Yours Truly || Sequel to Let Me Know

Chapter Thirty-Five: Movie Nights

Lin:

"Can y'all just please decide on a movie to watch?! My popcorn is getting cold." Chris whined like a little kid even though he was technically the father of the group.

"Okay it needs to be a group decision and you're part of it, so why don't you help out and suggest some movies?" Anthony answered back like the sass king he was.

"I already told you guys my recommendation!"

"Well, I didn't hear you." He muttered.

"The Conjuring."

"Again? No, thank you." Anthony kept scrolling through the movie choices.

"We literally agreed on watching a horror movie-"

"Yeah but it's not horror if we've already watched it twice."

These two kept fighting as the rest of us sat back on the three big couches of Lia and I's apartment. We were all having one big sleepover, and you're probably wondering why. Well, we're all gonna be truly busy working on our own projects starting next week.

As well as Anthony and Jazzy while they plan their wedding and Julia and I take care of the pregnancy. Besides, I was also already gonna start composing music for a new Disney movie, Moana. So, we wanted to have at least one more big hangout before we all got occupied with our jobs.

Although I don't think this hangout is going as peaceful as I intended it to be. "Hey, hey, hey, don't you dare throw more popcorn kernel at Groffsauce!" I reprimanded Renée.

"Why? It's my favorite pastime."

"Wait a minute," I hesitated. Everyone stopped whatever they were doing and stared at me. "Do you hear that?" I asked.

"Hear what?"

"Silence. You two are remarkably well behaved tonight." I pointed to Daveed and Leslie, who were not arguing for the first time in months. "What did you do?" I shot up one of my eyebrows in curiosity.

"He hasn't given me anything to fight about? I?" Daveed held his hands up, certainly perplexed.

"I don't buy that for a second."

"And he hasn't done anything humiliating enough for me to roast him?" Leslie mumbled but it sounded more like a question rather than a statement.

"Are you sure they haven't fought the whole night? Not even when they were changing into their pajamas?" Julia, who was sitting beside me, implored.

"Apparently not." Oak responded.

"This is too weird." I shook my head.

"Maybe this is the horror movie but instead of watching it, we're starring in it." Julia uttered, resulting in us breaking into fits of laughter.

When we eventually picked a film, we got comfortable as we were inundated in snacks and pillows. I, of course, was holding on to my wife for dear life because I'm a chicken when it comes to scary movies.

She, on the other hand, gets much more scared by my chicken-ness rather than by the movie itself.

"Stop pulling on my blanket!" Oak screeched towards Daveed.

"We're literally all sharing one blanket and you're blaming me?!" He whisper yelled.

"Shhh!" We all shushed them.

"Oak started it!!!" He rapidly got up and pointed at him.

"It's literally coming to an end and you bozos are interrupting the whole ending!" CJack shouted like the superior father of the group. Surprisingly, this scolding was enough to shut both Dav and Oak. Well, at least for the next four minutes until the movie finished.

"That's it?!" Julia protested as she stared at the screen in disbelief. "This movie did not do the book justice!" I love how she was the only one that reacted this way. I giggled at Lia's tangible critiques of the movie as the rest of us were just too frightened to open our eyes.

"I'm glad you think that, Julia. Now, can someone go with me to the bathroom? I'm too scared to go alone." Daveed confessed.

"Man, I would, but I think I'd be too scared to even stand up from this couch at all." Chris was terrified.

"Oh, c'mon guys, there was only like one jumpscare." Lia retorted.

"If by one, you mean one million, then yes." Daveed peaked his head from under the cushion.

•

"Uh, oh."

"What happened?" I asked Anthony as I stepped into the kitchen. He was holding a nearly empty bag of-

"We ran out of chips."

"EMERGENCY TRIP TO THE GROCERY STORE!" Daveed sprinted towards Ant, snatching the bag and tossing it in the trash.

"For what?" Jasmine asked from the couch as she and Julia and Renée were chatting.

"Because we ran out of tortilla chips." He retorts as if it's the most obvious thing on planet earth. We ended up all cramming in Julia's car, heading to the grocery store to buy more snacks. At one in the morning.

"Only one of us gets to sit in the shopping cart." I warned all of them as we reached the store.

"SHOTGUN" Daveed and Leslie both ran towards the cart as fast as they could, which resulted in both of them falling to the floor as we all snickered at them.

As they struggled to get back up, Groff had already beat them to it and made it to the shopping wagon, sitting comfortably. "This cart isn't gonna push itself."

"I'm on it!" Oak offered to push Groff but I gladly stopped him, because of course, I'm the only bromance Groff has. Or should have.

"Hands off it!" I exclaimed and took the shopping cart with my own hands, pushing Groff in the process.

"YIPPIEEEEEEEEE" He shouted across the grocery store as I accidentally pushed the car too hard and he almost crashed into aisle number seven.