As Cookie ran home like Charlie after he found the last golden ticket, he called Ned.

"Ned! She said yes!"

"Lisa?"

"Yeah! She's gonna go to the dance with me!"

"That's great! So does this mean you two are still going out?"

Cookie stopped in his tracks by Dark Crystal Lake (A/N: Get it? The Dark Crystal? The camp from Friday the 13th? This place will be important in a little while.). "Um… it could go either way now."

"What do you mean?"

"I told Lisa that if either of us have a bad time at the homecoming dance, we'd break up. Ned, I need something to impress her enough!"

"Wow, Cookie. I really don't know what to say."

"You give tips, give me a tip!"

"Dude, I haven't touched the guide since last year. I don't know what you should do!"

"Hmmm… well, it is a dance. It doesn't need to be that blown-out."

"Can you even dance?"

Cookie stammered for a second.

"Say something!" Ned yelled.

"Sort of."

"Sort of is pretty much no. It's pretty much common sense that they'll be a slow dance towards the end of the night and if you avoid that slow dance or any other dancing during the night, I have a feeling Lisa may want to break up."

"Looks like I got to get some dance lessons!"

"That's the spirit!"

"So, Ned, do you have a date to the homecoming dance?"

"I'm pretty sure I'm going with Moze but we haven't really mentioned it yet."

"Well, I hope you and Moze work out, you two seem to be doing better than me and Lisa."

"Yeah, I guess you could say that. See you later, Cookie."

"Bye."

Ned hung up. Meanwhile, Moze was still going through deep thoughts about Ned's talk with Suzie. Of course she had no idea what they were actually talking about. She gestured to Ned from her window, but Ned didn't see it, so she yelled out "Hey, stupid!" Ned opened his window.

"Oh, hey, what's up?" he said.

"Ned, what's the most important part of a relationship?"

"Uh… sex?"

"Honesty and if your ex-girlfriend was talking to about something I can't know about then something must be up. Now, Ned, tell me honestly what you were talking to Suzie about today after school."

"Moze, trust me, you really don't need to know what we were talking about, it has nothing to do with you!"

"Just tell me, please."

"All I can tell you is that she likes someone right now and I'm…"

"Jennifer!" Mr. Mosely yelled from the downstairs area of her house, "Come on down, it's time for dinner."

"All right, dad!" she hollered down to him and pointed at Ned, "I'm not done with you." She went downstairs and after a few seconds Ned yelled out "All right! Come back when you're in a better mood!"

Back to Cookie, he was at the library looking for "how-to" books on dancing. Ultimately, he'd take books, look at them to see if they were useful and promptly throw them on the ground. A librarian walked up to Cookie. "Excuse me, sir; do you need help with something?"

"Yes, actually, I'm looking for books on how to dance."

The librarian skimmed through the shelf and he pulled out a book for Cookie. "I think for someone your age, this is your best bet." He handed Cookie the book: Dancing for Dummies. Cookie checked out the book and sat it down on the coffee table and read the book cover to cover. He stood up when he was done and cleared a space on the rug and attempted to dance a sort of tap-type dance, trying to bounce the beat from foot to foot. This did nothing more than make him fall over. He groaned. "This is going to take some time to get a hang on." Cookie continued to try for the rest of the afternoon with no prevail. That next day at school, learning to dance was all Cookie could think about. Then it hit him: he remembered when Gordy taught him to salsa dance, surely Gordy would know more than just salsa! But, alas, Gordy was still at Polk. But when classes let out, speak of the devil, a familiar janitor walked out of the janitor's office.

"GORDY!" Cookie yelled out when he saw him, Ned and Moze heard him and ran over to him.

"Whoa, hey!" Gordy greeted them.

"Wait a minute, what are you doing here?" Ned asked, "I thought you were only working at Polk."

"Well, since Lenny, the head custodian of the district, retired at the end of the last year, I became the new head custodian of the school district. So I work at all the schools!"

"What did you ever do with the weasel?"

"She and her babies are now at the animal shelter, but now there's a goat running around Polk."

"A goat?" Moze said trying to avoid laughing. "Have you got it yet?"

"No! I'm not even going to try!"

"Well, listen; we've got to get to class." Ned said. "See you later, Gordy!"

Ned and Moze went on their way and Cookie stayed with Gordy.

"Gordy, do you know any other dancing besides salsa?"

"Maybe, what are you getting at? Need to impress Lisa again?"

"Our relationship depends on it at this point."

"Alright, I won't be able to fit you into my schedule now…"

"Since when do you have a schedule?"

"I'm a busy man. OK, so, I want you to find a movie and watch it, it'll show you some moves."

"What's it called?"

"You got a piece of paper? I'll write it down for you."

Cookie pulled a piece of paper out of his binder and gave it to Gordy.

"And I need a pen." Gordy said. Cookie gave him a pen; Gordy wrote down the movie's title on the paper and gave it back to him. Cookie read the sheet that Gordy wrote the title on… the title of the movie was Saturday Night Fever.

"You'll thank me for that later!" Gordy said as he walked away. Meanwhile, Ned walked with Suzie to the library; Javier was on the computer in the library.

"OK, so you know what you're going to say to him?" Suzie asked.

"Relax; I've got a whole monologue planned." Ned said nonchalantly. He walked over to Javier at the computer.

"Hey, Javier."

"Hey, how ya doin'?" Javier asked Ned.

"I'm doing all right. Listen here; are you in any classes with Suzie Crabgrass?"

"Who?"

"You don't know Suzie Crabgrass?!" Ned pulled Javier's head so that Suzie was in his line of sight, Suzie waved to him.

"Oh, her! Isn't she in bio with us?"

"Yeah! Listen, if Suzie were to say that she liked you and wanted to get to know you a little bit, would you go to the dance with her?"

Javier gave Ned a blank stare before saying "Yeah, I'd like to be friends if she wants to!"

Ned patted Javier on the shoulder and told him "Thanks, that'll be useful" and walked away and back to Suzie.

"Well?" Suzie asked.

"He wants to be friends."

"What the?"

"Well I didn't want to be the one who asked him out, Suzie!"

Moze walked into the library and happened to come across Ned and Suzie.

"Listen; just ask if he'd be willing to go to the dance with me!" Suzie said to Ned, Moze walked into the library when Suzie said "be willing to go to the dance with me!" Suzie walked away.

"Ned, are you going back out with Suzie and not telling me?" Moze asked.

"Oh, no, no, no, don't worry." Ned said laughing, almost seeming like he was lying. "I'm just helping her out."

"Sure, OK, Ned, whatever you say." Moze said lightly nodding her head.