Episode Report Card Niki: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Scarlet Letter Jacket
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.04.1999
Soliloquy Lily hops on the Stool to share, "Even when she was a baby, I couldn't get enough of her smell. I would sneak into her room when she was asleep and bury my nose in her hair and..." She shakes her head fondly and sniffs loudly, as if sucking up the scent. She beams, "I can still get away with it every now and then." Okay, does that mean Lily's actually sniffing Grace now, as she's hugging her in the kitchen? Because that's, um, a little odd.
Soliloquy Grace gripes, "She always says I can tell her anything, but then she makes the biggest deal out of it." You know, I can't imagine Grace smelling anything but sour.
Back in the kitchen, Grace finally opens up as she loads books into her backpack. She says, "People heard about what happened between you and...that dad." Lily clutches her pearls and asks what Grace means. Grace stammers and hints at what she and Jake and Zoe interrupted on the couch the other night.
Soliloquy Grace bitches through her scrunched up face, "I'm just never going to tell her anything again." Cool. Do us the same favor, while you're at it.
Grace tells Lily it's actually even worse than that: people think the interrupted couple was Grace and Eli, not the parents. Lily is shocked for a split second and then bursts out laughing, which no doubt does wonders for Grace's limping ego. "Well, at least people think I'm capable of having sex, which clearly will never happen in real life," Grace says, her voice soggy with self-pity. Lily lectures her not to worry about what other people think of her: she needs to live her own life. "That doesn't apply to high school," Grace sneers, grabbing her backpack and blowing out of the kitchen.
Cut to Lily shelving books at the bookstore. "How could I not know that going out with another parent from the school would be a disaster?" she complains to Naomi. "He's a parent at the school?" Naomi parrots, and Lily reminds her that she knew that already. Naomi asks who it is. Lily pauses for a second, smiles to herself at the thought of him, and says, "Rick Sammler." Naomi expresses her shock that Lily is dating Rick, reeling, "Rick Sammler was the one undressing [Lily] in her living room?" Lily shushes her and glances around nervously. After a beat, she asks uncertainly, "Well, so, what's wrong with Rick Sammler?" She tries to look as though she's not terrified of the answer. "Nothing, except his ex-wife is one of my best friends," Naomi says, dryly. Lily is stunned to hear that that's Naomi's friend Karen. She covers her face with her hands and mopes on a stack of books.