AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Okay, this is just a tiny bit complicated, so please bear with me. I first dreamed up this story about seven years ago, around the time I wrote and posted my first Literotica story, "Extra Credit," thinking that I'd have another story to type out the next time the writing bug bit me. Well, seven years later, here it is. I even managed to write a sequel to it first, as well as the sequel to "Extra Credit." If you decide you enjoyed this, you might look them up. I'm fairly proud of them all.
Anyway, the resulting odd order in which they're posted as a result may be a bit confusing, as well as the fact that neither series is listed as a series. I never know when I'll be feeling both creative and motivated enough to write, so I tend not to bother with the series feature. I don't want to promise more than I can deliver.
In any case, the (suggested) reading order for this series as it currently exists is this chapter, "The Matinee," followed by "The Compromise." If you only read one, that's fine. I try to keep my chapters self-contained enough that they can be read in any order with no context required.
But now, ON WITH THE SMUT!
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Her smile was instant and genuine. "Oh, Hi June!"
I think I blinked at her a couple of times as I stared. I had been sure I would have to introduce myself so, being me, I naturally rehearsed it in my head. Since she knew who I was, I wasn't quite sure where to begin now. I soldiered on.
"Hi Amy! Gosh, I didn't think you'd remember me."
She snorted. "Well, of course I remember you. We're in the same class, remember? We all had to introduce ourselves on the first day of Mrs. Winston's Creative Writing course. Besides, your hand always shoots up first whenever she asks the class a question. You just always hide in your own little corner of class and never come over to say hi. It isn't because I'm a lesbian, is it?"
"No!" I almost shouted, then immediately moderated my tone. "I mean, I'm a lesbian too."
"Well then, I REALLY wish you had come over to say hello, or at least mentioned it when you introduced yourself. In fact, if I had known, I would've come over to talk to YOU, you little hottie."
I'm sure I blushed bright red and managed to stammer, "You're joking."
"No, seriously. You've got the total 'girl-next-door' thing going on. HUGE turn-on. If I had a girl next door who looked like you when I was growing up, PLUS she was a lesbian? I never would've left home." She laughed.
I couldn't meet her eyes for some reason, so I just said, "You always have such a crowd of people around you both before and after class. I'm... not very good at groups. You said how I hide in my corner. I guess that's me, the girl in the corner, in life as well as in class."
"Well, now we know each other, so we can talk," she said easily. "If you don't want to come over to me, I'll come to you. So anyway, what brings you to the theater today?"
I was at the movie theater where I knew she worked. She wasn't the only one who had been paying attention during those introductions. Speaking of which, that first day of class was when I first laid eyes on my instant crush: Amy. She's fairly short, a couple inches shorter even than scrawny little me, with bleach-blonde hair she keeps short in a kind of pixie cut. She has an amazing figure with a tiny waist which she tends to accentuate with the black, low-rise jeans she favors as well as her (also almost universally black) crop tops. They also show off the graceful swell of her hips as well as her gorgeous C-cup breasts. She's completely adorable. Everybody loves her.
I suppose her fondness for black might make her a bit Goth, but nothing about personality does. She's bubbly and outgoing, always friendly and helpful, always ready with a smile or a laugh, and never has a bad word to say about anyone. Now, "nice" has gotten something of a bad reputation as a description for a person, as if you're somehow struggling to find a real compliment, but the only way I can think to describe Amy is as the epitome of nice, and nice goes a long way with me.
Anyway, back to the theater. It's a small, fairly old independent, semi-attached at the end of one arm of an enclosed suburban strip mall by a covered walkway. Never terribly busy, and even less so on a Thursday morning. Everyone has already seen what's out and they're just waiting for Friday's new releases. Perfect for what I had planned.
"I'm here to see a movie, naturally," I said, presenting her with a ten dollar bill I had rolled up in my hand. "One for 'Love's Battlement,' please."
She rolled her eyes. "Ugh, not that stinker. At least see 'Rebellion on Europa'. It's dumb, but fun. Today is the last day for 'Love's Battlement' with us, it's getting shoved out tomorrow for the new 'Gangbusters' sequel. Seriously, 'Love's Battlement' is Rated R and it doesn't even have any good nudity. It's a real snore."
"Which is exactly what makes it perfect for me. It's Rated R so there won't be any kids and it's late in it's run so there won't be many people besides me."
"You may be the only one in the theater, frankly," she replied.
"I hope for at least one or two others, actually. Alone will work, but not quite as well as sparsely attended but not empty," I said, earning a puzzled look. "It's for our Creative Writing project. You know..."
"Sure," she finished. "'Do something you've never done before and write about the experience, not only the details of what takes place, but also concentrating on your feelings as it happens.' Don't remind me. I still have no idea what I'm going to do mine on. Anyway, I'm guessing you've seen a bad movie before, so what's your plan?"
"Well, I was thinking about what to do too and it just popped into my head. I've never been naked in a public movie theater before."