"Saved by the bell," she called after me.
"Hey," I said, opening the door to reveal Lynn, Robert, and Emrys who looked as handsome as he had the night before. "Did you all drive together?" I teased, swinging the door open so they could enter.
"No, your stud here appeared when we were pulling in," Lynn joked, walking by me.
"Stud," Emrys said, smirking at me. "I think that loosely translates to 'hot,'" he added, linking his fingers through mine.
"Either that or she thinks you're a horse's ass and she just got confused," I teased as everyone else laughed.
"What movie are you guys planning on seeing?" Mark asked, sliding an arm around Krista's shoulders and pulling her snug against him.
"Well, I'd still like to see the zombie one I was supposed to see last month," I hedged, knowing Lynn's aversion to zombies.
"No way," she said, shaking her head to emphasize her point.
"Fine, what do you want to see?" I pouted.
"I don't think your zombie movie is even out anymore," Robert said, pulling up the movie app on his phone. "We can see the new Spiderman movie, it just came out today," he said hopefully, looking at us like a puppy begging for a treat.
"I'm game," I answered, looking at Emrys for approval. He looked bemused at our conversation.
"I'm good for anything," he answered, linking his fingers through mine.
"Spiderman is good with me. That new guy they got is smoking," Lynn teased, smiling mischievously at Robert just before he swept her up in his arms and planted a sound kiss on her upturned lips.
"Are they always like that?" Emrys whispered in my ear.
"I know, sickening, right?" I answered, though I really didn't feel that way. The bond between Guides and Protectors was the strongest ever created, and the love they shared could literally light up a room.
"Do you really think so?" he asked quietly, looking like he was in on my secret.
I shook my head.
"I didn't think so."
"Well, goody for you," I said so my tough girl image wouldn't be completely lost in all my mush.
"Ready?" Lynn asked, finally untangling herself from Robert's embrace.
"Unless you two need a room real quick," I scolded.
"Aw, you want to play sucky face too," she said, making a fish face in front of me that I'm sure was supposed to be a kissy face.
"You wish, perv," I said, giving her a shove as we headed out to their car.
The irony of Emrys and me riding in a car wasn't lost on me. We could have easily met them at the theater, but the charade of our double date required us to behave like humans.
"So, Jordyn, I heard through the Krista grapevine that you can PT," Robert said, looking at me in the rearview mirror.
"PT?" Emrys asked, looking intrigued.
"Place Travel," Lynn answered for me, twisting around in her seat so she could talk to us.
"Yeah, I kind of discovered it by accident last night," I said, filling them in on my near-death experience the night before.
"Insane," Robert said, shaking his head incredulously.
"I know, right?" I said, looking at Emrys to see what he thought. "You knew," I said, seeing the look on his face.