"Anything?" she asked as the rain pounded on her umbrella.
They both stood outside an empty house.
"... Nothing."
Both of their expressions were unemotive.
"...Maybe we should go inside."
"...Yeah."
She lead him around the back and stepped onto the porch. They both closed their umbrellas and leaned them against the side of the house.
"The lock on this window is broken," she said pushing up on the one beside the door. She tried to wedge it open to no avail, "It gets stuck though."
Kenny came to her side and helped her with one hand and they managed to get it to wedge up a little, enough for Kelly to get through.
"I'll be right back," she said before crawling through. Once in she walked out of what would be the living room and into the hallway to unlock the door and let Kenny in. There were broken beer bottles everywhere and stains covered the carpet.
He looked around a little before pointing at some scorch marks on the dining room floor in question.
"The goth kids used to come here to have séances."
He followed her up the stairs and into the first room. There was a mattress in the corner of the room and a pizza box with a slice of mouldy pizza sat in the middle.
"There must have been a party last week," Kelly explained.
Kenny nodded.
The corner of her lips tugged down slightly, "Anything?"
He shook his head, "What's so significant about this place anyway?" he spoke for the first time other than to answer a question.
Her cheeks warmed slightly.
He blinked, "Oh..."
The silence that followed was awkward and long and ended when Kenny cleared his throat.
"Maybe we should try some place else?"
"Yeah"
Kelly wondered if this was how it was to be from now on, her asking questions and short syllable long answers fro him.
"Do you remember anything?"
"Nope."
She hated it.
"We had our first date here," she said. They stood in the lobby of the only movie theatre in her town, "We saw X-Men."
"What's X-Men?"
"They're mutant superheroes who wear leather instead of tights."
"Oh."
"People hate them though."
He raised an eyebrow.
"In the movie... It's a nice change since people usually love superheroes."
"Ah."
"... Do you want to see the new one? It's playing now. I'll pay." Kenny had always insisted on paying. She always thought it was silly seeing as he had so little money and her parents had opened a trust fund for her when she was only 13.
He furrowed his brow a little bit.
"It might jog your memory."
"... Alright."
It seemed like the whole theatre was full of couples. People in the back rows were making out and other girls were hiding their heads in their dates shoulders at the scarier parts of the movie. Where were all the nerds and loners? Kelly wished for some to come out of thin air to make everything less tense. Neither Kenny nor Kelly spoke during the movie. Not even a peep when they got up as the credits flashed across the screen.
As they walked to her car Kenny finally spoke, "I think I remembered something."
"Really?" Kelly's mood seemed to improve immediately.
"They thought she drowned right?"
"Yeah!"
"Kind of like me?"
"I guess so."
"They thought she drowned but she didn't."
"Yes."
"They thought she drowned to save them right?"
"Yeah?"
"It wasn't an accident..."
Kelly gave him a questioning look as she pressed a button on her keys to unlock the doors.
"... I'm not sure where I'm going with this," he finally said as they both got in.
"Does it have something to do with the you're accident?"
He didn't answer.
"Have you gone back there yet?"
He nodded, "I stopped there on the way to your place."
Kelly had been there too, once. Just to see where Kenny had been fir all those months.
"Do you want to go back?"
He was silent for a few moments before he answered, "Yeah, lets go."
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