My Theater 8 by Ashley Milano

My Theater 8
    I
remember buying the tickets “6 days” before the showing, all I
wanted to do was hold them and even show them off a bit to my
friends. But what could I say? I was going to see my favorite
superhero's last movie, I couldn't help it.
    The
night before the showing I couldn't sleep knowing it was so soon, my
brother and I got around 5 hours of sleep in total. It was also my
first midnight showing, Batman
and
a
midnight showing! This day couldn't get any better.
    My
mom and dad were a bit hard to convince since I've never been out
after 10pm without them. They were going to see the movie with us,
but had to change their minds last minute since my little brother was
in the hospital having his appendix removed. Ouch!
    We
spent the day at The Children's Hospital with my little brother who
just had surgery and we watched movie trailers and I continuously
asked when we should leave.
    My
brother Alex kept calling the theater to check up on the line. We
decided we were going to wait until 8PM to go to the theater. But, we
were to eager to wait that long, so we said our goodbyes, grabbed our
bags and checked out of the hospital visitor area right outside the
doors. The nurse at the desk said “
Are
you guys checked out for the day or are you planing to come back?”
I never thought about how ironic that was until now.
    We
both impatiently waited in the elevator from the eighth floor to the
first floor, slightly bragging about our tickets to one of the
nurses
.
When the elevator opened I started to run to the door, I was so eager
to get the night started. My brother was joking with me and started
to
skip
and click his heels together as he jumped up in the air. Just like a
little kid would.
    When
we first got into the building I saw this little girl whom I thought
to be around five or six with beautiful long dirty blonde hair, so of
course I complimented her about it. She smiled shyly and ran back to
her line..for theater 9. Not thinking anything of it, I smiled and
handed my ticket to the employee checking the tickets. "Enjoy
the movie!" he said.
    Since
the showing was at 12am you might think we'd be tired. but I was too
excited to even notice. We got there around 8 o'clock cause hey,
what's a movie without good seats? I'm glad we did get there early,
the lines were HUGE! I remember seeing the tired look in my brothers
eyes, though I couldn't blame him. But once the guy let us in and we
noticed the smell of the popcorn and we both got pumped up again.
    Not
a minute after getting in line my brother being the over excited
social junky that he is, started to converse with a really awesome
couple in front of us. They seemed to be in their 20's and after
chatting with them we learned their names were Noemi and Josh. At
that moment I looked around, we were 5th and 6th in line.”
Yes!!”
good seats here we come!'
    As
people kept piling up in our line and my brother and the couple
continued their conversation on whether it was a good idea to put
Anne Hathaway as cat woman in this movie I noticed these two women
sitting beside us, after loads of shy glances in our direction I was
going to turn around and start a conversation when I smelt what I
thought was burnt popcorn and I looked towards the kitchen and saw a
decent amount of smoke fill the air, after a few sly comments were
whispered under peoples breathes about the movie staff I noticed
people getting up from their spots on the floor. They let us in the
theater about 2 hours early!
    We
followed the couple in, but then went our separate ways, they liked
the middle seats. We liked the top ones. "See ya after the
movie!" My brother shouted.
    I
was about to ask my brother if we could sit on the 2 seaters on the
right side of the theater, but once I turned to ask him he was
already sitting in the middle of the 3rd row down, staring at me
displeased as if he knew I was going to ask, so I sat one seat away
from him in the same aisle. He likes to hit me and ask if I saw