Wow, I forgot to put my little ditty last chappy...oh well. Happy 11/11, everyone!

9:27 P.M.
The shitty, shitty park.
I don't know why I liked it so much...maybe because it has the best climbing trees, as hideously uncared for this place is.
Well...hm. What a shitty, shitty place this is.

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"Well, ain't this place lovely."
Sad thing is, Mercedes was only being partially sarcastic.
But you know, I kind of agreed with her.
"I actually really like this place a lot," I replied. "Great trees to climb, and people don't really come here a lot."
"Not even muggers?"
I shrugged. "Surprisingly enough, no."
"No creepy, scary history of this place?"
"Not really. It's just...unloved."

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Nearby, Something Potentially Much Worse Than Any Mugger paused in it's footsteps.
*Too true,* it thought to itself. *This place has never had any terror brought upon it.
Maybe that should change.*
The Something Potentially Much Worse Than Any Mugger shrugged and shook it's head.
*Too soon, too early. Not yet...*
And so that Something drifted into itself.
For now.

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Sadee-lee and I had found an excellent tree to perch in to wait for Johnny.
It was so perfect, that when Johnny suddenly popped up behind Sadee, I only fell so that I was hanging upside-down.
She just laughed.
"'tis not funny, Sadee-brat."
"Oh, but it is," she countered.
Nny, sitting on a branch behind her, looked oddly like he was trying desperately to hold back laughter of his own.
"Why am I still upside-down?" I asked no-one in particular.
"Because that's the only way to get the Brain Juices flowin' for ya," offered Sadee.
"Because you want to become a Yogi," offered Nny.
"I like his reason better," I said. "That one just shouts at me." I righted myself.
"I believe an introduction is in order," I continued. "Johnny, this is Mercedes K." I motioned from Johnny to Sadee. "Or as I normally refer to her, Sadee-goose."
Then I inclined my head towards Nny. "Sadee-lee, this be Johnny."
"Nice to meet ya," said Sadee. "Ditto," replied Nny.
"Okay," said me, rubbing my palms together. "What shall we do now?"
I received some blank stares.
"You mean..." muttered Sadee, "That you brought me here and had nothing planned?"
I crossed my arms and cocked my head to the side. "You should know me by now, Sadee. I rarely plan things out."
And Nny just observed.

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It was quite amusing seeing Laura hanging upside down from her tree-branch, clinging to it like a sloth.
He really did have to fight back laughter.
And Mercedes...she seemed interesting. Similar to Laura, in a way, just...hmmm...
*She's more mature, though she's probably a few years younger.*
Yeah, that was it.
*I think.*
For a few more minutes he watched the two girls bicker back and forth.
"Hey, I have an idea," he put forward. "Why don't we just chat for a while?"
Both girls turned to look at him.
Then they glanced back at each other.
Then back at him.
And each other again.
And once more, back at him.
Then they smiled.
The smiles disturbed him slightly.
And he was already quite disturbed.
"Or..." replied Sadee.
"We could drag you off somewhere..." continued Laura.
"Somewhere fun..." added Sadee.
"Someplace cool..."
"A place with few people..."
"Except on the screen," finished Laura.
*Holy Hell, did they have this rehearsed?*
"So...you want to drag me to a movie theater?"
They nodded vigorously.
"How were you planning on doing that?" He said, crossing his arms. "If I'm correct in saying I'm the only one with a car, unless Mercedes parked her car more than five blocks away, then you wouldn't be dragging me anywhere."
*It's normally the other way around, anyways.*
"Sadee has a heli," chittered Laura.
*A wha-?* "A helicopter?"
The girls nodded again.
"And how does that help you?"
"It just does, okay?" They blurted simultaneously. Than they laughed.
"Okay, enough pussy-footing," said Laura. "Before you ask or get more annoyed by our crap, let me say I did not plan on asking this."
*Oh, I see where this is going...*
"Could you come with us to the theater? There's an old film there playing."
"You can't go by yourselves?"
Laura cocked her head to the side again. "I haz no car."
He smirked. "What about the 'heli'?"
"There's no landing pad close enough," put forth Mercedes. "I should know. I checked."
He sighed. "Alright. What's playing?"
"A 1940's film. Arsenic and Old Lace, I think it's called."
Okay, he could live with that."Okay, then," he said, dropping down from his branch with an air of practiced ease. Mercedes scrambled out of the tree and Laura swung down from her branch like some sort of monkey.
*Why am I being so sociable, lately? This isn't like me at all...*
And they followed him to his car, whispering back and forth.

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"His boots are so freakin' bad-ass!" Whispered Sadee.
"I know!" I whispered back. "It's like bad-assery in footwear form!"
"This shall be interesting."
"Oh, I agree."
We followed Nny into his car (I snagged shot-gun) and a surprisingly easy conversation followed us the entire way to the movie theater.