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"Oh that sounds like fun!" I replied, shutting ainst it "Since we both have dates and all!" I smirked This was the first dance Piper had ever allowed a boy to take her to, and I couldn’t stop teasing her about Lincoln, it was impossible

"Actually all three of us have dates," Piper explained in a quick rush of words I barely understood

"Three?" I accused, rather than asked

Piper stuck her head in her locker for a second before popping back out with a bright s

"Come on, it will be so much fun! Plus it’s not like you have a whole lot of couture options in this one-horse town… and you desperately needaround the crowded high school halls as if they were a good indication of the lack of shopping in Mead

"Fine, although Oru the dance eeks away and I really didn’t have any options as far as dress shops went other than Oht about her opinion, I was helpless when it ca only as friends, I definitely wanted to avoid looking like a bad eighties movie

"It will be fun!" Piper practically deree

"It will be fun," I sighed, co for

"What will be fun?" Seth asked as he and Tristan joined us at the lockers

"We’re going shopping tonight in Omaha, we need to pick up our dresses for the dance in a couple weeks," I explained with ato tr-" Seth cut hilow at his alotten about During basketball season alaaotten about the extra training Jupiter wanted to squeeze in this weekend

Oops

I needed to figure out Jupiter later though; right now I needed to do soe control

"Go on a date!" I finished for Seth, placing my hand over osh, Seth, I’ as smoothly as I would have liked hih at his obvious inability to act but had to re back and forth between us like she had est headline of the year

"Stella, I was just kidding about finding a dress, you can go on your date with Seth and you and I can find a different night to go into town," Piper proet out ofwith Bree

"I have a better idea," Tristan piped up, sounding enthusiastic but his eyes were narrowed just the tiniest bit sending warning bells resounding in ht Lincoln and I can show Seth the big city while you girls shop and then we’ll meet up for dinner and ato convincefroet out of this one

"Seth is fro city before," I laughed nervously, trying unsuccessfully to get the subject dropped

"No, Tristan’s right! That does sound like fun!" Piper, for maybe the first tireed with the person she hated ed out ofa stick of lit dynamite "Piper, what about this scenario makes you think that it would be fun?"

"Fun" had just officially turned into a curse word

"What? You don’t want to hang out with your best friends and your boyfriend?" Tristan asked, his voice cutting like an accusation "You’re the one constantly going on and on about hoe just spent ether ould learn to like each other" His pointer finger flicked back and forth between hi her head excitedly

"Seth is not my boyfriend," I explained too quickly and then forcedthe confusion flash in Seth’s eyes "Ion a date tonight," Tristan reht," I echoed in a tiny voice

"So it’s settled!" Piper squealed "Triple date in the city!"