The Gilmore Twins

~7~

"Hunting for school supplies how hard could it be?" I ask as Rory and I walk into Taylor's stationary store.

"No one demanded you come."

"Are you kidding how often do you get to do this? I was thinking while we're going crazy we could get some hair dye and peircing needles."

"I'll just do this later."

"No I'm teasing although I do want hair dye and needles. Come on get that list of yours."

"Okay, I need legal pads."

"Got it."

"Tons of pens."

"Like literal tons of just alot?"

"CJ?" Rory whines

"Kidding, continue."

"Some number two pencils, three highlighters, an eraser, staple remover and a folder."

"Holy cow. You need three highlighters."

"Yes."

"Three?" I repeat with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes."

"That's a very random number."

"Three is not a random number."

"Three is a random number it's not even and it's in the middle of one and five. Why don't you just get one or five."

"Cause I don't need that many but I need more than one."

"Okay how'd you get to three."

"One dries up, one gets lost, I have one left."

"You really thought that far ahead?"

"Yes."

"I don't know why I'm surprised. Okay what came first the chicken or the egg?"

"CJ come on."

"Yeah I already know the answer the chicken."

"How'd you get there?"

"Well the big bang making the planet and all also made cells and the cells would have been like let's team up and make our selves bigger and hence became chicken to make eggs for more chickens."

"Wow you really thought about that huh."

"Kinda it was troubling me the other night. Oh hey legal pads."

"Nah those are purple."

"Yeah purple is festive and pretty."

"I can't have purple."

"Yes you can they're on sale"

"I'm going to a serious school, I need serious paper."

"Pfft serious paper? Isn't paper paper?"

"Not at Chilton."

"Haha okay here's your serious paper."

"Thank you."

"Ooo and here are your somber highlighters, your maudlin pencils, your manic depressive pens."

"CJ." Rory laughs.

"Now these erasers are on lithium so they may seem cheerful, but we actually caught them trying to shove themselves in the pencil sharpener."

"You're insane, I'm going home." Rory jokes.

"No wait, we're gonna stage an intervention with the neon post-it notes and make them give up their wacky, crazy ways."

"You're never coming shopping with me again."