I need my guards high

I went to the living room wearing my tank top and jeans with long black and white striped shrug. Ryan and Jason already waiting in the living room. Dia walked moments later.

"I called Sameer to come to pick us. Harsh is coming to the movie theatre directly." Dia said walking down the stairs and brushing her hair.

"I'm here Dia, let's go." Said Sameer walking to the living room.

He grabbed the car keys and we all followed him out. I could see Jason staring at me but I chose to ignore him. 

We reached the top floor of the mall, people are scattered over the lounge waiting for the movie to start. We sauntered over to Harsh.

"Hey, I booked the extra ticket as you said. Who is coming ?" Harsh asked Dia.

"Sameer is coming, we can't let him wait for us to finish the movie," Dia replied to him.

"Sameer? Didn't I tell you to stay away from him?" Harsh said with a frown on his face.

"Yeah but he is the one driving us around and dad ordered that we have to take him with us. He is a good guy. Don't be so mean to him." Dia replies

"Why? What's wrong with Sameer coming?" I asked Harsh. 

"It's just a hunch, I don't feel too good about him." He replies.

"No, I think he is nice." I countered back to Harsh. 

"Everyone looks nice to you," Jason muttered under his breath but I chose to act like I didn't hear him. 

Sameer walks to us after parking the car. He looks over at Harsh mumbles "Hi" and Harsh nods at him in acknowledgment. I can see the cold air between them.

"So what movie are we going to watch?" Sameer asked breaking the silence.

"Conjuring 2" replies Harsh.

"What?" Ryan shouted and then laughs looking at my already pale face. I didn't think Harsh will chose a horror movie. I should have warned him.

"What's wrong?" Dia asked with knitted eyebrows.

"Oh, I do wish that you asked before booking tickets. Amy is scared of horror movies. She is so scared, the last time she watched  a horror movie  she got a fever the very next day and stayed sick for 2-3days" Ryan said laughing his head off

"That's the whole point, getting scared while you are safe.. the adrenaline rush. Amy can you watch this one or if you want we can cancel."  Harsh asks me.

I so want to back out now. I don't want to watch it.  I could ask Ryan or Dia to skip the movie, the mall looks good we could go shopping and there's also a gaming section we could have a nice time there.  The rest can go watch the movie.

"Amelia? Where are you lost?" Asked Harsh pulling me out of my thoughts. I smiled at him but said nothing.

"We both could go shopping if you want to," Jason says surprising me and everyone around.  A part of me wants to skip the movie, while another wants to tell him to go fuck himself. 

He has been a prick lately and I don't want to spend my time with him alone. I know for sure that we both will start fighting the moment we are alone. 

"Okay, let's go" the words rolled out of my mouth surprised me. Harsh said okay and Dia gave me a knowing smile. I glanced at Ryan, he pouted at me. I know he loves horror movies and loves to scare the shit out of me.

Sameer whispers "have fun" in my ears with a wink. I couldn't understand what he means to say.

I walked to the escalator with Jason, he held my  hand in his, gave me his most charming smile, and asked me

"Where do you want to go?"

I can't help but think why is he so nice to me today? I know maybe some ulterior motive to act all nice. Is he going to push me from the escalator!! I have to keep my guards high.

"We could go to the game zone or just look around the mall. Whatever you want" I told him. 

"Let's go to the games. Shopping is not my best interest." He pulled me to the gaming zone. I advanced to the stimulation car race and Jason joined me. He beat me every single time we played. 

Irritated I walked over to the air shooting game. Jason joined me and again selects for 2player. I can never win with him. I got irritated by the way I'm losing every time.

"I'm not gonna play with you anymore. " I said angrily. I could feel the heat coming out of my ears. I wanna smack his head through the wall.

"Haha scared of losing?" He chuckled.

He gave me a big smile saying "Okay don't cry now. I'm gonna let you win this time."

But again I lost to him.

"Get lost, I'm not gonna play." I got out of the seat and moved away from him.

"Not my fault if you suck at games." He said giving me a teasing smile which made my blood boil more.

"You can play games. I'm going shopping. Call me when the others come back." I moved towards the exit of the gaming section.

"Hey, I'm sorry just kidding okay. Let's go bowling. I know you ace those." He said pulling me with him. Half-heartedly I joined him.

"You already got 2strikes. Only 1 is left." I warned him. He nodded his head like a little kid warned by his teacher.

We went to the bowling alley and after half an hour, my stomach started grumbling. Jason looked over at me and I give him a sheepish smile. 

"Let's go to the food court." He walked out pulling me out with him and I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that he is so nice to me. Is he taking drugs? Which is making him act so nice?

Last night he was ordering me around to not go to watch movies. Even though  I fought with him at that time, now I'm with him here instead of watching the damn movie. 

What is wrong with me?

"Why are you smiling?" Jason asked me pulling my chair for me. I smiled at him.

"Just the thought that I fought with you yesterday to watch a movie but now I chose to leave the movie and am spending my time with you," 

"Do you even know why I opposed you in the first place?"

"Yeah because you hate me and don't want me to have a nice time going to movies." 

"Shut up idiot, Did you forget the fact that you are claustrophobic now? You don't know how your body reacts to a theatre. I don't want you to have another episode in the theater." He averted his gaze from me. 

"What? That's the only reason?" I exclaimed.

"Yeah, what else could be there?" He said looking me in the eye.

"Then why didn't you say the reason yesterday??" If he would have told me. I would understand it right.

"Only if you gave me a chance to speak." He gives me a pointed look. I know I didn't let him talk last night. He doesn't want to watch a movie, but he came because he cared for me, my heart leaped with the thought.

"So you came for me?" I asked him even if I know the answer.

"Yeah, I know you won't carry your meds with you. Someone has to carry them so.." Now he looked a bit awkward.

"You carry my medicines with you?" I asked surprised. 

"Yeah, no big deal. I am given the job to take care of you in other words babysit you. If I fail to do so.. you know what my mom is capable of." He turned away looking embarrassed. He looked so cute right now.

"Okay enough of this cross-examination. I thought you were hungry? What do you want to have?" He asked. His cheeks tainted with color, he was so desperate to change the topic. 

"Anything is fine." 

He got 2chicken burgers and fries with soda. The conversation stays light when we bickered about who beat who in the games earlier. 

My mobile pings. It was a message from Dia.

*Where are you?*

*Foodcourt*

*ok will be there in 5*

Ryan walks over and grabs the burger from my hand. I hit him on his back as he takes a big bite of my burger almost half.

"Get your own burger" saying I snatched it back from him.  

They told me how Dia shouted in the middle of the movie and how Ryan threw his popcorn tub on a man in his front seat startled. 

After food, we walked back to the game zone. This time Jason stayed with us even though he mostly interacted with Harsh After hours of having fun. We decide to end the day. We bid goodbye to Harsh and got back home. After speaking with grandparents and Aunt Seema for a while, I walked into our bedroom with Dia.