Candy visits the Sunset Art Institute in an attempt to cheer herself up and scope out the new renovations as a possible location for a retirement party. While Spencer reluctantly invites over a classmate that Spencer feels is less than sincere about his motives.
2. During her morning cleaning, Sarah realizes that she never got
around to washing last night’s dinner dishes. She is very
embarrassed about this mistake and must remind herself to
apologize to Candy later.
3. Gwendolyn has to pull herself away from the piano when she hears
the horn of the school bus.
4. Spencer joins her in walking towards the bus. Now that Gwendolyn
is a teen, she and Spencer maintain a peaceful yet distant
relationship. Neither is sure if they will ever have a real brother-
sister bond.
5. Candy leaves work just before noon feeling out of sorts. There has
to be something that will cheer her up today.
6. She hops in her car and decides to visit the Sunset Institute of
Modern Art; one of the few places she’s never visited while living
here in Sunset Valley.
7. The Art Institute has just added a musical performance room with a
bar and mixologist. Candy would like to check it out as a possible
location for a retirement party.
8. Candy walks up the stairs and is immediately impressed with the
high level of art on display in the museum.
9. She checks out a globe made entirely from paper mâché
and twigs.
11. “I didn’t even come here to see the art,” Candy says, “I came to see
the music room, but I’m impressed by the level of talent on display
here.”
12. Candy ends her conversation and walks into the music room where there
is a stage set up with a piano and a bass guitar. She walks up on stage to
give the bass guitar a try. “I like this,” she says to herself after trying out a
few notes.
13. Playing this bass guitar is the only thing that brightens Candy’s
mood. “I’m going to have to buy one of these,” she thinks aloud.
Candy just may have found a new love.
14. Next, Candy walks over to the bar. Because this is not a nightclub,
the mixologist only serves one type of drink, The Spline Reticulator,
so that she what she orders.
15. While Candy is ordering a drink at the bar, Gwendolyn and Spencer
leave school for the day. Spencer’s classmate Lydell asks Spencer
for help with his studies afterschool.
16. Spencer invites Lydell over, but with reluctance because not only is Lydell
a trouble maker, but Spencer believes that Lydell has ulterior motives for
wanting to visit the Pratt home. Gwendolyn is thrilled, because Lydell is the
only kid in school that has shown any interest in getting to know her.
17. Spencer’s suspicion is confirmed when they get on the bus and
Lydell sits next to Gwendolyn rather than coming to sit near him.
18. Spencer eyes Lydell with doubt. “I just don’t trust that kid,” he
thinks to himself.
19. “I’ll be sure to keep my eye on him,” Spencer mumbles out of
earshot of Lydell and Gwendolyn.
20. Gwendolyn on the other hand is not suspicious. She’s thrilled to finally
have someone who’s interested in being her friend. So what if Lydell
spends more time in the dean’s office than in class and hangs out with a
bunch of misfits and outcasts. All she cares about is that he is giving her
attention and just being next to him gives her funny feelings from her
stomach all the way down to her toes. She likes him.
