At the Mall, everyone was going around and having a good time. Whether it be shopping, hanging out with friends, seeing a movie, or just being there, it was all great. All except for the Rocket Power crew. They were all sitting at a table at the Java Lava run by Chaz Finster and Betty DeVille. They were all happy except for one who had his head in the clouds more than usual.
"So this weekend, I'm going with Arnold and his friends to the Vacant Lot, they wanna see if I have what it takes to be part of their baseball team." Reggie spoke up.
"Good luck, Reg." Sam smiled.
"Yeah, you're totally gonna need it, Little Miss Girl Power Girl." Otto nudged his sister with a scoff.
"Shut up, I'm better than you in snowboarding!" Reggie whacked the back of his head.
"So, Otto, what're you doing?" Sam asked.
"I have to help Dad at work," Otto folded his arms. "I accidentally let one of the school's lab rats get loose in the Stimpleton house and now they have to fumigate it. Since it was my fault, I'm grounded from having fun this weekend."
"Bummer." Reggie smirked.
"I might go to the computer club with Truman X..." Sam shrugged. "You busy, Twist? Twist?"
"TWISTER!" Sam, Reggie, and Otto called.
"Huh?" Twister seemed to wake up just then. "Oh, when did you guys get here?"
The others rolled their eyes at him.
"You okay, Twister?" Reggie asked. "You seem lost."
"More than usual." Sam added.
"What's up?" Otto prompted.
"Oh, nothing..." Twister shrugged. "Just... Thinking..."
"Wait, you, thinking!?" Otto pointed and then laughed out loud.
"Your cheeks are red, you keep staring off into space, your palms are sweated..." Reggie noticed. "You're thinking about a girl, aren't you?"
"What!? No, I'm not!" Twister defended. "Uh... I have allergies and gas, that's all!"
"Totally a girl." Reggie said back to Otto and Sam.
"It is not!" Twister buried his head on the table, putting his hands to his head then. "Ugh... Okay, maybe..." he then put his head up. "Happy!?"
"Very much." Reggie smirked.
"It's not Eliza Thornberry, is it?" Sam asked. "I don't think she's interested in a relationship."
"No, it's not Eliza," Twister shook his head. "You guys just wouldn't understand..."
"Then who is it?" Otto demanded. "Come on, spit it out, how bad could it be?"
"Her name's Ashley." Twister fessed up.
The other three looked curious and lost. Who was Ashley?
"Um... Ashley?" Reggie asked.
"Yeah, she's the most amazing girl ever, I really love her and I wanna tell her..." Twister confessed. "I just don't know how to get alone with her..."
"You could meet her somewhere so it's just the two of you... Is she a smart girl?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, but I don't know where smart kids hang out, you tell me!" Twister said.
"You could try the library, or as I call it 'Nerd Headquarters'," Otto suggested. "Oh, no offense, Sam."
"Plenty taken..." Sam narrowed his eyes back at Otto.
"How about the library?" Reggie suggested. "You could say you need help with your homework and you go to the study section. You'll be alone if you go on Friday night."
"Hey, that's a great idea!" Twister beamed. He then took out his phone and texted a meeting for the library with the girl he liked, but tried to be secretive with it.
"Try not to say I love you right away, that creeps people out." Otto advised.
"You would know." Reggie sent him a glare.
"Hmm... The only Ashleys I know are from Third Street School..." Sam spoke up. "Uhh... Twister, which Ashley is it?"
"Which Ashley?" Twister sounded like his old confused self now.
"Yeah, there's four girls on the playground there all named Ashley, they always get together and say 'scandalous'," Otto explained. "They're so annoying..."
"Worse than the Krust cousins." Reggie agreed.
"So, Ashley Armbruster?" Sam asked to narrow down the reveal of Twister's crush.
"No." Twister shook his head.
"Ashley Boulet?" Reggie asked.
"Nuh-uh." Twister shook his head again.
"Ashley Quinlan?" Otto asked.
"Bzzt." Twister imitated the sound of a buzzer to tell him he was wrong.
"Only one more left," Reggie sighed. "Ashley Tomassin?"
"Nope." Twister replied.
"That's all the Ashleys..." Reggie was confused. "Who else could it be?"
"There's one more that no one really likes to talk about..." Twister said once he sent the text and waited for a response. "Ashley Spinelli."
"YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH SPINELLI!?" Sam, Reggie, and Otto gaped at him.
Twister shrugged honestly. "Uh... Yeah?"
