Chapter 8: Artists
Daria wakes up and takes a shower. She comes out to find Lindsey and Jane talking about art. She goes to the mini fridge and gets orange juice out. "So Jane when do you want to do to Danielle's house?"
"You're going to her house?" Lindsey turns to Jane. "Tony said he was helping her at home today." Lindsey smiles and laughs a little.
"Oo la la. A chance for Daria and Tony to know each other better." Jane laughs when Daria gives her a death stare. "Later, Andrea is still sleeping, I think."
"She is." Daria made sure to step over her. "Danielle seems, she reminds me of Val."
"Val?" Lindsey was only partially listening but the name Val got her attention.
"You know, the editor of Val Magazine." Lindsey's eyes get wide at what Jane said.
"You know Val? Met her at some rich person party? Your mom being a lawyer and all you must have gone to plenty of those Miss Money Bags." Lindsey's mood turns sour.
"No Daria won a contest and the prize was being followed by Val for the day. She wrote an article afterwards, My Day With D."
"I think I remember that article." Lindsey thinks for a second. "Wait that was you!" Daria rolls her eyes and tries to ignore Lindsey. "Wow, you're almost famous."
"Almost. If I had killed Val then I would be infamous."
"Why would you hurt Val?" Daria sighs and gets a box of cereal out. "Oh, sarcasm. Why can't you just say things without sarcasm? People should say what they mean and not stupid stuff like that."
"Lindsey, its how Daria deals with the people around her. Especially the really stupid ones. Although they don't know that she was using sarcasm."
"That squeak still scares me in my sleep." Daria shudders at the thought of Brittany's voice.
"She got into college. I'm thinking more of Kevin."
"He was fun."
"Fun? Did you date Kevin?" Lindsey was lost by the conversation of old times at Lawndale High.
"No. He was someone we liked to talk to then try and figure out what he thought we meant. Right Daria?"
"More fun making Brittany think I was going after Kevin. Seeing the look on her face as she tried to think was terrifying."
"I was scared the one time when a black mess came out of her head. After awhile I figured it was black dye and not her brain when too much got on my shoe." Jane laughs.
"Let me guess, she was a cheerleader?" Jane nods. "I had one at my school she was really bursty. Although, I'm pretty sure her bursts were done." Jane laughs.
"See Daria she's not that bad." Daria goes and sits down on the floor between the lawn chairs ignoring the conversation. "Give her time Lindsey. She'll warm up to you."
"How long did it take for you to get her to talk to you?"
"A day. We were stuck in self esteem class and I had all the answers to get us out. She let me break through that shell of hers over pizza and once she saw my brother she found plenty of excuses to come over."
"Mmm, bet he's really good looking if Daria thought he was cute." Lindsey looks at Daria who seems really interested in her cereal. "Come on Daria, have a picture of him?"
"I do." Jane gets her wallet out and shows a picture to Lindsey.
"He is a bit of man meat. Sorry, shouldn't be talking about your brother like that." Lindsey hands the picture back to Jane. "How come you don't have a boyfriend? You seem pretty well adjusted and have looks. Do you diet or are you just lucky?"
"I'll take luck any day of the week. What about you?"
"I, we never really had enough, um, sorry." Lindsey becomes quiet.
"Thanks Jane." Daria was starting to get a headache. "When is Andrea waking up?"
"When she does. She might be awake already." Jane gets up and goes to Daria's room.
"Need to brush my teeth. Think I got some cereal stuck in the back." Lindsey picks at her teeth and walks towards the bathroom. "What the?!" She sees a sight she wasn't expecting. "Um, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, sorry." Lindsey walks back into the living room.
"What happened?" Daria turns around in the chair and sees Jane closing her door. "What, she was changing and you saw her?"
"Uh, Daria, did you know Jane and Andrea. Were, uh, of course you know you're friends, right?" Lindsey sits down in a lawn chair.
"You saw them? What were they doing?"
"Kissing. I, I didn't know, they don't act like it, you know?"
"I really don't care. If Andrea and Jane are happy with it then it's none of my business. I'm not about to get a bible out and condemn them to hell. As long as no one is hurt what two people do is their own business. Even if I thought it was wrong, which I don't," Jane comes out of Daria's room. "Who am I to tell them to stop? I'm not the…"
"Tell us to stop?" Jane stares at Daria. "Fine, me and Andrea will go so you don't have to tell us to stop!" Jane goes back to Daria's room.
"I didn't, you only heard part of it!" Daria puts her bowl of cereal down and goes back to her room. "Jane it isn't any of my business what you do and I…" Jane cuts Daria off.
"You're right! We're leaving, come on Andrea get up."
"Jane stop yelling I don't want to tell you to stop doing, that. It's not that I think what you're doing is wrong or right it's that I don't care. I'm not the morality police and even if I was I'm not about to tell two grown women what they can and can't do!"
"You've been treating me like I have leprosy or something ever since I told you. You don't want to go out and do anything, I had to drag you to the Art Sale yesterday and last night you locked yourself up in your room to avoid me!"
"I had homework to do and since we are going to Danielle's house today I wouldn't be able to do it now would I?! And think about it Jane, when have I ever gone to something without you dragging me or guilting me into it?"
"You went to Trent's gigs pretty easily. Were you just friends with me so you could get close to my brother?" Jane gets a hurt look on her face.
"Yes Jane because I'm such a man eater I'd use the only person I could stand talking to for more then five minutes to get one. Jane you're the only person I've ever had stay the night or stayed the night at. You're the only person I would put aside my common sense for and go to a party. Just because you're, that way, doesn't mean you've stopped being my friend." Daria's words seem to work as Jane's hurt look turns into a frown.
"You did steal my boyfriend, man eater."
"Boy eater, I wouldn't call Tom a man, unless he got you to do the dirty deed." Jane laughs.
"I already told you 11am on moving day is the day I lose my virginity." Jane looks at Andrea. "Can we break up for a few hours on moving day? So I don't feel like scum for cheating on you?" Andrea smiles a little then stops.
"We're not married Jane. I need a shower before we go to Danielle's. Excuse me Daria." Andrea figured Daria and Jane were good enough friends they would work it out and they had. Why she hadn't said or done anything.
"Still feel stupid?"
"Just kick the world out from under me." Jane sits down on Daria's bed. "I, I wasn't worried about Trent knowing. He's my brother, he has to love me, and I doubt he was awake enough to understand what I said."
"What time did you tell him?"
"Four in the afternoon."
"So he'd been awake for an hour? You should have waited longer." Daria sits down next to Jane. "I don't care if you're gay Jane. It just means I won't be able to steal any more of your dates." Daria gives a very rare smile.
"You might just to get back at me for being so stupid." Jane smiles. "I'm sorry Daria that I yelled at you."
"Andrea's not my type, women are crazy." Jane makes a weird face. "What?"
"You don't smell that? I really need a shower." Jane sniffs her armpit. "Really need one. Now that Lindsey knows I might just share one with Andrea."
"Don't, there isn't enough room for one person. And just because I don't care what you do doesn't mean I want to know what you're doing. All the times I walked in on you and Tom was creepy enough."
"You were just learning how he liked to be kissed before you tried it out yourself." Jane nudges Daria on the arm. "Ready to go to Danielle's?"
"I'm not getting in an enclosed space with you until you get a shower." Jane grabs clothes and waits for Andrea to finish her shower before going in and taking one.
"So you and Jane make up?" Andrea uses a hand mirror to apply black lipstick and other makeup.
"I just want you to know I don't care that you and Jane are, together, and stuff. I don't know why she was upset."
"Daria said this, Daria said that, Daria made Kevin think and now he has a head ache." Andrea does a bad impersonation of Jane. "She loves you Daria like you were a sister."
"No, I don't think she would come and visit them, willingly." Andrea laughs.
"You know what I mean. Your opinion matters to her more then anyone else's. I've had to fight for attention competing with you. It was nice I admit when you and Jane hated each other. Well, when she hated you. I had someone to talk to besides my ceiling. When you two made up I got shafted again. When you moved here Jane called me and we went to concerts, did things together again." Andrea sighs. "Nothing against you Daria but its hard to compete with you."
"Compete?" Daria is getting nervous about the conversation.
"Jane talks about you all the time. I've found a way to shut her up but when I can't do that it's hard to get anything done if it doesn't involve what you did or what you said."
"Oh, well, sorry about that?" Daria doesn't know what to say or do.
"Glad you accept Jane's decision. My parents, I haven't been allowed to sit at the kitchen table for months." Andrea frowns. "Damn myopic ingrates."
"It's the year 2002. Hell, even if it wasn't as long as it doesn't involve little kids or hurting someone why should it be anyone else's business what you do?"
"Thanks Daria, I knew Jane shouldn't have been so worried." Andrea goes to the living room to get something to drink.
"Um, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt anything." Lindsey looks at her feet interested in her socks suddenly.
"Don't act like that you'll only make Jane mad." Andrea rolls her eyes as she gets a can of soda from the mini fridge and walks back to Daria's room.
Jane finishes her shower and changes into clean clothes. "Ready if you are Daria."
"Do I have to go? This sounds like artists time and I'm not an artist."
"Come on Daria Tony will be there to keep you company." Jane smiles at her. "Or we could tell him to leave the artists alone. I'll say you make sculptures out of guano if he asks what type of art you do."
"If it wasn't going to be months until the next time I see you I would come to my senses and say no." Daria, Jane, and Andrea leave the dorm room. "Whose car are we taking?"
"Your car Daria. I'm driving back home tonight and need to save on gas." Andrea opens the dorm building door for Jane and Daria.
"Jane sits in the front seat with the map. She gave you directions right?" Jane nods. "So we just need to follow them and get lost for awhile."
"We're not getting lost Daria."
"I don't know Boston, or Reno, or any place around here."
"If you can't turn right or left when I tell you then we deserve to get lost." They get to Daria's car and she unlocks the doors. The three teens get inside and Daria starts the engine. "Back up, turn right, stop at the stop sign, then go to the exit."
"I know how to leave the parking lot Jane."
"Just helping you out since you said you didn't know Boston, or Reno, or any place around here." They are able to leave the parking lot without farther directions from Jane. "Right," Jane gives direction to Daria.
After nearly an hour the three arrive in front of a large house. "Whoa, it reminds me of Tom's house." They park in front of the building. "That is a house right? Not a Church?"
"No, a Church would have the screaming of eight year old boys and the grunts of old men wearing collars."
"Not all Priests rape children. Didn't you see the Sick Sad World episode Improper Love Boat? I think we watched it together Jane"
"Ok so some are too old to get it up." Jane gets out of Daria's car. "Daria doesn't this remind you of Tom's house?"
"Cold, rich, snobbish, it's exactly like Tom's house." They walk up to the front door. "Do we knock or wait for the trap door to drop out from under us?" Daria knocks on the door.
"Come in! Unless you're selling something!" Daria opens the door and they walk in.
"Marble floors, marble pillars, I'm willing to bet that's a real Monet." Jane walks over to a painting hanging on the wall. "Why is she selling paintings when she can buy ones like this?"
"Oh you like my third wedding gift." Danielle comes from another room over to the three teens.
"You know the order that you got your wedding gifts?"
"No, I know which failed marriage got me more loot." She smiles. "Jane, Andrea, and Daria, welcome to my home."
"So Sloan like."
"Sloan? As in Michel and Marie Sloan?" Danielle looks at Jane waiting for an answer.
"Tom has an aunt and uncle with those names. You can't know them. They live all the way up at the cove."
"That old hell hole? My family and the Sloan family are old friends going all the way back to when they had slave fights for entertainment."
"You're not serious are you Aunt Danny? Tell the…" Someone comes from the back where Danielle was. "Oh, Daria, and her friends." Tony looks at the three with a terrified look on his face. "I, I thought you were, um, from home."
"Aunt Danny? I thought you said you were helping Ms. Thomas yesterday." Daria stares at him.
"I, uh, well I don't want people to know that I'm, rich."
"You aren't rich Tony your parents are loaded." Danielle laughs at her joke.
"I finally got away from that private school and away from all those pompous assholes. I got away from Dayton so I could be with people who didn't know me and would like me for me and not my family's money. But, I heard you talking, you know Tom, he's like me."
"Rich? If you didn't want people to know you had money you're not hiding it to well are you?" Jane raises an eyebrow. "Unless you want us to know."
"I thought you were um, someone else. Aunt Danny didn't you say you had friend's coming?"
"I do, Jane and Andrea are fellow artists and Daria has a wonderful soul."
"Soul?" Daria looks at the bottom of her boots. "These soles are pretty worn." Danielle chuckles.
"And a wonderful sense of humor. How did you know the Sloan's again?"
"I dated him for awhile." Jane looks over at Daria who doesn't volunteer information. "Daria was friends with him to."
"Tom Sloan, he wasn't too bad. Met him at the rich shin digs our families loved to have. Thinking about it, hey, he said he was dating an artist, a tall good looking artist." Tony looks at Jane. "He was right."
"Flattery will get you everywhere but I'm seeing someone."
"Oh well, still got two other lovely ladies." Tony laughs. "Glad you came Daria. I thought maybe I could show you around while the artists get into shop talk."
"What makes you think I'm not an artist?"
"Lindsey told me." Daria's stare doesn't affect Tony's enthusiasm. "But I'd like to get to know you better without having to talk to her. She scares me sometimes with how she reacts to things."
"I don't think I'd like you to know me better."
"Come on Daria you don't want to stick around and listen to us babble."
"Jane you said you'd…" Daria knows she's been crossed by Jane. "You bitch." Jane laughs.
"You're going to have to get a boyfriend on your own now that you can't take mine."
"I don't want a boyfriend, I'm, you made a mistake Jane." Daria takes her car keys out of her pocket. "I drove here I can drive back and leave you here."
"I'd give the lovely ladies a ride on my way back. Then I'd have to walk them to your dorm room to make sure they got there safely."
"Threats don't work on me."
"Guilt does." Daria stares at Jane. "Daria it's not like he's going to bite."
"Don't say it." Daria's thoughts fill her mind. "Don't be that stupid."
"Even if I did I promise I don't have rabies."
"At least he didn't say he wouldn't bite hard." Daria shakes her head. "Fine. I'll leave you three artists alone." She walks over to Tony. "If you start to annoy me I'll make sure you'll regret it."
"If it means you'll stick around I have no problem with that."
"No, I'll sic Lindsey on you." Daria and Tony leave the three artists to their trade and walk to the back of the house.
"I got Zombie Army Exodus on my Game Station." They walk into a living room with a large couch and even bigger TV. "Well, on Aunt Danny's Game Station. She loves playing this thing and borrows it from me all the time."
"She's a little old for Game Station isn't she?"
"She said she's done living how the family expects her to live after her fourth marriage ended. She does what she wants how she wants when she wants. She's got the money and she's my fav so not going to argue with that." Tony sits down on the couch but Daria doesn't. "I don't have cooties and I'm not going to attack you or something. Sit down, relax, maybe something good is on." Tony grabs a remote and turns the TV on.
"You're acting differently now that we're away from everyone else." Daria sits down but keeps an eye on Tony.
"I figure I don't have to act like that around you. My Aunt Danny, or Skaz and Lindsey, they expect me to act a certain way."
"How long have you known Skaz?"
"Uh, a week. He sits next to me in Economics." Tony flips through the channels until he finds the SSW Channel. "I've found acting like a hyper happy guy makes people like you more then acting like myself so I do."
"Why? Who cares what others think?"
"I do. If I need help with something and everyone hates me I'm screwed. Make friends with everyone and I'll always have someone who can help me. Although it does have negative side effects like friends dragging me to party's." Tony laughs a little. "Small world, Jane knows Tom. I'm guessing you do to then."
"Uh, yeah, we got to know each other."
"He was an ok guy. Gave me someone to talk to that didn't want me to turn a fork into a deadly weapon at those stupid parties. Rich people talking to rich people is like two robots beeping at each other but less interesting."
"His family wasn't that bad if you avoided them." They watch TV for awhile when Jane and Andrea come into the living room.
"Well hey she didn't kill him. You cost me five bucks Daria." Jane hands money to Andrea.
"What's going on? My Aunt talk you ladies to death or what?" Tony mutes the TV. "Sorry about you losing a bet but Daria has been nothing but an angel." Tony puts on his act.
"No, Danielle got hungry and wanted to know if you wanted something to eat." Tony looks at Daria.
"What do you want?"
"Pizza, cheese fries, the usual."
"Tell her to make up the teen special. She knows what that means." Tony turns the sound back on.
"These two were kissing in the tree, a crime against nature or the next step towards marriage? Fowl Feline Marriages next on Sick Sad World." Jane and Andrea walk away.
"Repeat. Daria, why did you choose Raft?"
"That came from nowhere." Daria thinks about it though. "Well, I tried Bromwell but not even a letter of recommendation from the Sloan's could get me in. Raft was my second choice, my last choice. Anywhere else would have been because I had to go somewhere."
"My dad built a building at Bromwell so I could have gotten in but those people just act so, snobby isn't right," Daria knows what is.
"They act like their shit doesn't smell and that we peons should know our place in the world. Tom's going there though so not all Bromwell students act like that."
"Really? Carrying on the Sloan family tradition. My dad nearly threw a fit when I said I wasn't going to Bromwell but I told him I didn't want to get into a college because he built them a building but because the school wanted me. He thought that was a great idea and I would change my mind after awhile."
"Are you? I could probably transfer to Bromwell after a year at Raft, not that I would." Anymore…
"Hell no I like Raft. No one knows who I am, no one wants to be friends because my family is rich, and I don't get creped out over going into a building named after my dad."
"According to Tom it was just a wing, not a whole building."
"Whatever. Please don't tell Skaz or Lindsey about this. Lindsey seems to hate anyone with money and Skaz is a nice guy, smart, reminds me of Tom. I don't want him to turn into everyone else who finds out I have more in my bank account then both their parents."
"I avoid talking to both of them so I doubt the topic will come up." Daria looks at him strangely. "Why are you so open with me?"
"You knew Tom and I know he wouldn't be friends with someone who annoyed him. He wouldn't hang out with people who just liked him for his money. And he has good taste in women." Tony laughs. "Wonder why they broke up."
"Actually Tom and I dated for awhile." Daria didn't want to tell him the whole story and hopes this answers why Tom and Jane broke up.
"Really? And Jane, guy was more of a womanizer then I thought."
"It wasn't like that. Tom and Jane dated for awhile then got bored with each other. Before they officially broke up we kissed and things went to hell." Daria shakes her head not knowing why she just told Tony this.
"Sounds like a soap opera. If you don't mind I'd rather not hear all the details."
"I don't want to tell you the details. It is strange that you know him, and your family is old friends with the Sloan's."
"I don't think it's that strange. Most rich people go to the same rich person schools where they meet each other. Most rich people live in the same rich people neighborhoods after college. It does make them a bit blue blooded, can't let the outsiders in and get their peon hands on the mold, I mean money."
"You don't like being rich? How about sending some of that money to a charity so you don't have so much of it."
"There's nothing wrong with being rich it just seems that money makes people act differently. If they acted like everyone else and everyone treated them like everyone else there wouldn't be a problem. They act like they are special and people enforce that by treating them special. Ever see a rich man go to jail? No, only poor people go to jail. Rich people get to go to rehab because it was the drugs that made him rape children. They pay their debt to society by donating millions to the Governor or get community service for petty things like murder."
"Tell me how you really feel." Daria didn't really care but the Sick Sad World episode was a repeat and this was more interesting.
"A poor man gets caught with a tenth of an ounce of weed and goes to jail for twenty years while some Hollywood rich bimbo gets caught selling coke at a Hollywood party and they go to rehab for a couple of weeks. A poor man steals food from a store owned by a billionaire to feed his family and he goes to jail. The same billionaire that owns the store steals millions from the retirement funds of its American workers while using child slave labor in Africa and they get a commendation from the President on their outstanding work on keeping his bank account up."
"Not all rich people do that. You don't, Tom doesn't, and Oprah doesn't." Daria eggs Tony on.
"One percent of the top one percent isn't something to be proud of. Only reason I'm taking economics instead of music as a major is so I can take over my dad's company when he retires and maybe, just maybe, do some good in this world."
"Music? Instrument or vocal?"
"Both. I can play guitar, and piano, and drums, and the accordion."
"Accordion?"
"Teaches you how to play both ends against the middle." Tony laughs at his joke. "That and accordion music annoys parents more then the guitar. I did thorough experiments to prove my theory."
"What's that smell?" Daria turns towards the door and sees Jane and Andrea coming in with food.
"Cheese fry pizza." Tony stands up and helps Jane and Andrea set the food down on the coffee table. "The teen special, mixes the best of both into the ultimate food."
"I thought rich people only ate escargot or caviar." Andrea grabs a slice and puts it on a paper plate.
"Most rich people do. My Aunt doesn't waste money on that crap. Did you know there is caviar that can be sold at over a thousand dollars an ounce? Its damn fish eggs and they charge more for an ounce then gold." Tony gets a slice and puts it on a paper plate. "Want a piece Daria?"
"Sure." Daria takes the plate from Tony. "Your Aunt the black sheep of the family?"
"No. Her grandmother loved her because she wasn't a stuck up snob and got most of the Slate family fortune."
"Slate?"
"Most of them married into the Sloan family but some married into the Thomas family. That money is probably the only reason the rest of the Thomas family keeps in contact with her. Hope she croaks and leaves them the money."
"What about you?" Jane bites down on a piece of cheese fry pizza.
"I really don't care. I'll be made a CEO by my dad then VP and eventually President of Thomas, Bracket, & Corrine when he retires."
"You sound thrilled about it."
"Once I'm President of the company things will change. If I was more ambitious I'd have the current VP have an accident so I could get up the ladder faster."
"You don't need him to have an accident. Just plant some animal pornography on his computer and leak it out. No one wants a guy who literally loves horses representing their company." Andrea grabs a napkin to wipe her hands.
"You've thought about that haven't you?" Jane grabs a napkin to wipe off a piece of cheese that had fallen on her shirt.
"Ms. Li never pushed me that far." Andrea takes another slice.
"Maybe I could hire you for a think tank after I graduate." Tony smiles at Andrea but she doesn't look at him.
"Think tank, I'd rather use a real tank. Scare them into changing the world how you want it to be. Works a lot better then diplomacy, just ask the Iraqis, the ones not firebombed."
"You're political? I can't wait until the next presidential election. Finally get to vote."
"On electronic voting machines owned by the party that won the last election after more people voted for them then actually live in this country." Tom laughs.
"You're being serious? Everyone knows God wanted them to win so he sent angels down to vote." Andrea laughs a little. "Maybe I should run for president. Lie to WieBold so they rig the election for me then have them all arrested for corruption, after giving myself a presidential pardon."
"You're not a crook." Jane imitates Nixon. "You're such optimists about our election system."
"I'm optimistic that sooner or later the American people will rise up and overthrow the carpetbaggers in office."
"They have fat butts?" Everyone looks at Daria. "Damn, I forgot everyone here took an IQ test and it came up positive." Now they laugh.
"Daria, Tony, Danielle wants to do a painting and I think you'd be perfect for it." Daria and Tony give a cold stare at Jane. "Come on we're all seeing someone but you."
"Give it up Jane." Tony's tone of voice is dark. "I mean, Daria is planning on being the crazy cat lady and dating a future CEO would mean a bigger house for the cats but she wouldn't be as crazy." His voice goes back to normal.
"Maybe Skaz and Lindsey could do it if Danielle can stand them for that long." Andrea stands up with her dirty paper plate and napkin. "Garbage?"
"Here, I'll take it." Tony takes the plate and napkin from Andrea. "Ladies?" Jane and Daria hand Tony their plates. "If I come back and find you girls having a pillow fight or watching 90210 I'm kicking you out." Tony leaves the three.
"Really Daria I'm surprised you two didn't kill each other." Jane sits down on the couch next to Daria. "Sorry about leaving you alone with him."
"He's not that bad when other people aren't around. Once the TV is on he becomes someone I can deal with." Daria was fascinated with how he changed so quickly from himself to the act he puts on for people.
"Brain dead?" Jane picks up the remote and flips through the channels. "It's already five? Trent will be getting up soon and we need to be leaving. Long drive back to Lawndale."
"Five?" Daria checks her watch. "Time flies when you're comatose. "Um, it was nice that you came out here this weekend."
"Eating pizza here beats eating pizza back at Lawndale. Kevin's been wandering the city lost now that he's not in high school."
"Ms. Li wasn't allowed to keep him? Football season isn't over."
"Lawndale already won six games so the school board felt it was ok to let Kevin graduate. I heard it took several awards and donations to get the schedule changed so Lawndale could play the hard schools back to back so they could let Kevin go."
"Is he going to college or is he going straight to the pros?" Daria sighs as she thinks about the millions Kevin would make as she struggled through college.
"I heard he was going to college. My Father's the teacher at Barrington and he heard after the Barrington Bengal's lost two games they called Kevin's father about Kevin going to their school on a full scholarship." Andrea shakes her head thinking about how her Father would tear into Kevin and hoped he would record it for her.
"We have to be going."
"What's with the sad scene?"
"We have to go back. It was nice being able to talk with your Aunt and eat her food."
"Where you going back to?"
"Lawndale." Jane and Andrea say it at the same time.
"Oh. Well ladies, you have a safe trip back. Next time you come out I'll make sure to be at my Aunt's to talk to you."
"Won't have to wait to long Jane is going to BFAC this winter." And Andrea would be left in Lawndale. "Where's Danielle?"
"Where did you leave her? She was working on a new painting but stopped when you got here."
"The one she was showing me and Andrea?" Jane and the others walk out of the living room and walk through the house getting to another room with three glass walls and ceiling.
"Oh hello I hope the pizza was good." Danielle is painting with both hands.
"They have to go back."
"Oh darn. Jane I was wondering if I should use pastels or primaries." Jane looks at the painting.
"Both."
"You're right. It was nice to meet and talk to two artists who don't consider crying clowns fine art." Danielle smiles at Jane and Andrea. "And you Daria, Jane told me all about her best friend. You can always come over when school gets too much. I heard you are a writer, would love to read your work."
"Uh, not now. I have homework, still, and will have more later." Daria didn't want to just blow Danielle off.
"Daria we have to go. By the time we get back to Raft it will be after six." Andrea was the only one who could drive her car since Jane didn't know how to drive a stick. An eight hour drive back was not going to be fun.
"Ok, bye Danielle, and Tony." Daria sees Tony's face change into several expressions then goes back to the mask.
"I'll see you at school Daria but I will miss your friends." Tony smiles. "To be surrounded by such lovely women is nice but you must be going."
"Yes, come on Jane, Andrea." Daria and the other two leave the house and go to her car. "That was terrifying."
"It was fun Daria admit it. Tony's really cute and he's smart and if he is friend's with Tom he can't be that bad."
"I'm not to sure about him. He, you wouldn't know." He's scary. Daria shakes her head. "I'll make sure to go fast so you can start going back to Lawndale before dark."
"Wanting to go back to Lawndale, scary." Jane and Andrea relax on the drive back.
When they get to Raft Daria parks next to Andrea's car. "If you want I can go and get your things so you don't have to go all the way to my dorm room and back."
"No, no Daria I'll come with you." Jane turns to Andrea. "You can stay here."
"Ok Jane." Andrea goes to her car while Jane and Daria go to Daria's dorm room. They go in and go back to Daria's room.
"Thanks Jane for not listening to me."
"Thanks Daria for listening to me. It sucked not being able to go and get pizza with you and being worried that, well, you would not like me because of, you know."
"Jane, get over it. You're the only real friend I made in high school. I talked to Jodie some but I didn't really consider a friend. If we can get through the Tom thing I don't think you liking girls would make me hate you."
"The Tom thing was your fault." Jane looks at Daria. "Normally I would hug you good bye but, well, um…" Daria does something strange, she hugs Jane.
"As long as you don't start hitting on me we'll be fine." She lets go. "What day do you go to BFAC?"
"December nine. I might come up before then or you could come to Lawndale."
"Thanksgiving is just a couple months away." Daria gives Jane a rare smile. "Get back to Lawndale so I have someone to call after school tomorrow."
"Ok Ms. Morgendorffer." Jane grabs two bags and walks to the door of the dorm room. "You could walk me back to the car."
"I have homework still since I used my weekend to hang out with you, and Andrea." Jane leaves the dorm room. "Homework, have to get math done." Daria goes back to her room and works on homework as Jane and Andrea go back to Lawndale.
A/N This chapter has a TON of references to past episodes of Daria. From Season 1 to Is It College Yet I have about 40 of this chapter referring back to Daria the show and movies. If you've seen the episodes and movies you will get the jokes and things but if you haven't you might not get some of them, most of them.
