“Best Behavior” 3.31.2000

“False face must hide what false heart doth know.” – William Shakespeare
Summary written by: Ly

The cliffhanger girls are reading their incoming mail and chatting about their mail. Ezra is waiting to see his parents who haven’t been getting along for awhile now. He’s nervous about seeing his parents obviously. Ezra and Peter have a little talk about his parents before they show up hand in hand.

Juliette starts to go crazy about her mother’s upcoming wedding. She starts to take picture of herself in the dorm as the other cliffhanger girls watch in awe. Ezra has a little meeting with his parents and Peter. Peter asks Ezra’s parents to join them in group. Jules tells Auggie about her mother’s wedding and asks her if when they’re going. Juliette then realized her mother didn’t send her an invitation to begin with.

Ezra introduces Daisy to his parents. He can’t seem to believe how well his parents are getting along. Shelby is assigned to do pots with Scott. Unfortunately, she isn’t very up to it. Scott and Shelby share some small talk about Ezra and his parents. Scott then pops the question on what Shelby’s family is like. He then asks to get together and hang out and talk, but she turns down the offer and says she has homework to do. Scott being the persistent person that he is asks for the next day. Shelby gives in and agrees.

Peter tells Sophie that they should get to know each other better. Sophie agrees and tells him to ask her a question. He responds by asking her out to dinner sometime. She responded by saying she’ll think about it. Jules receives a phone call from her mother, finding out that her mother didn’t invite her to the wedding. Auggie tries to comfort her noticing that she is obviously hurt by what she had just found out.

The cliffhangers are eating at a table talking about what’s been going on around lately. Ezra brings up if Kat is okay with the fact that she’s has laundry duty for the joke she made about Peter. She replies that she’s okay but no thanks to him. He told her that he tried to tell her that Peter was behind her by doing his eyebrows but she says that he does it all the time. The rest of the cliffhangers ask her what the joke was. While she was telling the joke, Peter started to walk up to their table. Ezra started to signal with his eyebrows again. She told him to stop it already and before she could finish she heard Peter’s voice telling her to not tell jokes about other people.

The cliffhangers climb down the fake wall. Scott helps Shelby with her line as Jules watch without checking her own. As they climb down the wall, Jules starts to make little comments to everyone. Here’s her conversation with Scott. Jules: Hey
Scott: Hey
Jules: It’s good to sweat doesn’t it?
Scott: No.
Jules: I can make you sweat and like it.
Scott: What? You dumped me remember?
Jules: That was before, now the answer is yes for anything.
Scott: Now you just making me glad that you dumped me.
Jules: You’d rather be with a skank?
Scott: She’s not a skank, she’s a woman, and she’s my friend. Three things I can no longer say about you.
Everyone starts to find Jules to be acting really weird.

As Scott and Shelby clean up their stuff to put in the trunk. Shelby asked about Jules. Here’s what went on with their conversation.
Shelby: So what was skinny’s wrap all about?
Scott: I don’t know. She’s clueless. The entire time we were together, she never told me one thing about herself. I don’t even know what landed her here. Except for that whole barfing thing.
Shelby: She killed a guy in prison.
Scott: So are we gonna get together tonight?
Shelby: Uh, tonight’s not good
Scott: Aite, so what about tomorrow night?
Shelby: Yeah
Scott: Down by the docks after last light?
Shelby: Cool... the docks
Scott: Don’t forget, you promised.
After they finished talking, Daisy looks at a far at Shelby. Daisy then comments that Shelby is hiding something and it’s eating up all her energy.

Ezra’s dad tells Ezra to come to dinner with them. He also suggests that Ezra invite Daisy if he’d like. Ezra walks away with a smile. As his parents see him out of sight, they dropped the act and start arguing again. Kat is doing laundry and finds a shirt stained with blood, she walks back into the dorms and demands to see Jules arm. As she does she rips the sleeve of Jules shirt to find a cut on her arm. Kat who looks worried asks Jules why would do such a thing. Kat runs to inform Peter and Sophie on what has been going on.

As Ezra and Daisy share dinner with his parents, they find out that Ezra’s parents were just faking that they were getting along for his sake. However, when he found out the truth he was so upset he got up and left. Sophie has a little talk with Jules that causes Jules to make the wrong decision and run away with Auggie. Ezra who is obviously upset with his parents decides to huff some household cleaning products in the supply room and gets sent to the hospital.

Shelby and Daisy share a moment in the laundry room. They begin to understand from each other. It is at this moment that they become better friends. Shelby asks Daisy what she was hiding from and she replied by saying, “Life.” Daisy then asks Shelby why she was there and she replied the same reason. Shelby then tells Daisy that Scott had told him his life secret and now he wants to know about hers and she just isn’t ready to yet. Scott on the other hand is waiting by the docks for Shelby. Disappointed he waits as she never shows up.

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