fandomhigh | Love Smart: Period 2, Week 7

Students were summoned to the Danger Shop for this week's class. "I hope you all got my email. If you managed to speak to Robin Sparkles and want your extra credit, come talk to me after class," he began.

"Now, couples parties are one of the biggest relationship hurdles to overcome. My friends Marshall and Lily were successful. How, you ask? By running away from their own wine tasting. They, rightly, didn't see the point of waiting an hour to get drunk so the alcohol could 'breathe' while listening to other couples go on about their attempts to get pregnant, or worse, married. Instead, Marshall and Lily escaped by jumping out of the bathroom window and made their way to join me and Ted at Club Awesome. Granted, Club Awesome was not so Awesome after all, but it was way better than a couples party," Barney shuddered in horror at the memories of Club Awesome, not that students would know that.

"This is your midterm, people," he hadn't realized it was until he heard about other midterms on radio. "You, my most excellent students of relationships will partner up and go through a maze where you will meet a variety of boring parties. Your goal is to find the bathroom and escape the maze of bad couples parties." They would be scarred by wine tastings, fondue parties, and possibly a Mary Kay lady.

"Partner up and get to it!" he said with a flourish and the scene of the classroom changed.

There was a huge maze behind the students, one of those tall overgrown and green types, but instead of a Minotaur, other, more devious evils lurked within. Students should enter at their own risk.

[ooc: I blame a bad week,

fat_halpert, and a bottle of cheap wine - all completely unrelated! OCD is up! SP until 4:30EST is LOVE!]

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"What a cute couple!" Sandy greeted them, a glass of wine sloshing in his hand. "Join the party, we have cheese!"

"I hope not," she whispered back, looking around. "I would totally have to beat them out of our way. It's okay, Andrew," she gave his hand a reassuring squeeze. "I can kick butt pretty good."

Annette blinked at the man. "I'm lactose intolerant," she lied. "Thanks anyways."

"Yeah, you really don't want to be around her after she's consumed dairy," Andrew said, backing up his friend.

"That sounds...disgusting," Sandy said, grimacing. "But we do have goat cheese, so no lactose problems there!"

"Seriously," Annette nodded. "And not only that but even the thought of any kind of cheese starts the rumbling in my tummy." She made a face and put a hand over her stomach, giving Andrew a pitiful, frowny look.

"Besides," Andrew added," we're very strict vegans and don't believe in consuming anything that might have potentially caused discomfort to an animal in its production."

Sandy frowned. "You two ought to avoid the old dude at the fondue pot by the bathroom, then." That would be a really unfortunate incident. And it was good cheese, too.

Oooh, they learned where the bathroom was! Yes! "Thank you very much," Annette said and tugged on Andrew a little. "We're just going to mingle now, right Andrew? Maybe grab a carrot stick."

"Only if it's organic and free trade," Andrew said, following Annette away from the strange man.

And there was the old man, sitting near the bathroom door, staring longingly into his fondue pot. "Stupid skewers," he muttered.

Annette gave Andrew a skeptical look and tried to ignore the old man as she went to go into the bathroom so her and Andrew could escape.

Old men were creepy, so Andrew refused to look at him. Instead he did his best to simply follow Annette into the bathroom, saying, "If I don't get to the can soon, my bladder is going explode and I'll die from toxic shock."

"Too bad that door's locked, huh?" the old man called after them. "Shouldn't ignore me and my sadness! Heartless teens!"

Oh man. Annette looked over and gave the old man the sweetest smile she could muster. Then she crossed her legs and bent her knees a little. "I'm so sorry, sir. It's not that we we're ignoring you, it's just that we both have... sensitive bladders and... well, we kind of need to go right now... or... else."

Old men were still creepy, so Andrew simply nodded his head in agreement while doing his best mock pee-pee dance.

"Guess you'll need to eat some fondue!" the old man cackled and choked on his own phlegm a bit.

"But... omigod, I'll die!"

Andrew really didn't like this old man, but he got the gist of it. Rolling up his sleeve, he walked up to the fondue pot and plunged a hand into the melty cheese.

It was hot. Andrew yelped. But he kept on feeling around because, hello, creepy old man kind of smelled.

Andrew would be pleased to find the key quickly so as to not burn his hand off. "How do you expect me to eat that fondue now that your dirty teenage hand's been in it!" the old man was very cranky now.

Annette went to shove Andrew behind her and she glared at the old man. "His hands are very clean and if you don't want to eat it, then... then pour it in that big potted palm over there. We don't really care. We are dying to go pee here! Andrew," she said, turning to face him. "Unlock the door, sweetie."

Andrew shook some excess cheese off the key and went to unlock the door, praying that there was a working sink he could at least rinse his hand off in on the other side.

There was a sink and a toilet and a BIG window!

Annette headed straight for the big window and hoped there wasn't a big drop or no trellis to climb down. "That old guy freaked me out. I need some air, like now!"

After a quick rinse, Andrew was out the window as well. "Thanks, Annette," he yelled.

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