Chapter 8: Movie Date

Two days after the relatives all went home, Arthur was planning to go see the new Bionic Bunny movie with Francine at the Loring Cinema.

That afternoon at 1:30, Arthur looked up the movies on his family's computer, and he decided to go see the 2:15 showtime of Bionic Bunny's Antarctic Adventures. Right away, he called up Francine, and she agreed, so Arthur decided to pick her up in front of the apartment building.

Arthur put on his blue Bionic Bunny hoodie jacket that looked like a sweatshirt on the outside, but with a zipper on the front, and laces from the collar. The yellow "B" emblem was on the front and shown as a whole when zipped up, and the hood was red and had white rabbit ears. He then walked to his car and headed over to Westboro Apartments to pick up Francine who would be waiting for him to show up.

When Arthur arrived to Westboro Apartments, a familiar teenage girl was wearing the same Bionic Bunny hoodie he was wearing and the same jeans and sneakers. He could see her walking out the door and to his car, and noticed a familiar monkey face. It was Francine.

"Hey Francine," said Arthur as she was getting inside the car.

"Hey Arthur," replied Francine.

"How was Hanukkah?" he asked.

"It was fun," she replied. "We got to have a lot of good foods, and we played a lot of good board games and card games, we even played some music."

"I bet it was a lot of fun," said Arthur.

"How was your Christmas?" asked Francine.

"It was a lot of fun," he replied. "Aunt Loretta, Uncle Bud, and my three cousins got to stay with us. We had a great dinner, Mo and I played some carols on the piano, and we got to open a lot of good presents. And anyway, thanks for the baseball cap."

"My pleasure," said Francine.

Just then, Arthur and Francine arrived at the Loring Cinema. When they were about to walk into the building, they put their hoods down. There was a short line of people getting tickets. Arthur and Francine arrived early enough to get the tickets to see the new Bionic Bunny movie they wanted to go see. Arthur bought the tickets for himself and Francine. Right away, they both walked over to spend their tickets and then walked down the hall and into the room where the Bionic Bunny movie was.

The seating was much different from years ago. It was switched from being leveled to being a stadium when they were in seventh grade. There were a few people in there before they walked in. They walked up the stairs to the very first row and Arthur sat in 1E and Francine sat in 1F.

When it was nearly 2:00, the entire room was getting occupied in a flash. Arthur and Francine were glad to arrive very early. They were some of the few people at the movie without any popcorn, soda, or any other snacks.

When the time came, the commercials started playing, and then there were previews to upcoming movies. After ten minutes of all of that, the movie then started playing.

At the beginning of the movie, the viewers saw the continent of Antarctica being attacked by sea monsters and the penguins were running for their lives. There were some chunks of ice scattering around. When sea monsters were breaking the ice, Arthur and Francine to react surprisingly with many of the other viewers.

In the next scene of the movie, it showed news reporters reporting the continent of Antarctica being terrorized by sea monsters and that Antarctica is in danger and could risk the loss of animals, residents, homes, and everything else there.

The next scene after that showed Bionic Bunny being called to save the continent Antarctica.

Meanwhile, in the middle of everyone watching the movie, Arthur and Francine could hear a group of teenagers in the second row in front of them talking and shouting. Those kids there were from Mighty Mountain and they started throwing their snacks on each other. The shouting was loud enough that Arthur and Francine felt like covering their ears, and so did the other viewers who were trying to watch the movie. The shouting, food-fighting kids got each other contaminated with soda pop, and some of the popcorn and candy even stuck on their clothes. Arthur and Francine were lucky no one threw any snacks at them.

Just then, one of the employees of the Loring Cinema came into the room and walked up the stairs to the Mighty Mountain kids who were being noisy and did food-fighting, and dismissed them all. Arthur and Francine were relieved of the situation, and they got back to watching the movie without being distracted.

At the very end of the movie, they saw Bionic Bunny finishing off the last of the sea monster, and restoring Antarctica in its beautiful original condition. Then the final scene showed Bionic Bunny receiving an award for saving Antarctica and waving to all of the people.

Then Arthur and Francine left the cinema after the movie. The movie was around ninety minutes long. As they walked outside, the put their hoods up as they walked to the car.

As they were leaving, it was time for them both to go home. Arthur dropped off Francine to her apartment, and then he headed home.

"How was the movie?" asked Arthur's mother when he came in.

"It was great," said Arthur. "Francine and I went to it together."

To be continued…