Shoutouts!

Lil Irish QT: AHA! Surprise, surprise!

BoomerRang: ...Riiigghhhtt...

Slightly: -mutters- Freak...

allaboutelephants22: Aha. I wonder what'll happen next, too.

Nosilla: Fear not, dear Nozzy! For you are in this! ...Somewhere...

Slightly: Yeah. Over the bloody rainbow.

Be nice.

Unknown-Dreams: That's what YOU think!

My Dog Ate My Penname: Hmm...Out Tongiht...Interesting...

Slightly: You don't have a clue who that's by, do you?

-is guilty-

Kid Blink's Dreamer: You're in! But what's your email? All it said was asadlier -blank-


"Not on your life," Two-Bits replied, not even bothering to turn around. The speaker was Kid Blink, blonde-haired, blue-eyed and cocky as ever. Boomerang lifted her gaze barely enough to glare at him, before continuing to eat her pizza.

"Well, you're going to have to suck it up, because you're gonna get creamed, whipped, and put on top of strawberries," Kid Blink said. The four girls stared at each other, exchanging the 'I-can't-believe-he-just-said-that' glance.

"Blink…Don't ever say that again," Racetrack, The Preventionists' drummer, said, clapping a hand on his shoulder. Blink looked confused.

"Why?" Boomerang rolled her eyes.

"Because you sound like an idiot," she snapped. "Now go away so we can eat." Kid Blink opened his mouth, but Racetrack dragged him away to where Jack Kelly and Skittery were sitting, the final members of The Preventionists. "Idiot…"

Dodger, Jenny, and Two-Bits glanced at each other and continued eating their pizza. Boomer was either really oblivious, or really in denial.

"So, we gonna stick around and do some shopping?" Jenny asked when the girls had finished their pizza. Two-Bits groaned, but everyone else was up for it.

"All right, you guys go wherever," she said. "I'm gonna go check out video games." Capricorn Rhyming parted, promising to meet back at the food court in an hour.

"Halo 2!" Two-Bits exclaimed to herself, spotting the large cardboard stand-up advertising said game.

"I've been dying to get that, but everywhere was sold out!" Two-Bits turned to see Racetrack standing next to her. She chuckled.

"I don't even have an XBox. I use Dodger's," she said, gazing wistfully at Halo 2. Racetrack laughed.

"Well, I'm gonna get it, so you can come over whenever you like, and we'll play Halo 2." She raised her eyebrows, then said, "Sure."

Wondering what happened, Two-Bits continued to browse the game, elected two for PS2, and bought them. Then she went off in search of her bandmates.

"I just got invited to play Halo 2 at Racetrack's house," she announced, rather confused, to Jenny, who was deciding between two American Eagle tee shirts. Jenny looked up in surprise.

"Racetrack Racetrack? As in, Preventionalists Racetrack?" she asked. Two-Bits rolled her eyes.

"What other Racetrack do we know?" she asked rhetorically. Jenny frowned.

"That's kinda' odd…" Two-Bits snorted.

"'Cause that's not the understatement of the year."