open to: everyone
setting: large grocery store
assume connections or be strangers!!
alright, so, like, grocery stores are for buying food. sage knows this. she has a full understanding of the purpose of grocery stores – and yet she’s standing in the back of aisle seven, no cart in sight, in a casual-but-poppin’ fit. it is later than the average shopping hour – 11 o’clock and change – so it’s the perfect time for her task.
‘perfect,’ she thinks, scouring the shelves for the right look. she’s in the cereal aisle, which is classic enough to be hashtag funny and relatable, and colorful enough to rack up the likes. it’s genius, really, and she’s been working on this for far too long to let it just happen within the confines of her apartment. no, no, it’s time for the world – both the real one and the fake phone one – to experience this.
she takes her phone and places it across the aisle, resting against a box of pancake batter until she has the right angle. check. going well so far. head swivels to the left, then the right – coast continues to be clear. without hesitation, she reaches down to slide her sneakers off her feet, leaving her in a pair of mismatched colorful socks on the linoleum. the shoes end up on her hands, and, well – phase one is complete.
until she realizes that she definitely needs her finger to press start. that’s an issue that’s quickly resolved by the existence self-timer, so, check. she silently thanks whoever invented that and steps further back, taking a look at what the shot’s about to look like. sweet.
and then she slides her socked-feet back over to her phone, ready to make it all happen. that is until she hears a cart squeak by her aisle and, realizing her hands are literally inside her shoes right now, sharply turns her head towards the noise.
“i promise, this is so not what it looks like. i don’t know if it looks like anything – but it’s so not.”
CUTE.
it’s the first concrete thought when iris rounds the corner, stopping and taking breath just to watch. is it surprising that her roommate is currently sliding on her socks, wearing sneakers for hands?? no. it’s only surprising that evie isn’t gracing pirouettes around her, holding the camera for all the world to see. better than the show is the applause--- if a middle aged woman with shaking head and muttering something about this damn city, exiting stage right can be counted as such. ‘ you really have a way with the ladies, kid. ‘