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"Colleen telephone!", Colleens mother called up the stairs; Colleen came running and she was handed the phone in the hallway.

"Hello?", she said "Colleen! you need to come here quick the drapes and the squares are about to rumble", said the voice of Colleens wishy, washy friend Shirley. Shirley was her friend when she wanted something, like help with homework, or to cheat on a test. "Why would I want to go see somebody fight each other?", said Colleen.

"Why...why really are you that loopy, cause anybody who's anybody is going to be there, and if your not, well your not cool or hip so you have to come. You don't have to fight, you can sit on the sidelines and watch like I am", said Shirley.

Colleen sighed it was these kind of things that reeled her in and got her in trouble but she didn't want to be the only un-hip kid at school, "All right where is it?", she asked.

After another five minute conversation with Shirley Colleen was on her way she told her mother and her father as he pulled in to the drive way that she was going to a friends house to study for a big test. An excuse that Colleen had used many times before and her parents haven't had a reason to not believe her. When she met up with Shirley at the end of the block the girls quickly, jogged to where they were going. Colleen was surprised it was the same lot she had passed that afternoon coming home from school. "Shirley nothings going on her I just passed it a couple of hours ago", she said as stood against a picked fence across the street. "No , Amy told me and Mary told her, and Lisa told her that there was going to be a rumble here", said Shirley.

"Well did you notice Amy, Mary and Lisa aren't here", said Colleen giving an sarcastic look at Shirley; she sighed and sat down leaning against the fence. "Well I guess we can stick around for a little while but, I'll have to go home before it gets to late Shirley", said Colleen. She smiled as she watched Duncan and the others, she never really understood whats so bad about the Drapes any way.