For this installment of 10 Questions, it’s double the pleasure and double the fun. Sun Assistant Managing Editor Jasmine Marcus interviews not one, but two senior gymnasts: Jill Dean and Molly Parker. They talked about a few popular topics of conversation, ranging from being kidnapped to watching Jersey Shore to planning the perfect Valentine’s Day.

1. My first question I’ll make about gymnasts. Is there any beef between the gymnasts and cheerleaders?

M: I don’t think there’s a beef.

J: It depends on who you ask. Maybe some of the more hardcore gymnasts, but we’re all about love, not hate. We’re friends with some of the cheerleaders. And [Molly] loves the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. It’s her dream. She loves their workout tape and the show about making the squad.

So that’s like your dream?

M: [Laughs] Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I’m not going to grad school anymore, I’m just going to try out for the Dallas Cheerleaders.

Which event in gymnastics is the best?

J: Obviously the bars, because we both do it. And I do a little bit of beam — I just dabble mostly.

Any major falls or injuries?

J: We fall a lot, unfortunately. Last semester, Molly knocked herself out twice.

M: I got two concussions!

J: She ate the bar!

M: I ate the bar once, and then I fell on my head.

J: She was loopy for a while. Me not so much.

M: Except for …

J: [Interrupting] Oh! There’s this skill where I run and jump over the bar, and for some reason, I keep hitting my hands into the bar and just Superman-ing onto the floor.

M: She just jumps over and belly flops onto the ground.

J: See? I’ve cut my legs up [Rolls up sweatpants and displays cuts].

Does it hurt?

J: Yeah it hurts! But mostly my pride.

How do you first get the confidence to try a trick like that and not think you’re going to kill yourself?

M: Well, most of the time we just do think we’re going to kill ourselves.

J: We might get scared, but we get each other going and we yell at each other.

M: Really gymnastics doesn’t make sense. You shouldn’t be able to do it.

J: I get scared a lot, but Molly yells at me, so I go for it.

2. Molly, tell me about the time that you were kidnapped.

M: Oh goodness.

J: I wasn’t involved in that either. They brought her to me. And it was all our class. There wasn’t any hazing, let me be clear. And I feigned illness so as not to be involved. “I don’t feel good. I don’t want to go kidnap Molly.”

M: It was a Saturday night and instead of going out, I was like, “I’m so tired. I’m just going to go to sleep.” And all of a sudden, I’m like passed out in my bed —

J: [Interrupting] At like 10:30! A little early for the weekend.

M: … I hear a bang-bang-bang on my door! I open the door — or actually I think it was unlocked because I always kept it unlocked. And all the sudden, all the freshmen on the team barrel roll into my room in all black. With black under their eyes, sunglasses on their eyes. They’re like, “We’re coming to get you!” — Trying to talk all tough and they grab me, carry me out of the dorm, carry me all the way from Dickson through RPCC. And I was in Psych 101 at the time and I’m a Psych T.A. now, and I’m like yelling, “Bystander non-intervention!” and no one’s doing anything! They’re just dragging me up the stairs of RPCC, dropping me on the concrete, dragging me to the Townhouses, but it was all in good fun.

J: It was insane. I was like, “What? What am I supposed to do?”

M: It was all good. It was fun.

3. Ok, so hometowns. [To Jill] I know you’re from New Jersey. So am I.

J: Ohhhh, Jersey!!!

M: I hear about New Jersey all the time because she and our other roommate are both from there.

Jill, I hear that your teammates are trying to get you to look more like Snookie.

J: Oh Snookers!

They’re trying to get you to dye your hair and get a spray tan? [Laughter]

M: It will happen.

J: No.

M: It is going to happen!

J: Molly tries to bribe me to do it and try to give in to pressure. She does it all the time. We’re at the tanning bed, and the guy’s like, “Yeah, you should do it!”

So you made it all the way to the tanning place?

J: Well, we were tanning, just not spray tanning. And I did dye my hair dark —

M: [Interrupting] To look like Snookie!

J: No! Don’t tell her that! She is my favorite character because she’s out of her mind. But I don’t strive to be like her.

M: [Interrupting] She says that but … she even gives herself a bump.

You have a bumpit?

J: No!

M: Just saying. She does flip it nice and big.

Also, one of your teammates called you a guido [laughter]. True or false?

J: I’m not Italian. I’m Irish and Polish. I think they’re jerking your chain a little bit. I do love watching Jersey Shore though.

If I weren’t from New Jersey myself, I might ask if it’s common for New Jerseyans to eat dog biscuits.

M: She’s eaten dog food more than once.

J: My dad is a little crazy. In a good way. He’s cool. And we were feeding my dog once and he just pops one in his mouth. I was like, “You did not just do that!” And he’s like, “I dare you to.” So I tried it, and it was disgusting. Then, at my friend’s house when I was 13, there were these things that looked like cookies. They were iced and decorated, and her mom always kept treats on the counter.

So you ate one?

J: Well, I took a bite. I couldn’t even bite it because it was hard and tasted like sand.

Yuck. Does being from New Jersey have any affect on your driving?

J: I’m a horrible driver. I don’t get tickets. I just need to be told what to do.

M: I have to tell her to stop at stop signs. It’s that bad.

J: I like to drive with someone. I don’t ever like to drive by myself.

M: The funniest thing is, it started snowing over intersession and I had to tell her how to drive in the snow. And I’m from Tennessee!

J: [Mimicking Molly] Slow down, Jill, because it’s going to be hard to stop. Don’t accelerate!

4. Molly, since you’re from Tennessee, I hear you sometimes turn your accent on a bit more when you need to get your way. Or maybe when you need to raise money for the gymnastics team?

M: Oh yeah.

J: [Imitating Molly in a high-pitched Southern accent] Hiiiiiii!

M: Every year I get the big donors because I can get the most money out of them.

J: They also give her the sheet with the biggest donors on it.

M: Yeah, because they know I can get even more out of them.

J: When she gets on the phone, she has this sugar-sweet voice.

Can you demonstrate?

J: But the newspaper doesn’t have sound.

I know, but I want to hear.

M: [Playing up her accent] Hi, this is Molly Parker.

What’s the highest donation you’ve gotten?

M: Someone gave $1,500 plus taking us out to dinner at a meet.

Cool. So you aspire to be a southern belle.

J: She wants to be the Sandra Bullock character from The Blind Side.

M: Yeah, pretty much. I saw that movie, and that’s who I’m going to be.

So you’re going to find a football player to raise?

M: Oh yeah. I try to hang out around as many football players right now as possible. Just so I can get to be more like Sandra [laughter].

5. So would that be your pick for the team you’d most like to hang out with?

[Both simultaneously] Definitely.

We got that question out of the way early.

6. Speaking of sports, I hear you sometimes get into wrestling matches yourselves.

M: Oh yeah. We’ve fought each other. We spend so much time together. We’re best friends, and it’s good, but sometimes it gets a little much.

J: We know how to push each other’s buttons.

M: There was a bus ride down to a meet at William and Mary for like 10 hours.

J: It was nine hours both ways. Plus it was a long weekend meet.

M: So after that, we just pushed each other’s buttons.

J: She threw my pillow on the ground and stomped on it.

M: She tore my glasses off!

J: We slapped each other.

M: We were mad for about five minutes, and then it blew over.

So who won the fight?

[Both simultaneously] Me!

J: No, I’ve got like six inches on her.

M: It doesn’t matter.

So is it true that gymnastics stunts your growth?

J: Some people say that, but it didn’t stunt mine.

Unless you would’ve been 5-10.

J: Oh god. Amazon.

Then you could’ve been on the basketball team instead.

J: Oh yeah. Haha. I’m not even the tallest girl on the team. There’s three taller. I don’t realize how short everyone is, though, until we go around regular people, and then I’m like, “All my friends are up to my shoulders.”

M: I put on five-inch heels, and I’m her height, and she’s like, “Whoa, nice to see you!”

J: Yeah, then she’s at eye-level.

Molly, I hear your mom wears some interesting shoes.

M: So most of the gymnastics parents come to meets in jeans, sneakers and Cornell gymnastics sweatshirts. Not my mom. My mom does herself up. Doesn’t wear heels lower than four or five inches.

J: It started though, because our trainer — who’s hot, by the way —

M: [Interrupting] She’s a cougar!

J: She wears these little outfits. Always looks dressed to a T. Wears these spike heels around the floor. So her mom was just like, “Jocelyn!”

M: So [my mom and our trainer] sort of have a competition going on —

J: [Interrupting] Over whose heels win.

M: Our first meet, we’re on the bus and we see my mom walking outside. She’s got like snakeskin —

J: [Interrupting] Cheetah print!

M: — Four-inch boots on with a black dress. I was like, “Yup. That’s my mom.”

[To Jill] Is her mom a cougar?

J: Oh yeah [laughter].

7. Jill, I hear that you were once mistaken for being your sister’s mom?

J: I’m one of five kids and little sister is four. So last year, we went on vacation to Florida during study week —

[Interrupting] You went on vacation during study week? [laughter]

J: I’m a dedicated student! … Anyway, I was carrying my sister in this open air restaurant, and they had a bar area where we were sitting, and there was a band playing. It was like 8 o’clock, so my mom was like, “Oh, go take Tara to the bar to see the band!”

So your mom encouraged this?

J: Yeah! So I was walking, and this waitress goes —

[Both simultaneously] Git your baby outta the bar!

J: I didn’t even argue with her. I was just like, “OK!” And it was Mother’s Day, and people kept coming up to be me being like, “Happy Mother’s Day, hun!” and I was just like, “Thank you.”

I don’t think I’ll ever look old enough that people are going to believe I have kids.

J: It’s weird, I just got a new car, and when I went into the car dealership, and the lady was like, “You don’t even look old enough to drive!”

M: Yet, you do look old enough to be a mother.

It’s like [MTV’s] Teen Mom.

M: She loves MTV. Any show on MV or TLC. Preferably about mothers with lots of children.

J: No, that’s not what I watch all the time!

M: All the time! She loves the Duggars.

J: It’s like a freak show. But they have attractive kids.

Do they have a Jill?

J: Yes.

Is her name just Jill? [laughter]

M: Yes! That’s actually what she goes by: “Just Jill.”

How did you get the name Jill?

J: I don’t know. I guess my parents didn’t like the name Jillian, which doesn’t really make sense. It’s pretty much what people assume my name is anyway.

Does that bother you?

J: It doesn’t bother me except for when girls from the team make a big deal about it. One tradition we have is to decorate each other’s lockers. And Molly drew my name even though it’s supposed to be random, and she wrote JUST JILL all down the front.

8. So you guys live pretty far away from College Ave. Is that why your favorite bar is Dunbars?

M: Funbars!

J: Yeah, Funbars!

M: It’s because they have a popcorn machine.

J: Yeah, the popcorn machine is key.

And also a certain bartender?

M: We both love all the bartenders.

J: Molly has a little um … interest in one of them.

You don’t have boyfriends?

M: No, we’re both single ladies.

J: We both just broke up with our boyfriends. It’s a fun time in the life of Jill and Molly.

Molly, I hear that you like to text people saying, “Jill wants you.”

[laughter]

J: Molly will go out of her way to embarrass me.

M: Well, OK. A lot of it goes back to us being at school for three weeks with —

J: [Interrupting] no one on campus.

M: This is what we do to keep ourselves entertained. We go through our phonebooks, and say, “Who can say awkward things to about Jill?”

J: It’s OK when they know Molly is doing it for kick —

M: [Interrupting] — But when they don’t know we’re doing it for kicks, it makes for really awkward conversations! I never let up, I just keep going —

J: [Interrupting] — And then I have to go, “By the way, Molly was kidding before.” I don’t care though. I thrive off of awkward situations.

Jill, I hear you also like to try out pick-up lines on people.

M: What’s your favorite?

J: What’s uppppppp?! [Laughter] I don’t know. They all escape me right now. Long story short, I don’t really need to use pickup lines.

You have enough game?

J: Yeah, I got some game, I think. [Molly laughs]

Now explain to me what “The Glow” is.

[Both simultaneously] Oh god!

J: Now you see Molly’s chrome-plated blackberry? The glow is like, say you see someone get a text message and you see them look at their phone, and they go like this [makes a dreamy face]

M: [Interrupting] — and then they’re smiling.

[Both] That’s “Da Glo.” Spelled D-A G-L-O.

J: I always call Molly out on Da Glo. And I know when she’s texting certain men.

Such as a certain bartender?

J: They may or may not be.

Someone told me you’re obsessed with getting married?

M: What?!

J: Quite the opposite, actually. I may never get married, at this point.

9. I also hear that you guys are each other’s Valentine’s Day dates.

J: Oh yeah. We have a special date planned. Well, because we’re both single this year. So instead of being disappointed and depressed —

M: [Interrupting] — we’re going to buy each other gifts. And dinner.

J: OK. We’re going to start off the day with Dunkin Donuts. Molly gets a large iced coffee with two Sweet N Lows and skim milk.

M: And Jill gets a large hot coffee with skim milk and sugar.

And the toothless manager knows you guys?

M: Yeah, we walk in and he pretty much knows our orders.

J: It’s like, “I’ll have —” and he’s like, “Yeah, I know. You’ve been here the last three days.”

Do you ever get the free donuts they give out at the end of the night?

M: We haven’t quite gotten there yet.

J: But I don’t know if he’d expect anything from us in return. So it’s best to pay for our donuts.

M: You mean you don’t want to hook up with a toothless man?

J: No, I don’t want him gumming me! [laughter]

M: Alright, back to our Valentine’s Day date.

J: After Dunkin Donuts, we’ll watch some TV, lay around.

M: Then we’ll exchange our gifts.

J: Then we’ll go out to dinner at Moe’s.

M: Or Maxie’s. We haven’t quite made up our minds yet.

J: Yeah, that’s Southern food. So it’s kind of her thing.

M: Then we have a movie date planned.

J: We’re going to see Valentine’s Day. The ultimate non-Valentine’s Day. We’re going to make fun of everyone who’s actually there and got dragged by their girlfriends to see it.

M: Then we’ll probably watch the sun set.

J: Definitely.

Where?

J: By the lake.

M: Obviously. We’ll take a walk around Beebe Lake.

J: Holding hands.

M: Maybe skipping.

Walking around the lake is on the 161 list.

J: Well then we gotta do it!

M: Then we’ll probably call it a night.

J: Yeah, we’ll have practice the next day.

M: It’s better than being disappointed.

J: You can’t be disappointed when you’re with your best friend!

10. Now, for the question I ask everyone since my name is Jasmine: If you could be any Disney character, which would you be, and why?

J: Oh, mine would be Jasmine. She’s the hottest. I also don’t like the other movies. Beauty and the Beast always scared me.

M: Jasmine’s my favorite too. She has the hottest outfits.

J: Yeah, you don’t want to be one of the other dead, sleeping princesses. She’s got a little bit of sass. Like when she puts on the red outfit and plays Jafar. That’s kind of cool.

M: Jill actually got all of her relationship advice from the movie. [laughter] She’s like, “Oh, I’m going to play him, like Jasmine plays Jafar!”

J: I’m not a player!

Jasmine Marcus can be reached at jmarcus@corellsun.com. Email her and maybe you’ll give her “Da Glo.” If you want to hear more ramblings, follow Jasmine, Jill and Molly through their Twitter alter egos: Jazzym, jdean88 and missmollieparker.