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Daria and Jennifer walked up the Hecuba's front path. Jennifer then rang the door bell. “I admit, it does look slightly creepy,” Daria admitted.

“The outside is nothing compared to the inside, particularly the upper story,” Jennifer said quietly.

“Almost done,” Quinn said.

Andrea looked over Quinn's shoulder at the code. “Very good, Quinn,” she said.

The doorbell rang.

“I'll be right back,” she said with slight irritation.

“Ok,” Quinn said.


Andrea opened the door. “Who are you?” she asked, looking at Daria.

“Daria Morgendorffer, Quinn's sister. I'm in some of your classes,” she said. 'She is quite bruesque, isn't she?' she thoguht.

“You know me,” Jennifer said, her voice barely above a whisper.

“You're Quinn's ride?” Andrea asked.

“Yes,” Jennifer said.

“Oh, come right in,” Andrea said. “You can wait here, or you can come up to my room.”

“I'll go up,” Daria said.

“I will too,” Jennifer said, with a shudder. 'I wouldn't stay down here alone if you paid me a hundred bucks!' she thought, she stayed close behind Daria.


“Done, and ready to run,” Quinn said. She then Daria and Jennifer follow Andrea into the room. “Dar-i-a! Do you have to ruin everything?” she asked.

Andrea raised an eyebrow. 'Hyperbole much?' she thought.

“Just hitching a ride with Jennifer. It seems you are too,” Daria said.

Quinn looked at Jennifer. “Thanks,” she said. She then turned to Andrea. “I'm ready.”

“Cool. Then run it,” Andrea said.

340 Run
A kaleidoscope of colour erupted across the monitor.


“Very good, Quinn. You get an A for BASIC,” Andrea said.

“Yes!” Quinn said, jumping.

“Be sure to be here tomorrow for C++ before 4:00,” Andrea said.

Quinn looked nervous “Um, could we do VBScript tomorrow?” she asked.

“No, VBScript on Thursday. C++ tomorrow,” Andrea stated.


“Where is the car?” Quinn asked as she, Daria and Jennifer got off the Hecuba's front porch.

“There,” Jennifer said, pointing to her car.

“A Beetle!” Quinn exclaimed. 'That is not good taste, and I don't get the 'it's not a car, its a time machine' argument.'

“What's wrong with that?” Jennifer asked.

“It's old!” Quinn said.

“It was all I could afford,” Jennifer said.

“Sorry,” Quinn said, as she came up to said VW. 'I change my mind. She could have gotten something much worse,' she thought.

“Apology accepted. Where to?” Jennifer said, as she started the engine.

“1111 Glen Oaks Lane,” Daria said.

“Actually, we need to stop by the Mall. I need to get a book on C++,” Quinn said.

“What about the internet?” Daria asked.

“Dar-i-a! There is only so much help Google or Wikipedia can give a person! A book is so much easier,” Quinn said.

“Ok, but straight in and straight out, and the Books by the Ton had better have a book on C++!” Daria said.

“Ok, the Mall and then Glen Oaks Lane,” Jennifer said as she pulled away from the curb.


The Morgendorffer sisters and Jennifer returned to the latter's car laden with books.

“So we spent more time in the book store than expected, so what?” Quinn asked.

“Partially my fault anyway. The stores in Highland were never as well stocked as this one. I got this really good book on the life of Mozart,” Daria said.

“At least I got the book on C++. What about you, Jennifer?”

“A book on Dungeons and Dragons and a Bruce Stirling Cyberpunk book,” Jennifer said, as she opened the door.


Helen dashed outside when she saw the Beetle pull into the driveway behind her SUV.

“Daria! I've been waiting for you to get home since 4:30!” she said, as she came up to the passenger side of the Beetle.

“Hi Mom. I've been making a couple of friends,” Daria said.

“Hi Mom,” Quinn said, as she got out.

“This is unusual. The two of you taking the same route home after school?” Helen said.

“Hi, Mrs. Morgendorffer. I offered both of them a lift,” Jennifer said as she got out.

Helen scrutinized Jennifer for a second before turning her attention to Quinn. “I don't see you waiting after school whilst Daria was in the Self Esteem Class,” she said.

“Actually I was at the creepy house when Jennifer and Daria came around,” Quinn said with a nervous laugh.

“I'm the Vice President of the Computer Club and I'm also in the Self Esteem Class,” Jennifer said, remembering what Quinn had said about her mother on the way to the Mall.

“So, you're that Jennifer. I see. Anyway it's nice for Daria to finally have a friend,” Helen said.


“Mom, why were you home so early?” Daria asked as she entered the kitchen.

“I took the rest of the day off to work with you on your self-esteem,” Helen said.

“Mom, I'm in the care of experts. Any meddling by an amateur could be dangerous.”

“I don't pretend I'm going to cure you, but if a lack of mother-daughter bonding is part of your problem, we were going to remedy that this afternoon.”

“Oh. But you were also praising the fact that I made a couple of friends this afternoon,” Daria said.

“I suppose that would also help. But tomorrow afternoon we're going to the Mall together,” Helen said.

'Uh, oh,' Daria thought.



Excerpt from the Diary of Alexandra Joy 'Sandi' Griffin (September 21, 2005)
I confronted that Morgangeeker at Lunch. But, like, it backfired! The group of people hanging around her all backed her up! Like at least a quarter of the more popular freshmen are now against me! I heard whispers in class afterwards...


Sandi closed her diary and began to think of a plan. A plan on how to destroy Quinn's popularity...

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