Rockin Bonanza were walking up to The Palace. Peggy and Rayne helped them carry their instruments. "This is The Palace's karaoke bar," Peggy replied. "It's not like karaoke night in Ireland."

"This is our next gig," Dagger explained. "They're paying us $200."

"That's enough for school clothes for the spring," Peggy said.

Inside, they saw the entire bar empty, with a blonde boy with freckles cleaning the floors. They heard him sing the Beatles' "Octopus's Garden" while mopping. The girls applauded while they sat down. Merula and Dagger both just rolled their eyes.

A menacing-looking man in an elaborate suit came in. He quickly recognized Addison and Isadora. "I thought I made it clear I never want to see you three brats here again," he growled, "after your grandmother came in and sang that dumb 'Sound of Music' song, 'My Favorite Things'."

"My grandmother had a wonderful singing voice, Arthur," growled Addison. "Don't mock my family like that."

"What are you doing here anyway?" he asked.

"We're part of Rockin Bonanza," Isadora explained. "I'm the drummer, Addison is on keyboard, Mahi does guitar, Merula accompanies her, and our leader and lone boy Dagger, who is also my boyfriend, plays bass. We saw your ad online and thought we'd book a gig here. Addy and I figured that we hadn't been here since you kicked Grandma Bach out for being OLD, and we were hoping that you'd cool off for a change."

"I didn't hire you," Arthur said. He spotted his two boys working on their dance rehearsal. One had thick eyebrows and was looking at Mahi, and the other had thin eyebrows and got distracted by the souvenir shirts they had. "Lloyd," snapped Arthur as Lloyd ducked by the curtain in embarrassment, "what did we say about hiring backup bands without my permission?"

"Backup band?" Mahi asked angrily. "We thought we were the main treat."

"Hey, Mahi," Andrew smiled as he walked up to Mahi. "Haven't seen you in a while. Have you been thinking about me?"

"Back off, Mr. Hyde," Mahi snarled as she pushed him. "You know I'm a lesbian."

"Thespian?" asked Lloyd. "I know some of the guys at the Hartfeld High Drama Club. Unfortunately, I get most of the lines wrong."

"I said *lesbian*, Dr. Jekyll," Mahi corrected. She was so annoyed, she grabbed a drink left behind and tossed the drink at them. "We're leaving this dump."

"Mahi Champ-Vermin," Arthur recalled.

"It's Chakavarti," Mahi replied in annoyance.

"Whatever," replied Arthur. "Haven't seen you and your brother since we smuggled diamonds into the restaurant."

"And you had to do that to buy that $1,000 laptop from Pear," recalled Mahi. "And you only paid me expired coupons to Waffle World." She barged out of the theater in rage. That's when she came across the same boy who was singing "Octopus's Garden."

"Hey" the boy said. "I'm Charlie. I've seen you met my stepfather and stepbrothers."

"I know," Mahi replied. "Mr. Hyde tried to flirt with me."

"You mean Andrew," said Charlie, "He always flirts with hot girls, even if they're lesbian or bisexual. Lloyd, on the other hand, blabs out something stupid and acts a little messy."

"About that," Mahi replied. "This is just like how I feel about Peg."

"Is she that new girl from Ireland?" asked Charlie. "Because that faker Elodie just transferred to another school as soon as her charade was blown."

Peggy, Rayne, Isadora, Addison, Merula, and Dagger came outside, because they'd had enough of Arthur's rudeness and Andrew's lame flirtatious behavior. "Thanks for stopping by," Charlie said. "We haven't had many customers since my mom died."

"Apparently," Rayne replied, "rude customer service will do that to you. Anyway, don't you hang out with your friends after your job?"

"I don't have a lot of friends," Charlie replied.

"Seriously?" Isadora asked. "Don't you ever think about joining a club like at the community center or library? I mean, if you don't make friends sooner you could end up lonely and go completely crazy. I knew this one guy when I went to Australia, and he went cookoo for not having anyone to talk to. Addison and I told them that just because they're too busy and want to do things by themselves doesn't mean they don't like him. He realized that he also needs time to himself too, so we agreed to be pen pals."

Charlie shook his head. "Arthur never pays me and makes me clean top to bottom," he said.

"We've seen you on the streets" Rayne recalled, "How could you afford that ukelele and skateboard?"

"They were Lloyds," Charlie answered. "We secretly exchange gifts on birthdays and Christmas."

Mahi knew that Charlie needed some new friends, because she knew how he felt about being alone after her parents kicked her and her brother out. "Guys," she said, "let's throw a party Friday at The Palace. This will get Charlie some new friends."

"Where are we going to get the decor, food, and games?" Addison asked. "As you may know, my family has cutbacks."

"Perhaps we could be of assistance," declared a Latino man being accompanied by a Caucasian woman. "I'm Diego Hernandez, and this is my wife Martha."

"We've saved some kids' birthday party gear ever since Ms. Prince passed away," Martha explained. "And I make killer grilled cheese sandwiches."

"What about Arthur and his boys?" asked Rayne.

"They'll think Arthur has won a spot on 'Cash Wheel' in Boston," Mahi replied. "We knew that Lloyd's stupidity would screw up the secret party and Andrew would flirt with me again."

Everyone smiled, knowing that the party was going to be great.

XxoxX

The next night, everyone was getting ready for the party. Martha and Diego were fixing up the buffet, Charlie, Mahi, Peggy and Rayne were placing up the decor, Isadora and Addison were checking the guest list, and Dagger and Merula were tuning their instruments. "This party is going to be a blast," Dagger said. "Remember when Arthur kicked us out for scaring him last Halloween?"

"All we did is sing 'The Addams Family' as a duet, bro," Merula replied. "Halloween is supposed to be scary."

"You had to invite Rochelle?" asked Addison.

"Of course I had to invite Rochelle the Ruckus," Isadora replied. "Everyone knows that if you don't invite Rochelle to a party, she throws an angry tantrum - like the time at Kieran's 10th birthday party where they didn't invite her on purpose. She threw a tantrum for three days and our teacher had to let her skip recess. If there's one of the few things I learned from that party, it's to invite only the necessary people. Also, if they can't come they can always send a card."

"That's good," Addison replied, "like the time my cousin Khánh Trang couldn't make it due to a ballet recital and the administration team of a famous dance school was coming."

"I'm glad she got into the Los Angeles School of Dance," Isadora replied. "Without making that choice, she would be upset due to not going to a dance class. She mastered hip hop, modern, contemporary, jazz, flamenco, and most of all, ballet like us."

"Please?" Rochelle sarcastically said. "Having a relative who's in that successful Californian dance school. I auditioned for that, but they said I was 'too mean'."

"At least Khanh Trang has a boyfriend now," Addison said.

"I used to go out with Andrew," Rochelle explained, "until I caught him flirting with girls on the swim team and stealing cash from my father's cash register at Vilks Furniture." She left to get some punch.

Little did they know was that Madrid was watching them from a distance. "So," he said, "those PRIMA brats thought they could throw a party without me. Why not have a little Jeivan chihuahuas?" He summoned some Jeivan chiuahuas and started barging outside.

Peggy sensed danger. She didn't want anyone to find out, so she told the audience to give it up for Merula and Dagger. Merula and Dagger didn't know what was going on, but they decided to play to entertain the crowd.

Guardians Unite

PRIMA saw that Madrid was trying to crash the party with some Jeivan chihuahuas. Mahi and Rayne laughed, because they were too tiny and they can take down the little doggies fast. The Jeivan chihuahuas got completely offended and they became more monsterous than before. Addison decided to feed them some giant broccoli, because dogs are more of meat eaters. The Jeivan chihuahuas got disgusted by the broccoli and ran off.

"How did you know that the Jeivan chihuahuas would get disgusted by broccoli?" asked Peggy.

"Mae used to be disgusted by it as a kid," Addison explained. "It's amazing what adding lime on them can do to it, and I read in a dog safety book that you can't give dogs human food; they'll get sick."

"Speaking of getting sick," Isadora replied, "Madrid is making me crazy. Crazy like if you drank 14 cups of coffee in 1 day, and boy, you go crazy."

Isadora drove Madrid away with a big tornado. "Nice job, Isa," Peggy smiled.

Suddenly, Addison felt something. She could hear Arthur complaining about the false 'Cash Wheel' audition. Arthur grumbled, "I can't believe that someone tried to prank me."

In his car, Arthur and Andrew were mad about being ripped off. Lloyd, on the other hand, was watching a new Viewtube Video. "Palace Party with Rockin Bonanza."

Andrew noticed and realized that Rockin Bonanza tricked them. "Charter Vain," growled Arthur.

XxoxX

At The Palace, Addison was terrified because Arthur was on his way home. "We gotta get all the party guests out fast," she quickly said.

After Merula and Dagger finished their song. Addison rushed up and warned them about Arthur's return. Everyone quickly cleaned up and rushed off home.

Arthur and Andrew were parylyzed by all the teenagers rushing out of The Palace. Lloyd, on the other hand, was disappointed, because they had the party without him.

PRIMA tried to sneak out with some leftovers, but Arthur spotted them. "You brats think you can crash The Palace without paying a $400 fine and not let my boys be the main act?" he snarled.

"We remember your Viewtube channel," Peggy said. "Your boys don't have any talent."

They tossed chocolate cupcakes at Arthur and Andrew. "And that's for making Charlie lonely," Peggy said as they barged off.

"My $300 suit!" shouted Arthur. "Charlie, iron my suit this instant!"

Charlie rushed out to grab his jacket. Peggy looked at him, and he looked at her back while nodding. That's when Peggy knew - Charlie finally made some new friends within them.

The End.