Jane's Aunt Lois
On day at the local Pizza Prince in boring old Lawndale, the Snarky Duo, Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane were eating pizza, drinking coffee, and in Daria's case also reading a newspaper.
All of a sudden in the middle of their usual, delicious routine Daria broke ranks by making an amused sound in her throat.
"See something funny?" Jane asked, "Like the funnies?"
"Nope." Daria replied while lowering the paper down, and shocked the hell out of Jane by revealing that her face bore a Mona Lisa grin.
"Daria!"
Daria just kept up the half-smile and said, "Your Aunt Lois got into quite the scrape."
She then handed the paper to Jane, who then read the article with a stoic face before sighing with exasperation, "Oh God! And the extended clan thinks that we Lawndale Lanes are black sheep. Ha! Aunt Lois can't go one freaking day without landing into peril and needing that dude in the blue spandex to pull her bacon out of the fire."
"That's right Jane, get it all of your chest. It's not healthy to bottle it all up."
Jane just gave Daria a look.
"...Yeah, I'm not one to talk. But who cares? Your aunt's a hot mess."
"True," Jane conceded, "If she wasn't living in a town that always seems to be on the brink of total destruction me and Trent would have moved in with her ages ago. I know Summer's kids would have."
Daria winced, not wanting to open up that particular can of worms.
So instead she said, "More pizza and coffee?"
"Please!"
(fade to the credits and the lalalaLAlala...)
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