Chapter 8:
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Chapter 8: Old Times
Later on that day, Jack, Alex, Danny, Keith and Houston went riding.
"What should we do on a Saturday night."
Keith thought,
"We're in a car. We could go riding around in another town."
"Another party?" asked Houston remembering the last time they went out of town on a weekend.
"Nah," said Danny. "I heard there's another movie theater around the other town. There's a rumor that it's always packed with ladies."
At the word of ladies, both Keith and Alex yelled,
"Let's go!"
Keith drove for a little bit, and found the movie theater. They all got out of the car and went up to the front of it.
"Man. There are no chicks here," complained Keith.
"Hey. I said it was a rumor," defended Danny.
"Well, while we're here. We might as well see a movie," said Alex.
They all walked up to the posters and looked at the movies.
"I see two movies I want to see," said Danny pointing to the two movie posters.
"Same here," said Jack.
"But one of them is R-rated," pointed out Houston.
"No problem," stated Alex. "We'll the PG-13 movie and sneak into the R-rated one later."
"Just like old times," said Danny. "The movie doesn't start until a good fifteen. Let's go look hang around that Wal-Mart down the street."
So it was settled. They hung around the Wal-Mart. A Hispanic was arguing with some other guy outside the store. The people who worked there were eyeing the teens. That made Danny feel real uncomfortable so he suggested they all leave. They all went to see the first movie; it wasn't really that good.
"Someone needs to work on their acting," said Keith as they walked out.
"I wanted to swing on that guy behind us," said Alex. "Telling us to shush."
"Well we were criticizing the movie a lot," said Jack.
"It deserved it!" said Keith aloud.
Danny peeked into the lobby. The guy was too busy tearing tickets so they could get by quickly.
"C'mon!" whispered Danny.
They quickly snuck over to the other side of the movie theater where the R-rated movie was being shown. They hung around in front of the place. Pretending to go use the bathroom every once in a while. Houston was real nervous. Jack noticed this and comforted his cousin.
"Hey. We ain't gonna get in trouble. We didn't steal nothing."
A soc came out of the movie they were gonna see. It didn't start for a good five minutes, so it was obvious he didn't just get out of there. He just eyed the Curtises, Keith and Alex. He went into the bathroom and then went back into the movie.
Pretty soon they saw the shadow of someone around the corner. It could be a security guard.
Everyone darted off. Everyone went into the movie, but Houston ran out of the back exit. He wasn't gonna risk anything anymore. They got in and found a seat. Danny then asked,
"Where's Houston?"
"Hold up," said Jack. He pulled out a cell phone and called his cousin. Alex leaned over to Danny and asked,
"How come you don't have a cell phone?"
"I don't want one. I can't keep up with all that minutes crap. Plus, I don't want everyone calling me 24/7."
Jack hung up his phone and said,
"He's out front. He'll meet us in the car later on."
"Man," started Keith. "I'm going down towards the front seat."
"Whatever."
Keith ran down to the front row.
Danny then thought he heard something, but he wasn't sure. He thought he heard his best friend say "punk", but he wasn't sure. He just ignored it.
The movie started. About five minutes through the movie, Jack nudged Danny. Danny looked down towards the bottom. The soc that was there had a light shining on him. One of the people who worked there had caught him. What made Danny even more nervous was that Keith was about eight seats down from the kid. They both got up and walked out of the movie. As soon as they left, Keith jumped up and ran up towards everyone else.
"Oh crap," he whispered.
"Do you know how close you were?" said Alex.
"Let's just watch the movie," suggested Danny.
A couple more minutes through the movie, Jack's phone vibrated. He answered it and whispered a couple of things. He then had a surprised look on his face. He hung up the phone and whispered to everyone,
"Houston just called. He said the soc that just got caught was arrested. He also said that they were coming back in for us!"
Everyone looked at each other and got out of the movie theater. They were actually running. They met Houston out by the car. They all got in and drove off. After a while, they were all laughing about it.
Keith dropped Alex off at Merril's old place, and then went over to the Curtises house. When they drove up, Rachel was sitting on the front porch. But what was weird was that there was another car there.
They walked up and Rachel said,
"I suggest you guys brace yourself."
Danny didn't know what she was talking about. They all walked in and all the adults were sitting in the living room. Even Two-Bit and Steve were there. Something was up. It was only 10:00 p.m. so Danny knew he wasn't in trouble for coming in late. He looked at Trix. He had never seen that expression on his face. He then looked at his mother. She had the expression that he was in trouble.
'Oh Crap' he thought.
