Chapter 24: Chapter 24

"Please leave."

"Valeria, I wasn't trying to do anything to you, believe me."

"Then why was your face so close to mine?" She fired.

Noah swallowed hard. Clearly at a loss for words.

"There was something on your face, I was only trying to blow it off." He lied.

Valeria raised her brow in a questioning manner.

"Believe me," Noah said.

She had never seen Noah that way before. This was her first time, and she thought he actually had no reason to lie to her.

"Fine! So can you please leave? I want to sleep."

"No!." Noah said.

He went to sit beside her on the bed, but she quickly moved backwards, away from him.

"W.. what are you doing? Dont come close." Noah chuckled.

"Relax will you? I see no reason why you should be afraid of me."

"I'm not afraid of you," Valeria hurriedly replied.

Noah gave her the- "Are you kidding me?" Look.

"Prove it."

"Prove what?."

"Prove to me that you aren't afraid of me."

"Why do I have to prove that?" Valeria asked.

All she wanted was for him to leave her the fuck alone. She didn't want to show him her fears, she wasn't afraid of him, she was terrified of him.

"Because I know you're afraid of me, but you're trying to hide it. I say you're afraid of me, but you keep on denying it, so, let's see who is right." Noah said.

Valeria sighed deeply, she didn't like what was happening one bit, and she couldn't tell what was going on in that dirty mind of his. But then, being the stubborn girl she is, she agreed to prove to him that she wasn't afraid of him.

Any normal person in their right senses would run away from a sex maniac immediately, but she decided to stay comfortable with him, just to prove she was right, and maybe she wasn't normal. She's crazy about letting him be in her room and trying to prove herself.

She can't even begin to imagine what Ergon will think if he ever finds out about this, he'll definitely loose his cool and scold her for what she was about to do.

"What should I do?" Valeria asked.

She just wanted to get it done and over with, so he could leave her room.

Noah gave her his hand, and she gazed up at him.

"What are you doing?"

"Place your hand in mine and let me hold it for 10 seconds."

"What!!" Valeria half yelled.

She was choked by her own spit, and she began coughing.

"Jeez, what's wrong with you?," Noah asked, a bit worried.

"H..hold on, I'll go get you some water."

He raced out of her room to the kitchen to get her a bottle of water, and soon, he returned. He leaned beside her on her bed, opened the water, and he gave it to her.

Valeria took the water and gulped it down immediately, while Noah kept on rubbing her back.

"Oh my God, I almost died." Valeria uttered, breathing heavily. Her eyes were already moist.

"You're crazy, this happened just because I asked you to place your hand in mine and let me hold it for 10 seconds?" Noah asked, still rubbing her back. He sat beside her so he could do it properly.

"Why would you say that?" Valeria asked.

She sharply turned to face him, but froze when she noticed how close they were to each other.

Valeria swallowed hard as she stared at him. Noah slowly stopped rubbing her back, he got lost staring in her lovely blue eyes.

Valeria forcefully averted her gaze, and cleared her throat nervously.

"Don't you have anything to do?" She asked, and that brought a smile to Noah's face.

"No." He said, then gave her his hand again.

"Not again." Valeria groaned loudly. Noah laughed.

"Come on, it's just for 10 seconds, and besides, you said you're not afraid of me, so let's do that."

"Fine, but I have a condition."

"What's the condition?"

"You'll leave me be once it's done."

"Ouch, seeing how eager you are to get rid of me is making me want to stay with you the more." Noah smirked. Valeria scoffed.

"And do not forget, you told me you'd let me talk to you before now."

"And what have you been doing all this while? Talking right? You've been talking to me, so what more do you want?"

"You haven't been talking to me, rather you've been annoying me,"

He was more of a pest than Ergon. In fact, he's much worse than Ergon.

"A lot of things. I want to get to know you more."

"Why? What's the need? What's not like we're friends or anything, we're not even close." She huffed, then folded her hands to her chest.

"Friends?" Noah asked excitedly.

"What?" Valerie asked, turning her gaze toward him.

"Let's be friends."

"Are you kidding me? Who w..." She trailed.

She had wanted to say "Who would want to be friends with someone like you, a sex maniac?"

But thankfully, she managed to restrain herself before the words left her mouth.

"What were you about to say?" Noah asked softly.

"Nothing."

"Don't tell me you were about to say who would want to be friends with me?" Noah asked, as if he was reading her thoughts.

"How the fuck did he even know that?" Valeria thought.

"Come on." She laughed, then she slapped him hard on his arm.

"Ouch!."

"What was that for?" Noah asked, rubbing his arm.

"That's for being silly. I was never going to say that."

"Then you could have just said so, you didn't have to slap me so hard. What are you? Wonder woman?"

"Whatever."

"So, will you be my friend? Please," Noah pleaded. Valeria just stared at him in awe. She couldn't believe this was the same guy everyone ran away from. If he truly was a sex maniac, he could have raped her, she guessed.

"Come on, you're friends with Ergon, so there's nothing wrong if you be my friend too."

She wasn't just Ergon's friend, but his girlfriend. She said, inwardly.

"Fine! I'll think about it." She said, and Noah suddenly chuckled heartily.

"What's funny?." She frowned.

"It's nothing, never mind."

Valeria was about to say something when the door flung open.

Erica walked in, and her eyes almost popped out of their sockets when she saw Valeria and Noah sitting on the bed.

"Valeria!" Erica called out in gasps.