"You really hurt him, you know."
Elizabeth turned around at the sound of a cold voice. There,
standing behind her, was a short girl with long black hair.
"What are you talking about?" Elizabeth choked out. How did
this girl know about her and Conner?
"Conner's my best friend," The girl said crossing her arms across
her chest. "I know he hasn't had a stellar track record when it comes
to girls…but how could you date two guys at the same time?"
Elizabeth stared at this girl in disbelief. "You don't know anything
about me," she seethed. "What went on between Conner and me
is none of your business."
"I know," Tia said coldly. "Ever since you came along, Conner's been
shutting me out. He still refuses to give me any details of why you broke
up. But I do know what you did. And I may not know you, but when is
seeing two guys at one time ever okay?" Elizabeth was silent and
Tia finished, "I hope you aren't thinking that you two can make up.
You're not good enough for Conner."
Elizabeth gaped and then burst into tears. Could this night get any
worse? She flew towards the door but she ran into Todd.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Todd asked sympathetically.
"I…uh…closed the bathroom door on my finger."
"Ouch," Todd said putting an arm around her. "Are you going to
be okay?"
Elizabeth nodded. "It just stings."
"Listen, Ken and everyone are ready to leave for the party."
"Oh," Elizabeth said. The last things she wanted to go to was the El
Carro party. She doubted Conner would be there since he had
nothing but contempt for jocks. But his friend Tia was a cheerleader.
"We don't have to go if you don't want to," Todd said quickly.
"No…no," I want to go. Really." She said forcing a smile.
Todd gave her a soft kiss on the lips. Elizabeth felt a small smile play
at her lips. Even though she had cheated on him, he still had an effect
on her. Plus, it was time to move on. Conner obviously wanted nothing
to do with her. Todd loved her and that's exactly what she needed
right now.

"This is some party!" Ken shouted over to Jessica.
She smiled politely. Ken had been following her around all evening.
It wasn't that she didn't like Ken. It's just that Lila had mentioned that
Jason was going to stop by. Suddenly, Jessica saw him talking to a
tall blonde guy that Jessica didn't recognize.
"Listen, Ken," she said breathlessly. "Would you mind doing me a
favor?" She gave him a dazzling smile.
"Anything," Ken said.
"Would you mind getting my purse from the car?"
Ken nodded and scampered off.
Jessica ran her fingers through her hair and walked over to where
Jason was now standing alone.
"Look who finally decided to show up," she cooed softly into his ear.
Jason turned around and gave Jessica an appreciative gaze. "Yeah,
I didn't really want to do alone time with Lila. I swear, it's like she
thinks were going out."
"You're not?" Jessica said hopefully.
Jason leaned in and gave her a deep, searing kiss. "Does that
answer your question?"

"This is nice," Jessica said smiling. They were seated on a patio
swing and Jessica was leaning against Jason.
"Hmmm," Jason murmured in agreement.
"Listen, do you want to go out for dinner or something tomorrow?"
"I promised some of the guys I'd get together with them."
"Oh," Jessica said. "How about during the week?"
"I don't know, maybe."
Jessica was silent for a moment and then she looked over at him.
"Were you planning on asking out at all?"
"I thought we were having fun," he said confused. "I mean, I thought
that's what you wanted too. You date a lot of guys."
"That doesn't mean I don't want things to get serious! I really like
you," Jessica said touching his cheek.
"I like you too, Jess. Why can't we just have this?" he leaned in and
gave her a light kiss. Jessica responded but she pulled back angrily.
But before she could tell him off she saw Ken standing there with her
purse and Lila looking at them with tears rolling down her face.
Ken dropped her purse and hurried off.
Lila just stared at Jessica in horror. "Lila," Jessica pleaded. "I'm-"
"How could you?" Lila choked out. Then she too dashed off. Jessica
turned to Jason. "You never told her it wasn't serious," she seethed.
"And you'd never be serious with me, either." She gave him a
disgusted look and then ran through the house to go after Lila.

"Come on Liz, you've had enough," Todd said batting her playfully
on the arm.
"I've only had two drinks," Elizabeth lied. More like six.
"That's enough," Todd said leading her to love seat in the corner of
the basement.
"I want shome more, Todd!" Elizabeth moaned.
"I don't know what's up with you lately," Todd hissed. "First you
do a complete role reversal, then you act all moody and depressed,
and now you're drinking. I fell like you're not even here in this galaxy!"
"I'm here for you love," Elizabeth giggled and she began to kiss his
neck. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Conner standing there
glaring at her. Serves him right to be jealous! She thought bitterly.
Todd pushed her away. "I don't want you like this, Liz. I'm going to
take you home."
"You are so not," Elizabeth said huffily. "Jesh…Jeshika can take
me home."
"Fine," Todd spat out, grabbing his coat. "Call me when you've become
sane Liz again."
Elizabeth got up to try to find Jessica but everything was all dizzy.
A guy danced over to her, "Hey, honey, want to dance?" he called
out.
But a strong arm steadied her, "She's with me," a voice said.
Elizabeth squinted. "Oh, Conner, I'm so, hazzy…happy to see you!"
"We need to get you home," Conner said firmly.
"Jeshika," Elizabeth slurred.
"Uh, 'Jeshika' left about fifteen minutes ago. I'll take you home,"
Elizabeth threw her arms around him. "Good! Cause I luff…love
you the best!" she shouted.
"As much as that means to me, we've really got to leave." He led her
out to the car and sat her down. He rummaged around the back seat.
"Here's a bag in case you…uh…get sick." He started the car. "Where
do you live?"
Elizabeth thought about it for a minute. "Sweet Valley!"
"Uh…where in Sweet Valley?"
"My housh."
"Oh," Conner said trying not to laugh. He drove them to his house and
helped her up into his bedroom. He laid her down on his bed and took
off her shoes.
Elizabeth looked up at him, smiling. "Thanks," she whispered and then
she fell asleep.