Log:Sugar and Spice, Scene 4

Sugar and Spice 2006/06/01 	 Rebound|Alex Bubba Midnight|Caleb Darrell Haze|Ivy Amber and Azure|Jennifer Jinghua Nils Sunderland Logan Philippa Lorelei|Stephie 4

Caleb is standing around the gym, checking his watch from time to time.

Bubba is standing there by himself, too big for his suit. He munches on some chips.

Caleb is keeping a wary eye on Bubba, wondering what a dose of alien spores would do to the guy.

Ivy finishes a dance with Matt and then wheels him over to Becky Martin. Ivy sighs as Matt is waiting for him mom (again!) to pick him up. He's got to leave early! Well at least they had a nice meal at China Nights earlier.

Caleb has, apparently, been stood up by his date. Maybe she had to fight evil, or something.

Alex takes a break from chatting with Phil and the cheerleaders. He finds refuge with his brother. "Still no sign of her?"

Caleb eyes Bubba, and Sean, and his smoothie cup. . o O (Nah... 'f I'm not careful, I'll get the poor schlub killed. Be funny, though.)

Stephie enters from E. Colonial Heights Blvd..

Caleb scowls. "Nope... she's late. What comes of dating superheroes, I guess."

Alex is off chatting with Caleb, having been chased off by Phil and the others with an excess of cheer-talk.

Caleb is standing near the door, looking impatiently outside from time to time, chatting with his brother.

Alex pats Caleb on the shoulder.

Ivy has just left Matt alone with another hoverchair bound, Becky Martin. She's by the punch area getting a breather.

Alex says, "I'm sorry, man."

Caleb shrugs. "No big deal. Just a stupid dance." He's obviously dejected, though.

Ed and Jeff are playing the classic love songs from video games. Kibin would recognize.

Ivy wanders over to Alex and Caleb. "Hey boys."

Stephie's entrance, with Darrell, is announced by a sudden relative hush and head-turning.

Caleb waves "Hey Ive! Guess Matt's not much of a dancer, huh?"

Alex responds "Hey Ivy... Ivy? Stunning." He smiles.

Caleb 's comment falls into the sudden hush, and Caleb seems briefly embarassed.

Ivy eyes fashionably late Stephie with Darrel. Ivy comments to Alex and Caleb, "Eh it's not that. His mom wants him home early. Not sure If I can handle a mom like that.. You ever read Sons and Lovers?"

Ivy shakes her head. "I don't want to date a D. H. Lawrence.

Caleb says, "DH Lawrence, right? Nah... had to turn in a paper 'bout it couple of months ago, though."

Ivy nods to Caleb. "Yep."

Logan is on hand to take a photo of the couple as they enter. "Smile!" he says.

Caleb nods and smirks a bit. "Yeah... it's tough dating someone whose mom is so controlling. Dontcha think, Alex?"

Kelly is with Chuck Jones, from the water polo team. However her eyes glance over to Alex from time to time.

Caleb glances at Alex, then Kelly, then Alex, then his smoothie. . o O (Nah. He'd kill me.)

Ivy sips some of her punch. She asks Alex and Caleb, "Who's that girl that keeps looking at Caleb?"

Alex shrugs at Caleb's barb. "Yeah, it is."

Caleb starts. "Looking at me? Who?"

Stephie seems a bit out of sorts as she enters. Perhaps less happy than she's been lately. And she also gives a nervous look in the direction of Eva. But mostly she's just a bit distracted.

Caleb looks around.

Ivy notices all the boys watching stephie enter with darrell. She looks a bit jealous.

Jinghua is not far from Logan she sees Stephie and rushes over. "Stephie!" she comes over, intent on hugging.

Well would you look at that, Nils Sunderland is here as well. He has a nice looking girl at his arm. He comes over to Alex, "Hello Alex, I see that Philippa is wise enough keep you with your brother for this Dance."

Caleb looks Silvia over carefully and grins in her direction. Ed and Jeff change the music, playing more of an up-tempo dance mix, and Caleb shrugs. . o O (Why not? Rachel blew me off...). He puts down the smoothie cup and walks over to Sylvia. "Wanna dance?"

Eva is standing over by Phil and a couple of teh other cheerleaders. She seems strangely upbeat. She even smiles back to Stephie.

Sylvia smiles to Caleb. "Yes! I mean.. Sure.." She blushes a little.

Stephie smiles and hugs, genuinely enough, to see Jinghua, but at this range Jinghua can see she's been crying. "Hi, how are you?" And she whispers, "Who did Eva come with?"

Ivy smiles as Caleb goes over to Silvia. Seeing Nils approach she departs to the punch area again.

Caleb drops Cup of Maroon Worm Spores. Caleb and Silvia start dancing. Caleb actually turns out to be a remarkably good dancer... who knew?

The sound of the dance-mix catches Jinghua's attention for a moment and she smiles, recognizing the song. Then her mood becomes a bit more sombre. "Stephie, what's wrong?"

Stephie shakes her head. "It's nothing." Stephie manages to force a smile, if not easily.

Jennifer enters from E. Colonial Heights Blvd..

Alex says, "Nils, apparently, I'm all alone now. Who's your date?"

Sylvia dances happily with Caleb.

Alex thinks. o O ( Is she your cousin or what? )

Nils tells Alex, "This is my cousin, Sara Sunderland."

Jennifer arrives late and remains in the background.

Ivy spots Jennifer and goes over to say hello. "Hey Jen! Where's your sister?"

Alex cracks a wry smile. He takes Sara's hand and nods his head in a mini-bow. "Delighted."

Sylvia asks Caleb about school and stuff.

Jinghua eyes Stephie a little suspiciously... "Are you sure? We can go somemplace quiet and talk about it." She offers.

Sara is polite and greets Alex. Nils takes her away, "We have a dance!" He does his special dance with Sara.

Jennifer smiles shyly to Ivy and tells her, "Jessie is working tonight."

Ivy nods to Jennifer. "You want some punch?" She tells the new comer, "My date had to go home because he's a momma's boy." She sighs unhappily.

Caleb has gotten really into the music, and is executing a complex bit of athletic footwork. He hardly pays any attention to Sylvia.

Sylvia tries to keep up but, she's not that good of a dancer.

Alice Springs.. on the other hand is an excellent dancer.

No one can keep up with Alice...

Jennifer nods, "Yes, thank you, I'd like some punch." She looks sympathetic about Ivy's date going early.

Ivy goes to grab a cup of punch for Jennifer.

Alex waves hello to Jennifer. "Hi again."

Caleb notices the Markham sister as she enters and makes his way over to her. "Hey Jess! Glad you made it!"

Stephie surveys the room, and wonders where Ivy's date is.

Sylvia sighs and goes back too standing by herself as Caleb leaves her alone.

Ivy goes to say hi to Stephie as Caleb and Alex start chatting with Jennifer. Ivy says, "Hey Stephie!"

Jennifer smiles to Caleb. "Hello, Caleb. How are you doing?"

Stephie says, "Hey Ivy. Where's Matt?"

Jinghua tries to grab Stephie by the hand and drag her onto the dance floor. "Let's dance! You'll feel better!"

Jennifer also smiles at Alex. "Hello."

Ivy rolls her eyes. "Matt, That momma's boy. Had to go home early cuz his mom called."

Stephie says, "Oh, uh -!"

Ivy asks Stephie, "Um you ok?" She glares at the cheerleaders, "They picking on you?"

Caleb grins. "Doin' great, 'xcept my date blew me off. Coworker of yours. Wanna dance?"

Stephie os dragged to the dance floor.

Ivy follows Stephie to the dance floor to make sure she's ok.

Jennifer asks Caleb, "Co-worker?"

Seeing that Alex is not with Philippa, Sean approaches. "Ahem.. Alex.. do you wanna.. um dance?"

Jinghua bounces onto the dance floor she begins to dance, trying to rival Alice's moves.

Alice smiles to Jinghua and starts dancing up a storm. There's a circle of teens around, watching the action.

Caleb nods to Jen. "Yeah - Rachel. Flare. She's a Starguard type, right? They got her out savin' the world or somethin?"

Alex says. "Sean. I'll only say it one more time. Leave me alone." He starts looking around for the cheerleaders. "Philippa... let's dance!"

Stephie dances, looking over at the cheerleaders, in particular worrying about her dress. After all, she wants neither to be below their standard nor to outdo them, which would be another faux pas....

Sean sighs and stands next to Sylvia.

Jennifer says, "Oh. Yes, I met her when you had that run in with Orion. She's SGG. I don't really know any of them all that well yet.""

Ivy dances with Stephie, "Stephie.. Are you sure you are ok?"

Caleb 's smile fades for a second, replaced by a worried frown. "Jess, I am NOT gonna think about that goon tonight. Tonight, we dance!" He offers Jen a hand.

Philippa is loooking amazing in her Diana Karan dress. The only draw back is that it loks like the sort of dress that would be hard to do much more than dance slowly in. Maybe that was intentional.

Stephie sighs. "It's not something I want to talk about, ok? I'll be fine...."

Ivy nods to Stephie. "Oh ok.." She goes back and stands by Becky Martin. Matt has been picked up by mother already.

Stephie thinks. o O (Fine. Sure. But I can hardly tell her I'm upset because Lorelei was just dumped by Random....)

Jennifer looks nervous, "Uh, I've never danced before." She says although she doesn't resist being led onto the dance floor.

Ivy asks Becky, "So how's that leg of yours?"

Nils and his cousin dance out of tune and rhythm.

Bubba picks up on Sylvia and dances with her, While Logan is busy taking pictures and not dancing with his date. But she doesn't seem to mind at all.

Kelly is busy fighting off the advances of Chuck.

Caleb isn't great at dancing _with_ anyone, but he's a good dancer and enthusiastic, and Jennifer is naturally graceful. They are striking on the dance floor.

Alice dances over to Caleb, "Hey.. You are a good dancer!"

William grabs at Alice, "Alice!" She smiles and heads back over to dance with her Date.

Becky shrugs. "Another 6-8 weeks before the cast comes off..."

Ivy nods to Becky, "So you came here by yourself?"

Jennifer smiles as she dances with Caleb. She is pretty good at following his lead, seemingly with quick enough reflexes to mostly make up for not knowing the rhythm.

Stephie also looks to see who Eva is with.

Caleb smiles to Alice. "Thanks! You too!" He grins to Jennifer: "See, Jess? _Now_ you got it!"

Jennifer says, "Thank you. That was fun."

Tired from DJ work, Ed looks around for his drink. He yells at Jeff pointing to the cup of spores, "Is this your cup?" Jeff can't here and shakes his head. Ed picks up the cup of spores..

Eva's not with anyone it seems. She's dressed a black dress and seems to be scanning the crowd for something.

Stephie thinks. o O (Well, she seems happy, anyway....)

Bubba brings Sylvia over to where Caleb and Jennifer is dancing. He bumps into Caleb..

Phil looks past Alex to Sean. "Is that freak still bothering you?"

Sean is standing there looking at Alex.

Sylvia smiles to Caleb. "Hey Caleb!"

Eva thinks. o O ( I can't have a date, maybe I'll feel better stealing someone else's... )

Caleb stumbles when Bubba bumps him, just barely recovering. "Watch it, Bubba!" he growls.

Bubba growls back to Caleb. "Watch where you are going, flatfoot!"

Ed takes a sip of the worms spores and coughs. He set the cup back down and looks around..

Jennifer glances coldly at Bubba, not knowing him but having seen his type.

Phil pushes past Alex and begins to stalk up to Sean. "Let's settle this once and for all..." Alex facepalms, "Philippa!"

Caleb rolls his eyes and ignores Bubba, catching both Jennifer's and Silvia's eyes and modelling some complex dance steps for both of them. He's grinning broadly.

Ed hears Alex say Philippa and looks over towards her direction..

Sylvia seems happy to dance with the group.

Jennifer watches the steps and applauds.

Jeff wonders what happened to ED? Ed is slowly making his way towards Philippa..

There's a guy standing leaning against a wall, in leather jacket and jeans, his hair in bright red spikes. He shows no immediate interest in dancing, but is watching people go by. Notably Ivy.

Ivy is still chatting with Becky, "So who'd you come with?" (repose?) Ivy smiles as she makes contact with those looking at her.

Jinghua continues dancing with the group happily enjoying herself.

Kelly dances her way to where Stephie is. "Hey Stephie!! You look gorgeous! You know Chuck, right? He's on the water polo team."

Caleb grins and snake-vines over to Jennifer, grabbing her hand and twirling her around, once. "Not a spectator sport, Jess!"

Stephie says, "Right. Hi there."

Darrell finally catches up with Stephie on the dance floor. He's got two cups of punch. "I brought drinks."

Stephie says, "Oh, I was wondering where you'd got to! Thought you'd abandoned me!"

Kelly offers Stephie a hug.

Ed taps Philippa on the shoulder..

Doug steps up. "She's with me!"

Jennifer giggles as Caleb grabs her and then looks embarrassed.

Philippa brushes Ed's hand off of her shoulder. "Not now Alex."

Ed taps Philippa on the shoulder again.

Ivy nods to Doug. "Oh I see. Have fun Becky.. Hope you get well soon. See ya Doug.." She wanders off wondering who the guy with the spiky hair is.. Ivy thinks. o O (It can't be...)

Darrell says, "Wouldn't dream on it! Hey Chuck, Kelly."

Chuck shakes hands with Darrell. "Hey there! Heard you getting a scholarship to West Virginia?"

Phil brushes Ed's hand away again. "Alex, not now, I'm about to tell Seanie here not to mess with my boyfriend."

The guy with the spiky hair in general doesn't look familiar to anyone. Except in the maybe-I-saw-him-around-once-this-last-week sort of way.

Ivy heads over towards Mr. Ferguson.. just in case its trouble..

Darrell nods and smiles. "Yep. The coach there told me I'd have a chance to start there. I'm really psyched about it."

Ed smiles happily. "That's right You tell him Philippa!"

Chuck nods. "Congrats!" He starts dancing with Kelly. Kelly smiles and is taken away!

More trouble than Mr. Ferguson? Seems unlikely. Ferguson often seems to be roped in for watching dances: mostly because he'll take no nonsense from anyone.

That gets Philippa's attention. She turns to face Ed now. "Who are you?"

Ed tells Philippa, "I am in love with you.. Will you make me miso soup?" Yeah Ed watches a lot of anime.

Darrell offers a cup of punch to Stephie. He says to her, "I'm also kind of nervous. I've never lived away from home before."

Ivy chuckles nervously. "Heya Mr. Furguson.. How's things.. eh.."

Caleb 's head whips around at Ed's comment. . o O (Did he just say what I _think_ he said?)

Stephie says, "Away from home?"

Mr. Ferguson eyes Ivy. "What is it?"

Alex blinks at Ed. "Excuse me?"

Jeff has now stopped his DJ work and the music is on autopilot. He's looking for Ed! But there's that cup of spores there.. Hmm.

Ed seems to be ignoring everyone but Philippa.

Ivy shrugs to Mr. Ferguson, "Um nothing. Nice dance yeah? haha.." Ivy glances around again...

"As if!" Philippa says. "Now leave me alone."

Caleb grins at Silvia and Jen... "'scuze me, girls... I think there's some trouble over there I need to start. Um, I mean, stop." He makes his way over to where Ed is embarassing himself.

Ed falls to his knees. "Philippa! I can't live without you!"

Caleb says, "Phil, you two-timing my brother?"

Jeff takes a sniff of the smoothie cup full of spores.. inhaling some himself..

Alex says, "Ed, are you feeling alright?"

Mr. Ferguson harrumphs. But he does seem to be keeping an eye on spiky-hair....

Alex thinks. o O ( It's like teh houswarming party, all over again. )

Jeff sets the cup back down and blinks.. Whoah..

Stephie drinks her punch.

Philippa takes a stepback from Ed, totally weirded out.

Nils seems to be trying to make out with his cousin who is fighting him off.

Jennifer follows Caleb. She is supposed to be keeping an eye on him after all.

Suddenly someone is tapping on Jennifer's shoulder..

Ed starts singing some Japanese anime love song to Philippa.

Ivy goes over to where Stephie is. "Hey Darrell. Stephie.. What's happening?"

Caleb watches Ed, puzzled. . o O (Heh. Did I get this wrong? Maybe _Phil's_ the one with the funky drug perfume, not Steph... or... oh, @#!@$!@) He looks up to find Jeff with the smoothie cup.

Darnell drinks his punch. "Stephie, I just wanted to tell you that I'm having a really good time tonight..." He cuts off as Ivy walks up. "Hey!"

Stephie says to Darrell, "So, dance?" . o O (Something to take my mind off Random and Psiren.....)

Jennifer turns her head to look at who is tapping her shoulder. o O(Huh, I'm half blind being only half here.)

Ivy smiles and continues on, "Have fun you two.."

Caleb runs over to Jeff. "Dude.... put that down!" This was _not_ what he'd had in mind...

Stephie says, "Huh? Happening?"

Darrell hesitates... "Uhm... I really don't know how to dance," he admits sheepishly. Though his body language indicates he'd be willing to learn.

Jeff is right behind Jennifer. "My lady, I bear you gifts. I wish to be worthy of your love!" Jeff hands Jennifer a handful of origami hearts, cranes, and other neat paper folded tokens of affections.

Ivy points towards the Ed and Philippa situation to Stephie. Ivy goes to see what's going on.

Jeff, startled, jerks away from Caleb. The smoothie cup goes flying...

Stephie says, "Oh... um, well, I don't really either. I mean, other than the cheer moves I'm learning..."

Phil runs behind Alex. "Get away from me, you freak!"

Jeff doesn't care that the cup is flying away, he has his eyes set on Jennifer!

Jennifer blushes. "Uh... oh... thank you..." Her voice trails off. o O(What do I do? I'm not trained for this)

Stephie says, "Let's see what's up?"

Ivy nods to Stephie.

Stephie heads over to where Phil is to see if she can help.

Jeff asks Jennifer, "Will you date with me?"

Ed is chasing after Philippa!

Caleb makes a dive for the cup, but he accidentally bumps into several other dancers and misses it. It hits the floor and goes up in a small choking cloud...

Jennifer says, "I'm, uh, sorry. I... uh, don't date.""

Jeff is hearbroken. "Marry me?"

Stephie tries to intercept Ed, and hopes Darrell will be backing her up!

Alex tries to grab Ed. "Come on, man."

Alice, Kelly, Sylvia, Bubba, Chuck, Nils and cousin all fall victim to the spores..

Caleb hits the ground and rolls to his feet, coughing with a face-full of spores.

Darrell isn't about to let Stephie intercept Ed, he tries to grab the amourous geek.

Ed blinks. "Darrell! Help me obtain Philippa's heart!"

Jennifer stares daggers at Caleb as she sees the spore cloud go up, and then start to settle over the dancers and partygoers.

Eva rushes over to Philippa's side. "What's going on?"

Kelly starts making out with Chuck, Alice with William, Sylvia with Bubba..

Even Nils gets some action going with his cousin. Their braces lock..

Mr. Ferguson has made his way over from the punchbowl to break up the potential fights... and then the sudden wave of amorousness. "Break it up, come on, enough of... cough... that... ?"

Alex fails to grab Ed. He's frozen by the sight of the spores. o O ( How in hell? )

Biff and Emily are right in the line of sight of Mr. Ferguson..

Ivy asks Stephie, "What is going on?"

Stephie doesn't even notice the spore clouse, since she was making a spectacle of herself chasing Ed - not so easy in this dress.

Jeff tries to hug Jennifer.

Darnell keeps a hold of Ed, pulling him up of the ground. "Whoa man, you heard the girl. Make like a tree and leave!"

Ivy coughs at the spores.. her mind is racing.. She tries to see if the spiky hair guy is there still.

Mr. Ferguson blinks, his attention fixated on Emily. He walks over and shoves Biff out of the way. "Make yourself useful somewhere else, kid." He stands up next to Emily and whispers something in her ear. She looks shocked, slaps him, and starts running into the dance floor...

Ed starts to cry. "No.. Philippa by love!"

Jinghua coughs as well, choking on the spores.

Eva shouts out "What the @#!$!@ is going on here?" just as Caleb clears the spores from his eyes. He looks over to the source of the noise, and his habitual scowl softens.

Jeff tries to hug Jennifer in a fond embrace.

Mr. Ferguson chases after Emily. "No, wait! You don't understand!"

Miss Addams (the librarian) starts crossing the room to where Mr. Ferguson is.

Logan is taking pictures of everything! He was on the outside, afterall.. Logan grins. . o O (I got you know. Mr. Ferguson..)

Caleb looks chagrined for a moment as he notices the now-empty smoothiecup. . o O (Maybe nobody will figure out it was me?) But such thoughts are lost as he contemplates the splendor that is Eva.

Ivy heads towards the spike haired guy.

Jennifer looks around to tell Jeff where to go, and her eyes soften. "I could lose myself in your arms. Sweep me off my feet and we'll dance the night away."

Jeff smiles and tries to slow dance with Jennifer.

Stephie avoids the spores more by luck than anything - just by facing the other way - though some are on the back of her dress, and she's near the effect.

Logan waves for Stephie to come over.

Alex runs to the punch bowl. He gets a damp napkin and uses it to cover his mouth and nose.

Biff chases after Emily!

Ed tries to grab onto the tail of Philippa's dress!

Spiky-haired guy is still there. Looking no less cool but substantially more amused watching the mayhem.

Darrell is busy holding onto Ed. He loses track of Stephie in the chaos.

Ivy asks the Spiky-haired guy.. her eyes lost in a glaze. "Who are you?"

Eva clicks her tongue. "Phillie - look at your so-called 'boy-friend'. You need help and he runs off to get some punch!"

Ed yells at Darrell, "Let go of me!!"

Jennifer dances with Jeff and let's down her guard more than she would ever normally do.

Caleb has reached Eva, who looks at him suspiciously. "Yeah, whadda YOU want?" she says, scowling. Caleb grabs her around the waist with his left arm and her left hand in his right. Looking her straight in the eyes like something out of a Valentino film, he says "No words. Tonight, we tango!" Eva kicks him in the groin and he doubles over, coughing.

Jeff is very polite though. He has learned from watching anime that a gentleman does not take advantage of a lady. By doing the right thing she will love him.

Logan waves for Stephie to come over.

Alex thinks. o O ( The spores are airborne... if I trigger the sprinkler system, that will knock them down and out of the air... ) Alex goes to find the fire alarm controls.

Logan whispers to Stephie, "You ok?"

Stephie tries to push her way over to Logan, holding her breath as best she can.

Eva stalks over next to Phil. "Phillie, girl... ya gotta stop hanging out with these _pendejos_. It's bad for the image, you know?"

Ivy tells Stephie, "I think something weird is happening. Let's get out of here.."

Stephie says, "i think so, yeah..."

Darrell loosk over to Phil. "What do you want me to do with him?"

Logan tries too lead Stephie to some where less chaotic if she allows.

Caleb drags himself up to one knee, tentatively. "Um... OK, we don't tango. No problem." He heads towards Eva and Phil, apparently undeterred.

Stephie nods and goes - sems like a good idea.

Ivy asks the Spiky haired guy, "So who are you? Just going to stand there all night?"

Philippa says. "Show him the door, Darrell."

Ed tries to cling on to Philippa.

Caleb thinks. o O (OK. Came on too strong. More suave this time. No problem.)

Jeff is having much better luck than Ed. Jeff asks Jennifer, "What would you like to do later?"

Spikey-haired guy shrugs. "If it stays this entertaining, sure. Dan." Like so many people, he also seems to have an English accent.

Logan offers a hand to Stephie, "Come on follow me.."

Darrell starts pulling Ed away, but Ed's managed to grab a hold of Philippa's dress. There's an awful tearing sound.

Ivy asks the Spiky Haired guy, "Where are you from? Nice accent."

Stephie nods, and follows Logan out.

Logan leads Stephie out and tells her, "I got some incriminating pictures of Mr. Ferguson with emily. But I think there's something else going on in there." He smiles a handsome smile. He is calm and in control. A light of reason in the fuzz of spores.

"England," says Dan, vaguely. "You?"

Caleb comes up behind Eva, not quite touching her. "We don't even have to dance at all. Leastwise, not standin' --" whatever he was about to say is cut off by Eva's elbow in his ribs.

Ivy tells Dan, "I m from around here. So what do you do for fun?"

Philippa screams! as the top of her dress rips free. She tries to grab it back from Ed and beat a hasty retreat for the door.

Ed smiles. "I shall keep this forever! He takes a deep whiff of the dress."

Stephie nods. "Pretty obviously. I heard something weird happened at the mall before, which could be connected."

The others affected by the smores are totally making out in the middle of the dance floor. However Sylvia is getting crushed by Bubba. "Help.. He's heavy!"

Eva shakes her head, clearly furious, and heads out with Eva, hurling insults and threats to both Caleb and Ed. Caleb picks himself off the ground, takes a recovery, and sighs... "Now _that's_ my kinda woman. Evie! Wait up!" He chases after her.

Logan smiles. "really? Would you mind helping me on this article, Stephie?"

Alex finds the sprinkler controls and he flips the switch. Soon water starts raining down from the ceiling.

Jennifer is dancing with Jeff still and relaxed, too relaxed. "Fight someone challenging and save the world." She quickly adds, memories of a conversation with Kibin, "Do you play video games too?"

Jeff nods to Jennifer. "Oh yes.. Do you.. like playing video games?"

Dan shrugs. "Music. Bikes. Drink. Drugs."

Logan tells Stephie, "Oh by the way. You have a gorgeous dress. You mind.. if I take a picture?"

Ivy nods to Dan. She normally would back away but those spores have a nasty effect. "Oh I know where to score some good stuff.. if you are looking for a good time.."

Darrell tries to punch Ed in the gut.

Ed falls to the ground, gasping for air..

Alex says, "Oh hell" Alex looks up just in time to catch a glimpse of Philippa leaving the gym with Eva.

Dan smiles. "My kind of girl."

As water runs down over the dance crowd, some of the dancers get drenched in water, they begin to regain their senses.

Jennifer steers the Jeff and herself past Bubba and Syliva as they dance, and reaches out in passing to lift bubba of the poor girl and toss him several feet away.

However Sylvia is still being crushed by Bubba..

Bubba flies away!

Sylvia struggles to get up.. "Thanks.."

Jeff tells Jennifer. "I like a strong woman.."

Ivy offers Dan a hand..

Logan takes a picture..

Stephie does the posing thing.

Darrell drops Ed and starts to look around for Stephie.

Logan almost falls over.. but keeps his balance. He smiles to Stephie.. as the sounds of water pours in on the dance floor. "Hey, Looks like someone set off the sprinklers. Good thing we aren't in there. Say stephie.."

Miss Addams is having a very strong word with Mr Ferguson.

Biff tries to comfort Emily!

Alex squints. The water is making his glasses next to useless.

Stephie says, "Hm?"

Logan asks Stephie, "If you aren't seeing anyone.. wanna hang out some time?"

Ivy offers to take Dan back to her dark side.

Alex tries running after Phil, but ends up tackling someone completely random.

Stephie blinks. "Well, uh...."

Logan smiles. "Well think about Stephie.. I know you probably have a lot of offers. I thought we could get to know each other better you know?"

Dan takes Ivy's hand. "Sure, looks like this place is becoming duller again anyway."

Ivy grins and tells Dan, "Let's jet on my hoverboard."

Jeff and Jennifer find themselves getting sprayed by sprinkler systems.

Darrell continues to look around for Stephie in all the confusion. "Stephie?"

Sean gets tackled by Alex. "Alex!" He holds on tightly to alex.

Stephie is outside with Logan, but Darrell will doubtless find her before long.

"Sorry..." Alex says. When he lifts head head, his glasses are missing fallen onto the floor somewhere. "My glasses, I can't see without them. Sean, is that you? Can you help me find them?"

Jennifer wakes up as she gets wet and remembers she is wearing a white blouse. Leaving Jeff she runs to the cloakroom for her jacket.

Sean nods and goes to help find the glasses.

Jeff stands there dumbfounded. He goes looking for Ed.

Logan nods at Stephie, waiting for her reply.

Miss Addams is actually shouting at Mr Ferguson, thouhg over the noise it's hard to make out words.

Kelly hears that Alex needs his glasses and quickly is on the ground looking.

Nils and his cousin is still making out. .Eww.

Alex starts feeling around on his hands and knees.

Kelly finds Alex's glasses and knocks Sean away in the process. She smiles to Alex. "Alex.. I have your glasses. here."

Stephie says, "Well - uh - I'm not really seeing anyone so - hey, you're not dating anyone are you? I mean, I got in real trouble comign with Darrell tonight...."

Dan is quickly escorting Ivy to a side door.

Logan shakes head. "I came here with Jinghua.. But we aren't together like that. " He smiles again. "Oh I think Darrell is looking for you. " He whispers to Stephie, "Don't worry. I don't bite."

Darrell continues to looks around. "Stephie?" His voice has to compete with the ringing fire alarm bell.

Ivy doesn't seem to mind ditching this dance.

Kelly helps Alex up. "Alex.. I have your glasses here.."

Stephie turns, spots Darrell, and waves.

Logan steps back and smiles to Darrell.

Emily is crying to Biff.

Stephie whsipers to Logan as Darrell approaches, "Well I *really* need to clear it with her anyway - after the trouble with Eva...."

"Kelly?" Alex asks. He stands slowly with Kelly's help. "Thanks. Where are they?"

The others are getting out of the water trying to find towels and stuff.

Logan nods to Stephie. He asks Darrell, "Would you like a picture with Stephie?"

Kelly hands Alex's glasses over to him. She sighs. "What a mess huh?"

Darrell smiles and comes over. "There you are! Hey Logan... sure!" He takes off his tuxedo coat and offers it to Stephie.

Ivy starts up her hoverboard and takes Dan with her...

Mr Ferguson suddenly hollers above everything (maybe more to escape Miss Addams than anything: "Mr Dyers, Miss Chen, where do you think you're going?"

Ivy blinks.. "Um.."

Logan gets some pictures of Stephie and Darrell for the year book, paper and for the couple.

Alex shakes his head slowly. "You have no idea." He tries drying off his glasses on his coat jacket, btu the lenses are still smudged badly.

Dan is holdong onto Ivy tight for hoverboard-riding purposes, which looks much less than innocent.

Kelly smiles happily at Alex, but gives him some space.

Ivy whispers to Dan. "Um. I guess we can't go huh?"

Jeff and Ed head back to the DJ equipment.. "damn this is all shorted.."

Bubba gets up and looks around for Jennifer!

Darrell look to Stephie. "I'm thinking it's probably time to get out of here. I'll go get my car and pull is around, ok?"

Dan whispers, "Ah screw him." Which may or may not be bravado. It's certainly known not to eb a good idea to defy Mr Ferguson.

Ivy revs up her hoverboard ready to take off.. Ivy thinks. o O (What the heck am I doing??)

Alex nods to Kelly, who appears to him as a gint blur amidst a sea of blobs. "You ok?"

Stephie nods to Darrell, "UH, yeah, sure. I guess the dance is a bit of a washout in the end, hm?"

Bubba finds Jennifer. "So.. You want to play rough huh?" He cracks his knuckles..

Logan smiles at Stephie's humor.

Kelly nods to Alex as she idly kicks sean in the head to keep him knocked out. "Yeah.. I'm fine alex."

Alex chuckles too. "Yeah." He heads out of the gym to the parking lot.

Darrell chuckles too. "Yeah." He heads out of the gym to the parking lot.

Jennifer looks at Bubba. "Don't even think about it." She is too angry with Caleb to play nice to a person like Bubba.

Biff looks anrgily at Mr. Ferguson as he keeps trying to calm emily down.

Alex turns at the sounds of foot hitting flesh. "What was that?"

Bubba tells Jennifer, "I catch you at the wrong place and wrong time one of these days. You are lucky this is at the school dance." He motions with his hand to his neck with a slicing motion to Jennifer.

Stephie thinks. o O (I guess it never could have worked with Random.... I mean, he's so much older.... That's it, girl, rationalise...)

Ivy suddenly finds Dan with her in an not so comfortable position on the hoverboard! She blinks and then shrieks and quickly runs back to the dance area.

Logan waits with Stephie for Darrell. "You seem to have a lot on your mind, Stephie.. We can chat about it sometime if you want."

Dan calls after Ivy "Hey, come back!"

Kelly wonders if Alex can see her in the wet dress.

Stephie smiles to Logan. "Yeah, sure."

Logan tells Stephie, "Have a good time and take care, ok?"

Stephie says, "Yeah, you too."

Jennifer steps closer and takes Bubba's arm in her hand. She starts squeezing. "I was working out in my family's Gym when I was two years old." She says quietly to him, "I've spend thousands of hours studying and practicing martial arts. Be smart. Know when you're out classed."

Ivy flees from Dan. . o O (Damn.. what did I do?)

BOOM! Suddenly there's a giant explosion from the parking lot outside the gym.

Dan shrugs. "Suit yourself." He settles himself against the wall and idly watches girl in wet clothing.

Bubba gulps as his hand is crushed.. "Uhh... " You can see tears streaming from his eyes.

Stephie says, "Huh? What was that?!"

Logan frowns. "Oh no! Let's see if Darrell is ok..." Logan offers a hand to Stephie to lead her outside.

Stephie says, "Darrell!"

Jennifer release his arm. "Lucky you, saved by the boom." She tells him, and starts running out to the parking area.

Stephie hadn't made the connection. She accept Logan's hand, using her other hand to hitch up her skirt a little.

Alex says, "Kelly, what was that! It sounded like the parking lot. You gotta take me out there."

Kelly nods to Alex and helps Alex to get outside. She gives Sean another kick along the way to keep him dreaming of Alex.

Everyone starts to head outside to see what is the matter!

Ivy goes as well!

Outside, the darkness of evening is lit with the flickering orange-yellow light of fire. The source of the blaze is a twisted hunk of metal -- what remains of Darrell's muscle car. Darrell himself in lying on his back, about twenty feet from the wreck.

Logan rushes out, "Stephie Stay back! It's dangerous!" Logan runs to Darrell to take him from danger and to apply first aid.

Stephie says, "Darrell!"

Kelly tells Alex, "Darrell! Darrell's car exploded or somthing!"

Stephie runs over despite instructions.

Stephie says, "How is he?!" Stephie pulls out her PDA to call 911.

Logan smiles to Stephie, "Thanks.. You are brave.." He shakes his head. "Let's get him away from the blast.."

Logan, "Looks like he suffered a concussion.."

Ivy shakes her head. "What happened?"

Stephie helps Logan get Darrell away from the blaze.

Logan applies his skills to help Darrell.

Alex says, "Kelly, what about Darrell, is he ok? I know first aid."

Kelly tells Alex, "Logan and Stephie are helping him out. Alex, I'm scared!"

Biff runs out with Emily. "Oh no!!"

Jennifer goes over to the remains of the car and looks around, trying to determine how the blast was done and any trademark features, type of explosives, etc.

Alex takes off his glasses and tries to wipe them off. Now that he's out from the sprinklers he can see a little better.

Biff frowns. "He's our best linebacker!"

Stephie thinks. o O (I really should learn first aid.....)

Logan does his best to stabalize Darrell and keep him ok. Logan sighs. "Some valentine's day.. Poor Darrell."

Stephie thinks. o O (Surely no one would blow someone up over football - though hang on... A cheerleader and a football player? But nah....)

Alex pats Kelly on the shoulder. "Don't worry it'll be alright." Alex seems like he can see again.

Stephie watches Darrell, not knowing what else she can really do.

Kelly offers Alex a hug.

Nils is nowhere to be found! Nor his cousin!

Stephie has another horrible thought: that could have been meant for her! Or both of them....

Alex squeezes Kelly's shoulders, keeping her at arm's length, preventing an embrace. "Kelly. I've got to go check on Darrell."

The rest of the highschool stand there watching the flames. The sound of sirens approaching in the background. Suits, tuxes, dresses, all drenched with water, stuck with ash.. The auto playing of music can be heard in the background.

Kelly nods to Alex. "I hope he's ok."

Logan tells Alex what he knows when Alex comes over.

Ivy eyes Dan again wondering what trouble she got herself into.

Alex runs down a checklist with Logan and nods when he finds that Logan followed proper procedure. Still, he does his own check.

Jennifer thinks. o O (Drat, this secret identity nonsense is tough. It really puts a limit of what I can do.)

Alex nods to Logan. "Carry on."

Jeff sees Jennifer. He wanders up to her. "Uh,, jennifer? Im sorry about what happened earlier.."

Dan feigns disinterest in Ivy - or at least seems to look at her no more than at other girls.

Logan nods to Alex, "He's heavy. .linebacker.. it'll take both of us to move him safely."

Ivy sighs and looks back at the flames.

Alex says, "It's best to wait for the ambulance."

Logan nods, "Alright."

Jennifer smiles, remembering Jeff acted like a gentleman and didn't take advantage. "There was some funny stuff happening Jeff." She pats his arm. "Maybe we can try again next dance."

Jeff smiles to Jennifer. "Thanks.. If you have a friend.. maybe we can um double date with Ed? He's my best friend."

One teenager, a boy, speaks up. "I saw the whole thing! I was here, uh, talking to Stacy. Darrell was walking up to his car and then it blew up!"

Logan takes a step back and goes over to tell Stephie that he thinks Darrell will be ok.

Jennifer nods. "I'll ask my sister." She promises.

Jeff smiles and thanks Jennifer again and backs away.

Stephie says, "Before he even got there? Was anyone else about?"

Biff is the one crying now as he thinks about darrell's future in football.

Jennifer was about to ask the same question as Stephie, but shuts up and listens instead.

Adam, the witness says. "I don't know... I was kind of, uh, distracted." He glances over to Stacy and then looks back to the others with a guilty smile on his lips.

Logan takes some snapshots of the situation while waiting for the ambulance etc. Logan asks Alex, "What do you think happened?"

Ivy goes over to listen in on the talk between Adam, Stephie and Jennifer.

Alex shakes his head. "I don't know. Who would want to blow him up?"

Logan shrugs. "I dunno.."

Alex thinks. o O ( Darrell, Rich, and Mike roughed up Nils the other day -- I wonder if it's related. Where is Nils, anyway? )

Nils is nowhere to be found.

Stephie thinks. o O (Eva had reason to be upset with Darrell, and with me... but surely not *this*....)

Ivy thinks. o O (I need to talk to Constance.. Looks like that Bomb Bomb girl.. struck again.)

Jennifer thinks. o O (Maybe this school won't be as boring as I expected.)