#84: Dawn and the School Spirit War, part 5
This isn't as long as I thought it'd be. It turns out that not a lot happens in the last three chapters.
Chapter 13: Groundbreaking party at the Barrett-DeWitts' place. Kristy and Jessi are babysitting. I don't quite know why they need a sitter, since the parents are there, but this is Stoneybrook, where not a goddamn thing makes sense, so whatever.
The Pikes show up as guests, even Mallory. Despite not wanting to be around Jessi. I don't get it, but again, I'm just going with it from here on out.
Apparently Kristy, Jessi, and Mal (who of course ends up hanging out with the little kids playing games and shit instead of taking the time to chill out and have fun) aren't even getting paid for this. Or maybe Kristy just means that they should be getting paid for watching all the kids of all the families at the party, instead of just the kids who belong to the host family. Well it's not like you're REQUIRED to look after them, you know. The Braddocks, the Hills, the Hobarts and the Newtons are among the families in attendance. Have we heard about any of these families even knowing the Barretts? The Pikes makes sense, because they'd been neighbors forever.
The kids are acting weird but won't say what's up. They of course wait until Franklin is about to dig the ceremonial first shovelful of dirt (is...is this normal? I don't go to a lot of groundbreakings, so I don't really know.) to dramatically shout at them to stop. Turns out they want one bedroom for the girls, one for the boys, and not all the extras their parents have in the plans. Ugh, why?! Even if you don't make use of them now, the kids are going to want them once puberty hits and they don't want their little sisters listening in on their phone calls or their little brothers knowing how much time they spend jacking off. But, this is Stoneybrook, so they agree to change their plans to suit the kids' whims. And everyone is happy. Though they're still building two small rooms for Ryan and Marnie, so I guess the babies' old room and the other old bedrooms could be reverted to bedrooms once the other kids get older. And they're adding two extra bathrooms. I say add more than that. I'm an only child and one bathroom was never enough. Add as many as will fit!
Chapter 14: Spirit Month has been canceled, but no one is rebelling. Everyone is just being quiet and mopey about the whole thing. Okay. Stoneybrook. I'm not questioning anything. NOW Dawn feels bad about ruining other peoples' fun. Oh, shut up, Dawn. Mary Anne and Logan are fighting because he thinks she doesn't care about the baseball team. In fairness, she probably doesn't care all that much. Dawn, of course, butts in on their conversation, and it takes her about a page to realize that she really shouldn't. Sigh.
Dawn and Mary Anne are now realizing that they didn't want Spirit Month to be canceled, they just wanted participation to be voluntary. What kind of weird-ass school has mandatory Spirit Days? Hell, SMS didn't - no one got in actual trouble for not participating. It was just another case of SMS faculty not really wanting to bother with the students' complaints. Though I suppose if they had just talked to the principal instead of letting all this go on until it got completely out of hand - oh, right. Stoneybrook. Never mind.
Not much else happens besides Dawn and MA writing up a proposal.
Chapter 15: They were successful. Because no one ever fails in Stoneybrook. Mary Anne cries at the big game because they won. Again, no one ever fails in Stoneybrook. We get a quick recap of Pajama Day, in which Alan Gray wore Batman pajamas (awesome) and three kids dressed as babies, complete with cardboard cribs around themselves. I thought this was Pajama Day, not Fetish Day.
...fuck. Now I'm starting to envision Fetish Day. Why do I do these things to myself?
So yeah, now everything is back to awesome. The end. Seriously, this chapter is four pages long. That's all I've got. See you next time, and thanks for reading!
Chapter 13: Groundbreaking party at the Barrett-DeWitts' place. Kristy and Jessi are babysitting. I don't quite know why they need a sitter, since the parents are there, but this is Stoneybrook, where not a goddamn thing makes sense, so whatever.
The Pikes show up as guests, even Mallory. Despite not wanting to be around Jessi. I don't get it, but again, I'm just going with it from here on out.
Apparently Kristy, Jessi, and Mal (who of course ends up hanging out with the little kids playing games and shit instead of taking the time to chill out and have fun) aren't even getting paid for this. Or maybe Kristy just means that they should be getting paid for watching all the kids of all the families at the party, instead of just the kids who belong to the host family. Well it's not like you're REQUIRED to look after them, you know. The Braddocks, the Hills, the Hobarts and the Newtons are among the families in attendance. Have we heard about any of these families even knowing the Barretts? The Pikes makes sense, because they'd been neighbors forever.
The kids are acting weird but won't say what's up. They of course wait until Franklin is about to dig the ceremonial first shovelful of dirt (is...is this normal? I don't go to a lot of groundbreakings, so I don't really know.) to dramatically shout at them to stop. Turns out they want one bedroom for the girls, one for the boys, and not all the extras their parents have in the plans. Ugh, why?! Even if you don't make use of them now, the kids are going to want them once puberty hits and they don't want their little sisters listening in on their phone calls or their little brothers knowing how much time they spend jacking off. But, this is Stoneybrook, so they agree to change their plans to suit the kids' whims. And everyone is happy. Though they're still building two small rooms for Ryan and Marnie, so I guess the babies' old room and the other old bedrooms could be reverted to bedrooms once the other kids get older. And they're adding two extra bathrooms. I say add more than that. I'm an only child and one bathroom was never enough. Add as many as will fit!
Chapter 14: Spirit Month has been canceled, but no one is rebelling. Everyone is just being quiet and mopey about the whole thing. Okay. Stoneybrook. I'm not questioning anything. NOW Dawn feels bad about ruining other peoples' fun. Oh, shut up, Dawn. Mary Anne and Logan are fighting because he thinks she doesn't care about the baseball team. In fairness, she probably doesn't care all that much. Dawn, of course, butts in on their conversation, and it takes her about a page to realize that she really shouldn't. Sigh.
Dawn and Mary Anne are now realizing that they didn't want Spirit Month to be canceled, they just wanted participation to be voluntary. What kind of weird-ass school has mandatory Spirit Days? Hell, SMS didn't - no one got in actual trouble for not participating. It was just another case of SMS faculty not really wanting to bother with the students' complaints. Though I suppose if they had just talked to the principal instead of letting all this go on until it got completely out of hand - oh, right. Stoneybrook. Never mind.
Not much else happens besides Dawn and MA writing up a proposal.
Chapter 15: They were successful. Because no one ever fails in Stoneybrook. Mary Anne cries at the big game because they won. Again, no one ever fails in Stoneybrook. We get a quick recap of Pajama Day, in which Alan Gray wore Batman pajamas (awesome) and three kids dressed as babies, complete with cardboard cribs around themselves. I thought this was Pajama Day, not Fetish Day.
...fuck. Now I'm starting to envision Fetish Day. Why do I do these things to myself?
So yeah, now everything is back to awesome. The end. Seriously, this chapter is four pages long. That's all I've got. See you next time, and thanks for reading!