A/N: OK! You all win! We have some Noze-ness in here just to make everybody happy! It's just a slight sub-plot but it's good enough. It won't come round just yet, but if you read the story you can probably guess where it heads.

Story #2: "Just Can't Get Enough"

In the 5-minute gap between classes, Lisa and Cookie walked down the hall.

"So I really hope you don't mind that Martin is vice president now." Cooke said.

"Oh, no, not at all." Lisa responded. "I understand that you just felt that co-running the grade with Ned would be too much."

"Yup."

"Oh, The Game Plan comes out on Friday; do you want to go see it?"

"Lisa, you really want to see that?"

"It's either that or Sydney White."

Cookie grinned. "The Game Plan it is."

The two went to Social Studies class; the grin had been off Cookie's face as he sat next to Ned and Moze.

"Ned," Cookie began, "do you think me and Lisa make a good couple?"

"Why?" Ned asked. "You two seem to be working out fine."

"Well, I don't know Ned, we've been going out since June but it hardly seems like it's going anywhere. We've been on plenty of dates, yeah, but nothing truly major. Just going out for food… a movie once in a while…"

"Isn't that what all school relationships are like?"

"Well, true but we just seem to still be just acquaintances. I mean, you and Moze have been going out as long as Lisa and I have but you two seem to be doing fine."

"Who ever said we were still going out? We're just on-and-off, off-and-on, revolving door…-ness."

Mr. Mosely spoke up towards Ned and Cookie. "We're going to start class now."

"No problem." Ned said.

"Okay, so as some as you may have heard, we have our first school dance coming up. With homecoming coming up next week, we have a homecoming dance next Saturday night. I hope all of you make it out and get that special someone to go to the dance with you."

Ned snapped his fingers and pointed at Cookie. After a short pause, Cookie asked "What?"

"I'll tell you later." Ned said.

When school was over, Ned ran to Cookie's locker.

"OK, you want to know my great plan?" Ned asked Cookie.

"Fine, whatever." Cookie said.

"Try and follow me here, so I was thinking that maybe one of the reasons you two feel drifting is because of too much consistency. Since you two have only been going out since June, you two have had nothing but pizza and movies to go along with. No school events, no nothing. But now you got this homecoming dance. You two can go together! That should boost your relationship up 5 notches."

"Ned, I think that you actually have a point. I was going to take Lisa to the dance; this could be the perfect way to get closer to Lisa! Thanks Ned."

"Good luck!"

As Cookie walked away, Suzie walked up to Ned.

"Ned, I need your help." She said.

"Why?"

"Well, you know that new kid Javier Abrams?"

"Yeah, what about Javier?"

"Let's just say that I have a small little crush on him."

Just as she said that, Javier came waltzing through the wall. "Hey, how ya doing?" he said to as many people as he could, including Ned and Suzie. He was nearly Cookie in another body, except Cookie is nothing in dorkiness compared to Javier.

"Him? He's a geek!"

"I know, but it's his geekiness that makes him so cute."

"But I thought you were going out with Loomer."

"We broke up."

"Really? That was quick. So, anyway, what do you want me to do with Javier?"

"Well, since you are my ex and would you say our relationship went well?"

"To a certain extent but…"

"Great! Try and tell Javier how he should go with me to the homecoming dance, tell him it'd make me really happy." Suzie winked. Ned stood with his arms crossed for a second and politely said "I'll see what I can do."

"Thanks Ned!" Suzie said as she walked away. Moze had seen Ned talking to Suzie and a million 'what-if' thoughts sprinted through her head and ran over to him.

"What did Suzie want?"

"If I told you, she'd probably kill me." Ned walked away and turned back. "But don't think we're… you know." Ned went back on his way.

Wait a minute, are him and Suzie going back out? Moze thought. No, Ned would never do that to me… or would he? We are on an friends with benefits-type deal but…

Meanwhile, back to our main plot, Cookie went to the outside of Dukakis to go find Lisa.

"Oh, Simon!" Lisa said. "I think we need to talk."

"About what?" Cookie asked.

"Well, it just seems like our relationship story is really going nowhere fast."

"Hey, I felt that way, too."

"Oh. Then do you want to break up?"

"I never said that! We just need more variety in our dates. And you know what's coming up?"

"The homecoming dance?"

"Yup, and your coming with me. If we have a great time, I think we should give our relationship a restart but if you have a terrible time I'll never try to go out with you again."

"Sure! I think that would be great!"

"Yeah, I've come to the realization we need a bit more variety in our dates and a homecoming dance…" Cookie clapped his hands, "how can you compare that to pizza and movies?"

"I guess your right."

"So it's a date?"

"Yeah, sure, it'll be fantastic."

Cookie walked away; as he walked away he was still close enough to be heard from the school with a loud "YES!"

TBC