That's Your Lot by Limmy

Author:Limmy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

Box Set

Aaron and Emily were watching a box set. They’d been watching it all week. Last night they finished at the second last episode, before Aaron said he had to go to bed because he was falling asleep. Emily had said she was going to stay up and watch something else. She wasn’t tired.

Now it was the night after, and Aaron wanted to watch that last episode.

‘D’you fancy sticking it on now?’ asked Aaron, picking up the remote.

‘What?’ asked Emily.

‘The last episode,’ he said.

‘Oh that. Aye, alright, if you want. Just a minute.’

‘Are you watching this?’ asked Aaron, looking at the documentary on the telly. ‘Watch it if you want. I just thought you’d want to watch the last episode. I’ve been choking for it.’

Aaron loved it. The box set. Everything had been building up to this last episode. A lot of unanswered questions. He’d made sure he didn’t mention on Twitter that he was watching it, in case anybody spoiled it out of badness.

‘All right then,’ she said. ‘Stick it on.’

Aaron got up from the couch to switch a few of the lamps off. This last episode was a big deal. It was the end of the entire series. The series finale, as they say.

‘Right,’ he said, excited. ‘Here it is.’ And he sat down and pressed play.

And they watched.

And what a fucking episode it was.

Halfway through it, Aaron hit pause again, simply to turn to Emily and say, ‘Seriously, what a fucking programme this is. D’you not think?’

‘It’s good,’ said Emily, nodding.

The pair of them loved it. It was a dark comedy, that’s how Aaron saw it. It was serious in parts with shocks and deaths and cruelty, but it was also funny. They’d go from laughing one minute, to sitting in stunned silence the next with their jaws hanging open, to laughing again, to then being almost in tears not long after. Aaron didn’t know how they managed to write something like that, they were magicians.

He unpaused it and they continued to watch.

At around three-quarters through the episode, Aaron had a quick glance at his phone. He’d sometimes have a glance at Twitter during a quiet bit of an episode, when it seemed like nothing was happening. But Emily saw what he was doing and ticked him off.

‘Don’t,’ she said. ‘You’ll miss this.’

Aaron looked at the telly, but he could see that he was missing nothing. The main character, Reno, was just walking across a car park. He wasn’t with anybody, nothing was being said.

But then a car came from out of nowhere and ran him over.

‘Jesus!’ said Aaron.

The car drove off, leaving Reno lying there. He wasn’t moving. There was no way he was going to be moving after that. He hadn’t just been clipped by the side of the car, he had gone right over the top.

‘Oh my God,’ said Emily, with her hand over her mouth.

‘That better not be it,’ said Aaron.

‘Shhhh,’ said Emily.

‘It better not be,’ he said again. Had they killed Reno? Is that how this fucking thing ends? He looked at Emily.

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