Happy now 'Len? No more tonight...

Lucy took her seat again in English class, next to Amy.

"Score." She whispered in Amy's ear.

"Huh?" Was Amy's confused reply.

"It looks like we don't have to work on setting Sue and Jack up, I saw the two of them together in the corridor downstairs." Lucy hissed

"And?"

"And they were holding hands... and Jack kissed her. On the cheek but it was still a kiss!"

"Why hasn't she told us?" Amy said a little louder than she planned to

"Girls, would you rather catch up on the lesson in detention?" Their teacher asked, rhetorically, glaring at the pair.

"No, miss, sorry..." Amy said.

"Well then I suggest you listen rather than talk!"

"Yes, miss." Both girls answered.

They did as told, or at least appeared to. Staring intently at the board the teacher was writing their homework assignment on, they wrote on a page torn out of Amy's notebook.

So what else do you know? Nothing, I just saw that. Well, do you think we should ask Sue? Of course! What else? Suppose; right so we're going to have to ask after school. Do you think she's actually gonna tell us? Won't know unless we ask...

The bell rang, signaling that class was over, and most of the fourth years had last period free so Amy and Lucy waited at the school gates for Sue, Helen, Nikki and Erin. Nikki and Erin left the school first, with Jake and David Williams, two brothers that they were both dating. Their sister, Tara was in Helen's English class and they came out of the school together, both being what some would call 'computer geeks' they were talking excitedly about the new Photoshop software. Amy rolled her eyes, as did Lucy but any friend of Helen's was a friend of theirs so they gave their approval and Tara had recently become part of their tight-knit little group and was also in on the plans to get Sue and Jack together.

"Hey guys, guess what?" Lucy yelled at them

"What?" Tara asked once they'd got closer.

"Our plans have been foiled..."

"What plans?" Helen replied.

"You know... the ones that include Jack and Sue."

"Oh! Why? What happened?"

"Well, it looks like they're already ... together."

"YES!" Came a chorus of voices, belonging to everyone in the group.

They all high-fived each other, then spotting Sue leave the school, then rounded on her.

"Hey Sue, Lucy says she saw you and Jack earlier." Amy accused, though playfully.

"So..."

"So we were wondering what's going on?" Tara chimed in.

"What? Oh, nothing!" Sue replied hurriedly.

"Yeah right! Come on spill! Is he taking you to the Prom?"

"I don't think so, he only asked me to..." She stopped talking, realizing she'd given too much away and blushed.

"Spit it out girl!" Lucy exclaimed, "asked you to what?"

"Um... it's nothing!"

"Don't give me that Susan Thomas!" Erin laughed.

"Okay fine just don't call me that! He asked me to go to a movie with him. Happy?"

"Ecstatic! So what you going to see?" Amy asked.

"Well... there's a new X-Files movie coming out on Friday."

"Yes! I knew he'd take my advice!" Helen smiled.

"What advice?"

"Oh..." Helen started, knowing she too had been foiled, "he wanted me to see it with him, and I told him I had other plans but you'd maybe like to see it..."

"Helen! How could you do that?" Sue asked, perplexed that they'd been set up even if she was happy about it really.

"Um... well, like Lucy always says, you two are made for each other."

Sue, blushing a brighter shade of pink smiled, taking a cigarette packet from her blazer pocket - it was her turn to buy a pack that day.

Running through the front door, Sue ran straight into her mom.

"Ouch! Slow down honey! What's gotten you so excited?"

"Mom, is it okay if I go to the cinema on Friday night?"

"Sure honey, you'll have to see if your dad will give you the money. Who are you going with?"

"No one really... just a guy."

"Whoa! Did I just hear my baby sister say she has a date?" David said, walking through the door, "mind me asking whom?"

"Not that it's any of your business... but it's, um, Jack." She told him, blushing yet again.

"Jack? Which one?"

"I only know one..."

"Oh! Jack Hudson? I saw him talking to you on your first day..."

"That would be him... Gotta go do my homework!" She said hurriedly, before making a dash for her bedroom to avoid further enquiries.

She finished her math homework and the essays for History and English then lay back on her bed, planning what she'd wear on Friday in her head. Mentally tossing aside every item in her wardrobe until she decided she'd have to get the gang to help. Yep, good idea, gotta make them help. She thought to herself, wondering if it really was a good idea. I mean, when it comes to Amy and Erin, who knows how short a skirt she'd be talked into wearing?