Korra sat on a bench outside the Cinema she and Asami had agreed to see 'From your soul to mine' the name of which itself made Korra inwardly cringe. It just screamed shitty romance. Now, not all romances were shitty. Some were actually quite good, according to the internet at least. But Korra didn't tend to judge romance movies on what other people thought of them as she had already made up her mind a long while ago. But if asked to justify her hate for them she would simply say that all romance movies were exactly the same. Same plot, same characters, same conflicts, same everything.
Now to say that just romantic movies fell to these shortcomings would be wrong. It was more that these flaws were more obvious in movies of the romance genre but those in the action and horror genre fell prey to them as well. It was really just that Korra utterly loathed romance movies and how cliched and preachy all of them were. They all tried to shove the same message down the viewer's throats. Soulmates were great and all your problems would magically disappear when you meet yours. Korra hated the concept that everything would be better once you meet you soulmate. Maybe it was that the concept of soulmates had long ago lost the allure that it held for the rest of society.
She could only sit in silence while a movie tried to shove its idiotic message down her throat for so long before she wanted to kill herself. Well, more than she already did. She really hoped this movie wouldn't be too long.
"Hey, Korra." Korra's head jerked up to see Asami walking toward her looking like some kind of model. She wore a black and red leather jacket that hugged her curves in all the right ways and a pair of tight-fitting black jeans that also hugged her legs in much the same way as her jacket. Her face was immaculately painted with red lips, light purple eyelids and a light blush across her cheeks. She got feeling that she had dressed up for something that Korra wasn't aware of.
"He-hey, Asami." Korra furrowed her brows wondering why she had stuttered the way she had.
"You're early."
"No, You're late," Korra smirked, any uncertainties she had felt began to wash away. She stood up and upon doing so realized that Asami must be wearing heels as she had to crane her head up to look at Asami in the eyes. She was at least a good head taller than her now. "We were supposed to meet here at 3:30. It's nearly 4."
Asami furrowed her brows as she checked her watch and Korra watched a look of realization appear across her face which was quickly replaced by one of panic, "We're gonna be late."
"The movie doesn't start until 4:30 Asami. We're fine."
"I don't want to miss the previews." Asami said and began pushing Korra toward the Cinema with a sudden urgency. "Come on move your butt." Korra laughed and pushed back against Asami's hands causing the CEO to groan, "K~orra! Come on. Move!"
"What's the Rush? It's just the previews." Korra laughed
"Just the previews?" Asami cried out in indignation stopping in her tracks and Korra turned to look at her. She had her hands on her hips and was glaring at Korra. "Just the previews!?
Korra laughed, "Well, yeah, they're just previews for movies that you'll eventually see elsewhere. I don't get what all the fuss is about."
"I just like seeing them, okay? Can we please hurry?" Asami pleaded and Korra threw her head back letting groan.
"Ugh! Fine." She stomped toward the entrance of the theater like a petulant child. Korra had secretly hoped that she could subtly convince Asami to see something else but alas it seemed that she was dead set on this movie and Korra really couldn't understand why. She had caved and watched the trailer hoping that it would surprise her but of course, it ended up being just as asinine and cliche as every other soulmate-centric romance movie out there. But she had already agreed to see it so here she was getting ready to sit through 130 minutes of hell.
As they approached the counter so Asami could by the overpriced tickets, yet another reason she didn't like going to the movies, she took a deep breath preparing herself for the hell she was going to have to sit through.
Asami turned to her and handed her a ticket, "Do you want anything from the concession?"
Korra gave a dismissive wave as she moved toward the theatre, "Just get me whatever."
"Okay," Asami responds as Korra walked out of earshot. She made her way to theatre number 5 and found a seat among quickly filling seats. She watched as the beginning of the previews began playing Asami fell into the seat next to her.
"Here. I bought some m&m's for us to share." Asami said handing Korra a box of m&m's before turning her attention to the screen. Korra let out a sigh closing her eyes and began meditating in an attempt to go anywhere else but where she was.
Asami watched as the last of the credits rolled across the screen and she let our a satisfied hum as she pushed herself to her feet. Stretching her hands over her head groaning as she did so. She turned to look at Korra finding her still asleep. She let out a sigh as she gently shook Korra back into consciousness causing her to jerk looking around frantically.
"Wha? She muttered before eventually looked up into Asami's eyes, "Is it over?"
"Yeah." Asami nodded and Korra let out a sigh pushing herself to her feet stretching herself as well before moving toward the stairs. Asami quickly followed after her exiting the Theatre "That movie was-"
"Horrible."
"I thought it was-"
"The worst thing I've ever seen."
"Korra, you slept through nearly the entire movie," Asami said, giving Korra a look of confusion and annoyance.
"I wasn't sleeping. I was meditating. There's a difference."
"Oh is there now?"Asami quirked an eyebrow at Korra who just gave a half shrug.
"Yeah. There is." Asami could tell that this bore no argument and that Korra wasn't in the mood for friendly banter.
"So," Asami said, changing the subject, "Where do you want to go to eat?"
This seemed to make Korra relax a little and she smiled a little, "Have you ever been to Narook's?"
"No, I haven't. Is it any good?" Asami asked as they walked out of the Cinema and toward her car. Korra let out horrified gasp.
"Are they good? Are they good?" Korra asked and Asami was glad that some of the liveliness had returned to her tone. "Narook's makes the best Southern Water Tribe Cuisine in all of Republic City."
"I've never had Southern Water Tribe food. Is it good?" Asami asked as she unlocked the door and climbed inside.
"Is it good?" Korra said as she climbed into the passenger side, "Narook's Seaweed noodles are the best. I mean, they aren't the same as the ones you can get in the actual southern water tribe but their damn near close."
Asami turned the key in the ignition and pulled out of the parking space, "Well, I'll have to be the judge of that."
