DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters here that I didn't make up myself. I don't own Lizzie McGuire, but she's not actually born yet at the time of this story, anyway.

Daniella came up to Sam at his locker in Hillridge High. "Eddie tells me you're going with him to the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday. I want to come too!", she said.

"It's supposed to be a 'guys' night out'," said Sam. "We didn't plan on getting any girls involved."

"But do you think I'd let Eddie go have fun without me?", asked Daniella.

"Well," said Sam, "do you think your parents would let you go out to a midnight movie showing, an hour's drive away, with a bunch of guys?"

"Probably not," said Daniella, "but you guys have some kind of a plan to fool all our parents, don't you?"

"We do, but it involves telling them that we're sleeping over at one another's houses," said Sam, "and I kind of doubt that your parents would be too happy about your sleeping over with a boy, so I don't think that will work for you."

"So we've got to get another girl involved," said Daniella.

Just then, Jo came by to get to her locker, right next to Sam's.

Daniella said to Sam, "Why don't you ask Jo to come with us?"

"Come where?", asked Jo.

"Some of us are going on Saturday night to see the midnight showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in L.A.", said Sam.

"Oh, I've heard of that movie," said Jo. "It's supposed to be really neat. But my mom would never let me stay out that late."

"Neither would mine," said Sam, "but we're being a little sneaky… I'm telling my mom that I'm sleeping over at Larry's house, Larry and Howie are telling their parents they're sleeping over at mine, and that leaves Daniella… if you come along, she can say she's at your place while you say you're at hers. It's a perfect plan!"

"I'll have to think about it… being sneaky and doing things behind my parents' back isn't my usual style," said Jo.

"So, are you going to get through all of your teenage years without doing any youth rebellion?", said Daniella. "OK, I know it's not the '60s any more, but don't young people have any spirit these days?"

"All right, I'll do it," said Jo.

At lunch, the "geeky boys" were having one of their usual wide-ranging conversations.

"…and, since there's still over two months left in 1975, it's still possible the world could end by then, and prove the Jehovah's Witnesses' prediction right. So we shouldn't declare them wrong until New Year's Day, 1976. The fact that they also predicted the end of the world in 1925, 1920, 1918, 1915, 1914, and 1874 shouldn't be held against them," said Howie. "But if you'd like to see a religion that's really having a bad year, look at the Rastafarians. Their core belief is that the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie is God."

"Isn't that the girl in The Parent Trap?", interrupted Larry.

"You're thinking of Hayley Mills," said Howie. "And stop interrupting me. Anyway, the emperor had the bad manners to die this August… so, for the Rastafarians, it's literally true that God is dead!"

"Maybe they should switch to worshipping somebody who's alive, like Elvis," said Larry.

"There was some pop song that said that the New York Times said God is dead, wasn't there?", said Sam.

"Yeah, I think it was from Elton John," said Larry. "I always wondered just when the Times actually said that God was dead… and what did they say in His obituary?"

"I have no idea," said Sam. "But enough theology; there's an important new development in our upcoming weekend excursion. We've now got a couple of girls planning on tagging along, Daniella and Jo."

"Who invited them?", asked Larry. "I'm not eager to deal with females. People say 'You can't live with them; you can't live without them', but I've managed perfectly well without them so far."

"Well, Daniella kind of invited herself," said Sam, "and it's hard to turn her down, since it's her boyfriend who's driving. And she needed another girl to say she was staying over with, so that's where Jo came in. And Jo's a friend of mine, so I don't want to turn her down if she wants to go."

"Oh, is she your girlfriend now?", asked Howie.

"No… just a friend. It's perfectly possible for a guy and a girl to be friends," said Sam.

"Well, I guess we'll have to let those girls come along with us," said Howie. "But that's all; the car's going to be pretty crowded now with six of us in there. We can't let anybody else get invited, no matter which sex they are!"