You Are The Apple of My Eyes
Chapter 467 Eager To Hug Her

A hint of astonishment flashed across Nina's eyes.

'This voice... How is it possible?'

she thought to herself.

Slowly, Nina sat up straight. She suspected that what she was seeing was an illusion because of what Noah had just said.

"Where is the popcorn?" Nina asked hesitantly, her amber eyes flickering, and her face showing an expression of complication.

Before John could say anything, Vicente said something first. "Isn't the popcorn here?"

"Shut up!" Nina shouted at Vicente. She was so frightened by her eruption that her hand shook and retracted away from the popcorn.

'What's wrong?

Why is Nina so fierce?' she wondered.

Vicente felt a look of hostility gazing at her. She looked around the theater to find where that look was coming from.

It turned out to be the waiter serving popcorn.

"Put down the popcorn and get out," Vicente commanded angrily, lashing out after Nina's unfriendly attitude towards her. John didn't mind Vicente at all. He put the popcorn in Nina's hand, which had been frozen in the air. His throat tightened. "Here you are."

"It's real!" Nina was certain that the person in front of her was John. She stood up abruptly with her hand on her waist.

She was in such a hurry that she knocked over the popcorn.

A smile formed on John's lips. His wife recognized him.

As to not arouse Vicente's suspicion, he said, "Yes, the popcorn is real."

"The popcorn is spilled. What's wrong with you?" Vicente scolded him.

With light gleaming from her wet eyes, Nina suppressed the excitement in her heart and said, "What's wrong with you? The popcorn is spilled."

'John, what's up?

Why did you come all of a sudden?'

Nina stared straight at the person in front of her. Even though she could only see half his face and his silhouette against the light from the movie screen, she could still feel the tears in his eyes.

She also started to tear up. After a long time, they had finally met.

Nina moved her body and wanted to jump into his arms.

Just by looking at the longing and excited expression in her eyes, John knew exactly what she wanted to do.

He also wanted to grab her and give her a tight embrace.

However, Vicente was still here. John remembered Leon's constant reminder not to expose his identity to anyone, and especially not to provoke Vicente.

No matter how much he wanted to, he couldn't afford to be impulsive.

"The popcorn is spilled. I'll take you to buy another one, okay?" John was so excited that his voice kept cracking from his tightened throat. Moreover, the sound from the movie diluted his volume, and his voice sounded like a whisper, as if only he was the only one who could hear it.

As soon as Nina recognized him, she had automatically blocked all external stimuli that wasn't John's. At that moment, all her eyes could see was him and all her ears could hear was the sound of his voice. Just from his voice and demeanor, she understood John's situation and what he was trying to do.

When he said, "I'll take you to buy another one," what he was really saying was "let me take you away."

This careful way of asking made her heart ache.

"Okay." Tears ran down her cheeks as she nodded.

As soon as she said that word, John reached out his hand to pull her. When her fingertips touched his hand, her heartstring was pulled slightly, as if the warmth of his hand were the hot air blown in winter. That warm feeling overwhelmed her.

The emotions she had buried deep in her heart for more than half a year exploded. The moment their fingers touched, her love for him captured her.

John took Nina's hand and left.

"Hey, you..."

As soon as Vicente stood up, Noah reached for her shoulder and pressed her back to her seat.

"They're just going to buy popcorn," Noah assured her. "Let's go on watching the movie."

"The waiter can buy popcorn himself. Why did he take Nina away?" Vicente tried to stand up again.

Before she could, Noah turned around and gave her a deep look.

Just from his eyes, Vicente understood what he was trying to say. "He...he...he..."

"I know you want to say he's here. Sit down and watch the movie." Noah finished Vicente's words and turned his attention back at the screen.

When it finally dawned on Vicente that the waiter was indeed John, she became quiet.

The young couple hadn't seen each other for more than half a year and decided to go somewhere private where they could pour out all their love to each other.

"Well, I'd better watch the movie quietly." Vicente leaned against the chair, crossed her legs, laying hands on the armrests lazily.

Noah looked at her and said, "You usually pay attention to your image in front of outsiders."

"Image management is a must, but that's not my true self." Vicente put down her crossed leg. "You are indeed an outsider, but you are about to fly away. I don't have to pay so much attention to my image in front of you. Oh, by the way, what time is your flight?"

"Didn't you book the air ticket for me?" Noah shook his head in disappointment. Vicente was not reliable at all.

But Vicente's unruly personality was unlike James' uninhibited yuppie style or Adrian's cynical rebel type. Actually, Vicente was easy-going in front of the people she trusted.

Vicente exclaimed, "What? I booked it for you? Let me have a look. The plane will take off at six o'clock in the afternoon. There are still three hours left. We can drive there after watching the movie.

Noah, you're so lucky. This is the first time I've watched a movie alone with a man." Vicente leaned against the chair and found another comfortable position.

Noah also leaned back and picked up the Coke that John had just brought. He opened it with one hand and poured more than half of the Coke into his mouth. "It's also my first time to watch a movie with a man."

"Have you watched a movie with a woman?" Vicente asked.

"No."

"Humph. Why did you say that in such an unabashed way?" Vicente also reached out for the Coke only to find out that she didn't have one.

She straightened her body and took the Coke away from Noah's hand.

"Hey!"

"What? I'm thirsty." Vicente tilted her head upward and poured the remainder of the Coke down her mouth.

Knowing that Vicente liked men, Noah felt it was a little weird for them to drink from the same can of Coke.

However, Vicente drank it without touching the can.

"Don't be so stingy. I'll return you a whole pack later." After drinking it, Vicente wanted to throw the can away. But when she found out that there was no trash can, she just held it in her hand. The two of them continued watching the remaining part of the movie.

Meanwhile, John held Nina's hand and walked all the way down to the corridor. The movie was already showing, and there was no one outside except the staff of the cinema.

He took her inside the men's room and placed an "Under Repair" sign outside.

Nina was stunned by how prepared John was with his prop.

"Why the bathroom?" she asked as she followed him in.

"I was in a hurry. I couldn't find a better place." As soon as those words escaped his lips, he grabbed her hand tightly, pushed her against the wall and leaned over her.

Nina had always known that John was tall and strong. However, as he towered over her, he looked like an insurmountable wall, casting a shadow that enveloped her. Although she was wearing thick clothes, she could feel the cold wall behind her. But the man in front of her was warm.

Her sparkling eyes tempted him.

"Nina..." John removed his mask and bent over to kiss her.