Mina and Lita arrived at the movie theaters on time and met up with the rest of the gang in the specified location.
"Glad you could make it girls." Amy gleamed.
"C'mon let's get going! I want to be able to get good seats!" Serena yelled excitedly.
"Yeah, let's get in line while it's still short." Raye added.
Taking Raye's advice, they immediately headed for the line, and within a few minutes were in the theater waiting for the movie to start. Serena and Lita had already eaten half of their allotted amount of popcorn and had downed their drinks when the previews began. The movie commenced to tell a story about a couple torn apart due to tragic circumstances, having to face certain obstacles alone, but eventually coming together in the end. Amy was bawling by the end, commenting on how beautiful the romance was played out. When they had exited the theater, they were standing in the main lobby and watching the rest of the people poor out of the room as they chatted about what they had just seen. Mina, still watching the door, suddenly saw a familiar face and shared it with the group.
"Hey is that Kento?"
Lita, brushing off the comment, did not bothering looking in the same direction as Mina.
"Nah, couldn't be Kento doesn't go in for those kinda movies. I could never get him to go to..."
She cut herself off after looking over her shoulder and seeing what she had only just denied. It was him; Kento was holding hands with a girl walking out of the theater they had just come from. Lita immediately recognized the girl as one of her employees; the one Kento had been talking to earlier at her restaurant. Naturally, this should not have bothered her one bit, for she would be the first person to testify that her and Kento maintained a neutral, casual relationship, as friends and nothing else.
Of course, her mind began to play tricks on her, and the heart is deceitful above all things. Her head began to race, and the felt her legs begin to melt and she turned to her friends, who stood there apparently as shocked as she was.
"Did you know about this?" She said to them with earnestly in her voice.
Serena was the first to speak.
"Lita we thought you...you kept telling us you didn't care."
Lita did not quite understand, her friends had obviously known all except for Mina whose expression was practically identical to hers. She shook her head, and tried to get a look of reason back on her face. Kento had not seen them and was walking out of the theater.
"No, no you're right." Lita, sounding as though her mind was somewhere else. "Excuse me."
Lita began to walk away at a steady pace that got faster the farther she went. Her friends stared after her, but let her be after she walked though the doors past Kento and his date. Kento looked up as Lita brushed by with a perplexed look on his face trying to make out if she was who he thought she was.
Lita walked across the street, she kept going not stopping until her head was beginning to clear. She began to slow down after the last bit of sun had sunken into the horizon. Her feet were dragging and her head was facing towards to ground. Putting her hand to her head she groaned and her conscience began to play its song in her mind:
"Ugh, what are you doing?! Silly girl you never stopped loving him. Why did you try to tell yourself otherwise."
Lita felt as though she was hit with a ton of bricks when she came to this realization. She was fine with them being friends up to the moment someone else entered the picture. After contemplating what a dismal and horrible person she was she began to think all together out of character for her normal self and walked into the first pub she came to.
Time was passing quickly with each bottle she ordered from the bartender, and she began to feel surprisingly better about her current situation. Lightheaded, but better, until that weary hand called fate interceded and Kento along with his date walked into the bar and seated themselves, unknowingly a stool away from Lita. While taking another swig of a newly opened bottle Lita turned her head and saw the couple out of the corner of her eye. Feeling rather confident she occupied the seat next to Kento and offered a greeting.
"Hey sport!" She said with drunken breath.
Kento turned unexpectedly and his eyes widened when he did so.
"Lita?!" He gasped. He could not understand what she was doing in a bar alone, and apparently intoxicated, it was not like her.
"Oh you do remember me!" Lita smiled. "Hi, Anna!" She said waving the girl next to Kento, and lowering her gaze breathed out, "Been working overtime I see."
Kento was beginning to get worried and did not know what to do.
"Lita are you drunk." He asked knowing that she was completely hammered.
"I'll let you be the judge of that." Lita said glossy eyed and leaned close towards him. Swiftly she pulled away from him again and looked over to Anna. "Do you have any idea what great friends we and Kento are? The best I tell you!" She paused. "Maybe we're more than that."
Her speech was slurred as she leaned towards him; he pushed her away slowly.
"I think you've had too much to drink." Kento said grinning chiefly, and chucking nervously.
He looked back at Anna and began to imply that they should leave.
"Nonsense!" Lita belched. "I love you!" She said pointing at him and laughing. "But you have to keep it a secret." she began looking from side to side. "I didn't want you to know that, so let's keep it just between ourselves okay?"
Kento was taken aback by this admission, but as shocked has he was he decided he should rush his date out of the bar and get her home before things got any worse.
"You know...." Lita began again. "You're the reason I'm here."
Anna could not seem to take much more of this and persistently got up and stormed out.
"No wait!" Kento went after her. "It's not like that!" He stopped at the door and turned back to the counter. It was so late him and Lita were practically the only two people left in the bar besides the bartender.
"You!" He started at Lita. "What makes you think have the right to drive her away like that?"
Lita turned away from him with a smug look on her face. "Oh, c'mon Kento, it's not like she was any prize to be won, you could do much better." She took another swig.
Kento was beginning to get rather fed up with her at this point and yanked the beer bottle out of her hand.
"That's enough Lita." He gruffed.
"Aw, c'mon Kento, just let me have some fun. S'not my fault you're terrible with women."
He was becoming so infuriated he just near threw the bottle down to the floor. Lita softened her tone into a sort of false sympathy.
"Now don't be like that," she said patting his cheek. "What would your little date think?"
He grabbed her hand and pulled it away from his face holding it tight.
"Now listen you, don't start. This ended a long time ago. We broke it off for a reason. Don't play this game with me, I'm just getting back on my feet. It's time you leaned how to use yours."
He threw her hand down and took a drink from the bottle, slamming it down on the counter, and left without another word.
"Fine!" Lita yelled at the swinging door. "I didn't mean what I said anyway...'bout be an' you."
She began to slow down as her eyes filled with tears. "I, I just want to be alone anyway."
She laid her head down in her arms and sobbed quietly. Somewhere in the midst of her crying she had fallen asleep and awoke to the bartender wiping down the counter and clearing the glasses. Lifting herself up, she gazed hazily over to the clock and saw that it read just past midnight.
Felling her head throb, she groaned and stood up. Being the last person in the joint, she thanked the bartender and staggered outside. Her eyelids were heavy as she walked down the street. She had to stop at a garbage can a few times to get rid of all the alcohol she had consumed. It was very dark and she was looking forward to being home in bed. Lost in her delusions, she began to feel dizzy and felt herself caught in someone's arms.