"COME ON COME ON COME ON COME ON WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE."
Mello just rolled his eyes, dragging his feet even more as the redhead bounced around him like a puppy on a sugar high. "Matt, we pre-ordered the tickets. We're already sneaking in three boxes of Buncha Crunch and Hershey Drops. Hell, you reserved seats in the center of the theater. It doesn't matter if we miss the preview for Star Trek." He strolled along, hands in his pockets, not exactlyexcited to have to sit through the next three hours in a theater packed with geeks and fan- girls and boys. But, he decided it'd be best to accompany his best-slash-boy- friend anyway, just in case he spontaneously burst into flames from a nerd overload. He rationalized it as a good deed that would have to be paid back later.
"Does it look like I give a fuck?! Hop to it!" The bouncing redhead slapped his boyfriend's ass as he pranced around him, racing to open the door of the theater ahead of him. "To Isengard! To Isengard!"
Mello slapped his palm against his forehead, forming his hands into tensed claws. He glared up at the overcast sky as he silently growled, "Why." He reluctantly dragged his feet after his bouncing boyfriend, violently cursing the creator of Pixie Stix within his head.
Matt, tickets already in hand, strolled through the theater at a high-speed walk. "Let's go let's go let's gooooo!"
The ticket checker at the head of the cinema gave him a smile that Mello thought could only belong to a fellow geek. As he took Matt's proffered tickets, he tore off the stubs and said, "Door just closed." He nodded to the theater just behind the podium he was standing at. He gave a pleasant smile, even as the scowling Mello shuffled by. "Fly, you fools!"
The ginger saluted the employee before he ducked into the first door, a lit-up sign hanging down above the frame proclaiming, "The Hobbit."
In the darkness of the theater, Matt grabbed Mello's hand and chauffeured him into the two seats with a "Reserved" sign taped to them at the far end of the center row. Matt dished out apologies as he shuffled by the first few people in the row before plopping down gratefully in the first seat, Mello taking the second.
The mostly full theater fell completely silent as the notable background music began to play. Mello settled in, leaning against his wall, dreading the torture that would be the next three hours. Matt helped himself to the Buncha Crunch hidden inside his boyfriend's coat, munching on them excitedly, his goggled eyes wide as he stared at the huge projection.
Mello watched as Matt shifted into one hundred percent dork mode, absolutely glued to the movie. Every now and then, the blonde would actually focus on the movie, but for the most part, he dozed and daydreamed, until three grueling hours finally passed.
As the dragon's eye snapped open on the huge screen, the movie ended just like that, and the lights went up. Matt, physically bouncing in his seat, turned to Mello, who was still conked out from the excessive length of the movie. Without wasting a moment, the Lord of the Rings enthusiast launched himself over the armrest, kissing Mello awake.
With a startled jerk, the blonde snapped his eyes open. He would have pulled his head away, but unfortunately, Matt had his head backed up against the seat, and it was almost impossible to move back. With a quite audible smack, Matt jumped to his feet, collecting up the boxes of his snacks.
Mello groggily rose, wiping his mouth free of the saliva his boyfriend happened to leave behind on his lips with a grimace. With a tired mumble of "finally," the Mafia boss dragged himself to a standing position, following as Matt bounced out of the theater in the midst of the crowd of people.
When the blonde finally caught up with his redhead counterpart, they were already outside, walking along the sidewalk of the plaza toward a small family-owned pizza joint for lunch. Matt skipped ahead as he sang joyously:
"Breaking silence with my games too
A little lamb and the words "I knew"
Listening to me and being straaaaaaaaight!
That's what boyfriend Mello hates!"
"Damn straight," Mello commented, smirking at Matt's impromptu parody of the dwarves' song from early on in the movie. Matt beamed, circling back to hold Mello's hand until they pushed through the doors of the pizza joint, placing a quick order for a Hawaiian pizza.
Together, they slid into opposite sides of their usual booth. Matt smirked, folding his fingers neatly atop the checkered surface between them. "So, what did you think of the movie?" The redhead could scarcely contain himself, still beaming from the immaculate experience of having finally watched The Hobbit, albeit not on opening night as he would have liked.
Mello just shrugged. "It was alright, I guess. I liked the riddle scene with Smeagol."
Matt smiled pleasantly, as if waiting for more. When he finally realized, almost a full uncomfortable minute later that the single comment was all his boyfriend had to say about the movie, he unfolded his hands, pressing his palms against the cool table. "That's it? Just 'alright?'"
The blonde gave another shrug, picking sourly at the edge of the table. "I don't like Lord of the Rings or really anything from that world. You should know that by now."
The Tolkien fanatic drew his hands up to pull at his hair, frustrated, before slapping them down on the table again. "That's not possible! I fucking kissed you the first time we watched Return of the King together! It was our first kiss, induced by nothing other than Lord of the Rings. How can you say you don't like it?!" The redhead was outraged, seething not-so quietly across the table.
Mello only raised his eyebrows, confusion flickering over his face. "First off, that could have been any other movie. But second, I kissed you. The next morning, after you fell asleep on my bed."
"Yeah, but I kissed you first. You were dead asleep. The movie," he emphasized, "put you to sleep. It couldn't have been just any movie to set you to bed." At Mello's uncaring eyeroll, Matt added surely, "I totally came out to you before you came out to me."
"No you didn't." Mello brushed off his claim nonchalantly, not believing him for even a second. "I would have woken up. You know I sleep like a mouse. Even if I had been asleep, that wouldn't count as 'coming out.' You were actually conscious when I kissed you." The blonde set up a hard case, one that Matt found himself glaring across the table, trying to decide on how to reply.
He decided on shrugging. "I don't care. I know I kissed you first."
"I still don't think you did. I came out to you first."
Matt just folded his arms, staring at the ugly flowery wallpaper beside him. He completely ignored his boyfriend, as if he hadn't spoken at all.
Mello narrowed his eyes curiously, sitting in an awkward silence as Matt pouted. Finally, when Mello grew tired of the lack of conversation, he sighed, conceding. "Okay, fine."
There was still no reaction from Matt. He only picked at a piece of the wallpaper that was starting to peel off.
"I admit it."
Still nothing.
"I really was awake."
Matt only sighed to cover up any sort of reaction he may or may not have had, turning his head the other way to stare in the direction of the bathrooms.
"I was faking," Mello sighed again, patting Matt's arm to try to get his attention.
Matt only scratched the back of his head, sniffing.
Mello gave one last exasperated sigh and finally conceded, "You came out first."
There was a short pause before the corner of Matt's mouth twitched upward. He turned and lunged over the table and attaching himself to his boyfriend's lips, grinning all the while. They pulled apart, Matt exclaiming a short, happy, "Mwah!" The redhead smiled innocently at Mello for a moment before whispering with a gleeful bounce of his eyebrows, "Victory!"
A/N: SHEESH. Week before midterms is kickin' my ass! As is all of our inconveniently scheduled basketball games. -_- That being said, I probably won't update again until after next Thursday. Maybe sooner if you guys are lucky and I procrastinate. ;3
I know this doesn't necessarily follow the main idea of this fic, but it's a continuation and I've been looking forward to this since my reviewer "Jennifer Miller" gave me the idea. Thanks a lot, and this one's for you! :D
I'm off to go shoot some hoops!
Hope you enjoyed, and thanks so much for reading and reviewing, too!
~Rachel