Ida's POV

"Ida," Aiden taps on my hand to get my attention.

I shift my head to face his "yeah?"

"You will love the movie," he starts to promote a conversation. "I have already checked the reviews, and it's pretty hit, I never thought that you would agree to watch such a movie!"

"Oh! What's the movie about anyway?"

"Right, she never told you, did she?" He asks with no sign of surprise.

"No, but anyways she knows me too well to pick something I don't like," I explain.

"Hmm. I'm sure," he says, taking a deep breath.

"So, what's it about?" I repeat my question.

A smirk appears on his face, while his eyes loiter around, considering to tell or not.

"You'll find out soon,"

That's all he had to say.

Having not much thought over his words, I place my right elbow on the empty hand supporter shared by Aiden and my seat. Letting my head rest against my hand,
The popcorn that has been lying in the holder for the past couple of minutes caught my attention.

I stretch my hands in an attempt to take some popcorn. A tingling sensation goes down my spine as I feel Aiden's hands touching my fingers while he too made the same attempt.

In seconds we both pull our hands to our selves.

I turn my head away in awe of the feeling.

It's just a touch ...come on ...no need to feel shy or anything.

It was not an intimate contact, lolz.

My eyes glance back at him...he seems normal ...by normal I mean pretty normal because he has already stuffed popcorn in his mouth and is staring at the screen since the movie had just started.

I take a glance at Ethan to find that he is staring at me. I raise my eyebrows to question -what's up?

Ethan bends his head towards Engine's ear and whispers something while balancing himself in his posture.

As soon as Ethan completes whatever he told Engine, she turns her head to tell me something. I try reading her lips, but it's a bit too dark for that.

No need to lie to yourself; you have never been good at lip-reading. My subconscious adds.

My subconscious and I are going to have a good talk about this later.

I turn away to look at the screen and keep my mind on it.

It was just the beginning of the film.
And some family of 5 or so had shifted in some farmhouse.

Something about this film gave me the wrong vibes.

And it did ...because it was supposed to.

Holy moly.
Oh my fuck.
This is not happening.
It can't be happening.
It should not be happening.
Not to me.

"Oh my, fuck" I said that out loud with no intention.

"I guess you got it, right?" Aiden sighs.
"So, you wanna leave now?" He offers.

Of course, he knew it ...the movie was going to be a horror one.
He should have told me.

Okay calm down ...calm down
Take a deep breath, take a deep bre-

"Aahhhh!" I take my hands to cover my eyes that had just seen a horrifying scene. In the name of the God of mercy, please have mercy on my heart. My heart was throbbing, and it threatened to break my rib cage.

Okay, listen to me, your inner voice. You are going to be alright. Everything is gonna be just fine. It's gonna be a good good night.

Right listen up; you cannot make an embarrassment out of yourself. Alright!

"Calm down, Ida. Let's leave" he got up from his seat and gave me his hand.
Instead I grab his wrist tight.

"No!" I say in a rather harsh tone. I cough to get a hold of the situation and to redeem myself.
"I mean no, it's fine. Let's just continue,"

His brows furrow and my eyes interlock with his, as he keeps staring into mine with doubt and worry.

Our contact breaks when he looks behind his shoulder to the screen and immediately steps in front of me to block my view of the screen.
"Don't look. Close your eyes."

I follow his instructions, and I can feel him sit on the seat as I keep loosening my grip on his wrist. He adjusts himself and taps the side of my head to gently pull it towards his shoulders.

For a second I am shocked. But it's comforting and I don't want move away.

You cannot keep your head on someone you just met .
I did not just meet him today he is in my class.
Who you never talk to.
He is just trying to comfort me.
Then just walk out of the theatre you don't need this comfort.
And feel embarrassed for the fact that a seventeen year old cannot even keep her shit together?

I am currently fighting my inner voice, but of course I don't listen to it.

"Just try sleeping okay," he says.
I can feel his gaze on my head but never mind it.
"Mhmm, thanks for understanding,"

"No need to thank me, just sleep," he replies. The way his voice glitches, he was definitely shy .

Or maybe not

×××

(No, who are you? Leave me alone. Don't bother me.
Don't follow me. Why are you always lingering in the shadow behind me.
....
Anyone there?
...
Help me! Help me!
Hel-)

"-P me"

"Ida!"
"Ida!" It repeats.
"Help me" it came out of my mouth without my permission.

"Snap out of it, Ida."

"Oww!" My head hits someone and my eyes widen as I feel the tremor of a bad dream.
I immediately stand up from my seat and slowly recover my memories, letting the dream fade away.

Even though it did not since my heart was beating fast and I was still getting a hold of my breath.

Angelin and Ethan are standing right in front of me and Aiden is on his seat.
All six eyes on me.
"Are you alright Ida?" I hear Engine speak.

"Ugh!!" I cover my head in embarrassment.
"just leave me alone, please." I request.

"No Ida we can't, you know what happens to you after" She said rather in a hurry.

I look at her is askance "Well who cares anyways, I mean 'you' didn't. You were the one person I thought cared." I take a pause to look her in the eye to find at least some reason to forgive her, but to my dismay she can't even look me in the eye and tell me to listen to her explanation "Well seems I was wrong" I complete.

I shrug and take a look around to see that the theatre is pretty much empty and that the movie must have gotten over some time ago. For the last time I look back at everyone's face and take my way out of the theatre.

×××

Here I am trying to walk home, alone. With that dreadful feeling that someone is following me.

Not finding a single empty cab at 11:46 pm is bad, really bad.

I could easily call my mom and ask her to pick me up, but it is too late, and I definitely do not want her to worry.

I was already completely drained, answering her million questions was no more in my capacity.

Few minutes later some random car suddenly honks. Causing me to jump from my place. The driver rolls down the window to reveal his face "Hey babe want a drive ?" he winks.

I take note that he is wearing sunglasses (the weirdest thing I have seen at midnight), has a half-buttoned shirt on and a hard to notice ring in his right ear.

"No thank you," I reply to his offer.

"Oh, don't be a pussy, come on in. I promise it will be fun" he winks again.

"Fuck off piec-" before I could finish
a Knight in shining armor pops out of nowhere and puts his hand around my waist, pulling me closer with a gentle force "who's getting on the nerve of my girlfriend?"

The driver groans and takes his leave.

Yeah

This voice is extremely familiar.

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Hey all !
(you can skip the authors note if you want)

You may be slightly confused because I had ended the previous chapter with her reading the name of the movie . So she did read the name of the movie and you'll find out something about that in the next chapter.

Also, sorry for the short chapter.