A/N: Gah! I've fallen behind on my writing! I didn't get a chance to update this morning because I was too tired...I'll answer some nice reviews, though. And don't hate me for who Sara takes to the dance, okay? I'm just a lowly fanfiction writer.

Linwe Melwasul: You almost gave me a heart-attack with the second sentence. Sara and Brass? DISGUSTING! Anyway, you'll see in this chapter who ends up going with who. Teeheehee.

NickGilGreggonumber1fan: Yeah, I still don't know who will end up with Sara in the final culmination, but she's not going to the dance with either him, nor Greg.

JoonSanders: I feel bad for Jim's hopelessness in the dating game. If he was cooler, I'd put myself in and date him, but he's too scary. Any volunteers from the audience?

charmed1818: Mia's dress is based off the only dress I own, Catherine's is from my friend's dress she wore to our 8th grade promotion, and Sara's is from a picture of Arwen from LOTR I found on the net. I hope everyone else likes them as much as me.

Silver Hair Fox: Would you be averse to having Natasha Haan date Jim? 'Cause I can find someone else, but...As always, another great review. Can't wait to read more of TCSISIAR.

Daisyangel: I'm waiting to see what Warrick thinks of Mia's dress, too. I have a small case of writer's block and I can't remember what I was going to have him do! You'll see who Sara takes soon. I hate myself for doing it, so don't blame me!

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Sara was walking briskly down the hall to the chem. lab. Mrs. Wells had pulled her out of French class and told her to go find Warrick. With the consent of the French teacher, Mr. Levine, she had looked at his schedule and set off, bringing her to the current situation.

She knocked timidly on the door of the science room, turning the knob hesitantly when an ominous voice said, "Come in…"

She walked quickly to the back of the room, visibly aware that every eye had turned in her direction. She sat in an empty seat next to Warrick's lab partner, a tall, skinny boy who looked about sixteen.

"Rick," she whispered urgently. "Mrs. Wells told me to come get you, she wouldn't tell me why but she looked happy." Sara sounded skeptical as she said the last part, but when Warrick opened his mouth to answer, his partner cut him off.

"I'm Conrad Ecklie. Pleasure to make your acquaintance," he said in an oily voice. Sara looked at him oddly, shook his hand, mumbled a quick introduction, and turned back to Warrick. "You in?" She asked.

Without waiting for an answer, she grabbed his wrist and dragged him to the door, throwing an excuse over her shoulder at the confused teacher.

Ecklie watched them go, a bemused, dreamy look on his face.

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Mrs. Wells was talking excitedly about another play. Warrick and Sara looked at each other in exasperatedly, each wishing they could be anywhere but that stuffy auditorium.

"So, you don't have to be in the play if you don't want to, but the two of you did such a lovely job with the set of Sleepy Hollow that I'd love for you to design one for Romeo and Juliet."

The two teenagers exchanged glances, both declining politely and leaving the room. Once out of earshot of the eccentric band teacher, Warrick and Sara burst into hysterics.

"She offered us parts as Juliet and Romeo," Sara said through her giggles. She wiped tears of mirth from her eyes.

"Yeah," Warrick said, getting control of his laughter long enough to reply. "She just can't get us right. You and Gil, you and me, what's she thinking?"

They parted ways in front of the stairs to the gym, and Sara took them two at a time, anticipating the look on Nick's face when she told him the story.

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Nick was walking absently looking into his gym locker in the boy's changing rooms, digging through the pile of clothing for his shirt. He wasn't really paying attention, though, and he missed it several times. Finally snatching it up, he slammed his locker and leaned against it, not bothering to put on his t-shirt.

"I've been rehearsing all morning," Nick thought. "It's such a simple question."

He said loudly, as though practicing to an invisible girl, "Will you go to the dance with me?" The only other boy still in the locker room gave him a coy smile and started to walk over. "Oh, I'm practicing asking this girl I like to the dance," Nick explained quickly. The other boy wilted and walked out of the room, leaving Nick very much alone.

Finally pulling on his shirt, Nick walked out into the hall, up the stairs, and through the school's corridors until he reached his third-period classroom.

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Sara was making her way thoughtfully through the lunch line. Nick and Greg had both been acting strangely. Maybe it was the fact that the dance was almost upon them, looming over, threatening impending doom.

Sara chose a carton of orange juice from the counter in front of her, and was reaching into her pocket for some money when someone tapped her on the shoulder.

Conrad Ecklie was standing behind her, a small smile on his rodent-like features. Sara turned to face him, and, after remembering his name, said timidly, "Conrad, right?"

"Yeah," Ecklie said. He seemed a bit nervous. "You're Sara Sidle, Warrick's friend?"

Sara nodded. Ecklie continued. "Well, Sara, I just wondered if…" he trailed off, looking at the floor. The smile had been wiped from his face. "If you're not going to the dance with anyone," he continued slowly, "maybe we could go together?"

Sara smiled. She hadn't thought anyone would ask her. She didn't really like the thought of going with such an obviously stuck-up boy, but she told him yes anyway.

After paying for her lunch, she walked to the table wear all her friends sat. She told them excitedly about how she'd gotten a date for the dance, not noticing the false smiles Greg and Nick were wearing. After a few moments of awkward silence, Jim struck up a conversation with Gil, and the atmosphere returned to normal. Excepting, of course, the aura that surrounded two of the boys, who felt that whatever chance they had at love in life was gone.

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A/N: OMG Bodies in Motion was so good, I taped it and everything, I'm so happy! I'd also love some reviews, but please don't reprimand me for having Sara with Ecklie. It's all for the good of the story.

Maddy