After a year of gossip, rumors, eagerness and expectancy, the second part of the Twilight Saga, “New Moon,” will finally make its way to theaters Friday. The Twilight hype has been evident since the first film debuted. Suddenly, everyone rushed out to snag a print copy of the four-part saga, followed by purchasing the movie and then buying the fan gear (t-shirts, bracelets, necklaces etc.). Fans have been waiting anxiously for “New Moon” ever since.

Tickets for the film have been on sale since the end of September. Each of the 10 auditoriums located in the AMC Houma Palace 10, which will be showing the premiere when it opens tonight at midnight, is sold out. Tickets for the Friday 3 a.m. showing went on sell Monday. And every seat for the 7 p.m. showing Friday is also taken (and I anticipate that by the time this article goes to print, even more tickets will be sold and more showings will be sold out).

Knowing this, I already fear a mob of “twi-hards” will be running from the theater lobby down the hallway to their designated auditoriums, pouncing, pushing and shoving anyone in the way of their final destinations-a seat that doesn’t require them to position their necks upward toward the ceiling to view the film. I will most likely be one of the unfortunates left behind, knocked down by the herd, trampled and unable to get up until all the good seats are taken.

Many people anticipate tonight will go like most opening nights of much-anticipated films. The first people into the theater will proceed to leave a seat between them and the group next to them for fear of catching some unknown ‘movie theater bug’ that seems to be contagious only when you sit right next to a complete stranger. Thus, about 20 seats sporadically located around the theater will be available; only no one will want these seats because they refuse to share the excitement of the movie alone. Unfortunately, those unlucky few people arriving last, or those who just could not put up a good enough fight, will inevitably be forced to split up from their friends and companions and savor Edward Cullen’s shirtless-and-bare-chested scene on their own.

However, this is not supposed to be the case for the opening night of “New Moon” (or so I was told when I recently called the movie theater for more information about the opening). The theater will be giving customers assigned seating upon arrival-first come, first serve. We can only hope this will eliminate seat hopping, and everyone will have someone nearby to whisper about Taylor Lautner’s new masculine physique.

I can only assume that there will be heightened security at this event for the inevitable display of discontent and temper tantrums we will all witness when someone does not get his or her desired seat, or better yet, when someone refuses to take the seat they’ve been given and only a crane or other large piece of machinery of some sort will move that person to his designated location.

And naturally, the array of teenage girls and teeny-boppers that bribed their parents to attend the midnight premiere with them to avoid breaking curfew will be in attendance-and we will know. Because every time Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner grace the movie screen, a chain-reaction of screams will take effect, causing everyone in the theater to miss the dialogue, until either heartthrob makes his exit. By the end of the movie, every teenager will sound like she just got out of an N-Sync concert and the rest of us will be wondering who those strangely-dressed Italian vampires were.

I will be the first to admit that I did not understand what all the fuss was about after “Twilight” first premiered last November. Vampires falling in love with humans and werewolves taking over small towns? I didn’t get it one bit. But a close friend sat me down one night to watch the movie, and I was surprised by how immediate my change of thought was. I went from a “Twilight” skeptic to an avid fan in one day. I am now that person who many people (who probably haven’t seen the film) make fun of, and I absolutely could care less.

But as much of a devoted fan I am, I still like to enjoy my movies in comfort and peace. So for the sake of those who bought their tickets to this film two months ago and have been excited about it ever since, please have some consideration and sit where you’re supposed to sit and keep your mouths shut, no matter how irresistibly gorgeous some of the characters may be.