As they say in fashion

chapter 7

Noah bolted down the stairs and onto the sidewalk. He looked both ways and saw that Jasper was walking to his left. He sprinted to catch up. He grabbed his arm. "Jasper!" Jasper turned to face Noah.

"You should go and hang out with Preston." The way he said that, the way he looked at him, Noah actually felt he did something wrong.

"I didn't do anything wrong!" he shouted. "You broke up with me. You left."

"Let me go." He yanked his thick forearm out of Noah's hands, the force causing Noah to fall forward onto the sidewalk. He had scraped his knee.

"But you broke up with me. I...I don't know why you are so mad," he said, looking up at Jasper from the ground.

"I broke up with you to protect you," he barked angrily. He yanked Noah up onto his feet, and people were beginning to stare. It looked as if Jasper was hurting the substantially smaller Noah.

"But you said--you said," Noah started.

"I said you couldn't change and I knew you would try if I told you to. Even if you did change it wouldn't have made a difference."

"Why?"

& quot;I told you my mother was a bitch and you insisted on meeting her."

"That has nothing to do with us."

"It has everything to do with us," Jasper said, brow furrowed.

"Then tell me what the hell you are talking about," Noah insisted, wanting to be in on the loop.

"I had to break up with you or my mother would ruin your career. She said she had a lot of pull in the fashion world, and she does. If I continued to date you, you'd be ruined." Noah felt sick, why didn't he think of that before? He should have seen he was upset when he had to break up with him.

"So are we still over?" Noah felt tears well up in his eyes.

"Of course, I can't let all your hard work go to waste."

"I don't care." He ran into Jasper and hugged him. He grabbed him and felt his warm, solid body. He cried into his chest and felt him. People probably were staring, and, as a matter of fact, people were staring. "I don't care," he whispered again to himself.

"Okay," Jasper agreed. In truth, Jasper was so glad. He loved Noah.

Preston had never heard of rejection and when Noah told him what they had was a one night thing he flipped out. He yelled about how "Nobody dumps Preston Jacobs!" Noah wasn't entirely sure where he got the idea they were dating.Jasper's mother pulled some strings and one of the biggest fashion designers in the business was quoted as saying how unappealing Noah's designs were.

Everyone else strongly disagreed.

When Jasper got back from his stay with his mother he quickly gained back the weight he lost and more. Two months back with Noah and he weighed 264 pounds.

Jasper was plastered across every magazine for two weeks straight. Noah wondered how they got him to look so fat. He didn't look nearly as big as in the pictures.

Well, not yet anyway.




The End!