Chloe Bennet as Skye Laurent.
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Chapter 35
(Sophia's pov)
"So Sophia, how is the project going with you and Noah?" Skye says as she lifts her fork filled with pasta to her mouth.
Everyone in our table suddenly stops their conversations to look at us both. Claire looks at me with her eyebrows raised and I avert my gaze to reply. I was surprised Skye picked up a conversation with me.
"It's going great, right Noah?" I say and try to bring him into the conversation. Noah looks up at me like a deer caught in headlights and suddenly starts coughing violently and reaches for his drink. Skye pats his back and looks at him worryingly. Noah looks back at her and gives her a small smile. Que gagging.
"Yeah, we still have a bunch of shots to complete though." He says after coughing and pecks Skye on the cheek, out of nowhere.
"Oh" She says off guard and I see her cheeks turn slightly red. Noah moves her hair out of her face and smiles her lovingly, and lifts her hand to kiss the back of it.
I felt a fire burning inside of me, mixed with jealousy mixed in with it. I look away and my eyes land on Lucus who had a slight frown on his face and quickly covered it up with a smile. I furrow my eyebrows at him and he copies me, I instantly roll my eyes at him and he fake hurts. Easily making me smile and he winks at me before going back to his food.
I look back at the couple in front of me to find them both looking at me. "So Skye how is your project going?" I say cutting them off.
She opens her mouth to say something but then looks around feeling the eyes of everyone sitting at the table. Her cheeks tinted pink even redder now and then she pouts at me. And then stands up to sit Indian style on her chair, earning the attention of everyone in our table. "Sorry, I feel more comfortable sitting like this." She says with a goofy grin.
I smile back at her, liking this side of Skye not the reserved one and copy her, and then say, "Me too. It's been a long time since I found my people." I say while pretending to stroke my non-existent beard with a thinking face.
We look at eachother for a second with a serious look but with a slight smile out of the corner of our mouths and then instantly burst out laughing. I feel the eyes of everyone in the lunchroom but couldn't help but not care. I catch Lucus's gaze and he looks at us like we were crazy and I burst out laughing even harder, with Skye following suit.
I settle down my laughs and hold onto the table for support, but then Skye falls off her seat making me burst out laughing again because of the look on her face just before she fell. Noah quickly gets up to pick her up but she layed back on the floor, laughing.
"Oh my god, Skye are you alright." Noah says, lending out a hand. Skye sits up and takes his hand. She stands back up and sticks her tougue out at me and lay me head down, so I could stop laughing.
I stop laughing and sit back up to see Claire by my side, to see if I was alright. And I give her a reassuring look, before taking a sip of water.
"Claire, I think it's about time to admit Sophia into a mental institution." Lucus interjects and I squint my eyes at him.
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The last few days were filled with me and Skye pulling pranks on eachother and we decided to call this #PrankWars. And before we knew it the whole crew became apart of the whole plan. But now Skye and me decided to call it truce and here we were watching chick flicks with Lucus and Noah on a Friday night. We became really close in just over a few days, being around her just felt so familiar.
Believe it or not it wasn't my idea, it was actually the boys' idea. We were the only ones with no plans so we decided to have a movie night, in our Pjs. Skye's idea, don't ask why.
Well halfway throughout the movie, Noah passed out and Skye switched spots with Lucus to sit next to me since, Noah was literly crushing her.
So here we were almost done with this chick flick, 'The Notebook' and we were all surrounded with used tissues. Skye was laying down with her legs on top of mine and Lucus laying down on the ground, silently snoring. And here I was with my feet up on the coffee table, my hand reaching for the popcorn while watching this chick flick.
Skye sits up from her spot and eyes both of the boys and grins mischievously. And I give her a weird look. She stands up from her seat and reaches for her purse to take out colorful sharpies. And I read her mind and take half of the sharpies in her hand.
"Let's draw on Noah, first since he is a deep sleeper." I whisper to Skye. She nods at me and walks over to him.
"Sorry, love." She mumbles just before starting to draw on his face. My smile slightly falters but then I stop myself to feel anymore, than just a bit jealous of their relationship.
'Oh quit it Sophia, you know you still have feelings for him. And burying them will only make them stronger.' My inner concious says and I get angry at the voice.
I walk over to Noah and start to draw all girly stuff, I can think of at the moment. After a few minutes, Skye and I finish our masterpiece and quickly took pictures of him before he woke up. We then move onto Lucus and quickly finished because of the fear of him waking up much earlier than Noah.
We than ran quickly upstairs to Skye's room and locked the door. We then started burst out laughing and before we knew it we both were passed out.
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"Shut up." I hear someone hush next to me, and then feel something light touch my nose, making me instantly swat it away. Then the thing touched me again, making me grouchingly complain and roll over to the other side, hitting a rock hard chest.
I furrow my eyebrows, wondering why my pillow was so hard, and pat it down. I then outline my whole pillow, confused to why it was so big. I then reach a rough surface making me slightly lift my head from my pillow, but with my eyes still closed.
And then I suddenly reach soft and plump, which can only be described as lips. I sit up quickly and stare at the culprit, to find Noah laying sideways on my bed ackwardly of that was even possible. I widen my eyes even more to find out my left hand was on Noah's abs and hear him mumble, "I feel so violated."
And then I hear a male voice burst out laughing and I remove my hands and get up from my bed. I see Lucus bending over his knees laughing his ass off and his phone on his other hand. Skye sat by Noah's legs, ackwardly smiling at the whole situation.
"I got that whole thing on camera! This is so going viral." Lucus says, typing on his phone.
"What the hell guys! It's five in the morning." I say after a few seconds letting the whole situation process my brain. And glancing at the clock up on Skye's wall.
"This was Lucus's idea." Skye says quickly with her hands up in surrender and stood up in her Mickey Mouse pjs. I give her a 'are you serious look.'
"And here I thought we were becoming girlfriends, Skye. Oh prank wars are so on." I say with a determined look plus evil laugh and put my messed up hair into a messy bun, multitasking I tell you.
"We still are girlfriends." Skye winks just before walking out the room. She yells about getting ready and coming downstairs to get breakfast.
"But it's nine in the morning!" I yell back, grouchingly.
"Oh get ready, you sexy bum!" She yells back. I pout at her from the top of the stairs.
"Right back at you, fine ass." I shout and muttered incoherent words while walking into the bathroom to go take a shower.
"I love you too, beautiful!" I hear Skye's voice muffled, because of the bathroom door. And I grunt loud in reply.
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"Alright, where should we go to take some shots." I say to Noah, across the table, while munching on my strawberry and whipped cream pancakes.
"I don't know, how about we travel around Saint Monica Pier. We'll get some great pictures there." Noah suggest to us all.
"Good idea, babe." Skye says and smiles at him and he kisses her.
"Arg gross guys, get a room." Lucus says with a scrunched up face, blocking his view of the lovebirds in front of us.
I look at the couple in front of me and couldn't help but feel a tiny bit jealous. Noah looks at me and then slowly unwraps his arm around Skye, and she looks at him confused, but he didn't notice. Skye catches my eye and gives me small smile then going back to her food.
I put down my fork and pushed my plate away, becoming quite familiar with this situation and I catch Noah's eyes.
And it clicked, Skye is like the girl I've left behind a long time ago.
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Flashback
"You know what Claire, I can have fun!" I say outraged at the girl sitting next to me on the club couch.
I stand up and look at Noah, who was too busy talking to the blond bimbo next to him, and grunt. Not wanting to cause a scene in the club, so I walked out the room and headed towards the bar.
I order one shot, showing them my fake ID, Claire made for me and took a swing. I feel a slight burn but ignored the pain. I kept ordering until a few minutes later the waitress came over and said, "I think that's enough, miss."
I glare at her, fustrated at how everyone thought I was as fragile as glass and headed to the dance floor.
I felt someone come from behind me but I was too drunk to even care, so I played along. I turned around and met a guy with blue eyes and a charming smile.
The song soon ended and I pulled away from the boy I was dancing with on the dance floor and looked around for my friends but found Noah's eyes, and saw him looking down from the second floor, heartbroken and immediatly felt guilty.
I moved around the dancing people to go upstairs to Noah but as soon as I got off the dance floor, I couldn't find Noah at his previous spot. I start to panic, hoping he wasn't going to do something drastic, as usual but then I meet Noah waiting all the way on the top of the stairs, with his back against the railing.
I climb the steps until my vision started to turn blurry and I started to lose balence. I fall back until someone caught me before I fell down the stairs.
I slightly open my eyes and I meet the same eyes I fell in love with, and gave him a small smile before passing out in his arms.
Flashback Over
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Hey guys! Wrote another flashback, answering your questions to why Noah is holding a grudge upon Sophia. Well here's why. I know what y'all are thinking, Noah doesn't deserve to hold a grudge when he was literally cheating on Soph.
But..... ;)
I hope y'all love Skye, cause the actress playing her is literally how I picture Skye is. A goddess and a goofball. #GirlLove
P.S check out my other book, 'Fates Intertwined'
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