Chapter 26 Noelle

I'm embarrassed as hell. Why does this have to happen to me? Lucifer, why? *internal sobs*

"Good morning", Audum pulls out with politeness? Huh? Did he not hear it all?

"Morning", Bertha smiles at him and Feebles is all the way consumed by him. Like stop staring at him with those thirsty eyes, Feebs. This is so embarrassing. God.

"May I have a moment?" Audum gestures at me.

"Sure" I go with him outside the café.

"You look pretty" he compliments. Uhm hello? Am I hallucinating?

"What's wrong?" I reply surprisedly.

"Why'd you say so?" He shrugs.

"You're unusually polite today" I throw at him.

He chuckles, "You really regard me as a douche, don't you?"

"Totally" my tongue mumbles. His eye brows rise. "I mean totally not" I pull my loose tongue.

"Good to know" he takes a card out of his pocket.

It seems like an invitation card. It's so pretty.

"Consider this maybe?" He hands the card over to me.

"What is it about?" I enquire with a laugh.

"Well, see for yourself", he shrugs and leaves.

With the sun shining over, I'm in a daze. What? He sits in his car and rolls his mirror down, I stare at his gleaming presence, he adjusts the side mirror but doesn't look back at me and off there goes his car with a deadly speed.

I walk up to Bertha and Feebles who were ofcourse stalking at us from the glass door of the café.

Feebles takes the card from my hands and Bertha joins her in reading the card while I'm completely in a daze. This man can't get any weirder. What does he want if anything from me at all?

I turn towards Feebs and Bertha. "Oh my god Noelle!" screams Feebles.

"You've been invited to a ball!" exclaims Bertha.

"Why tho?" I take the card from Bertha's hands.

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"Noelle?" Mr. Phillip, our substitute English professor calls out my name.

"What are you passionate about?" he asks.

I take a look at the board. We're discussing career choices and an individual's passions? And all I've had in my mind has been Audum Reed's erratic behaviour.

"Do you have any passion at the moment?" Professor asks again as I'm acting dumb and deaf.

"Nothing as of now" I get up and answer. "I'm still exploring my interests" I follow up and take my seat.

He follows up with some remarks but all I'm looking at is the rose gold invitation card sticking out of my binder.

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Zeroni is not back from her classes yet. I'd ask her if she got any invite and then decide whether or not I wanna go there.

Wait a minute, maybe I do. Don't I wanna know what happened yesterday? And I wanna ask him if wants to be friends or something? Why does he even talk to me at all? UGGH I bury my head in my pillow and open my gallery where I have Audum's pictures from the frat party. They're actually Zeroni's and have Audum in them. I keep staring at them and eventually dose off.