I couldn't think of a good title for this story but I thought it be fun to combine both movies.
Chapter 1
Movie Night
It was movie night. Benny had decided to invite his girlfriend Ruthie, his sister Joon and her boyfriend Sam over. He had rented a few movies for everyone to watch. He even rented a movie that was a new release.
Ruthie came over with a pack of beer, Sam came over with one of his old movies. Joon came over with her peanut butter and celery, lunch pail, and her drawing book.
Benny had popcorn set out ready to be made.
"What movies did you get?" Ruthie asked.
"Go check them out," said Benny.
Ruthie went in the living room and looked at the movies. A League of Their Own, Ghostbusters, Rain Man, and Jaws.
"Oh this sounds interesting," Ruthie called.
"What's interesting?" Benny asked.
"This movie, A League of Their Own. Geena Davis, Madonna, Tom Hanks."
"Oh yeah, yeah women playing ball, I rented it, it looked interesting."
"Lets watch it first."
"Okay. I hope Sam and Joon won't mind."
"Is this okay to watch this first?" Ruthie asked Sam and Joon who were sitting on the couch.
"What's it about?" Joon asked.
Ruthie read the back of the case.
Benny made popcorn.
Ruthie finished reading the back and opened the case.
"Wait for me," Benny called from the kitchen.
"I'm just getting it ready," said Ruthie.
She took the tape out of the case and put it in the VCR and turned on the TV. She fastened forward through the previews.
Then Benny came in with the popcorn and sat down. Ruthie unpaused the movie.
They all munched on their popcorn as Joon had her celery with peanut butter. Benny and Ruthie had a beer and Sam had pop.
The movie started with Dottie heading to the reunion for the AAGPBL to see her old team mates. Her daughter had to make her go. Then when she got there, she started to remember all the good times she had back in 1943 when the league started.
During the movie, Joon couldn't stand Kit because of her jealousy and her attitude. She always seemed to like blaming her problems on her sister Dottie. "Gee she has made the front page and got attention from her whole team and she is still jealous," said Joon. "God she is such a whiny brat."
"I do agree," said Ruthie.
"Well sometimes it takes longer for people to grow up," said Benny. "Can you imagine her being your housekeeper Joon?"
Joon gave him a look.
"Don't start," said Ruthie.
"I was kidding," said Benny. "Can you imagine having Stilwell as your child or watching someone who is like him?"
"No way," said Ruthie.
"That kid's annoying," said Joon. "The mom is horrible and she feeds him chocolate, no wonder he's fat."
Then at the end, when Kit scored a home run after Dottie dropped the ball, Joon said she just did it on purpose because the game meant more to Kit than it did to her. So she let go of the ball so she can get her publicity and the attention she has always wanted. She also thought if she were Dottie, she would have just held onto the darn thing and have Kit throw her tantrum.
"Do you think she dropped the ball on purpose or did Kit run into her so hard, it fell out of her hand when she landed?" Ruthie asked.
"She dropped it on purpose," said Joon. "Look at Kit."
Kit got carried by her team mates and she hugged her coach yelling "I did it I did it," as if she were a child. Then she jumped up and down waving to the people in the stands "Thank you thank you," for shouting her name.
After the movie ended, Ruthie took the movie out and put in Rain Man and started the movie. She skipped the preview and started the movie.
"Hey that's the same composer for A league of Their Own," said Ruthie when she saw Hans Zimmer name pop up.
"Yeah," said Benny.
They kept on watching it.
"God Charlie is so selfish," said Ruthie.
"Good thing Raymond is driving him crazy," said Benny. "His autism sure comes in handy."
"The way he talked about the car reminded me of one of my old friends in LA when she talked about elephants. She had a little collection of them and seemed to know where she got each one of them from and she seemed to know everything about elephants. But I don't think she was autistic. She just had problems with people and social skills but yeah she had difficulty with change too and she was literal but she wasn't anywhere like him."
"Who was this friend?" Benny asked.
"Oh we were room mates and friends and then she moved out and was on her own and we grew apart. I haven't seen her since she got married. She took off with her new husband and kid."
"And you never heard from her since?" Benny asked.
"I have but then we haven't spoken in two years by phone. Her marriage didn't sound good anyway."
"Quiet, I'm trying to watch," said Joon.
Benny and Ruthie stopped talking. They could continue the discussion after the movie.
They watched movies for the rest of the evening and then everyone headed home. Benny put the movies back in their cases. He had to return A League of Their Own the next day. Ruthie told Benny she was heading back to her apartment.
"Okay," he said. "See you around."
Ruthie kissed him goodbye.
"Sam, Joon, I'm heading back, you guys coming or staying?"
"Oh we're coming," said Sam.
"Bye you guys," said Benny.
"Bye," said Joon.
Ruthie, Sam and Joon headed out to her car. They got in and left.
