"Do you think Abby & the rest of them beat us here Kristy?" asked Cary as he scanned the crowd at Pizza Express. He looked over at Kristy and noticed her fidgeting with her hair and shirt. "You ok there shorty?"

"I'm fine." Snapped Kristy. She couldn't believe that she had actually gone out on a date looking so slobby. She sighed inwardly as she watched Shannon breeze in confidently through the doors laughing with Price.

"I am having such a good time!" confided Shannon to Kristy as Cary and Price began an in depth talk of the game. "Price is such a great guy; he really treats me like a lady you know?"

Just then the hostess led the group to a bunch of tables near the back of the restaurant. As they walked towards their table Kristy couldn't help notice the way the other girls in the restaurant were dressed. Even Abby had begun to take more time in getting ready. Although, she wasn't as flashy as Stacey, or unique like Claudia she definitely knew how to play up her features. She watched as Abby, Ross and Claudia walked in and made their way back to the tables.

"You will never guess who we saw in Mocha Moe's!" exclaimed Abby her cheeks flushed with excitement. "My very own sister with Trevor Sanbourne! They were listening to some weirdo play their guitar and mutter poetry or something"

"I think that's called interpretive reading Abby." Said Ross.

"Whatever, it looked like an excuse to fall asleep in a coffee house!"

"I'm starved, how many pizzas do we want?" moaned Cary rubbing his stomach as he flopped his head on Kristy's shoulder. "I may faint from hunger pains."

"and the Oscar goes to Cary Reitlin…" whispered Shannon to Abby.

"We have to wait til the rest of the crew gets here…" began Claudia. Just then AJ walked into Pizza Express and scanned the crowd. He motioned for the rest of his friends to follow him as he walked through the crowd towards Claudia.

"Looks like we all won't fit here…Claud, did you want to come sit at this group of tables right here?" said AJ looking around. "We're still within talking distance of these guys."

Claudia grabbed her purse and began walking towards the other tables. She felt her cheeks burn as Susan Taylor and Shawna Riverson glanced at her outfit then at each other. She could tell they were trying not to laugh.

"That's an interesting outfit Claudia. Are those leg warmers?" drawled Susan. Claudia pretended not to notice Shawna wiping away tears of laughter. She could hear her friends at the other table laughing about what to order. "I swear I saw someone else wearing leg warmers…hmmm who was it?"

Just then Mallory Pike came running up to the table. She wearing high waisted jeans, velour striped top and blue leg warmers. Claudia groaned as Mallory began fawning all over AJ.

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Mary Anne could hear someone knocking on her bedroom door. She placed her hand over the phone receiver and whispered "come in."

"I'm sorry Mary Anne; I didn't know you were on the phone!" Whispered Dawn.

Mary Anne winked at Dawn and held up one finger.

"I can't tell you how excited I am to visit you at U of C. I've started making a list of all the things-"

"Whoa, whoa whoa, Mary Anne. If you are ever going to attend here, you have to at LEAST call it by the correct name. It's UConn, not U of C."

Mary Anne could feel herself starting to blush with embarrassment. She couldn't believe she made such a stupid error.
"Alex, I've gotta run, I'll call you later this week but we are definitely coming up to visit. To UConn that is. I'll see you soon! Bye!" Mary Anne hung up the phone and turned towards her sister.

"I just wanted to tell you we brought back some ice cream for you and we rented a really funny movie if you want to come watch with us?" asked Dawn.

"I'd love to!" she replied as they headed downstairs.

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"Stacey, I just wanted to tell you that you did an amazing job tonight." Said Troy as they wiped down tables. "The customers really seem to like you and I haven't had any complaints…unlike other servers."

Stacey wrinkled her nose as she refilled salt shakers. "Let me guess, Cokie?"

Troy began laughing and swatted Stacey playfully with a towel. "You really don't like her do you? Actually I had to let Kelly go tonight. She just wasn't pulling her weight."

"I hope it wasn't because of what I told you earlier tonight?" said Stacey looking horrified.

"No no no, not at all sweetie." Said Troy as he led Stacey to one of the tables. He held out a chair for her and gestured for her to sit down. "To be perfectly honest, every time she worked her cash drawer was off by a good $20.00 at least, she wasn't very friendly with the customers and I think she was serving some of her friends who weren't 21."

Stacey breathed a sigh of relief.

"Come on, I can't have my favorite waitress feeling guilty can I?" teased Troy. "Is your mom coming to pick you up? Or do you need a ride? It's no trouble."

"Oh I got my Mom's car but thanks. Although I may take you up on it because she's going out of town one night I have to work so I was going to see if maybe Jill could take me? But if you're sure it's no trouble…"

"Just let me know when!" replied Troy quickly. "how long is your mom going to be out of town?"

"Not sure, not long I don't think."

They finished cleaning the tables and walked out to their cars. Stacey paused by her mom's car and looked up at Troy. "Thanks again for hiring me, I am really loving this job. If there is anything extra you need me to do just let me know!"

Troy grinned down at her and gave her shoulder a squeeze. He held the door as she got into the car then waved as she drove away.

I'm sure I can think of quite a few "extras" you can do…he thought as he drove off.