Dis: So you see I was playing poker with the big head people at Disney and all the other losers that owned L McG, then being the awesome poker player that I am I won L McG from them, so now it is mine and I can do any thing I want with them! That's my story and I'm sticking to it officer.

Fuzz: then why is it that you are the only one with any recollection of this incident?

Me: Simple they were all drunk!

Fuzz: And you weren't?

Me: Nope! I'm not old enough to drink in TX yet.

Fuzz: But you can gamble? Nice try.

Me: pouts I claim the fifth!

A/N: Thanx Black Knight 03 for betaing! And all of my reviewers, y'all are so sweet!

Kate's POV

I can't believe this is real, Miranda and I are 'hanging out' well sure it's just because of the dance but she's not so bad. Truth be told, she saved my butt on her dance idea. I would have never thought about a card themed dance. It's very 'Alice in Wonderland' but in a cool way.

I guess it pays off to get someone who's, well, weird, if you want to do something original. Damn I'm late! I have to be at Miranda's like know!

Wow this place looks just like it did when we were little; it always did look a lot homier than my house.

"Hey Kate" Miranda said as she opened the door. "Come in I have the list of the places and of all of the stuff in my room if you want to come up?"

"Sure" it had changed on the inside but the feeling was still there. As I followed Miranda into her room, it was like nothing I'd ever seen but yet, some how it suite her.

"Miranda!" Mrs. Sanchez called her down.

"I'll be right back" she said walking out, I started to take a closer look at her room.

Every thing was 'different' one wall had a few movie posters, random collages up, some drawings on poster boards with song lyrics, a poster of an old truck, and a few rows of string going from end to end, then pictures, drawings and letters were held on to them with cloths pins.

The wall opposite that one was covered in CD's shiny side out and old vinyl records, and randomly there were pictures of stuff relating to music, some were postcards of Elvis, or NSYNC, but there were also pictures of what I assumed was her when she was little playing a toy piano, and a few others of the like, along with sketches of people singing or dancing. On the other wall there was a large square portion covered in a velvety cloth with red, black, brown, and burgundy print, then tacked to it were a lot of random black and white things; some from magazines, some sketches, a few old photos, but the one that caught my eye was one of us right before I set off to camp, it was one of those you get in the photo booths at the mall with a border around it that said best friends forever.

I can't believe she still has this, much less that she has it up. Yeah I have mine, but I keep it in a folder in one of my drawers. I guess once we stopped being friends it was too hard to look at.

"Kate?" I jumped a bit startled then turned to face Miranda.

"Yeah?"

"I've got the list do you want to hit these last few places."

"Sure lets jet."

"Wow Sanchez, how'd you find all of these places?" I asked after walking out of the last store we'd found all the stuff we needed for the Dance and had some left over.

"Heh, I like to make stuff so I slowly found where I could get more for less I guess." she replied.

"Well we have this much left, so what do we do with it?" I asked showing her what was left in the budget.

"Karaoke!" she exclaimed.

"What?"

"We could rent a Karaoke machine along with the disks, then we could have people volunteer or be nominated to sing, and at the end they all get a group shot of the singers and we put it on the yearbook cover. (They have a cool year book the cover looks like a collage of school event pictures.) Ya know how they always leave one space open for a dance picture!" she exclaimed.

I had to hand it to her she knew how to get the crowed involved. "Wow, I like that. Now will you be performing?" I had heard that she was some singer.

"Hah, I don't know maybe after I nominate both you and Gordo, I wouldn't want to give ya'll an inferiority complex before you even get up there. So I'll wait until after you go!" she said jokingly playing up to the diva attitude.

"Oh please Sanchez I'll mop the floor with you!" I snapped back before we both cracked up.

"So now what?" she asked once we'd calmed down.

"Um, do you have a dress yet?" Why was I acting like her friend?

"Yes, and no, I'm making most of it. You?"

"No, I don't even know what to get. I mean I want something different, but not too out there, plus it has to go with the card, how can I be the A♦?" Really what a stupid card.

"If you want I know a few, odd I guess would be the word, clothing stores, we could start at some of those since they have all sorts of clothing we could look for stuff that could work." She suggested.

"Really? That would be…great thanks" Wow, why was she helping me? I know we don't hate each other, but still.

"No problem, I like this stuff remember, so what's Ethan going to wear?"

"I won't even ask him. I figure let him choose what he wants. If not being a guy, he'd just tell me to but out, you know guys." I said as I walked into the store after her.

"Okay so what kind of thing are you into?" she asked motioning around the store, everything was sorted by color, and type.

"Um, why don't we try the white evening dresses?"

We spent most of the day trying on stuff at a few different shops, me for dance and Miranda just for fun, though most of the clothes were cool, I still didn't think anything would work.

"So Kate, you know how we were talking about Gordo, the other day?" Miranda said, Okay why bring that up…does she like him?

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Well do you really think that you know he's a good guy…as far as like date worthy goes?" So she does like him!

"Yeah, if I weren't going with Ethan I'd totally ask him."

We were at the last shop and I was just about ready to head back when Miranda squealed, no I'm not kidding. "Kate! I think I found something that would be perfect!" she said excitedly handing me a white dress.

"Miranda, I don't know." The dress was short and white, it looked some what 80's with the crinolines, and the off the shoulder neck line, it was sequenced, and it had a huge red, plastic diamond in the front at the center of the neck line.

"Come on Kate just try it on." She said pushing me into a dressing room.

"Fine but can we leave after this?" I asked from the dressing room.

"Sure."

"Oh my gosh Sanchez, I think this one's it." I had to hand it to her, the dress ended just above my knees, and the top was form fitting while the skirt was flared out with the crinolines under it. The neck line was just enough to look good, but not trashy.

"Really? Let me see!" Miranda exclaimed impatiently.

I stepped out and of course she had a smug grin on her face. "See, Kate I told ya you'd look great."

"Shut up Sanchez" Then we both broke into a laugh. This was fun, not that I'll ever admit it.