Miranda sighed and turned off the radio. Even though they had gotten their homework from all the teachers for the week they were out of school she didn't have time to do it. That was the reason she was up at 2 am trying unsuccessfully to do trigonometry. She should have consented when Larry offered to help her Friday night. She just didn't feel like it then especially when there was partying to be done. Well, she was paying for that now.

The weekend was much better because of the boys, however. It was almost as if the pressure was off. The people in the studio didn't feel the same way though. While they were recording on Friday, they kept on messing up because they were laughing at the guys' antics through the screen. Laughter was unfortunately not an asset to the melancholy love song they were doing that day. They had to do it over and over and over. When they did get down to business, however, everyone agreed that it was the best they had ever sounded. Of course it was. They had some guys to impress.

When they left the studio they went rollerblading in the park over the road from their apartment until it was dark. They then went back to the lobby of their building where they met up with some of their neighbours. There were quite a few other teens in the building and fortunately one of them, Kris, was having a party that night and invited them. They were all to glad to go. Of all the teens, namely Marianne and her twin Lianne, Carmen, Randy, Heather and Marcus, Jason, and of course Kris, she was the one they like best. She was a tomboy to the bone and would seriously injure anyone that dared to call her by her real name Cyndi-Lee. Kristal was her middle name but she had shortened it to Kris. She was fourteen as were the twins and Jason. The others were fifteen. They were all going to be at the party along with some of Kris's schoolmates.

Everyone broke up and scuttled off to their respective apartments when they realized that the time was 7: 30. The party was going to start at 8!! Lizzie and Miranda showered, changed, applied makeup, styled hair, accessorised, perfumed, and admired each other's choices in record time. Gordo and Larry showered, changed and complained about how long the girls were taking. By 8:30 they were ready to go upstairs from their 7th floor apartment to Kris's 10th floor one. The party was already in full swing.

"Hey guys!" Kris yelled over Good Charlotte's Anthem. They all stared at her. Kris actually had on a DRESS! And a very short one at that. She had also taken her strawberry blond hair out of her trademark scruffy ponytail and had it brushed out till it was a shiny mass of radiant curls. And was that eyeshadow???

"Wow Kris, you look great." Lizzie said

"Thanks." She leaned closer to them and looked around cautiously before saying "Marcus thinks so too." She blushed

"Oh" Lizzie replied saucily and winked at her laughing.

As they stepped inside Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body" started to play and they made a beeline from the punch bowl to the dance floor. They didn't leave the dance floor for the next hour. They had just sat down with some of Kris's friends from school when a really upbeat latin mix started up.

"Oh my gosh!" Miranda exclaimed. "That song! That's Maria Diego. She was in the 'Cantante' competition with me. How did Kris get hold of this song. It's supposed to be a Mexico only release." Carmen who overheard the last part of the conversation responded.

"You know Maria?! She's my cousin. I brought the CD they're playing now. She sent it to me just last week."

"Whoa this is a small world. Other than your first name I would have never thought you were Spanish."

"I know I get my looks from my father. He's all blond hair and blue eyes."

"Cool. That song brings back so many memories. I wanna dance." Miranda's eyes had a nostalgic glaze.

"K hold on I'll get the dj to pull it up. He's my boyfriend." With that Carmen skipped over to the turntables glad for any excuse to talk to her boyfriend.

"C'mon Larry lets dance."

"Miranda, I don't know how to Latin dance. I think I'll just sit this one out."

"Ok fine. I will too."

"You know Miranda, if Larry doesn't mind I'll dance with you." Randy stared intently at her as he spoke. She didn't notice however She just wanted to DANCE!

"He doesn't. Lets go!" She said quickly dragging Randy off before Larry had chance to respond. On the floor they did the intricate steps expertly, twisting and turning and having a whale of a time. Miranda was laughing hard. This was so much fun. Randy was so much fun and a great dancer too even if he did stare at her a lot.

"You know Miranda. I don't want to be out of place but you're really beautiful." She watched him astounded. Randy was cool but she had Larry, she didn't know what to say.

"Uhhh.... umm..Uhhh." At that moment she saw Larry get up and walk out into Kris's living room balcony. "Can you excuse me for a minute?" She ran from Randy in Larry's direction. She founding him leaning on the railing staring out into the night. She leaned sideways on the glass doorway and called out to him. "Hey" she said softly. "What's up?"

"He turned around to look at her, a tender yet wistful expression on his face. "Hi. How come you're not dancing up a storm?"

"Well I was when I saw that the hottest guy at the party was going out to the balcony all alone. I decided to strike while the iron was hot." With every word she took a step closer to him until they were barely an inch apart. "Why'd you come out here? Was it because I was dancing with Randy?"

"Yes and no. I wasn't jealous that you were dancing with another guy. I did have a problem with the other guy looking at you with stars in his eyes. But I didn't want to say anything so I came out here instead."

"You could have said something Don. I wouldn't have minded."

"What?"

"What what?" They were both obviously confused but she didn't know why? They had been on the same page just a second ago.

"What did you call me?"

"Oh that.... I called you Don."

"Why? Who's Don?" Was she holding something from her?

"Well I thought that Don was a good abbreviation of Adonis."

"Oh." and he smiled. "I like it... But next time tell me in advance when you decide to call me a strange name. I was confused."

"Oh really." her voice suddenly took on a playful quality. "And what are we going to do to clear the confusion from your brain?" She stepped in closer and......... Her alarm clock rang. Without looking she scooped it off her bedstand and flung it against the wall opposite. She burrowed her face deeper into her pillow but the crash her clock made caused her to return to reality. Perfect. She had fallen asleep thinking about the party and hadn't gotten any of her homework done. It was now 6 am and she had to get ready for school. This totally sucked.