December 13, 2023
12:15 PM
Hagerstown, Maryland
Xavier drove a rented 2024 Subaru Ascent as he was halfway to the Queens. As he drove, Clover was asleep. As Clover slept, she was in unusually formal attire. She wore a black suit jacket, a tie, a dress shirt underneath, and a black skirt instead of suit pants. She had foundation on, eyeshadow, lipstick, and pink nail polish.
Xavier also wore formal attire, except he didn't put anything on to make himself look tidy-tidy. He didn't feel the need to look extremely polished. As he drove, he saw raindrops pick up slowly. He was soon to take a break and let Clover drive. He saw a place that he was soon to stop.
It was a hardware stores. They still had a lot of supplies to pick up, so that's what they would do there. Hammers, nails, possibly assemble or craft something new, get a couple of bowie or hunting knives. Hell, they even had machetes and axes. Those could be useful.
Chains could be useful too. Xavier observed this, and he put his hand on Clover's stomach before slightly shaking her. She woke up quickly.
"Hm?" She said, grabbing Xavier's arm.
"We're boutta stop." Xavier said.
Clover's eyes snapped open as Xavier took his hand off of her stomach.
"Where?" She said before yawning, sitting up.
"That hardware store." Xavier said, pointing to said hardware store.
"Okay. What for?"
"Weapons."
"Where are we?"
"Maryland."
"We pass Washington D.C.?"
"Unless you wanna take a detour, we won't be able to see it."
* * *
Xavier and Clover walked into the hardware store. Everyone looked at them, and the reason why was that it was peculiar to walk into a hardware store with a suit and a half suit-half dress. Since it was near Christmas, the store played Jingle Bell Rock. The song started with a guitar as they went to the hunting section.
"Have any specific wants?" Xavier asked.
"A bowie knife. I always fancied them." Clover said.
"Well, that's a weird fancy, but we'll see if they have em'."
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
The song started.
Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring
Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun
Xavier and Clover swiftly walked toward the hunting section.
Now, the jingle hop has begun
They found the aisle.
Aisle 9.
As they walked into the aisle, they found their paradise.
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
They saw machete sheaths, machetes themselves, woodchopping axes, tomahawks, hunting knives with thick blades, and even a couple of shotguns, all of them were old school Mossberg 500s.
And they also had bowie knives.
Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
"I didn't know hardware stores were the cause of shootings as well." Clover remarked.
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