As Violet, Klaus, and Sunny crossed the street to go to the Quagmire's house, Klaus said, "Do you like Duncan or Quigley?"

Violet hesitated from saying 'none of your business' and paused before saying, "Quigley."

"What about Duncan?" Klaus asked. "I thought you still liked him."

"He has a girlfriend already," Violet sighed.

"But what happened?" "I'll tell you the story some other time, when I'm not so busy."

"Story?" Sunny asked. "I'll tell you when you're older, Sunny," Violet said.

Klaus rang the doorbell, and Isadora greeted them, welcoming them inside.

Quigley was watching TV. "Where's Duncan?" Klaus asked.

"Oh, he's on a date," Isadora said. "Some girl named Laura."

Klaus shot Violet a look, and Isadora said, "So Klaus, let's go up to my room. I have a new book of poems-they're hysterical!"

"Okay," Klaus agreed, following Isadora up the mammoth staircase.

Violet joined Quigley on a sofa watching Real World.

Sunny followed.

Violet was about to talk, but noticed Sunny, and said, "Um, Quigley, do you have another TV somewhere?"

"Sure," Quigley said. "Sunny, follow us. You can watch Arthur or something in one of the guest rooms."

They went to a room, and Quigley clicked on Arthur. "Stay in here, it's really comfy," Violet added.

"Okay." Sunny flopped down the bed, and watched.

Violet and Quigley returned to the living room.

"Where'd they go this time?" Violet murmured.

"Huh?" Quigley turned from the TV to Violet.

"Where'd Laura and Duncan go?"

"Oh, I think they went to just hang out at the mall."

"Like to the movies?"

"I don't think so. Probably just go to some shops, buy some stuff, eat pizza, etc."

"Is there anything on besides Real World?"

"Uh, let's see." Quigley flipped to TV Guide Channel. "I think there's Mr. Deeds on."

"Okay," Violet said, kicking her shoes off, pulling off her socks and sitting cross-legged on the couch.

All of a sudden, the door opened, and stood Duncan and Laura, holding shopping bags and talking.

They saw Violet and Quigley on the couch. Violet and Quigley looked up at them.

"Um, hey guys," Duncan said. Laura waved with her free hand, a shopping bag around her wrist, her other hand in Duncan's.

Laura spoke. "You know Old Navy? Well, there was this contest to see who could win a one hundred dollar gift certificate, and guess who won?"

"You guys?" Quigley asked.

Duncan nodded, looking weary from his winter shopping.

"And then we went to Burger King," Laura continued. "After that, we saw a movie."

"Sounds like you guys spent a lot of money," Violet said weakly.

Duncan shrugged. "We had to pay about five dollars to enter the contest, about fifteen dollars for Burger King, and we used our Ray tickets from yesterday to get into the theatre. We said we had to leave to buy more popcorn, and in the middle of Ray, we snuck into the beginning of Seed of Chucky."

"Bet you two had a lot of fun," Violet muttered.

Laura nodded happily, and gave Duncan a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks for such a great day, Dunny," she whispered.

"Why are you thanking him?" Quigley asked.

"Well," Laura said, grinning, "he did pay for everything. My man is the best!"

Duncan blushed, smiling.

Violet stared.

Why had Violet blown Duncan off? He'd treated this girl like a queen, he could have done the same for Violet, hadn't she been so selfish for Quigley.

No, she was wrong. Duncan was nothing to Quigley. Quigley was definitely better.

Out of the blue, a cell-phone went off. Laura put her bags down, and went into her purse.

"Hello?" she said. "Yes, Dunny's here. Mm-hmm. No. Actually, we just went to Opry Mills and had a great time. I see. Okay, okay."

After she put her cell-phone away, she said, "Dunny is it okay if we returned to Opry Mills? I forgot to get something. Anne just reminded me I left my hat."

Duncan smiled. "Anything for you, Laura."

Violet remembered when Duncan used to say that to her. And he was giving the girl his best Quagmire smile.

They both held hands and left.

"Who's that?" asked a voice.

Violet and Quigley turned around to see Sunny.

"Arthur done already?" Violet asked.

Sunny nodded. "Who's that girl Duncan was with?"

Sunny's English was perfect, now. She was five, Klaus was fifteen, and all three Quagmires and Violet were sixteen. Probably the same for Laura.

"Well, Sunny, that was his, um, friend," Quigley said carefully.

"Why were they holding hands?" Sunny asked.

"That's just what girlfriends and boyfriends do," Violet said, forgetting that Sunny was only in kindergarten.

Sunny giggled.

Quigley sort of smiled.

"Well, is there anything else on?" Violet asked.

Quigley lifted the TV Guide Magazine up from the table near the remote. "I think it's some sort of Arthur marathon," he said.

"Marathon? Are all the Arthur characters going to run thirty miles, like in one of the episodes?" Sunny asked.

"Well, no," Quigley and Violet said, giggling themselves.

"It just means they're going to show nothing but Arthur all day long."

"Yay!" Sunny sang, and dashed back to the room.