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Enemy
Scott walks beside me towards the closest CVS, which is conveniently only a street over from Mitch's house. Mitch invited me over to his house for a sleep over. Scott didn't really need an invitation since he sleeps over at Mitch's house almost every other night anyway. While we walk, I say nothing and Scott tells me the story of how he met Mitch.
"So I was ten and I think that Mitch was nine, and there was this community theatre that was doing a production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I was cast as Charlie and I think that Mitch was Mike TV," he tells me. I can imagine both of them 6 years ago as their roles. I bet they were just the cutest little kids. "and anyway, during some lunch break or something during rehearsal, I remember thinking 'Oh my god, this kid is really good.' So I walked up to him and told him how I thought he was so talented, and he was just like 'Oh, thanks! But I already know that.' And I was like 'Okay, he is fabulous.' And we've pretty much been best friends since then." He says.
"That's a really cute story, Scott." I laugh a little. "You guys have such a cool friendship."
His face turns a little pink, and it's so obvious because of his pale skin. "Aw, thanks. Mitch is really cool, he's my absolute best friend." He just smiles, his bright white teeth standing out in the darkening evening. I can see the annoyingly bright CVS sign and I feel my back pocket for my wallet to make sure that it's there. We're on our way to pick up some popcorn and candy, so of course we'll need money.
Wait, where is my wallet? I feel my other pockets as my heart starts beating fast. I can't feel it, where is it? "Dammit! Scott, I'm sorry. I think I forgot my wallet, we need to walk back to the house." Great, now he's going to think I'm an idiot, and it's gonna be dark soon.
"Oh, don't worry, girl, I have mine. I was gonna pay anyway." He says, shrugging. "I never go anywhere without my wallet. You never know when you'll need a few bucks." He winks at me.
When we finally reach CVS, we come bursting through the front door like a couple of ravenous wolves.
"I'll get the popcorn, you get the candy!" Scott says. I bolt straight over to aisle 6 and run to the end. I snatch up two packages of M&Ms. I lift one of them to my nose and inhale the candy's sweet scent. God, I love the smell of chocolate. I grab three packages of skittles, a package of sour gummy worms, a package of regular gummy worms, and three Hershey chocolate bars. I turn on my right heel and stride over to the cash register, where Scott is standing and the cashier is ringing up a couple bags of popcorn. I throw the candy I retrieved onto the register and the cashier gives us a weird look, but he rings it all up and throws it into the bag.
"Your total is eleven-fifty." He watches as Scott pulls two fives and two singles out of his wallet.
"Just keep the change, I have enough in here." He laughs and shakes the wallet. There's a jingling sound as quarters and dimes and pennies all clatter together.
"Y'all have a good night." The cashier calls as we walk through the sliding doors, our bag clutched in Scott's left hand. He smiles down at me.
"What?" I ask.
"I'm just thinking, Kirstie."
I smile back at him as we walk down the sidewalk, gas lamps from people's yards lighting our way as we traverse back to Mitch's house.
"Y'all took long enough!" Mitch stands in the kitchen with his hands on his hips as we come through the front door. Mitch's house is beautiful. The kitchen is completely decked out with state-of-the-art cooking technology. It's got a mosaic back-splash on every wall, and a stainless steel dishwasher. His living room, which is view-able from the kitchen, has fancy paintings on every wall and a 60" flat screen TV with surround sound speakers that are placed strategically around the living room to be hidden but also have an amazing effect. There's also an extremely soft rug, a leather recliner, and a dark grey sectional couch. Don't even get me started on the bathrooms, I have never seen such a nice bathroom in my life.
"Well, you could have come with!" Scott laughs and drops the bag on the kitchen counter. "Candy and popcorn, per your request." He bows as if Mitch is of royal blood.
"Thank you, servant." He laughs and looks in the bag. "Oh, who picked out the candy?"
"That was me." I grin a little. Mitch smirks at me. "You've got good taste."
"Why thank you, your majesty." I laugh a little. Mitch take a bag of popcorn and pops it into his huge white microwave.
"So your mom is okay with you sleeping over at a boy's house?" He winks at me and I laugh.
"Well, all I texted her was 'I'm not coming home tonight, sleeping over at a friend's house. See you in the morning!' and I haven't really checked my phone since then." I shrug. "If she finds out and gets upset, at least she can't say that I lied to her."
Mitch nods. "I like the way you think."
I can feel heat rising to my cheeks. I don't know why I'm getting so flustered. I guess I'm just happy to be getting so close to Mitch and Scott after only having met them at the beginning of the week. I shake my head a little bit when I realize that I'm just staring at the microwave. "Uh, so your parents are cool with me staying over while they're out of town?"
Mitch laughs. "Yea, of course. My mom got skeptical and asked if you were a girlfriend." He and Scott laugh at this and I just awkwardly smile.
"Why is that so funny?" I ask.
Mitch just shrugs. Scott looks at the floor. "No real reason, we just think it's funny." The blonde says.
"Oh. Okay." I just shrug it off and walk over to the microwave. 4... 3... 2... 1... BEEEEP! I hit the door release button and pull the bag out. "This smells so good!" I carefully open the bag. After it steams for a few seconds, I grab a few popped kernels and toss them into my mouth. "So what movie are we watching?"
"Rent." Scott and Mitch say in unison. I tilt my head.
"What's that?" I say as I chew on the popcorn.
Mitch comes over to me and stares me down with the widest eyes ever. "How do you not know what Rent is? It's one of the most amazing and beautiful musicals ever! And Idina Menzel is in it!" He shrieks.
I giggle. "Well what are we doing just standing here? Let's go watch it!"
Mitch grins at me from ear to ear. He runs over into the living room and I follow, bringing the popcorn and the candy bag, Scott follows behind me. Mitch takes the colourful DVD from the dark oak coffee table and pops it into the DVD player. He sets the movie up to play and I relax into the leather recliner. Mitch turns the lights out and joins Scott on the 'L' shaped couch and sits right next to him, leaning into him.
As the beginning song starts to play, I realize that it sounds familiar. "five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred minutes." The actors sing. Something about this seems familiar...
"Wait a minute, I think I've heard this song before!" I sit up. Scott looks over at me, the little light that the movie is showing lights up his face.
"That's not surprising. It's a popular musical song." Is all he says. I smile and relax back into the leather and let the beautiful music fill my head.
When the movie finally ends, Scott gets up and turns the lights on. I wipe away the tears that are running down my face.
Mitch giggles a little as he stretches. "Wasn't that a great movie?"
I nod and swallow the abundance of saliva that was brewing in my mouth. "Yea, it was really amazing." I continue to wipe away the tears.
"I used to cry every time I saw it." Scott says. "Wicked is another musical that I love, but it hasn't been adapted to a movie."
I nod. "I've seen it, it's really good. But I think that Rent is my new favourite."
Mitch stands up and grabs the last of the popcorn. "Same, girl." He says before munching on it.
"Thank you guys so much for inviting me tonight." I say as I stand.
Mitch waves me away. "No problem! You're our friend, Kirstie. Why wouldn't we?"
I just kind of shrug and look down at the carpet. "I just haven't really made a lot of friends since I got here. I don't know, I'm just really grateful to have y'all and Alice as friends." Scott and Mitch both come over and hug me. I hug them back quickly, and we all break from our huddle and sit back down into our spots.. "You guys are a couple of sweethearts." I begin laughing a little. "Oh, hey, why couldn't Alice come tonight?"
Mitch grabs his phone. I assume he's looking for a text from her. "She said that she's grounded because she and her mom got into a stupid fight, and to party hard for her." He says without looking up from his phone. He sets it down on the coffee table.
"That sucks." I sigh.
Mitch turns off the lights again after we just chill for a while and turns on the regular TV. I stay up for a few more hours watching Friends. After a while, I look over and Scott and Mitch seem to be asleep. I turn the TV off and close my eyes, falling into subconsciousness on the thought of how grateful I am to be friends with such nice guys like Scott and Mitch.
