Fi had been going to go over to Sam's house but decided that she needed the night home. So she cancelled and stayed home watching movies instead. Just what she needed, a good night at home watching movies.

Just then Clu and Jack bounded in the door.

"Mmmm what smells good.... did you guys get PIZZA???" Fi jumped up and ran over to the two boys.

"Sure did Fi. Oh boy what are you watching?" Clu asked happily.

"Oh, i'm watching Stand By Me and I also rented Scary Movie 2 and umm, OH grease. Just for fun." Fi laughed.

"Stellar! Cool movies and Pizza, just the three of us. THIS ROCKS!" Clu grabbed a slice of pizza and jumped onto the couch. Fi looked up at Jack, slightly awkardly.

"You, are gonna join us aren't you?"

Jack paused for a second, looked Fi in the eye and then gave her a big hug.

"I'm sorry Fi."

"I'm sorry too Jack." Then Fi started to cry. Just knowing that no matter what, Jack was there to comfort her and always would forgive her was enough to make her cry.

"Fi, Fi what's wrong, what is it?" asked Jack in a worried voice.

"Thank you Jack. Just thanks for everything." Fi let go of Jack and looked him in the eye.

"Let's go eat pizza and watch the movie." said Jack.

"Sounds great!"

They both grabbed a slice of pizza and sat down on the couch.

"This is my favourite movie!" exclaimed Fi. "And what's better, is that i'm watching it with two of my favourite people in the whole world!"

"Aaaawww," said Clu, "that's so sweet, now shhhhh!"

They all laughed and then settled down to watch the movie.

At around 12:30am, the parents and Carey all arived home to find Jack, Clu and Fi all asleep on the couch with scraps of pizza lying around and grease playing on the TV.

"Looks like they had a blast." Commented Irene, surveying the area. "Should we wake them up and get them to bed or just leave them there? They do look so snug and comfy!" They all laughed.

The next morning Sam came over to see Fi. Molly let him in and told him that she was still asleep on the couch but seeing as it was 9:30 he was welcome to wake her up. He walked over to the couch and found a site that he wasn't really pleased to see. In her sleep, Fi had fallen onto Clu's lap and his arm was around her.

"Erhem! Fi, time to wake up Fi. I've come over to see you." Sam attempted to wake Fi up.

"Eh, yeahwhaddyawant, iwanmoresleep leammealone." Fi opened her eyes. "Oh, hi Sam. This is a surprise, I didn't know you were coming over"

"Obviously," he said looking at Clu and the position Fi was in on him.

"Huh? What do you.... oohhh no no no it's not like that. We rented some videos last night to watch and fell asleep on the couch. I must of just fell onto Clu." Fi explained.

"So you cancelled our date to hang out here with him." Sam looked at Clu again.

"Noooo, I wasn't feeling well last night and I was sad because Jack and I had another fight so I stayed home and watched videos, and Sam, Clu's just a friend ok."

"Ok, ok I suppose it just didn't look good when I came in. I'm sorry."

"It's ok." Replied Fi. She gently lifted Clu's arm of her and walked over to sam, giving him a quick 'good morning' kiss. "So why'd you come over?" She asked.

"Do I have to have a reason other than to see you?"

Just then Jack stormed out of the room. They didn't realise that he'd been awake and just lying there.

"Wow! Didn't he wake up on the wrong side of the bed!" Said Sam.

"Oohh nooo," growned Fi before she chased after him. "Jaacckk." Once they were out of earshot from Sam, Jack swirled around to face Fi. "Why is he here? I mean ok I finally accepted that you love him but does he have to come here this early in the morning for no reason!"

"I don't know why he's here Jack. He said he just wanted to see me. And no I didn't invite him he just turned up ok!" Fi replied slightly irritably but she had to admit. She had actually been quite happy just hanging out with Clu and Jack and didn't want that to end yet.

Sam walked in. "Hey Fi, wanna go somewhere for brekkie?"

"Sure. Where do you wanna go? Hey what about we make some brekkie and take it to the park?"

"Sounds er great. Or we could go to Gina's Cafe'. They do nice breakfast." Sam was somewhat hesitant about the park idea. Fi on the other hand had thought the park was a great idea. In the end they went to Gina's.

* * * * * * *

Fi flopped down on Jack's bed just as Clu walked in. "Hey Fi"

"Hey Clu. What are you doing?"

"I was just gonna use Jack's computer. What about you? You look kinda sad, did something happen today?"

Fi sighed. She knew she could tell Clu anything. She could trust him with her problems and secrets. And what was best, was that he actually listened to her.

"No, I had a fine day it's just that. I dunno something with Sam. He didn't want to have breakfast in the park, fair enough, but then he didn't wanna go minature golfing or go to the pool or anything. It's like he didn't want to be seen doing anything immature or uncool with me. I mean, I don't know, I could be wrong but that's what it seemed like. He wanted to do stuff like movies or when we went to the park the only thing he'd do was walk and talk or try to kiss me-constantly!"

Clu wasn't silent for a moment before he said anything. "Has he always been like that?"

Fi thought for a minute. "He's always been more... sophisticated I suppose. But he used to be more fun then that. Now it's like he's getting more....SERIOUS!" Fi sat up. "That's what it is. He's probably trying to make the relationship more serious. Clu I don't think I really wanna get more serious. I just wanna have fun and enjoy the carefreeness of being a teenager while I can."

"Well," replied Clu, "I suppose you'll just have to make that clearto him."

"You're right." Fi hopped up, walked over to Clu and gave him a hug. "Thanks Clu, You're always there for me." She gave him a big warm smile and walked out of the room.

Clu felt happy to be the one that was there for Fi, giving her advice when she was down. It made him feel so helpful. He smiled as he thought about it.

"Hello, Oh hi Fi!" Sam answered the door.

"Hi Sam. Listen, I need to talk to you in private. Is this an ok time?

"Um, sure, yeh. What did you wanna talk about?"

"Well can I come in?" Fi walked in. They both went into Sam's room. They sat down, there was a silence before Fi broke the ice.

"Sam, I noticed yesterday that you were a bit.... well you weren't yourself. You seemed er, more self concious. And I was wondering if er... you were getting more serious, I mean getting more serious in this relationship and trying to, well yeah wanting to get more serious?"

There was a pause while Sam contemplated the question.

"Well Fi, you know I love you heaps and I just thought I spose that maybe it was time to go further. Get deeper you know?"

"I love you too Sam but it's not like we're thinking about marriage. I don't know if I wan't to get more serious yet. It's not like me."

Sam looked at Fi. "You're so hot! Did anyone ever tell you that?" He stopped seeing the look on Fi' face, "Ok, sorry. If you're not ready for it then, i spose that's ok, I mean what can I do?"

Fi grinned, "Thanks Sam! I knew you'd understand! Anyway I have to go, My mum's got a gig tonight and I have to help set up."

"Ok," replied Sam, "Catch ya later then."

* * * * *

Fi enjoyed the walk home. It was a nice sunny day and everyone was out and about. Infact it was so nice that she decided to stop at the park by the lake and watch the ducks.

There were always plenty of people feeding the ducks. It was sometimes funny to watch all the ducks going for one bit of bread and pushing each other out of the so so as to be the first duck to get to the bread. Rather like humans, she thought and then chuckeled quietly to herself.

She stayed by the pond for so long just watching and thinking that she completely forgot to go and help everone prepare for the gig. She suddenly remembered and started running towards the place where the show was to be held. Sh rushed around corners and down busy streets, dodging people with prams and shopping bags. Past the shops, past another park, up past the school, and then through a little alley that she thought was the right one.

she came to the end of the alley and stopped dead in her tracks. There was a wall for a dead end but some weird pink light was shining through. Suddenly the wall started to crack, there was a very loud bang that she was sure must have been heard all over the town. Then nothing. Silence. And she was standing facing the brick wall. No light was shining through and the wall was perfectly intact.

"What the hell was that!" That was the last thing she remembered thinking before she vomited and passed out.

* * * * *

"Hey, girl, wake up. C'mon get up for god's sake. Jeez, what do I have to do to get a chick to wake up these days. Why is she lying here anyway?"

Fi slowly regained conciousness and opened her eyes. WOW, she thought, Is that just the best looking guy or what!

"Um who are you?" Asked the guy.

"I'm Fiona, who are you?" Fi was still trying to remember what had just happened and why she was lying in this dirty alley.

"Name's Jake. Are you ok?"

"Yeh, I think so," replied Fi.

"Good," said Jake, "Now I can go, done my one bloody good deed for the day. And you can piss of too, this is our alleyway!"

"Excuse me?" Said Fi confused, "Well you're not very nice are you."

"No-one asked you, doll face."

Fi hurredly got up and started running down the alley to the street. She definantly didn't want to stick around there any longer. As she began to walk to her mum's gig, she tried to figure out just exactly what had happened. As she walked along the busy footpath she realised that people seemed a bit different. They seemed, ruder? They'd snarl if you looked at them and shove you out of their way instead of just dodging you. Man she couldn't wait to get back to the safety of her family.

She finally got to the hall where her mum was playing.

"Hey guys! Wow you wouldn't believe it out there, everyone is so rude and acting kinda strange."

Everyone just looked at her and grunted. Molly called across the room to her.

"Fiona stop blabbing and help. Where the hell have you been, there's a bunch of things to be done that have your name written in permanent marker all over them!"

"Yeah," called Jack, "The rest of us have been working our butts off and you've been where exactly?"

Fi looked at them all strangely. Why were they being so mean to her, ALL of them!

"Sorry!" She yelled and then ran off to the toilets. This was definantly not right!

In one of the hallways she bumped into Clu. She kind of expected him to yell at her too but he didn't.

"Woah, chill Fi. What's wrong? Are you ok?"

"You're not angry at me Clu?" Fi was surprised.

"Dude, why would I be angry? Because you bumped into me? Why would I care."

"Oh my gosh Clu! That is such a relief. Everyone is being so mean. I don't know what's going on!"

"Hey Fi, slow down, come sit in here and tell me about it." Clu lead Fi into a spare room. They sat down and Fi told him everything, right from when she'd left Sam's house.

Clu sat there shocked. He knew Fi had a knack for finding weird stuff. Heck everyone knew that! But this was beyond strange!