Raining at the Movies
Author's Note: Harper doesn't live with the Russo's in this story, so it's a little AU I guess. Just slight.
After sliding on some jeans from my closet and a plain black t-shirt, I lay in my bed. I'm surprised my mom didn't make a remark to me being in my boxers, but I often used to go around like that anyway so I guess she still thought it was natural. As I hear raindrops hit my window, staring up at my ceiling. I can see my mom come back into my room a few minutes after she went to see Alex from the corner of my eye.
"Hey Max, how would you like to go to the movies?" she asked me. I raised my eyebrow and turned my head to look at her better, smiling. It would be nice to get out after all this time of being cooped up in the house while it rained constantly; pretty depressing.
"Sure Mom!" I say enthusiastically, hopping off of my bed beside her. "When do we go?" I asked, not even thinking to ask her what we're supposed to be seeing.
"We'll be seeing the matinee in about an hour," she told me. "Your dad and I feel sorry for leaving you and Alex by yourselves this whole weekend so we thought it would be a nice treat for you two." Ah, me and Alex at the movies… I'll just tell myself it's a date.
"Alright, cool Mom…," I say with a ridiculous looking smile on my face, thinking about sitting next to Alex in the dark theater. My mom smiled at me before walking out of my room, apparently going downstairs to see my dad. After she left, I started to make my way to Alex's room, but I met her in the hallway instead.
"Hey baby," she playfully tells me, ruffling my hair with her hand as she happily grinned. I looked annoyed, but it felt pretty awesome… emotionally, of course. "Did Mom tell you that we're going to the movies today?"
"Yeah, but I completely forgot to ask her what we're supposed to be seeing. Do you know? I ask with my eyebrow quirked up, biting my bottom lip. Alex rolls her eyes up as if she had to remember what we were going to see.
"I… think she said we're watching Final Destination 5?" she tells me. I'm pretty shocked by what she said; mom never liked us watching R-rated films, but dad didn't seem to mind that much.
"Wow, that movie? What are they on?" I ask, confused, but not disappointed at all. I've always been a fan of the Final Destination movies.
"They said they were going to do something nice for us for making us stay by ourselves for the weekend," she told me. "It'll be cool!"
I smile in agreement as I wrap an arm around my sister's slender shoulders, with her grinning wickedly at me as I pull her into a kiss, before she quickly pushed me away. At first, I was beginning to feel hurt, but it hit me why she obviously did what she did. "Mom and dad could see us at any moment, we're going to have to be careful, alright kiddo?" she said, obviously calling me kiddo to tease me for my… lack of age. She smiled after what she said, and I immediately felt less pissed off about the "kiddo" thing.
I chuckle before responding, "Yeah, whatever… let's go downstairs," I tell her as I place my hand on her back, shoving her down the hallway, hoping it was gentle enough for her. She looked back at me a bit annoyed. Oops.
"Ow, douche bag… why are we going downstairs for? Mom and dad said they wouldn't be ready to go for an hour…," she said was she rubbed her back. I smiled and went over to kiss her, not caring if our parents would see. Well, I'd obviously care, but I just had to kiss her….
"I was wanting to go outside and hang out with you before we had to go," I say to her after she pushes my lips away from hers again, checking back downstairs to make sure nobody was around. After cursing "Damn it Max!" Alex blinked before looking back down the set of stairs.
"Okay, that sounds fine," she says, finally smiling at me as I chuckle lightly as we both make our way down to the living room, where we see our parents sitting on the couch together watching television.
"Hola kids," my mom says to us as she looks behind the couch along with my dad to see us. I wave at her and so does Alex as we head down to the door outside. "Where are you guys going?" I hear my mother ask us. Before I can say anything, Alex quickly responded.
"Max was bugging me to see Harper, so I thought I'd take the little booger to see her before we go to the movies, is that alright?" she tasked them. What the h-… well actually, seeing Harper doesn't sound so bad… ha, ugh; I've got to stop thinking like that. My… sister is the only girl for me!
My mom chuckled before replying, "Alright honey, just keep an eye on him, okay?" she said to Alex, who rolled her eyes while smiling.
"Don't worry Mom, I'll make sure he keeps his hands to himself…," she tells her, digging her nails into my back unbeknownst to my parents. I grit my teeth in pain but I understood that Alex was making her point clear about the Harper thing. So I guess we really are going to see Harper.
"Oh kids, wait, don't forget that it's raining!" My dad quickly says. "Alex, go upstairs and bring your wand to teleport you and your brother to Harper's, I don't want you two being out in the rain and getting sick." Crap, I guess I forgot it's been raining. I would have enjoyed the walk though. Our parents turned their heads back to the television as Alex looks a bit annoyed, moving quickly upstairs to find her wand before coming back down in a matter of moments.
"We're gone!" Alex says to them before performing a spell, which brought us just outside of our house. I look at her confused, but she smiled at me and I smiled back. "I love the rain, don't you baby brother?" she said teasingly. I run my hands through my now soaked hair before looking around.
"I guess…," I say, sighing heavily from having rain drops hit my head. "You didn't have to be so rough by the way," I tell her, referring to when she stabbed my back with her nails, as I rub my shoulder. She rolls her eyes and smiles at me, sliding her wand in her pants.
"If you love me like you say you do then I don't want to see you eyeballing Harper like you always do when she's around," she says to me before rolling her eyes. I frown at her for thinking I would try anything with Harper. Oh, and I've so never stared at her!
"Oh Alex, you know I wouldn't do that," I say calmly to her as I push my mouth against hers from our front porch step. Alex smiles against my lips before I break apart from her, looking back to make sure no one was looking. "Well, you lead the way; I have no idea where Harper's uncle lives." Alex rolls her eyes at me once more before grabbing my wrist, pulling me down the wet side of the road.
"Whoa Alex; I know this is you we're talking about here, but aren't you afraid of someone seeing you hold my hand?" I tell her, trying to be cautious. Frankly, I didn't give a damn if people saw and told everyone, but Alex already told me that she doesn't want anyone to find out about us.
"Relax, and besides, it's just your wrist! Screw them if they think that's weird," she tells me confidently as I smile from behind her, happily following her down the soaked road. Eventually after fast walking through the rain, we're at Harper's uncle's place. Good thing she just lives a few blocks down. Alex knocked on the door, and then the pretty friend of hers opened it.
"Hey guys!" Harper says as she gives Alex a hug. "Come in!"
"Hey Harp, where's your Uncle?" Alex asked her, looking around the house.
"He went out to buy some milk," she told her while she smiled over at me. "Hi Max."
"Hey Harper," I say, probably blushing without meaning to. Harper sweetly giggles while I see Alex glare at me from the corner of my eye so I immediately look over at her and smile reassuringly. She once again rolled her eyes at me when Harper noticed something was up.
"Something wrong, guys?" Harper asks us as she moves to the couch in the living room. Alex and I quickly come to our defense as we make our way into the living room with Harper.
"Not at all; why?" Alex asked her, playing it cool as she sat her wet body down on the couch next to her while I tried taking a seat in a chair without getting it wet. The décor in Harper's uncle's place is actually pretty sweet, and he has a huge television too.
"You guys just seemed to be looking perturbed," Harper says as she grabs the remote, turning on the television. We nod her comment off and we watch some random cooking show that Alex and Harper liked. Around thirty minutes later I would say, Alex noticed that Harper's uncle still hasn't returned.
"Shouldn't your uncle be back by now?" Alex asks her friend, looking at the clock on the microwave in the kitchen. Harper shrugged.
"I don't know, he's probably gotten sidetracked and went to see my grandparents," she told her. Right after she spoke Alex stood up.
"Well Harper, thanks for letting us come by, but Max and I have to get home before the movies start playing," she told her with a sweet smile. Harper stood up and smiled back; hugging Alex before me and my sister turn to the door.
"Bye Max!" she says with a sweet smile herself, waving goodbye at me. I wave back at her while smiling before Alex shuts the door, slapping me against my head while the raindrops hit us.
"What was that for?" I asked, rubbing the back of my head as I glare angrily back at her.
"I didn't like the way you were looking at her," she told me nonchalantly. I scoff at her before wrapping my arm around her shoulders, pulling her beside me as I lean to kiss her cheek.
"Listen baby," I call her, earning me a look from Alex like she was grinning from my boldness. "You don't have to be jealous of me. No girl would ever want me," I say with a sad laugh. Alex slapped my arm.
"Ready to go home?" she asked, pulling her want out. I nod my head and she moves her want around to zap us back inside of the house, right at the door. "Ugh, we're soaked," she said before using her magic one more time to make us completely dry.
"What's that smell?" I ask her, noticing that we smelled like a meadow of flowers.
"I scented my spell," she said with a light laugh. "Mom, Dad; are you guys ready?" she hollered throughout the house.
"Yes Hija!" we hear our mother shout from up the stairs, coming down them with our father, dressed in a nice black dress with matching shoes while our dad was wearing his jeans and a leather jacket. "We're glad you guys came back as soon as you did, any later and the movie would have already started!"
Minutes later, here we are, sitting in our little family SUV, driving down in the rain to the movie theatre. Dad was driving, mom was riding shotgun, and Alex and I were sitting in the back. "Are you excited for the movie?" I hear Alex whisper at me, giving me one of her special smiles. I smile back, having to hold back the urge to run my fingers through her beautiful hair.
"Of course I am," I say in a tone a little louder then hers. We smile at each other as our parents peculiarly look back at us, probably wondering why we were whispering. They immediately looked back so I assume they weren't going to pay it much mind.
"Here we are," my dad says as he pulls into a close parking space near the theater. We get out of the SUV and quickly head inside from the rain, stopping at the ticket booth. Everyone else was strangely already in the theater, so I guess we came a little late. "Four adults please," my dad tells the ticket holder guy, or whatever you call him. I have to say that it feels good to be called an adult!
"Sure, that will be $34," the guy tells my dad. He rolls his eyes at the price before paying and receiving the tickets, then looked back at us as we walked to the snack stand.
"Looks like that guy gave us different seats," he said to us. "They must be nearly sold out."
"We should have left sooner," my mom says, her arms folded over her chest while looking at the tickets. "Looks like the kids can sit near the back while we have to take those irritating close-up seats." Oh cool, this day is working out alright! I look over at Alex, who gives me a knowing smirk behind our parent's view.
"Alright kids, I'm going to pay for the popcorn, you three go and take your seats," Dad tells us, handing the tickets to mom. We walk behind our mother while she points our seats out to us, handing us our tickets before moving down to her own seat. As Alex and I sit down, I look up to the big screen and notice only the previews are starting. Nice!
"This is going to be so cool," I say quietly to Alex, placing my hand on hers despite people being next to us, probably thinking we were a couple on a date (which I wish we were.). She looks back at me and smiles sweetly, about to kiss me before we hear the door opening from behind us, our dad walking in with two popcorn bags.
"Here kids," he whispers to us as he hands us our bag. Good thing we got the edge seats. Our father proceeds to walk down the aisle to where mom was sitting, taking a place beside her as he pulls his arm around her shoulders, pulling her close to him from what I could see.
"Mm, buttery," I hear Alex say as she takes a handful of the popcorn, eating it. I smile at her before doing the same, when suddenly we hear the loud movie start to come on. "Oh gosh, this is going to be so creepy."
"You… you're scared of a Final Destination movie?" I ask her, smirking. She looks at me angrily as she munched on her popcorn.
"Shut up and don't tell anybody, squirt," she said while roughing up my hair. I smile sweetly at her as we relax in our seats, watching the movie start. Throughout the movie, Alex was getting really frightened, especially right at the part before the people would die in a weird manner. I wrapped my arm around her shoulders comfortingly, and she accepting it by laying her head on my chest, snuggled up together. I felt wonderful holding my scared big sister near me; a bit of a role switch from before where she was comforting me from the thunderstorm back at Friday.
"I feel like a total dummy for acting like a baby from that thunderstorm," I say to her quietly, getting it off my mind as some girl just broke her back in a million pieces in the movie, causing Alex to dig her nails in me, which in turn caused me to grunt loudly as the people in the theater gasped loudly.
"Why do you think that?" Alex asked me, after a more calming scene came on the movie while releasing her nails from me.
"Well, it's just because… I feel sort of stupid, having to have my sister hold me like a baby because of a little rain," I admit to her, looking down at my feet.
"Max," she whispers at me, which causes me to turn my head to her. Her eyes were gazing at me, and I could just feel love radiating off of her look.
"Yes?" I ask.
"Never call my boyfriend stupid."