Season One Episode Five

The fifth episode covers the friendship breakup, reconciliation, and second breakup of Patina Le Chien and Taylor Price.

## Main Plot

The episode opens with Daphne coming home from the hospital where she was recovering from a cystic fibrosis related infection. She's greeted by her brother Dexter and friends Cassio and Patina.

The next day in film class, Mr. Beltran assigns the class to an editing project. Usually, Patina would be paired with Ollie Mansfield, but he's late. Instead, she'll be paired with her former best friend, now enemy, Taylor Price. Taylor and Patina have known each other since they were kids, and participated in cheerleading together. They hung out almost every day after school, until Taylor stopped going to cheerleading one day and moved to boarding school, without even saying goodbye. When she came back from boarding school and enrolled in Crumplebottom Academy, she not only had no friends but also an enemy in Patina.

After school, Patina goes over to Taylor's house to work on their project. Patina notices that Taylor's room looks different than the last time she visited. She got rid of her cheerleading awards and pictures of the team. They talk about the old show they used to watch together, Shicka Zicka Soom, and decide to edit it into a horror movie for their project. As they reminisce, Taylor comes out and asks Patina why she stopped texting her. Patina says she thought Taylor stopped texting *her*. They decide that their whole feud is silly, and to be friends like they were before.

The next day at lunch, Taylor sits at Patina's table. Patina's friend Genevieve is confused why Taylor is sitting with them. She heard awful things about her, including that her dad cheated on her mom with Evelyn Kwon. Taylor finally realizes why her classmates were so cold towards her. Patina was spreading rumors and lies about Taylor! Taylor decides she doesn't want to be friends with Patina after all.

On Friday night, Patina is at Genevieve's party when she texts Taylor. Taylor doesn't hear her text, though, because she's at a concert! She snuck into the Bananas Blasters show on the roof of SimTunes music store!

## Subplots

Ollie Mansfield arrives late to film class earning him a detention. He's not usually late, but he was up all night working on a script for the musical. While in detention, he meets Holland Bollinger. He can tell it's her first detention because she's not checking her phone. Holland has detention for defacing Genevieve Diaz's campaign posters in Season One, Episode Four. Ollie shows Holland the play he's researching, Where's Bella, as inspiration for his own Bella Goth themed musical. Holland is thrilled, as an avid Bella Goth and true crime fan herself. They share their theories on the Nina and Dina Caliente conspiracies. Ollie is impressed with her knowledge and asks her to fact-check his play outline.

When he gets home, Holland emailed him with notes on his outline and also provided some advice around his story! The next day, Dora catches some vibes between Ollie and Holland. Holland assures her that it's a professional relationship only. She's just interested in his play. However, during spa night, Holland admits she might have a crush on Ollie.

Alaska Kassabian heads to the Roost Bookstore in search for the new Henry Puffer novel. She asks Ben Fair, an eighth grader who works at the book store, for help finding the book, but they don't have it. Ben also chastises her for reading young adult books. After school, she visits Roost Bookstore again, and Ben apologizes for being rude. She explains to him that she wants to be a young adult novelist when she grows up. Ben also wants to be an author, but he wants to work as a forest fire watch as well. Alaska reveals that she had her first kiss with Silas Lancaster in the fire watch tower at Camp Granite Falls. The next day, Ben asks Alaska to meet her at The Barn. He gives her the new Henry Puffer novel, signed by the author!

## Quotes

* "And they're pink! Your favorite color." - Patina
 "Green's my favorite color, Patina. Pink is YOUR favorite color." - Daphne
* "I hate young adult books. There shouldn't be anything between children and adult books if you ask me." - Ben
 "You could also just let people enjoy things." - Alaska
* "Oh, you're back!" - Ben
 "Yeah, I have this rule where I don't let men ruin places for me." - Alaska

## Trivia

* Last summer, Ollie directed a play about evil mascots, inspired by the evil mascots in The Sims 2: University.
* This is the beginning of the romance arch between Ollie and Holland.
* The SimTunes music store is named after game SimTunes.