Hello there! I finally, updated the next chapter! I know it took too long (I'm so sorry!) and it seems like not a good one, but I just want to continue this story more. So I hope you can enjoy this, thank you and I'm apologize for updating too long. Enjoy :) xo


I'll Always Be There For You

Chapter 6 : The Unexpected

Noel POV

I jogged off to got out from Sebastian's house and headed straight to my car and got in.

I sat on the driver's seat and checked on my phone and saw 1 unread message.

Do you still remember the deal you made with me or you're going to play dumb and act like you know nothing about it? Meet me at the COFFEEA Espresso Shop later today at 3 pm sharp. - Mona

I checked at the watch I used and saw that it was almost 3 p.m.

I drove off to the COFFEEA Espresso Shop as fast as I could without made the speed went lower.

After I arrived at the destination, I saw Mona was sitting alone inside the shop. I sighed heavily and walked in.

Mona's eyes became wide and her facial expression changed as she saw me from being upset and all-bored to a relief. I walked near and nearer to her as she approached me quickly.

"There you are! I've been waiting for you for hours!" She folded her arms in front of her chest and stared with a bit of resentment on her eyes yet I could sense a relief on her eyes as well. I thought she did wait for me patiently for hours.

"I'm sorry, I had some business a while ago." I sighed and saw down on one of the brown-painted chair inside the shop, right on the front side of it.

She sat down on the exact chair of what I was sitting on, right across from me.

"So, where's the money that you promised before?" She smiled devilishly. "Do not say that you don't bring it today, or you forgot or something else!" Her smile turned into a little anger.

"Shut up. I'm bringing the moneys with me, but please do not tell this to anyone or you'll regret it later." I looked at her and then glanced over a familiar figure on the outside of the shop, ready to walked in.

It's Aria.

'Oh crap!' As I said to myself. I looked back at Mona and tried to sign her of Aria's arrival at this place.

She noticed just as fast as a thunder strikes. She took her bag and ran to the toilet of this shop, she mouthed me to stay right here. I nodded as an agreement.

I tried to relax and took a deep breathe just as Aria walked in at the same time.

She didn't notice me at first, I sighed in relief but then she saw me.

"Hey, Noel." She approached me.

"Oh, Aria? Fancy meeting you here." I put on my usual smirk and pretended that I was just relaxing in the coffee shop alone, without anyone else until she realized there are 2 cups of coffee in the table that I was sitting on.

'Oh, crap.' I whispered to myself.

"Are you.. meeting someone?" She asked me in a bit curious way. I shook my head. "N-no."

"Then, why's with the 2 coffees?" She tried to smile.

"J-just..only having a rough day." I showed my not-so-real sad smile to her. Gladly, she changed the subject about the silly 2 cups of coffee on my table right now.

"What's wrong? You can tell me if you want to." Surprisingly, she showed some symphaty to me. Why did she do that,anyway? What was her intention?

Intead of avoiding her concern, I got confused of why did she tried to know what's actually was wrong with me.

"Wh-what do you mean?" I raised an eyebrow and looked at her, curiously.

She looked at me with blank expression, not knowing what did I mean by the words that I said.

"Why do you care with my life?" I sipped my coffee and still staring at her.

She sighed a little heavy and sit across from me, the one that Mona was sitting on minutes ago. "I just want to help you? Listen, I owe you and if you need some help, maybe I can do help you with something that's troubling you at the moment."

I looked away and sipped a bit of my coffee again and looked back at her with a different expression, not a fake one.

"I appreciate your concern, but I'm currently fine right now. Thank you." I smiled at her. The honest one. The one that I rarely show to everyone in this life.

"You're welcome." She smiled back and went back to the counter to order a cup of an espresso and walked out from the store straightly.

I sighed as Mona walked back to the seat, and looked at me. She gave me the expression of 'what did she talk about?'. I shook my head and looked at Mona. "It was nothing."

Mona raised an eyebrow as I sighed heavily. "It was really nothing!"

"Does it have to do with her problems with the Sebastian guy?" She sipped her coffee. I shook my head. "No it doesn't. Let's just forget about that."

"Alright, if you say so. Now back to the main point, I want my payment for getting you know what things are going between Aria and this Sebastian guy." She moves her body forward.

"It has payment?!" I asked with unrelaxed tone.

"Of course it does! Do you think it's easy for me to spy on them? For only getting some secrets or whatever Aria and this Sebsatian guy had?" She looked at me with some annoyed expression.

"Fine, how much do you want?" I tried to take out my wallet but she stopped me immeadiately. "I don't need your money...for now." She smirked.

"Then what in the world you want?" I stared at her curiously yet annoyed.

"I want you to be my boyfriend. Yes, I want us dating." She showed her usual wicked smile that sometimes could creeped me out.

My eyes went wide as I opened my mouth. "What the heck are you thinking?"

"You must accept this, there is no other option." She played with her hair.

"No." I looked away and sipped my coffee that went bitter because of the situation.

She looked at me with her eyes went so wide. "You can't reject me!" She whispered with a creepy tone yet annoying.

"Why not?" I raised an eyebrow.

She stood up. "Shut up and accept me, no other options! or else-" I cutted her off immediately.

"Or what? You're gonna do something bad to me?" I laughed not too loud.

She sit down and stared at me afterward. "Please do accept me. I don't want any fights, please date with me."

"My finale answer would be... no and will always be no. I'm not interested nor attracted to you, so make another useful payment for yourself." I looked back at her and put on my usual smirk.

She stoop up again and I saw here eyes were little watery. "You'll regret this." She went out from the shop and got into her white car and drove away.

I sighed heavily as I sipped my coffee for the last time and went out like what Mona did. I got into my car and started to turn on the engine and the machine and drove away to my house.

'Did I make the right move?' was the sentence that I kept on listening in my mind slowly.

Though, I didn't really care about Mona but I needed to keep an eye of her because she might do something horrible in my life...or other people's life that I loved.

Sebastian POV

I woke up on 6 pm from my kinda-long nap and got dressed. I just remember that I needed to meet with Aria to talk about those things even though, I was really confused of where she was going with her words on that night.

If she did like me, why didn't she try to tell me?

Why did she act like I was only a childhood friend for her?

I sighed deeply and went to the bathroom. I washed my face and looked into the mirror to saw the reflection of myself, Sebastian Smythe. Not a Warbler, nor a Dalton Academy student. I did miss my friends back in Lima, and I did have a those time when I just want to go back to Lima and spend my high school years back there and not in this town, Rosewood.

Even after I washed my face, I still looked alike a person who had the most complicated problems in his life and a person who rarely sleep just because of something unimportant even though that was kinda true.

I needed to remind myself that what's done is done and you need to get focus on what you're doing right now. I needed my glory of Sebastian back in myself, but how?

I closed my eyes and all that was in my mind was the one and only, Noel Kahn.

Ugh, that jerk. Did I need him? Was he the one?

Did I love him?

I opened my eyes as fast as I could so there weren't any weird questions that I imagined. I couldn't fall for him. He's just a bait, a bait to get things back. To get my glory as Sebastian back.

If I fell for him, then my plan would be a mess. All the smart plans were destroyed.

Yes, from today, I will promised to myself that I will got back all my glory.

I should keep up my endurance for enduring the power of Noel Kahn and this will be my first game on Rosewood.

I smiled and went outside and found my family and Aria's family gathered around in the living room of my house and I didn't see Aria there.

I had a bad feeling and my heart was pounding so hard.

Something happened with Aria and it's something bad.

"Where's Aria?" I stepped down from the stairs and walked slowly to them.

They didn't answer, they were crying instead but they didn't sit down and relaxed or something. They were planning to go to somewhere.

"Where's Aria?" I asked louder.

"Sebastian, calm down." My mother walked up to me and was sobbing pretty hard.

"No! What happened with her?!" I shouted so loud.

"Sh-she," Aria's mom was sobbing uncontrollably.

I looked at her carefully.

"She's in the hospital now, she got hit by a car pretty hard and fortunately, I was there and then when I checked her pulse, I couldn't hear anything. I was so worried and I took her to the nearest hospital and then there, she's laying down in the hospital emergency room and-" Her mother tried to explain me a little more but I cutted her off and ran outside and got into my car and drove away to the Rosewood Hospital.

"I am so sorry, Aria, I couldn't save you." I drove as fast as I could.

Until something stopped me immediately that I couldn't control the steering.

I hit something... then I realized that there's a blood.

I hit someone.


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