I know No.... ” you sigh. “ It’s just.. I don’t know I’ve never done a long distance thing.”
“ I know baby but we can make this work. I want to make this work.” His hopeful gaze bore into your eyes, making your heat race.
He gently grasps your chin, pressing his lips to yours.
“I love you.”
It had easily become your most favorite set of words. Those three tiny words sent you into a frenzy anytime they slipped from his lips.
“I love you too.”
You wanted nothing more than to make this work with him. You wanted to be the one he called at the end of a stressful day, who ran and hugged him after a long flight back home. You wanted to be the one for him. But, you couldn’t deny the dreadful feeling churning in your stomach, telling you the opposite.
Maybe you should just end it now, save you both the heartbreak. But looking at his hopeful eyes bearing into your own you knew you couldn’t. You would take months of your own heart breaking and being in pain if it meant sparing him a single minute of it. He had already done so much for you, you had to at least try to make this work.
As dread and doubt filled your head causing your breath to hinge, you thought to yourself that you didn’t know what this next chapter of your relationship held, you just knew that come hell or high water you would hang on with all your might to the man that had saved your life and captured your heart. If at the end of this you had to let him go so he could swim while you sank, you would gladly anyday, he deserved that much from you
This moment in time, Wrapped up in each other, sun softly beaming through the curtains, fingers grazing each other’s skins, soft kisses being pressed back and forth between lips and skin, was a moment that you would keep on repeat for the next few weeks as it was all you’d have of him.
It seemed perfect, laying there snuggled up to Noah, making promises for the next few weeks to come, so why did you feel like you were really saying goodbye?
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There we go my beautiful people! I am so, so, so incredibly sorry for this taking so damn long. In the past few months I’ve had a good bit of personal issues and mental health issues that I had to take care of and put this on hold for a little while. BUT that’s alright. I am back bitches! Going to be going through some requests this week and trying to push some writing out. Let me know what you guys though of part 10.. Only a few more parts to go! I already know the ending, now just to put it into words!
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