“Goodnight, my love.”
I leave without looking back and head back home, grateful for everything I have in my life right now.
Just as I’m heading up the steps to the front door, my phone vibrates in my pocket.
Weird.
Who the hell is texting me at this time of night?
I pull it out, a sickening feeling filling me as I see it’s a text from an unknown number. There’s no preview, and I unlock the phone to open the message.
Unknown
What would your best friend think about you visiting his little sister in the middle of the night wearing a mask?
The wording is clearly the same from the note left on my car, meaning it’s the same person who sent the messages.
Which means they not only know about mine and Gracie’s relationship, but about my masked persona too…
Well fuck.
FORTY-ONE
GRACIE
Ifight a yawn as I listen to the professor speak.
Not only is this class boring as hell, but I also didn’t sleep much last night.
I had woken up as soon as Noah let himself into my dorm, but I pretended to be asleep, wanting to know what he would do.
What I didn’t expect was for him to lay his mask on the bed beside me after I murmured his name.
Does he know that I know?
I don’t think he does, but why else would he leave the mask?
Does this mean that he’s done with the whole anonymous persona? He hasn’t texted me from that number yet today when he normally would in the mornings, so itisa possibility.
Is it because he feels bad for lying to me the entire time?
Does he plan on coming clean?
Somehow, I don’t think that’s the case.
Ithasbeen fun messing with him though. Serves him right for all of the confusion and stress he’s put me through.
It’s strange how things can change so much in such a short amount of time.
Not too long ago, I saw Noah as nothing but one of my brother’s best friends. Sure, we were friends too, but I had always placed him in a box that was labeled as one of Cole’s friends. I had never thought to pull him out of that box, never seen him as anything but that.
People would ask me how I didn’t crush on all of the guys, and my answer was always the same.
Because they were like brothers to me.
Obviously notbrothers, brothers because ew, but they were always strictly in a zone where the lines couldn’t be crossed.
And all that time, Noah was harboring feelings for me. I know that to be true, because there’s no way he would do everything he did if he didn’t feel something for me.
