The next morning, Randi rang Vern's doorbell.

"Heya Vern!" Randi called cheerfully.

"Hi Randi."

"How was your date?"

"Ok," Vern shrugged.

"Ok? Okay? That's all you're gonna tell me?" Randi asked.

Vern smiled, "Trust me Randi, when I figure it out, you'll be the first to know."

"That doesn't sound good. Oh!" Randi remembered why she came over, "Hey, I know this is kinda short notice, but me, Teddy, Gordie, Chris and Jane are leaving for Astoria this night to stay the weekend with Mikey. You wanna come?"

Vern shook his head. "I can't."

"Aw, come on, please?" Randi puffed out her lower lip.

"I can't! I have to stay here. Lorraine-" Vern stopped himself, "I can't go. Sorry."

Randi cocked her head and eyed Vern. "I expect a full report when I get back."

Vern smiled again, "You got it."

"I'm serious, as soon as I get back. If I'm bleeding and I have to be rushed to the hospital, when I open my eyes I expect to see you, ready to spill. Okay?"

"Okay," Vern laughed.

"I'll see you later," Randi grinned. She waved good-bye to Vern and then walked down to Gordie's house.

The Lachance family were used to randomly seeing Randi in their home. She didn't bother to ring the doorbell after awhile, since they left their door unlocked anyway. She went in and ran up the steps to Gordie's room. "Hey Gord-o," she opened his door, "You ready?"

Gordie just kissed her in reply. After a few seconds, Randi pulled back.

"Um, wow 'Hi Randi, yeah I'm ready', good to hear," she said.

Gordie laughed. "Sorry. I wanna get it out of my system."

"Ew," Randi said simply.

"Not like that," Gordie rolled his eyes, "I just don't wanna be one of those assholes that is all over their girlfriend around other guys. Plus with the whole 'Mouth' thing....so, I'm doing it now."

"Gee thanks for telling me before you gang rape me in the doorway."

"Okay, first of all," Gordie started, "You would need a gang to gang rape someone. I am not a gang. Secondly, I kissed you. Kissing and raping are two very different things. Sexually harassed you in the doorway, maybe. But not raped, and definitely not gang raped. I was being incredibly romantic, and you ruined it. I think I'll go cry now."

Randi laughed. "Pussy."

"Wow, my extremely low self-confidence has just entered the negatives. I think I'll go jump in front of a train," Gordie said sadly.

Randi giggled, "Now you're thinking like Teddy, which is very scary." She pulled Gordie closer to her, "You k now that I think you're nice, sweet, funny, handsome...uh," she stalled seeing that Gordie was still pretending to be sad, "And...uh...I want your sex?" she guessed.

"Now that's more like it!" Gordie grinned. He picked up Randi and threw her on his bed. When he went to leap on her, Randi yelped and rolled over, causing Gordie to land prostrate on his bed. "Ouch," he mumbled.

"Yeah, can you imagine if I was under there?" Randi exclaimed, getting up.

"Eh," Gordie turned over, "I'm skinny." He saw that Randi wasn't laughing. "Aw, come on Randi! You know I'm only teasing you!"

"The horny thing is freaking me out, Gordie."

"Aw, you know I'm just messing around. I'm kidding!" Gordie said as he got up. Randi just turned away form him.

"I'm sorry," Gordie grabbed Randi's arms, "I'm soooorrrrryyyyyy," he crooned, trying to get Randi to dance with him, "Sooooooo soooorrrryyyyyyy." Gordie spun her around until she faced him. "I love you ya know."

"I love you too," Randi finally gave in and grinned.

"You don't know how great it is to say that and have you say it back," Gordie smiled.

"You don't know how great it is to be able to say it," Randi smiled back, then paused. "Augggghhh, we're so corny!"

"Yeah, but isn't it great?" Gordie laughed.

"Yeah, I guess it is."

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"Hey Janie, you almost ready?" Chris barged into his sister's room.

Jane rolled her eyes, but smiled. "Would it kill you to knock?"

"Yes," Chris went to sit on her bed, next to her suitcase, "It would."

Jane stopped loading clothes into her bag and looked at Chris. "Do you think it's okay that I'm going? I don't know Randi or her cousin."

"Randi invited you," Chris reminded her. "Plus, her cousin won't mind, he's very...uh...what's that word that means you're...uh...like...knights?"

"Chivalrous," Jane supplied.

"Yeah!" Chris' eyes lit up, "That. Like, if there was only one cookie left, he'd let someone else take it."

"That's not chivalrous, that's just plain considerate," Jane said, "Which you could use a lesson in being."

"I'm considerate!" Chris squealed.

"And apparently pre-pubescent."

"Hey!"

"You used all the toilet paper and didn't even bother to put a new roll in the holder," Jane informed him.

"How was I supposed to know you'd go to the bathroom?"

"Everyone goes to the bathroom Chris, you'll learn that in biology."

Chris rolled his eyes. "How was I supposed to know you'd go after me?"

"Common sense?"

Chris had no quick reply. "Let me help you pack." He started throwing the things from Jane's bed into her suitcase.

"Hey!" Jane objected, "Be careful with those!" She picked it up and dusted it off. "This, Christopher, is a book. You can identify it by its pages and cover. You'll get to use books like these next year."

"I've seen these before," Chris snatched the book form her and pages through it. "But...hey! This one's all filled with words! What are you supposed to color?"

Jane laughed, "Only you Chris." She tackled him.

"Gahhhh!" Chris started cracking up.

"You know," Jane laughed, "You know...you've always been my favorite brother."

"Well duh," Chris wiped the tears of laughter from his eyes, "Look at Frank and Rich, what competition do I really have?"

Chris and Jane collapsed into giggles on the floor.

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews you guys. i love you. it might be awhile until my next update, but it will be longer than my recent ones. Thanks for reading :) :) :) :) :) :) :)