Open in the Cafeteria (Anna and Andrea are brainstorming Heartbeat Article Ideas)

Andrea: Have you ever tried banana nut ice cream?

Anna: hell nah.

Andrea: So…you don’t know ball.

Anna:  No, YOU don’t know ball.

Andrea: Have you even tried it?

Anna: Of course not, I’m just spiritually in-tune with ice cream flavors. Banana nut sucks.

Andrea: Well I mean you never know unless you try. And what’s your favorite flavor, expert?

Anna: …Rum raisin.

Andrea: Of course YOU would think that.

Anna: Fine, fine, I’ll go try it.

Cut scene to the mall

*After an intense shopping spree where Anna and Andrea blew hundreds of bucks, they finally  remember to eat the banana nut ice cream for their Heartbeat article instead of attaining new clothes…*

Andrea: Anna are you ready for the most full-bodied, bodacious, beautiful, banana inducing ice cream of your 16 year old life? This is your future!!!

Anna: Oh freak no.

Andrea: Well take a bite…please… It’s melting on my hand.

Anna reluctantly takes a nibble

Anna: Yo this kinda tastes like if my cat and dog jumped each other, scratched my eye out and then said their wedding vows to each other.

Andrea: Uhhhh… What are you on?

Anna: It’s bad

Andrea: You know what Anna? Life is like a box of chocolates, you gotta gobble them up one by one, then eat banana nut ice cream. I know it’s weird now but the trees, the nature, the world, has been created for this moment… because you are banana nut ice cream, we are.

Anna: Uhmmm…I think my dad pulled in the driveaway…

Andrea: We’re INSIDE a mall.

*They both walk away, with satisfied stomachs, yearning for more ice cream whether it’s banana nut or rum raisin*

Andrea: Damn, now we gotta write an article about this

Anna: Yeah I lowkey don’t know how to start, I hope it doesn’t get cut…

Editor’s Note: Article did indeed get cut from print due to space contraints.