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Keeper of my Heart
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3 Chapters
Chapter 6 Six img
Chapter 7 Seven img
Chapter 8 Eight img
Chapter 9 Nine img
Chapter 10 Ten img
Chapter 11 Eleven img
Chapter 12 Twelve img
Chapter 13 Thirteen img
Chapter 14 Fourteen img
Chapter 15 Fifteen img
Chapter 16 Sixteen img
Chapter 17 Seventeen img
Chapter 18 Eighteen img
Chapter 19 Nineteen img
Chapter 20 Twenty img
Chapter 21 Twenty-One img
Chapter 22 Twenty-Two img
Chapter 23 Twenty-Three (Part 1) img
Chapter 24 Twenty-Three (Part 2) img
Chapter 25 Twenty-Four (Part 1) img
Chapter 26 Twenty-Four (Part 2) img
Chapter 27 Twenty-Five (Part 1) img
Chapter 28 Twenty-Five (Part 2) img
Chapter 29 Twenty-Six img
Chapter 30 Twenty-Seven img
Chapter 31 Twenty-Eight (Part 1) img
Chapter 32 Twenty-Eight (Part 2) img
Chapter 33 Twenty-Nine (Part 1) img
Chapter 34 Twenty-Nine (Part 2) img
Chapter 35 Thirty img
Chapter 36 Thirty-One img
Chapter 37 Thirty-Two (Part 1) img
Chapter 38 Thirty-Two (Part 2) img
Chapter 39 Thirty-Three img
Chapter 40 Thirty-Four (Part 1) img
Chapter 41 Thirty-Four (Part 2) img
Chapter 42 Thirty-Five img
Chapter 43 Thirty-Six (Part 1) img
Chapter 44 Thirty-Six (Part 2) img
Chapter 45 Thirty Seven img
Chapter 46 Thirty-Eight img
Chapter 47 Thirty-Nine img
Chapter 48 Forty img
Chapter 49 Forty-One img
Chapter 50 Forty-Two img
Chapter 51 Forty-Three img
Chapter 52 Forty-Four img
Chapter 53 Forty-Five img
Chapter 54 Forty-Six img
Chapter 55 Forty-Seven img
Chapter 56 Forty-Eight img
Chapter 57 Forty-Nine img
Chapter 58 Fifty img
Chapter 59 Fifty-One img
Chapter 60 Fifty-Two img
Chapter 61 Fifty-Three img
Chapter 62 Fifty-Four img
Chapter 63 Fifty-Five img
Chapter 64 Fifty-Six img
Chapter 65 Fifty-Seven img
Chapter 66 Fifty-Eight (END) img
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Chapter 3 Three

"Can you believe my dad?" Noel rants to Priscilla. "What was he thinking allowing someone like Harken Lewis to live with us? He's despicable! He made blatant comments about my sex life like we've been friends for years. Who does that? The audacity!"

"Are you done? My eardrums, girl," Priscilla complains, covering her ears.

Noel stops screaming and huffs in silent anger, not feeling any better after getting all that out. She has never tried to hide the fact that she is a virgin and inexperienced in pretty much every aspect of love, but never has she had someone flat-out point it out in front of her, let alone a complete stranger.

"Actually, no, I'm not. Why the hell did my dad even bring him home? He just expected me to accept this stranger in my home with no explanation as to why he is here?" Noel continues.

Priscilla falls back onto her bed, groaning into the pillow.

"Maybe you guys should just screw, get it over with and get all this sexual tension out of the way, then see where it goes from there. You'll be killing two birds with one stone, get him off your back and get your obsession with your virginity taken care of. Besides, I just saw him and looks wise he is a 10, who cares if his personality is in the negatives?" Priscilla says, at this point barely paying attention, flipping through her phone.

"Why did I know you were going to suggest that? Not everything can be solved by just throwing yourself at the other person, especially not a boy like Harken. I mean, you saw him, doesn't he just scream playboy jerk?" Noel cries.

"Jerk? I thought it was asshole?"

"Ah!" Priscilla and Noel scream in unison, looking at Harken leaning against the doorframe, that infamous crooked smirk on his handsome face. Did he hear anything Priscilla just said?

Ugh, why did God favour his looks but not his personality? Wait...he said I called him an asshole?

Finally hitting her, Noel remembers the jerk motorcycle driver from earlier and puts it together – that was Harken, go figure.

"It's inappropriate for a guy to enter a girl's room, it's called manners," Noel sneers, crossing her arms against her chest in defiance just wanting him to disappear from in front of her.

Harken snorts at her. "You're so uptight, damn. Don't bother trying to cover yourself, there isn't anything there to cover, by the way."

"Ugh, you're infuriating! What do you want?" Noel asks, feeling her patience running as thin as a spider's web.

"Give me the code for the garage, I want to put my bike in there, it's supposed to rain later," he says.

Noel frowns, remembering she has already long set up the garage as her home art studio because her dad is never home to use it and she doesn't have a car of her own, it was just being used for storage with more than enough room for her.

But she would have to remove everything just to fit his stupid bike.

"Don't you have a cover for it?" Priscilla asks, knowing her friend will most likely cave under the domineering attitude of this ass.

He most likely does and is just looking for an excuse to vent his boredom onto Noel, but she doesn't care. If sacrificing her art studio will get him to leave her alone, it's more than enough.

"Just ask my dad for it."

"He's not here, oh, he also wanted me to tell you he's going to the office and won't be back tonight, so more reason for me to use the garage, right?"

He actually left me alone for the night with this delinquent douche-nozzle?!

Feeling at her wit's end, Noel storms out of the room and down to the garage. She punches in the code with Harken standing right behind her, the heat from his chest slamming into her back, causing her fingers to start shaking.

"You could've just given me the code," he says, his breath fanning down the back of her neck. She tenses her shoulders and wiggles away from him, only feeling like she can breathe when there is some distance between them.

"Maybe I get a thrill out of defying people. Honestly, can you imagine such a person? I'm loads of fun to be around I assure you," she says mockingly, hoping he picks up she is referring to his infuriating behaviour towards her.

Harken hunches over and lets out a bark of laughter, the sound filling up the hollow garage.

"Woo, that was a good one, Little Red, didn't think you had that in you."

She wrinkles her nose in disgust. "Little Red?"

"Yeah, like little red riding hood and I'm the big bad wolf, coming to eat you up." He winks at her, and she hates how beet red her face becomes from his stupid comment, her heart beating wildly.

She just rolls her eyes in disgust and turns away from him, admiring what used to be her haven spot.

"Why did your parents name you Noel?" he suddenly asks her

"It was my mom who picked it," she mutters, not exactly wanting to walk down memory lane of her mother with Harken Lewis. He can make fun of her life however he wants, even comment on her virginity, but it's a different story when it comes to her late mother.

Harken seems to sense that this is a touchy subject, and doesn't comment further on the subject, looking around the garage in silence, his eyes fall on the corner of the room where her art studio is set up.

"Never took you to be a painter," he says, flicking one of the paint brushes sitting in a paint-splattered plastic cup on the end table. "Don't most artists have wild and crazy sides to them? Not many artists are considered hermits."

"How would you know that? No one has ever said a painter needs to be wild of any sort, look at Bob Ross."

Harken chuckles. "Yeah, then look at artists like Vincent van Gogh. Do you want to be an artist like him or Bob Ross?"

Noel is already expecting him to say something snarky, but this time he actually poses a point in what he is saying. Although both painters are known for their work, before and after their golden time, they are known and remembered in two very different ways.

When Noel thinks of artists like Bob Ross, she thinks of simple and serene paintings. When she thinks of Vincent van Gogh, she thinks of daring and eccentric artwork. Both have their place in the world, but what kind of artist does Noel want to be known and remembered as? A shut-in with limited varieties, or an eccentric with bountiful creativities?

"I get your point," she grumbles. "Let me just move my stuff out, you can put your bike in the corner until my dad gets back."

"Does he always leave you here alone?"

Noel just shrugs, not sure what's going through Harken's mind as he is suddenly being neutral towards her after pushing her buttons all evening.

"Well, whatever, if he says anything I can feign innocence. I was never given the garage code, anyway," he says and winks at Noel, turning on the switch and reverting to the Harken she first met.

That peace was short-lived.

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