ZOO & Whales {Best Mate Sid}

[P ! R @ T E [Randi Miller*]]

Randi Miller, after studying her butt off for about a week straight for her French exam, needed a break. Super desprately needed a break, more specifically. She had told her mother that she was going out to get a bit of fresh air, but she hadn't actually thought of where she would go. Randi, without even thinking for a second about it, got in her mother's car and drove allllllllll the way to the local zoo... I believe it's called Lakeland Zoo. Nifty name c; Anyways, Randi listened to Fall Out Boy all the way there, blasting it through the speakers and letting her voice sing along with the lead singer.. His name completely slips my mind most of the time. Well anyways by the time she arrived at the zoo, her voice was slightly hoarse and she had listened to 'Sugar We're Going Down Swinging' about sixty times. No exagerrating either.


Randi paid for the entrance fee and then automatically ran- more like super sprinted, running into about twenty dozen old men- to the penguin section. "Penguins!" The teenager said rather loudly, excited to see the little guys. She sometimes had wished that she could be a penguin when she was younger, and had dressed in all black and white and tried to wear a bowtie. I don't know why she wore the bowtie, I guess she thought that penguins would be SO much cooler if they wore them! =D Well anyways, the girl hopped about the zoo, looking at all of the various animals. She saw lions and tigers and bears, of course penguins and little annoying birds of which she would NEVER be able to have as pets. She would probably throw the lot of them out the window, eh?


After the fact that Randi had been there for over two hours, she finally decided that she needed a rest. Doing all that walking around was good for her legs, but food was good for her stomach and rest was ALSO good for her legs. Going over to the little ice cream stand, Randi ordered a little popsicle in the shape of a penguin {How NIFTY!} before sitting down on one of the nearby benches. Licking at the penguin's head happily, she wondered if anyone she knew was at the zoo at the moment. If anyone she knew over the age of six happened to be there, she would dub them coolest person on the planet. I mean, who ELSE had the guts to go to the zoo, thus risking social murder on their reputation if word got out that they went to the smelly zoo with a bunch of seven year olds? I know that I wouldn't. c: Okay maybe I would....


Randi began to look around in search for someone she knew, but after about five minutes of looking for someone, she decided to forget it. She didn't even know WHO exactly she was looking for. There was no point, and anyways she didn't exactly need company to have fun at the zoo now did she? All she needed was ice cream, bright sun and a few penguins to enjoy...

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[the.four.amigops.]

[&&never a wish better than this;;]

It was just cruel that, just for our entertainment, these people lock up poor little animals in cages while their cousins are probably having the time of their lives out in the wild. It just sucked and the worst thing was that young Declan couldn't really do anything about it. Today, he had on his "LakeLand Football" t-shirt and was standing right in front of the monkeys, who were just fooling around on the tree branches and making silly faces at the admires around the cages.

Today, Declan managed to get away from his friends and was all alone, which didn't happen often. His friends were always with him and if it wasn't his friends, it was either his sister or his mom. If it wasn't his sister, friends, nor mom. It was his mom's hired nanny, who was hassling him, Hello monkeys Declan stuck one of his fingers in the cage as one of the monkey jumped ahead and sqealed, I know it sucks for you, but what can I do? I wish you guy were out here with me toooo Declan again heard the monkeys yell and he started to draw attention so he backed away.

After looking around for a bit, Declan stopped just as he stopped a girl, admiring a group of penquins. She wasn't like more girls that he sees every day, she was so beautiful. She couldn't have been in Lakeland High, or he would've seen her before. Of course, Declan didn't seem to hang with any one but the jocks and their friends...maybe she did go to Lakeland, seeing as there was no other high school in the town other than a private school over 10 minutes away.

Whatever the reason was that he didn't know her before, he just had to know her now. But, he started to feel as if he seemed a desprate. Declan had forgotten completely about the cruelty of the animals now and began to go towards her. The zoo seemed to get a lot of visitors on a Saturday, so Declan noticed that he couldn't even see people that were only 4 yards away. It was a rush and people seemed to push too much to get through to other people.

Declan wasn't the person that'd push to get through people, but he felt like doing that now; he didn't find pushing too worth it now, because the girl he saw a second ago had disappeared. Gone...where? He didn't know, but it just seemed to piss him off. Was it just his imagination? Was he starting to see things? Was there really such a girl there at the zoo? Declan was starting to get thirsty now, so he decided to get himself something to eat.

HAve you ever had a moment when you're so pissed off that you just start to get thirsty. That happens to me...or maybe that only happens when I cry. I get really thirsty when I cry. No matter; this is about Declan. The teenager found an Icy Stand, right next to the big line at the Ice Cream stand. After ordering himself a random icy, Declan walked over to a bench that wasn't really empty. Someone was sitting in it, but Declan didn't bother seeing who it was, he was just too pissed off to look around anymore.

[&&when you've only got a hundred years to live;;]

[P ! R @ T E [Randi Miller*]]

As Randi continued to lick her little penguin, she felt something land on the bench. It wasn't something completely heavy, like something so heavy that it tipped over the entire bench, but Randi knew that it wasn't something really light like a bird or something like that. Well whatever it was, the brunette couldn't be bothered with it at the moment. She was almost done with her penguin, and once she finished the popsicle she would figure out what had plopped down nearby. As Randi finally finished up, she sucked on the stick to get all of the black food coloring off of it. There were usually really stupid jokes on the sticks, but you had to get all of the frozen gunk and slobber off of it before you could read it properly.


"How did the dinosaurs know we were coming?" Randi read out loud, completely ready to turn the stick over and get the stupid answer. Knowing her, she would either not get it or laugh so hard she fell off of the bench. They were never all that funny, but she sometimes pretended that they were. Randi turned the stick over slowly in her left hand before reading the answer out loud. "Because Bronto- Saw- Us" She added, blinking a few times before pretty much laughing her head off. No, I'm being serious. Her head would have come completely off it it hadn't been attached to her neck. She laughed for what seemed like an hour at something that even a little kid wouldn't have gotten, and even if the little kid HAD gotten it, they wouldn't have found it the least bit funny. After she stiffled the laugh to about one giggle per minute, she looked to her right and saw that it had not been a bird or something extremely heavy, but instead a guy. A blonde kid who seemed around her age and was rather cute.


Luckily for Randi, she was used to embarassing herself in this way in front of cute guys. She did it on a constant, and somtimes they even ended up being friends or.. Ahem, closer than friends if you catch my drift. Well now that she knew the answer to the riddle, it seemed like the entire zoo trip had been worth while. In her head, now that she had come and accomplished something, she could goof off a bit. And talking to a blonde fella sure seemed like a goofing off thing to do to her. Randi looked over at the guy and waved gingerly, sure that she probably looked like a total idiot. I mean, first she mumbled to herself {read the joke out loud}, then she laughed like a maniac {at the joke} and now she's waving at a complete stranger? But Randi wasn't scared that he would end up like, raping her or something odd like that; She had total confindence that they would end up being SOMETHING- friends or more than friends, anything more than two strangers sitting together..

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[&&thanks for the memories;;]

Just as the teenager began to hear a laugh, he looked over to the person to the side, though he had no interest at what he or she was laughing at. After finally realizing that it was the girl that had disappearedfrom him a mintue ago, Declan was suddenly curious about why she was laughing. In her hand was some popsicle stick with blue printed words on it that Declan couldn't really make out. If you asked him, those ice cream sticks did not have 'laugh-out-loud' jokes.

Maybe some of the jokes he's read probably made him say, "Ha, that was actually pretty funny," but they didn't make him laugh as loud as this girl was. Maybe she was easily entertained....maybe she was retarded. Goshness, ya know, some people can be laughing like retards and not really be a retard. And now she was waving at him. Of course, she looked a lot more gorgeous up close and he didn't seem to have enough courage to wave back, at least not at the moment.

At first, Declan laughed as well. He wasn't sure if he was laughing at her or if he was laughing with her. Either way, he didn't really hate her. Finally, Declan picked up his left hand and waved it a little, not really knowing what to say to her. He was still laughing though. It wasn't one of those laughs were you're laughing so hard that you start to lose your breath, but it was a bit more like a chuckle. Still, Declan had no idea what to say to her, so he just decided to say nothing.

[&&even though they weren't so great;;]

[P ! R @ T E [Randi Miller*]]

By this point, Randi had stopped laughing at was just kind of curious about the mate who was sitting by her. I mean, yes this was a free country and he was allowed to sit on any zebra- painted bench that he wanted to, but Randi kind of wondered if he had picked hers especially. No, after a few seconds of this thought lingering in her head, she shook it out. There was no reason that he would pick HER bench, he probably didn't have a clue that she was there..


Well actually that last theory was squashed when he looked over at her and waved back, chuckling at her. Or with her. Well there was only one way to find out which one this blonde fella fit under, and that would be to yell 'Hey! Are you laughing at me or with me?' over to him. Since Randi really didn't care which one it was, she just kept quiet about it. Anyways in actuality, maybe her laughter was contageous and he wasn't laughing at her OR with her. Maybe he was just laughing because he could. With that in her head, Randi scooted over a little bit so that she was sitting an inch closer to the guy.


"What's up mate?" Randi questioned, having to speak a little louder than she usually would in order to make sure that he could hear her. There was some type of commotion going on nearby- Maybe a snake got out of a cage or something. Randi didn't pay much attention to it though, because she figured that whatever it was, the zoo people could definately handle it. Well whatever it was, Randi kind of wished that they could quiet it down already.


"What the heck is going on over there?" Randi asked, loud enough for him to hear her but quiet enough to hopefully give the impression that she was saying it to herself. She was sure that the guy's guess was as good as hers, and her guess would be the snake gone loose thing, so what was the point in asking him? It was like a deaf person asking a blind person for the time..

[the.four.amigops.]

[&&if everyone care & nobody cried;;]

It was a little weird how this girl had no trouble saying anything to him, while he was totally tongue tired just by looking at her. Just as he heard a couple screams, Declan looked over at all the people rushing over to see what had happened while this beautiful girl in front of him said hi. His mind was still at the screams as Declan got the courage to say hi back; although, he wasn't all the sure why he needed the courage to do so.

It was just a girl....you talk to them everyday, what's up?. Of course, this one was better looking then the others and she was funnier, as far as he could tell. Declan hated it when people asked 'what's up?' when he knew that they knew that the answer was going to be: 'oh nothin' much, what's up with you?' Is there ever anything else to say. Well, sure, if you're about to die and someone comes up and asks 'what's up', you'd probably be all, 'WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE!?'

Nothin much, what's up with you? Declan said back to her, in the same hushed tone as hers. The teenager realized that she too noticed the caos behind them. He heard her question and didn't really know what to say. So the scene with the screaming people was probably happen far from here and Declan just got here, like, what? two minutes ago, so how should he know? But, I guess, it's a good question, Um...dunno. The monkeys broke out of their little cages! Surely, that wasn't it, but Declan really wished that would happen.

Actually, he wished all the animals would break free, Maybe the hippos? Just then, a lady with a toodle on her arm passed by the bench...more like ran by, screaming "SNAKE!" Declan kinda wished all the animals would break free and roam around, but at the same time, he felt a little safe with them in cages at the moment, because if they weren't, they'd just eat everyone up, Well, um...maybe it's a snake Declan said as he looked over at the screaming lady disappearing out of sight and then back at the girl, who's name he did not know.

[&&if everyone loved and nobody lied;;]

[P ! R @ T E [Randi Miller*]]

Well although Randi surely did care about the chaos that was going on just to the left of her, her bright eyes stayed focused on the blonde guy's face. She was one of those people who made eye contact when having a conversation, which probably made people want to talk to her more. She was constantly being bombarded with questions and problems by random people she had never even met before. Well not like random people coming up to her on the street and asking about boy problems, but I'm talking about in school. What, did these people memorize her schedule and follow her around, waiting for the absolute perfect moment JUST as she's about to get through the classroom door to ask her about "my dog who just died by getting hit by a car"? Good Lord these people..


"Just living." Randi replied happily, actually wondering why she had said what's up. It was kind of the first thing that came to mind, and before she had even half a second to think about what she was about to say, the two words popped back and there was no reversing it. 'What's up' is such a typical teenager thing to say. She wanted to say something different, but 'How's the trousers' {c:} didn't quite make sense to the majority of the people she asked. Luckily the people she said that to knew her well enough to know that she said things like that all the time, and she wasn't putting on any show just for them.


"Monkeys on the loose! Sounds like some kind of Brittish TV show!" Randi said excitedly, almost able to imagine the show. It would probably have nothing to do with monkeys actually, but just seeing the title of the show someplace would be enough to catch her quite easily caught attention. "Now if the hippos break loose that's when I'm running. I don't think I need to be any FLATTER by having the things run over me." Randi said, looking a little bit worried. She wasn't worried, but some people had told her many times before that she had strange face expressions. I guess this was just one of those times when her face expressions seemed to be needed, to pazazz things up.


Snakes on the loose? Or just snake? Because if it was only one, Randi could handle it. "Be right back." Randi said to her ''captive'', getting up and wandering over to where the chaos seemed to be coming from. Pushing her way into the middle of the throng of people, she could see a snake slithering around on the ground. Why were all of these people standing around it when it could very well be poisinous?! Ugh the idiots in America, I tell you. Randi stooped down and waited for her moment to pounce. It didn't come very fast but when it did she grabbed the lone snake by the tail and slowly handed it to the very wimpy looking Steve Irwin wanna-be. He grew stiff and pale just having the snake handed to him, but he thanked her. Randi walked back to where the blonde fella and her had been sitting, taking her seat once again.


"So what's your name?" She asked him pleasantly, as if there hadn't been any interruption at all. People walking past were oggling her, as if she were some type of savior just because she picked up a snake. It was ONLY a snake, after all...

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[&&the night is young;;]

'Just living'...maybe Declan, himself, should start saying that to people when they ask him, 'what's up?' I mean, it's a lot better than the usual boring answer: 'Oh, nothing much' or 'same old, same old'. This girl did notice the chaos, but didn't break eye contact with him, he liked that. The whole time, she was looking straight at him. Monkey's on the loose really didn't sound like anything and Declan really had no idea what she was talking about. Maybe it did sound a like a show, but...why British?

She didn't need to be flatter...that was pretty much true. The girl was quiet skinny; Declan can just see the girl being run over by even one hippo. She'd just die...well, so would anyone else. At first, the teenager got the feeling her comment was a serious one and that she actually was thinking of hippos running over her, but then he just knew it was either she was trying to be funny, or she was just speaking hypatheically (can't spell it).

As soon as she said 'be right back' and walked off, Declan, too, decided to get away from the bench. He followed her to where the commotion was and from where people were running off. What the girl did, Declan could never forget. It was something she couldn't do in a million years nor would he ever even think about. Actually picking up a snake and handing it to the zookeeper. After shivvering with fear, Declan walked back over to the bench and finished up his Icy.

People stood watching as she walked back over to the same bench. Declan couldn't help but laugh once again, once again, not being sure if it was at her or with her. Eventually, when he stopped laughing, he listened to her question and said, Declan...Declan Smithson His name was well-known, if this girl went to Lakeland High, which she probably didn't, she'd have heard the name. Maybe she'd seen him before too, but she wouldn't have asked if she didn't know. Even if people didn't know Declan, they were sure to know WHO he was. If not, they probably have heard the name around school.

Don't you just hate it when you hear someone's name around the school all the time, but you don't have any idea who that person is? I hear about this teacher, Miss Berry and how people say she's the cruelest thing in the world and i hear it ALL the time, but I've never actually knew who it was. It's the same with Declan. People don't really know him maybe, but they've probably heard of him, he didn't really like it. Sometimes (maybe all the time), he wished he was one of those loners that no one knew about, What's yours? ya know, like one of those, "kid with the blue eyes that sits in the front of the classroom in French"...I've lost ya'll, I'll just shut up.

This girl really couldn't have gone to Lakeland as well. He would probably understand it if she's new or something in the school, but if she wasn't, Declan wasn't sure what was stopping him from meeting her.

[&&we could do whatever;;]

[P ! R @ T E [Randi Miller*]]

Randi was used to being oggled, because her father had always told her that once she got older, she would be the prettiest girl and every guy would be chasing her. She hadn't believed him, nor had she wanted that to happen, but as it turns out her dad is some type of phycic. It HAD happened, and she HAD been stared at a lot in her lifetime. Therefore she was used to the staring. Still, that didn't mean that she LIKED it, and she felt a little bit like telling the staring people at the zoo to piss off. They had no right in staring at her just because she picked up a snake. As I said before, it was JUST a snake.


Randi glanced over at where she had been about three seconds earlier, and saw the Steve Irwin wanna- be wimpishly trying to manuver the snake back into the cage. Randi rolled her eyes before hearing the guy say his name. "Declan Smithson?" Randi asked, rubbing her chin in thought. "Nope, never heard of you. Your name DOES sound like a famous person's though. If you ever become a singer or rapper, you can drop the 'Smithson and lan' and just be 'Dec'." Randi rambled, the smile never leaving her facec. Now I will say that it takes a special person to smile and talk at the same time while still being able to be understood. Try smiling and talking at the same time... Well for me at least, it's kind of hard to understand me. Arggg anyways.


"I am Randi Miller!" Randi announced, expecting to hear an enthusiastic hand clap or something in the background. She had said it so enthusiastically, it was like she had just announced that she had won a goat at the state fair. "And I write lyrics. Do you go to the local high school- Oh what's that place called? Lakeland High?" Randi questioned, her mind going blank of the name for a moment. It wasn't that easy to forget the name.. I mean, they were in the town of Lakeland, in Lakeland Zoo... Come on now Randi.

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[&&let the good times roll;;]

Declan could tell that this girl wasn't too fond of the attention. He wouldn't really mind people looking at him as if he was some sort of strange person, but, appearantly she did. Well, in her mind, she would probably be thinking it was no big deal that she actually picked up a 'possibly' poisonous snake and took it to the zookeeper, who's afraid to even pick it up for two seconds or so. If the zookeeper was Declan himself, he would throw the snake from his snake and run off like a little girl who just saw the boogeyman.

Declan didn't really know why in the world she had to tell him about the fact that she'd never heard of him. Yes, when people meet new people, they usually don't know them; which, in this case, was a surprize. Declan just had to have known her, but by the way she came up with his school name, didn't look like she actually went there. Maybe she was new and couldn't remember what it was called, It's real nice to meet you, Randi Miller She seemed pretty proud of her name. For Declan, who's lived in Lakeland for 4 years, it was hard to forget the name, Yeah...do you? he asked her back

ooc: you didn't gimme much to reply to, SORRY ITS SO SHORT, it looks but hidious.

[&&incase God doesn't show;;]

[P ! R @ T E [Randi Miller*]]

It wasn't exactly that Randi hated people looking at her, since as I said earlier, she had been dealing with it throughout her entire life. It was just that. Argggg forget it, you wouldn't possibly understand the burdon that this kid had been going through since birth. And it wasn't just her looks, either. Randi wondered how long this fella had been going to Lakeland High, or for that matter, how long he had been living in the place but didn't ask him. Those were the type of things that people talked about when they were first meeting. Randi HATED first meeting talks. She wished that she could meet someone out there who skipped the awkward 'so how old are you?' 'what school do you go to?' 'do you have a job, young lady?' {Okay maybe not the last one, but STILL!} questions and just talka bout the IMPORTANT things!


Maybe this fella right here was the guy to do it. Well at this point they had asked at least fifve questions like the ones I listed above, so there was no refiguring that he wasn't the one to just start a conversation. Sigh. "I'm supposed to be going there as of Monday. I don't really know what to think of this place because I've never visited it or even the school website. The food might be horrible and the gym could smell like sweaty guy, and the basketball team might just suck. Then what, it's not like my mother will just let me transfer schools because our basketball team sucks, right?" It was really a question, but it wasn't exactly one that needed to be answered. She KNEW the answer, because she knew her mother. This Declan fella though, he didn't know her mother all that well.


"Well anyways. I should have a warning on my forehead. 'Warning: Might just talk your ear off.'. So you wanna go and see the girraffes?" Randi questioned, smiling gleefully as she wasn't hearing any commotion besides the monkeys who hadn't stopped flipping out since Declan had left the cages. She hadn't seen that, but I read it =). Maybe it was some type of calogne he was wearing..? Randi would have to get close to this guy and smell him. Ahem, for the monkey's sake, not because she really kind of wanted to..

OOC. I'm sowwee Best mate Sid with trousers! My muse was kind of going out of control there.. Forgiven?

[the.four.amigops.]

[&&i could be brown, i could be blue;;]

occ: of course, you're forgiven, darling. It was my fault too. this one isn't that bad. i like it.

Declan wasn't excatly sure what Randi Miller was going on about. She was right though, it wouldn't really affect him if the school lunch was the most disgusting stuff ever and the gym really does smell. But why sweaty guys? Girls went to that old gym just as much and they sweat as well, so it wasn't just the guys. Declan just decided to shut up about that, seeing as it wasn't that important to tell her that the school smelled like sweaty girls as well.

Kay, so this girl was new. At least he knew now why he hadn't seen her before. It pretty much made sense now; maybe he'll see her around school. The basketball team...sure it wasn't really as bad as the other teams in the other schools in the county, though it didn't really have the best players. Declan couldn't complain, If you ask me, I'd probably ask my parents to trasfer me if we had a bad basketball team at Lakeland.

This girl in front of him was trying to let him know that she talks too much, when he wasn't annoyed by talkers and he, himself, was a talker; and a listener, so it didn't really bug him. Giving another chuckled, Declan stood up from the bench he was sitting at and looked down at her, Sure...why not? as he looked over at the monkey cage. The hyper little things have stopped monkeying around and he didn't really seem to know why. (ha...monkeying around. I crack myself up)

For the cologne thing, Declan doesn't really spray Tag or something on himself when he's just leaving to go to the zoo. He wouldn't ever spray anything on himself when he knows that he's gonna be near animals. Who knows what would happen to the cute little things? What if they faint? What if they get high? or worse...if they get sick. Declan doesn't really want to take his chance. He likes animals and he wouldn't do anything to harm them...even for curiousity.

[&&i could be violet sky;;]

[P ! R @ T E [Randi Miller*]]

Was this Declan fella serious about having his parents transfer him if the basketball team was bad? She imagined him packing his bags as soon as Lakeland High lost their first game, and blinked twice. No, he must have been kidding. Either that, or he had read trouble with commiting himself to a town. If that was so, Declan would be a very good hit at the army or someplace that involved constantly moving and uprooting your life just for shooting at the allies. Hm.


Well whether Declan was kidding or not, Randi laughed at his responce and tried not to look so afraid of him moving. He might have been one of those people who could tell what a person was thinking with just one look at their face. Oh no, could he really? Randi tried to make her face look blank, but after about 2.5 seconds she was laughing again. Boy did this fella pick the wrong bench to sit on, eh? If he hadn't of sat there, he wouldn't have had his ear talked off, or had to deal with Randi's constant laughing at nothing... But if he hadn't of sat there, Randi probably wouldn't have met him. I mean what would she do, seek him out in hopes of finding him? She'd never met him before this little meeting.. Ah, on with it now.


"To the giraffes!" Randi said loudly, doing an impersination of an extremely serious British marcher. You know, those fellas who stand outside of the queen's house and stand all serious like, and no matter what the tourists do to them, they never do anything. They just stand there. You know those ones? "I kind of want a muffin." Randi continued as she glanced at the monkeys and continued on her march. "Some blueberry ones sound wonderful right now.. Or maybe a banana nut muffin. That's a tounge twister. Or how about coffee! No I would get shot if I had any coffee, I already seem like I just had twenty cups full." Randi said giggling and wondering how it was possible for her to breathe. I mean, obviously we all know how she breathes, she has two lungs and.. Yeah. But she talks so much and barely ever takes a break in between to breathe, so how does she get enough oxygen through out the day? A mystery of the world, best mate Sid with trousers.


OOC. I'm forgiven! =DDDDDD Well anyways this post is much better, so hopefully you would have trouble respond toooooooo it mate.

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[&&pictures frozen in time;;]

Just as he heard her laughing, Declan wasn't sure if Randi took him seriously when he told her that he'd switch schools if he had a sucky team. He saw her blink and was sure that she was sure he was joking. Declan didn't say it in a laughing matter, he wasn't smiling and his tone didn't really seem as if he said that just to say something funny. After just a moment of silence, she started to laugh again, Sweety, I wasn't kidding.

Sure, he wouldn't really transfer right after his first bad game in school, but if they lose three games in a row, he's out. Even when he's not ON the team, it'd just ashame him that his school has the suckiest basketball players. But they don't...so it's all good. This Randi Miller was one hyper person, but Declan had no problem going up to her level.

Banana nut muffin. Try saying THAT five times relly fast. Declan studied Randi's way of immitating those people he saw in London last summer. It was fun how Declan and his sisters poked the weird-dressed marchers and they just seemed to look straight ahead, not acknowlegding [sp?] anything. Randi Miller could use blueberries, but he wasn't too sure about anything sweet. If this was her before a cup of coffee, wondering what she'd be like after it.

Yes to the giraffes! Declan said finally as he looked around for the giraffes, but not really finding them, Tell ya what. After we see the giraffes, I'll get you a cup of coffee with a strawberry muffin. And a banana nut muffin for me He said, but then added, Or maybe the banana nut muffin for you and the strawberry for me, or maybe you can have both Or maybe Declan can have both himself, he just didn't need coffee at the moment, though.

[&&are becoming clearer;;]