A/N: I updated! Yay! Thanks for sticking around. Hope you enjoy!


After 15 minutes of Jude lying sprawled on the floor, Jen started to worry.

"Jude, are you sure you're alright?" she asked with a frown.

"Maybe we should get a doctor, or go to the hospital." Caitlin suggested.

Jude tilted his neck back to look up at them, "Nah, s'okay… just having a little trouble moving my body."

"Okay, let's get Jude to work. Can you walk?" Wyatt bent down to put one of Jude's arm around his shoulders.

Jonesy took the other arm and the two of them propped Jude to his feet, "Man that was one helluva wipeout."

"Totally… I can't feel my butt."

The girls shook their heads as the trio slowly but surely made their way to Underground Video. Nikki nudged Jen with her elbow, "You look like you're about to have a nervous breakdown, he'll be fine."

Jen flinched, "What are you talking about? I'm fine."

"Then stop frowning! You're gonna get wrinkles!" Caitlin exclaimed and tried to smooth out the lines on her forehead with her fingers.

"Caitlin! Get off me!"

Satisfied for now, Caitlin turned to Nikki, "So, ready for your date?"

"Yeah, what are you gonna wear?" Jen asked while rubbing her forehead.

Nikki shrugged and looked down at herself, "I'm just gonna go like this."

"What? You can't do that!" cried Caitlin.

"What do you mean? This is what I always wear. Besides, it's just Jonesy."

"Yeah, but you guys are dating now. It's totally different."

"I have to agree." Jen nodded.

Nikki looked unsure, "I don't think it's that big a deal..."

Caitlin shook her head firmly, "It's your first date, of course it is!" She grabbed Nikki's hand and proceeded to drag her away, "Come on, we're gonna go to the spa to get a makeover!"


Wayne raised an eyebrow as he saw the method his employee used to come in, "What happened this time?"

"Jude flew into a wastebasket." Wyatt replied easily. The two unceremoniously dumped Jude on one of the brown couches with a giant "Oof!"

Wyatt looked on as Jude moved around to make himself comfortable, "You okay, man? Need anything?"

"I'm good, I'm just gonna lie here for a bit, 'kay dude?" Jude asked while reaching for the remote to turn on the television.

Wayne scoffed, "It's not like you ever do any work anyways."

"Hey Wayne," Jonesy leaned over the counter, "What movie would you recommend for an awesome first date?"

He didn't even have to think, "Tch, as if they're showing any quality movies at the theatre. It doesn't matter anyways cause you're gonna be seeing a chick flick tonight"

"No way! What are you talking about?"

"A-duh, it's your first date."

"And Nikki is a girl…" Wyatt piped in.

Jonesy's jaw dropped, "Aw man, I ain't paying to sit through that!"

Jude raised his arm from his position on the couch, "You know, I would have to disagree, Nikki may be a chick but I don't think she's into chick flicks."

Wyatt rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "True… but she is into DawgToy, and you know how girly the girls get with them."

"Be that as it may, she, like me is also a true Mighty Weasels fan and that cancels out any lame-o boy band crushes."

Wyatt considered this taste in music cancelation rule, "Hmm… so basically you have a 50-50 chance of seeing a chick flick Jonesy."

"I like those odds!" Jonesy snapped his fingers and winked.

Wayne rolled his eyes, "Whatever… so… you and Nikki, huh?"

"Better believe it."

"Nice…" Wayne whistled in appreciation.


'This is ridiculous.' Nikki thought to herself, 'I've been sitting here for over an hour getting mud and seaweed and other nasty smelling stuff on my face and it doesn't look like she's gonna stop anytime so- "Ow!" she yelped when the cosmetician plucked her eyebrow.

"You had stray hair." Helga said in her thick accent, she turned Nikki towards the mirror, "Voilà, I am done."

Caitlin popped up behind her, "Oh wow, you look totally amazing!

Nikki squinted at her reflection, "...I look exactly the same."

"No way!" Caitlin pointed to a cheek, "See, your pores are smaller."

Helga smiled looking proud, "Yes, the dullness in skin is gone and so are the dark circles under eyes."

Nikki wasn't impressed, "...Thanks." she answered dryly.


Jen looked up from her magazine as Caitlin approached, "Hey, how'd the makeover go?"

"Helga is the best and Nikki looks totally date ready." Caitlin gushed.

Jen leaned over to peek behind Caitlin, "Uh, she looks the same to me."

Caitlin brushed off the comment, "You'll see when she comes closer." taking a seat beside Jen, she decided to bring up a touchy subject. "Hey… so are you really okay with friends dating?"

Jen closed her magazine and threw it on top of the stack, "Well… Nikki and Jonesy kinda are already…"

Caitlin nodded enthusiastically, "I know, I thought it'd be weird but I'm actually really happy for them."

"Yeah, me too." Jen smiled, "So, I guess that means I am okay with it."

Edging closer to Jen, Caitlin asked slyly, "Now, are you really okay with liking Jude?"

Jen bit her lip and rocked back and forth in her seat slowly, "Yeah… yeah, I- Ah, I can't do it! It's Jude!" she started pulling at her hair.

"Jen! You know, I think you two would look so cute together. Give it a chance." Caitlin urged comfortingly.

She stopped pulling and sat up straight, "…You really think we would look good together?"

"I think you two would look so cute, it'd make me want to barf." Nikki snickered as she stopped in front of them.

"Hey!" Jen strained her eyes, "Did your pores get smaller?"

Nikki ignored Caitlin's beaming face and turned to leave, "Let's just go." she groaned.


A burst of laughter caused Wayne to look up from his computer to the three guys currently occupying his couches and watching TV. He narrowed his eyes at them. "Hey fart-knockers!" Startled, the trio jumped and looked wide-eyed at Wayne.

He pointed at Jonesy, "Shouldn't you be getting ready for your date?" turning to Wyatt next, "Shouldn't you be grilling burgers?" finally, he glared at Jude, "And shouldn't you be able to move now? I need to take my break."

Wyatt and Jonesy quickly leaped up and out of the store muttering things like, "Gotta go!" and "Later Jude!" not wanting to face Wayne's incurring wrath.

Jude tried to follow suit but only succeeded in rolling right off the couch and onto the floor with a loud 'Thud!' instead. Satisfied, Wayne smiled and left to buy himself a snack.


Glancing at passing stores' window displays Jen asked, "What's next on the list?"

"A new outfit!" Caitlin squealed, any excuse to shop was always fun.

Nikki stopped in her tracks, "Woah, hold up, we're just going to the movies."

"It doesn't matter. You want the first time he looks at you to be imprinted in his brain forever." Caitlin sighed dramatically, "When he thinks back to your first date do you want him to remember something special or just a plain regular date?"

Nikki rolled her eyes, "Fine… just no Crappy Barn stuff."

"Huntington's having a sale right now." noted Jen.

"Perfect! Let's go!" Caitlin grabbed both their hands and dragged them into the store.


Wyatt's cell started ringing right after he finished handing change to a customer. Flipping open his phone, he spoke, "Hey."

"I ran out so fast I forgot to ask, how does one get ready for a date?" Jonesy was on the other line.

Wyatt chuckled, "I don't know. Flowers? Candy? The usual."

"Flowers, eh? Isn't that too much for a date to the movies? I think I'm just gonna go with chocolate, Nikki likes chocolate right?"

"I suppose." Wyatt thought, having a faint memory of Nikki stuffing her face with the brown goodness.

"Awesome, I don't have to change do I?"

"Nah, I doubt Nikki will dress up for the movies." Wyatt confirmed.

"Sweet!"


"Cute!" Caitlin cried as Nikki stepped out of the change room.

"Wow, you look amazing!" Jen exclaimed inspecting her purple spaghetti strap dress.

Nikki looked at herself in the mirror, "I don't know… it seems a little much."

"It's perfect. If this doesn't have Jonesy melt into a puddle, I don't know what will!" Caitlin giggled.

Nikki sighed and smiled at her reflection, well, she did look darn good in this dress. "Okay, I'll take it." Checking the time on her cell phone she cursed, "Shoot, I gotta go meet Jonesy at the theatre!"

"Go get him girl!" Jen yelled encouragingly as Nikki ran off.

"Good luck!" Caitlin called out, "Eee! I'm so excited."

"I know!" Jen beamed, she didn't know why, but she was feeling extremely happy. Was all this because two of her best friends, Nikki and Jonesy, were hooking up? Maybe this friends dating friends thing was workable. "Cait… I think…. I'll give it a chance."

Caitlin squealed and hugged her friend, "Omigosh! I knew you would!"

Jen laughed, "Calm down, I don't even know if Jude likes me the same way."

"Hmm, you're right. We need to get the guys' perspective on this." Caitlin clapped her hands as an idea popped in her head, "I know!"


Jonesy tapped his foot nervously as he waited for Nikki in front of the movie theatre. This was it; he was actually going out with Nikki! Turning to his right his jaw dropped. There was said girl, sprinting in heels and a dress that showed off her curves in all the right places. She stopped in front of him a little out of breath. Exhaling slowly, she grinned up at him and he couldn't breathe. The short jog had given her a nice pink flush over her cheeks.

Nikki chuckled, Jonesy was speechless, that was a good thing right? "Hey, what's wrong with you?" she teased.

"Wow… you look… wow…" Jonesy breathed out slowly, his eyes reflected his appreciation.

She blushed prettily, "Thanks… Caitlin and Jen's idea." noticing Jonesy was just wearing his regular clothes she added, "I feel kinda silly actually, getting dressed up for a movie."

Jonesy reached out to tuck a strand of hair behind Nikki's ear, "Don't. You look great."

'That made everything worthwhile.' Nikki thought to herself happily, 'Even though I have a thong up my butt.'

"O-oh here, I got you some chocolate." Jonesy took a giant chocolate bar out of his pocket and handed it to her.

Eyeing the chocolate bar she laughed, "Thanks, you Casanova, you."

Jonesy cracked his knuckles, "Yup, that's me. So what do you want to watch?" they both looked up to see what was playing, "Lemme guess, chick flick?"

Nikki shook her head, "Are you kidding me? I've had it up to here with Caitlin's girly stuff! We're watching the one with the most action. C'mon you're getting me popcorn too." she grabbed his arm and pulled a relieved Jonesy towards the ticket stand.

"God, I love this girl!"


Back at Underground Video, Jude was retelling a grand tale of bottles of beer on a wall to Caitlin.

"Then you take that one down and pass it around, and there are 86 bottles of-"

Caitlin cut him off, "Jude. I get it, it's ok."

"If you say so bra, I sometimes get kinda confused so I'd thought I'd make sure." He grinned and started putting the DVDs that he was using as props back on their respective shelves.

'This isn't working,' thought Caitlin. Her plan had been to try and get into Jude's head but that was proving a bit difficult. Taking the direct approach she asked, "Jude, how you ever thought about dating again? You know like, kind of what you had with Starr- I mean Nebula."

Jude shrugged, "I dunno, I did have other girlfriends… but it wasn't the same. Starr was special."

Caitlin's eyes softened, "Aw Jude… I know exactly how you feel… I mean, Talon was special… so was Joe… a-and Seth." she sighed, "I really thought he was the one." Jude didn't say anything but smiled.

"So what did you like about Starr?"

"She was so fun to hang out with, and pretty… plus she liked me! She was the most awesomest girl ever!" Jude reminisced, "But then she changed and everything changed." He turned sadly to Caitlin, "Do you think maybe I need to change?"

Caitlin looked alarmed, "No Jude! We tried goth remember? It's not you, you're perfect the way you are." She gave him a big hug to stop him from thinking otherwise.

Jude hugged back, "Thanks dudette."


'Getting into Wyatt's head shouldn't be too hard.' Jen reasoned to herself and walked into Burger McFlipsters, "Hey Wyatt."

"Hey Jen." he greeted.

She looked around the half empty restaurant, "Where's all your fans?"

Wyatt shrugged, "The lunch crowd just left, so it's kinda slow."

Jen leaned over the counter, "Question."

He raised an eyebrow, "Go ahead."

"You're okay with this friends dating friends thing, right?"

Wyatt thought for a bit, "Well, to be honest, I was skeptical at first, but then I thought that it wasn't so bad and I can live with it."

"I don't hear singing~" Tim told his kitchen staff.

"My burger lies over the ocean, my burger lies over the sea…" the melody floated over to the cashier.

Jen chuckled, "I thought they let you rewrite all their songs."

"They really like that one." smiled Wyatt.

"Okay, back to our conversation… what would you do if say, one of your close friends had a crush on you? Would you be like, 'Ew, she's like my sister,'" Jen proposed with one hand, "Or 'Woah, I think I like her too'?" she held out her other.

Wyatt made a weird face, "Hypothetically?"

"O-of course." she stuttered.

"Does… Caitlin have a crush on me?" Wyatt asked hesitantly.

Jen was taken aback, "What? No?"

"Do you?"

"No!"

Wyatt wiped his forehead with his sleeve, "Whew, you scared me for a second there."

Jen rolled her eyes, "So you would be the 'Ew' scenario."

Wyatt held up his hands in protest, "Well, it's not like there's anything 'Ew' about you guys… I just don't think of any of you in that way."

'Great. Jude probably thinks the same way.' Jen sighed dejectedly.

Wyatt peered inquisitively at his friend, "You look really disappointed, are you sure you don't like me?"

"Yes!" she threw her hands up in frustration, "I'm sure!"