Cronkri: I won't let you down

Chapter 15: Kankri

It took about 15 minutes to get from Cronus's house to the closest city of a decent size. It had a shopping mall, restaurants, fast food places, craft stores, movie theaters, etc., just normal things for a city. Cronus drove us through various parking lots, pretending he knew the way to wherever we were going while that was obviously not the case.
"Would you like some direction?" I offered. "I know this town as if it were the back of my hand."
He shook his head. "Nah, I got this. You don't even know where we're headed!"
"And neither do you, apparently."
He was silent. I laughed. There was a short pause before I broke the silence.
"Are you sure you don't need my help?"
He sighed. "Alright alright fine. I need your help. What food are you in the mood for?"
"Hmm... Popcorn."
"Movies it is!"
He did a sharp U-turn in the empty parking lot we were in, causing me to strengthen my grip on the armrest, my eyes widening.
"CRONUS SLOW DOWN FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY YOU'RE GOING TO KILL US!!!"
Cronus just whooped and hollered as he whipped around to the movie theater's parking lot, tires screeching as he slid sideways into an open spot.
I gripped my chest, my breaths quick and shallow. "That was... certainly exhilarating...."
He got out of the car and went around to help me out. I shakily offered my hand and he pulled me up, closing and locking the car behind us.
"You alright?"
I nodded. "Y-yeah.. I just need a breath."
He smiled at me and led me inside the building, still holding my hand in his.
"So what movie did you wanna see again?" he asked.
"Hmm... The Mockingjay movie seemed interesting to me, what do you think?"
"Works for me," he replied, shrugging.
We payed for the tickets and got one big tub of popcorn to share. Once inside the showing room, we took our seats in the back row so our ears wouldn't burst from the speakers. There were hardly any other people in our section since the movie had been out for a while, and all the people that were there sat closer to the front. Cronus propped his feet up on the seat in front of him and the popcorn was resting on the armrest between us.

By the time the movie had started, Cronus had eaten about half the popcorn.
"That's it," I said, moving the popcorn bin from between us to the other side of me, "I'm revoking your popcorn privileges for the next 10 minutes or else we won't make it through the film."
He gave me that adorable puppy dog face. Damn it.
I sighed. "Okay okay fine..." I put the bin back in between us and it stayed there for the rest of the movie. There were a few awkward moments where we ended up reaching for it at the same time, but those always ended with us holding hands for about a minute before actually getting the popcorn.

The audience applauded at the end of the movie, as is the tradition around this small town. I stood up and stretched: first reaching for the sky, then touching my toes. When I turned around, Cronus was staring at my ass with a smirk on his face.
My cheeks reddened. "Cronus Ampora! I-I'll have you know that I am quite offended by your actions."
By then, he had stood up. I looked up at him. "You must always ask for consent before staring at someone's rear end like that!"
He rolled his eyes. "Permission to kiss you?"
"I... What?"
"Good enough." Before I could protest and continue lecturing him, he leaned down and pressed his lips to mine, causing me to blush more. Thankfully, there was no one else in the showroom at this time. I couldn't help but kiss back myself, no matter how mad I was. Well, fake mad. I didn't mind him checking me out personally, we are boyfriends after all, but I have a reputation to keep up.

Once we left the theater, we got back in Cronus's car. He drove us around town for a little bit, then stopped in a nearly empty parking lot.
"What are we doing here?" I asked, curious.
"It was buggin' me that I can't kiss you while I'm driving."
"...So you parked in an old, abandoned parking lot."
"Yes."
"And you want to snog in the back seat."
"Yessir."
The next several minutes consisted of intense backseat snogging.