Chapter 19: Parade Day

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They are serving a couple

Cricket: Okay, We've got one soy latte for you, and one iced cappuccino over here, aaaand...

They scatters the necklaces

Cricket: Parade Day necklaces for everyone!

They cheer with them

Purple Male Customer: Whoo!

Purple Female Customer: All right!

Cricket: Woo! Happy Parade Day, y'all!

At the counter, a male customer wearing Parade Day merch wristband, necklace and hat leaves with his big city coffee

Gloria: Thank you, sir. And have a happy Parade Day! Enjoy it! Some of us can't be there! Even though we really wanna be...!

She frowns and dejectedly

Gloria: Just once...

They appears behind her

Baraka: HAPPY PARADE DAY, GLORIA!

Gloria: EEH!

They gives her a two necklace and slides off the pastry display

Baraka: Whee! So, when are we goin' to the parade?

Gloria: Uh...we can't go to the parade. This is the cafe's busiest day of the year.

Baraka: Well, surely, work allows you to do fun stuff when there's fun stuff to do!

She scoffs

Gloria: Look, I wanna see the parade, too, but it's our responsibility to stay here and keep the cafe running.

They frowns

Gloria: So since we're in this together, I suggest you both quit whining, and go take out the trash and you clean the toilet.

Cricket: Fine... but We want our beads back!

Gloria: No. They look good on me.

The door is heard opening

Bill: Hey, Cricket and Baraka!

The rest of the Greens are here, Bill wearing Parade Day merch t-shirt and hat and Tilly holding her camera

Bill: We're headed over to the parade! You both wanna joinin' us?

Baraka: No Bill, We can't. Me and Cricket will gotta stay here and work.

Bill: Ah, that's a shame. We've watched the parade on TV every year. This year, we actually get to see it in person!

Close-up on a rather devastated Cricket and Baraka

Bill: And it's all happenin' just a block away from here! It's so convenient!

Tilly: Plus, you're gonna miss seein' me on a float.

Bill: Ah...n-no, Tilly. We're just gonna watch the parade, we're not gonna be in it.

She shifting eyes

She smirks

Tilly: If you say so...

He laughs

Bill: Ah, listen to us ramble on and on... we're keepin' you two from your work! Have a good day, son and Baraka!

He and Tilly exit

Gramma: It won't be the same without you both, but it will still be very, very fun! Bye!

She exit

Cricket: Mm-mm!

They shaking themselves

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