A gleeful reality

Chapter 16

Cory knew he would have to watch this movie with Dianna eventually. As soon as she suggested a 'stay in and snuggle movie night' he knew this would be her pick. What were they watching? Well only the most classic and for Cory, the most un-realistic movie he'd ever seen.

Girls may love it and think it's the best romance movie they would ever see but for him, it raised a couple questions.

"I don't get it." Cory stated still staring blankly at the television.

Dianna looked up at him from where she laid under Cory's arm. "What don't you get Cor? It's The Notebook."

"I don't know, I guess I'm just kind of confused as to what guy fixes and builds a house for a girl that isn't with him anymore? I mean, no guy in his right mind would do that!"

"Oh come on Cory…"

"I'm just saying that it's a little ridiculous." He concluded with a shrug and Dianna sat up to look straight at him.

"It is not ridiculous." She informed him with a stern look on her face. "It's very sweet and romantic."

"Mhmm…. totally." He muttered sarcastically and rolled his eyes.

"Please, I've sat through a few movies with you that I thought were a bit out of the ordinary."

"Really? Like what?" he challenged her with a quirked eyebrow. There was no way she'd come up with anything good. He watched awesome movies!

Dianna pursed her lips in thought for a few seconds before the perfect movie came to her.

"The Pirates of the Caribbean movies." She stated confidently knowing it was the best example.

"What's ridiculous about those?" he asked defensively.

"Really?" she wondered in disbelief not understanding why he thought they weren't weird. "Okay the thing I think is really weird is the guy with tentacles for a face."

"His name is Davy Jones babe." Cory told her and she shrugged not really caring what his name was.

"Okay well Davy Jones," She said his name snidely. "..has tentacles as a face!"

"Is that the only thing you have?" He asked still no where near believing that Pirates of the Caribbean was a weird movie.

Dianna shook her head with a big smirk on her face. "No way baby. I'm just getting started."

Cory nodded and waited for more of her examples.

"Then his whole crew is made of a bunch of weird fish people. How'd they even get that way?"

Cory opened his mouth to speak but wasn't able to get a word out before Dianna continued to talk.

"And on top of that, he doesn't even have a heart in his body. You don't think that's weird and how it weirdly beats in a box?"

"Are you done?" Cory finally asked seeing if he'd be able to get a word in.

Dianna searched her mind for another example but decided to let that be her last. "Yeah I guess."

"Okay well, I see your point but it isn't ridiculous like The Notebook. The Tentacle Man, AKA Davy Jones doesn't need the heart because he is THE Davy Jones. Plus, he's supposed to be a heart-less man, that's the point and they're pirates! They don't need to follow regular rules." He explained and looked at his girlfriend with a victorious smirk.

Dianna rolled her eyes. "Whatever, I just don't know how you see that movie being less weird and unusual than Noah fixing his and Allie's dream home for when he hoped she'd come back to him. So whatever."