The Hero Meets the Villain

Chapter 4: Another Day, Another World

Penn found himself walking along with his friends on the way to The Odyssey, where people knew that that cinema was long gone when actually, it hires a bunch of teenagers to try and save the world in every dimensions unheard of.

The orange-haired teen tried to listen to his big friend's story about a meatloaf, but it just went through from his left ear to the right. He kept thinking back to the moment when you had clutched his arm and so dangerously close to him. It made his cheeks flush a lovely red. He just wished you hadn't seen that.

"Penn?" Sashi asked him. He looked at her curiously. "Are you okay? You seemed off."

Penn had always appreciated Sashi's companionship. He knows that she's always trying her best to socialize with him and Boone, even though she could be a little harsh sometimes. "I'm fine," Penn answered. "Just thinking of something, that's all."

"Some thing, or someone?" Boone laughed at his own wit. "I'm telling you, Penn, with the way you're looking at Y/N at art class is out of this world. You couldn't take your eyes off her-"

"Okay!" Penn exclaimed in a panic. His face was almost the same shade of his hair now, and he was trying to get his breathing back to normal. "Stop. And I'm not thinking about Y/N, Boone."

Sashi raised an eyebrow. "Or maybe, you're thinking about the girl in the other dimension?"

"Did she actually tell us her name? I don't remember," Boone faced his friend.

"Yeah, let's just call her 'No Name' until she actually tell us. As if she would." She scoffed as she crossed her arms.

"As if you would even let her near you."Penn rolled his eyes before they all turned left and now they could see the theatre. But his eyes landed on someone who wore a smile.

"Hi Penn, Sashi, Boone!" You beamed.

"Hi," "Hello," "Yellow," They all said back.

"Where are you heading to?" Sashi asked you.

Your smile went wider. "Oh, I was just going to this newly-opened bakery. Wanna come with? My treat."

"Yes!" Boone answered immediately. Sashi subtly glared at her big friend who knows that they are actually in a hurry because they have to go to work. But the word 'treat' is one of her rare weaknesses.

You looked up at Penn who was actually busy staring at you. You fought the blush that was coming on your cheeks. "Penn? You want to go? I actually want to repay you from earlier." Your eyes seemed to sparkle. Oh, your eyes that he could swim in. He could see stars in those lovely shades.

He suddenly felt a harsh elbow on his side. "Ow!" He whined at Sashi who was giving him a cold stare. He turned to you, who was patiently waiting an answer with a hopeful look on your face. "Of course. We'd love to join you."

"Okay. Let's go!" You declared, consciously taking Sashi and Penn's arms and sandwiched between them. Boone wanted to hook his own arm around Sashi, but she snarled at him so he had no choice but to go around and went for Penn instead. He was frozen like ice, fully-knowing that he was holding arms with you.

The four of you eventually stepped inside the bakery, where it immediately greeted you with a warm and sweet smell of cinnamon.

"Good afternoon!" A short woman, not shorter than Sashi, greeted. She had short, raven hair, and naturally narrowed eyes, giving you a hint that maybe she's Asian. "Welcome to our bakery. What can I get you?"

"Did you just bake something with cinnamon in it? That one please." Boone ordered. You just giggled at him that was clearly trying to take advantage of your treat right now.