Part 4:

It was something that he really felt like doing. Holding her hand.

Jack walked beside Julie. Heading to Seafords Movie Theatre, her hand wafting by her side as she walked. Almost begging for him to hold. It was sort of weird.

He'd heard in dates that you should hold a girls hand and he'd done it before with plenty of girls (even Kim) without it being THIS awkward.

'It's because it isn't a date idiot!' He screamed to himself within his head, 'That's Julie! Milton's girlfriend! OFF. LIMITS.'

His mind was using that as a mantra, but no matter how much he told himself that, he wouldn't believe it.

She had been complaining for weeks about how Milton brushed her off, how he wouldn't go anywhere with her (because he was too busy) and how the fire, the passion (and the love) in their relationship seemed to be dimming. But did this give him an excuse to be out with his girl? No. But here he was, going to a movie.

'It's just two friends going out. Nothing more.' He told himself again, 'Right?'

Julie was having a similar inner battle. She had felt guilty at going out with another guy that wasn't Milton. Sure, she wasn't exactly dating him but (and she refused to say it aloud) she wouldn't mind if she was.

He was kind, smart and handsome. He always listened to her problems and he was really fun to be around. Which made her feel even more conflicted. Every joke making her giggle, every accidental brush of skin making her blush and a million of one possibilities rushing through her teenage brain.

So when they slowly gripped the others hand, stiffening at the touch of the other but not daring to pull away, their minds exploded.

Following the pair, Jerry, Eddie, Rudy and Kim tried to acertain who the girl was. The brunette and Jack hadn't exchaged any words for a while, but when they held hands (much to Kim's rage) conversation ensued amd the awkwardness that they could see in the pair evaporated.

They lost them after a while, Eddie tripping and chrashing into a dumpster. After helping him up the 'happy couple' were gone.

The 'happy couple' slipped into the movie theatre with their tickets and had an argument,

"You got the tickets!" Julie whined,

"Your point?" Jack replied as they both made their was to the the confectionary stands,

"This isn't a date Jack, you don't have to be a gentleman." Julie said, although she began to doubt the words as they passed her lips,

"Well, it's too bad that I'm one by nature." Jack smirked and Julie playfully punched his arm,

"Oww!" Jack said genuinely and rubbing his arm,

"I'll get the popcorn. Deal?" Julie growled and Jack nodded, "Great! Let's go!"

Smiling at her sudden change from menacing to delighted, Jack allowed himself to be dragged along by the adorable spectacled girl.

Outside, Kim, Eddie, Rudy and Jerry rushed to the ticket clerk,

"Has a guy and a girl with brown hair come in here?"

"Who wants to know?" The man asked cautiously.

Jerry rooted around in his pockets and produced a ten dollar bill and went to slipit through the the gap, before Eddie hit in the back of the head.

"We're his friends and we want to know who Jack's with." Kim said firmly, still slightly miffed at the hand holding,

"Please, if you have seen them…" Rudy stepped in, "He ran out of his class and we want to make sure he's okay."

Now, not three weeks ago, a similar group of teens and a man came in searching for a young boy and the man had let them in. The boy was now dead. As much as he hated to judge people he didn't want to have anything else on his conciounsce.

"You're his friends?" The man asked, casting an eye over the men in karate gi's and the blonde girl in jeans and a t-shirt.

"His best friends." The small chubby black kid said,

"Well." He said, smirking in his mind, "If you can guess what film he's in you can go and see it and make sure he's okay."

Eddie and Jerry cursed at that,

"If only Milton was here. Him and Jack go to the movies all the time." Eddie said whilst Rudy and Kim looked over posters,

"4 tickets to Titanic 3D please." Jerry said, sliding the money through the gap,

"Jerry!" The others called,

"Here me out. Every brunette in school has been talking about this film and Jack's the ultimate gentleman. This is the film." Jerry said, "Besides, it's on me."

Smiling, Jerry took the tickets and they all trudged in. The clerk smirking as he looked over to the poster for 'Insidious 2',

"Wrong."

Electric is how Jack and Julie described as they sat beside one another in the dark theatre. The horror flick making others scream whilst they couldn't care less about the sights and sounds around them.

They had the other on their minds.

Craving the slightest brush of their fingertips, the sound and feel of their breath, they were on fire. A thousand and one possibilities lighting a super nova in there minds. Destroying all guilty thoughts as they enjoyed one anothers company.

Meanwhile, Jerry and Rudt were teary eyed as they watched the movie. Sobbing uncontrollably and uttering statements like, "so beautiful." and, well, shouting at the screen in general.

Kim and Eddie on the other hand werw searching for 1 and a half hours for Jack and his mystery girlfriend as the film went on. Unaware until the lights turned on and the film was over that Jack wasn't there.

"Crap! Curfew!" Eddie gasped and exited the theatre at a fast pace. But collapsing of exhaustion at the end of the street as the others exited the theatre in a throng of people.

Being teary eyed still, Rudy and Jerry missed them, but Kim rushed off after the rapidly retreating brunettes she knew to be Jack and, who ever. Rushing after them, there heads bobbing in and out of view behind couples and groups until they were gone and Kim was chasing phantoms. The two of them long gone.

Or, hiding in a tight alleyway as Kim ran past, pressed chest to chest. Julie's hair coming out of it's pony tail and her glasses askew. The moonlight and the close proximity making them see each other in an all new light,

"That was close." Julie said, pulling her hand up to fix her glasses but it trailing up his torso as to their closeness making an (almost) seductive growl rumble in his chest that made her gasp and yet more illicit and wrong fantasies bounce through her head.

This was so wrong. She was Milton Krupnick's girlfriend and here she was, her body pressed into his bestfriend and most popular guy in town. Who she just happened to have been on a date with (she decided not to deny it to herself. It was a date.). This was just against every moral she stood by.

This was just as bad for Jack. Her hand slowly slinking up his body and fixing her glasses hadn't exactly been harmful. But she was Milton's girlfriend. The guy in the group he was probably closest to. Just being there, pressed against her, his mind and heart running a thousand times faster than usual. It just felt like a betrayal.

But neither of them could help themselves.

Running a hand up the back of her neck (raising gasps and goosebumps) Jack pulled the bobble from her already ruined ponytail. Allowing her long, soft brown hair to fall like a curtain, her hair and skin almost glowing in the moonlight.

"Jack." She said breathlessly, her eyes fluttering closed and her head leaning up,

"Julie." Jack replied, he closed his eyes and guided his lips forward, awaiting the perfect moment when they would touch Julie's.

Then realisation hit him like a train, Julie. Milton's girlfriend!

"Miton." He gasped and Julie opened her eyes, her dissapointment suddenly being replaced by horror at the situation,

"Milton!"