Paying Attention

CHAPTER EIGHT


"So are you ready for the movie?" Elijah say's as we walk up to the movie theater.

"Yeah I am!... Are you? He, he, just kidding." I smile.

"Well you are going to love it," he say's as he pays for the tickets.

"Well, I'll be the judge of that."

"Whatever you say, but afterwards you'll be the one hearing an 'I told you so.'"

"We'll see." I say, and then laugh.

When we walk into the theater the previews have already started, so quickly, in the dark, we find a seat, a little closer in front because I guess this is a really great movie. Oh well, I guess that I'll just have to crane my neck in a semi-uncomfortable way.

In one of the previews, it shows a man and his son looking for a rock or something, and the son giving him the rock as a present. I don't really know. It was like John Carter. No one really understood what it was supposed to be about (unless they read the book), or they saw the movie and it was only okay. I didn't see that one, and I'm not too sure about this one either.

"What the-" I say once the preview has ended.

"I have no flippen clue what that was supposed to be about." He say's.

"Yeah, like, what the crap. Oh well. Weird people who make weird movies that aren't good at all and that no one want's to see."

Then I hear someone whisper, "I wanted to see that."

Oh, oops.

I turn my face to Elijah, and try so hard not to laugh because it's just so funny to me that I opened my big (literally, big, well, wide) mouth while someone else had an opinion about it. His face begins to form into a smile too, and we just sit there trying not to bust out laughing, while another preview goes.

Finally the movie starts and we're sitting there quietly when Elijah starts playing footsie's with me.

I laugh a little and whisper, "Eli, stop."

He continues to do that until I reach my hand over to stop it. But, of course, one arm is no match for one leg.      So I sat there trying to stop him, laughing, but unable to.

Finally when I look back up I see that I've missed a lot.

"Okay, now is the time that you need to whisper to me what I have missed because of what you caused ME to miss." I whisper.

"Okay, well that wasn't my fault. It was your own choosing to try to stop my leg. But I'll tell you." He say's quietly. "So just barely the captain of the plain has gotten on board, everything seems pretty fine but-"

"No, no, I just saw that. Before it."

"Ugh, well-"

Then, suddenly the girl in front of us turns around, angry faced, and says almost yelling, "You guys are the most annoying couple ever! Will you just shut up for two seconds and let everyone else enjoy the movie?"

"Oops. Sorry."

"Sshh!"

Wait, did she say couple?

I want to talk to mention this to Elijah and see if he noticed too, but I'm afraid that she'll get mad at us again.

We sit there in silence (well, partial because the movie is going), and I hear Eli make a yawn, and feel him stretch his arm over my shoulders. And as weird as it is, I like the feel of it, and I don't move away. In fact I move more into him so that I am sheltered in the crook of his arm. We stay like that for the rest of the movie, and don't say another word. I think that he heard her.