Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Chapter Sixteen

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Sarah said...

"I should have worn my cape." Brody said as we walked by a guy wearing a purple cape. I wasn't sure who he was suppose to be. I smiled. "I'm so not a nerd." I said.
"What?" Brody asked.
"Nothing." I giggled. "I'm glad I don't know what comic book person wear's a purple cape." I said pointing to the guy.
"Darwing Duck, babycakes." He said.
"He is dressed like Darkwing Duck?" I asked. "That is the stupidest thing ever."
He laughed. "Why did you come here?"
"Chris asked me to." I said.
He gave me a strange look. "Why?" He asked.
"I don't know." I said. "He just asked. Probably to be nice. Otherwise I would be sitting at home bored."
He just nodded. He looked frustrated. "I'm gonna see if I can get another one of those Daredevil Satues." He said.
He started walking away and I followed him. "Do you mind staying here?" He asked.
I sighed.
"They're going to do the drawing for the Spock poster soon, just listen and see if they call my name. Call me if they do." He said and walked off.
"Look what I just won!" I heard Chris say from behind me. I turned around. He was holding up a comic book. He walked up closer. It was the Superman Chronicles Vol. 2.
"You don't read comics." I said.
"Well, maybe I wanna start." He said.
"You don't have Volume 1." I said.
"I don't care. I won something!" He said smiling.
I giggled. I couldn't stay mad when I saw how excited he was to win the comic book. "Congrats, nerd." I giggled.
"Shut up." He said. "Be right back. Okay?" He started walking away. I was going to follow him, but decided not to. A guy walked by wearing Spock ears. I couldn't beleive how many strange people were there. "Firestar." A guy said to me.
"Excuse me?" I asked.
"You're hair. It looks like Firestar's only blonde." He said.
"Okay. . ." I said.
He stood there staring at me for at least a minute, then walked away. It made me very uncomfortable.
"I got fucking Captain America!" Brody shouted as he ran over to me.
He had a small box with a small figure of Captain America in it.
"Cool." I said smiling.
"Blair, why the fuck did you come?" He asked. "You're not half as enthused about any of this as me."
"What is your problem?" I asked.
"You're still sleeping with Chris. Neither of you want to be here with me. Let's just go now." He said.
"No. Hun. They didn't even do the drawing for the poster yet." I said. I felt horrible.
"I don't care." He said.
"Well, I do." I said. I walked over to the small Spock display where the drawing was going to be held. "Excuse me." I said to the guy standing next to it.
"Yes? Something I can help you with?" He asked.
"What time are you doing the drawing for the poster?" I asked.
"In about five minutes. We're actually giving out three." He said. He leaned down and picked one up. "Make that two." He said handing it to me.
"What?" I asked.
"It's not often a beautiful girl like you shows up here wanting a poster of Spock. It's nice to know there are hot chicks who dig this shit too." He said. I looked up at him. He had a cute smile. "Oh." I said.
"Go on. Take it." He said. I took it from him.
"Well, thank you." I smiled.
"You're welcome." He said.
I walked back over to Brody. I held the poster behind my back.
"You won." I said.
"What?" He asked. "They didn't even do the drawing yet."
"Well, I won. With my good looks." I said.
"What are you talking about?" He asked.
I pulled the poster out from behind me and held it up.
"Blair!" He shouted smiling as he took it from me. He took the plastic off of it and opened it up. "That's so fucking sweet." He said.
I giggled.
"How the hell did you get this?" He asked. "Were you flirting with him or something?"
"No." I giggled. "I just asked him when he was doing the drawing and he gave it to me. He said he doesn't see hot chicks here very often that are into this kind of thing."
"You're not into it." He said.
"So. I pretended." I said.
"Who is the Green Goblin?" He asked.
I just shrugged my shoulders.
He laughed.
"Wait! That enemy guy on Spiderman!" I said excited.
"My hot nerd friend." Brody said puting his arm around me.
"Oh please." I said.
He started going off about some comic he read recently. I didn't really listen to what he was saying, but I nodded and smiled as he told me about it.
"Dude, I fucking love The Hulk." Brody said as a man walked by dressed as him. The guy just nodded and smiled. "You know what I think you should do for me?" He asked.
"What's that?" I asked.
"You should dress up as sexy wonderwoman." He said.
"Yeah, I don't think so." I said.
"Damn." He said as Chris walked back over to us.
"You ready, man?" Brody asked him. "What the fuck! You bought that?"
Chris held up the comic book he won. "No, dude! I won it at some guys stand." He said excited.
They both started looking through it. I laughed as I watched them. They were acting like little kids. "Dude, I have Volume 1. You should borrow it and read it first." Brody said.
Chris looked at me and smiled.
"Alright, sugar. We can go now." Brody said to me.
"We can stay longer. I'm sorry for being grouchy and making fun." I said. "Oh my freakin lord." I said. Brody and Chris looked behind them. There was a very large man dressed up as Spiderman.
"Large man in tights. Not appealing." Chris said. We all laughed. The guy turned and looked at us and we looked the other way. When he turned the corner, we couldn't help but laugh again.
"Let's go." Brody said.
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"Yeah." Chris said.
"And it's cool if you tease me about this stuff. I tease you about your music all the time." Brody said.
I just smiled. They started walking ahead of me. Brody was telling Chris about some new comic book store and how they have rare comics there. I rolled my eyes as we walked out of the building.