After five minutes, Daria and Quinn came to an agreement. “Here's the deal; I will do most of Daria's hores for a month, She gets an additional 20 megabytes a month and we will take her, Jane and Jennifer back to Lawndale with us,” Quinn said.
“It'll be a tight squeeze, but we can manage it,” Koichi said. He looked at the equipment. “Even with the equipment.”
“Has to be better than the bus,” Jane said.
Jennifer gave a small smile.
“I certainly won't get sick,” Daria said.
However, there was trouble. “Well, well. If it isn't like, the Geekendorffer!” Sandi said as she approached, with the rest of the Fashion Club behind her.
“Of course she would be here!” Quinn said. “Murphy's Law and all.”
“Uh, oh!” Jennifer said, remembering the happenings at the coffee house.
“I see you skipped school too!” Sandi said.
“Only for today,” Quinn said with a hard edge to her voice.
Sandi looked at the trolley filled with equipment. “Only you would like, go to a Mega-Mall for computer equipment,” she said.
“I'm sure others would!” Quinn said in retaliation.
Sandi stepped closer to Quinn. “No they wouldn't!” Sandi said.
“I would,” Jennifer said.
“What did, like, Burnout Girl, say?” Sandi asked.
Jane stepped back, knowling what would happen next. So did Tori, and Stacy ran off to a nearby table.
“I hate that name!” Jennifer exclaimed.
“She said that she would also go to a Mega-mall for computer equipment,” Jane said.
“None of your business anyway,” Daria said.
“Whatever!” Sandi said. She turned her attention back to Quinn “Now, Geekendorffer, tell me why you think that you can be popular!”
Quinn glared at Sandi “You already know that. My whole side of the debate at the Coffee House!”
Sandi stared at Quinn.
Quinn stared back.
“This is going nowhere,” Tori said with some exhasperation.
“Oh really, then perhaps you can ask her, as President of the Fashion Club!”
“No Sandi, I wouldn't replace you, but this confrontation is going nowhere,” Tori said.
Jennifer timidly moved beside Quinn in a show of support. Wolfgang also moved next to her.
Sandi glared at Jennifer, who, after a few seconds, ducked behind Quinn.
Jane quickly replaced her. 'You are not getting away with what you're attempting,' Jane thought as she added to Quinn and Wolfgang's stares upon Sandi.
A few minutes later Sandi and the rest of the Fashion Club left the food court. “Why are weee leaving?” Tiffany asked.
“After failing to make the Geekendorffer see sense, I like, decided to leave, and try again at a different time,” Sandi said.
“That's not what I remember,” Stacy said. Sandi glared at her. “Eep!”
'She's right, Sandi!' Tori thought.
“But I'm still hungry,” Tiffany said.
“Tiffany, dear, one good thing about a Mall the size of this one is that there are like, multiple food courts,” Sandi said.
“O-oh.”
'Thank goodness,' Stacy thought.
“That was strange,” Jennifer said as she watched the Fashion Club and Guy leave.
“Don't worry about it,” Daria said.
Jane turned to Quinn. “Where do we meet before we leave?” she asked.
“D Lavender Five, it's close to the secondary entrance,” Quinn said.
“You got that?” Daria asked.
“There's nothing to it,” Jane said.
“Easy to remember,” Jennifer said.
The two groups then got their lunch before going their separate ways.
Quinn reflected on the situation. 'Why is it that, Sandi has to oppose the notion of a geek like me being popular so stridently?' She had thought about it quite a lot since the opening night of the Coffee House. She hadn't come to any conclusion. One thing was certain, she and Sandi were likely to remain enemies for the rest of their high school years...
She also thought about the situation with Daria. Their relationship seemed to be getting better, Jane and Jennifer having a positive influence. Their discussion/argument about the terms of her silence of the matter of her having skipped school may have been longer even a couple of weeks before.
“What's up, Quinn?” Wolfgang asked as he finished his burger.
“Just thinking about what just happened,” Quinn said as she sipped her diet soda.
“You mean with Sandi?”
Quinn nodded.
“She'll get over it,” Wolfgang said.
“I'm not sure she will,” Quinn said.
“Eventually,” Wolfgang said.
Daria, Jane and Jennifer soon found the Doo Dad shop. “What is this stuff?” Jane asked, looking at the contents of the store in dismay.
“Who would buy such crappy, useless junk?” Daria asked.
“It definitely looks that way,” Jennifer said.
“Then this coupon is useless!” Jane said.
Kevin and Brittany then came out of the store. Kevin was singing Hundred bottles of beer on the wall.
“Did you see the cute little thingy with the cute thingy?” Brittany asked.
“I got it for you, babe.”
“Oh, Kev, this is the first cute thingy that you've bought me since... wait... you didn't steal this, did you?” Brittany asked.
“It was shrinkage, babe!” Kevin said.
“Oo-ooh!” Brittany dragged her boyfriend back into the store.
Jennifer, Jane and Daria then entered the store. As Jane entered a bell went off. The staff rushed up to her. “When your feeling bad or mad or sad, buy a doo dad! You'll feel glad! It's not too sad, to buy a doo dad, today!”
Jennifer glared at the staff.
“What are you doing to our friend?” Daria asked.
One of the staff gave Jane an armfull of merchandise. “You're our lucky ten-thousandth customer. All these doo dads are yours for free!”
Jane glared at him.
“Don't you get it? You're our winner!” the staff member said.
“I get it, but I don't want this stuff. What is it for anyway?” Jane said.
“You collect it,” the staff member said. The other staff members gathered around them, and a photographer took a photo of the group.
“Look, I came here because I got a twenty dollar coupon, but since I got accosted by the staff, I'm just going to leave it on the counter and leave!” Jane said.
“Why didn't you say so?” one of the staff said. She immediately piled additional 'doo dads' on the pile that Jane already held.
“Look! I'm not leaving with either this stuff or the coupon,” Jane said.
“Neither am I,” Daria said when the staff turned to her.
“Nor I,” Jennifer said.
One of the staff went behind the counter. “Here is a twenty in exchange for the coupon,” she said.
Jane dumped the pile of 'Doo-Dads' on the counter alongside the coupon, grabbed the twenty and dashed out of the store.
Daria and Jennifer quickly followed her.
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