As the movie goes on, you start to feel uncomfortable in your chair. It feels like it’s a hundred degrees inside the theater. You look around at many of the other boys and see that most have them have started taking off their shirts. And some more than that. You wipe your arm across your brow to keep the sweat from rolling into your eyes. You try and watch the movie, but the heat is just too much.
You slip off your shoes and then your socks. The cool air feels good across your legs, but your toes don’t seem to have any feeling at all. You look down to the floor, but the ground is too obscured in darkness for you to see anything.
The crowd in the theater laughs at a moment on the screen and you look up. In the movie, the naked boys have started to notice their changes.
“What’s happening to us,” one calls out holding his ears, “I feel strange.” At that moment, many of the boys fell to their knees and groaned. One of the boys started growing a thick mane of hair down his neck and onto his back. Another boy grabbed his butt as a long piece of flesh began to stretch out. But the first boy is on his hands and knees panting. “Arrggh,” he moans, “ugh ugghhaaaawwww.” The boy’s face starts to stretch out as the hair on his body grows thicker.
Boys who pass by and watch the other all point and laugh. “hahhahahahah HEE HAW HEE HAW HEE HAW.” The boys in the theater laugh too and throw food at the screen. You join in the laughter, it’s contagious after all.
“Ha ha ha ha ha HEE HAW HEE HAW.”
You stop laugh for a moment and wonder if that came from the movie or from the theater… or from you.
You sweat terribly starting to feel hot again. You lift your shirt up over your body and toss it to the ground panting. You look over at the shirtless boy sitting a few seats over. He stills has shorts on, but he’s hunched over and gritting his teeth. He looks like he’s in pain.
“Are you okay,” you ask. The boy looks over at you and just groans, “Arrgggghhhhhh.” He falls off his chair and into the dark shadows of the floor. Several boys sitting in front of you have turned around at the sound. You all stare down into the darkness listening to the boys moan on the ground.
The sound of tearing is heard and the boy’s moans start to sound strange, but it’s hard to hear over the scream and brays from the movie. On the screen boys all over the park have started to change and panic has spread, but not to the pool hall where Lampwick and Pinocchio are playing a game.