Verbatim ▹ Keiynan Lonsdale

FOUR.

As soon as Keiynan knocked, Isabelle was on her feet, leading the other girls to stand to theirs. Isabelle bit down into her lip as she grabbed her clutch and then grabbing Candice's hand gently.

"What if he doesn't like me, Candice?"

"Oh please, if anything, he'll love you too much." Candice's smile was contagious and Izzy felt her cheeks warm as Emily opened the door.

And there he was, standing in a black suit with a white button up shirt and a red bowtie.  He had the darkest brown eyes Izzy had ever seen and her poor voice got caught in her throat.

"Hey Emily," he greeted polietly, a toothy grin on his face.

"Keiynan," Emily laughed. "Hi."

As Emily let him into the room, a smile came onto Izzy's features as she tucked her phone into her clutch purse.

"Izzy," Keiynan said once he was done greeting everyone else.

"Hi, Keiynan." Izzy smiled brightly. As if they were old friends and just as playful as they had been online, he embraced her and her hands went to hug him back, her cheek nuzzling into his shoulder.

"You look beautiful. And I'm not just saying that because I might have to kiss you later on."

Izzy laughed and shook her head, "Thanks. You look pretty good yourself."

Emily smiled at two of the youngest cast members and watched as they walked out the door, Grant waiting on Candice, Stephen waiting on Emily. Behind them was Katie and Tom, who was new to the cast, but not as new as Iz.

"Look at you, Izzy!" Grant laughed. "You look beautiful."

Izzy bowed her head in thanks and then continued to rest her head on Keiynan's shoulder, thankful for him being the steady rock that he was.

Their fingers slipped together, and she felt her cheeks warm.

All of the gathered cast filed down to the lobby of the hotel, and got into their limo, loudly chatting in excitement.

The whole time Keiynan was by her side, squeezing her hand.

The two of them didn't notice the smiles they were getting from the others.

"So, my message didn't go through," Keiynan told Izzy.

She nodded, "My messages didn't go through too."

Keiynan chucked, "Good. I got kinda scared."

Izzy kissed his cheek lightly, only for a second. "Better?"

He nodded as he leaned back in the seat, Izzy laying her head on his shoulder. "Much."

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Once they arrived to the premiere, it was nothing but lights and cameras. And shouting fans, which was pretty cool to Isabelle.

Of course, as soon as Jai saw Keiynan and Izzy at the top of the carpet, he held a finger up to Margot and Will, jogging down to greet his former cast mate.

"Jai!" Keiynan chuckled, the two Australians clasping hands.

"Hey, mate, it's good to see you. And this pretty lady must be Izzy." Jai commented, her cheeks warm.

"Hi," She laughed nervously. " I'm a big fan of yours."

"And I'm a big fan of you," Jai chuckled. "Keiynan won't stop talking about you in our group chat with Zoë and Shai. Theo's threatened to make a flight down here just see you two."