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After this I'll stick to "Hmm."

A beard who is listening to the speech turns and glares at us and says, "Shush!"

"Aw, go shave yourself!" says Nick, and the girls go off in more hoots.

Nick starts herding them toward Fourteenth Street, and I follow along.

At the Academy Nick goes up to the ticket window, and the girls immediately fade out to go read the posters and snicker together.

I can see they're not figuring to pay for any tickets, so I cough up for two.

Nick and I try to saunter up to the balcony the way we always do, but the girls are giggling and dropping their popcorn, so the matron spots us and motions.

"Down here!" She flashes her light in our eyes, and I feel like a convict while we get packed in with all the kids in the under-sixteen section.

Nick goes in first, then the blonde, then the redhead and me.

The minute things start getting scary, she tries to grab me, but I stick my hands in my pockets and say, "Aw, it's just a picture." She looks disgusted.

The next scary bit, she tries to hang onto her girl friend, but the blonde is already glued onto Nick.

Redhead lets out a loud sigh, and I wish I hadn't ever got into this deal.

I can't even enjoy the picture.

We suffer through the two pictures.

The little kids make such a racket you can hardly hear, and the matron keeps shining the light in your eyes so you can't see.

She shines it on the blonde, who is practically sitting in Nick's lap, and hisses at her to get back.

I'm not going to do this again, ever.

We go out and Nick says, "Let's have a coke."

He's walking along with the blonde, and instead of walking beside me the redhead tries to catch hold of his other arm.

This sort of burns me up.

I mean, I don't really like her, but I paid for her and everything.

Nick shakes her off and calls over his shoulder to me, "Come on, chicken, pull your own weight!"

The girls laugh, on cue as usual, and I begin getting really sore.

Nick got me into this.

The least he can do is shut up.

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