I walked into the movie theater. There's Casey grinning like, like …Casey.
"Let's go I've already bought our tickets." He tells me. So we get a pop and popcorn (yes we shared, Marissa will go crazy when I tell her) and we go and sit down.
It turns out that the movie was a mystery but also kind of a comedy. It wasn't one of those stupid and easy to solve mysteries, it was more like, like the kind of mystery I'd solve. Man, Casey sure can choose a good movie!
So Casey and I were walking out, talking about condors, and the other mysteries I'd solved, when I see someone that looks like Holly's description of her kidnapper, except this time he's not wearing a ski mask. Holly had described her kidnapper has tall, a deep voice and muscular. Now you might be thinking, a bunch of people look like that, but from the way he was acting, he looked guilty of something. I 'accidentally' bumped into him. He jumped probably three feet in the air, and dropped all his stuff. Super-fast he grabs all his stuff and bolts out of the movie theater. I really wanted to follow him but I didn't want to leave Casey.
"Well, that was strange," Casey said, "Maybe we should follow him." He grinned his goofy grin, grabbed my hand and we took off after the guy.
I guess Casey wasn't thinking about how much trouble I had gotten into after following someone. We kept following him. A half an hour later we were in the west side of town. Why? I don't know, we just kept following the guy. The guy finally stopped in front of an old run-down building. Casey and I ducked behind a garbage can.
I stole a glance at Casey, he's looking at me, and we stare at each other for like a minute. Man, we're close! I can feel his breath and we're almost touching. He moved closer to me, closer, closer. Then our lips are together.
Suddenly someone grabbed my arm and pulled me from behind the garbage can. I looked around, where'd Casey go? Then I look at who grabbed me. It's Holly's kidnapper all right, same description, same everything. I looked around again, at the same time I try to escape from the guy. I couldn't get away, the guy was too strong. I didn't see Casey; did he just leave me here? Then I saw him, he was coming up behind the guy, I pretended not to notice and kept struggling against the guy.
Whack! Casey had smacked him on the head with a pop bottle. It wasn't strong enough to knock him down but he did let go of me. Casey grabbed my hand and we ran. Surprisingly the guy didn't chase us. Soon we stopped.
"Man that is Holly's kidnapper." I said.
"What?" Casey asked. I had forgotten that Casey didn't know about last night, I quickly informed him.
"Geez, Sammy, you can never stay out of trouble. Can you?" Casey teased me.
"I can to!" I told him, turning slightly red for some strange reason. We had started walking again. I glanced at my watch. Holy crap! It was already 4:30. We were finally out of the west side. Casey was walking next to me, he put his hands in his pockets, looked down at his feet and said," Would you like to do this again sometime?" Wait a second! Did he just ask me to go to the movies again?
"Uh, Sammy, did you hear me?" Casey asked me.
"Yeah, sure" I stutter out.
"When?" he was finally looking at me again.
"I don't know, how about tomorrow?" I suggested.
"Okay, 1:30 then?" Casey asked.
"Sure." I said. He started grinning again, like he had just won the lottery or something. He looked so funny I just had to laugh. He looked away and I was afraid I'd hurt his feelings,
"Sorry, Casey, I didn't mean to laugh" I must've looked really silly too because Casey starts laughing. Soon we're both laughing for no reason.
We went back to the movie theater still sort of laughing. Casey kisses my hand goodbye (that's starting to be his trademark isn't it?),
"Bye, see you tomorrow, Casey" I called after him. I headed for the arcade. As soon as I get there I look for Marissa, I can't find her. I turn around and there she is smiling like crazy. You see, Marissa's not good at hiding things, so I could tell she had seen Casey kiss my hand. She walks beside me and whispers in my ear, "I think Casey really likes you, I mean he's kissed you twice on the lips." She walks away, holding up two fingers. Man, Marissa followed us, what a stalker!
All of a sudden I was mad, really mad, that someone had interfered with Casey's and my time and that, that person was my best friend. I think it's the first time I've ever really been mad at Marissa. Anyways, I just walked out the arcade, Holly, who hadn't followed me and Casey, ran after me," Sammy, what's wrong?"
"Marissa followed me and Casey!" I practically screamed at her.
"Oh. So you're mad at her?" Holly said.
"Yes!" I yelled and stormed out of the arcade, leaving Holly just standing there with her mouth open.
I walked outside the mall, thinking. I couldn't talk to anyone, not even Hudson, if I told him part of the story he would want the whole story. I was mad at Marissa so I couldn't talk to her, more like I didn't want to talk to her. I could talk to Holly, no; she might tease me like Marissa. So that left three people: Dot, Grams, or Casey. I didn't want to explain everything to Grams, and I really didn't feel like talking to Dot, so that left Casey or no one. I decided not to because I'd see him tomorrow. I started walking to the Senior Highrise.