Too Equal For My Taste

Chapter 14: The Second Relationship

At last, Elliot's number one problem was over. Sarah was once again his girlfriend. Sarah had never given up on him, as Elliot found out. She was waiting for him. At the same time, as Sarah found out, making them both laugh when remembering, Elliot was also waiting for her. The two waiting for the exact same thing led to them fighting about it, and then they realized how stupid they both were, and corrected themselves to get back on track. Elliot realized that he was stupid to think Sarah would just dump him like that and ignoring her. Sarah also realized that she was an idiot thinking that Elliot was ignoring her when she was doing the hiding when Elliot came.

Meanwhile, Elliot had serious damage control to do to his reputation. As Sarah had said, the school usually forgot about this kind of thing. Elliot wouldn't have to talk in to laughs and jeers like he imagined. He wouldn't have to walk in to face questions and having to answer as the only way out like he thought he would. But there were always those who would love to bring it up again for a laugh. When that happened, Elliot needed to be able to talk back or ignore it, whichever was best

"But ignoring them is best," Sarah had told him on their way to the movies the next day after the game.

"I'll do what I think is best," Elliot shrugged.

"Which is what, in your opinion?"

"It depends," Elliot laughed. "If the dude is an idiot, I'll ignore it. If he's not, I'll think about it."

Sarah laughed. The two were on their way across the evening streets. The streetlights didn't go on yet, but neither Sarah nor Elliot cared. All they cared about was catching the movie.

"Cause if we don't, I swear, I will kill you," Sarah joked as they walked in the large cinema. A prompt smell of popcorn entered their nostrils as they walked in, and looked around.

"I hope it's good here," Elliot said. "I tend to ditch cinemas that don't make good popcorn."

"It's better than at the Lake Winnetka," Sarah assured him. "Just give it a try. So, which movie are you going to take me to?"

Whichever movie they saw, (I personally have no idea, because I can't remember which movies were released in 2006) they didn't pay much attention to it. They were mainly whispering to each other over the scenes.

"How can he act like that?"

"I dunno, anyone's an actor," Elliot whispered back.

"It's like; just existing makes you eligible to be an actor. Isn't there any acting school?"

Elliot stifled a laugh, and said back, "I swear, my little brother's better."

"Oh, I'm out of popcorn," Sarah said sadly.

"Take mine, and good riddance," Elliot said quietly.

"You don't like it?"

"No, maybe the lake is better," Elliot said, smirking.

"Well, maybe you're just too used to it."

"Maybe I am, wanna sue me?"

They put their arms around each other. At the end of the movie, they strolled outside in the darkened streets. "I can't believe you didn't like it."

"I did like it, just not all that much."

"So, how's the rest lately?" Sarah asked.

"Ken is having a major attitude problem," Elliot said bitterly.

"Aggression?"

"How did you guess?"

"Because, Mike has an issue with him too," Sarah said casually. "I dunno what happened. It's like, at the lake, they couldn't care less about each other. Now, Mike realized he hated him all along."

"Well, when we met at the lake, they didn't hang out at all. All he knew was that Mike liked karate. Next thing we know, Ken hates Mike and Mike hates Ken, and they want to kill each other. What do you think?"

"Delusional," Sarah laughed. "I guess Ken got a bit aggressive, and considers Mike a rival."

"You think?" Elliot said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"What classes you got tomorrow?" Sarah asked as a change of subject.

"Chemistry and we'd better turn in if we want to wake up in time for it, because we don't want to be late," Elliot said.

"I dunno about you, but if we are late, I wouldn't be that fussed," Sarah said honestly.

"You're right, what was I thinking?" Elliot said in a calm sarcastic tone.

They arrived at the street with their houses on it. They looked at each other tiredly. Sarah sighed, and stretched, "Well, I'll see you tomorrow at school. We'll hang out after."

"Well, I wanted to hang out with Jake and Connor tomorrow," Jake said sadly. "We were gonna try sports tricks."

"Jake and his friends," Sarah protested. "I hate them."

"Connor's not bad," Elliot said lowly. "What about tomorrow evening?"

"Homework, but we could study together," Sarah proposed hopefully.

"Ok, I'll meet you tomorrow at seven?" Elliot asked.

"Sure. Ok, well, I'll see ya," Sarah waved.

"Bye."

They clasped hands, and slowly moved in on each other once again. Elliot loved this part, as any guy would. He kissed her slowly, but before it could go any further, once again, the door of Sarah's house burst open and out ran Kate, "I was waiting for you Sarah. Come in, and get ready for dinner." They broke apart, and shyly waved goodbye as they parted.