Alrighty! I apologise profusely for lying to you. It's been a couple months since I last posted and I know I promised to post a new chapter "soon" but...ah well. Anyways, here is the next chapter!

They finished eating, and paid the waiter. As they headed out the door Gordie looked down at his watch. It was an old watch that used to be his brother's. He had found it in Denny's room when they cleaned it out for Shaline to stay in.

"Oh, shit!" he exclaimed, and Chris and Shaline who had been laughing over something turned around

What?" they asked in unison.

"I've got work at 11:00!" Chris looked at his watch.

"Its 11:00 now, man!" said Chris, his eyes twinkling. Gordie glared at him, and half ran to the closest stop sign.

"What's he doing?" asked Shaline as she watched Gordie attempt to jump up onto the bumper of a car. Chris grinned at her.

"Bumper riding. It's the quickest way to get places" he replied "Just jump on the back of a car, and ride it until you get to where you want, and then you jump off" They watched as Gordie rode off into the distance, nearly toppling of the bumper.

"Interesting" said Shaline.

Shaline and Chris spent the rest of the day downtown, looking at shops. It was around seven when they started to get bored and it was starting to get dark.

"Hey, do you want t go see a movie?" asked Chris, "I'm pretty sure Citizen Cane is playing, and when It's over we can go get Gordie from 'work'" He brought his hands up and made two exclamation comma things with his two first fingers when he said "work"

"Sure" replied Shaline. She smiled at him, and they set off.

"Jesus Christ. That is EXPESIVE" Shaline and Chris had reached the theatre, and stood outside, looking at the prices of tickets on the piece of parchment tacked outside of the door.

"I haven't got that much money, have you?" She asked, searching in her pockets.

"Nope" replied Chris but he grinned at her.

"And I don't plan on paying that much" Shaline looked at him inquisitively. Chris took her hand, and Shaline felt a tingle go up her spine. He led her around the back of the theatre to the exit door.

"Ok, we have to wait about ten minutes, until we're sure the movie has started, and then we have to crawl in, and take some front row seats. Shaline nodded. They crouched down with their backs against the door.

"Tell me about your family" said Shaline. Chris looked at her, and then looked back at the pattern in the dirt that he had drawn with his shoe.

"My mom isn't around a lot anymore, and my oldest brother is in prison. My other brother is a Cobra-a gang-and I've got two little siblings, one brother and one sister. My dad's like your dad. He drinks a lot and hits if he even so much as sees me when he's drunk. How about your family?"

"Well, as you know, my mom left when I was born and I have an older half-brother named Chester. I, um, I had a half-sister, but her mom died when she was born and my dad sent her to an orphanage. As for my dad, you just described him." They sat in silence for a minute, and then Chris spoke up.

"My dad broke my arm once. I got suspended from school, and when he found out he twisted my arm around until it broke." Shaline didn't say a word, but she found herself grasping a hold of Chris' hand. He looked at her and smiled.

"I think we can go in now." He knelt on his knees and pushed the door open slowly. He turned and motioned for her to follow. She stuck her right hand through the doorway, just as Chris crawled out of the way of the door and it slammed painfully on Shaline's forearm

"Ow!" she exclaimed, but had the sense to not say it loud.

"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!" whispered Chris crawling back and holding the door open for her

"Are you alright?" She nodded and crept through the doorway to a pair of front row seats/ A middle aged woman sitting a couple seats away from them scowled at Chris and Shaline as they took their un-paid-for seats.

I will hopefully begin a chapter five on the very near future, so bear with me.