It was Saturday. BRIIIING! BRIIIING! BRIIING! Stephanie's phone rang at ten-thirty in the morning, waking her up. Steph grumbled, and then slowly rolled out of bed. She picked up the little blue phone and said in a tired voice, "Hello?"

"Steph, its Gia. We need to go and get ready! The hop is in nine hours!"

"Yes, nine hours. We have nine hours to get ready."

"But…alright. Sorry, I'm just so excited. Can I at least come over?"

"I'll have to ask my dad. We have a contractor here because we're adding more rooms onto the house. One sec." Stephanie put the receiver on the desk and went down to the kitchen. Danny was chatting with Becky about Monday's show. "Dad, can Gia come over? We won't be in the contractor's way. Please?"

"Sure, why not?"

"Thanks, Dad." Steph ran up to her room and said, "Come on over," to Gia.

"Great. I'll be there soon." Steph hung the phone up and got dressed.

Meanwhile, Michelle was doing some weekend homework that her teacher handed out. She sat at her table and wrote out her spelling words. After she was finished, she sat on her bed. I wish that D.J. was still here. I miss her like crazy. She thought to herself. As if someone had heard her thoughts, the phone in Steph's room rang. Michelle got up and answered Steph's phone, as Steph was in the bathroom. "Hello?" asked Michelle.

"Hey, sweetie, it's me!" came a familiar voice.

"D.J.!" cried Michelle.

"Yup. How's it going? What's new with you guys?"

Michelle told D.J. about the new rooms in the house that they were adding on. D.J. seemed thrilled. "That's wonderful, Michelle. You must be excited. Well, I can't talk for long, because I'm on a pay phone, but I had to tell my favorite little sister that I loved her. Well. I love you. Bye bye, Michelle."

"Bye D.J." Michelle hung the phone up. As soon as she hung the phone up, the doorbell rang. She rushed to answer it. "Oh, hi Gia," she said when she opened it up.

"Hi little Michelle," greeted Gia in her usual way.

"Hi Gia," replied Michelle.

"Heya Squirt," Michelle heard. To her dismay, Kimmy Gibbler was there.

"Oh, great, Kimmy's here," said Michelle. "D.J isn't here if you want to know, so you can get your chicken legs out of here."

"Right, I keep forgetting. She's at the University of Minnesota training to be a vet and I'm here in junior college training to actually get into a university. Sorry I bugged you, Squirt. It's just hard…" Kimmy sniffled a bit and walked out the door.

Michelle had never seen Kimmy so sad. Ten years of loathing and ill wishes toward the obnoxious and incredibly air-headed neighbor melted away as she heard Kimmy cry. Michelle knew that D.J was Kimmy's only friend, and she knew that if she had lost her only friend, she'd go nutso too. "Kimmy, you can stay if you want. I'm, not busy, and I miss D.J. too. Maybe we can do something together later or something. I know I'm only a little kid, but you could use a friend, and I'm good for being a friend."

Kimmy turned around and said, "Thanks Squirt," and gave Michelle a hug. "So, what do you want to do?"

"Don't call me squirt," said Michelle, wagging her finger at Kimmy. "I can ask my daddy if you can take me to the mall. We can have fun there and go to lunch."

"Sounds fun, Michelle," Kimmy said. "I can drive, so we're good there."

Michelle giggled and led Kimmy into the kitchen. Danny looked at Kimmy and said, "Why do you insist on thrusting yourself into our lives? Do us all a favor and move to Minnesota with D.J."

"Daddy! Be nice to Kimmy! She's sad! D.J. left her all alone here, and she doesn't need you to be so rude to her. She's my friend now, and she and I want to go to the mall. Can she drive me?"

Danny saw the tears in Kimmy's eyes and said, "I'm sorry, Kimmy. I know you miss Deej a lot. We miss her too. Go ahead and have fun with Michelle. Michelle, I'm very proud of you for being friends with Kimmy when she's sad like that. Have fun, Sweetie."

"Thanks Daddy. I love you." Michelle hugged her dad, and then took Kimmy's hand in hers and the two walked outside.

"Wow, Danny. I guess that people really can be nice to the ones that that they don't like when those people are distraught," said Becky.

"I am incredibly proud of Michelle. The only problem is that I think that Michelle and Kimmy are going to be seeing a lot of each other this year. I guess Kimmy is going to live here again." Becky laughed along with Danny, and they went back to their show.

At the mall, Kimmy and Michelle chatted it up and shopped 'till they dropped, which, Michelle conclude, was way more fun then mopping 'till you dropped. Kimmy agreed. They stopped at the food court to get corn dogs and fries and sat down to eat. "I'm really glad that we hung out today. You are a pretty cool person, Kimmy. I'm sorry that I was mean to you when we were younger. I just listened to Stephanie too much."

"You think that there is any way to get the little pain to like me?" asked Kimmy.

"I don't thing so," said Michelle, laughing. I can try, but I don't really know.

"Well, I appreciate you trying, Michelle," said Kimmy, smiling.

After they ate, Kimmy drove Michelle back home. "Bye, Michelle. Thanks for the great time."

"No prob, dude," replied Michelle. When she got in the house, she saw her daddy on the phone.

"Here she is now," said Danny into the phone. He handed the phone to Michelle.

"Hello?" asked Michelle.

"Honey, I am so proud of you for being friends with Kimmy," said D.J.

"Thanks, Deej. She really is a lot of fun. I hope we can hang out more often, but D.J., you need to call her more. She is your best friend, and she is so sad that you left. She has a thing where she still thinks you are here, and once she gets to the house, she remembers you are gone. She loves you, Deej, and you need to call her and write letters to her more. Then, she won't be so sad. Can you do that, D.J?"

"Oh, Michelle, you are so right. You know, you really helped our friend Kimmy today, and you helped me realize that I need to spend more time on her. Thank you, Michelle. I love you so much. I love you, Michelle."

"I love you too, Deej. Well, I had better go now. Bye D.J."

"Bye, Michelle," said D.J. The girls hung their phones up. Michelle walked upstairs and smiled, remembering the fun she had with her new best friend today.