Kerith and Jaryn arrived back at their towering skyscraper late at night. Jaryn paced across the living room full of frustration. Each step clicked on the black and white tiled floor and echoed throughout the room. Both of the twins had changed back into their silver-black crew outfits. Jeans were not the least bit their style.
As Jaryn strode across the glossy floor, Kerith searched the Internet on his laptop.
"I don't know what to do dear brother, Taye and Lil'T are popular, but they dance and play mini golf, I-I don't know how to fix our reputation," Jaryn sighed, bringing her hand to her forehead.
"Sister, that was only one crew, there are plenty left we could talk to," Kerith explained, eyes glued on the computer screen.
"Then who do you propose we talk to next?" Jaryn asked, taking a seat beside her twin on the sofa. Kerith paused for a moment before he spoke.
"What about Hi Def? Both Mo and Glitch seem popular with tons of people, just look at these comments," Kerith suggested, passing Jaryn the black laptop. Jaryn's grey eyes became fixed on the glowing screen. She read on of the comments,
"Christina10155 says: OMG… Glitch is like my boyfriend lol…. What the heck? Kerith that doesn't even make sense!" Jaryn practically yelled in frustration.
"Glitch has tons of fan girls, they seem like the next crew we need advice from," Kerith shrugged, taking back his laptop and scrolling through more comments.
"Oh alright, if you really think they can help us," Jaryn sighed and folded her pale arms together.
~The Next Morning~
The Glitteratis wandered the streets.
"Brother? How do you suppose we find Mo and Glitch exactly?" Jaryn asked. After all they had been wandering around the busy streets all morning. Kerith shrugged,
"I don't know, I was hoping you might," Jaryn slapped her hand against her forehead.
"Ugh, talking to Hi Def was your idea!" Jaryn spoke with rage. Kerith didn't respond. Jaryn sat down on the curb and buried her face in hands.
"Now I'll never be cherished," she mumbled.
Crowds started cheering somewhere distantly, only there were no crowds in the streets.
"Kerith do you hear that?" Jaryn asked, eyes darting all around in search of the cheering crowd.
"Yes, it sounds like….." Kerith started.
"Music!" Jaryn cut in, leaping to her feet, "Come on!" She excitedly pulled her brother in the direction of the music. She looked all around; the streets were practically empty. There was no way a crowd that loud could be so far away.
"It sounds like it's coming from down there," Kerith pointed to the old subway station stairs.
"The subway? But why would there be a crowd down there?" Jaryn asked out of confusion. She didn't let her twin answer. Instead she raced down the cement stair to the old, graffiti cover subway station. Jaryn gasped and smiled at the sight. Mo and Glitch stood dancing to Run(I'm a Natural Disaster) in the middle of a huge crowd. The colorful b-boys danced signature popping and locking moves and the crowd went nuts. The boom box played music loud enough to shatter your eardrums, but that didn't keep the crowd away. Jaryn and Kerith joined the crowd at the back, attempting to draw less attention back there. Hi Def finished their performance and the crowd screamed louder.
"Yo thanks! We'll be here all week!" The young dance genius smiled and waved to the clearing crowd. Jaryn and Kerith jumped at the chance to talk to the break-dancers. They dashed forward.
"Whoa! Are you freaks tryin' to jack our style? Steal our swag?" Glitch confronted them, much less afraid than Lil'T was.
"Yeah," Mo started, "What brings ya down underground? Your skyscraper's that way,"
"Look I know we may not have gotten along well in the past, but we need your help," Jaryn pleaded. Mo looked at Glitch, both with their eyebrows raised.
"How bout No?" Glitch replied, as he turned and started to walk away. Mo grabbed the back of Glitch's neon color bar shirt.
"Hold up lil man, lets here 'em out first," Mo suggestedm looking at the twins under his hooded eyes.
"Thank you," Jaryn said, almost in a sarcastic, rude way.
"What do ya want?" Glitch sighed.
"We hear you are pretty popular, and we really want to fix our reputation with our fans…" Kerith explained.
"What fans?" Glitch asked. Kerith ignored his comment and continued,
"So.. can you please help us?"
"Um….no," Mo answered and both b-boys turned to leave.
"Wait!" Jaryn shouted desperately, "We'll pay you!"
Glitch and Mo whipped back around.
"You were sayin'?" Mo asked.
"We just want to be popular and have fans like you and Glitch," Jaryn explained.
"Don't worry, it took me time to get as many fans as I got now, wait no it didn't," Glitch boasted.
"If ya wanna be like us, ya gotta listen to everything we tell ya, aight?" Mo offered.
"Alright, alright, anything you say," Jaryn agreed, "So what do we need to know first?"
"Swag," Glitch replied simply.
"Swag?" Kerith asked.
"Yeah swag, ya know S-W-A-"
"I know how to spell swag Glitch!" Jaryn shouted, "Just tell us how to be like you," Jaryn calmed herself down.
"Aight just walk like this, and talk like me," Mo explained, walking with a bounce in his step.
"Okay," Kerith and Jaryn walked their normal fresh off the runway walks.
"No, no, no, no, stop. What part of SWAG didn't ya understand?" Glitch shook his head.
"Okay, okay, forget swag, just tell us why everybody likes you guys," Kerith sighed.
" 'Cause, nobody can resist this," Glitch explained, gesturing to himself. Mo rolled his eyes.
"I dunno what it is, we dance, people love us, not a whole lot to it," Mo said simply. Jaryn turned to her twin.
"She I told you this would be hopeless! Talking to a couple of idiot hoods!" Jaryn said, half whispering, half screaming. Kerith didn't respond.
"And that, is why we got da fans and you don't," Mo explained.
"Okay, we'll just go I guess," Kerith sighed.
"Um eh hem, cash please," Glitch held out his hand.
"Ugh, here's fifty bucks, just get a hair cut or something," Jaryn sighed, paying the b-boys for their o-so helpful advice.
"No way, the ladies dig the hair," Glitch explained and the Glitteratis rolled their eyes in sync. Hi Def packed up their boom box and left the subway station, which was now silent aside from passing trains.
"Well that was a great use of my precious time, Jaryn said sarcastically.
