Chapter Two: Movie Night

"I can't believe I'm doing this." Trinity sighs, looking at the menu of the concession stand.

"At least you won't be alone." Lexi says. Trinity rolls her eyes. "I can hear you rolling your eyes right now."

Trinity tightens her grip on the phone. "It's gonna be weird. I barely talk to them."

"You're in a movie theater, it's not like you're going to be doing a lot of talking. You're just going to sit in a room full of mouth breathing nerds that are probably seeing the outside world for the first time in years, who are making the unanimous decision to lock themselves in a dark room with each other and watch an erotica filled horror movie while trying to hide their hard-ons."

Trinity's face scrunches in disgust. "Was that supposed to convince me to stay?"

"It's not about the movie, it's about moving on with your life after reign of the bitch-"

"Lexi-"

Her friend continues on. "that didn't deserve you in the first place."

Trinity shakes her head and walks up to the counter. "I gotta go. Have fun with Eric alright?"

"Oh we'll have plenty of fun."

Trinity shakes her head at her friend's words. "Well, be safe and make good choices."

"Enjoy your crappy movie."

"Enjoy your hot straight sex." Trinity tells her friend goodbye before hanging up and looking at the cashier. After ordering, she walks around the lobby with a small coke in hand and M&M's in her pocket.

"Hey, over here!"

She turns around and sees Duncan waving at her excitedly. Max and Gertie stand in front of him.

"You showed up!" He smiles.

Trinity shrugs. "It's not like I had anything else to do tonight."

He nods. "Yeah, that's great!"

"That I'm alone on a Friday night?"

"No!" he rushes out. "I just mean- I'm just glad that you could make it."

Trinity nods. "Okay." She drags the word out.

Duncan turns to Max. "I can put you down for the Q&A, right?" He asks hopefully only for that hope to die at the sight of an unhappy Max. "After the show, do a little Q."

"No." Max and Gertie shake their heads.

"And a little A." He bites his lip and claps his hands together. "I'll put you down as a maybe." He begins to back up. "Okay, glad you're here." He turns to leave. "Oh!" He turns back around and holds up his arms next to the sign of Camp Bloodbath 2. "Kee-Kee-Kee Koh-Koh-Koh." He turns and attempts to hop over the velvet rope but his foot gets caught and he falls to the ground, bringing the rope and poles with him. He stumbles to his feet fixes his mess.

Trinity turns to him. "Is he always that…"

"Weird?" Gertie offers.

Trinity nods. "Yeah."

"Oh, it actually gets worse. Like if you have to live with him it's way, way worse."

Max tilts her head. "Aren't you in our English class?"

"Yeah, I am. I'm Trinity."

"I'm Max," she points to her friend. "and this is Gertie."

"Hey." Gertie greets before taking a sip of her soda.

Trinity walks towards her seat and her stomach drops when she meets the chocolate brown eyes of Vicki.

Vicki's eyes widen. "What are you doing here?" She asks, hoping no one heard the hint of panic in her voice.

Trinity raises an eyebrow. "I'm a part of the dream team of scientist having a brain orgy in order to cure cancer." she scoffs. "It's a movie theater, what do you think I'm doing here?"

Duncan walks past her, eagerly sitting next to Gertie. "Sister." He greets and takes his seat.

"What's up Trinity?" Chris nods towards her.

"Hey Chris."

Gertie looks between them. "You guys know each other?"

"Our parents are friends."

Chris nods in agreement. "My dads and her mom go way back." He says as he takes a seat next to Max. Vicki quickly sits down next to him, leaving Trinity to sit between her and Gertie.

The film begins and the audience claps and cheers. Duncan watches with wide eyes and a smile on his face. Gertie sips her soda, still annoyed that she's sitting next to her step brother. Trinity pops M&M's into her mouth and Vicki keeps her attention on her phone. Chris pours M&M's into his popcorn and shares a smile with Max from her spot at the end of the row.

The yellow VW makes it's way down the dirt path.

"Hey, guys, we're here!" The driver smiles.

"Whoo!" The blond in the passenger seat cheers and looks to the back.

"Someone wake up sleeping beauty back there."

A blond haired blue eyed girl stretches and sits up, groaning. "Are we there yet?" She turns around and opens the curtains.

The driver looks into the rear-view mirror and winks at her. The blushes with a smile and giggles.

Trinity brushes the hair away from her face and her arm bumps into Vicki's. The girl recoils from her and adjust her seating. Trinity shakes her head and rolls her eyes before looking back to the screen.

"It all happened so long ago. Little Billy Murphy went to camp here decades ago." The blue eyed girl explains. "And he was always picked on for being different, ugly." The counselors listen with rapt attention. "And then one summer, the hottest one on record, the counselors decided to play a little prank on him."

The scene transitions into black and white.

Summer 1957

A car pulls up to the cabin and three boys hop out.

"No one really knows how Billy was before it happened." The voice over says. "The counselors hated him, and the other kids bullied him mercilessly."

Four boys push and shove a tall kid against a picnic table. "Stop." The boy says but the others continue to push him. "Stop! Go away!" He pushes through them and runs, locking himself in an nearby outhouse. The boys follow him and bang on the door.

"Billy, open up."

"I know how to get him out." A counselor pulls a wad of firecrackers out of his back pocket and his friend hands him a lighter. He quickly lights the fuse and throws it over the top of the stall and into the outhouse. The others back away.

The crowd jumps in fright at the sound of the boy screaming and the wild popping of the firecrackers. Trinity folds her arms and continues to watch the movie. The scene of Max's mom's death soon appears.

In the crowd, a movie goer lights his cigarette.

The driver walks into the bedroom and shuts the door behind him. His shirt hangs over his shoulder and he has a beer in his hand. He spreads his arms out. "Soak this moment in, babe, because you're always gonna remember me."

"What does that that tattoo mean?" The blue eyed girl asks.

The boy look at his bicep. "It was given to me in juvie. I was caught stealing cherries. I'm a…I'm a cherry thief."

The crowd laughs. And even Trinity can't fight the chuckle that escapes her.

"Neat." The girl smiles.

In the crowd a man takes a drink from a bottle of Vodka and passes it to his friend only for it to slip through his fingers and falls to the floor. The bottle rolls through the crowd before crashing to a stop by the red velvet curtains on the wall.

The boy leans over the girl on the bed. "Nice legs. What time they open?"

Kee-Kee-Kee Koh-Koh-Koh

"Kurt?" The girl sits up and opens her eyes but doesn't see the boy anywhere.

The man in the audience takes a drag of his cigarette and the ash falls to the ground.

The girl brings her clothes closer to her body as she walks around the room. "Kurt?"

Trinity notices Max get up and turn to leave the theater. She makes her way down the aisle when a fire suddenly appears with her and begins to crawl up the curtains. Everyone stands and panics at the sight of the exit being blocked by flames.

Vicki unconsciously grabs onto Trinity's hand as the crowd scrambles for an exit.

"The exits are blocked!" Chris says. Gertie looks around in horror and Duncan covers his mouth and nose with his shirt.

"Duncan is there an exit behind the screen?" Max asks.

He follows her gaze. "Yeah, in the back."

Max looks around and spots a machete on the floor that must have been dropped by a Bath-matician. "Come on!" She climbs onto the screen stage.

"Go, go,go! Go!" Chris ushers his friends in front of him before following them onto the stage. Max stabs the machete into the screen and drags it down, revealing a bright light. "Go, go, go!" They all run through.