【 HOPE 】 ✓

CHAPTER SIX

The three rebels headed through the city of Jedha at a slightly fast pace. Octavia stood in the middle of Jyn and Cassian as they walked through the crowded streets. Octavia was used to these crowded streets. After she left Tatooine, she would come to over-populated cities like Jedha.

"Where are we going again?" Octavia asked to break the ice.

"It is just up ahead." Cassian stated, smiling down at her. She looked up at him and smiled back.

Many different emotion coursed through her as she felt something warm grab her hand. Octavia glanced down to see Cassian's hand entertained with hers. Butterflies filled her stomach as she looked back up at him. His gaze was casted straight ahead. As she looked down, Cassian have her hand a small squeeze. This caused the butterflies to go nuts.

"You know, I'm glad that we decided to be in an 'official' relationship." Octavia said to him, dodging people so that their hands could stay intertwined.

"Me too."

"Glad you finally got the guts to ask." She muttered under her breath.

"Quite frankly, you had more than enough opportunities to ask as well." He replied, smirking.

"Well that isn't that 'stereo-typical' now is it?" Octavia asked, using her fingers as quotations around "stereo-typical."

"What about our relationship is 'stereo-typical,' Octavia?" He asked, using his fingers as quotations.

Octavia rolled her eyes but smiled at him nevertheless. A small chuckle came from him as he squeezed Octavia's hand once more.

"Alright, ladies. Wait for me here and I will be right back." Cassian said before kissing Octavia's hand and disappearing through the large crowds of people. A pink color crept to her cheeks as she smiled and watched him go.

"You're so whipped over him." Jyn said from behind Octavia.

"I am not!" Octavia defended.

"You are too. Just look at the way you look at him. You're totally whipped."

Octavia opened her mouth to fire back when another voice cut her off. "You are whipped! Definitely."

Octavia and Jyn both turned their heads to look for anyone making eye contact with them. Jyn shot Octavia a confused glance before the voice spoke again. "I'm over here. Other way."

Octavia's eyes landed on a man sitting down on a ledge with a large bo staff resting on his leg. She nudged Jyn's shoulder before pointing at the man. Both girls slowly approached him and glanced around.

"You. Your necklace is calling to me. I-It is a kyber crystal." He said, looking at the ground in front of him, but pointing directly at Jyn.

Octavia furrowed her eyebrows before turning and looking at Jyn's neck. There was no necklace. She turned her head and looked at the man, seeing him still looking at the ground. "How can you tell?" Jyn asked. Octavia concluded that she did, in-fact, have a necklace on.

"I am one with the force. Kyber crystals are force-attuned."

Octavia furrowed her eyebrows. She knew there was such thing as the force, but she didn't know that it could course through someone. Her brother possessed the force and used it only when necessary but he didn't use it all the time.

Jyn pulled out the necklace from inside her jacket and began examining it, thinking of the mysterious man's words. "Don't listen to him. He's just a believer." Another voice piped up. Octavia glanced up to see another man, with a huge blaster in his hand, looking down at her.

"I mean aren't we a-" Octavia started to say but was cut off from Cassian's (angelic, as Octavia would describe it,) voice behind her.

"Octavia! Jyn! We must go." He said as the two girls turned to look at him.

"Great meeting you guys!" Octavia called out before her and Jyn were dragged away by Cassian.

"We are on a mission and that does not mean to make friends." He muttered.

"You seem more tense now." Jyn noted.

Octavia nodded her head. "We have very little time to do what we have to do."

"I'm sure we will figure it out." Octavia said, reaching her hand to grasp his. He hesitantly took it and that made Octavia sigh. "Come on, Cass. We're gonna find Saw and then rock this mission." She said, leaning closer to him.

Jyn looked up at him while a small sat on Cassian's face. "Come on, we have a lot to do today."

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ah this is a short chapter sorry. ill make it up in the next chapter, which will (hopefully) be action-packed.

and this one sucked as well haha.

thanks for all the reads a comments! this book has been up for a few weeks and it's already at seven-hundred reads. i'm totally stoked about it all.

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