They Weren't Kidding

Chapter 5

I never thought I had the ability to fall in love. I hadn't felt any true feelings for anyone. I knew I was aromantic and I was perfectly fine with it. At that point, I genuinely didn't want to fall in love with anyone. I wanted to be with friends for the rest of my life and that was it. No complications with being with someone and having to deal with all the drama that came with it. I didn't care to have all the warm and fuzzy feelings that most people would feel and swear was totally worth the heartache they'd go through with relationships that didn't work out. I guess fate had a different plan for me.

One day during one of the breaks we would get off from school, Mordy decided he wanted to see a movie with Ryan and I. The two of us were on board with the idea of hanging out and seeing a movie together. I figured it would be a nice change, hanging out with them without seeing them being romantic together. The night did not go as planned.

The three of us arrived at the theatre, separate from each other. I had arrived first. I stood outside of the building, awaiting for my friends to show up. I decided to bide my time outside listening to music on my phone. I took into notice the slightly chilly weather as it was in the later months of the year. Despite the light chill, I rolled the sleeves to my jacket up my arms as I have never been one to shy away from colder weather.

After a little while, my friends both showed up together, which did not surprise me. I greeted them as they got out of the car and the three of us got into the ticket line. When we reached the front, we walked up to the screen to pick out the seats. Mordy was in charge of getting the seats. He had picked out four seats, two in front of the other two. I was a bit confused for a moment.

"Four seats?" I question, taking into notice the seats and where they were placed. I was really confused and a bit hurt due to realising that Mordy hadn't chosen the chairs all in a row.

"Yeah," Mordy speaks up, "my mom's gonna be coming to see the movie with us."

"Oh," I say, leaving it at that. I didn't want to let my friends in on my disappointment to the fact that I was not sitting with them and instead sitting next to someone I had hardly ever talked to or even met.

Ryan scolded Mordy for choosing the seats that he did, being upset that he hadn't taken me into consideration as we walked into the main section of the theatre. I walked a few steps behind them, not wanting to get in between their lovers' quarrel. I tuned them out after a bit, being sucked into my own thoughts.

We got our tickets torn and headed towards the theatre only to see that the movie before ours was still playing. The three of us waited outside that theatre and waited for our movie. We took seats on the floor by the door, Ryan and Mordy getting into small conversations with each other. I spoke the least out of the three of us. I sat, silently mulling over the situation and growing angrier.

After a bit, the movie that was being shown before ours let out, opening the doors so we may enter. The three of us found our seats, me behind the two of them. I glared at them from behind, my anger continuing to rise. I swear they could feel my eyes boring into the back of their heads. They would occasionally turn around to look at me, grinning as if I was supposed to be enjoying sitting by myself when prior to that moment, I had thought I was going to be watching the movie with my friends. In those moments I would give them an unamused look, once even raising my middle finger towards them. They merely chuckled and turned back around, thinking that I was only joking with my anger.

At one point during this whole ordeal, I decided to walk to the concessions without letting them know I was leaving. I had no desire to speak with either of them at that time. I was more than likely angrier than I should've been. I wrote those feelings off as merely being upset that I went to see a movie with my friends and would be sitting alone the entirety of the movie even though I had a feeling that that was not the full situation.