Eavesdropped Conversation

KIM: They're little balls. You spin and play with them and they make little chiming noises.
DEEPTI: Whee! They came in that nice little case?
KIM: They sell them pretty cheap.
DEEPTI: Really? I've been going to all the expensive places then.
KIM: Well, they're not high quality. The high quality ones are actually supposed to be for therapeutic use. Those are just balls. . . as raunchy as that sounds.
DEEPTI: How on earth. . . I mean a ball's a ball.
KIM: You hold them like this and you squeeze them together. . . It's called a meditation ball. When you use it properly, I dunno. One time I saw a guy using four balls and moving them between his fingers and reversing directions and stuff and I was like whoa. *pause* I have so many things I need to get framed. Look, here's a jungle piece poster. *pause* Master chicken!
DEEPTI: When I first saw it, I thought that was kind of frightening.
KIM: Eventually, I'll put them in my bathroom and have a whole jungle thing going and scare everyone and have them say you spend too much time on your bathroom.
DEEPTI: I think it looks really cool!
KIM: I'm so disorganized right now and I'm like it's my own fault too. I'll come back and be like yeah, I'll organize my stuff and then I'll spend the rest of the evening typing online with friends and never get anything done. Bleah! You know, I was so desperate to procrastinate yesterday, I went grocery shopping and then tackled a whole mound of dishes before I actually sat down to study. I'm a freak.
DEEPTI: Ha ha! Look at me, okay? What are you talking about, a freak? I'm a complete nut!
KIM: You're scary sometimes. *pause* You're such an activist person. I swear Circle K'll say "Damn it, Kim! Do some community service or you're out of the club!"
DEEPTI: It's fun though. You can have a fun time and vixit your friends. *pause* *with an acent* La di da. I can talk in whatever accent I feel like!
KIM: Stop! You're scaring me! Hey, want to talk to my brother?
DEEPTI: Don't tell him it's me! *pause* It's so cold out there.
KIM: Beep!
DEEPTI: That was so funny, what Deb did! To a perfect stranger!
KIM: Yeah, I know! *pause* See, I can spell!
DEEPTI: Yeah, like Deb can. She told me I should go to a clinique. I was like, hon, that's a beauty product! She did it like four or five times! I finally started ignoring it, and she was like that place with the padded rooms and stuff. I said that's a clinic! *pause* Whee!
KIM: Well, at least you're not like Tom!
DEEPTI: Why? What does Tom do to it?
KIM: He'll invert its head somehow and be it's the headless lizard! And I'm like, yeah, that's hilarious.
DEEPTI: *hums*
KIM: You're having way too much fun girl!
DEEPTI; I'm a total psycho! Psycho!
KIM: Crazy girl! *pause* I can't believe how much dust there is in my room. It's like every time I turn around there's dust everywhere. Beh!
DEEPTI: Blah?
KIM: Yeah, just randomly blah. It scares people. *pause* What time's your first class tomorrow?
DEEPTI: 9:00. Badminton.
KIM: Ah, that's mindless. You mean, you're taking it just for fun?
DEEPTI: Yeah. I mean, I'm getting units for it, but it's just for kicks yeah.
KIM: Oh. . . do you actually get a grade in those classes?
DEEPTI: Well, you get a P as long as you don't miss more than 3 classes.


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