The Doctor ushered Michelle into the high school gymnasium. Her jaw dropped at the amount of people. "My God...there's a hell of a lot more folks here then there ever were at my real graduation!"

He smiled at her and remarked, "Crittendon, Ohio is really growing. It's almost as big as Cleveland."

They both smirked then. "And has almost as little entertainment!" they both echoed in unison. Michelle burst out laughing.

"I've been around you too long."

"Well, don't worry, after tonight it won't be much longer that you have to deal with me." She wondered why he sounded almost unhappy at the prospect.

Changing the subject, she quickly asked, "Has the punch been spiked?"

"Naw, there's too many adults near it. Someone will try later this evening though. What a fiasco it will be."

As if on cue, a teenager in a powder blue tuxedo with a ruffled collar leaned suspiciously over the refreshments table. He pulled a flask out of his pocket, went to open it...and then his pants caught the leg of the table.

There was a crash as he went down, Smirnoff spilling out of the flask and onto the floor. Several girls slipped in the puddle and toppled over. "Hank! Hank, you jerk! My dress is ruined!"

A guy remarked, "Holy crap, dude, that's your dad's flask! You are soooo dead now..."

"He certainly is, and that's three days of in-school suspension for you, my boy!" A man Michelle intuitively recognized as the principal grabbed Hank by the ear and pulled him away.

"Wow..." She commented, surprised.

"Yeah," said the Doctor dismissively. "He becomes a used car salesman. Not much else to comment on as far as that guy is concerned."

As they drew closer to the stage, the sound of pulsating music got louder and louder. Everyone in the middle of the gym bounced happily around to the strains of "Crush On You", by the Jets.

The Doctor offered Michelle his hand. "Ready to dance?"

"Hell no..." She was rooted in place. "Not in front of these people. Aliens is one thing. High schoolers is another."

"Oh come on! Unlike me, you only live once!"

Fortunately for Michelle, someone called her name. "Michelle! Mish! Over here!"

She looked up to find two young girls calling her name from the corner, waving to her. Almost instinctively, she recited out loud, "Alice Perkins, age 17, an emigre from London. Her parents moved over here to work for a local factory last year. Laura Mulligan, age 18. She's from the area. And they are...my friends??"

Michelle stared at the Doctor. "I...didn't have friends in high school. What's with the 80's buddies?"

He shrugged. "The TARDIS likes you. You do have a rather extensive backstory that I created."

Nodding, she headed over to the corner where Laura and Alice were standing. "Er, what's up guys?" Michelle waved sheepishly.

Laura was excitedly telling Alice, "My dad finally saved up enough money to get us one of those VCR's. It was so expensive though! Like $1,500.00 or something. I hope the prices come down some day...I really want to get my own when I move out so I can watch 'Back to the Future Part II' when it comes out on video."

Alice beamed, "So totally awesome! We can totally watch 'Ghostbusters' now." Her English accent was different than the Doctor's, though only slightly. "Ooh, Michelle, that dress totally goes with your hair, you look so pretty!"

Laura pulled something out of her bag. "Look, Alice, look what I got in the mail yesterday. Howard Jones's autograph! He is so totally good looking!"

Alice made a squeeing sound. "You are so lucky! I want one too! Not as bad as I want to meet Glass Tiger, though."

At the squeeing, the Doctor winced and held his ears. "You'd be surprised how many times I hear that very same noise echoing through the universe. Always seems to be directed towards my TARDIS, I can never figure it out. And it always comes from Earth."

Michelle scoffed. "Sure. You have Earth girls squealing about how cute you are. You, Dorky Doctor." She burst out laughing.

"Who's that?" Laura looked spectacularly unimpressed. "Michelle, you promised we were all going to go to the prom as a group. If one of us couldn't find a date, then none of us were going to get a date. Remember?"

"Oh...oh, him? Dorky Doctor? Forget him. He's a homo."

Alice said sulkily, "I wish I had a date that was a hot homo." She grabbed Laura's autograph and held it up to the Doctor's face. "Do you think this guy is cute? I think he's gay. You would be able to tell, right?"

The Doctor looked bemused. "No, he's not gay. He has lovely eyes and hair though."

"I know," said Laura dreamily. "Even better than Dorky Doctor!"

Michelle grinned. "I must agree, Dorky Doctor is kind of cute, even though he is gay."

"Thanks," smirked the Doctor. "I appreciate it, even coming from a girl."

Alice looked confused. "Your name is Dorky Doctor? Oh my God, you sound like I do. Are you from London too?"

"No, no...I'm actually called John Smith, but Dorky Doctor appears to be my nickname for the evening." He glared briefly at Michelle, who avoided his gaze. "I know your mum and dad from the factory."

"So you're older then? Probably like 21 or so, right?" At Alice's question, Michelle chortled to the point of knee slapping, and the Doctor merely sighed.

"Oh, okay...you've kind of disappointed me, Michelle. You actually got to bring a cute older guy to prom, and he can't even be straight?" Alice looked around. "Do you want me to find some chairs for the rest of the evening, so we can sit? My high heels aren't made for standing for ages on end."

The Doctor's companion seemed to have one of those epiphanies, right there and then. Michelle looked at Alice in surprise. "You're not serious, are you? We're going to go this whole night without dancing?"

The Doctor muttered under his breath in falsetto, "'Oh no, I can't dance in front of high schoolers, meh meh meh.' Don't listen when I make the suggestion, heavens forbid."

"I'm sorry, did you care to include something, John? Something the rest of us can all hear?" Michelle's hands were on her hips like a disapproving old lady. Alice and Laura merely snickered.

"No, no...just prattling, sorry."

Laura interrupted. "In answer to your question, yes, we had planned on sitting the whole thing out."

The Doctor folded his arms, "Michelle doesn't like to dance normally."

Alice stated, "I know, she told us she didn't plan on doing any dancing when we agreed to meet up here...talk about confusing."

"Well..." Michelle threw her arms up in the air. "Last minute change of plans, okay? Trust me, guys, if we don't dance at this...at our prom, we'll regret it the rest of our lives. Understand?'

Alice shrugged. "I guess...I don't see what difference it could make. Everyone else can't possibly hate us any more than they already do now."

Michelle rolled her eyes. "Oh, shut up. Let's go enjoy ourselves for a change." She took both her friends' hands and led them to the dance floor. The Doctor merely followed behind, not saying a word.

The DJ announced from the stage, "The next song is by one of our hottest singers of today...Robert Palmer!"

There was a clapping and cheering from everyone in the gym, bar some adults who merely shook their heads, not listening to this "new music" like the high schoolers did.

"You used to look good to me, and now I find you, Crittendon Seniors...Simply Irresistible!" The familiar guitar strains began, and suddenly everyone began to jump up and down, shrieking happily.

Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible

How can it be permissible
She compromise my principle, yeah yeah
That kind of love is mythical
She's anything but typical

She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
She used to look good to me, but now I find her

Simply irresistible
Simply irresistible

Her loving is so powerful, huh
It's simply unavoidable
The trend is irreversible
The woman is invincible

She's a natural law, and she leaves me in awe
She deserves the applause, I surrender because
She used to look good to me, but now I find her

Simply irresistible
Simply irresistible

Simply irresistible she's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible she's all mine, there's no other way to go

She's unavoidable, I'm backed against the wall
She gives me feelings like I never felt before
I'm breaking promises, she's breaking every law
She used to look good to me, but now I find her

Simply irresistible
She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible she's all mine, there's no other way to
Go

She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible she's all mine, there's no other way to go
She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible she's all mine, there's no other way to go

Simply irresistible

For once in her life, Michelle simply danced, not paying attention to the way her hips were swaying or how good it was, or her "Jell-O Jiggler" arms, as she called them. She sweated like a pig, ignoring a cat call of "Lose some weight!" that echoed here or there, and her surprised friends bopped around at her side. At the end of the song, everyone threw their arms into the air in unison, and then cheered like mad. Even the Doctor had been getting into it somewhat.

Michelle grinned at her friends, feeling superior. "See? I told you we could be as hot as the supermodels in that video if we wanted to be."