Sweet Valley High, Almost Married

Liz and Todd are kissing in the car and Todd says something needs to be done about her curfew. She says her parents will be out of town that weekend. Todd suggests he could move in with her for a short time but she has her doubts.

Lila plans to go to a concert with a certain guy. Jessica buys concert tickets from Winston, though, and she plans to steal the guy from Lila.

Todd is now in the house and Jessica says she won't tell their parents about him if she can throw a party the next night. Anyone else see a disaster in the making? She also wants the credit card the parents left them in order to buy a new dress. Then there's some background music playing from the soundtrack.

Liz and Todd go to the grocery store which is a cute section of the episode. They don't have enough money on them, though, and they hold up the line. There's more background music from the soundtrack. Todd cooks dinner and it's clear he has no chance at becoming a chef. Then they find out their tastes in television definitely differ.

The fun continues during the night when he wakes up, dribbles a basketball on the floor and drinks milk from an open carton. Elizabeth comes down more asleep than awake, gives him a cup for the milk and takes his basketball away.

Jessica tells Lila it's to be a small party so after the phone call ends Lila starts handing out flyrers about the 'big party' that night. Todd gets made at Liz since she thru out the sports page from the newspaper after wrapping coffee grounds in it. Jess tells Todd off.

>Later Jess shows Liz her new dress which only cost $200.

The party gets under way. Winston pulls a stunt and karma bits Jess big as he causes a whole bunch of salad dressing or something like that to end up smushed into her $200 dress. Jess's normal pattern, covered earlier in the episode, is to buy a dress, wear it one night and return it the next day to keep her parents from complaining about charges on their credit card.

Things get worse quickly the next morning when Todd and Liz argue and Jess says the damage to the dress falls on Liz since she was the one in charge of the credit card.

Jess had told Liz to think more like her so Liz and Todd do that, taking the two concert tickets from Jess without her knowing and selling them to pay off the credit card charge for the dress. Worse yet Liz had sold the tickets to Lila who ends up with the guy Jess tried to steal at the start of the episode.

It gets worse for Jess as Winston shows up with two tickets to the concert. Jess takes the tickets but refuses to go with him. He takes off and because their family car is out of gas Jess starts running after Winston to go to the concert with him anyway. Todd and Liz make up.