Season One Episode Two

The second episode takes place the week before the annual Fall Ball while next episode, Episode Three, takes place at the Fall Ball.

## Main Plot

Ezra McDaniels and his brother Montgomery rake leaves outside the McDaniels estate. Monty takes over so Ezra can hang out with his childhood friend and neighbor, Clover Reynolds. Ezra tells Clover's mom that he's taking her to Deadgrass Isle for an adventure, while Mason has classmates over for a school project.

After getting off the ferry, Ezra takes Clover to the pet cemetery, a landmark that isn't on any maps. He shows her the tombstone of Cecelia Goth, the hamster, owned by his great great grandmother, Cassandra Goth. They have a moment on the nearby beach, when he thanks her for supporting him that summer when his grandfather died. Then he asks her to the Fall Ball!

Ezra realizes he's late to his family's weekly Sunday night dinner. It's usually a private affair, but he invites Clover along. He introduces her as his friend, which hurt her feelings. She knows they're not just friends, but what are they?

After dinner, Clover and Ezra hang out in his tree house and reminisce about their childhood. Clover reveals that she's scared that everything's changing, alluding to their friendship.

The next day, Ezra checks in with Clover about going to the dance because of their conversation the previous night. She reassures him, even though she thinks things are weird. After school, she takes pictures with her best friend Yuri down by the Brindleton Bay docks. She admits that she has feelings for Ezra and that she needs to confront him about her feelings.

## Subplots

Daphne Galindo goes to the hospital for her support group for kids with life threatening illness. Daphne has cystic fibrosis. She runs into her classmate, Cassio Anderson, who reveals he had leukemia six years ago. Daphne tells the group that she wants to make a vlog for film class about what it's like to have cystic fibrosis. Cassio brushes her idea off, leaving her with a bad taste in her mouth. Cassio feels bad for being a bit too harsh, but Daphne can be pretty annoying. The next day, in gym class, Cassio apologizes. Daphne accepts, with one condition: Cassio needs to help her film her vlog! At lunch, Daphne sits with her best friend Patina who is judging her classmates. She makes fun of Cassio's shirt/hair color combination, and Daphne reveals that Cassio is the boy she met at her support group. Patina apologizes for making fun of him, which rubs Daphne the wrong way. After school, Daphne goes to Cassio's house to film her vlog, when she's greeted by his two dogs. She starts her vlog, but it feels disingenuous. She goes downstairs to use the bathroom, and stumbles into Cassio's room of pets. There's a chameleon, a turtle, a fish... Then Daphne has an idea. Not only could she do her video project on his pets, but they could also turn it into a series!

Lavender Burch is getting ready to do a project at cutie Mason Reynold's house. The project is to act out a scene from the play Once Upon Wherever, but with a modern twist. She has crush on him, so she wants to look good. Maybe he'll even ask her to the Fall Ball! Lavender's friends Jia and Maple are over, hanging out while she gets ready. Theo Calhoun, the third member of their project group, gets to Mason's house early. He asks him for girl advice because Theo has a crush on Lavender and he doesn't know how to win her heart. Mason suggests doing something creative, because Lavender is a creative person. When Lavender finally comes over and they practice their scene, she hopes she's impressing Mason with her mad acting skills, but she's actually making Theo think she likes him. The next day, at gardening club, he hatches a plan to set up a scavenger hunt to ask Lavender out to the dance. When Lavender completes the scavenger hunt, she's expecting to see Mason... but standing there is Theo. It's too awkward for her to say no, so I guess she's going to the dance with Theo!

Dexter Galindo meets his best friend Maple Delaney at the Warble Arcade, which Is next to his apartment building. They go upstairs to play darts and make a bet. If Dexter wins, they'll go to the Fall Ball together (as friends). If Maple wins, then he has to dress up for the Fall Ball, which is country themed. Maple ends up winning! But while playing, Dexter and Maple lost track of time and it was ten minutes past his curfew. His parents end up grounding him, which meant he would have to miss the Fall Ball. After dodging her texts all weekend, Dexter finally tells Mason that he's grounded and has to miss the dance. Maple is disappointed, but she has a plan... Later that night, she sneaks into Dexter's apartment via the fire escape. She's gonna help Dexter escape his grounding and go to the Fall Ball!

## Quotes

* "I had leukemia about 6 years ago. Been in remission ever since." - Cassio
 "Is leukemia a type of Voidcritter?" - Daphne
* "Right, you don't want to be tied down. Not with that hot face." - Theo to Mason
* "Remember when we played house up here? Pretended to be married? You'd go off to work..." - Clover
 "To my job as a space accountant, I remember..." - Ezra
 "And I'd stay at home with our kids, Mango and Penelope." - Clover
 "I'm glad our ideas around gender norms have changed since then." - Ezra
* "Maybe he's just busy! We had that math test this morning..." - Jia
 "Maybe he decided he doesn't like girls with bangs." - Lorem
* "Why didn't you tell me you had so many pets?" - Daphne
 "I guess it never came up in our five minutes of knowing each other." - Cassio
* "There's a dance every month at this school. I'm pretty sure that's where most of our tuition goes to. School dances." - Daphne

## Trivia

* Ezra mentions going to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut to steal some gems, a reference to Queen Hatsheput from The Sims 3: World Adventures.
* This is the first mention in the series of the dreaded Becky Jank.
* When Maple sneaks into Dexter's apartment, her garb is inspired by the burglars in The Sims 1.