At The Movies
Chapter 1- Saturday Nights Are For Dancing, Fridays Are For Movies
Disclaimer- I do not own Final Fantasy VIII, it belongs to Square not me.
"What do you guys feel like seeing?" asked Selphie as she bounded through the doors of the 'Galacti-Theatre' the newly renovated movie theatre in Balamb. The gang had decided to go see a movie; they had been all overworked with the new school year beginning a month ago.
"You need to calm do Selphie, you're going to fall again," stated Quistis as she went over to look at the show times. Selphie rubbed her butt remembering the fall she took running to the car from the Garden. When Selphie got excited, she tended to get bouncy, and a little clumsy.
"You're such a mom Quistis," replied Kaitlin. She had become friends with Selphie three-months ago, and the two were like one side of the same coin, both equally clumsy, and equally happy, and equally interested in the Garden Festival.
Rinoa moved next to Quistis and looked up examining the electronic list located above the ticket booth, "It's 8 now so we should try to see a show that's close to now."
Kaitlin scrunched her nose in disapproval, "We should see one that starts at 9, I mean the entire point was to get away from the Garden for as long as possible." Selphie came up beside her and nodded excitedly.
"Yeah, I mean it's not like the Garden stops working when we're gone." Rinoa looked at the guys, who were all clearly less excited than the girls, but it's hard to be more excited than Selphie or Kaitlin. They all shrugged, not really caring what they did.
"Okay well at 9 there are four shows: 'Failure to Fly', 'Freaky Film 4', 'The Hard Feelings', and 'Satan wears Chanel'. What do you guys want to see?" asked Rinoa turning to the rest of the group. Kaitlin and Selphie were hopping up and down.
"We have to see 'The Hard Feelings' it's supposed to so scary it made people pee themselves in the theatre!" exclaimed Selphie happily.
"I do not want to sit in their chairs," said Seifer scoffing. Quistis choked back a laugh and smoothed out her jeans. She picked an invisible piece of lint of her pink t-shirt and sighed.
"I don't really fell like peeing myself today, can we see something a little more mellow, like 'Failure to Fly'. That was supposed to be good."
"Chick flicks aren't my thing," replied Zell scratching the back of his head, which was covered by the hood of his big black hoodie sweater. Rinoa the ever-present conflict solver stepped in rearranging her raven colored ponytail.
"How about we split into two and see different movies. That way we all get what we want," she suggested looping her arm around Squalls. Everyone nodded in agreement thinking it was a pretty good suggestion.
"Okie-dokie, me and Selphie are seeing 'The Hard Feelings', and Zell doesn't want to see a chick flick so he'll come with us, and Seifer is strong so he'll come with us too," said Kaitlin hopping from foot to foot and pointing at people like they were choosing teams for little-league.
"Why do I have to go?" asked Seifer crossing his arms, not really caring about the movie but he was never one to give in easily.
"Duh," replied Kaitlin, "If the demon thing comes out of the movie, then you can distract it while we run." Seifer rolled his eyes. Selphie squealed.
"Let's buy our tickets now!" The guys reached in the pockets to get their wallets and the girls went through their purses. Irvine stared at Kaitlin whose hand was down the top of her form fitting light brown t-shirt.
"What are you doing?" asked Irvine still staring at her. Kaitlin stopped, one hand down her shirt the other on her boob, and looked around. Everyone was looking at her with the same odd expression, with the exception of Selphie.
"I lose my money if I don't keep it in my bra," she replied pulling bills from under her shirt.
"What else do you keep in there?" asked Irvine playfully. Kaitlin didn't pick up on the rhetorical question and searched through her left boob.
"Um…my cell phone, my um… tube of lip gloss, and I have…ah!" she cried a little, and then pulled out a coin, " and this which super glued itself to my boob."
"I keep the rest of her stuff in my bag," said Selphie lifting her purse to prove her point.
"Right…well…can we buy our tickets now?" asked Rinoa ignoring the conversation that had just taken place. They paid for their respective tickets and entered the lobby looking around.
The theatre was enormous; the renovations were clearly a good idea. There was now an arcade, and the biggest concession stand possibly in the world. Popcorn, nachos, candy, drinks, anything you wanted and more was sold there.
"What should we do to pass the time?" asked Zell only half joking. There was a lot to do; he kind of didn't know what to do first.
"I'm hungry a so I'm gonna order food," replied Rinoa pulling Squall with her. If she was hungry then he was too, she was sort of a controlling girlfriend. Quistis nodded.
"Me too, I don't like eating during movies." Selphie stared at the arcade and without a word pulled Kaitlin with her as she ran off toward the flashing lights and beeping music.
Zell watched them go, and slowly walked after them. Irvine picked up a magazine from the stand beside him and walked over to where the most comfortable chairs were. He propped his legs up on the centre table and began to read.
Quistis grabbed Seifer's arm "Come on strong man, help us carry food." Seifer rolled his eyes and allowed Quistis to pull him towards the counter with Squall and Rinoa.
Selphie stopped at the entrance to the arcade and took in her surroundings. Everything was so shiny, and …shiny. Selphie walked over to the loudest machine there was, it involved dancing so Selphie got on and gave her money willingly to the device.
The main screen came up asking her to choose her difficulty. Selphie stepped on the let arrow until she got to the hardest difficulty. Kaitlin came up to her straightening out her black skirt. "Have you ever played this before?"
"No."
"Okay, then…good luck," with that Kaitlin walked over to the game station that had two guns on it. She looked at the title, 'Zombie Plaza'. She shrugged and searched through her bra for coins, she paid the machine and took out the two guns even though the game was meant for using only one. She selected two-player mode and listened to the intro man.
She quickly got bored and shot the screen. She saw zombies jump out at her from behind houses and she began to shoot masterfully at the evil zombies. She saw her score up increasingly and continued to play until the screen went black and said, 'New High Score' in Flashing red bold letters.
Kaitlin typed in her name and passed along to the next game. It involved using a replica sniper rifle to eliminate targets. Kaitlin once again paid and watched as her score got higher and higher.
"You're pretty good at that game," said a voice that came from behind her.
"I try," she replied not looking behind her in case she might lose the game.
"Like scary good, should I call the cops on you?" asked the voice behind her. Kaitlin giggled.
"No I go to the Garden, I'm here with my friends we have the day off," she responded taking out a guard on the top of a hostage building.
"Oh I go there too, I haven't seen you before, but then again, I'm not a high class sniper." Kaitlin watched as the high score screen came up and typed in her name.
"Kait," read the voice behind her.
"Oh it's Kaitlin-" she replied as she turned around. Her voice caught in her throat. 'The Voice' behind her was a tall handsome guy in faded jeans, who had the bluest eyes and the most perfect golden brown hair. She smiled and cleared her throat then flung her dark mahogany hair over her shoulder trying to look sexy.
"I'm Josh," Kaitlin smiled and leaned against the game machine getting lost in his beauty. "So um- what movie are you-"
"Booyaka!" Selphie's cry interrupted Josh's thought and Kaitlin went over to see Selphie dancing like a pro.
"She's a quick learner," stated Zell as he watched Selphie go. Kaitlin turned but Josh was gone, she sighed and grabbed Selphie's arm.
"Come on Selphie. Saturday nights are for dancing, Fridays are for movies, so let's go see one." Selphie giggled and danced her way towards the table where everyone else was seated. Kaitlin smiled as she watched the excited Selphie running and dancing. Until she fell.
A/N- So what do you think? It's another of my only one setting stories like 'Confessions on a dance floor'! I hope you guys like it! Keep you're eyes peeled for my next chapter of this 'Concession Stand Blues'! And tell me what you think! Review!
P.S. I do not own any movie names, any similarities to real movies is purely coincidental.