Consider: the "I work at a movie theatre and I'm cleaning up after the movie is over and you're the only person left because you're ugly crying with popcorn over your lap" AU

"Honestly, I don't even know who comes to see these sappy indie films, but whoever they are, they leave quite a mess," Sousuke grumbled to his coworker and best friend, Rin.

"I know, you would think they could show some respect…there's popcorn everywhere!" Rin scowled and looked contemptuously down his upturned nose at the row full of empty soft drink cups and popcorn kernels. Rin, despite his artfully disheveled style was quite the stickler for cleanliness and order, and this was the exact opposite of what he was prepared to handle.

"Well, if we just stare at it, it's not going to get clean…" Sousuke rubbed his shoulder habitually, before picking up the large broom and starting to work his way down the aisle.

After a few minutes of working in silence, row after row, bad advertisements and commercials serving as their personal soundtrack for the evening, a faint sound of sniffling reached their ears.

"Oi—Sousuke, do you hear that?"

"Yeah, but I didn't see anyone in here…"

At that moment, a patch of brown hair appeared from behind a seat.

"M-Makoto?!" Rin yelled, running up to the top row of the theatre, where his friend had been sitting bent at the waist, face in hand, and—from what he could tell—crying pretty hard.

"Are you ok?" Sousuke asked, meandering up the steps, but concern evident in his eyes.

Makoto clutched Rin's shirt and drug his angrily protesting friend closer to him, squeezing him tightly.

"R-Rin…the cat didn't come home in the end!"

"What cat?" More tears. No answer. "Ma-ko-to! WHAT cat? Do we need to look for it?"

"N-no…the c-cat in the m-movie," Makoto finally hiccupped out. Sousuke and Rin shared a thinly disguised look of amusement over Makoto's head, before Rin pulled Makoto in for a hug.

"Look, we get out at 11. It's 10:20 now, how about you go out to the lobby and play some video games, and then we can all watch a happy movie to make you forget about the cat? OK?"

"O-okay…" Makoto exhaled shakily and stood up, sending what Sousuke thought had to be no less than five million pieces of popcorn tumbling from his lap.

"What the hell?!"exclaimed Sousuke, staring incredulously at Makoto.

"Um…I got really into…the movie," Makoto shrugged ashamedly, ruffling his hair and staring up at Sousuke with large, apologetic eyes. "I c-can help you sweep up if you want."

"No, you don't have to— "

"Hell yeah he does," retorted Sousuke.

Makoto giggled happily and took the broom from Rin's hands.

"I don't mind since you're both going to help me!"