*A/N: Okay, so ... I live nowhere near Maryland (which is where my story takes place), so I have no idea if there is a store named Lithium in any of the malls there, let alone what any of the malls are like. So, to make up for my lack of Maryland mall knowledge, I'm basing the mall that Brianna and Kaylei are at off of the mall that my friends and I hang out at. Soo....yeah. Um, keep reading, I really hope this story isnt dumb!*

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"Hey Lei?" Brianna began asking a question as soon as her and Kaylei had entered the mall from the movie theaters.

"Hey Anna?" Kaylei responded, with a mimiking tone in her voice.

"Uh, who's Jessica?" Brianna asked, heading into Lithium. She stood in the doorway and looked around.

"She's a newbie. I ushered with her last weekend. She's nice."

"Oh, thats good." Brianna said, not really paying attention to what Kaylei was saying. "I like this place so far."

"Me too." Kaylei agreed as soon as a song by Rancid started playing. The girls went their separate ways, browsing through the array of gothic/punk styled clothing. Kaylei found her way to the back of the store, where she found a fake sword. 'What the hell is this doing in the store?' she thought. It reminded her of a scene from one of the dumbest, yet funniest, movies she'd ever seen. "Hey Anna." she called for her friend.

"What up?" Brianna answered, walking to where Kaylei was and looking at the sword.

"Can I cut your arms off?" Kaylei asked. The girls looked at each other and began cracking up. "'But you haven't got any arms!'" Kaylei quoted in a bad attempt at an english accent.

"'Sure I do!'" Brianna finished the quote in an equally bad english accent.

One of the guys that were working there began laughing. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," he said. Brianna and Kaylei turned around to face the guy. He looked to be about sixteen and had brown hair and brown eyes. "The best movie ever." he finished.

"It was so stupid!" Kaylei told him. The guy smiled and kept talking to Kaylei.

"Aw, you just dissed the movie!"

"Well!" Kaylei said, beginning one of her rants about how moronic she thought the movie was.

As Kaylei talked, Brianna looked the guy up and down. He wasn't too bad looking. Standing about 5'8", he had short, spikey-ish brown hair which matched his brown eyes. He didnt dress too bad either, with black pants and a black zip up hoodie over a black shirt with some odd shape on it, and black converse to finish up the ensemble.

Not wanting to creep the guy out by staring at him, Brianna turned away to look at the beaines. Soon, Kaylei joined her.

"Dude, Anna! Did you see that guy?! He was ... whoo! He was hot!" she sighed, looking away dreamily.

"Yeah, I did see him! Oh my gosh, Lei! I want this beaine!" Brianna held up an all blck beanie that had a single white star inprinted on the front. "Oh look, and it has a star on it." she pointed out. Kaylei pouted. She loved anything with stars on it, and now she wanted that beanie. "And I'm buying it, not you. So ha." Brianna taunted, waving the beanie in Kaylei's face.

"Meanie." Kaylie grumbled.

"Meanie rhymes with beanie!" Brianna beamed.

"Whoo. You're a smart child." Kaylei said, still mad that she didnt see the beanie first.

Kaylei didnt even pay attention to the guy at the register when they finally got to the front of the line.

"I like this beanie. Good choice." he said as he rang it up for Brianna. Kaylei recognized the voice and looked to see who it was. The guy she saw running the register was the same guy she had been talking to about Monty Python earlier, only with different clothes on.

"Hey, aren't you the guy -" sher cut herself off when she looked back to see that the guy by the sword was still there.

The guy behind the register laughed. "Nah, that's my twin brother."

"Oh. Okay." Kaylei said, still a bit confused.

Brianna glanced at Kaylei. "What's with the 'what-the-hell' look on your face? Wwhat don't you get? Their twins. They look exactly alike."

"I know," Kaylei said, "his name is ...." she looked to the guy behind the register.

"Benji." he said, holding up his nametoag/lanyard thing.

"Benji?! What a stupid name!" Brianna exclaimed. One bad thing about Brianna was the she spoke her mind when she wanted to, and most of the time, it wasn't nice.

Benji looked shocked as his brother came behind the counter snickering.

"I don't know if I'd be laughing if I was you, pal. If his name is Benji, yours can't be much better." Brianna said.

"It's Joel." he informed her.

Brianna was quiet for a moment. "That sucks, but not as bad as Benji! Damn, I'd be afraid to go around and introduce myself to people if I were you! Change your name, or go by your middle name, or some-"

"Anna, stop! That's enough of you making fun of the poor guys name, geez." Kaylei abruptly cut Brianna off.

"I'm just saying ..."

"I think you've said enough. Let's go." Kaylei said, pushing Brianna towards the front of the store, looking apologetically back at Benji.

"Anna, what were you thinking, you obscene child. Seriously. That was so rude and uncalled for." Kaylei scolded Brianna as soon as they were out the door.

"Yes, mother."

Kaylei sighed. "He was really hot, too."

"Yeah he was," Brianna agreed, "too bad his name is Benji!"

Kaylei shook her head and kept walking.