The next day was almost like any other.

The kids poured through the doors, running through the walls like a herd of bulls, kids everywhere sat on their chairs, looking bored as various teachers began droning on boring subjects.

Just like any other day, really.

But something had happened. Everyone knew it. for one thing, Lisa 'teacher's pet' Simpson wasn't trying to correct Ms. Hoover while she was 'teaching', for another, Milhouse, even though he was not hanging out with that fifth grader girl anymore, looked happy.

But these were just fragments. Some small pieces of a puzzle that some smart girl like Alyson would try to solve, or Ralph would find. These were nothing, compared to what happened in the Lunchroom.

It was common knowledge that Bart and Lisa Simpson didn't really talk to each other anymore. They would go to classes on different wings of the school, and sit on lunch tables on the two sides of the cafeteria. They didn't even hang in the same circles of friends. Most children didn't really care about them per se (now that Bart wasn't actively trying to ruin school for everyone, he'd been demoted to his level in the social chains of the school. and Lisa wasn't popular to begin with), but with the recent events, what happened that day got everyone's attention.

Lisa arrived late, as it was, but when she walked through the Cafeteria's door, she didn't walk towards Alison, Janey and the twins like she always would. No, instead, she marched towards a certain table on the other end of the hall, and banged her fist on the table when she reached there.

Three heads rose, meeting her angry, irritated gaze. One was her former boyfriend (and occasional crush), the other was the girl she'd seen yesterday leaving Milhouse, and the last one was her brother.

"Bart Simpson" she said in an angry tone. Not 'he pranked me into kingdom come' Angry, not even 'oh Buddha why the hell do you eat meat so much' angry. That was irritation coming from being manipulated, reserved for smart people (and something she'd never thought she would ever use on Bart) "you tricked me"

Bart raised an eyebrow, "What are you talking about?", Taffy (with the same look as yesterday) also added, "yeah Lisa, what's your big game?"

Lisa growled, snarled, and said "you tricked me! you knew I was going to ask for your help, so you arranged for that to happen!"

Bart, with the eyebrow still raised, said "What?"

"Oooooooh! You planned for me to walk in on Milhouse and Her! That's why she wasn't really angry! You knew I was going to be guilt-tripped into-"

"I'm gonna stop you right there.", Bart interrupted, "you can't be serious about that, Lis'. You're saying I planned for this week to happen to Milhouse? In some sort of scheme so I could hook him up with you? You do realize you're talking about the kid who lost the way to the kitchen, right?"

"Oh quit it! you may have fooled them into thinking you're stupid, but I'm not Mom and dad! You can't trick me!" said Lisa, now not caring to be quiet, and not caring about the few dozens of eyes now on them, "you did something. you tricked me into doing exactly what you wanted, and I'm not going to stand for it!"

That was when Taffy jumped up from her seat, grabbing Lisa's collar and pulling it so they were face to face, "Listen here, you obnoxious little brat. Milhouse was almost pushed into suicide last week because of what you did, if you're going to crush him again-" "are you kidding? There's no way I'm letting Milhouse go now! Who knows what he'll do if I-" interrupted Lisa with a serious tone, "what I'm talking about is tricking him into thinking you actually liked him!"

Taffy said "I do like him, you prat! He's the problem. You think what I said yesterday was acting? He's never going to stop loving you. He's hopelessly, irredeemably, almost stalkerishly in love with you." Said Taffy, "you really think a summer fling would make him forget about that?"

She rolled her eyes, "I'm not letting that go anyway, Bart. You tricked me into doing exactly what you wanted. And I'm going to get even one day!" the, she dropped a key on the table, "and these are your keys, as you asked for yesterday. Now good day, I've got a lunch to eat"

Nelson, who'd been uncharacteristically quiet till now, said "why don't you sit with us? You've talked to Bart, and all the other tables are full"

While Bart and a girl (who hadn't talked either) were protesting against Nelson's proposal, Lisa looked around. He was right, her normal group of people had eaten their lunch, and were just now walking out of the doors. There was no open table for her, she turned back to the older kids, "you'd let me sit with you guys?" "yes, why not?"

And that, maybe, was the beginning of a reconciliation for the siblings.

a few days later, a young man with unruly red hair (truly unruly, it had a form most undesirable) walked to a familiar hall in the city.

"all rise for his honor, Judge Harm!" said the bailiff, and the man Smiled.

He already knew how this was going to end, and he already knew what he was going to do when this ended.

He was going to finally face his nemesis, and best him. once and for all.

His name wasn't Robert Underdunk Terwilliger if Bart Simpson could escape his wrath this time.

A.N:

Hey guys.

Here's a short epilogue to this arc of the story.

Finally, Lisa and Milhouse are together, Bart and Lisa are on talking terms, and Sideshow bob is getting released from the prison once more…

What could possibly go wrong?

(on an unrelated note. Considering the fact that the entire Simpsons series is supposed to have happened in less than a year, I am really wierded out about the fact Sideshow bob (who's been known to want to kill a ten-year-old kid, and has attempted to do so many many times) gets pardoned from Prison almost every time he goes there…)

Until I finally write Chapter 11 (which will probably be uneventful, more of a filler really),

Davoid signing off