“Alright then, love, it’s off to the movies,” Carter said with a smile, slinging his bag back over his shoulder before walking out and paying for their clothes. He opened the door to the car for Arria, the slipped in himself and setting the bags of clothing in the back seat.
Arria climbed into the passenger seat, happy as can be, "Do you know what movies are on at the moment?" He asked, buckling himself in.
“Not a clue, but I’m sure there will be something that looks good,” Carter laughed a little, pulling into the movie theater parking lot and stepping out of the car. He smiled to Arria, walking around the car to grab his sea boy’s hand.
Arria smiled back and nodded, climbing out of the car and taking Carter’s hand in his own, “Alrighty then.” His smiled widened as they walked into the theatre.
Carter smiled a little bit more as they walked into the theater, looking at the movie titles on a large sign over the ticket registers. “So…… Any title up there catching you eye?” There was Bohemian Rhapsody, Venom, among others (You can make up something if you want).
“What’s Venom? That sounds interesting…” Arria kept his eyes trained on the movie titles. He bit his lip as he thought for a few more moments, “Yeah, Venom sounds good.”
“Alrightio then,” Carter smiled, walking up to pay for their tickets and ordering popcorn as well. He grinned at Arria, leaning closer to ask quietly, “Have you ever tried popcorn?”
Arria shook his head, “Nope. I’ve heard of it but never tried it.” He bit his lip and watched the guy shovel the popcorn into the bag with interest, “Is it good?”
“Very,” Carter chuckled, taking the popcorn and their tickets while grabbing Arria’s hand and taking him to the direction their theater. It wasn’t very full yet, and Carter already spotted seats in the middle. “Perfect, let’s go sit over there.”
Arria nodded distractedly, taking in the theatre with interest, “This place is huge!” He whispered, manoeuvring through the seat carefully. He smiled at Carter over his shoulder.
Carter grinned at him, then plopped down in the seats once they got to them. He held the popcorn bag out to Arria, “You should try one now,” He had a feeling that they might just end up eating the bag before the movie even started, but Carter could hardly care less. Even in the dim lighting, Arria was absolutely adorable.
“Okay…” Arria took a couple pieces of popcorn from the bag and plopped them in his mouth. It took a moment before he took a few more pieces, smiling, “You weren’t wrong when you said it was good.”
Carter chuckled a little, “It’s easy to eat them before the movie even starts.” Carter looked up at the screen and ‘yawned’, lifting his arms up to ‘stretch’ them and ‘coincidently’ one slid around Arria’s shoulders.
Arria smiled to himself, leaning into Carter when his loves arm was around him. He placed a few more pieces of popcorn in his mouth afterwards, focusing on the adds that were playing.
Before he knew it the movie started up and Carter smiled, taking a handful of popcorn for himself. (So I actually haven’t watched Venom yet… should we timeskip?)
(Yeah, that sounds good)
Arria blinked his eyes open after the movie finished, he’d fallen asleep during he last ten minutes and hoped Carter didn’t notice, “That was a good movie…” He muttered.
Carter smiled, stretching and yawning as the dim lights came on. “I’m really happy we could do this. It was really fun,” He yawned again, standing and picking up the empty pocorn bowl and smiling tiredly at Arria. He’s so cute…
“You got that right… we should do this again sometime..” Arria muttered sleepily, nuzzling into Carter a little more.
Carter kissed Arria’s forehead before gently tugging him towards the exit, “C’mon, let’s head home and get some sleep. I always feel tired after the movies.”
“Yeah… this place is pretty relaxing when an action movie isn’t playing.” Arria have Carter a sleepy smile before following him towards the exit.
Carter laughed softly, yawning again. He loved going here with Arria, he loved everything about his husband-to-be. Carter was so tired he didn’t notice the suspicious group of men wearing dark clothes standing not too far away from their car.
Arria rubbed at his eyes, blinking a few times to wake himself up a little when he stopped dead in his tracks, "Carter, who are those people? The ones in the very suspicious clothing?"
“Hmmmm?” Carter raised an eyebrow, stopping right beside Arria and finally noticing the men. His mind started to race, trying to remember what people had taught him to do in a situation like this but his mind was going blank for a second before he said loudly, “Uh, hey, Arria, I forgot my phone in the theater, I think, could you go run in and get it for me? I’ll go start the car,” Carter turned, using his hand to gently -but firmly- pushed Arria back towards the theater. Make sure he’s safe first, then I can make a run for it.
Arria stumbled back a step, looking confusedly at Carter before nodded, "Yeah, of course. See you in a minute." He placed a kiss to Carter's cheek, giving him one last look before slipping his hands in his pockets and heading back into the theater.
Carter watched him go to safety, aware of how the men were approaching. As soon as Arria got to the theater doors, Carter took off like a rabbit, sprinting -not towards the theater though, but to the store across the road- as fast as he could. He heard a shout of annoyance coming from one of the men, the whole group of them starting to chase him. Carter tried to distract them, throwing his car keys back and his wallet, but they didn’t stop. He was just making it to the road to get to the other store, he was almost there. But at the last second his shirt choked him and he was forced to a halt- one of the men had caught up and grabbed the bag of Carter’s collar. He struggled, but a clothe was shoved up to his mouth and nose, an aroma that caused his vision to blur and his body go weak. The last moments he saw was a dark van pulling up before everything went dark.