Uncanny

I spent 3 hours on the couch getting to the 43rd page on the internet on 'What to do with your boyfriend since then, as Hero turns the house upside down, looking for anything that is worth any time.

"You really don't have a single idea of what to do? Wasn't all of this your idea?" I say on my last strings of sanity.

"I didn't think through that part. You really couldn’t decide on a single thing to eat?” He says roaming from the bedroom to the living room back and forth like a panicked roach.

“Uhhhhhhhh… Almost there.” I say switching for the food app again reluctantly.

“Sorry. I thought the hardest part would be convincing you to do it with me!" He says putting the board games back in the closet.

"What do you mean? Of course I'd want to skip work to hang out with you, you idiot."

"Oh." He blushes like his brain just froze. Takes him almost a minute standing, staring at the shelves before turning and opening shelves again. "Movies. Let's watch a movie. That's it." He starts frantically taking thin boxes out of the drawer under the tv.

I close all of my drinking game questions tabs on the tablet. Before I could finish typing 'good movies' into the search bar, he lifts his arm in excitement.

"EUREKA!" He was holding a collection of DVD's in a very colorful box. It looked expensive.

I can feel his excitement from across the room, as he brings the box to show me proudly. I tremble staring at that cover. Dragons, knights, magical monsters, so many things that finally feel like home in such an unfamiliar place.

"...Put it on." I order.

"I knew you'd love it." He says smirking.

"HURRY UP." I shout rudely, he flinches. But I suddenly break into laughter, and so does he.

The cartoon rings familiar bells inside my head: The story begins with two villain's fighting, an inventor and a skeleton. I sit a little closer to Hero on the sofa, excited to watch it.

Fatal desolation, grand slow painful death, the mad scientist poses more than a threat. Unholiness cursed through his vile flesh, salvation was but pointless for a hopeless act.

"Why, you, here?" Says the skeleton.

"This is so unrealistic." Hero whispers to me.

"Stop talking or I'll have to cut your tongue with a butter knife." The scientist answers the skeleton.

"HAH." Hero laughs a little way too loud. "Never mind, it's funny... It's... It's..." Hero pretends to laugh, thinking I can't see him sob.

"Have a spoon."  A beam of darkness comes out of the skeleton's hand into the sky, bringing the twilight to witness the apocalypse. Surrounded by terror and effortless screams, the grotesque tormentor unhingedly grins, for what has taken place cannot be undone; the night of the dead has begone.

The sound of millions of steps and rickety bones sturdily become deafening as five hundred thousand skeletons approach. The scientist does not move a muscle, instead, she reaches in her pockets.

Where there is a 'how', there must be a 'when', something his feeble neurons can't comprehend. Punishment foreseen and deserved to endow: If there is a 'who' why can't 'when' mean now?

The scientist loads the flame thrower on her back with a gruesome chemical combination just in time for the attack. As soon as the wave of skeletons comes, she presses a button and annihilates the entire continent at once.

I let out an accidental giggle.

All the skeletons melt, except one, that stands still, staring at the desolation the malefactor commenced.

"Your uninhibited depravity is no more--" The scientist is interrupted.

"WAAAAAAAAIT!" They turn to the side, staring at the only living thing in kilometers: A girl with rat ears running to their direction.

She gets to them, and spends 5 minutes catching her breaths.

"Can you guys stop... Fighting? You're going to destroy the whole--" The rat gets punched in the face by the skeleton before she could finish.

"As you were saying?" He says.

"Uhh... Your uninhibited--"

"STOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!" The rat comes back. "Have you... have you..." She's almost passing out, but still running towards them, trying to make sense in between her breaths. "Have you ever considering... Forgiving and... And... The love?"

The scientist quickly point's the flame thrower at the girl and shoots, sending her back flying again.

"Where was I? Ah yes. Get lost mister bones." The scientist says before pointing it now at the skeleton.

"Oh, coccyx." he says.

Before he becomes ashes, the rat attacks, kicking the tank out of the scientists back.

"Oh c'mon, what a brat. Why would they put a--" Hero crosses his arms.

"Please... This planet is everything I have."

"...Fine." The skeleton and the scientist say at the same time, angrily. All ashes come back to life and the continent is restored thanks to the power of love.

"..."

"..."

"This was terrible." Hero says. "Literally the worst thing I've ever seen."

"Painful, way too farfetched."

"It is the most distant thing to reality I've ever seen, how could that possibly be relatable to anyone?"

"I'd rather have done nothing than watching this episode we just watched."

"...So what are gonna do instead?" He asks confused.

"..."

We both watched one entire season of 42 episodes until the end of the day.

"It's... It's done. I can't believe it's over." Hero says crying on the sofa, wrapped under a blanket.

"The ending was so goooooooooood. Why couldn't they have that competence at those first episodes?" I say buried under the same blanket, hugging his arm as I desperately cried.

"That good? C'mon the middle was better. The ending was actually a little weird, I got so many questions!"

"Like if the fish with legs actually planned the whole thing? Like why the skeleton didn't attack the chicken knight?" I jump out of the blanket.

"No, like why they would put 4 DVD's of the same show inside such an expensive box. Actually, is this old? Who has DVD's anym--"

"THERE'S MORE????" I yank it out of his hand, almost consuming the thing into my matter. "THAT'S IT, I'M PUTTING IT ON." I shout as I run to the tv.

"Hiro my love it's been over 13 HOURS." Hero says with an worried smile.

I notice the eyebags under on his face, and the four boxes of pizza scattered across the living room.

"Okay... 13 hours? ...Really? I'm sorry..." I squint my eyes trying to process the information, but I've been watching it for so much time it feels like I was living there.

Hero looks at the clock on the wall clearly worried.

"I had so much fun too my darling, so much I forgot to look at the time. Let's go, we have to leave now. The place I wanted to take you will close in 15 minutes. Maybe we can make there in time!" He says running into the bedroom.

I freeze, overwhelmingly red beyond my comprehension.

He puts his arm around mine from the elevator to the streets, I hug it in embarrassment, laying my face on his shoulder, paying attention to what his secret plan is. He looks side to side as if looking for something. He spots something next to a tree, and we walk to it.

"I knew it, I had seen it on my way to work after all." He chuckles, holding the hand the held his arm.

He's looking straight at an ice cream shop at the corner of the street.

"AaAaAah." I was expecting anything but ice cream. "Let's go, let's go, let's go." I drag him with me, he can't stop chuckling proudly.

"Do you already know what flavor you'll pick?" I say after we get to the counter, looking back at him.

He looks silent over the flavors on the menu and under the glass, opening his mouth to say something but just shaking his head like none of it made any sense. I look back at the counter.

"Okay, then you'll have chocolate chip cookie. I'll take mint."

Hero smiles, all red, still silent.

We take our ice creams out for a stroll on the park.

"This is so good..." I can't stop eating it. "I can't stop eating it." I keep biting the ice cream like it was the end of the world. "Oh. Oh no. Brain freeze."

"Brain what?" He say's worried, still slowly eating his with a spoon.

"When it... When your brain... Auuugh." I knock my forehead against my prosthetic arm a couple of times. "When you have too much ice cream at once and your brain gives up on you."

"Oh." He looks at the ice cream, and starts eating it faster and faster, curious to see it.

"Poor boy, doesn't know what he's doing." I think to myself, smirking as I watch it unfold, not planning on warning him twice.

"Nothing." He says after finishing the entire thing.

"SERIOUSLY?" I can't tell if I'm disgusted or impressed.

"I guess I don't freeze that easily." He laughs.

"Or maybe you don't have a brain."

He stares at me blankly. I can't hold my laughter. Thankfully, he starts giggling uncontrollably too.

We start getting closer to the building we came from. Still trying to finish my ice cream, and still feeling bad for what I did, I give him my ice cream.

"Here." I say. "At least try it, you we're supposed to eat it slow so it lasts longer... But not too slow."

He takes it, I hug his arm tighter with both my hands.

"Okay, let's finish this, take another walk, and then head home, okay?" He tries the mint cone, he seems delightfully surprised.

"Head home? But I want to walk around!"

"Yeah that's what I said, silly. We walk around and then--" Hero stops what he says, suddenly terrified staring at a single fixed point. I'm too scared to see what it is, but too worried not to.

An extremely familiar girl stands outside our building holding a cellphone, with her eyes fixated on us.

I swear this girl looks exactly like Bunny.

"We head home, right? That's what you're saying?" I say.

"Yes. Home."

We both rush into the main door, pretending we did not see her. Too terrified to even bring up the subject to one another on the way up. Silently looking at each other leaning at an opposite wall of the elevator, as I tried to piece why he is so scared. Actually, why am I so scared?