Kimi knocked on the front door of the Deville's home.

"Hello, Kimi. How nice to see you."

"It's nice to see you, too, Mr. Deville. Is Lil home?"

"Yes, she is. She just got home, as a matter of fact. Let me get her."

"LIL!" Howard yelled. "KIMI'S HERE!"

"She's coming." Howard smiled. "Come on in, Kimi."

Kimi walked inside the Deville's home and sat on their couch. It was so long since she last came here. As if Howard could read her mind, he said:

"So, Kimi, it's been a long time since you came around. What's new?"

Before Kimi had a chance to answer, Lil came running down the stairs.

"Da-ad! If you keep tormenting my friends, I'm not going to have any left." She teased.

Kimi and Howard both smiled.

"Hey Kimi!" Lil said as she grabbed her hand and dragged her upstairs.

Lil led her to her room and shut the door.

"Whew. That was close. One more second and you would have been fried!" Lil giggled.

Kimi laughed too. But, she couldn't help but notice how skinny Lil was. She was so pretty. She had silky chestnut hair, very thick and long. She had beautiful, big hazel eyes. But, her smile was by far her best feature. She had white, straight teeth. It was no wonder guys dropped dead for her. But, Kimi still couldn't get over how thin Lil was. She was tiny.

"So, whaddaya want to do?" Lil asked Kimi, while filing her nails.

"Lil, why did you invite me over here?"

Lil looked slightly hurt. "Look, Kimi, I know I've been avoiding you guys, but in truth, I really miss you. Not "you" as in the group. I miss you."

"Lil, I don't know. I missed you too, but you've been awful mean to everybody. I don't know what's going on, but I think that you should know we're all taking this change a little hard. Especially Phil. He misses you."

"Kimi, could this conversation please be over? I really don't want to get emotional right now. Let's just have some fun. I want you to be my best friend again. I love you."

Kimi couldn't resist. Lil was her best friend, aside from Suzie. Besides, Lil was probably just apologizing within the group one by one.

"I love you too, Lil." Kimi sighed.

Lil shrieked and ran over to give Kimi a hug.

"Let's go see a movie." Lil suggested. "My treat!"

Kimi was so exited she and Lil were finally friends again, she didn't even think about Tommy.

Meanwhile..............................................

"Tommy! It's six- fifty- two! What time do you have to meet your date?" Didi shouted up the stairs.

"Crap!" Tommy said to himself. "Actually, mom, she wanted me to pick her up, but seeing as I don't drive, I think that makes you the designated driver." Tommy shouted back down to her.

"Well, you better get a move on! I don't have all day. What time?"

Tommy ran down the stairs.

"Now." He said as he grabbed his coat and ran out the door.

Didi rolled her eyes and followed her oldest son out to the car.

"So, do you know where this girl lives?" Didi asked as they started to drive.

"Yeah. I have it written down on this piece of paper. She lives on 74 Maplewood Dr."

"That's across town Tommy!" Didi exclaimed in aggravation.

"Mother, don't you want me to have dates in high school? I am completely shocked that you would-"

"All right! I'm going, Tommy."

Tommy smiled. He knew just the right buttons to push.

While Tommy and Didi were on their way to pick up Amanda, Kimi and Lil were getting ready for the movies themselves.

"The movie starts at seven-twenty, Lil!" Kimi shrieked.

"So, what's your point?"

"It's already seven-o-clock, and we have nothing to wear!"

"Okay, okay. We just have to pick out the right outfits. You first, Kimi. Lets see, let's see..." Lil's voice faded as she rummaged through her closet.

"Voila!" She grinned as she held up a dark green, sparkly halter-top accompanied with a pair of blue bell-bottoms. "Hurry up and change in the bathroom. I already know what I'm wearing."

Kimi scurried off to change while Lil did so herself in her own room.

Once they were both dressed, Kimi in her outfit and Lil in a pair of tight, black leather pants and a pink spaghetti strap tank, they finished up by doing each other's hair and make up.

"I really miss doing this with you, Lil." Kimi told her. "We have so much fun together."

Lil laughed. "Yeah, I know. Like the time we made over Chuckie into Chongo!" They laughed as they reminisced.

"LIL! KIMI! IT'S SEVEN-FIFTEEN! YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON IF YOU THINK I'M GOING TO DRIVE YOU THERE!" Howie yelled up the stairs to the girls.

"COMING, DAD!" Lil yelled back. "Come on, Kimi. Let's show off our stuff."

Lil threw Kimi a sweater and took one herself. She would be dead if her dad caught them leaving the house the way they looked.

Kimi giggled as they made their way down stairs.

"It's about time." Howard told them. "Let's go!"

Howard drove the girls down the block and dropped them off.

"What time do you want me to pick you two girls up?"

"Ten." Lil said.

"Fine. Have fun." He told them as he drove away.

The girls stood in line for their tickets.

"Which movie are we seeing, again?" Kimi asked Lil.

"Resident Evil: Apocalypse." Lil told her. "It was the only horror movie that I could find playing."

Kimi looked worried. "Lil? Isn't that rated R?"

"Crap!" Lil shouted. "I forgot. So, what, though? We'll pass as eighteen year olds."

Kimi shrugged. "Whatever you say."

Lil and Kimi finally made it to the ticket booth.

"Could I have two tickets for Resident Evil: Apocalypse?" Lil asked the young teller politely.

"Excuse me, but do you have any ID?" The girl asked rather snottily.

"Shoot! Kimi, we must have left our ID at home."

"Sorry, but you can't see that movie without parent consent."

Lil rolled her eyes. "Give us two tickets to Cellular, then."

The girl abided and Kimi and Lil made their way into the theater. The previews were just starting when they entered. They decided to sit in the back.

About five minutes later, the lights dimmed and the movie started.

"Omigosh. I cannot believe they wanted ID for us to go see that movie." Kimi heard a girl comment.

"I know, seriously." A boy replied.

Kimi gulped. The couple sat in the row in front of them, more toward the right.

"Lil." Kimi whispered. "I'm gonna go get some popcorn."

Lil just nodded. She was really getting into the movie.

Kimi got up. She stopped at the row in front of her.

"Tommy." She hissed. Tommy was startled.

"Kimi?" She nodded.

"I need to talk to you."

Tommy apologized to his date and went out into the hallway.

"What's the big idea?" He asked her. "Are you spying on me or something? Did you follow me here?"

"I'm here with Lil, Tommy. We were sitting in the row behind you when you two decided show up. I just thought you might want to move before Lil knew you were here."

"Well, thanks. I guess we should."

"No problem." Kimi said before she walked back into the theater.

Tommy followed her and whispered to Amanda that they were going to move closer front.

"Did you get the popcorn?" Lil asked Kimi when she returned.

"Um...they were all out. Sorry!" Kimi whispered.

Throughout the rest of the movie, there was silence between Kimi and Lil and Amanda and Tommy.

Once the credits started rolling, Kimi tried to stall Lil as much as possible. She was buying time for Tommy and Amanda to get out of there.

"So, did you like the movie?"

"Yeah, I liked it." Lil answered Kimi.

"Yeah, it was really good, wasn't it?"

"Yeah."Lil said again. "Now, quit blocking the row. It's 9:00 and I want to hit the mall before my dad comes."

Kimi finally relented after she saw that they were the last ones left in the theater.

"Okay, come on." Kimi said as she grabbed Lil's arm and dragged her out of there.

While the girls decided to hit the mall, Tommy and Amanda decided to get something to eat.

"So..." Amanda started.

"So..." Tommy repeated.

The two of them had attempted to make a conversation, to no avail. They were seated at a café, sharing a bowl of french fries.

"So...are you signing up for football this year, Tommy?"

Tommy nodded.

"Right. Okay, so who was that girl that you were sitting with in biology class? You seem kind of close to her."

"You mean Kimi? Oh, she's one of my best buds. She's totally cool."

"Yeah, she seems it. Why did she want us to move our seats?"

Tommy wanted the questions to stop right there.

"Um...she was just there with a girl I used to be friends with. If she saw us there, she would've thrown popcorn or something at us."

Amanda giggled. "Sounds like she likes you."

"Far from it!" Tommy said. "She hates my guts. She probably used to like me, but totally not anymore!"

Tommy saw her giggle and threw a french fry at her. She shrieked and threw one back.

As the Tommy and Amanda continued their innocent flirting, Lil and Kimi were running out of shopping time.

"Wow. It's 9:50, won't your dad be waiting for us?" Kimi asked.

"Yeah, I guess we should be getting back. C'mon." The two of them made their way back in front of the movie plaza. Sure enough, there was Howie waiting in the car for them.

"Great." Lil muttered. "He's early."

Lil popped into the front seat while Kimi sat in the back.

"How was the movie?" Howie asked them.

"It was good." Kimi replied.

Lil was silent.

"Are we dropping you off at your house, Kimi, or are you spending the night?" Howie asked.

"Well...um...I wasn't planning on-"

"She's sleeping over!" Lil said excitedly.

She turned around in her seat and looked pleadingly at Kimi.

"I guess I'm spending the night." Kimi said as Lil grinned.

"Why don't you call your parents? We can drop you at your house to grab your stuff and then bring you to our house."

Lil gave Kimi her cell phone and she called her parents.

"Hello? Mom? Can I sleep over Lil's?"

"All right. Uh huh. Thank you. Bye."

"She said yes." Kimi said as she gave the cell phone back to Lil.

Howie drove to the Finster's house. Kimi ran inside her house to get her clothes. She packed a set of clothes for tomorrow, some pajamas, and grabbed a pillow.

On her way down the hallway, she ran into Chuckie.

"Hey, Chuck." She said as she continued down the hall.

"Kimi, where are you going?"

"I'm sleeping over Lil's house." She shouted from the other end of the hallway. She stopped dead when Phil opened the bathroom door.

"Oh, well that works out well, then. Phil's sleeping over here."

"Have fun." Phil said coldly to Kimi.

"Phil!" Kimi said as she grabbed his arm. He tried to shake her off. "What is wrong with you? Why can't I sleep I have a sleep over with your sister? You're having one with my brother and I don't mind."

"Yeah, well, Chuckie hasn't been a complete bitch to us. Lil has. She's changed, Kimi. She doesn't like you. She never will. She changed and there's no changing back. She's a bit-"

Before Phil could finish his sentence, he felt a sharp pain across his face. He looked at Kimi.

"Don't you ever say that about her again. I don't care if she's your sister or not. She's still the same person, she's just dealing with a lot of stuff right now."

"KIMI! MR. DEVILLE IS WAITING FOR YOU. HURRY UP!" Her mother shouted to her.

"COMING!" Kimi shouted back. She looked to Chuckie, who was now standing with Kimi and Phil. "Goodnight, Chuckie." She said to him as she ran down the stairs. She kissed her mother and her father and ran out to the car.

"Ready?" Lil asked her.

"Ready." Kimi replied.

Howie drove them all to their house.

"Now, your mother is in her room sleeping. She's had a hard day, so just remember to be quiet." The girls nodded and they all got out of the car.

Meanwhile................................

It was pretty late. Tommy and Amanda were walking on the sidewalk. They decided it would be nice to walk home. Amanda attempted to hold Tommy's hand repeatedly, but Tommy kept taking it away, pretending to flick something out of his hair of shoo away a fly.

"So, did you have fun, tonight?" Tommy asked her.

She nodded. "It was nice."

They both stood still. Amanda went up to Tommy and tried to kiss him. He spun around.

"Well, we better be getting you home before your parents begin to worry."

They walked in silence for a while before Amanda spoke again.

"Who is she?" She asked Tommy softly.

Tommy was a little puzzled. "Who's who?"

"Tommy, there's got to be another girl. I mean, you won't let me hold your hand, you won't kiss me, and let's face it, we're in high school, it's not like it's your first."

Tommy nervously ran a hand through his hair. "What do you mean? There is no other girl. I'm on a date with you."

"Tommy, I'm not stupid. I know who it is."

Tommy laughed, thinking that she was going to say Kimi.

"It's Lil."

Tommy stopped dead in his tracks.

"What?"

"It's obvious. I mean, the way you talk about her-"

"I told you that she hates me! Where do you get the fact that I like her when I tell you she hates me?"

"C'mon, Tommy." Amanda said as they started walking again. "You blush when you mention her name, there's obviously a spark between you. You have so much history together. I know that you like her."

Amanda turned into a walkway.

"And, I won't cry or nothing-you know, over the fact that you like another girl- if you do me one little favor."

"And what is that favor?" Tommy asked skeptically.

"Set me up with Mark Fledger. The quarter back on your football team. He is soooo cute."

Tommy laughed. "I think that can be arranged."

"Well, thanks for a good night." Amanda told him and she stood on her front step. "And I'm sorry about this. I just can't go with a guy who's hooked up on another girl. You understand, right?"

Tommy nodded. "Absolutely." He joked.

"And, you'll eventually get over me?"

Tommy laughed. "I think I'll manage."

Tommy kissed her on the cheek before saying good night and walking away.

"Tommy?" She called softly.

"Yeah?"

"Don't give up on Lil, okay? You never know when she might realize that she's got a prince right under her nose."

Tommy walked to the end of her walkway. He was on the other side of town. He called his mom to ask her if she could pick him up.

Back to Lil and Kimi..............................................

Lil laid on her bed as Kimi was setting up a place for herself on the floor.

"Are you sure you don't want the bed?" Lil asked sincerely.

"You know, Lil, everytime I sleep over you ask me the same thing. I like to sleep on the floor."

"I know, I know. I just feel bad about making you sleep on the floor."

"You're not making me, Lil. I chose to."

"True. Well, listen, I'm gonna go brush my teeth now. Don't touch anything in my room, okay?"

Kimi nodded and Lil left to go brush her teeth.

As Kimi was lying on her sleeping bag, she noticed something on Lil's desk. She stood up to take a look. What she saw made her gasp. Lil was taking weight loss pills!

'No wonder she's so skinny!' Kimi thought.

Kimi heard footsteps coming toward the door. She jumped into her sleeping bag and threw the covers over her head. She pretended to be asleep.

"Omigosh, Kimi guess what-"

Lil noticed Kimi was sleeping.

"She's always out like a light." Lil said to herself. She turned off the light and went to sleep herself.

Kimi was able to salvage her friendship with Lil. She did the one thing that Tommy didn't do. She kept her mouth shut. She know Lil would get angry with her if she told her that she knew about the pills. She was going to find a way to help her friend, she just didn't know how, yet.