Chapter 28 (A chapter written whilst in SOR and a maths A double)
"Hey Geral…"
"Never. Say. That. Name. Again." Jareth interrupted through gritted teeth
They were in the food court, as they had an hour until their movie started. Elli, Grace, Kim and Sabina had gone to get some food, and left Toby, Jareth and Sarah to mind their table.
"Anyway" Sarah said, rolling her eyes. "Are you hungry?" Sarah asked.
She was feeding Toby some tinned baby food. The boy, however, refused to believe that it was edible; no matter how many times Sarah swallowed a spoonful and said 'Num-num!'
Instead, Toby chose to get it all over his face and, despite his young age, he used his strangely accurate aim to get it on Sarah instead.
"Here, let me." Jareth said, taking the jar from Sarah. Checking to make sure that no one was watching too closely, he tapped the base of the jar three times, then proceeded to feed it to Toby, who ate it straight away
"What the hell did you do to it?" Sarah whispered
"I made it taste better. When one deal with children as much as I do, one learns many ways to make them do what you want." Jareth said matter of factly
"If you added sugar to it, then you'll be the one looking after him when he goes on a high." Sarah said, waving her finger at him.
Jareth grabbed it
"I know what sugar does to young children, Sarah." Jareth said. "I'm not stupid."
"Sure, and we totally didn't meet in a Labyrinth." Sarah said sarcastically.
"Well, technically we met in your parents bedroom, not the actually Labyrinth itself." Jareth said
"Shut up." Sarah said, pulling her hand away from his. As she did so, she caught sight of Sabina leading the other girls over to them. Sarah waved them over.
"Finally!" Grace said, flumping herself down into a chair and immediately taking a burger from a bag.
The smell of hot, greasy food wafted over to Sarah.
"Yum!" She cried, her mouth watering. She grabbed a packet of chips, then two burgers and a drink. "I've had a HUGE craving for Chichen Chicken since I left!" She handed one burger to Jareth, then a drink.
He opened the wrapper and tentatively took a bite of the burger. Grimacing, he put it back in the wrapper and chewed slowly.
"So very, very greasy." He said
"So GOOD!" Sarah said emphatically, smirking and taking a large bite of her burger.
"Well, if you want to put that filth into your body, then I won't stop you." He said, standing up.
"Where are you going?" Sarah asked, after swallowing a large mouthful.
"To find myself some real food." Jareth said, striding away
"Does he have any money?" Ellie asked
"Don't know" Sarah said, eating some chips
"So how does he plan on getting food?" Kim asked
"Don't know" Sarah said, taking a large sip of her drink
"So who is he really?" Ellie asked
"Yeah, is he your boyfriend?" Kim continued
"No." Sarah said sternly, "Stop asking." She took another bite of burger.
"So who is he then?" Sabina asked, using a chip to point at Sarah. "Why did he come here?"
"He's like… my tutor," Sarah said thoughtfully, hoping they wouldn't take it the wrong way
They did.
"Oh!" The girls said together
"A students teacher relationship, eh?" Grace asked, elbowing Sabina.
"We didn't know you were such a bad girl!" Sabina continued
"STAY AWAY FROM MY MR WALL!" Ellie said apprehensively.
"Who's Mr Wall?" Sarah asked
"He's the new biology assistant at school." Kim said.
"He's dreamy," Ellie said
"She's in love with him." Sabina said blatantly
"Not another one." Sarah said, rolling her eyes. "So, any other new teachers?"
"Don't change the subject!" Ellie cried, throwing a chip at her.
This action was met with a scowl by the woman who was currently cleaning off the surface of the table next to them.
"Nice one Ellie." Sarah muttered
"I'm back!" Jareth cried happily, setting down a plate of sushi.
"Where'd you get that?" Kim asked
"Oh, I just used a crys…" Sarah elbowed him
"A Christmas present someone gave him." Sarah finished for him. "There's a vendor over there." Sarah said, pointing off in a random direction, which, incidentally, was the complete opposite direction that Jareth had come from.
"Really?" Sabina said excitedly. "I want some!"
"But shouldn't we be heading up to the movie in a second?" Sarah said quickly, trying to distract them.
"Yeah probably" Grace said, leaning back in her chair and closing her eyes
"But doesn't it start in, like, five minutes?" Sarah said, looking at her watch.
"Dangit!" Sabina said, grabbing her bag. Sarah took the handles of Toby's pram and followed the others to the lift.
THIS IS A BREAK. ISN'T IT AN EXTREMELY BREAKISH BREAK? INDUBITABLY…
At last they were seated in their seats in Cinema fourteen, a rather small theatre, with only about one hundred and fifty seats.
"So tell me already, what are we seeing?" Sarah asked. She'd folded Toby's pram and stored it under her seat (Although it also went under Jareth's, on her left, and Ellie's, on her right), with the baby seated on her lap.
"Well, apparently it's, like, Retro week or something." Ellie said.
"So what's showing?" Sarah asked.
"Well, all these movies are on that were playing in the eighties." Grace said
"So what's showing?" Sarah asked, a little exasperated
"Well, we noticed this one movie was on, and we all thought it'd be perfect for you." Sabina continued "We didn't know if you'd seen it before or not though."
"What's. Showing?" Sarah asked, her teeth gritted.
"It's Labyrinth!" Kim cried happily
Sarah laughed uproariously
"No seriously guys, what is it?"
"Labyrinth." Grace said
"It says so on the ticket." Sabina said, handing Sarah a ticket.
Sarah looked at it, gobsmacked.
Sure enough, it said:
'Cinema 14
Labyrinth (G)'
"Oh. My. God." Sarah said.
"Sorry, have you seen it before?" Ellie asked
"N… no, I haven't" Sarah said
"Would you rather not see it?" Grace asked
"No, it's… it's ok, I'd love to see it"
Someone shushed them, as the lights dimmed and a white owl flew onto the screen.
David Bowie's voice came over the speakers, and Sarah sat back and watched in shock, as she saw her story played out on a movie screen…
THAT WAS AN ODD SORT OF TWIST TO PUT IN, WASN'T IT?
Indeed it was, not the sort of thing I've seen before though…
For al of you Harry Potter fans, don't worry, Sarah will be back there soon…
Ehehe, and In2thedarkness18, I'm sure there'll be some of that action sooner or later… though I'm sort of making this up as I go, so I don't think it has an actual storyline yet…
ANYWAYS!
Sorry this took so long. I was forced to do another chapter of my Hana Kimi story (Thoguh I think I told you that)
Then we had a giant family emergency, which meant I couldn't do my assignment due Friday, but thankfully I got an extension and had to email it in this afternoon… and I finished it at 5:30 pm, but that's still afternoon, right?
Next chapter MAYBE tomorrow!
Your Queen, who has procrastinated too long and must do more school work…
PS
Word Count 1, 241 Words
A little below average…