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Just wanted to warn you guys, this might give spoilers to the book 'the hate u give'. And I would like to say that any scenes talked about are what happened in the book as the movie isn't out yet. Enjoy!

I've lived here for a week and it's not as bad as I thought it would be. I've already made friends (which are better than my friends back home, not gonna lie) and the homework's pretty limited.

As for Rye...I've came to the conclusion that he is not a crush. He's just a guy I have physical attraction to. I mean yea he's the nicest boy I've ever met, he's got a great since of humor, doesn't seem to have a bad bone in his body. But no matter how many great qualities he has, it's JUST physical attraction.

"Hey Aaaannnndddddyyyy." I heard rye say as he entered the room. I was folding my clothes when he came up and plopped down on my bed. "Wanna go see a mooooovvvvie?"

"With who?"

"With me. Duh." Wait. Is he asking me on a date? No i can't. I don't like him. Might as well let him down now rather than later. I was about to say something but he did first.

"It's just Mikeys busy, jack and brook are on a date, and Harvey refuses to see movies with me anymore." So it's not a date. I'm just his last option. I don't know weather to be upset or relived about it.

"Why doesn't Harvey watch movies with you anymore."

"Because I always compare it to the book and point out everything they got wrong." I found that endearing. No. It's annoying. It's not endearing when someone loves to read and gets really passionate about stuff, especially little things.

I was going to say no but my words came out in a diffrent form. "What movie?"

"The hate U give." Ugh how can I say no now. I've been waiting for this movie to come out. But I was planing to go with Damien, my Black friend from back home. I guess I'm going with Rye, my white friend. I feel like this is going to be weird...two white guys going to see a movie about black empowerment. It doesn't matter though, we can support the cause.

"Yea sure." I say. We decide to go at 1:30, after his football game, giving me 3 hours to get ready. He leaves after we bought the tickets. Since I was alone, i thought I might as well get ready now. So I shower, do my hair, and all he other stuff I normally do. I choose to wear a plain white shirt and denim jacket. Simple but stylish. I wear some black jeans as well. When I'm done, I have some extra time so I decide to strum some chords on my guitar.

Slowly my chords became a melody soo after words formed. I was so invested it the song that I didn't realize rye walk in.

I played through what I had so far and heard clapping as I finished. "Mate. That was amazing."

My face flushed red, embarrassed of getting caught singing.

"So you ready to go?" I asked ignoring the boys compliment. He nodded and grabbed his bag. We walked out of the room in silence until Rye decided to break it. "Sooo....you excited to see the movie?"

"Yea. You?"

"Totally exited." We got to the front office where we had to sign out. They don't really care if we leave, as long as they still get paid. We walk out the school and to the movie theater. We talk a little on our way there. Mostly about school.

"Do you want any snacks?" He asked me.

"Umm can I just have a small popcorn?"

"Yea." We Wait in line that seems to be taking forever. When we get to the front rye starts ordering for us. He says that he wants to pay for me because it would make things 'easier'. I don't understand that logic though. Wouldn't it be easier if he wasn't wasting money on me?

"Can I have 2 waters and a large popcorn?"

When the cashier left to get our stuff I reminded Rye I asked for a small and he told me we were gonna share. This is not a date! We shouldn't be sharing popcorn. But I don't complain.

When we reach the theater He leads us to our seats. "Ummmm rye. There's someone in one of our seats."

"That's fine just ask him to move." He said plopping down in the open seat. I look over to he guy sitting in G7. He has sleeves of tattoos, and is really muscular. In other words, he looks terrifying. That's why I didn't hesitate to sit down on the same seat as rye and make him ask.

"Andy stop being a baby and ask him to move."

"Why don't you ask him?"

"I'm not getting up."

"Well me neither."

"Looks like we're sharing seats than." I may be wrong, but it looks like a small smile formed on his face at the thought of sharing seats.

"Fine." The seats are kind of big, but I'm still kinda on top of him. I wish he would just be the bigger man and ask the dude to move.

The lights start to dim and I reach my hand into the popcorn bowl. Then the most cliche thing happened and I accidentally touched his hand. I quickly drew my hand back out of the popcorn.

Throughout the beginning of the movie we kept accidentally touching and being more awkward than we should've been. About 20 minutes in we stopped fidgeting and relaxed into each others touch. When I thought the popcorn was the most cliche thing that would happen tonight, I was wrong. Rye yawned and wrapped his arm around me. I have no idea what game he was getting at but he wasn't going to fool me.

By the end of the movie ryes arm was still around me and my head was on his shoulder. Some people would aww and coo but there's no reason. We are just roommates who wanted to be comfortable during a movie.

"Well that sucked!" Rye said.

"What why? I feel like it was a very empowering movie." We started exiting the theater throwing our trash away. We were getting weird stares from people because a white guy just said a movie for black people sucked. I'm sure he's not as naive as that Hailey bitch but they both sure need to learn to shut their mouth.

"Because the cop didn't go to jail." I saw visible sighs of reliefs from the people listening in on our conversation.

"Yea But they are starting a 'revolution'"

"But shouldn't movies have a good ending?"

"But it's not just a movie. It's real life. This happens in real life. Their not just gonna tidy everything up and smack a big bow on it."

"Yea But...it's a movie."

"We just aren't going to agree on this are we?"

"Nope. I'd understand if it was a documentary but it's fiction. Fiction should be happy."

"Ughh your difficult."

"But can we agree on how hot kahaille was though?"

"Definitely. And Chris!"

We both laughed until I realized something. Rye said kahille was hot. Does that mean he's gay? Can straight boys find other boys attractive? Before I could continue in my spiral of thoughts, he started speaking.

"So I was thinking-" rye turned to walk backwards so we can face each other, but the klutz tripped over his own feet. I guess I'm kinda a hypocrite for calling him a klutz because I tripped over his feet too.

After the impact, I opened my blue eyes to meet his brown. Our faces were so close that are noses brushed up against each other every so often. I was so lost in his trance that I didn't realize he was speaking to me.

"Andy? You ok?"

"Yea Yea. I'm fine." I got up and dusted my palms against my jeans. He did the same. The trip brought awkward silence between us.it stayed like that until we got home.

A/N
I'm sorry for all the bad explaining in situations.😂 I have the picture clearly in my head but apparently English is hard.

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