48: Wise Words

"Why are they still hugging?" questioned Noah impatiently. He wanted to go over and pull Vivienne away from this man. "Why don't you pull your boyfriend back?"

"He isn't my boyfriend!" gritted out Aurora.

"Then why do you look mad right now?" teased Noah. "You clearly have feelings for him. Are you playing the game of denial now? How old are you?"

"What is wrong with you, Noah?" asked Aurora as she faced Noah. "Vivienne told me that you have changed and I didn't believe it much but now, it seems like I didn't pay you much attention lately as I didn't even notice until now that you have changed so much."

"I just think we are almost reaching our thirties now, we aren't teenagers!" stated Noah with a casual look but an unprecedented seriousness and maturity in his eyes and words. "What's the point of playing the game of hide and seek? If you find something pleasing to the eye, you'd want to always get that thing. The same way, if a person is attractive to you, what can denial do? Living