She nodded with determination that suggested she wasn't easily discouraged by the way he responded. "I need you in my life." She countered his passive stance with an offensive flirt.
She is quite the direct one...huh?
Noah laughed again before shaking his head gently. "You're too young."
With that polite dismissal, he continued walking, hoping to avoid the complications that dating represented in his current circumstances.
The girl was certainly beautiful; he could tell she was probably only a year or two younger than him at most, which wouldn't normally present an issue. The real problem was his own emotional barriers.
Noah has been in a few relationships, and none of them have worked out with him.
After those romantic failures, he'd developed some psychological walls between himself and potential partners, defences that protected him from another failure.
I plan to work on that eventually. Staying with Lola has actually been helping with it.
