"Hey, Princess."
Aelita jumped, looking up from the book she'd been reading. Odd appeared in the doorway to her room. It was getting late.
"It's movie night," he clarified. "Remember?"
She didn't, but she thought it best to humor him. "Right!" She closed the book. "What do you have planned for this week?"
He smiled, gesturing to the laptop and DVDs under his arm. "Your choice. Since we're going through my personal favorite films that premiered while you were…" stuck in the supercomputer, he finished, pausing. "Well, I have Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and A Bug's Life."
She ignored his attempt to make light of the situation. "Toy Story," she replied, seeing the cases. "It looks fun."
The boy nodded, plugging in his laptop and inserting the disk.
"You can say it, you know," she continued. "I was trapped. I missed out on ten years' worth of pop culture."
The Pixar logo appeared on-screen. Aelita and Odd had settled next to each other, a throw blanket draped over the two of them.
She always enjoyed their time together. Jeremie was usually too busy with programming to have a regular movie night, and with Ulrich and Yumi still in the honeymoon stage of their relationship, they weren't seeing much of anyone these days.
About an hour later, the girl could be heard screaming, "You said I wasn't going to cry this time!"
"I let you pick the movie!" he countered.