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Marissa swore loudly. "What the ********!? Where's the damn movie?" she took a look at the door of the theater. "Wait guys look at this." She said reading the sign on the door out loud.

"Closed for Christmas. Will reopen on December 26, 2008. Happy Holidays!"

She looked at her friends with wide eyes. "Does this seriously mean that like it really is Christmas all over again?" Tristan jumped in with a tap to her nose that made her twitch and frantically rub her nose to get the weird feeling from her skin. "Of course it's not Christmas again. That's ridonkulous." He said also using the word they'd stolen from the movie "Bolt". "but if it is Christmas then we must have been thrown somehow into an alternate parallel universe. Something like a Wrinkle in time maybe." He said laughing. He quit laughing when Marissa pelted him in the back of the head with a snow ball. "Hush you!" she said hysterically.

(Maybe she has the keys for opening duties?)

There was no one else at the theatre. No one in line, and no one in shop setting up for the morning films. It hadn't been Katherine's job to open that day, but her boss hadn't shown up yet. It was unusual for him to be late. He liked to be there a little early just in case she was late, so that he could get on her for it.

What Katherine didn't know was that none of the other employees were likely to show up any time soon. It would be a large theatre to run by herself. Then again, these kids would probably be her only customers. They didn't realize it, but they were all different because they had been outside of town on Christmas Eve. Casey had been to a party just outside of town for a friend whose birthday was Christmas Eve. Sam had had to stay home at his family's insistence, it being a tradition for the entire household to whole up on Christmas Eve and Christmas, no matter what.

Officer Orson had also been out of town, taking the statement of a distraught older woman. An older friend of hers, who lived in town, had been missing since Christmas Eve. Normally cops didn't take much notice of these things, especially if it was an adult missing. Adults went "missing" all the time when they decided on a whim to move and neglected to tell their "friends" or family. But Orson knew this missing woman, and he decided it was best to do some followup-- off duty, of course. He had the day after Christmas off.

He'd left a message on the answering machine in the theatre office, a message that Katherine would mostly likely be the first person to get to. He wanted to ask if any of the employees had seen Mrs. Blackwell. She frequented the theatre and was thought to have been there on the day before Christmas Eve. Orson was careful not to say that it was police business.

(I'll be gone for a few days-- I think the hotel has internet, but if it doesn't, and if I fall too far behind, we'll just say that Casey and Sam went back home)

Andrew got out of the car and walked into the door being held open by a theater employee. He'd seen the sign saying the place was closed, but figured maybe since they were just opening, no one had time to take it down yet. Maybe that explained the marquee as well. "Excuse me." He asked Katherine as he stepped past her. "Chainsaw Christmas opens today, right? December 26th? We were just checking out the signs and stuff but we didn't see it."

"Christmas was depressing one day, I don't really want to have to deal with it again....is it a big joke some of the town folks are doing on the rest of us do you think?" She was trying to understand this town, just moving here and not knowing any of the townsfolk she wondered if the whole town was just goofy like that. "Oh, my name is Aurelia. But all my friends call me Aura."

She looked up and quikly put her phone away. Maybe she was just delusional, seeing it as the wrong number so something. She nodded. "Yea, it actually opened yesterday, but we weren't open," she half-explained. She took down the sign that said "Closed, etc." and put hte "Open" on on the hook instead.
She ushered the group in, out of the cold, and checked her boss's office. It was closed, but not locked. No one was inside, and the light for the answering machine was blinking. She didn't touch it for now, thinking, Lucy will get it when she gets here, and if she doesn't show, I'll get it when these guys get to the movie. Heck, I may watch with them if no other customers show up. She stepped from the office, flicked on the light switched of the building, and went to the counter. "So how many for the first showing of Chainsaw Christmas?" She grinned her trademark grin, a finger over the number pad for the ticket machine.

Aurelia smiled, "Thank you, I haven't talked to anyone who could actually see my aura besides my mother." She laughed, "I think that's why she named me Aurelia, so she could call me Aura. Anyways, I hate to be intrusive so if you could give me some directions to where the shops are, I would be in your debt."

Katherine punched in Adult twice, and the dollar figure(s) came up. Not that she'd needed to; she knew the figures by heart. "That'll be seven-fifty," she said, handing both Andrew & Georgie a ticket each. "And, umm," She leaned forward to quickly look out the front window. The street was still covered in snow, and no car, nor walking person, was in sight. "I guess I will be running the concession stand. Also, the movie will start in 15 minutes, so you've got a bit of time." Seeing as she was the one starting the movie, this was true. Unless of course someone else happened to show up.