33) things you said at the back of the theater - @waywerust
‘I know you hate sitting in the front’ he tells her as he leads her to the back. where it’s dark and he makes an inner joke about what people do in the back of movie theaters. he had gotten his first handjob in the back of a movie theater at 13 and he had thought that he was going to explode. but if he’s being honest he doesn’t remember the girls name and what sticks more with him it when they used to see movies together all the time. he remembers when he was 12 and he had tried to kiss her in the back. but she had been reaching for the candy box in his cup holder. he forgot it later on. this was the first time he thought about it since. so he laughs a little as he settles into his seat next to her. ‘we should go to see that one’ when the trailer comes on and he notices that she laughs a little towards the end. and he remembers when they were a lot younger they used to do this a ll the time. go and watch a movie together, scrape together some spare change. their moms were off doing something, he couldn’t remember, O was in daycare until about 4. it didn’t matter which one it was. he thinks from the time he was about 10 up until she left town they had seen every movie that had come out. they hadn’t done it when she got back though. in fact when she got back they rarely saw each other even if they talked. and then he went to New York and she went to Baltimore. and they hadn’t seen each other in about 3 months. it’s not the longest it’s been. but it’s been long. but he’s not going to tell her the part where he’s missed her. or that he’s sort of been counting the days up until today. ‘this movie’s kind of boring.’ he says and she agrees with a small nod of her head. but her eyes never leave the screen. she’s still going to take away details, she’s still going to have some sort of analysis about the characters and plot line or a line of what if or it could have been betters. it doesn’t really matter to him if the movie is boring though. it’s two hours and twenty minutes. and he’s almost glad for the time. afterwards he’s going to have to walk with her over the station and she’ll wave out from the window with a smile. and he won’t get on with her. it’ll be like all the times they part. and they’ll just go about again. and he’ll be happy to see her again. ‘maybe we can stay until they start the next one.’ they used to do that, too. and it’s funny the things he’s reaching to catch onto. he feels stupid though, thinking that nothing’s changed. for one, they can afford the next movie if they wanted to. and she’s probably going to marry Elijah sometime soon or not so soon. but it’s down the road, that’s what the ring on her finger says. and he’s happy for her, he is. she deserves something good after everything she’s been through. but he can’t seem to get that feeling out of his chest, the one that repeats that she moved to Baltimore but told him no when he told her to come with him to New York. that she’s going to make a life for herself outside of him. maybe it’s not a fair feeling. he has his own life here in New York, he has Rebekah, he has college. but there’s always that spot left vacated for her whenever. the one he offered her. he wonders if it’d be the same if he stopped by Baltimore. he feels stupid thinking like that. and he’s glad she cuts off his line of thinking by pressing his arm, saying that they can break the law one more time together.













