Dungeon Book Hunting/Script

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**Amelia:** Hey there, Ami! Can I have a word with you? It has to do with something really important—something that involves cake, presents, and decorations! Oh! And uh, and a book, too.

**Ami:** Absolutely, feel free to express whatever comes to mind! Care to share, Pinkie? I spy a sly grin on your face, which must mean that something exhilarating is cooking up within your ingenious brain.

(Ami playfully pokes Amelia's stomach, eliciting a giggle from her.)

**Amelia:** *Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha*! Hey, that's my stomach you're poking right there, Ami! My stomach is ticklish, you do recognize!

(Ami, despite her gruff-sounding voice, she emits a soft chuckle as a sly, elder sisterly grin spreads across her face. She pushes her glasses up the bridge of her nose and sits upright on the family couch.)

**Ami:** Indeed, Ames, I understand.

(Ami sets her comic book aside and fixes her bra strap discreetly under her shirt.)

**Ami:** I'm simply poking fun, that's all. So, what enthralling plans do you have as the chief of our Girl Scout troop?

**Amelia:** Ami, I've got a great idea! Since it's Penelope's birthday, why not we head to the bookstore downtown she loves to frequent a lot and buy her a book? Do you fancy that idea, dear sister?

**Ami:** That sounds like to be a smallerb idea! Do you have a list in handy? It would save us both from wasting twenty minutes walking around aimlessly.

**Amelia:** Absolutely! I'm one jump ahead of you, my fully grown sibling!

(Amelia hastily scurries back up to Penelope's bedroom in a pink colored blur, desperate to get something. She snatches a page directly from Penelope's catalog.)

**Ami:** Huh?

(Ami raised an eyebrow in confusion as Amelia hurriedly made her way back upstairs to Penelope's bedroom, holding a torn page she got from Penelope's book catalog, specifically page 345 to be exact.)

**Amelia:** I managed to find it earlier than expected, actually.

(Ami got up from the family couch, still raising an eyebrow at the pink hedgehog.)

**Ami:** Umm… Ames? That's just a page you ripped out from Penelope's book catalog, Amy. Page number 345, to be exact.

(Ami said nonchalantly to Amelia, her face displaying a blunt expression.)

**Amelia:** I *know* that! But it has the one thing I want both of us to get for her!

(Ami sighed softly and walked over to the coat hanger, grabbing her knapsack off from one of the hangers.)

**Ami:** Which is…? What exactly is it?

(Ami asked Amelia in a blank tone, not looking too impressed with the pink hedgehog at that moment. Amelia held up the page, pointing to the book title.)

**Amelia:** It's “*Perry Cobbler and the Chalice of Lightning*.” She's been wanting it since July but hasn't been able to because school starts soon on the 26th—

(Ami interrupted Amelia in the middle of her sentence.)

**Ami:** That's not until *THREE WEEKS* later this month, Amelia! Today is the *3rd* of *August*, for Pete's sake! And, mind you, it's also Penelope's birthday! Her *11th* birthday, might I add!

(Ami says while crossing her arms with an angry look on her face, looking down at the pink hedgehog with anger. Amelia gave Ami an annoyed look after being rudely interrupted, then sighed slowly to herself as she adjusts her glasses by the rim, clearing her throat loudly.)

**Amelia:** Ami, listen. I totally get it, big sis. I'm *VERY* well aware of Penelope's obsession with being prepared for school. She's always on top of things, getting her school smallplies way in advance. She's in full “Summer to school” preparation mode, you know!

**Ami:** You make a valid point, Amelia. Thanks for explaining all of this to me. So, if I'm putting my own head to this, Penelope has any, if at all, zero to no clues about your plan you want me to partake in?

(Amelia gave a negative shake of her head twice in response, yet she had left a letter upon Penelope's pillow upstairs. She chose not to tell Amy, to prevent the pink colored hedgehog from becoming disgruntled and to keep Penelope in the dark regarding the whole plan.)

**Amelia:** Absolutely not, Ami! Penelope is completely oblivious to our little scheme. My plan is foolproof, Ami Morrison! *It. Is. Foolproof.*

(Ami couldn't help but let out a slow sigh, finally giving in to Amelia's clever scheme.)

**Ami:** Alright, fine! I'll come with you since you're so desperate, acting like it's the end of the world or something!

**Amelia:** Sweet and awesomesauce! So, how are we getting there? You flying me there, or via my car?

**Ami:** I'll fly us there. It's way quicker than your Jeep, and we won't have to worry about traffic.

**Amelia:** Good call, Morrison. That's awesomesauce. *Again*, of course. Anyway, let's hit up the bookstore, *hopefully* well before Penelope finds out where we're both at!

(Amelia pauses for a moment with a nervous chuckle as she looks up to Ami, looking sheepish on her face.)

**Amelia:** *Eventually*, that is.

(Ami, looking blankly down toward Amelia, sighs slowly and heavily to herself.)

**Ami:** I get it, Ames. Enough dawdling. Let's get a move on before Miss Bear Glasses finds out where the in H-E-double hockey sticks we're at!!!

(Ami's tails start up as she picks Amelia up by the arms, Ami later then takes off flying out of the house at full speed in an aurburn-red colored blur. A few moments later, Penelope is seen walking down the stairs, wondering where one of the pages of her catalog had gone.)

**Penelope:** *Gu-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-uys*? Has anyone seen my—

(Penelope stops herself as she looks up from her torn catalog, seeing no signs of Amelia or Ami anywhere in sight. She raises an eyebrow out of confusion as she looks around, walking around as well as she proceeds to check everywhere. From underneath the couch cushions, the chairs, in the tunnel system, and so on.)

**Penelope:** Guys…? *Hello*? Amelia? Ami? Where the heck are you guys at?!

(Penelope exclaims loudly, hearing nothing but cold, dead, silence. Zooey is heard from upstairs as she later comes down the stairs on foot.)

**Zooey:** *Penelope*! Hey, Penelope!

**Penelope:** Huh?

(Penelope says as she stops walking, she turns around and looks down at Zooey a bit, mainly due to height differences.)

**Penelope:** Oh! Hey, Zooey! Say, do you happen to know where Amelia and Ami went off to, by any chance? I'm lookin' all over the entire house, but I can't find them at *all* over here!

**Zooey:** Oh, you wanna find out where they went off to, huh?

(Penelope adjusts her glasses by the rim, nodding twice afterward.)

**Penelope:** Yeah, I'd like to know! I'm startin' to get worried 'bout 'em!

**Zooey:** Well, I'll be happy to tell you where. Happy 11th birthday, by the way.

(Zooey says with a smile on her face, Penelope smiles a bit, chuckling a bit afterward.)

**Penelope:** Thanks, Zoo-Zoo. So, do ya happen to know where they went off to, while we're at it over here?

(Zooey nods twice.)

**Zooey:** Yep! They went off to the bookstore to go grab something.

(Zooey says, which makes Penelope raise an eyebrow.)

**Penelope:** The *bookstore*…?

**Zooey:** Yes! I may be the only rabbit on the spectrum in this entire home here, but I'm proud to affirm that I'm distinctive among everyone else. Certainly, others are quicker than me mentally, yet it's that spirit of distinction that makes me who I am. Plus, they did go to the bookstore to get something, but I can't really recall *what* it is, though. Something of a book, my guess.

**Penelope:** I know that, Zooey. We've been sisters for almost a decade now, going on five years already.

**Zooey:** I know. They're at the bookstore. I saw Ami flying off with Amelia out from the front porch doorway as I was putting on my overall dress upstairs in my bedroom after I finished reading. Saw 'em heading out to the bookstore, since Ami hanged a right due eastward on Jefferson Street and Main afterward, while Amelia drove via the Little Western.

(Zooey says while adjusting her dress's strap as she smiles fully. Penelope raises an eyebrow with a smile on her face.)

**Penelope:** *Huh*… Well, I better go check it out.

(She says to herself as she walks over to the coat hanger, she grabs her knapsack off the hanger, and then later begins walking her way over to the kitchen, and then later, out of the house.)

**Penelope:** Thanks for the tip, Zoo-Zoo!

(Penelope calls out as she leaves the house, hopping onto her scooter as the engine roars to life, then she drives off the driveway, en route to the bookstore thanks to Zooey's tip.)

**Zooey:** No problem, gingie!

(Meanwhile, at the bookstore, as Ami lands a few feet away, they enter the bookstore, not knowing Penelope is driving toward their location…)

**Ami:** Okay, let's get to checkout, and get out of here before Penelope knows we're here!

(Ami says, turning a corner… and walking right in front of Penelope. Ami turns right back around the corner, hiding the book behind her back, stifling a panicked shriek as Penelope comes around the corner.)

**Penelope:** Hi Ami! Hi Amelia! What're you two doing here?

(Penelope asks as she smiles.)

**Ami:** Oh, um! *Uhh-h-h-h, heh, heh, heh…*

(She chuckles awkwardly while mentally panicking at full blast internally, screaming as well out of sheer panic.)

**Ami:** Oh, nothing, it's not like we forgot to get you a—!

(Ami is cut off by Amelia putting a hand to her mouth.)

**Amelia:** We were just taking a shortcut from the Romance section before we went to check our stuff out at the checkout line, but—!

(Amelia pauses, grabbing a small book on *Dungeons and Dragons*.)

**Amelia:** —I wanted to also get a book on *Dungeons and Dragons* before we played later tonight.

**Penelope:** Oh, you both *will*?!

(Penelope's eyes lit up with glee as she squeals a bit out of happiness.)

**Penelope:** *Eee-hee-hee-hee!* Great! I can answer any questions you have after you've finished reading, so just let me know. I've made a pretty great campaign for you two, it's about—!

**Ami:** Ames?

(Ami says to at Amelia. Amelia looks up toward Ami, blinking twice.)

**Amelia:** Yeah?

**Ami:** Let's chit-chat while she's going on over here.

(Amelia nods twice as Ami hunches down to the pink hedgehog's level, later leaning over to 'Amelia's shoulder, her voice barely above a whisper.)

**Amelia:** Okay, shoot.

**Ami:** We can go and leave her be, for now, whenever she gets like this, Ames. For example, I could honk a car horn, and she wouldn't even break her stride. Trust me, I tried it once, and she was still going on about Newtonian physics, and it didn't even work at all, *period!* She just kept going on and on and on with whatever she's fangirling about as if nothing ever happened! Trust me, I've tried *twice* last week to get her to stop talking about the latest book she wants to get, and I'm *NOT* into reading literature!!!

(Ami exclaims, and then later sighs.)

**Ami:** Except for comic book reading, of course.

**Amelia:** *Oh, sister*…

(Amelia rolls her eyes at Ami as the two walk towards the checkout lane, they can hear Penelope keep talking.)

**Amelia:** Frankly speaking, big sis, she has an incredible amount of lung capacity, Ami.

(Amelia states while looking over her shoulder, seeing Penelope still ramble on in the background, not noticing the two left yet.)

**Ami:** I know, right? Heck, she could be a deep sea diver when she gets older and work as a marine biologist for all I care, since she's got a lot of lung capacity!

(Ami responds.)

**Amelia:** That, or maybe even an auctioneer. They got a lot of lung capacity to speak at a very fast words-per-minute, and Penelope's got that, too! She's got a lotsa words-per-minute!

(Amelia says snidely with a giggle.)

**Penelope:** —they even added this new rule in the Seventh Edition that—

(The two overhear Penelope say on some part of the game or another.)

**Ami:** Wait a minute. She said *”Seventh” Edition*, didn't she?

(Ami asks, looking down at the book they grabbed.)

**Amelia:** *She did…*

**Ami:** And we grabbed the Seventh Edition, didn't we?

(Ami asks, hoping her eyes were deceiving her.)

**Amelia:** We did…

(Amelia says, looking slightly panicked as she gulps softly, mentally panicking as much as Ami is right now.)

**Ami:** *Oh, okay!* Oh, thank merciful *god*! What a relief!

(Ami says calmly, before her body straightens in fear.)

**Ami:** …Then, what book did she want?

**Amelia:** How on earth would *I* even know, Ami?! Did you check on the other side of the paper, you bubble butted comic book reading *buffoon*?!

(Amelia asks as she flicks Ami's backside. Other people in line start to look at the panicking duo with looks that are mixed between concern and annoyance.)

**Ami:** No, I didn't, you twerp! No, when one side of the paper looks more important, why would I look at the other side?!

(Ami retorts as Amelia grabs the paper. On the back, there's another book written, as well as its genre. She adjusts her glasses while skimming through the list, then she blinks twice.)

**Ami:** The *heck*? She wants a book called “*Perry Cobbler and the Chalice of Lightning*”?

(Amelia gasps softly as she points behind her back, over her shoulder.)

**Amelia:** *Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh*! I know that one! I know just exactly that one. I saw it about five times when you thought the *Dungeons and Dragons* book was in the “Fantasy” section, I'll be right back!

(Amelia says, hurrying, while Ami sets the *Dungeons and Dragons* book down on a nearby table.)

**Amelia:** Put that back where it belongs, Ami!

**Ami:** *Hey*! Don't boss your older sister around!

(Ami retorts, picking the book back up, regardless. Ami sighs to herself as she shakes her head in annoyance, she later rolls her eyes afterward.)

**Ami:** *Those two little twerps, I swear*…

**Amelia:** Where is it, where is it, where is it at…?

(Amelia turns a corner and rushes for where she remembered the book was, she was hurrying so fast that she reached for one of the books that someone else was holding.)

**Amelia:** Excuse me?

**Penelope:** Amelia, *what* are *you* doing?

(Penelope asks, while raising an eyebrow at the pink hedgehog.)

**Amelia:** *Yipe*!

(Amelia freezes with an audible squeak in her voice, realizing she was pulling the book out of Penelope's hands.)

**Amelia:** Oh, nothing, making sure that this book is age appropriate for you! *Hah-aha*!

(Amelia says sheepishly, trying to pull it out of Penelope's grip.)

**Penelope:** *…Seriously*?

(Penelope's puzzled look shifts into an unimpressed expression on her face.)

**Penelope:** Amy, I've read the other Perry Cobbler books and I haven't been scared, so let go!

(Penelope says, tugging the book back towards herself.)

**Amelia:** *No*! I'm not letting go, Penelope!

**Penelope:** And you're younger than me by three years!

**Amelia:** No, I've got to be sure!

(Amelia says pulling harder.)

**Penelope:** Why the heck does it matter!? We watched that scary movie the other day, and *you* even weren't worried about *me*! Not even one iota!

(Penelope angrily exclaims, Amelia scoffs at her in response.)

**Amelia:** *Ioata*?! As if!

(Amelia angrily exclaims to Penelope, growling angrily.)

**Penelope:** You were hiding under the blankets after only a full *five* minutes!

(Penelope exclaims angrily, tugging the book back to herself and away from Amelia.)

**Amelia:** It was a movie about rabbits, how did I know it would get that scary!?

(Amelia responds angrily back to Penelope.)

**Penelope:** Just let me buy the book, Amy! Mom and Dad got me a gift card for my birthday, so I can get it for myself. I don't need you to buy it for me!

(Penelope says while clenching her teeth hard.)

**Amelia:** *But I didn't get a present for your eleventh birthday*!!!

(Amelia slips, and covers her mouth, gasping slightly in shock. Overhearing it from the bookshelf, Ami gasps in surprise as she mutters to herself)

**Ami:** *Shoot!*

(Ami looks over to her right with a surprised look on her face as it slowly shifts into an angry expression.)

**Ami:** Aw, crap! *Amy, you pink dolt…*

(Ami mutters to herself more as she hikes up her jeans, then she bolts it over to the two younger siblings, muttering obscenities under her breath along the way.)

**Penelope:** *You* forgot to give *me*… *What*!?

(Penelope exclaims in retaliation, loosening her grip on the book in the process. Ami runs over to the two, then stops with a screeching noise coming out from her go-go boots thanks to the tiled flooring being waxed recently.)

**Ami:** Amy, you pink dolt! *You just ruined her surprise*!

**Amelia:** *I'm sorry, okay*?! It—It—It—!

**Penelope:** *Hold it, hold it, hold it*! Let's pull the breaks on this thing for *just* one second over here!!!

(Penelope exclaims as she holds up a hand in front of Amelia's face. Penelope looks at Ami.)

**Penelope:** *You* two… You two wisecracks were plannin' a surprise for *me* and my 11th birthday?!

(Penelope says in a questioned tone of voice as she raises an eyebrow, placing her free hand on her waist firmly. Ami, looking defeated, sighs heavily afterward.)

**Ami:** Well… *Yes*. Yes, we *were* planning a surprise gift for you, since you were busy and all, Penelope. So, Amelia here came up with a very much so-called “foolproof” plan of hers that, of course, went up in smoke thanks to her spilling the beans to you, the birthday girl.

(Ami says in a not so impressed tone of voice as she crosses her arms firmly afterward, giving Amelia an unimpressed look on her face. Penelope blinks twice as she clears her throat, adjusting her glasses by the rim afterward.)

**Penelope:** *Oh*… Well… thanks for the birthday gift, guys. That said, you can head over to the check-out desk, if you'd like to, Ami. *I* got some talkin' to a little miss “Rosy the Rascal” over here before I blow a gasket on her!

**Ami:** I'll be willing to. I'll meet you two over there shortly.

(Ami says as she turns away from the two, then proceeds to walk her way over to the check-out desk. Amelia sighs as she looks up at the tall ginger-haired girl with a disappointed look on her face.)

**Amelia:** Look… I've been busy lately, and your birthday snuck up on me, so when Ami told me she looked in your book catalog—

(Penelope butts into Amelia's sentence in mid-conversation.)

**Penelope:** I was wondering what happened to that page, page 345 was missing thanks to *you!*

(Penelope says with a growl in her voice, looking very much unhappy at Amelia.)

**Amelia:** —I thought I could piggyback off your gift for your 11th birthday party. I'm sorry…

(Amelia says sadly, sitting on the floor as she sniffles softly while tears begin to well up in her eyes.)

**Penelope:** “Sorry” doesn't cut it, Amy! *YOU* RIPPED IT OUT OF MY *BOOK CATALOG*, WHICH *I* WILL HAVE TO REPAIR WHEN *WE*. *GET*. *HOME*! *YOU RUINED MY BIRTHDAY, THANKS A WHOLE BUNCH*!!!

**Amelia:** *I'm sorry*!!!

(Amelia squeaks loudly as she sniffles more, tears begin to flow down her face. Penelope, still fuming with pure anger, slowly sighs at herself as she slowly calms herself down with a few slow, deep breaths.)

**Penelope:** …*Amelia*…

(Penelope sits on the floor next to her, putting a hand on her shoulder.)

**Penelope:** It's okay that you forgot to get me a present due to you being busy. We were already doing something later tonight anyway, so you can think of that as my true present, right here on *my* birthday.

**Amelia:** *Heh*…

(Amelia smiles a bit as she lifts her glasses up a bit, wiping off the tears from her eyes as she sniffs.)

**Amelia:** Thanks, Penny.

(Amelia says with a soft smile on her face, Penelope smiles.)

**Penelope:** No problem, Ames.

(Penelope says warmly, Amelia comes up with an idea in her head as her smile widens.)

**Amelia:** Say, by the way, how are your acting skills?

(Amelia asks, realizing that Penelope's grip on the book had loosened. A smirk forms on Amelia's face as she comes up with a plan in her head.)

**Penelope:** *Uhh-h-h-h*…

(Penelope says as she raises an eyebrow.)

Penelope: My actin' skills aren't the best, why? Why're ya sayin' that for?

**Amelia:** Because I'll need you to act surprised—

(Amelia grabs the book from Penelope as Amelia giggles happily while running over to Ami, who is at the check-out desk already.)

**Amelia:** —when I get you your birthday present!

(Penelope gasps sharply in surprise as she gets up onto her feet quickly.)

**Penelope:** *Hey*! *Amy*! *AMY*!!! *AMELIA ROSETTE!* Hey, wait! *Wait*, I've got a gift card! Amy! You seriously don't need to do that!

(Penelope exclaims loudly at the top of her lungs, chasing after Amelia, who tossed the book to Ami, who was currently at check-out)

**Ami:** *Oh, come on already…*

(Ami cast her gaze downward at her wristwatch as she lightly tapped her foot on the floor in impatience. She grabs hold of the book with her tails.)

**Ami:** *Come on, you two knuckleheads…*

(Ami mumbled to herself, heaving a sigh of exasperation as she adjusts the strap of her knapsack, which held her wallet in its own pocket. Displeased, she surveyed the other patrons of the bookshop with an expression of impatience.)

**Ami:** Come on, already! What is taking Penelope and Amelia so long?! I've been standing in this line for at least 10 minutes now, and I'm starting to hold up the queue! Please, hurry up. I don't have all day; I'm not going to linger here forever. Speed it up already!

**Cashier:** *Umm*, ma'am? Are you going to keep standing there, or are you going to pay for something?

(He says to her.)

**Ami:** *I WILL PAY FOR…*

(Ami grits her teeth, lifting her head towards the cashier. She heaves a deep sigh at him afterward, she looks at him with an annoyed look on her face.)

**Ami:** Pardon me, it's just that my younger sisters aren't cooperating here, and *they* are the ones holding me over here, and I'm waiting for *them*.

(Ami points over her shoulder as she looks behind her back, seeing the two still talking while they later hug in forgiveness.)

**Cashier:** Oh, I get it! Miss…?

**Ami:** Morrison. Ami Nolle Morrison the Fox. I'm the city's newspaper courier girl, in case you happen to be aware.

**Cashier:** Huh!

(He laughs at her, then clears his throat afterward.)

**Cashier:** Wow, for someone like you, you certainly have a unique name!

**Ami:** Is that so?

(Ami says while raising an eyebrow as her smile widens.)

**Cashier:** Yeah, I remember you!

**Ami:** Cool beans! Wow, talk about a small world.

(Ami says with a wide smile on her face, giggling at him.)

**Cashier:** Yeah, you're the one who brings my mom her newspapers from the Milwaukee Weekly every other day, including the weekends!

**Ami:** Heh.

(Ami gave a bashful chuckle, cheeks slightly reddened out of bashfulness, as she pushed her glasses up her nose.)

**Ami:** M-Much obliged, erm…

(She stammered with a bashful look on her face.)

**Ami:** So, uhh… What's your name, if I may ask you over here?

(She says to him as he replies back a few moments later.)

**Cashier:** Baker. My name is Todd Baker.

**Ami:** Well, erm… pleasure to meet you, Todd.

**Todd:** Hah!

(He chuckles at Ami.)

**Todd:** Pleasure to meet you, too, Ami. Say, want to hook up after I get off work, and hang out at the mall, get us some snacks here? I'm paying for them all, so you don't have to pay a single cent.

(He says with a smile on his face, offering a date to her after work.)

**Ami:** *Really*?!

(She gasps with a gruffy squeal in her voice as she thinks to herself.)

(She internally fangirls in her head.)

**Ami:** *Oh, my gosh! Is he… asking me out on some kind of date?! Aw, heck yeah!*

(She nods twice as she keeps her fangirling to herself, she clears her throat as she keeps her composure.)

**Ami:** Yeah, sure, sure! Sure, of course. I'm available for a little get-together at the local mall here, Todd. What time are you clocking out here?

**Todd:** Would 4:30 work for you? 4:30 P.M., meet me at the cafeteria. I get off at that time when I clock out over here.

**Ami:** 4:30 P.M. on the dot…

(She enters the time of his clock out time frame on her watch, she looks at him as she nods twice, her smile widens.)

**Ami:** Yup! I'm all free and available at that time!

**Todd:** Sw*EE*t t*O* h*EAR* a*BOUT THAT*, Ami*EE*!

(He exclaims happily as his voice cracks loudly, due to puberty, he blushes red out of embarrassment at Ami.)

**Todd:** …*Please, don't laugh*…

(Ami gives him the silent treatment with a surprised look on her face.)

**Ami:** …

(She snickers loudly, stifling a giggle or two, she later clears her throat as she straightens up.)

**Ami:** Ahem! Sorry. Look, Todd. Puberty's a pain in a half, I know it all too well. I hate to say it, but I'll be frank with you… I'm going through it, too.

**Todd:** Oh, *thank merciful god!*

(He exhales in relief as he straightens his hat, looking much relieved at her.)

**Todd:** I'm guessing this is something to do with your…?

**Ami:** *Don't mention it, Bucko*!

(Ami exclaims straightforwardly toward him, she replies back at him as she clenches her teeth.)

**Todd:** Sorry! So, you're going through that moment, huh>

**Ami:** *E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-yupperoni* on a stick, Todd! It's coming up *REAL* soon for me!

**Todd:** *Yeesh*…

(He says to her, grimacing)

**Todd:** Ouch. That sounds really rough for you, then.

**Ami:** Oh, please…

(She sighs slowly at him, sounding dull in her voice.)

**Ami:** …Can it and give it a rest, Todd.

(She shrugs as she later placed her hands into her jacket's pockets.)

**Ami:** Well, I can't help it when you're a growing woman, or for *you*, a growing man.

**Todd:** Valid point, Ami. We all experience it, and we traverse it at some period in our lives!

**Ami:** Ultimately, not to divert away from this exchange. Now, could we desist speaking in reference to womanhood here? Much appreciated.

**Todd:** Good point.

(He nods once in agreement with her.)

**Todd:** Good idea. Sorry. So, when are you sisters smallposed to come up to the check-out desk?

**Ami:** Good grief…

(She sighs as she looks over her shoulder, then she looks back at Todd, shrugging.)

**Todd:** No offense, but you're holding up the line.

**Ami:** I *know*, and I apologize for it, Todd. I'm sure they're coming soon! Hopefully.

(She says while looking over her shoulder again, slowly beginning to grow worried of her two siblings.)

**Amelia:** Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!

**Penelope:** No wonder why I love you as a little sister.

(Penelope say with a giggle, followed by a sigh afterward as they make it over to where Ami is it; the checkout desk.)

**Ami:** Oh, *now* they come.

(Ami says in a dull tone of voice, rolling her eyes afterward as she focuses back to Todd.)

**Todd:** Geez, they must love causing chaos to you, huh>

(Ami, looking annoyed at her sisters, sighs slowly and heavily to herself.)

**Ami:** *Every… single… day…* Well… whenever I'm around them, that is, or whenever I'm stuck babysitting these two. *Three* if you include Zooey, one of my younger sisters who is twice as annoying to me at times, as I'm their babysitter and all.

**Todd:** Oh, you're a babysitter?

(Ami nods twice as she smiles at him, she points to herself happily and proudly.)

**Ami:** Yup! I sure am!

**Todd:** Cool!

(She giggles evilly at Penelope while the two are seen running through aisles. They eventually make it to where Ami's at: the check-out desk.)

**Amelia:** True, but I'm your youngest sister, and that means doing stuff you tell me not to!

(Amelia says while blowing a raspberry, keeping her older sister from reaching Ami. Ami looks down at the two with an impatient look on her face.)

**Ami:** *Now* you both finally made it!

**Amelia:** Sorry to keep you waiting and holding up the line, Ami! I had *someone* to deal with over here.

**Penelope:** *But-But-But-*But how will you pay from over here?!

(She exclaims with her stuttering her words.)

**Amelia:** Simple!

(Amelia simply grabs a small coin purse, and throws it over to Ami.)

**Amelia:** Ami, catch!

**Ami:** I got it!

(She says with a smile on her face as she grabs hold of the coin purse with her right tail.)

**Amelia:** Now, let me get your birthday present, and then you can explain the rules of *Dungeons and Dragons* on the way back home.

(Amelia says, heading over to Ami, holding a recyclable bag with the book in it.)

**Amelia:** How's that fair for you, Ami?

**Ami:** I find that very much fair for the birthday girl over here, Ames. It *is* her 11th birthday, after all, as your older sister and you as the youngest, it's our duties to buy something for the little smarty-pants of the family.

(Ami says as she later pays the cashier the total amount of the book, then receiving her change afterward. Ami looks down at Penelope as she smiles, Ami places a hand on the tall birthday girl's shoulder.)

**Ami:** Ain't that right, Penelope?

**Penelope:** *Hee-hee-hee-hee!* Yup!

(Her smile widens as she giggles.)

**Penelope:** Thanks, you two! This is the best birthday gift *EVER!*

**Ami:** Glad to hear, Penelope!

(Ami whispers to **Amelia:**, chuckling.)

**Ami:** Mission accomplished, pinkie?

**Amelia:** *Ee-hee-hee-hee-hee!* Yeah!

(She giggles happily as she gives Ami a fist bump, whispering back to her so Penelope doesn't overhear them.)

**Amelia:** Boosh! Mission accomplished, indeed, bubble butt. Awesomesauce!

**Ami:** Please don't call me that, Amy. It's *not* funny. I'm not even that big!

**Amelia:** Oh, sorry. I forgot you hated that nickname.

(Amelia says with an awkward look on her face, then whistles to herself to make the scene less awkward.)

**Ami:** Ahe-he-hem!

(Ami clears her throat as she stands up onto her feet, looking down at Penelope.)

**Ami:** So, shall we head on home to the Rose House now that we have everything paid off?

**Penelope:** Yes, please! Plus, that'll give me plenty of time to fully explain the rules of *Dungeons and Dragons* on the way back home.

**Amelia:** Awesomesauce!

**Ami:** Cool beans, Penelope. I can't wait for tonight's Dungeons and Dragons session!

**Amelia:** Ditto!

**Ami:** Say, can we go get some snacks on the way home? I got a case of munchies after all that chaos earlier.

(Amelia and Penelope groan at Ami response.)

**Amelia & Penelope:** (in unison) *YES*!!!

**Penelope:** Fine, we'll go grab something from the gas station on the way back home!