"Travis, I need help."
"We know."
"Rude."
"What's the dealio?"
"Michele wants me to meet her parents."
"Don't ask me about your girl problems. If it's not about us and when I'm coming over to your house for netflix and chill, I don't want to hear."
"How old are you anyways?"
"Seventeen and three quarters."
"Eighteen, but whatever. I'll go find a huge book to impress her parents with myself. Girls love War and Peace, right?"
"Get what you always do, Romeo and Juliet. Big books won't help, Ethan."
"Fuck off."
"Sticks and stones, sweetheart. $7.49, pay up."
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$7.49
Short StoryREWRITING! "Where are you getting all of this money from anyways?" ••• In which a boy goes into a bookstore every day to buy a copy of Romeo and Juliet and attracts the attention of an employee. ••• 07SS 10/29/16 Cover by @formulate
