moments with you.

9. Movie Night

Author's notes: This inspiration came from something that cropped up in one of my prefect meetings. It was quite sudden but really enjoyable writing this; I hope readers enjoy. Even though I don't have much leisure time to write nowadays, I always have the support of my readers to push me on. Thank you once again for all the wonderful reviews, favourites and follows given by my readers. I'm sorry this is not too long, but rest assured, a new chapter will be coming up soon after this! (Hint: Birthday Gift)

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9.

Saturday nights are movie nights for the Nerd Lab. At least, that's what Honey Lemon says, even though they tend to alternate weeks depending on their current workload - which has been piling up a month ago. The newly added project has led to the sacrificing of movie night for six weeks now, and GoGo's pretty glad that the pattern is back on track, since everything has been wrapped up yesterday. No thanks to Fred and Wasabi, who were too lazy and uptight respectively to give much help.

GoGo's never said it, but she has to admit that she misses movie nights. It's fun, no matter how irritating Fred can become or how loud Honey Lemon can fangirl, and it's a time of relaxation for the Nerd Lab's occupants to enjoy and laugh their worries off - worries including the electromagnetic wheels she's currently working on. It's speed and control needed a lot of tweaking-

"GoGo, no thinking about work!" Honey Lemon chides firmly. GoGo grunts in reply, but the small upperward curve of her lips shows her assent towards Honey Lemon's words. It is not like she wants to spend any of her leisure time on something likely to result in another headache, after all.

She walks over to 'her spot' on the couch - situated two seats away from the wall because it has a decent view of the television screen and is distant enough from Fred's seat to avoid his annoying habit of quoting the next line (particularly if they were watching a superhero movie) and giving spoilers (especially if they were watching a superhero movie. It spoilt Iron Man 3 for her.)

But it's already occupied. By Tadashi.

GoGo frowns, half-confused and half-irritated. That's her seat ever since movie night became a tradition, and she more or less expects Tadashi to know it.

"Movie it, Hamada!" She snaps. "That's my spot."

"But that new potted plant Honey bought means I can't seat on the floor beside the sofa." Tadashi protests. Nevertheless, he still makes an effort to create some space for GoGo. The latter taps her foot impatiently - arms crossed, popping her bubblegum - as Tadashi nudges Wasabi with his elbow to try to get him to move. It evidently doesn't work, GoGo quips silently, because after some shuffling, what's left of her spot is merely an empty space barely five centimeters wide. Tadashi notices what she's glaring at and pauses.

"You can sit on my lap instead." He offers.

GoGo gapes at him. Tadashi stares back.

"...Oh." He blinks slowly, only belatedly realising the weight of his words.

Then GoGo explodes

"What- No! You- You IDIOT! You can't just say something like that! I -" She stops abruptly when she realises Honey Lemon, Wasabi and Fred are staring at them.

"Urgh!" GoGo slams her foot on Tadashi's ("Ow!" He yelps) and stalks out of the room in a flustered haze.

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She comes back a few minutes later with a bowl of popcorn, and quite conveniently, the seat beside Tadashi is empty. Wasabi has elected to sit on the floor (After cleaning it, of course, he confirms. GoGo just rolls her eyes.) because he takes up too much space on the couch. GoGo doesn't say anything about having to sit next to Tadashi. She just spits out her gum (She had to after receiving multiple complains that her gum popping disrupts the movie) and thins her lips. She moves over to the vacant seat and settles down, passing some popcorn to Honey Lemon. It takes a few minutes, but eventually, her body relaxes, she forgets about the awkward words that Tadashi has spouted earlier, and she starts to immerse herself in the movie (It's Fast and Furious 6) (1).

"Y'know, I didn't mean it like that when I said you could sit on my lap," Tadashi mumbles softly as he reaches for some popcorn. His words are soft enough for only GoGo to hear, even though Honey Lemon is craning her neck slightly to observe the exchange. GoGo grunts, because part of her already knows Tadashi Hamada isn't ever going to be interested in her that way-

"But I wouldn't really mind if you did do it anyway-"

GoGo slams the popcorn bowl as hard as she can against Tadashi ("Ow.") in an effort to make him stop talking ("Unbelievable."). It works, and even though they're getting to the scene where the car is speeding through the streets like there's no tomorrow (which is the way she likes it), GoGo is pretty sure her face is red for the entirety of the movie, and that Tadashi is smiling.

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(1) - GoGo seems like someone who'd enjoy racing movies.