I love this chapter! No offense to the people who watch Gilmore Girls (I love that show) but this first part kind of makes fun of it. It is just a joke though!

Chapter 9- Luke, will you marry me?

The next morning Tibby didn't wake up to someone crying, or someone screaming, or even a gentle nudge. She had woken up at 10'o'clock and the house was empty. She was starving. She poured herself a bowl of Cap'n Crunch cereal. As she munched, she watched a (sort of) soap opera. It was very awkward. There were two people, a woman and a man, both looking around 35. The girl was sitting down and saying, "Luke, will you marry me?" and the guy was saying "yes, yes, yes" while she was babbling on saying, well you don't have to, I mean; I won't be hurt and lalalala. Tibby turned it off. It reminded her of what could happen to her in the near future. She remembered the other night when Brian gave her the ring, and how she thought he was proposing. She quickly ran upstairs and grabbed the ring. "Brian, will you marry me?" she said out loud. "Well, you don't have to, I'll be okay if you don't, I am fine by myself…." Then she heard a voice, a real voice, say "isn't that a man's job?" Tibby's kitchen was near the front window, and it just so happened, that the window was open and the whole world could hear what she had just now said.

Tibby jumped in surprise. "Oh my goodness!" she yelped. She looked through the window and saw who it was, just to make sure it wasn't Brian, or a stalker. It was Steve. "Oh Steve, hi!" she said, still in surprise. "Come in." He walked through the front door.

"I was just passing by, in my car, and I saw you in the window." He explained. Tibby looked at his car in the driveway. Oooh, a Lexus, he must be quite rich. "Hey you want to go down to the coffee place with me?" he asked. Tibby nodded, still slightly embarrassed. They both ordered lattes and talked, and laughed, just like the night they met.

Carmen had not seen a lot of Krista lately. She was always out with her new boyfriend, James. They went to the movies together; they went shopping for clothes together; they did everything together. All Krista talked about when she was with Carmen was James, and how to impress him, and a bunch of questions about James. It was always what should I wear to impress James? And what should I tell him my favorite color is? What food should I eat in front of him? She reminded Carmen a lot of herself and how much she missed Win. Of course Paul was gone, so really except for at nights it was just Al, Lydia and Carmen, since Christina and David had to work. Carmen always tried to be somewhere, whether she was at Lena's, at the mall, or spending the whole day in the coffee shop. She really pathetically spent her days. Today, she decided, she was going to stop in on B, since she was probably the loneliest, with her dad at work and Perry bolted in his room.

When she got to the house, the door was open, so she walked in. It was dark and quite scary. She stepped outside and rang the doorbell, just so she knew it was safe. B, sleepily, answered the door. "Hello?" asked B, with her eyes closed. Then she opened her eyes and saw Carmen. "Hey Carma, what's up?"

"Not much. I'm just coming over since there's nothing to do at my house."

"Good, you can help me get ready and pick out a perfect outfit." B said, now awake. They went to her room and took everything out of the closet. B found a perfect top. It was blue and had a sparkly image of Cinderella (Yay Cinderella!) on it. She then searched through the pile. She found a denim mini-skirt and slipped it on. She threw her hair into the shower and conditioned it. Then she brushed it out and threw it into a bun. "Better?" she asked. Carmen nodded.

"So do you want to go to the mall?" asked Carmen.

"Sure just let me slip Perry his breakfast." Bridget threw a box of cereal and some milk into the slot Perry had designed for his food. "There, we're good to go."

They drove in Carmen's car to the mall. They went to the Starbucks inside the Barnes and Noble first. They both grabbed a Venti mocha frappucino and walked through the mall with it. Bridget was not the kind of person you would sit down with and have a conversation over a cup of coffee. Now Lena on the other hand…

The first shop they went to was formal clothes. Why does B want formal clothes? Carmen thought. That is so not her. It has to be a guy. "Hey B?" Carmen started, "Can I ask you something? Why are you, all of the sudden, interested in formal clothes? You know, you really shouldn't change yourself for a guy."

Bridget hated how everyone accused her of changing herself for a guy. Ughhh, I cannot believe she just assumed that. So what, I really am, but she doesn't need to know that! "I'm not, Carmen!" Why does everyone think that just because I'm changing, I'm changing for a boy? Bridget exclaimed. Carmen immediately backed off.

Wow she got offensive, Carmen thought.