When Magic Happens

☆☆Mia POV☆☆

“Here he is. Late as usual” I thought to myself  as I saw Kevin’s car approaching my front door. I was visiting my grandma for the weekend and Kevin insisted on coming with me this time.

“Kevin being my best friend for years doesn’t give you the right to be that late every time we go out” I snapped at him as I slammed the car’s door shut roughly to tease him.

He hissed angrily and glared at me with his green eyes but swallowed it as I glared at him,

“Miaaa, you look beautiful as usual” he said, flashing his sweet smile at me. His dazzling smile was his charming signature, it made me wonder why he was still single till now.

“Flattery will not get you out of this” I faked a smile back and crossed my arms over my chest.

“Okay, how about this?” he said, throwing a gift box at me. I looked at him in surprise. He never did that before: “hee, what is it” I said smiling back, I love presents.

“Do you forgive me first?” he asked with a smirk on his face.

I looked at him and felt something was wrong: “Yeees” I answered suspiciously.

“Well, it isn’t for you, it’s for you grandma. It is my first visit. I cannot go empty handed” he laughed at me.

Making a fool out of me was his favourite sport. I got used to it a long time ago. I threw the box at the back seat:

“Kevin, you know how much I love my grandma, and you were late. You know how important this is to me. I don’t get to spend much time with her” I scolded him.

“I am really sorry, I was caught up with something back home. But don’t worry we will be there on time” Kevin said, assuring me before he started the car and stepped harshly on the gas pedal making the engine roar in power.

I spaced out the window looking at the tree line along the road and remembered my grandma in my early childhood. I only visited her once or twice a year. I loved visiting her; she was old and kind of weird. She used to tell me a lot of stories when I was a child, mostly scary stories but I loved listening to her tender voice while she put me to sleep every night. Most of the stories were about magic, fantasy creatures, supernatural people and witches that never made sense to me. Now that I am old, all the stories have stopped and we just usually enjoyed each other's company and talked about my life mostly, since according to her I had all the action going.

Suddenly Kevin’s phone rang, pulling me back to reality. I glanced at him as He picked up the call, he sounded angry and frustrated about something related to his work. He was usually calm, never got angry and seeing him like this got me worried: “is something wrong?” his face gave out the answer: “I really don’t know what happened this time, the shipment is late and dad is furious about it. I have no justification for it at all”

I knew that he had a problem at work from before but I never saw him this gloomy. He worked with his father casually and mostly during the summer but it was never that serious. His father wanted to prepare him to take over the company later which Kevin was reluctant to do.

I thought to cheer him up a little and change the mood “do you want to know what happened on my date yesterday?” I asked enthusiastically.

His smile came back right away and said excitedly: “yes, tell me”

“heeee, what can I say? The guy was a jerk; I paid for dinner and he was touchy most of the time” I said annoyed. Kevin’s face turned red instantly: “touchy, that asshole you should have called me”

“No need I slapped him at the end of the night when he tried to kiss me forcibly” I said confidently.

We burst out laughing “That’s my girl” Kevin was always supportive and over protective. I was the one with the worst luck ever when it came to guys: “what is wrong with me Kevin? Why do I always get the weirdest guy? Why can’t I have someone like… like Ben Jacobson?”

“You mean THE Ben Jacobson. The most popular guy in our school. The one who has girls run after him every week and his girlfriend is the most vicious girl in human history” he said, raising an eyebrow.

“Yes” I answered back. Suddenly Kevin laughed out loud: “he is so out of your league girl” I glared at him.

“Why Kevin? you always say that” I asked angrily, turning myself to face him.

“Because he doesn’t even know that you exist in this world” he replied, laughing out loud even more. I tilted my head a little and thought about it for a few seconds. Kevin was right.

I looked out of the window and thought about how I have always kept a low profile; I really doubt that Ben knew about me. We stayed silent for a while and then Kevin asked again: “Mia, what are we going to do about our finals next month?” such a question changed my mood instantly.

“I don’t know Kevin. We will figure it out when we come back” I replied remembering that we have to score high this year for the university application.