IMESSAGE GC
❝ wtf is going onnnn ❞
brielle → briiii
kj → kaY jaY
max → maxy

kaY jaY
what's happening?
somebody give me updates!!
fuck i feel so left out

maxy
it's your fault for not coming
on the early  flight with us

kaY jaY
it's not my fault i had a huge test
to take at 9am and couldn't wake
up at the ass crack of dawn to hop
on a 6am flight with you guys
so anyway just tell me what's going on

maxy
idk what's happening
she got on the elevator up to
his room like five minutes ago
they're probably talking rn

kaY jaY
are they back together yet????

maxy
I Already Said I Don't Know

briiii
can you guys shut the fuck up
you're making me more nervous
than i already am

maxy
BRI why aren't you in
there talking to noah yet

briiii
because i'm standing outside
of his hotel room like the scared
lil bitch i am🥰🥰😭

kaY jaY
big sigH
brielle go into that hotel room
and fucking get your mans back

briiii
you make that sound so much
easier then it actually is
what if he hates me now and
doesn't wanna get back together

maxy
i honestly don't think
that will happen

briiii
you don't know that for sure

maxy
and you don't know for
sure that he hates you

kaY jaY
bri you have to do this
we didn't fly to canada
for nothing

briiii
kj you're not even here yet

kaY jaY
yea but my flight's in three
hours and i wanna make sure
i'm getting on it for a reason
basically what i'm saying is knock on that door and profess your undying love for noah so i can come to toronto too and we all can eat some canadian food and laugh and have fun

briiii
lmao when did this turn into romcom

maxy
holy SHIT
YOU AND NOAH'S RELATIONSHIP LITERALLY STARTED BECAUSE OF A ROMCOM

kaY jaY
woahhhhh that's right
bri this is literally meant to be

maxy
o my fuckin god i love being a
genius and connecting all of the dots

briiii
OOF i hate you guys
but honestly as cheesy as this
may sound. i think you guys
might possibly be right😳😳😳

———

REAL LIFE
brielle — right
noah — left

brielle used the small amount of confidence that she gained from her text conversation with max and kj to finally give the door of noah's hotel room three quick knocks.

it felt like hours as she waited for him to open the door, but in reality it was only about a minute. the door was pulled open to reveal noah wearing a simple black hoodie and grey basketball shorts. brielle noticed his eyes widening a bit as he saw her standing in front of him. her heart was pounding so hard that she could hear the quick thump in her ears.

for a moment, it was quiet, neither of them saying a word to the other, until the silence started to become a bit awkward and brielle decided to say the first thing she could think of.

"um, it's cold in canada."

any other time brielle knew that noah would've laughed at her random statement, but in that moment he didn't. and that's what made the girl truly understand that things between them were definitely different than what they used to be.

"bri, what are you
doing here?"

his words hadn't come out angry or annoyed, instead they sounded more indifferent, like he didn't really care that she was there right then. and brielle knew that he had every right to react in that way considering how she ended things between them. however, she still felt kind of hurt by his tone.

"i, um, should probably just go. . .
fuck, it was stupid of me to think that i could try and fix things between us."

before noah could respond to what she said or slam the door in her face, brielle turned and made a beeline for the elevator that was located about twenty feet down the hall.

when she was within an arm's reach of pressing the down button so that she could meet back up with max in the lobby and tell him how much of a mistake this whole thing was, she felt a hand grab hers causing her to stop in her tracks; from the soft touch she knew it was noah.

"you want to fix things
between us?"

his words had come out differently than his other question did, however, brielle was unable to tell what this tone was. her eyes searched his for some type of indication that he wanted everything to be fixed between the pair as well, but she couldn't get anything from his expression.

"i don't want to do
this out here."

noah nodded his head understandingly and grabbed brielle's hand once again leading her back to his hotel room. once inside, they both took a seat at the foot of his bed.

"so. . . ?"

there were so many things that brielle knew she wanted to say, but she had no idea how to say them. back down in the lobby, max had told her not to really think about how she wanted to say things and instead just speak from her heart, so in the end that's what she decided to do. starting with the first thing that came to her mind right then.

"i was so fucking wrong. about
literally everything, noah."

after saying those two statements, brielle looked up from her lap, which she had been staring at since they sat on his bed,
and finally met noah's gaze instead.

"and i know it's pretty obvious what i was dumbass about, but i'll still say it. i was wrong about saying that our relationship wasn't strong enough to handle something long distance. . . the reason i thought that would be the case for us was because pretty much every long distance relationship i saw ended badly. . . one prime example of that being my parents. throughout a lot of my childhood they were together but not really because my dad always had to travel to different states for business. and i saw how they went from a couple that loved each other a lot to two people that couldn't stand even talking on the phone to one another. and i knew then that i would never want to put myself through something like that with whoever i dated."

brielle finally took a pause and noah opened his mouth to say something, but she stopped him before he could.

"hold on, there's more. two days ago, my mom told me that the reason her and my dad couldn't work out was because he didn't want to put in the effort to try and make them work through the whole long distance thing. and i know that's what makes us different from them because after being an emotional wreck these past couple days i know for a fact that i want to try my hardest to make this work with us. and i hope i'm right by saying that you wanna do the same thing too."

"bri. . ."

the way that he said her name made brielle's entire world quickly come crashing down. a second ago, she felt that everything she said to him was perfect, but apparently it was either completely wrong or not enough to make him feel the same way anymore.

"no, stop, you don't have to say
it. i understand how you feel
now. and it's okay, really."

her voice cracked on the last sentence and brielle could feel the tears begin to well in her eyes, but she quickly blinked them back so that she didn't end up crying in front of noah. after a quick moment, she decided to get up and start to leave his room.

"no, bri, wait."

she really didn't want to stop and wait, but she did. and when she looked at noah she noticed that the look on his face wasn't one that looked as if he felt bad for her because he no longer felt the way he used to. in fact, the look was the exact opposite, and he had a small smile on his face as well.

"i am so fucking happy
you're here right now."

brielle breathed out the biggest sigh of relief and nuzzled herself in noah's extended arms for a long embrace. the tears still managed to find a way to come out, but they were now joyous ones.

"you scared the shit out of me!
(laughs lightly) god, i hate you."

her voice was slightly muffled by noah's neck, but he was still able to hear what she said, which caused him to laugh a bit.

"i'm sorry."

"no, i'm sorry. it took me too long
to realize that we'll be able to get through this whole long distance
thing."

"don't be sorry, i don't care anymore. you're here now and that's all that matters."

brielle pulled out of the hug and their lips met in a soft kiss. the next few minutes went with their kiss becoming more heated and noah's hoodie somehow finding its way onto the floor along with the jacket brielle was wearing. when he pulled back from the kiss their eyes immediately met each other's gaze.

"i love you so much, bri."

"(smiles) i love you too."

and with that, they went back to what they were previously doing, more and more items of clothing falling off in the process.

both of them knew that the next six months were going to be hard, but in that moment, they were completely ready for whatever it threw at them.