Well, under normal circumstances, I'd go on a ramble about the dangerous adventure Cassidy is embarking upon, risking life and limb in the dreaded closet. But then I remember something - that description only applies to MY closet. Cassidy's a HORRIBLE neat-freak.

So, yeah, we'll just jump back and see what Lexi and Mairi are doing.

Lexi and Mairi were pretty much in the same spot as they were when we left them, only Lexi was trying on a different pair of jeans. Again, she was lying on her bed, squirming and wiggling. The only sounds coming from her mouth were rather annoyed grunts and huffs.

During all of this, Mairi was still staring at the plant.

After a few minutes, there was a knock on the door. Lexi shoved off the jeans and pulled on the shorts she had been wearing earlier to go and open the door for Cassidy. Why the flip she couldn't just wear those instead was beyond anyone else.

"Here, try these." Cassidy held out three different pairs of jeans before floping down in Lexi's chair.

"Cass, these are all the same make, and size."

"...So?"

"You could've just brought me one."

Cassidy shrugged. "You know how clothes-savvy I am."

Lexi sighed, smiling and rolling her eyes at the red-head. "Well, here goes nothing." She huffed, pulling the clothing up her slim legs. With a couple of sharp tugs, the jeans fit snuggly around her hips. "So far so good." Lexi mumbled before trying to do up the button.

"Oh wow, she might actually be able to wear the-" Cassidy's sarcasm-filled words were cut off by a POP sound and the feeling of something small whizzing past her, only inches from the top of her head. "Ah!" She ducked, covering her head as the button ricoched off of the wall beside her, flying towards Mairi.

"Mazz!" Lexi and Cassidy gasped simultaneously.

The button missed her, planting itself within the damp soil surrounding the plant that Mairi was still staring at.

Lexi sighed.

Cassidy breathed in, then realized that the button had come from her jeans. She glanced at Lexi and gave her a look.

Lexi smiled sheepishly. "Heh, sorry about that, Cass... Do you have any other jeans?"

The red-head stared at her blankly. "Lex... those are all of my jeans, except the ones I'm wearing." She glanced down at the pair she was sporting, glancing over the rouch patches and stitches and holes everywhere. "I didn't think you'd wanna go to the movies looking like an orphan."

"Seriously?" Lexi gave her an incredulous look.

"Yeah. Before you I had only one, remember?" Standing up and walking over to Mairi to dig out the button from the soil, Cassidy sighed. "I'll go look in my room see if there's anything else I can dig up."

"Thanks, Cass." Lexi wriggled her way out of the pants and gave them back to her freind.

After walking out of the bunny's room, Cassidy ran into a familiar face. "Hey, Bentley." She smiled at the younger rabbit.

"H-hi." He replied, stammering nervously, his green eyes plastered to the floor.

"How are you doing?" Cassidy was trying to be freindly to the timid rabbit. She remembered the first day she'd met him. Bentley had just stared at her for a moment, before quickly running away, crying.

"I'm f-fine."

"Are you going to the movies with Lexi and the boys tonight?"

"Y-yeah... Are you?"

"No." Cassidy stopped, she was standing outside of her bedroom door. "Tech and I are staying home tonight. Tech's trying to finish off his newest project, and I want to help him." She smiled sweetly. "I have to go find some stuff, okay? See ya later."

"O-okay... bye." For the first time in that conversation, Bentley looked up at her.

Cassidy gave a small giggle as the door shut behind her. 'He's kinda cute. He seems so much younger than he really is.'

But alas, the she-coyote's search was in vain. She could not find another pair of jeans in her room.

So there they sat, Lexi, Cassidy, and Mairi, all on Lexi's bed. Lexi stared at the floor, Cassidy was flaked out on her back, glaring at the ceiling, and Mairi... yes, she was still looking at that plant.

"What about wearing a skirt?"

"Nooo, who wears a skirt to the movies?"

"Any other pants?

"Either in the wash or are too tacky to wear to the movies."

"Shorts?"

"It's cold outside. I don't want my fur standing up in the cold wind."

Cassidy groaned, sitting up. "If only we could somehow make those jeans that are too big just a teensy bit smaller."

Suddenly, the two girls felt a woosh of air as Mairi snatched up one of the jeans, inspecting it closely. "I could stitch over the seams and make them a little tighter for you." She offered, smiling.

Cassidy and Lexi sat there, staring at the lyre bird with mouths hanging open.

"Mazz! If you could have, why didn't you say so a half an hour ago!" Cassidy screeched.

Mairi kept her sweet smile as she replied. "You didn't ask."

Brown eyes met green as Cassidy and Lexi shared a look. But, even after all the frustration, they just couldn't help but break out into laughter.

National crisis averted.

The End.