The night that Cecil saw Kevin in the portal, he hadn't known what to do. Although now, that the story is all done with, Cecil told Carlos every detail (even the ones he'd kept away from his listeners, which wasn't much). He told Carlos how he couldn't tell whether Kevin (though he didn't know his name) was being polite when he 'passed' by, or if he was 'mocking' something. He told Carlos how the seconds seemed to pass by so fast when with him, it seemed like no time at all. He told Carlos how, on the drive home from the station he couldn't tell whether he was in 'real life'. He also told Carlos that he wasn't sure of that for a little while after (a couple day...maybe about a week) either.
At that time, Cecil had no idea about how Carlos felt about the whole 'showdown'. All that he (Carlos) had down is nod, smile, and say cute things like 'yeah' and 'of course'.He had even tried to sound (and seem) disgusted when Cecil described the macabre that he had seen in Kevin's 'supposed office'. That was what he was supposed to do right, they were friends. He saw no wrong in that (and Cecil wouldn't have either if he never found out).
"Carlos!" Cecil said, a bit angrily, but then again maybe not. It was hard to get angry at Carlos and his oh-so-perfect hair. "Are you even listening to me?".
"Yes Cecil, you were the talking about the lines for your show tomorrow." He said, i mean of course he knew what Cecil was talking about, he was listening (duh!).
"No I wasn't dummy! That was five minutes ago!" Cecil replied, trying to keep the irritation out of his voice. Why wasn't Carlos listening to him, they were friends right? He always seemed interested (but not too interested) in what Cecil was saying. Maybe he just 'zoned out', it was pretty normal in NightVale, just as it was pretty normal to regard the dog park as 'off limits' or treating old lady Josie like a normal woman even though everyone could tell that she was on crack or something (seriously there is something wrong with that woman). I mean, everyone does those things.
"Oh…" Carlos replied (yet again) frowning a bit and looking absolutely adorable (as Cecil would've said). "What were you talking about then?" Carlos continued, tried to bring his face back into the smiling position.
"I was talking about how we should go see this new movie that just came out in the NightVale movie theater (where you are welcome to bring in your own popcorn, and even take a video of the movie as you are watching, so that you can sell it online for 'big bucks')." He stopped, thought for a second, looked to see Carlos's reaction and then said "It's called 'The Sound of Music' and it sounds really good!"
"'the Sound of Music' Cecil? You really haven't already seen that? Didn't it come out like 20 years ago or something?"
"NO it didn't Carlos. It's just coming out in theaters and i assure you, NightVale is 'totally' up-to-date with all this pop culture junk!" Cecil glared, but he had to admit, Carlos's stubborn-ness was certainly (if not positively) adorable.
Carlos (after hearing Cecil's last remark) just stared at his friend with possibly a look of pity (though i am not sure). I mean, everyone's seen 'The Sound of Music' right? It was a classic. That was all that there was to it, NightVale definitely was not 'up-to-date with all this pop culture junk'.
"Sure.." Carlos said hesitantly, "I'll go and see 'The Sound of Music' with you." he smiled (awkwardly) and then asked 'what time?'.
"What do you mean what time Carlos?"
"What time are we going?"
"I still don't get it, the movie theater only plays at one time Carlos." darn this man was so naive Cecil thought. "Duh, the movie theater only plays at 9:00."
"So nine?"
"Of course Carlos. Meet you there!"
