Ruined - tags Noah

[Noah Washington]

Noah laughed at her message, but he took a second or so to think about it before saying anything.

[Valerie: If you were singing, then yeah I'd be staring. Lucky for you there's no good songs with the name Noah in it.]

Not that he knew of, anyway. It wasn't as nice a name.

[Valerie: Yeah I am. Not very far away now though. And seriously don't worry about it. It was a choice I made and I'm really glad I did]

He let the message linger for a second before he typed another one, but he took a few seconds of hesitation before he actually sent it off.

[Valerie: Next time I might have to just crash at yours]

Crap! That wasn't the whole message! Damage control!

[Valerie: On your couch I mean!]

[Valerie: Or the floor?]

[Valerie: Wherever I can]

That sounded even worse... Noah physically hit himself in the forehead with the corner of his phone.

[Valerie: On the street. In the lake maybe. Or just in my car...]

[Valerie Danner]

Message upon message came and Valerie was in stitches by the end of it. If they were face to face right then, she would have run off from him and laughed it all off. And then he would have thought she was just being mean. But God, was he cute or what?

If it were any other guy, she would have stopped texting him. Or at the least called him out on it and told him that he was being a sleazebag. So why was Noah any different? She couldn't be so shallow as to be falling for the guy because he was good-looking, was she?

Shaking her head she sent back a response.

At least buy me dinner first, Noah. I'm still a lady.

That wasn't so bad. He'd probably think it was funny. Hopefully. She didn't need to be scaring him away even before their date could commence. A week was a long ways away.

So about that date...is it a whole day thing?

[Noah Washington]

Noah was gearing up to accept his defeat. He'd gone so far in the text break to write up a message that informed her that if she wanted to delete his number he totally could. For a guy that rarely got embarrassed, he was feeling it pretty intensely right now. Damn the misunderstanding of text messages. He flinched to his send when-

He actually got a message back.

[Valerie: Really?]

What? Wow. Totally not what he was expecting; she was knocking his mind right out of the park.

[Valerie: Totally. I'd cook for you! And then say goodnight and go back to my dorm where I belong.]

There. Hopefully she understood that he had just messed up his wording. Though if she really did bail, he wouldn't have blamed her. He would have been really annoyed at himself, but not at her. So maybe he'd wait and apologise in person.

[Valerie: It's actually a night thing. Is that okay?]

[Valerie Danner]

It was obvious that he didn't mean to send the message and maybe Valerie was being a little mean about it but it was all in good fun. On her part. Although, she wouldn't have minded at all if he had to crash at her place. So long as Spence was okay with it.

^^ You know I was only joking, right? About the dinner part anyway

If the date was at night, that meant she should dress up right? Maybe she should ask him first. She didn't want to embarrass herself by getting all dolled up and then ending up eating at Wendy's or something.

What's the dress code? And don't tell me, just wear whatever because I need details, man xD Is it casual or dressy? And it's totally fine that it's a night thing.

[Noah Washington]

[Valerie: Yeah I know. Thanks for still talking to me]

Noah was staring down at his phone, typing out the next message. That was a narrow escape he made, but at the same time he knew that he was going to have to stop messaging soon and actually drive his car home. He did not expect what happened next; he walked head first into a lamp post.

"Ahh! What the hell!?" He called out, pressing his free hand to his forehead as he stumbled back. This was an embarrassing thing that he probably wasn't going to mention in a message. But it meant a small delay between her message and his.

[Valerie: Casual would be the best. Do you want me to tell you the plan or do you like surprises?]

[Valerie Danner]

Thanks? For still talking to me? Oh Noah, if you only knew how you were making Valerie feel, you'd wonder why she hasn't thanked you.

You don't need to thank me, Noah. You walked fifteen minutes away from your car to keep me company. Valerie smiled and pulled her pillow under her head. She briefly wondered if he was already at his car.

Casual...I can do casual. Oh don't tell me. I'm the worst at acting surprised when I know something. Save yourself the trouble. She added a smiley at the end, replaying the song once more. At this rate, by the time the date rolled by, she would have memorised the whole song.

[Noah Washington]

[Valerie: Alright, I'll keep it as a surprise. I just hope you're not disappointed or anything like that.]

By now, Noah had actually reached his car and was carrying a pretty decent headache from the stupid lamp post. That's what he got for being so involved in the messages on his phone.

[Valerie: I'm sitting in my car about to drive home, so I have to stop texting you.]

[Valerie Danner]

Reading the response, she gave a big laugh before shaking her head. "No, Noah. Nothing you do now will disappoint me." She said to herself before sending him an answer. Don't worry about disappointing me. I'm pretty easy to please.

In retrospect, telling a guy that you were easy to please may not be the best idea. But something told Valerie that Noah was not the type to exploit that. She felt ridiculously safe with him.

When he sent the message saying he had to stop messaging her, she pouted and sat up in bed. Okay. Drive safe. And talk to you soon. What a generic last message but what could she say? I love you, I can't wait to see you, every day from now till our date would be inhumane torture? No. She wasn't nuts.

[Noah Washington]

If she was going to let him get away with the accidental self-invitation to her apartment, he was definitely going to let her get away with the suggestive connotations of that message. He also laughed about it, to himself of course.

Sitting in his car, he read the last and very generic message she sent out to him.

[Valerie: I can feel your disappointment from here :P I'll let you know when I get home]

Why else would she send him a message like that?

[Valerie: And I'll talk to you tomorrow, not soon]

[Valerie Danner]

Reading the last message, Valerie buried her face in one hand, laughing to herself. Maybe he was a mind reader. She wouldn't put it past him to be one after all the things she was thinking he would know. Either that or she was very easy to read. And that was not something she wanted to come across as.

A girl's got to have her secrets.

I dunno, man. I might be asleep by then. Who knows. ^^ Kidding. Just drive safe. And yeah, tomorrow.