Let someone else decide for you

While you look over the list of movies, in the mast of people moving to and fro you spot someone in your peripheral vision - a guy nervously pacing a bit too and fro, continously looking at his watch. He's got curly red hair in a bit of an afro around his head, with big glasses. A geek, you decide, and you continue to think about movie choices as you look him over.

He's wearing a plaid shirt, and dark brown pants, choices that were clearly never meant to be together, and his face is heavily freckled. He's not that well built, either, but your quick assessment is that he could be if he cleaned up a bit, worked out more and had more money to spend on clothes. Even as is, he's not too bad, and you'd probably date him if he lost the glasses...and wasn't a tool.

You can't come to a decision on the movie, and as you step back, you see him sigh inwardly, and start walking out. You think then you might as well try to brighten his day a bit - he's obviously here for a date that cancelled - and you grab his arm as he walks by.

"Excuse me." He meets your eyes briefly but his gaze quickly goes to your chest, and you try to keep a grin from spreading as you continue walking. "I was wondering if you could recommend any movies for me...I'm here to see one and I'm not sure what's-"

"Try Titanium Wing. It's a-a-a-about the greatest star fighting **** in the galaxy." His reply was so quick you see him look away from your chest as he says it.

"Thanks." you reply, happy to have done a good deed, but he continues speaking as you start to turn away, oblivious to your about-to-be-receding form.

"It's the one I was supposed to see with Clara, but..."

The heartbreak in his voice stops you, and you turn back to him, placing a sympathetic hand on his arm - he's oblivious to your charms, but not your sympathy as you reply. "...she cancelled on you?"

"Yeah." He sighs. "I'm just gonna return these tickets and go home. No sense seeing a movie alone..." With that, he shrugs out of your grasp and turns away, heading for the customer service desk.

Your mind whirs, and you grab him again, knowing an oppurtunity when you see one.

"Hey...wait...." He turns around again, and has apparently noticed again how much of you is showing as you talk. "My name's Joy, and....my date's cancelled too." You look down in false pain of your own, and the other guy's eyes light up, apparently wondering who would be clueless enough to cancel on anything with you. "I'd be delighted to see this movie with you.?"

He pauses, apparently assessing the situation for the lilihood of a practical joke. "Really? You'd go with me to see 'Titanium Wing?"

"Sure!" you reply einthusiastically. "If you don't mind keeping those tickets, anyways. Doesn't make sense for me to pay again."

"You betcha!" He croaks in reply - he meets your eyes again, but only for a moment, as he starts towards the theater. "My name's Gerald, by the way." You follow him into the theatre. He starts towards the middle section, but you stop him.

"I'd be more comfortable near the back...if that's okay with you, Gerald." You blink a couple of times poutily, but you know it's superflous - he's eating out of your hand, wondering why a girl like you would be interested in someone like him. You take a seat near the back, and idly wonder how popular this movie really is - it seems like there's about fifteen other people in here, at most, and the movie's due to start in five minutes.

"Aren't you cold?" Gerald has a jacket on over his shirt, as you shuck off your jacket carefully to show more of your body to him. Although you might be, the raging heat inside of you is more then making up for you, as you get excited yet again at showing off for someone you've never met before.

"Nope. I'm fine like this." You decide to up the ante, and stand up, pretending to stretch and turn a bit so he can see your back and legs. After a moment, you sit down again, crowwing your legs as you do so, and you can see that Gerald's not used to someone as outgoing as you are.

You open your mouth to say something when....