HIS HOPE (On Hold)

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HOPE'S POV:

"You know we have to do another project now." I sighed thinking about the project that we get in our physics class.
"Yeah! And it's really hard. What do you think, if I pay money to our teacher instead of this fucking project will she give me good grades?" Luca said wiggling his eyebrows.
Aria smacked his head from behind at which he winced "hey! Why are you hitting me?"
"Because you dumbass can't even think properly. If you even think something like that Ms. Adams will surely fail you and then you've to repeat this year." She said.
Well. She's true. Ms. Adams is really strict and not tolerate any carelessness or inappropriate behavior from the students. But thanks to my brain that I've never failed physics and is quite good at it. So atleast I'm not on the bad side in Ms. Adams list.

We stopped at our favorite ice cream shop and exited the car.
The owner of this shop is a old man who lost his wife and children in an accident and is currently in his late 50's. He is our favorite and we know him since our childhood. He's really loving towards us. Also they not only sell ice creams but coffee, desserts and much more.
"Hello, Mr. Ricci" I waved at him when he was serving a coffee to one of his customer. Seeing us he smiled and came towards us.
"Ohh! My favorite children. How are you? Anything special that you all are here together?" He said while hugging me in a fatherly way.
"It's just we were missing your ice creams" I said while looking up at him.
"Ohh that's the thing. Then you sit here and I just came with your favourite creams and cookie ice cream." He said and I nodded while smiling.
"But mr. Ricci, I want mint chocolate chip." Luca whined and Aria just shaked her head looking at his childish acts.
"Right away." He said and we three sat on our table beside a window.
I was just seeing outside of the window and these two were just bickering about which is better 'pizza or pasta?' When I saw three expensive looking black cars stopping at the outside of this shop. I just shrugged it away thinking that there are so many expensive cars and focused on the ice cream that Mr. Ricci came with. He put our ice creams on our table and went away to attend his other customers.

Just when I put the spoon of ice cream in my mouth, I moaned and closed my eyes because of the heavenly taste of it. God!! There's nothing more better than ice cream in this world.
"Ohhho! I didn't know that our cute Virgin can also make these type of sounds." Aria hooted.
Listening her statement a deep red hue made it's way on my face and I portested shyly "It's just my ice cream tastes so good. Don't compare this to other things."
"Okay okayy" she chuckled amd raised her hands in surrender.

The bell chimes indicating that another customer has entered the store but immediately there was a different kind of silence and felt as if the person has a really dark, scary and powerful aura around it. He was a tall person with a height of approximately 6'3 feet and has his muscular back towards me. But something different was about this person, I wanna see his face but my trance was broke up by a ping sound that came from my phone.
I opened the phone only to see a notification from Gio.

Big Gio
Hey bambina!
Come home soon. Grandpa and grandma are here. They're missing you.

Reading the notification, my eyes lit up. Grandpa and grandma are absolutely my favorite. I've to go home fast.
I informed Luca and Aria that we've to go and they agreed.

I stood up from my seat and paid the bill for our ice creams even when Mr. Ricci denied to take money from us but I forcefully gave him and he just shake his head on my childishness.

When I turn to exit the door, I bumped into someone due to which their hot coffee fell on my hand and I winced.
Tears came out of my eyes because of the burning sensation on my hand and when I look up to see into whom I bumped, the same person who has entered the store a few minutes ago in a grey suit came into my view. His grey eyes were darkened but soften soon when they met mine. Looking at his face, I noticed that he's really handsome, with a perfect jawline and high cheekbones he was looking like a greek god.
"Are you okay ангел (angel)?" He asked with a thick russian accent but I just sniffed to control my tears looking at my now red hand.
"Hope, you okay pumpkin?" Luca came from behind and checked my hand. "Hey man! Are you fucking blind or what? Huh? " luca said with rage to the stranger.
When I look at the stranger he has an angry look on his face and jaw clenched.