When It Comes To Love, You Never Know

Chapter 2

“Okay. All’s set. Now let’s go in.” Brian said as he took Kiara’s one hand in his and started walking toward the entrance but Kiara stopped him by putting her hand on his elbow. “Wait. We can’t go in just now.” She said.

“Why?” Brian asked getting confused.

“Because we’ve forget something.”

“No we haven’t. We’ve got both the tickets and the popcorns.”

“Yeah but we forgot about the most important thing.”

“And what is that?” Brian asked frowning.

“Tissue Box!”

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Kiara shifted again uncomfortably on her sit. People were staring at them awkwardly but she can’t help it! She can’t stop the sobbing no matter how hard she tries. It doesn’t work. It never had and it never will. It was just not something she could control! So she had simply stopped trying to stop it a long time ago. And now she was doing what she always does, passing the tissue papers to Brian who was using those immediately to wipe his tears. Yes. You have got that right. Her best friend who is a guy of twenty three years old cries while watching a movie! Or rather correctly while watching a stupid emotional overdramatic romantic movie. It was their movie day. Every Sunday evening they watch a movie together. They have been doing that since they were kids. They used to watch a movie together either in Kiara’s house or in Brian’s house every Sunday evening and they named Sunday as their movie day. And when they finally grew up enough to go in a movie theater without any need of being accompanied by an adult, they started to watch a movie together every Sunday in theater instead of one of their homes. And they never miss that no matter what. If one of them gets sick at their movie day they still watch the movie in the sick one’s home. No matter how busy they are, no matter in how much pressure they are, they always manage to steal some time for their movie time. Even when they had important exams in school or college and needed every single minute to take preparation for those exams, they didn’t miss their movie date. And it wasn’t easy for them. But they overcame all the obstacles and managed the time for each other. For others, it was downright silly. But for them it was a best friends thing. It was some thing very special and it was only between them. It was “their thing.”

But the trouble begins when it comes to choosing the movie that is going to be seen since Kiara and Brian had the total opposite choice. While Brian loves romance and emotional staff, Kiara was totally into adventure and action. So they take turns at choosing the movie. One week Kiara gets to select the movie and then the next week Brian gets to select the movie and thus continues.

This Sunday, it was Brian’s week and as usual he had chosen an illogical boring romantic movie much to her dismay. Kiara sighed as she passed another tissue paper to Brian. It seems like people were far more interested in staring at them than watching the movie. But that’s not what that was irritating her so much. She was used to people’s staring due to Brian’s sobbing while watching an emotional movie. And besides who cares what people thought? It’s the movie itself that was irritating her to death. Brian is the only person in the whole world who can actually make her watch a romantic movie, the thing she hates doing most. She rolled her eyes as another stupid scene was played on the screen. ‘Seriously! What could Brian possibly see on those movies?’ she thought. ‘How could he enjoy all those crying and illogical dramas? And the dialogs! Seriously, what’s wrong with the scriptwriters? Can’t people in love speak normally? What’s with all the cheesy lines?’ Those dialogs almost make her want to throw up.

She glanced at her watch again impatiently and sighed. Thirty minutes. She would have to tolerate this nonsense for thirty more long minutes. Suddenly Brian grabbed her hand in a strong grip and she looked at him only to see his eyes widely glued to the screen. By the look of his face, Kiara could feel that he was holding his breath and she looked at the screen only to see what she already knew was happening by Brian’s reaction. Sure enough, the movie has reached it’s so called “climax” making Brian all jumpy and even more emotional if that was possible.

Usually, she just makes fun of this movies the whole time while watching them and chastises Brian for reacting like that to those silly things. But in situations like that, she has got no choice but to comfort him no matter how absurd she thinks he was being. He was; her best friend after all and though he could be irritating at times and made her want to scream at him in frustration and was a little too emotional for his own good, he still meant the world for her.

So she squeezed his hand to offer comfort and leaned towards him so that her head was on his shoulder which made him automatically put his arm around her shoulder. He relaxed a bit though his attention was still fully on the screen and Kiara made sure that she kept her mouth shut as she knew she would say something nasty about the movie if she opened her mouth which wasn’t really a good idea at that moment. She looked at her watch again and sighed in relief. ‘Good.’ She thought. Just five more minutes and then she will be saved from all those nonsense that was playing on the screen that people call a great romantic movie! She could hardly wait to see; at that moment to her what felt like the two most beautiful words in the whole world; to appear on the screen. “THE END.”