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"Hey! Danielle!"

Danielle turned from the book she was reading. "Yes, Poppy?"

"We just thought, since the rule change is tomorrow, we'd have a sleepover! Wanna come?"

Danielle frowned, "Sleepover?"

Poppy grinned, "Just us girls. There're so many of us, we don't think we know you well enough."

"Well… Okay, I suppose that could be fun." Danielle agreed.

At the sleepover

"I can't believe Thierry let us use the Great Hall!" Thea giggled. "I've only ever been in here for balls-" She couldn't finish the sentence for Rashel's hand over her mouth.

"Ball games! You're right, Thea! We're usually only in here for ball games!" Rashel covered up.

"It's truly a blessing." Jez claimed sarcastically, lying flat on her back while guzzling strawberries. "Now, I believe we have to tell Danielle all the rules."

"What rules?" The mother in question asked.

"The rules of the sleepover!" Mary-Lynette giggled, her and Maggie already sugar high on Ben and Jerry stuffed bananas.

"Rule number one!" Gillian announced. "Is void!"

The girls burst into giggles for no apparent reason, leaving Danielle extremely confused.

"Why is it void?"

Thea patted her hand. "Because it's "What happens at a sleepover stays at the sleepover!" That's not gonna happen with cameras here!"

Danielle glanced at the camera man who gave her a little wave. She sighed. "Okay. What's rule two?"

"Rule number two!" Maggie yelled. "Is not to leave this room until ten o'clock tomorrow morning!"

"Unless there's exceptional circumstances!" Rashel called back. Danielle smiled in relief, someone knew something about fire safety! "Like peeing, pranking and pigging!"

"The three P's!" Poppy squealed.

Danielle frowned. "What if there's a fire?"

Keller shrugged. "There's nowhere a fire could come from, we've got no fire place in here, or electricity, save the lights."

"Rule number three!" Jez called. "The Golden Rule! Break it and die!"

The girls all nodded solemnly, leaving Danielle very confused.

"Rule number four!" Poppy giggled. "Always-"

"Wait wait wait!" Danielle interrupted. "What's rule number three?"

"The Golden Rule!" Poppy told her. "Anyways! Rule number four is-"

"What's the Golden Rule?" Danielle asked.

The girls all looked at her with wide eyes.

Mary-Lynette was the first to regain her voice. "How can you not know what the Golden Rule is?"

Maggie soon followed. "Did you not have a childhood?"

Keller nodded. "Even I know the Golden Rule."

"Well… enlighten me." Danielle sighed.

"Chicks before Dicks!" The girls all yelled at once, making Danielle jump and choke on the piece of popcorn she was muching.

"That's the Golden Rule?" She spluttered.

"Of course!" Rashel exclaimed. "It's the rule every girl in the universe follows. It's drummed into you at birth! Surely you've heard of it!"

"My daughter doesn't know that rule! And she doesn't follow it!" Danielle shouted.

"So you encourage your daughter to abandon her friends to go shag boys? Jez bartered.

"No! Of course not! I-"

"Anyways!" Poppy interrupted. "Rule number four! Always try your best in the competition!"

"What competition?" Danielle asked.

"The sock competition!" The ginger vampire announced, making all the other girls cheer.

"Line up girls! Seeing as I'm not wearing any socks I elect myself as judge!" Jez yelled.

The girls all sat down in a line with their feet out in front of them. Danielle followed uncertainly.

Jez paced up and down the line, then stopped at the end where Poppy sat.

"Poppy. Polka dotted toe socks, very pretty." Jez said with military efficiency, Danielle was starting to see how seriously they took this competition.

"Rashel. Red bleary socks… Goth much?"

"Like you didn't already know." Rashel drawled, secretly tired of pretending to be a goth.

"Gillian. Odd socks, nice touch."

Gillian looked down at her one paint splatter sock and one cow spots sock and grinned. "Thanks!"

"Maggie…" Jez stopped and glared at her naked feet. "You're not even trying!"

Maggie shrunk back. "I had pink fuzzy ones on earlier but I don't know where they went!"

"They probably came off when we tried to climb into the air vents earlier." Mare supplied. "Someone turned on their ceiling fan and we almost got blown away!"

Jez shook her head sadly. "Nevertheless, Maggie you have broken rule number four, so I must ask you to sit in the corner."

Maggie pouted and shuffled off to the corner.

Jez sighed and looked at Danielle. "I'm sorry you had to see that. Now moving on! Mary-Lynette. Red, white and blue stripes. You French all of a sudden?"

"They're her fourth of July socks!" Maggie called. "It's not the fourth of July! Put her in the corner with me!"

"Don't try to drag people down with you, Neely. They don't deserve it." Jez called back.

"Keller. Fuzzy black, comfortable?"

"Very," She agreed.

"Thea. Purple and white stripes, again pretty, and I'm surprised you managed to keep them white when Quinn was on washing duty yesterday."

Thea pulled her feet towards her. "Keep him away from my socks!"

"Danielle. White with blue bits, yet again, I'm surprised at the whiteness."

"They were more grey, but I washed them again." Danielle informed her.

"Who won, Jez?" Poppy called.

"I'm going to say… Gillian!" Jez announced.

The girls all cheered and jumped on Gillian, except for Maggie, who was waving her arms in the corner, and Danielle, who was watching with slight amusement.

…

"Hey Jez?"

Jez looked up from the incredibly competitive game of twister she was playing with Keller and Rashel to see Morgead standing at the door. "Yeah, Morgy?"

He rolled his eyes. "I'm gonna ignore that because I need a favour."

Keller glared at Jez upside down. "Remember the Golden Rule Jez! Break it and die!"

Morgead laughed. "You're obeying the Golden Rule now? You weren't when we played rugby a month ago!"

"We were supposed to be actually." Thea told him. "But we all ended up breaking it!"

Rashel pouted through Jez's legs. "Quinn and I did! We ended up being the only two on the field!"

"Who won?" Morgead teased.

Rashel glared. "You know the answer to that question, don't you?"

He grinned. "Quinn wouldn't stop boasting, we ended up pouring sherbet up his nose to make him shut up!"

Jez laughed. "What was it that you wanted, Morgy?"

He blushed and looked at his shoes. "Well… I was gonna put bacon grease in Ash's hair jell, but he locked his closet again and I can't…"

Jez smiled at him indulgently. "Having trouble picking the lock?"

He nodded bashfully. "Can you…?"

"Of course!" Jez got up and hugged him. "What are girlfriends for?"

They walked hand in hand from the room with gleeful smiles on their faces.

Danielle turned to the girls, her eyebrows bunched together. "What was that?"

Gillian grinned. "Pranks are their romantic dinners."

"But…" Danielle spluttered. "She broke the rules! She's not allowed to leave!"

"The three P's, Danielle! The three P's!" Thea reminded her.

"Oh!" Danielle gasped. "Peeing, pranking, and pigging!"

"Well done young grasshopper!" Maggie yelled from the corner. "Can I come back yet?"

"No!" Rashel yelled. "Jez trusted you and you betrayed that trust!"

Maggie groaned, her head hitting the wall.

…

Halfway through Paranormal Activity 2, Danielle seemed to be the only one scared.

"Yeah! Throw her down the stairs!" Keller yelled at the screen.

Thea shook her head. "If only they'd added some rosemary to that sage she was burning earlier, this movie would have been over so quickly!"

Danielle hugged her pillow harder. "H-h-h-hey… Jez has been gone a really long time!"

The girls all looked at one another.

"Let's investigate!" Poppy yelled.

They snuck along the hallway to Jez and Morgead's room, only to hear moaning coming from Eric and David's room on their way!

Thea and Gillian locked eyes for a split second, then broke down the door.

The two boys looked up guiltily, each shoving something behind their backs before the girls could see. "Hi guys! How's the sleepover?"

Thea raised an eyebrow. "What were you two doing?"

"Nothing!" David yelped.

Gillian sighed. "If you don't tell us, we will assume you were making out and the consequences of that will be much worse."

She and Thea nodded solemnly.

David pouted. "Stupid yaoi lovers…"

Eric sighed. "Please don't get mad at us!"

They each reached behind them and brought out plates full of microwave burgers.

Gillian gasped. "How could you?"

"Don't you know how many calories are in those?"

A single tear ran down David's face. "But they're so delicious!"

"I can't even look at you right now!"

Gillian and Thea immediately stormed out the room and marched to Jez and Morgead's room.

As the other girls caught up with them, Danielle whispered to Mary-Lynette, "I thought Gillian and David weren't dating?"

She shrugged and grinned inside at the lie.

They reached Jez and Morgead's room and allowed Danielle to open the door.

She gasped as the couple hastily covered themselves up. "Jez! How could you allow someone to take away your dignity in this way?"

"Errr… I didn't!" Jez exclaimed and turned to face Morgead. "You drugged me to get me into bed with you!"

"What? Jez-" Morgead was interrupted by a slap on the face that made him fall off the bed.

"How dare you deface me like this!" Jez yelled and pulled on a robe to dash out the room.

Keller ran up and slapped him on the face too. "How dare you make Jez cry?" She then ran out after Jez.

Gillian skipped over and slapped him. "How dare you eat my chocolate?"

Morgead rubbed the side of his face. "Today is not a good day for me…"

…

They were playing Pictionary when Jez realised that Maggie was still in the corner, watching them sadly.

"Maggie, I'm sorry I put you in the corner." Jez apologised. "To show you how sorry I am, here's an ice cream stuffed banana."

Maggie took it with wide eyes. "I thought we ran out…?"

Jez smiled graciously. "I asked Nilsson to make another one."

Maggie grinned and took a big bite. Vanilla ice cream burst out, drenching her hair in sticky deliciousness.

Gillian burst out laughing. "Dude! A banana just shot white stuff on you!"

She licked her fingers and grinned. "What can I say? I'm irresistible!"

"Irresistibubble!" Thea called softly.

"Aero!" The girls all yelled at once and ran to a big bowl full of Aero Bubbles that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

Danielle sighed, it was going to be a long night…

…

They were all in sleeping bags, playing truth or dare, when Poppy jumped up like she'd sat on a live wire.

"Where's Keller?"

Danielle frowned and looked around the room. Indeed, there were only eight people!

Gillian tentatively put her hand up. "Let's investigate?"

…

They were creeping down the bedroom corridor when they heard more moaning! It was coming from Galen's room.

Danielle frowned and her hand lingered on the doorknob. Surely Galen, who had been so kind to her and seemed like such a nice boy, wouldn't do anything sordid?

She pushed through her doubts and opened the door.

Galen was sitting on the bed in nothing but his underwear, a pair of handcuffs and a blindfold, Keller was holding a whip.

"Why did the door just open? Keller?" Galen yelped.

Keller's eyes were wide. "Oh no…"

Steam was coming out of Danielle's ears. "This family is broken! There are things wrong with all of you! When the rule change comes you're going to realise how disgusting you all are!"

Thierry poked his head out of his door as Danielle stormed into her room. "You guys are gonna die…"

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