Adaeze

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We made it to the theater and I bought mine and Adaeze's tickets.

"The Damned?" she asked after she read it.
"Yea. I don't know, it's something they picked." I responded as we went inside.

I saw Dylan talking to some brown haired girl.
"There they are." I told Daisy and we walked over.

Me and Dylan did our handshake. "Mila, this is Koda and Adaeze. And guys, this is Mila." he introduced.
"What's up?" I nodded. "Hi." said Adaeze.
"Hi..." she smiled at me.
"You two wanna sit here while me and Ko go get food?" Dylan offered. Which meant he wanted to tell me about the girl.
"Okay." Adaeze answered.
"We can't go with you guys?" Mila asked.
"The wait might be a while. I didn't want you to have to stand for too long. We'll try to be quick." he argued.
"No, I'm fine with standing." she responded.
"Oh...okay."
I was shocked but we all walked towards the concessions register.

Me and Dylan walked next to each other while he tried to talk to me.

"Dude..." he said quietly.
"What?"
"I made a mistake."
"How?"
"She's a fucking pick me, dude." he stated.
I scoffed.
"I swear to god. She'll say one thing and I'll disagree even a little and then she agrees with me. And I'm almost positive she was flirting with the guy that gave us our tickets." he admitted.
"So you don't like her?"
"I mean...she's hot but I just want someone with more personality."
"You never noticed that when you were texting her or talking after class?"
"No! She was funny then!" he whispered. "I would just hear her talk. And we weren't around other guys."
"Maybe she's just friendly. Or she doesn't like when things get messy so she doesn't want you guys to argue about stuff. She's probably being a pick me with Adaeze right now."

We turned around and saw both of them standing there looking at their phones.

He looked back at me and glared.

"Damn..." I responded and faced back forward.

He sighed. "Too late to turn back now."
"I mean it only just started. It could get better."
"Hopefully."
We reached the counter and I let Dylan go first since I didn't know what Adaeze wanted.

"Daisy."
They both picked their heads up. But I just looked at Adaeze.
"What do you want to eat?" I asked.
She walked closer and squinted at the board.
I chuckled. "You gotta start remembering your glasses, mama."
"I knooow...I just don't like to wear them." she admitted.
"But you look cute in them."
"But-..."
She was bumped into and I looked past her.
Mila had moved up to stand next to Dylan. "Sorry..." she stated then looked back at Dylan.

"Alright..." I thought aloud.
Not saying 'excuse me' was a dick move but Dylan said she was weird so whatever.

I looked back at Adaeze who stood there with her arms crossed and an annoyed look at Mila.
"You okay?" I asked.
"Mhm." She looked back at the board.
"Come on, they might take a while."
I led us over to a different cashier to take our order.

I didn't want her to stand there if she was annoyed by her.

"How can I help you?" the cashier asked.
"What do you wanna eat?" I asked Adaeze again.
"Popcorn."
"A large popcorn." I told the guy. "Is that it?" I asked her.
"Um..." She looked down at the candy display. "That." she pointed.
I looked at the cashier and noticed he was typing all of this in.
"And can I get two drinks too?" I added.
"Yea, no problem."
I pulled out my wallet and took my card out.

"Your total is 28.30." he stated.
I slid my card in.
He gave us two cups for our drinks and put Adaeze's candy on the counter.

We waited for him to come back with our bucket of popcorn.

Dylan and Mila met up with us while we filled our drinks at the machine. She was holding the popcorn bucket and eating out of it while he held their drinks.
"Got everything?" he asked.
"Almost." I stated.

The guy came back. "Here you go."
I took the bucket of popcorn and Adaeze's candy while she held the drinks.

We started walking.
"You guys can go ahead, I'm gonna get extra butter real quick." I told them. The popcorn is always salty but not enough butter.
"Me too." said Mila.
I started walking over to the dispenser. She took the one next to me.

"So are you and...um...sorry, what was her name again?" she asked me.
"Adaeze." I answered while I stared into the popcorn bucket.
Is this enough butter?
"Her...dating?" she asked.
I put it back under the dispenser. "Huh?"
"Are you and her dating?"
"Uhhh..." I finished and stopped pressing the button. "Not yet technically." I ate a piece of popcorn and walked back over to them.

"How does this taste? Is it enough?" I asked Adaeze and held the bucket to her.
She tried a piece. "Mhm. Very good." She took another piece and ate it.
Mila finally came back.
We all headed to the theater.

"Do you like horror movies?" Adaeze asked me.
"I mean, they're not that scary to me. But they're pretty entertaining."
She nodded.
I knew Dylan probably chose this movie just because he wanted to feel cool if Mila got scared and hid under him. That's like...date rule number 5.

We showed the guy our tickets and he told us which theater room.

I don't think our seats are next to each other since we didn't get them all together. But I'd be cool with that anyway.

When we walked in we all went to the top floor but our seats were pretty far apart.

I was like four seats away from Dylan.
Well, three seats from Mila now. She changed spots and took the seat on his other side.

I took Adaeze's candy out of my pocket to give to her before I sat down. She put our drinks in their cupholders.
We talked while we waited for the movie to start.