What’s your favorite thing about each other?

Lauren: I really like the way her eyelashes curl up. It really gets me.  It makes my happiness fly up like a little pigeon.

Kayla: I like that she has the most common name in the school but is so different than everyone else.

Lauren: Awww that’s so cute!

Do you guys have a nickname?

Lauren: We’re the dream team.

Kayla: Yeah.

Lauren: Cohen Squared.

Kayla: That’s so unoriginal. We’ll think about it.

What makes you guys different?

Kayla: Lauren is the funny one and knows how to make everyone smile and I’m the serious one.

Lauren: We bring the perfect balance.

What famous duo are you guys?

Kayla: Cheech and Chong.

Lauren: Ted and Robin from How I met Your Mother.

Kayla: Ghormeh sabzi and rice.

Any secret talents?

Lauren: I can fold my tongue in half.

Kayla: I trip over myself.

Favorite place at Milken?

Both: Chava’s fruit stand.

What are you going to do for the school?

Lauren: I think, I’m gonna bring a blender to Chava, so it can be like Chava smoothies or Chava Juice… I promise you right now [that you will come to] every event. YES YOU!

Where you would rather be right now:

Kayla: Well, I should be at basketball conditioning right now…

Lauren: The beach, ‘cause the beach is my scene!

Lauren: We are gonna work, work work this out… (pause) Her eyebrows get me everytime.

Kayla: You said it was my eyelashes.

Lauren: It’s both.

Check back next week for the second part of our series where we interview the 10th grade president and vice president, Aviva Fallas and Oliver Pourbaba.