"Yo catch." Jared said as he tossed a bag of twizzlers in the
general direction of his room mate. Tim caught the bag with
one hand as he grabbed a bag of chips with the other. He glanced
slowly up and down the desserted aisles of Walmart.
"At one A.M. on a Friday night in a college town you'd think
that there'd be more people here." he said curiously.
"They're probably sitting on their ass eating pizza like
we should be." Jared replied grumpily.
Tim nodded as he grabed a box of twinkies."Do we need anything
else or can we get the pizza now?"
"I have to get folders. Get some pretzels and meet me at
the checkout." Jared said as he jogged off toward the home/office
section.
Tim got the pretzels and walked casually towards the checkout
lanes.Suddenly he remembered that he needed a notebook.He set
down the snacks and walked quickly after Jared.
When he reached the aisle with the notebooks he found Jared
chatting with a girl about some professor.As he looked for a
notebook the conversation changed topics."I'm looking for a
yellow hilighter," he heard the girl say,"but it looks like
they're out.
"Is that one up there?" Jared asked reaching for a yellow
marker-like object balanced on top of the shelf.
"Yeah." she said,"thanks."
Tim selected his notebook and tapped Jared on the shoulder."We
have to go get the pizza."
Jared said bye to the girl and they started walking to the
checkouts. Just as they reached the end of the aisle they heard
a high pitched squeek and a scream.They turned around just in
time to see a shelf topple over on the girl. Jared went to call
for help while Tim ran to get the shelf off of her.When he got
the shelf off and cleared away the pens and markers, he found
her unconsicious but alive. He heard a squeek and out of nowhere
came a rubber ducky. It floated down to the girl and picked
up in it's beek the hilighter that she was still holding.Then
it floated away quickly.
The ambulance was there soon and as she was lifted onto a
stretcher Tim tried to tell Jared about the ducky.
"Dammit Tim,grow up!" he said as he munched ona pretzel.
"You grow up!" Tim retorted as he snatched the bag of
pretzels,"I'm not the one who's crying."
Jared looked up at him from the box of twinkies he had
been trying to open. "Go to hell dude. I really wanted that
hilighter."
