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tenants of the sixth floor, but they would think he was a scammer and call the cops.
    Noel took sight of6B and walked towards the door. He could always just leave. She didn’t know Alex wasn’t coming, so what were the chances she knew he’d be at her doorstep? He could just say he went to Clara’s, but Noel was here, and he already had an invested interest in her brunette neighbour.
    Taking a deep and long breath of air, he had to make sure he was ready to face Clara. He had to force his unwilling hand to form a fist and knock on the white door. He only heard the sounds of a faint TV that sounded like it had been left on.
    She isn’t home. I can sneak out and look for a hotel.
    “Hang on a second,” he heard a soft voice yell. Clara was home. He had barely been in the country long and he had been left disappointed and frustrated. Noel was already regretting being back home. Now he had to wait for Clara to open the door and ruin his life.
    Taking another look around the corridor, he tried to guess the apartment the brunette lived in. When the door to 6B opened, he was stunned; his breath caught in his throat, his heart started to race, and his hands began to sweat. Before him in a pastel pink dress was a brunette beauty; she was beyond anything he had ever laid eyes on.
    It was then that he knew why Liam didn’t want him to know about her; she was beautiful. Her hair graced past her shoulders in long curls. She had little makeup on, highlighting her soft, golden-brown eyes. Noel was literally breathless by her beauty.
    However, her eyes reflected differently than to what he would have liked. She looked frightened and shocked to see him at her front door. The man at the counter must have given him the wrong apartment. By some sort of miracle, the universe gave him the brunette’s apartment and not Clara’s.
    She continued to stare with feared expressions and Noel continued to observe and take in her beauty.
    I need to say something... anything.
    “Hey, I’m sorry it looks like the man at the counter gave me the wrong apartment,” Noel said after an exchange of looks. The confused one on her face was one he liked.
    She’s cute when she pulls that face.
    “Excuse me?” she replied after a minute of silence. Her voice was a soft yell, but she had an irritated tone.
    “I’m actually here to see my best friend’s sister that somehow needs babysitting. I’d rather jump off a cliff into a sea of sharks than see her, but I have to. But it seems I’m at the wrong apartment because I know she could never pull off a dress like yours.” He laughed, hoping she would, too.
    Her face looked down to inspect her dress and then made their way back up to him. Their eyes met, but her eyes reflected anger and irritation. He waited for her to reply, but instead Noel watch as the door slammed in front of his face. If he had been a little closer, like he wished he had, he would have a broken nose. He stood there stunned and confused.
    She didn’t know Clara, did she?
    He never mentioned her name, so he had no answer for the door slamming in his face. Noel put it down to her not liking him making fun of another woman. He was already breathless from her beauty, but her gutsy personality had him wanting more. Clara would have to wait. He needed to know the brunette’s name, and he needed to know everything about her. He knocked again and waited a minute until she opened the door.
    “Look, I didn’t mean to insult you or anything. I’m all for feminism, but I was joking. Sharks aren’t necessary at the bottom of that hypothetical cliff. If I’m honest, I’d probably just drown, but there was no need to slam the door in my face. We should at least get to know each other since we’ll be neighbours. I’m Noel,” he said as he stuck out his hand towards her.
    She looked at his hand in disgust, and he was sure Liam had never seen this side of her before. She let out a few breaths of air as if it calmed her. When she finally