Episode Report Card Niki: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Aaron's Gettin' Better
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.20.2001
Lily hops on the Soliloquy Stool and reminisces about the time Aaron found a mouse and the two of them rummaged through a box of Judy's little troll dolls, stole the outfit off one and...She doesn't finish the story, but clasps her hands together and coyly smiles, "Oh, we were terrible!" How the hell did they not get bitten? She stares off for a couple of seconds, and her look grows wistful. She sighs and says, a little sadly, "Daddy always said they had Aaron for me." I don't know why, but I find that a little disturbing. Aaron's not a puppy, for crying out loud.
Rick returns with the coffee just as Zoe's scooting away. Lily accepts the mug, asking, "Do I scream?" Do people really make it this easy? "Only when I'm good," Rick "brags." Ba-dum-dum. Lily smiles and strokes his face, saying that she can't wait for Aaron to get to know him; Rick's "family now."
Cut to Grace at school, popping up next to Spencer at his locker. With a big smile, she says that it was "so cool talking with [him] last night." Spencer smiles and agrees. Grace adds that she "got in trouble, of course, but it was so worth it." Spencer's smile fades a little, and he evades, "Well, I've gotta go," and explains that he agreed to edit poetry for the lit magazine, and some girl just submitted a forty-page poem called I, Darkling. He laughs, "What is a 'darkling,' please?" Grace smiles and steps closer, flirting, "Someone who darkles...I guess?" Spencer hmms a half chuckle and shuffles away from the locker, casting a furtive, sidelong glance at Grace. He nervously scratches at his face before admitting, "I've been having trouble sleeping. You?" Grace hasn't. Spencer rolls his eyes and makes a circle in the air with his fingers, saying his mom thinks he needs "closure to what [they] went through." Grace snickers, "Oh, yeah like that'll happen any time soon." She then grabs his arm and stops him -- which he doesn't look too happy about -- and eagerly says, "I had this idea this morning. Like, what happened to us? That was real, and like, most people never get a real thing or moment -- and I don't just mean in high school -- but we did." "So?" Spencer asks. Grace explains that they could interview each other: "You know, as survivors." Grace asks what he thinks. Spencer thinks he'd rather ask the quarterback on a date, but he just says he'll think about it and then makes to leave. Grace follows. Spencer is so crazy to get away from her that he hits the stairs backwards, still making excuses, and trips, sitting heavily on one of the steps. It doesn't even faze him. He's up and dashing desperately to the top, like Grace suddenly donned a goalie mask and revved up her chainsaw. Grace, oblivious to the fact that she just grew a second head, shouts after him to find her later.