"Mami-chan, hurry up! We'll miss the grand opening of Matching-Clothes-'R'-Us!" Ami Futami whined over her shoulder to the older twin, Mami Futami. Mami laughed and raced to catch up to her sister.
"I'm coming! I can't wait to see what cute matching clothes they have," she squealed. Ami nodded.
"Yeah, yeah! And I'll bet they have cute overalls...I'm excited," she admitted. Mami grabbed her twin's hand and ran a little faster.
"Well, if we don't hurry, we'll miss it...!" she reminded Ami.
"R-right!" Ami gasped, speeding up. The twins made it in plenty of time. However, the line to get in was long, filled with many pairs of twins, mothers and daughters, and even fathers and sons.
"Eleven, twelve, thirteen...fourteen! Eh...? Ami-chan, I count fourteen pairs ahead of us!" Mami complained.
"And fourteen times two is..." Ami began, calculating the sum in her head.
"Twenty-eight!" both twins exclaimed at the same time.
"Aw, that's twenty-eight individual people in front of us," Ami moaned.
"Well, what matters is that we get there and find the fashionable overalls before anyone else," Mami said. Ami nodded.
"Excuse me," said a pair of voices from behind them. The twins turned. A pair of male twins was standing in front of them.
"Is this the line for Matching-Clothes-'R'-Us?" the younger-seeming twin asked.
Ami nodded again. "Mm-hm," she said.
The older-seeming twin smiled. "Then we made it alright."
"Aw...?! Hikaru, I count fourteen pairs ahead of us...I told you to move faster," the younger twin whined.
"There are fifteen pairs, actually," Ami and Mami corrected.
"That's even more, Hikaru..."
"Jeez, Hikari...we got here as fast as we could. You can't blame me for being slower then you," the older twin sighed.
Ami grinned. "Oh, hey, I'm Ami!"
"And I'm Mami," Mami put in.
"And we're the Futami twins!" both girls said gleefully.
"I'm Hikari," the younger male twin introduced.
"And my name's Hikaru," the older twin added.
"We're the Takahashi twins," both boys finished.
"Nice to meet you!" all four said at once. The two pairs of twins burst out laughing.
"N fu fu, it's nice to meet other twins, at last," Mami said. "Oh...look, Ami-chan. The line is moving!"
Ami grabbed her sister's hand and began to drag her forwards. The Takahashi twins followed them. They continued to follow them until both pairs of twins had reached the section for Fashionable Overalls. It was when Ami and Hikari both reached for the same pair when Ami first realized they'd been followed. Their hands touched briefly before Hikari pulled his hand away and allowed Ami to take the pair. Ami blushed slightly.
"Hey, hey...Mami-chan, look! Hikarin and Hikachi are here too," she pointed out.
"Hm...? Oh...would ya look at that. I thought we were the only people in the world who enjoyed making bold fashion statements," Mami pointed out. Then, suddenly, a pair of arms wrapped around Mami's waist and someone grabbed the pair of overalls she'd been examining. Mami blushed and turned around to try to save the overalls. She expected to find Hikaru standing there, but instead, she was face-to-face with a black-haired boy with sharp green eyes. An identical-looking boy was a few feet behind him, but Mami's twin seemed a lot more dark than his brother.
"I needed these," Mami's twin muttered. Then he turned and handed the overalls to his brother, who squealed with delight.
"Well, y'know...I was looking at that," Mami pouted.
The boy shrugged. "So? Daichi wanted them."
"I wanted them too."
"Too bad."
"Hey, are you guys twins too?" Ami cut in.
The boy named Daichi looked up from his examination of the overalls and nodded vigorously. "Yup! I'm Daichi, and that's Dai!" he exclaimed, pointing to Mami's twin. Dai raised a hand as a greeting.
"I'm Mami, and that's Ami," Mami announced.
"Nice to meet you guys! Hey, they're cute, aren't they, Dai?" Daichi asked.
Dai shrugged. "I guess..."
Ami giggled. "Well, thanks," she said proudly.
"Are you guys here to shop for overalls too?"
"Well, Daichi is. I'm just helping him look..."
"Cool! Eh...Dai-Dai, why don't you like overalls?"
"Please don't ever call me that again..."
"Dai-Dai?"
"That's the one..."
Ami chuckled. "Dai-Dai. Dai-Dai. Dai-Dai."
"Shut up already!"
Mami laughed. "Ami-chan, you're evil..."
Ami nodded. "Yup!"
"Hey, Ami-chan, look at this pair," Hikari suddenly cut in. Ami turned and laughed at the ridiculousness of the polka-dotted, bright orange overalls in his hands. Hikari laughed back. Mami smiled and started looking for overalls again. For the rest of the time, the three pairs of twins laughed and searched and shopped. Ami and Mami walked home together afterwards, carting three shopping bags stuffed with clothes between them.
"You think Nii-chan will be mad that we spent his money?" Ami asked.
Mami shrugged. "I dunno."
"I hope I get to see them again some day," Ami sighed wistfully. "Hikarin and Daichi-pyon, that is."
"Well, I'd love to see Dai-Dai and Hikachi again too," Mami said. "They seemed fun...well, Hikachi at least."
Ami nodded. "Yeah, yeah! I'm glad I got their phone numbers. I wonder if they understand symbol-and-faces-texting, the way we do it."
Mami smiled. "Let's hope so." For the rest of the day, the twins thought of their newly-discovered potential loves.