Aereopagitica: Friday [6-30]

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana opened the store a little late today. She'd been out wandering till all hours of the morning and it had seemed to keep Whitney a little at bay. But she'd be lucky if she didn't fall asleep at the counter today.

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[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Silent Bob wandered in, sans a still-mopey Jay, and tried not to look too dreadfully out of place.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana smiled at them. "Hi, what can I do for you?"

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Silent Bob gestured at the empty Jay-shaped space beside him with his thumb, then pulled an exaggerated sad face. A series of complex gestures describing curves and little walking fingers conveyed that the source of the sadness was a girl. Bob patted the non-Jay on the back before gesturing around at the books with an expression of perplexion as to their helpfulness in this matter.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana watched him carefully. "Your friend is having problems with a girl and you're looking for a book to help him?"

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Silent Bob nodded. The girl (indicated with the same curvy gesture) had left (walking fingers) making Jay sad (sad face and a point next to him) which made (Bob pointed to himself) sad as well. He offered a hopeful grin that she'd be able to help.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana took a deep breath and thought about it for a moment. "The way I see it we can go two ways. We can hit the self-help section and see what we can find or we can go with humor. Anything your friend finds particularly funny?" she asked, leading her way over towards the shelves in question.

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Silent Bob rolled his eyes and made a vaguely obscene gesture, then smiled apologetically. He hadn't meant to be quite so rude in getting his point across.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana blushed, but nodded. "Well, I don't know how much of that we have, but what we do would probably be in this section." She pointed it out to him. "Otherwise... we could go with the self-help?"

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Silent Bob glanced at the humour section. Not precisely Jay's cup of tea. Self-help would probably be better, as it would be Bob doing all of the reading.

He nodded, looking away from the humour.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana led the way over to the self-help shelves. "Let's see... books on getting over a relationship or books about being happier with yourself.... Any preference?"

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Bob frowned, considering. He pointed towards the section on being happier about oneself. If there was anything the king of fag jokes and insulting others needed, it was a self-image pick-me-up. Bob was intuitive like that.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana nodded. "Good choice. Happier overall will make everything a little easier, right?" She rummaged through the books, coming up with two that seemed fairly easy to get into and not too girly. "One of these, maybe?"

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Bob took them, flipping them over to read the backs thoroughly. He appreciated the non-girlyness, grinning cheerfully at Lana before he took them. After a moment he selected one and handed the other back to her with another smile.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Excellent choice, I think," Lana said, putting the second book back on the shelf. "Anything else while you're here or should I just ring that up for you?"

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Bob considered. He didn't do much reading of anything that didn't involve centrefolds, but he was supposed to be somewhat of a teacher now. He gave her an enquiring look as he mimed filming something.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana nodded. "Film studies, sure." She led the way to another area. "There are all sorts of books here about filming, the making of movies and TV... pretty much anything you could want."

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Silent Bob's eyes lit up and he descended on the books almost gleefully. After several minutes of rummaging and rifling he pulled out a book on documentaries. He pointed to the book, then in the general direction of the school, then back at himself with a proud grin.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana smiled at him. "Right. You're teaching the documentary workshop at the school. Neat. That certainly looks like something that could be helpful."

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Silent Bob nodded emphatically, his eyes expressing some of his lostness of this past summer semester. He patted the book gratefully.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana smiled warmly at him. "Should I ring both of those up for you, then?"

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Bob nodded with a grin, trailing after her in the general direction of the cash and digging in his pocket, hoping he had enough to pay for them. This workshop thing was pro bono, and their particular line of work was big with the irregular pay.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana rung up the books and handwavily told him the amount.

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Silent Bob dug into his pocket and came up with a number of crumpled bills, some loose change, and a dime bag. The last he hurried stuffed back in with an apologetic smile and counted out the remainder. Just enough.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana took the money and carefully slipped the books into a bag for him, before handing them back to him with a smile. "There you go. Thanks for coming in and good luck with cheering your friend up."

[silent-robert.livejournal.com]

Bob smiled, nodded, and exited. Hopefully he could drag Jay out of this funk without resorting to fluffy kittens and John Hughes.