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Yuyu, Cisco and Elena were all seated on a sofa, deep in conversation. When Amo entered the room with Noelle, everyone stopped, turning to look at her.
She saw the disappointment in Yuyu's eyes and the slight twitch in her brother's cheek.
Elena, on the other hand, simply gazed at her with the usual disdain.
"You were right," Amo nodded to Cisco.
Pulling Noelle inside the room, he pushed her on the sofa.
"Sit," Amo said.
Yet the brusque movements made her bag slip off her shoulder, crashing to the ground, its contents spilling for everyone to see.
Noelle's eyes were the size of two saucers as she tried to pinch herself—surely it was just a bad dream.
But it wasn't.
The boxes of condoms rolled on the floor, in plain sight for everyone to see.
Elena was the first to react, a loud gasp as she came to her feet. In just a few steps she was in front of Noelle, slapping one cheek, then the next. She continued to do it until Amo pulled her back, restraining her.
Noelle didn't even try to put up a fight. Not when she was so mortified she wanted to run away.
"You slut!" Elena shouted. "You've disgraced us!"
More arguments ensued as everyone seemed to have an opinion on Noelle's actions.
Noelle tuned everything out, though. She wanted to simply disappear.
All at once, her thoughts were a mess of disappointment, hopelessness and shame.
Blue… He was probably still waiting for her and she would never come. What would he think? That she found him faulty and did not want to meet anymore No… She didn't want him to think that he was deficient in any way. Not when this was absolutely her fault.
She'd dared to dream far more than she was allowed to, and now she was paying the consequences.
"Enough!" Cisco's voice rang out through the myriad of voices arguing.
He got to his feet, pacing the surface of the living room before he stopped in front of Noelle.
"Is it true? Did you sleep with him?" he inquired of Noelle.
His tone was his usual bored and indifferent one. But Noelle could see his tense features and the fact that he wasn't to be underestimated.
Even so, her self-preservation had flown a long time ago—maybe at the same time she'd been told she was to marry a stranger.
Tipping her chin up, she regarded him squarely in the eyes.
"Yes," she said.
Yuyu gasped. Elena yelled. Amo cursed. Cisco simply stared at her, looking eerily frightening as he did.
"I'll ask you once more, Noelle, and I want to hear the truth. It won't bode well for that friend of yours if you lie to me."
"What… What do you mean?"
"You think I wasn't aware you were talking to someone? That it's why you're obsessed with your computer? In the beginning, I let it slide since it seemed to help you get out of your shell. But I see I made a mistake. So answer me. Did you, or did you not sleep with him?"
Noelle was shocked at Cisco's admission that he'd known all along.
