Ailbhe's Day Out - Part Three: The Evening

[ailbhe]

So I toddled home to meet Janice, and Gideon toddled off to tidy his flat before guests arrived.

I met Janice at the train station; she was a bit down. It's the winter; it's so dark all the time. The sun hasn't shone at all this week that I've noticed. Just clouds of a particularly uninteresting shade of grey.

So we were trying to think of something to do and hit upon the idea of going to see a film in the ci-ne-ma. Like, not on video or DVD or TV, but actually on the Big Screen. Woo.

So we found out what time Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was on and toddled off to the cinema with plenty of time to spare.

It was sold out.

So we opted for a wartime ghost-story that promised to be amusingly badly done, possibly even farcical, and went to have coffee while we waited for it to start.

The Others.

It was terrifying. Janice watched most of it with her eyes closed, and some of it with her fingers in her ears. I clutched at her, unable to stop watching the film. One woman in the audience screamed. When we emerged from the theatre, we were shaking and hardly able to light our cigarettes.

We made it home, discussed the film for a while, and eventually stopped shivering and went to bed. Janice lef ther bedroom light on. I left my bedroom door open to allow the light from downstairs to filter up. I slept very very badly.