Chapter 3: Meeting The Girl

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Halfway into watching the movie, Leonardo looks above to see Dan and Hayley sitting at their seats. He worryingly thinks, "I hope he didn't notice me while I was in line." His palms start sweating as he gulps loudly. The male sibling gets up from his seat to use the restroom, "Come with me so you can wait outside." he whispers as she reluctantly agrees exiting the screening for a few minutes.

Right as they left, Leonardo whispers to April, "Hey April I have to use the restroom I'll be right back" he quickly get's up. As he gets to the restroom door, he takes a deep breath like he's going to have a panic attack. Right as he calms down and is about to walk back into the theater, he sees the young teen girl outside of the men's restroom door.

She notices Leonardo and calls him, "Excuse me. Do I know you from somewhere?" she asks as he turns his head noticing her standing in front of him, she continues, "I'm sorry it's because I think your the guy that was staring at me in the cafeteria the other day which begs the question: Why were you staring at me and my brother the other day? I am just wondering there is no bad blood between us or did my brother do something to upset you?"

She asks waiting for a response. Leonardo doesn't know how to respond, "Okay be honest with me why were you staring and giving me the cold stare? I'm not sure what I did to you and your brother." She feels bad for giving Leonardo the death stare, "Listen I am sorry for that but I did that to get you to stop staring at me which worked well temporarily though."

Leonardo reconsiders, "I am sorry too I want to start over and introduce myself my name is Leonardo I am the oldest of four brothers. What is your name?" She turns around to see if her brother is out of the restroom and introduces herself, "My name is Hayley the person I walked with is my brother Dan who is in the restroom right now."

Leonardo smiles and compliments her, "Wow that's a beautiful name. You and your brother are not from New York are you? It's just that I've never seen you both at my school before and it got me wondering." Hayley does not want to dump her life story in as she quickly responds, "Yeah my brother and I are from Seattle, Washington which is where we use to live until our parents died in an accident. It has been us we don't have any relatives here in New York so it is just us living together we came here to start over and have better lives."

Leo is shocked to hear about Hayley's parents and apologizes, "I am truly sorry to hear about your parents but I have something to ask: Do you and your brother want to hang out with us at lunch? Your more than welcome to it's okay if you say no I won't get offended." Hayley looks at Leonardo surprised and accepts the offer, "Wait really? That's amazing I would love to meet you all including your brothers! I'm just shocked this is my first time I have been invited to something."

Hayley couldn't believe what she was hearing. Leonardo is very eager to hear that she accepted his invite, "Okay so Monday at lunch? We sit at same table that we were at today. It's a date I mean a lunch date wait no it's not! Not like a date between me and you it's just a hangout." his face turns red full of embarrassment.

Hayley understands, "I understand what you mean Leonardo that sounds good. I know for a fact that it is not a date or anything my brother wouldn't be to happy with this you know how he can be is it okay if he tags along?" Leonardo does not hesitate with his response, "Oh your brother? The one that stared at me? Sure why not I want to get to know him better so we don't stare at each other the entire time. Also you don't have to say my full name just call me Leo for short."

The duo agree to sit with each other at lunch on Monday as Leonardo is going to go back to the movie to sit with April. As he goes back to his seat and sits back down, April questions Leonardo, "Leo what took you so long?" she whispers annoyed. Leonardo tells April the conversation she had with Hayley, "April don't get mad but I talked to Hayley and I completely misjudged her she's actually really sweet. I invited her to sit with us at lunch on Monday. I'm not so sure about her brother Dan though she said she was going to talk to him" he tells her.

April doesn't get mad at him since they are onto a great start, "I actually want to get to know her Leo I'm glad you invited her." she says in a calm tone. Back outside of the movie screening, Dan is done using the restroom, she turns her head to see him walk out of the door, "Hey Dan your not gonna believe who I bumped into and I had a conversation with" she tells him with a smile on her face. Dan asks, "Let me guess the one guy that was staring at us in the cafeteria today? I don't know his name and I don't really care" he says with a cold tone.

Hayley tells him, "His name is Leonardo the one in the blue shirt and he is really nice you should give him a chance. He invited us to sit with him at lunch and I said yes." Dan gets bitter with his sister, "What did you tell him exactly? Did you tell him about our secret and that we moved away to get away from a certain person? You accepted his invite why would you do that? Hayley if they find out, we would have to move again and it will be your fault." he tells her not happy with his sister.

Hayley seemed to not like her brother's attitude, "Frist of all I never said that I only mentioned that we use to live in Seattle, Washington and that mom and dad died in an accident which is true. Another thing, I'm not gonna tell him our secret. I am not a child anymore you shouldn't treat me like one." she says as tears begin to stream down her eyes.

Dan regrets being upset with his sister giving her a hug, "Listen I'm sorry for how I acted just now it's just I do not want our secret exposed to the world, they will see us as monsters" he tells her as she wipes her leftover tears on her face. Leonardo gets up from his seat to use the restroom and sees that Dan and Hayley are hugging each other, he wonders what happened but doesn't interfere.

Raphael asks him whispering, "Who did you see" Leonardo tell his brother, " I invited her to sit with us at lunch on Monday" he says with a smirk on his face. Raphael's looks at him, "No you didn't. Prove it." he says. Leonardo whispers and tells his brother while watching the movie, "I slipped up and accidentally told her that it was a lunch date but she knows that it is not a date it's more of a hangout plus her brother is going to be with her anyway" he tells him without getting frustrated.

Raphael starts to tease him and not be loud about it, "You were going to ask her out? You like her I can definitely tell!! Ooohhh!!! Leo's got a girlfriend" he whispers as Leonardo seems a little irritated, "Stop! It's not like that" he admits as he feels he is trying to make a scene around them. Leonardo tries not to look at his brother and sees from the corner of his eye the two twins come back from outside.

As the movie ends, Leonardo looks over to see Dan and Hayley gone assuming they both left right away to avoid a conversation which saddened Leonardo but feels a little better since he talked to Hayley.

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