Part 30

The music club under Kelly's diner was in full swing. Bands played there on the weekends.

AJ invited Joanna to go, and while he was getting ready to leave the house, Sean asked him where he was going. He told Sean, and Sean went up and suggested the brilliant idea to Emily, that they go too. AJ was already gone, but the club was a public place. Anyway, didn't Emily want to go out and dance?

Emily hadn't planned on going out that night. But it was tempting. Sean could be fun in a place like that.

Meanwhile, Zander had taken Quinn, Gia and Nik for a drive in the Porsche. They went out to dinner and then decided they would stop at the new club.

Being on a double date like that added to the feeling of being a couple, or somehow, belonging together. Quinn liked the feeling, rather than feeling stifled by it, as she had before, with Sean or Paul. She couldn't fathom why.

Quinn was talking to Gia about clothes and modeling when her eye caught the door. "Oh, great," she said, "they're here. I wonder if we should get out of here."

"We're not leaving just because they come in," Zander said, noticing Emily and Sean.

"Do we have to get territorial?" Quinn asked.

Zander laughed. "Let's protect our turf. The Shyster belongs in Kentucky."

"They dumped him here."

"Smart people, the Kentuckians," Zander said. "Maybe we can come up with some plan to lure him to Siberia."

"Get him out of the US and then steal his passport," Quinn said.

"Exactly! What a memory!"

"I'm picking that up from you."

"Don't worry," Nikolas said. "There are so many people here."

"Yeah," Gia said. "There's AJ and your friend, with them."

"Oh," Quinn laughed. "Not to worry. Joanna will supervise them."

"Shall we dance?" Zander asked Quinn. The band played a slow song.

Nikolas and Gia went out onto the dance floor, too.

AJ and Joanna stood near Emily and Sean.

"There are our best buddies out there, Emily," Sean said. "Zander the mystery man and Quinn the mystery solver."

"They're sweet," Joanna said. "They fit together."

"Shall I cut in?" Sean asked mischievously.

"No!" Joanna said in horror.

"Stay here, Sean," AJ said.

"You used to be on my side," Emily said to AJ.

"I'm still on your side," AJ said. "That's why I think Sean should stay put."

"I was kidding," Sean said.

"The trouble with you is that one never knows," AJ said to him.