Lil passed Phil's door and lead the two boys down the stairs. In the doorway stood Angelica, Chuckie, Kimi and Suzie, all ready to help their friends set up for the party. All admired Dil's new haircut as soon as they saw him.

"Phil did it mostly," Dil said.

"Okay you kids, me and your dad will be off now," Betty said holding her bag.

"You're not staying to help?" Lil said alarmed.

"It's easy enough, you two are big kids now," Howard said, making both the twins cringe.

"We'll be back by midnight, so the party better be calming down by then alright," Betty said then left without telling them where they were going.

"Okay! Looks like we've got more work to do!" Suzie said in her usual motivating way.

"Work? There's never any work? We just get food n' stuff," Angelica said.

"No, we get food, you sit around and watch." Kimi joked.

"Hey Chuck, can you help me set up the table?" Phil asked.

"Sure, where is it?" Chuckie said, following Phil into the backroom.

Kimi, Lil and Suzie all went into the kitchen to sort out snacks. Dil was going to follow but Angelica caught him by the shirt.

"What the hell you doing here?" Angelica whispered in his face.

"I came back to see my friends," Dil replied.

"Well they don't want you here, isn't that obvious," Angelica lied, jealously.

"Phil doesn't seem to mind," Dil said.

"Oh he does," Angelica said, "He left you remember? Alone in an alleyway, he chose me so get over it." Angelica let her younger cousin go and went into the kitchen. Dil hovered in the hallway, thinking over what Angelica said.

"Hey Dil!" Chuckie said, seeing him through the front room door "Mind helping us put this up?"

Dil went into the living room and saw the pieces of table lying on the floor. One leg was already in place, Phil was forcing the second into place and Chuckie was pushing the third one. Dil went over to the forth, lifted the leg but felt a sudden drop of energy. Trying with all his might Dil pushed the leg. Unexpectedly two hands were around his, giving the leg and extra ram into place.

Dil backed away instantly, uncomfortable with Phil touching him.

"You alright Dil?" Phil asked, noticing a change in Dil.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," Dil said, even though his skin was paler than normal.

"Come on guys!" Suzie said entering the room, "We've got all these snacks and no table to put them on,"

Chuckie and Phil lifted the table and turned it over, giving the girls a place to put the food.

Angelica walked in empty handed and fell back into the sofa.

"Are you going to do anything?" Lil asked her lazy friend but Angelica said nothing.

"I'll sort out the music!" Kimi decided loudly, heading towards the Deville's stereo.

"I've already put some CDs out," Phil told her, so Kimi just decided which CD to put on.

Most of the gang danced their way between the kitchen and living room, placing food on the table and moving furniture for space to dance. Angelica remained on the sofa, still irritated by the presence of Dil. Dil felt awkward, not wanting to believe Angelica but thinking she would know best as she has been around here recently.

When all the jobs seemed finished Kimi wanted to start the party early so grabbed the arms of the first two people, who were Suzie and Phil, and pulled them towards the stereo and started dancing. Phil and Suzie followed her lead and began dancing too. Soon enough the whole gang were dancing, except Angelica who watched from afar.

Her sly eyes watched closely as Dil moved closer and closer to Phil. Slowly he had moved across the room, his grin showed he didn't care. Angelica wanted to stop it.

"Come on Phil!" Angelica said getting up and dancing with her boyfriend, pushing Dil aside. Angelica smiled as she watched Dil back away.

The doorbell rang but all were having a good time to notice. A bang at the window caught Lil's attention and immediately she let her and Phil's other friends in.

"Didn't realize so much time had past!" Lil said returning to the group. Now there were more kids Kimi twisted the volume on the stereo louder.

"How many are coming?" Dil asked Phil as more kids charged through the front door.

"About 20-25, only our friends," Phil replied. Dil smiled, knowing none of the rough kids were coming.

The party went on for another half an hour with kids turning up and joining the dancing and eating. Lil, Kimi and Suzie were talking in the kitchen with some of the other girls. Phil, Angelica, Dil and Chuckie were in the living room laughing amongst themselves when the electricity went out. One of the friends did the usually scream to break the sudden silence. In the dark it was too hard to see each other, but figure's were just about noticeable.

"I'll fix it," Phil said in the middle of the dark, quiet living room, "But I need a hand getting through the messy closet in the hall, Chuck?"

"Chuckie!" Angelica yelled as he collapsed onto her. "I think he's fainted!"

"Dil, help me quick," Phil said getting through the crowd in the living room.

"Phil's going to sort it," Dil said as he passed Lil who was in the kitchen doorway.

Phil and Dil went through the almost empty hallway moving towards the closet at the end.

"It's already open," Phil said confused, feeling the mess that had been shoved out the closet.

"Can you reach the switch?" Dil asked.

"Yeah, I think someone's turned it off purposely," Phil replied, he flicked the switched and the lights came back on. Phil turned and three unwelcome visitors stood before Phil and Dil.

"Hey… ha!" Pete began to greet Phil but looked gob smacked by the boy who was also stood in the hallway.