"Where are we going?" Hope was very giddy. She didn't look like a girl who just broke up with her boyfriend.
Probably, Hope didn't think of Oliver as her boyfriend and didn't feel guilty too because that boy had seen and treated her wrongly.
"Watching a movie?" Kace raised his eyebrows questioningly. "Or do you have something in your pretty little head?" He tousled her hair and enjoyed the moment when Hope's expression turned unsightly as she slapped his upper arm.
"Don't mess with my hair." She pouted cutely and this only made Kace laughed, he was very happy now. "Hm! Watching movie? Cool!"
"Check, what movies are playing in the Kingstone city?" Kace gave her his phone as his eyes focused on the road ahead.
Kingstone city was the closest city to mystic river village and since the small village didn't have a theater, thus the only way to watch a movie was to go to the Kingstone city.
The distance between two places was around half an hour by car.
"What genre will you prefer?" Hope took the phone and started to search what kind of movies were playing now.
"I am fine with all genres." Kace shrugged his shoulder, actually he wasn't into a movie, but teenager like Hope, usually, would go on a date by watching one, thus Kace wanted to experience it too with Hope.
"Thriller." Hope saw one of the posters that picked her interest. "I want to see thriller movie."
"Are you sure?" Kace glanced at the girl beside him. "Thriller movie for our first date?"
"Why not?" Hope beamed with her choice of movie. "We need some adrenaline!"
"What an absurd reason." Kace chuckled. "Thriller movie then."
after that, Hope spent her time until they reached the Kingstone city by singing on the top of her lungs. Her voice was not really harmonious and she often missed the tone, but Kace enjoyed it nonetheless.
Kace glanced at Hope for the dozens of times since they got into the car, the girl was wearing blue tee shirt with white skirt, which was ten centimeter bellow her knees.
She was so cute with her hair was tied up into a messy bun.
"White and blue, huh?" Kace grinned as he teased her. "Is that represent my color?" his blue eyes and his white beast.
However, Hope didn't answer his question, she just pulled out her tongue and made a face. "Don't be so c.o.c.ky!"
After that, she sang again, not care about her surroundings, as she felt very happy now.
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Inside the theatre, Kace and Hope were like most of the couple there; holding hands, teasing each other and smiling most of the time.
Kace was sure there was no one who knew them there, people from the village was very rare to go to this city, as they would prefer to go to Iloned city, which was bigger than this and only took ten minutes longer.
Hope didn't know why, but she really enjoyed the moment and felt very comfortable with Kace beside her. Probably because she had known this man all her life.
It felt very natural to be with Kace, holding hand, talking and everything as if they had been a couple for years.
With ice chocolate in her hands, a small box of popcorn and a handsome guy beside her, Hope walked into the theatre happily.
This moment was very perfect!
Until she heard a woman's voice called Kace's name.
There were many kinds of women, but this one, who was approaching them with her slender legs and full b.r.e.a.s.t was the kind that Hope disliked the most.
"It really is you." The woman curly chestnut- color hair tumbled on her shoulder as she walked, beside her, there was a man as tall as Kace.
"Abby." Kace acknowledge the woman curtly as he pulled Hope closer toward him, which automatically drew the woman's attention toward her. "Leon." This time Kace grinned when he greeted the man behind the woman named Abby.
"What are you doing here?" Leon raised his eyebrows amused with this sudden encounter.
"Dating my girl." Kace nodded at Hope, put the limelight on her head as he smiled proudly.
"This is the girl…" Leon's hazel eyes traveled to the girl beside Kace. "Time really flies, she has come at the age that you can date her now."
Abby tilted her head as she scrutinized the girl in front of her and Hope really didn't like the way she stared at her, which she reciprocated with a cynical smile.
"What the two of you doing here?" Kace knew Hope was uncomfortable with this situation. "I thought you were in the southeast."
"There will be a coven in the north and every witch is invited." Abby replied to Kace's question. "And he wanted to come with me, since it had been years since the last time he was in the north." She tilted her head toward leon.
Hope was at lost with this conversation, as she didn't have any idea what they were talking about right now.
However, she hated it when every time Abby was answering Kace's question, though those questions were not directed to her.
It was clear to see that Kace didn't want to talk to Abby, but this woman turned blind eyes to every sign that Kace gave to her.
Such an annoying person…
"Kace," Hope tugged his sleeves, "The movie is about to start."
"We will go first then," Kace was directed his words toward Leon.
But then, Abby had Kace's ticket in her hands. "Oh, this your seat number." She raised the ticket.
"Give it back to me." Kace talked solemnly, but his eyes flickered with the color of red.
Leon, who saw this situation, immediately snatched the ticket from Abby's hand and returned it back to Kace.
"Our seat next to you, why don't we go together." And all of sudden, from empty air, Abby conjured two tickets with number of the seat next to Kace and Hope. "Let's go?"