“It was something about a little girl with red hair, red dress? Rich parents and she got almost thrown off the Eiffel tower? No, that was the little school kid orphan. Madeline? It’s that, but the other one,” Darcy rambled off, grimacing at his own lack of knowledge. As a kid, there were other ways to have fun that didn’t require pestering his parents for a ride or cash. He had snuck into theaters but had been kicked out early on. His better days were spent running down the alleyways of Eris, sneaking off to the bigger cities that bordered Asteria after hitchhiking with a group of friends. So much of his time was spent running away that he never wanted to waste a minute sitting around reading, watching, or being lectured. Standing still meant getting caught, and made him an unsuspecting target for the worst.
He settled himself on the couch, watching her intently as she prepared the scene. The popcorn was enticing, and from the bright yellow that stained it only made Darcy go back and forth considering to take some in his hands. He was already counting, adding numbers together to make sense of a proper portion if he did give in. After some thought that pulled him away from the moment around him, he convinced himself otherwise with how the kernel shells would get stuck in his teeth. He already had aches and pains in the back of his mouth. Flossing hurt already. He didn’t need to be digging for a snack he could love without.
“A whole new world? I can get that reference,” Darcy interrupted. “That’s gotta count for a musical somewhere. Aladdin, right?”
“Annie!” Julia called out as she heard the description of the musical he had almost been made to watch, thinking about how Madeline was a great film as well. She’d read the book when she was little, always low key wondering if it would have been like that for her if she was an orphan. Not that she’d wanted anything to happen to her parents. Obviously. It made her wonder how different the upbringing she’d had was to Darcy’s because from the looks of things they weren’t very similar, apart from that they didn’t drink obviously. That had been their mutual bond in the bar, for the same reason as well. Still, she was going to educate him in the ways of Singing in the Rain if nothing else.
Feeling his eyes on her as she set down the snacks and drinks the brunette glanced at him a couple of times, giving him a small smile, wondering what was going on in his head. The way his eyes seemed to be flicking back and forth every so often made her think he was counting something. She didn’t ask though, not wanting to pry while they were still relatively new friends. Well Julia hoped they were friends anyway. “Actually I hadn’t even considered that.” The girl laughed, not meaning to note Aladdin, but then again musicals were so ingrained in her head it was no surprise the words from them came out without her even realising. “That’s right, see you know your Disney musicals! So if you weren’t a big musical person growing up what was the thing you liked most? Like my family were all about musicals since I was literally born, not a surprise I know. I bleed and musical theatre songs fall out.” For some reason it felt easy to chat around Darcy, maybe because something she often felt judged for, not drinking, was a none issue between the two of them.
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