right from first glance, noel (my mc) looked at baxter with stars in her eyes. something about baxter being a fancy rich kid really interested her! she developed a small crush on him later on but quickly moved on and started seeing him more as a brother figure instead.
for ren on the other hand, she didn't like him. AT ALL. you know how ren is just so slightly more distant to girls but noel really took that personally, thinking he didn't like her and that started the one-sided beef between the two of them which lasted for about 2 years