Chapter 4: Sunday at The Movies

The next two days went by fast for Ash and his friends and soon it was Sunday, the day that Ash, Gary, Brock, Melody, and Flannery met up at the school. But Gary's question from last chapter was still unanswered; what were they going to do on Sunday? Well, the group would soon find out once they got to school.

"Ash, do you seriously not know what we're doing today," asked Gary as they walked down to school.

"I'm positive I don't know," was his reply, "you can even check my email if you want."

"Ash don't tell me you have one of those things with you," said Brock.

"That's right Brock, I have one," snickered Ash as he took something out of his pocket, "I have… an Ipod touch!"

"Noob," said Gary.

"Well if you want, you can check my email when we get to school," said Ash.

"Why wait till school," asked Brock.

"Since I need an internet connection to check my email," replied Ash.

"Ash, do you have a cell phone," asked Gary.

"Yeah, why?"

"Because I have an Iphone," said Gary, "now do you know why I called you a noob?"

"Not really."

"You are dense."

"Am not!"

"Stop your complaining Ash, we're almost at school anyway," said Brock.

The rest of the walk was quiet as the trio walked the next block without as much as a peep. When they got to their destination, they saw Melody and Flannery waiting for them by the school gates.

"About time you guys got here," said Melody.

"Hey, Melody they got here on time," said Flannery, "we're the ones who got here early so don't get mad at them. Besides, if I remember right, you're the one who invited them."

"Don't worry about it you two," said Ash, "but it would be nice if you told us what we're doing today."

"Oh, that's right I forgot to tell you," said Melody, "my bad, we're going to the mall today!"

Then just like any normal guys the trio shouted, "WHAT?"

"What? It's only the mall. Not like you're going to be carrying our shopping bags or anything. We're just going to go see a movie, grab lunch, and then we're going shopping."

"Looks like we're catching the bus then," said Brock.

"The next bus should be here right about now," said Flannery as the bus pulled up to the curb by the school, "well, better hurry up or we'll be left behind and have to wait another half hour!"

"Why am I getting a bad feeling about this," asked Gary as they ran to the bus.

Half an hour later at the mall…

"So what movie should we watch? There's The Iron Bunny, A Week With Dug, Dragons, Monday Madness, The World Ends With Us," said Melody, "and there's also- urk."

"Is something wron- yipe," yelled Ash as he saw what she saw was playing, "Pretty Ponies, the evil memories of sitting through that 2 hour movie with a mom who commented on that every 5 minutes…" With that Ash just fainted and was about to fall face first on the ground before Gary caught him.

"Um, I think that movies an automatic out, what do you guys think," he asked.

"Agreed," the rest of them said.

"I vote for The world Ends With Us," said Flannery, "from what I heard, that movie got good reviews."

"Does anyone have a problem with this movie, if so say it now," said Melody.

"No objections here," said Gary as he carried Ash's "limp" body with him, "is it just me or does it look like he's going to wake up soon?"

"Gary, why are you carrying me," asked Ash.

"It's because you fainted when we said a certain movie," replied Brock.

"Oh, so which movie are we watching?"

"The World Ends With Us unless you have a problem with that," said Melody.

"Nope, no problems here."

5 minutes later in the theater…

"Does anyone want anything from the snack bar, cuz me and Gary are heading there right now," said Ash.

"If you guys get popcorn make sure it's a large order so we can split it," said Melody.

"Sure. Come on Gary let's get going. Wouldn't want the movie to start without us." With that the two friends rushed over to the already building line.

"Hey, Ash," said Gary, "do you remember what I said on Wednesday?"

"No cuz you never got to finish your question."

"Oh, well I was going to say that the girl you were looking at that day was Melody."

"What? Are you serious?"

"Well, it's pretty easy to tell when someone's starring at someone when their window's down when you're just walking to school looking at random things along the way you know."

"Oh."

"I suggest you make your move soon buddy or the year's going to fly by pretty fast and before you know it, its graduation."

"Gotcha. Well, it's our turn next. Excuse me, we'd like…"

Back in the movie theater…

"Hey Flannery, I have a question," asked Melody.

"Sure, what is it?"

"You know the real reason why I asked you to come with me today right?"

"Yeah, wasn't it for support for when you talked to him?"

"Mhm."

"Well, you know what you have to do, right girl? Just sit by him while the movie's playing, I'm sure he wouldn't mind. If he did he wouldn't even have decided to show up right? Then possibly fall asleep on his shoulder."

"I guess."

"Oh look, they're coming back."

"Hi guys we're back," whispered Ash.

"Looks like the movie's going to start soon," said Gary, "better turn our cell phones off."

Just as Gary and Ash sat down, the movie started and Lucky for Melody she didn't need to worry about sitting next to Ash since that's what he ended up doing anyway. As the movie progressed, Melody found herself getting sleepy but made herself stay up and finish watching the movie now that it came to the climax. The main characters were starting to use their powers on the "Darkness" of the city which was basically made from all the negative thoughts of the people in the city. But when it came to the part where the world got destroyed, she grabbed Ash's arm and fainted on him.

"Err, Melody," asked Ash. No response came. "Did she just faint? It was only a dream sequence."

"Who knows," said Gary, "just zip it and watch the movie."

"Okay."

After the movie…

"Melody, you awake, the movie's over," said Ash.

"Wait Ash, let me try something," said Flannery as she pulled out a megaphone from her bag.

"How the hell'd you fit that in there," asked Gary.

"I have my ways," replied Flannery with a smile, "now watch this. Melody, if you don't wake up I'm going to yell a certain secret of yours in my megaphone."

"You wouldn't," yelled a now awake Melody, "wait, is the movie over already?"

"You can let go of my arm now you know," said Ash.

"What do you mean," asked Melody.

"Look at my arm," he said. As her eyes moved to his arm she realized what she did.

"Sorry," she yelled as she moved her arms back to herself.

"That's alright," he said, "but next time you might want to faint on Flannery."

"Well, this things work's done here," said Flannery as she put the megaphone back in her bag.

"Guess it's time we head over to the food court for lunch now," said Brock.

"That sounds great," said Ash, "I'm hungry."

"When aren't you hungry," asked Gary.

"I don't know, you tell me," laughed Ash.