#diane bennett

[grimbunnies]

Chloe: I'm expected to eat yogurt? We have simoleons! Nope! I'm treating myself!

Chloe: "Hey! Meet me at Dina's in 30."

Steven: "Excuse me. I hope it's not too forward, but I'd love to photograph you! I saw you, and it struck me: Alienation from ourselves!"

Chloe: "Are you offering me a job?"

Steven: "Oh! Yes, I am! Of course! I always pay models..."

Chloe: "In that case... Give me a call sometime."

[ask-scraft-a-new-one]

(...I told you I have @ask-scrafty brainrot. Unless jazzy decides it is,this is not canon in ask- scrafty,but I like to think diane would love the little scraft-a-new-one shop. I will need practice my backgrounds)

[grimbunnies]

Minnie: “You’re—”

Diane: “Yes, I am Diane Bennett. Yes, you may shake my hand.”

Diane: “Are we done here?”

Minnie: “Well, I’d just love to pick your brain about—”

Diane: “Oh, no. I couldn’t possibly stand around on the side of the road conversing.”

Minnie: “You could come inside? I’ll make coffee.”

Diane: “Darling, I believe we have different definitions of what constitutes coffee. No, I’m afraid that simply won’t be possible. Au revoir!”

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(Ask-Scrafty)Diane@Patchwork: the Scrafty strolls in happily “Well hello there! What a lovely establishment you have here! Always nice to find new clothes places!” The Scrafty smiles softly “Might I ask what kind of fashion options you have here? I’m always looking for new things to try out!”

"as for fashion,I'm a fan of large flowing and graceful dresses,call me 'boring" but I also love pokemon designs. Each one is so unique and elegant that...I've actually drawn a few out. I'll show you,there...still in the process of being made."

"it could be inspired by altaria,but very loosely"

"this is a dress is obviously based on tentacruel. Though I was kinda going for sexy? Idk,its not terrible,it's comfy and looks cool,but its not my favorite..."

"This dress is still a spitball idea,but I really love it! I want people to tell it's who it's based of off. So I designed it very closely to miss koi's physique. Shout out to miss koi (from @maybe-mienshao )

"this is based off a frosmoth, just something about how simply yet elegant inspired me."

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Quinn’s Code - Geekery at the Mega-Mall Part 4

 Guy drove the car away from the gas station.

“You didn't have to fill the car up,” Guy said.

 Sandi turned to him “I want to get to the Mall of the Millennium as soon as possible, like with a minimum of delay. We have already been in rush hour traffic, like back in Baltimore!”

 “We still have plenty of time, Sandi,” Tori said.

 “But not as much as we could have had!” Sandi said.

 “I guess not,” Tori said.

 “Right,” Guy said, his eyes on the road. He saw a destination sign on the side of the road.

 Crossbro, 30 Mi

Crossbro, Delaware

Rob drove carefully as they approached the edge of the Mall of the Millennium's outer parking lots.

“It's going to take a while to find a parking spot and to walk in,” he said.

 “Of course,” Wolfgang said.

 “I know,” Quinn said.

 “I will park in the first one I find,” Rob said.

 “That would be best,” Quinn said.

 “I agree,” Wolfgang said.

 Xavier looked at the clock on the dashboard. It was 10:45. 'I has to be all that traffic in Baltimore. The radio didn't really help,' he thought.

 It took a while for Koichi to find a space.

  At 11:00 Sandi stalked ahead of the Fashion Club into the Mall of the Millennium's main entrance. “If you hadn't been late, Stacy, we would not have been, like, caught in Rush Hour traffic on the way through Baltimore!”

 “I said I was sorry!” Stacy said.

 Sandi glared at Stacy.

 “Eep!”

Guy sighed.

 “And if we hadn't needed more gas!” Sandi said to Guy.

 “I did say I'm sorry!” he said.

 Sandi just gave him a look of disapproval.

 Behind her, Tori shook her head.

  At 11:15 the Economics class had just entered the Mall and were already lost...

“We're in area B, section Pink, and we need to get to area C, section Orange. So, if we just bear right at area L, section Blue... oh, wait, sorry. Wrong level,” Mrs. Bennett said, trying to get the class out of the predicament.

Kevin noticed an interesting store. “Look, Mack Daddy! The Sports Shorts! A whole store full of shorts for sports!”

 “Uh-huh,” Mack said, too tired to try to tell Kevin to not call him by that nickname. 'Why doesn't he get it through his thick head already!'

 “Everyone, we'll walk down R Moss, and turn right at Q Canary. Please keep the flow, people, please keep the flow,” Mrs. Bennett said.

 “I could find the way if she’d let me have the map,” Jennifer whispered to Jane.

 “Maybe,” Jane said with a shrug.

 “Who would ever guess there'd be so many colors? The person who thought them all up must be a genius,” Brittany said.

 “Yeah, and we haven't even gotten to puke green yet,” Jane said. She glanced at Daria, who still looked queasy from the bus trip. “Oh, yeah.”

 “I hope we find the executives soon,” Jennifer said.

 “Why?” Daria asked.

 “So we can get out of this boredom,” Jennifer said.

 “Left at N Cranberry. Wait, is that cranberry or magenta? Jane, you're an artist,” Mrs. Bennett asked, unsure of the colors.

 “It's cranapple,” Jane said.

 'Very difficult to tell,' Mack thought.

 Charles Ruttheimer III, otherwise known as Upchuck, noticed a store that piqued his purient interest. “Mrs. B? Can we please stop for a minute at Bikini Island? I'd like to buy a few trifles for the ladies, and perhaps you'd care to pick out something for yourself?”

 “Not now, Charles. We'll be late for our meeting with the mall executives. I had to work very hard to arrange this. These are very important, very busy...” Mrs. Bennett trailed off as she was distracted by something that piqued her own interest.

 “What is it, Mrs. B?” Upchuck asked.

 Mrs. Bennet ran over to a store and looked in. “The Fuzzy Wuzzy Wee-Bit Shop! Herbert and I collect Fuzzy Wuzzy Wee Bits! Aren't they adorable? Look, a Fuzzy Wuzzy Wee Bits cactus! And look at that little bunny rabbit with its own Fuzzy Wuzzy carrot!”

 “Great!” Daria said.

  They soon found themselves in a conference room.

“...And of course, when you go to the mall, you look for what?” one of the mall executives asked the class.

 “Bikinis! Make that lovely, luscious, ladies in bikinis!” Upchuck said.

 'Of course he would say that!' Jennifer thought with a slight shake of her head.

 “I always look for security guards leading away someone in handcuffs. Shoplifters are the best judges of merchandise,” Jane said.

 “I agree. If it's so good that people want to steal it, I want it,” Jennifer said, quietly after exchanging a look with Jane.

 “I meant more along the line of the qualities you look for? The stores? What should they be like?” the executive asked, trying to get the conversation away from the topic of shoplifting.

 “I have a question. Do you think our demographic can really be addressed by middle-aged middle managers telling us what's fun to buy?” Jodie asked.

 The executives looked at each other. It was clear that they didn't expect a student with critical thinking skills to be on the field trip. One of them turned to Daria. “How about you? How many times a year do you go to the mall?”

 Daria looked annoyed. “That's none of your business. By the way, don't people usually get paid for participating in market research?”

 “Research?” the executive asked in a strangled voice.

 “Now, Daria, these busy executives have been nice enough to give their time to help educate us on mall economics,” Mrs. Bennett said. “Tell us about flow, would you?”

 Daria leaned between her two friends and pointed to where Brittany was still prancing and making cheer moves. “I bet that's a two-way mirror.”

 “Possibly,” Jennifer said.

 “You mean, if you turn out the lights you can see through it?” Jane asked as she reached back towards a light switch.

 Jennifer shrugged slightly.

 “Oh, you don't want to do that!” one of the executives said.

 Jane turned off the lights. The students could then see three observers through the glass wall. They murmured amongst themselves.

 “This is wrong!” Mack said.

 “The focus group is, um, a very important tool in mall management. We thought that with this live demonstration...” One of the executives began. He was interrupted by Jodie.

 “I feel used. I feel abused. I feel that this is not a fun mall after all and the media should be made aware of it!”

 The executive changed tack. “All right, little lady.” He reached into his pocket. “Here's a coupon for a free frozen yogurt.”

 “Don't insult me,” Jodie said with her arms crossed.

 The executive reached into his pocket again. “Make it a ten dollar merchandise coupon?”

  “You're still insulting her,” Jane said.

 One of the other executives held out two handfuls of coupons. “Okay, a twenty dollar merchandise coupon for everyone in the class.”

 “You don't get it. There's a principle involved,” Daria said.

 “No, there isn't,” Jodie said as she joined most of the other students.

 “So much for idealistic youth,” Jane said.

 “Yes, there is, damn it!” Daria said. She clenched her fists and moved towards the executives. She quickly found herself being held back by her two friends.

 “Whoa there, Daria, cool down!” Jane said.

 “Getting into a 'tussle' with the mall executives would not prove anything,” Jennifer said.

 Daria calmed down and sat.

 “How about a fifty dollar coupon for you, little lady?”

 “Don't insult me,” Daria said, repeating Jodie's line from earlier.

 The executive held out another coupon. “One hundred dollars, final offer.”

 “I'll take it,” Daria said.

 “What got into you?” Mrs. Bennett asked.

 “Integrity,” Daria said.

 “I suppose,” Mrs. Bennett said.

 “Good answer,” Jennifer said.

  After having looked through other stores, Quinn and her entourage finally found the Cuter Computer store.

“Finally,” she said.

 “There is a lot of stuff here,” Wolfgang said as he looked in.

 “Of course,” Quinn said.

 “What are you getting first?” Xavier asked.

 Quinn started walking to the software aisles. “Apparently they have Photoshop Elements 4 on sale,” she said.

 “But didn't that just come out this month?” Wolfgang asked.

 “Yes,” Quinn said.

  Quinn soon found it. “Here it is, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.” She saw that it was 10% off. She picked it up and handed the package to Wolfgang.

 “You are going to make us carry all the stuff?” he asked.

 “Of course not! I will carry some of it,” Quinn said.

 “Of course,” Wolfgang said.

  The sophomore economics students looked at the coupons that they had received.

 “Cuter Computer, for all things to do with computers. Aw, man!” Kevin said after looking at his coupon.

 “Books by the Ton. Interesting, maybe they have business-related stuff there,” Mack said after looking at his.

 Upchuck looked at his coupon “Incensory, for all your incense and related pagan worship needs! I don't have any use for this!”

 “Drat!” Andrea Hecuba said as she overheard Upchuck.

 “The Doo Dad Shop? What's a Doo Dad anyway?” Jane said.

 “Sports Shorts! I don't have any use for shorts for sports!” Daria said.

 “Scissor Wizard?” Jennifer said perplexed.

 “Probably a store full of scissors,” Jane said.

 “Such a store would be quite useless,” Jennifer said.

 “Daria, Jen and Jane, you'll observe traffic patterns at the food concessions, and Kevin and Brittany, you will study and report back on shrinkage,” Mrs. Bennett directed.

 “What's shrinkage?” Kevin asked.

 “Shrinkage is the retailing term for shoplifting. I'd like you to analyze its economic impact. Does everyone else understand their assignments?”

 The class murmured in assent.

 “Now, we'll meet back here at quarter to three. Remember, area F, section Moss, level three. Got it? F Moss Three.”

 Daria, Jane and Jennifer walked away as Mrs. Bennett and Kevin talked about a mnemonic device that he was going to use.

 “Where do we start?” Jennifer asked.

 “Scissor Wizard, I can actually use a new pair of scissors,” Jane said.

 “Of course,” Jennifer said.

  Back at Cuter Computer, Quinn and her entourage had gathered much software and hardware. “Have you got everything yet?” Xavier asked when a packet of 1 GB USB flash drives fell of the pile of stuff he was carrying. He put the pile aside and picked the packet up before hefting the pile again.

 “Almost,” Quinn said as she took a copy of Age of Empires III off the shelf.

 “Were going to need a trolley,” Wolfgang said.

 “We'll find the Walmart and borrow a trolley from there, after we're finished here,” Quinn said.

 “Great!” Xavier said.

  “Here it is, Angejarni,” Sandi said, having located the Fashion Label's store on D Moss 2.

 “Why are we here?” Stacy asked.

 “Sta-cy, Angejarni is, like heavily featured in Waif,” Sandi said.

 “Let's browse,” Tori said. Tiffany followed her in.

 “Come on Stacy,” Sandi said.

 Stacy sighed and followed Sandi into the store.

  Daria and her friends found Book by the Ton, which was larger than an usual outlet of that chain.

“That's a large bookstore!” Jane said.

 “Come on, I'd rather be here than anywhere else in the mall,” Daria said.

 “Sure,” Jennifer said. They went into the bookstore.

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Quinn’s Code - Geekery at the Mega Mall - Part 2

After school Quinn walked up to one of her fellow Computer Club members. “Um, Xavier? I'm wondering if you could drive me to the Mall of the Millennium on Friday?”

 Xavier Daldon thought for a moment. “Isn't that in southern Delaware?” he asked.

 “So?” Quinn asked. 'What's wrong with Delaware? At least it's not Texas...'

 “I will have to think about it,” he said.

 “You don't have to answer right away,” Quinn said.

 “I will give you my answer by Thursday night.”

 “Cool,” Quinn said.

  Jennifer drove Daria and Jane towards Jane's house.

“There's no way we can get out of this field trip, is there?” Jennifer asked.

 “No,” Jane said.

 Daria sighed. “I'm sure it won't work, but I will ask Mrs. Bennett tomorrow to call off the field trip,” Daria said.

 “I'm not sure that will work,” Jane said.

 “I'm going to ask anyway. I can be quite stubborn,” Daria said.

 “We've both seen that,” Jennifer murmured as she turned into the Lane's driveway.

Wednesday, October 27, 2005

Quinn entered the Programming Club meeting, followed by Wolfgang Shuhardt “I could drive you to the Mall of the Millennium, Quinn,” he said.

 “How did you know about that?” Quinn asked with surprise.

 “I was talking to Xavier in Computer Studies; he mentioned that you had asked if he would drive you there,” Wolfgang said.

 “Oh?” Quinn asked. 'He should really have not told Wolfgang,' she thought.

 “He said that he wasn't sure that he would go.”

 “If you can take me that would be great!” Quinn said.

 “I'll see if I can borrow my mother's car.”

 “You can get back to me by tomorrow night,” Quinn said. 'Cool,' she thought, hoping that Wolfgang's mother's car was something relatively new (or a classic like Jennifer's).

 “I hope I will be able to.”

  After school, Daria knocked on the faculty office door. The head history teacher, Mr. Anthony DeMartino, opened the door. “Ms. Morgendorffer, to what do I owe the pleasure?” he said.

 “Is Mrs. Bennett here?”

 “She is, I'll send her out.”

  Mrs. Bennett soon came out.

“What is it, Daria?” she asked.

 Why are we going on a field trip to the Mall of the Millennium?” Daria asked.

 “I stated the reasons in class,” Mrs. Bennett said.

 “Yes, but there are malls much closer,” Daria said.

 “Malls that you are familiar with, Daria. Take a chance, make a small mistake, but minimise the mess, we're going on the field trip.”

 Daria tried to argue.

“Is it the place of the school to preach the consumerism aspect of our culture?”

 “I don't know what you mean, Daria,” Mrs. Bennett said.

 “I mean what I said, Mrs. Bennett!” Daria said.

  “And so Mrs. Bennett wouldn't change her mind. The only way I can think of to make a real protest would be to blog about it,” Daria said as she and her two friends ate pizza at the Pizza King.

 “Absolutely,” Jane said.

 “But there would be no way for it to get on Slashdot. Although maybe Technorati,” Jennifer said quietly.

 “Somehow, I don't think it's meme-worthy enough,” Daria said.

 “So, we're going to the Mall of the Millennium. No big deal,” Jane said.

 “It just won't be enjoyable,” Daria said.

 “I agree with that,” Jennifer said as she took a bite of pizza.

  As Stacy went to bed she wondered what the trip to the Mall of the Millennium on Friday would be like. 'I hope Sandi will allow me to shop where I want!' she thought as she went to sleep.

   Thursday, October 28, 2005

Quinn entered Mr Fun's Games, Cafe and Internet 15 minutes after leaving school. “Quinn?” Koichi 'Rob' Robazaki asked.

 “Yeah?” Quinn asked.

 “I can take you to the Mall of the Millennium, Quinn,” Rob said.

 “How did you know about that?” Quinn asked, surprised. 'Does everyone know that I'm going to the Mall of the Millennium?'

 “Jenna told me,” Rob said.

 “I should have guessed,” Quinn said, knowing that Jenna and Rob were close. (How close, she wasn't sure.)

 “Yeah,” Rob said.

 “I'm still waiting to hear from a couple other people,” Quinn said.

 “Ok, who?” Rob asked.

 “You don't need to know,” Quinn said.

 “I don't?” Rob asked with a frown.

 “I will hear back from them tonight. I'll give you a call if I don't,” Quinn said.

 “That's cool,” Rob said as Quinn went towards one of the arcade machines.

  Later that night, Quinn waited for Wolfgang and/or Xavier to call whilst doing her homework.

The clock on her Windows PC changed to 10:00.

She stood up. “Ugh! I will have to call Rob, after all,” she said as she grabbed her cell phone.

 “Hi, is this Quinn?”

 “Yeah, Koichi?”

 “Yeah, Quinn?”

 “You can take me to the Mall of the Millennium tomorrow.”

 “That would be very good, Quinn.”

 “I would like to leave Lawndale by 8:30, so there will be plenty of time for shopping when we get there.”

 “That is ok. I usually leave home by 8:00, so I will be at your place by 8:15 at the latest,” Rob said.

 “Cool,” Quinn said.

 “I will see you in the morning,” Rob said.

 “See you then, bye,” Quinn said, and hung up. She then continued her homework.

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Quinn’s Code - Geekery at the Mega Mall - Part 1

Quinn's Code (A Daria AU)

Installment 4: Geekery at the Mega-Mall

Monday, October 25, 2005

“A hundred miles? To go to a mall? Dammit, there's a mall five minutes away!” Jake Morgendorffer ranted.

 “Sit down, dear. We're not going,” his wife, Helen, said, reassuringly.

 “Oh, oh!”

 “It's not a mall, it's a super mall! The Mall of the Millennium. Everything under one roof. I could spend days there...” their younger teen daughter, Quinn said.

 “If you play that John Lennon song backwards, it says, 'Imagine all the people, browsing in a mall.' Isn't that weird?” Quinn's older sister, Daria snarked.

 “It's too far away, Quinn, and you've done enough shopping for this quarter,” Helen said. 'All computers all the time. It's all I can do to tear her away from them!' she thought.

 “Mo-om! As a member of the Computer and Programming Clubs, I have to keep on top of the current trends in computer equipment. Some of that equipment is not available in Lawndale!”

 “Computer and Programming Clubs? Did you know that she was in those clubs, Helen?” Jake asked.

 “Yes, Jake.”

 “The Computer and Programming Clubs? I thought she was in the Anime Club.”

 “She is in that club too, Dad!” Daria said, not looking up from her plate of lasagne. 'She is definitely overachieving.’

 “Say, what do you think of this PDA?” Jake said, as he took his PDA out of his pocket.

 Quinn looked at it. “It's quite obsolete, Daddy. You may as well have a Newton,” she said with a slight nervous laugh. “Now, if you drive me to the Mall of the Millennium...”

 “No! We're not going to a mall outside the county,” Helen said.

 “How will I hold my head up in the Computer and Programming Clubs?” Quinn whined.

 “A traction pulley?” Daria snarked.

 Quinn turned to her sister. “Just because you're not interested in what's new and up-to-date!”

 “Oh, I'm interested. But why go a mere 100 miles away? I bet they have some fascinating malls in Japan for your tech-head and otaku needs!” Daria said.

 “Daria,” Helen said, trying to defuse the situation.

 “I wouldn't go that far,” Quinn said.

 “Japan? To go to a mall? Dammit!”

 “Sit down, dear. It was a joke,” Helen said.

 “Oh!” Jake said.

 Quinn ran out of the kitchen.

Quinn entered her room and slammed the door. “Damn it!”

 She opened her cellphone and called her friend Kristen Bell. She also noticed that Cindy Robinson-Brolsma was online in the Instant Messenger Screen on her main PC.

 She changed her online status from Busy to Annoyed.

 “Hi, Quinn, what's up?” Kristen asked.

 Cindyquill: Hi, what are you annoyed about?

 “I can't go to the Mall of the Millennium!”

 Geek_princess91: My parents won’t let me go to the Mall of the Millennium!

 Cindyquill: Oh?

 Geek_princess91: I want to get some equipment and software from the Cuter Computer store there. It's the closest store to Lawndale.

 “Why would you want to go there? It's quite large. Very easy to get lost.”

 Cindyquill: There are also Cuter Computer's in Pittsburgh and Richmond.

 “I guess so,” Quinn said, thinking. She didn't want to go into Pennsylvania or Virginia though. “I want to buy some stuff from a store there, that isn't available here.” 'And the rest of the chain is much further away!' she thought.

 Geek_princess91: I'm not sure.

 Cindyquill: If you can't go, you can't go.

 Geek_princess91: I would still like to go.

 “That would be either an Anime DVD or computer equipment, right?”

 Quinn began typing ‘Computer equipme’. She stopped. ‘Oops!’

 “Computer equipment. If it were a DVD I would get it from Amazon.”

 Cindyquill: Too bad Cuter Computer doesn't have an online store.

 “That is a good idea; I have been doing that with books for a while now. Too bad you can't get the equipment you want that way.”

 Geek_princess91: I have heard that they are going to set one up next year, but it wouldn't be quick enough.

 Cindyquill: Impatient?

 “Yeah.”

 Geek_princess91: Yeah, I like to keep up to date, to keep up with the latest equipment as it becomes available, you know.

 Cindyquill: I know

 “So there is a store in the Mall of the Millennium that sells equipment that's not generally available?”

 “Yeah.”

 Geek_princess91: I guess I may have to wait, but I don't have to like it!

 “What is this store called?”

 “Cuter Computer.”

 Cindyquill: True

 “And there aren't any closer?”

 “No, Cindy said that the next closest are in Richmond and Pittsburgh,” Quinn said with a slight giggle.

 Geek_princess91: I would still like to go.

 Cindyquill: I am sure you might find a way, just not too soon.

 Geek_princess91: Certainly.

   Tuesday, October 26, 2005

 “In economics, we call this flow. We have a scenario of supply and demand, where a new demand is created by a previous supply. Does everyone follow?” Lawndale High School Economics teacher Diane Bennett said as she tried to teach her sophomore class.

She paused to wait for responses.

“Can anyone give me a concrete representation of this abstract theory?”

There was a long pause. “Daria?” she finally asked.

 “If we're talking concrete, I'd have to go with that repository of human greed and debasement: the mall,” she said.

 Mrs. Bennett had an idea “Very good, Daria. The mall is a beautiful illustration of these economic principles. In fact, it would make for an excellent field trip.”

 “All right! Field trip!” Kevin Thompson said. “Where are we going, man?” he asked Daria.

 “The field.”

 “Cool!”

 “We'll visit the Mall of the Millennium. It's the perfect emblem of a modern day economic structure.”

 “Um, I think that's a really bad idea,” Daria said.

 “Don't be silly, Daria. It's your idea and it's perfect,” Mrs. Bennett said.

 'Her sarcasm is too much for all of the teachers at this school,' Jennifer Burns thought.

 “I second Daria. The mall is a dangerous influence on today's teens and the fluorescent lights give you seizures,” Jane Lane said.

 Jennifer smiled at Jane's sarcasm.

 “We'll take a vote. All in favor of a class trip to the mall this Friday instead of our usual surprise quiz?”

 Most of the class raised their hands.

 “All opposed?”

 Daria, Jane and Jennifer raised their hands.

 “This is great! Kevin and I love going to the mall during school,” Brittany said.

 Mrs. Bennett frowned.

 “I mean, between classes. I mean... what do I mean, babe?” Brittany said, trying to clarify.

 “I'm sorry, Mrs. Bennett. I can't go to the mall. I have a skin condition,” Daria said, trying to get out of the field trip.

 “What are you talking about, Daria?” Mrs. Bennett asked.

 “If I'm in an enclosed space for too long, I get hives,” Daria said.

 “But you're in an enclosed space now,” Mrs. Bennett said, seeing Daria's excuse for what it was.

 “Yes... and I'm really itchy.”

 “These hives get bad, Mrs. Bennett. I've seen them, they get really red!” Jane said.

 Jennifer nodded as support for Jane's assertion.

 Daria glared at her friends.

 “Just trying to help,” Jane said.

 Daria grumbled.

  At lunch the Fashion Club sat at one of the 'popular' tables.

“I have an idea, let's ditch school on Friday and go shopping, like, at that Mall of the Millennium,” Club President Sandi Griffin said.

 “Is that such a good idea, Sandi?” Stacy Rowe asked.

 Sandi glared at her.

 “Eep!”

 “She does have a point, Sandi. There is a quiz in Home Economics on Friday,” Vice President Tori Jericho said.

 “Precisely, like, this early in the year we can afford to miss it!” Sandi said.

 “I agree with Sand-di,” Tiffany Blum-Deckler said.

 Sandi smiled at Tiffany.

 “I guess one quiz won't matter. An opportunity like this won't come up every month,” Tori said.

 Stacy mumbled.

 “What did you say, Stacy?” Sandi asked.

 “I will go to the Mall of the Millennium with you!” Stacy said.

 “Excellent,” Sandi said.

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