"I am not watching Die Hard another Christmas. We've been watching that since we were little kids, Harry. Come on. Let's watch something new."
"I always watch Love Actually when you want to watch it."
"Yeah, but Love Actually is actually a classic."
"Did you just say Love Actually is actually? Hahaha."
"Harry. Okay. What about this? No Die Hard and no Love Actually. We watch a movie that we've never seen before."
"But what fun is that?" He laughed. "We can't talk if we watch a movie we haven't seen before, because we'll have to pay attention."
"Well, that's the point, Harry. You're meant to pay attention in movies."
"But I don't want to pay attention" he grinned, "I want to talk with you."
"Harry."
"Come on Sarah." He started tickling me and I giggled, falling against him.
"Stop it, Harry. Stop it." I laughed as his hands went underneath my arms and he tickled me some more.
"Come on, Sarah. Let's watch Die Hard, and then we can chat and eat pizza, and you can fill me in on everything that's been going on in your life. And..."
"And what, Harry?"
"Maybe you can even convince me to go and see that one man show next week."
"You're not going to go and see that show. You don't have to lie to me."
"Well maybe, if you get the girls really good presents that they love, then I'll go."
"Promise?"
"I promise."
"Okay, Harry."
Chapter Three
Sarah
“Sarah, where are you?"
"I'm in the bedroom, come on through." I called out to Harry as he walked in with a beer in his hand. "Oh, and feel free to help yourself to any of the beers in my fridge."
"Well, Sarah, I'm the one that bought these beers last time I was here and you haven't had any of them, so I think it's okay, right?"
"You just assume everything, Harry."
"I don't think I assume anything, Sarah." He sat down on the bed next to me.
"Okay, so what are we going to watch, and are we watching in here or are we watching in the living room?"
"I don't know. What do you prefer?"
"I love your bed, it's so comfortable, so I don't mind watching in here. But, if I watch in here, we're most probably going to end up falling asleep, which means I have to stay the night, which means I have to get up by seven o'clock tomorrow morning so I can get to my meeting on time."
"Okay. Well then you can just go home, you don't have to spend the night, Harry."
"But what's the fun in that? I love our movie nights."
"Yeah, yeah," I said. Though, secretly, I wish he meant more than that. It wasn't that Harry and I were friends with benefits and I wanted more, it was just that we had always just been friends. Even though he was a couple of years older than me, our friendship had always just jelled and well, we'd been sleeping in the same bed and watching movies forever. It didn't even seem abnormal, but then maybe it was because I'd never had sex before, so I didn't know what it meant to sleep with a guy in a bed after something romantic. I'd only ever slept in the same bed as Harry. Well, Harry didn't seem to mind either.
"Earth to Sarah, earth to Sarah. Are you there?"
"Yes, Harry. What?"
"I've just been asking you what movies there are to watch and you didn't say anything."
"Oh, sorry. Okay. So this is what's available on Netflix or what's new right now, okay?"
"Okay. Hit me."
"Okay. We have a movie called Holly Date."
"Nope!"
"We have a movie called A New York Christmas Wedding."
"Hell no!"
"A movie called Midnight at the Magnolia."
"Nope."
"Jumping the broom."
"Jumping the what?"
"Dash and Lily?"
"Is that about reindeers?"
"Oh my God, Harry. Really?"
"Sarah, are you freaking joking me right now? Do those sound like any movies that I would want to watch?"
"You said we'd compromise."
"Yeah. I said we'd compromise from Love Actually and Die Hard. I didn't say I was going to watch some teeny bopper movie."
"I'm not asking you to watch a teeny bopper movie."
"What's that?"
"What's what?" I said, frustrated.
"That show. What's that guy with the wings?"
"Let me look. It's Lucifer."
"Want to watch that?" Harry, you know I don't want to watch a movie about the devil."
"It doesn't actually look like a movie, Sarah, it looks like a TV show."
"Dude, it's got several seasons. If we watch that, we'll be up all night."