Through the Screen novel Chapter 9

"abel! your phone has been buzzing since forever, who is texting you?"

"darling my hands aren't free, could you check who it is?"

"but you don't like me snooping through your phone. you said that yourself remember?"

"i didn't mean it," abel sighed. his stomach drops every time noah brings up the past but abel can't really blame him. abel was short tempered and stupid and just so fucking sorry but he had no idea how to apologise to noah for his actions. they just weren't acceptable.

"please check it for me?" he pleaded softly and heard a loud sigh erupt from noah's mouth before he checked it.

"it's um, it's chris," noah said uncomfortably, fingers tightening their grip on abel 's phone when he saw that he had been texting him on snapchat. why can't they use normal texting forums? why snapchat? "on snapchat," he added, his tone hostile and abel just peeked his head out of the kitchen doorway.

"can you text him back saying that i'm busy?"

"i-um, okay," noah agreed, not understanding why it was important to text chris right away. was he that important? abel could simply reply to his messages once he was free, like he did to noah, but abel insisted that chris should know that he's busy.

"thank you sweetheart,"