Broken

Chapter Five

**Mason's POV**

Later that night.....

I'm now driving to Tess' place to pick her up. To be honest, I don't actually have any plans for tonight. Maybe we can go see a movie. I'm in for some horror, but I don't know how Tess' going to react to that.

I haven't gone out with her for so long, but it's coming back to me now. Tess doesn't mind horror movies. Sometimes she'd be a little scared, but then she'd get over it and realise that it's just a movie.

Pulling into their driveway, I quickly make my way up to the front door and knock.

"Coming!" A voice calls from inside. Sounds like Tess.

After a few more seconds, she still hasn't opened the door yet. So I knock again.

"I'm coming!" She calls out.

After another couple of seconds, she finally opens the door.

"What took you so long to answer?" I question her.

"I was just busy with something." She answers as she closes the door behind us.

"Are you ready now though?"

"Yep."

"Great, let's go."

We get in my car and I take off. I like driving fast when Tess is in the car. I like how she reacts.

"Slow down, will you?" She exclaims as she grips her seat so hard that her knuckles turn white.

"And what's the fun in that? You've gotta live a little, Tessie." I laugh as I make a sharp turn around a corner, making the tires screech and Tess flinch at the noise.

"Jesus!"

"No...I'm pretty sure it's just us in here."

"You're an idiot."

"Why thank you. That isn't the first time someone's told me that."

"And it sure as hell won't be the last." She says. "Where are you taking me tonight anyway?"

"There's a new horror movie out. I was thinking that we could go see that." I reply.

"I've been wanting to see that too, actually."

"But you're still gonna get scared, right?"

"Yeah...but I'm fine with it. It's just a movie after all."

See what I mean? You can watch anything with her and she'll be fine with it.

We get to the cinemas where we buy our tickets, go to the candy bar and are now sitting down waiting for the movie to come on.

Finally, the room goes dark and the movie comes on the big screen. This is gonna be good. I start snacking on the popcorn first chance I get.

An hour later.....

The movie's actually really, really good. As in scary-good, which is awesome.

I notice that Tess would grab at my shirt's sleeve whenever she's scared. Which happens a hell of a lot this past hour. It's kinda cute though.

"If you like the shirt so much, I could just give it to you." I whisper to her.

"Shut up." She replies, flashing me a half-smile.

"Make me."

"Do I need to remind you about what happened earlier today?"

I could start to feel the pain again. It was a bloody good shot, I'll give her that much.