Head or Tails
Part 3
By Missy

Laverne sat down upon the desert floor, enjoying the play of of sunlight against the windowpane of the old general store. Lenny came up to her, mopping his sweaty neck with a defeated expression on his face.

"I don't get it, Laverne," he admitted. "We fixed everything y'can fix in that old thing and it still ain't startin'!"

"Maybe we need to order out for parts," she suggested.

"That's what the garage guy said," Lenny shrugged. "Guess we're gonna be stuck here for awhile.

Laverne grumbled as she climbed to her feet. "I dunno about you, but I feel like bellying up to some good old-fashioned southern grub."

"I'm starvin'," Lennny admitted. "Do you think they'd take checkers?"

"You mean a check?"

"Nah, checkers - that's all that I got left in my pocket."

She sighed. Such a dope. "Why don't we go inside and see?"

The man behind the counter wasn't willing to take checkers, but he set up store credit for them. Stuffing themselves with thick ham sandwiches, and soup, they considered what ehy might tell Shirley and Squiggy.

"Where'd you see them, anyway?"

"Shirl said they were gonna go get some pop," Laverne said, brushing her greasy hands against her jeans. "Why don't we find 'em." They had to travel through many a deserted street before finding the right abandoned alleyway.

That's where they found their best friends impassionedly kissing one another.


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