"Hold on, kiddo."
He knelt down so he could give the boy a chance to rest on him.
"Of course. The movie starts in an hour, so we should probably get going now.
Because I know for a fact that movie theater will be packed."
"I am seeing it later, and I have an extra ticket."
". . .Oh." A slight scowl on his face, either from the description of the other Mercenary, or from the worst thing imaginable that he thought of.
Or maybe both-
"I'm lonely..."
Cullen quietly sighed to himself.
He was so deep in his own thoughts that he hadn't noticed you!