Everywhere you look - full house

I.am.doomed.- stephanie is in trouble (part one)

Takes place in season 6

Felicity is a made up character
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Stephanie was walking towards the cafeteria with her backpack on her back when Mrs Patterson past her in the hallway and dropped a bunch of papers, she didn't seem to notice, so Stephanie picked them up and intended to return them to her but when she looked up again she was gone.
She hadn't meant to look at her teachers papers but she happened to read the headline.
"Midterm exam sixth grade"
Stephanie got more than a little skittish when she realised when realised exactly what she was holding.
"Holy moly" she said to herself, looking over the first sheet. She had every single answer to the midterm test in her hands.
"What have you got there Steph?"
Stephanie jumped what felt like 3 feet in the air when she heard the voice of Felicity, a girl  in the grade below, which Steph knew from dance class.
"Nothing special." She said, pressing the papers to her chest. The reaction was extremely  suspicious though and Felicity didn't buy any of it.
"You're lying, it's something." She said eyeing Stephanie.
"Come here"Steph said and pulled Felicity with her into the bathroom.
She checked the stalls and when she was certain the bathroom was empty, she exposed the papers to her friend.
"Oh my" she said, flipping through the pages. "You know what you have to do now right?!"
"I know, I know, I'll have to find Mrs Patterson and give them back" Steph said, holding a tight grip on the bundle.
"No,no, no" Felicity said looking at Steph with a pointed look,"don't you get where I'm headed?"
"Not exactly" Stephanie said.
"This is your ticket!" Felicity said.
"To where?"
"Helloooo? The cool gang!" Felicity said both hands on Stephanie's shoulders. "If you share the answers with Jennifer and Jennifer they will be your friend forever, I promise"
"How can you be so sure?" Steph asked.
"My friend's cousin goes to the same tennis club as Jennifer P's family and she overheard her saying that if she doesn't pass the midterm then she can't go abroad during the summer break, and if Jennifer P can't go then Jennifer S can't come with"
This information made something inside Stephanie very torn, one part of her wanted to take Felicity's advice and make her way into The Jennifer's clique. But a voice in the back of her head, which sounded quite a lot like dad, told her to do the right thing, and go find Mrs Patterson.
"Remember Steph, this is you chance to be popular."

At lunch Steph felt nervous, it felt like everyone new that something was up and she also felt like the papers were burning a hole through her backpack. She eyed the Jennifer's at lunch, it would be cool to sit there, to be with them and know what's in and out, what's cool or not.
But what if she got caught?

Stephanie was skittish for the rest of the day and didn't really pay that much attention during her afternoon math and geography classes.
When she got home she couldn't wait to get upstairs but luck wasn't on Stephanie's side. Because inside the living room Jesse and Becky had organised a play date with 5 others children so now the house was full of toddlers and parents. She tired to navigate through building blocks and plastic farmanimals.
Luckily for her no one struck up a conversation with her and she made her way up the stairs undisturbed. Her homecoming didn't go unnoticed tho, because a small six year old saw her come home and since she was quite bored of playing with the children she followed the 11 year old up the stairs.

Stephanie heard people blabbering coming from DJs room, followed by a crackle from a familiar neighbour.
Great, Kimmy is here Stephanie though. Now asking DJ for advice on this whole ordeal was out of the question, Kimmy would make fun of her, 100%.
Steph entered her shared bedroom and quickly got to work with hiding her backpack as far into her closet as she could.
Just as she was waist deep into the closet she heard a voice.
"What are you looking for?"
She jumped at the sound of her younger sisters voice and at the same knocked her head into the rod of the top of the closet.
"Ouch, Michelle!" Steph said as she emerged fully from the closet, rubbing the top of her head.
"Sorry, but how could I know you were such a klutz?" She answered.
"Well I guess it's partly my fault" Steph said. "Do you know what's for dinner?"
"You didn't answer my question" Michelle said, not falling for Steph's attempt at changing the subject.
"I wasn't looking for something" Steph said, instantly regretting it.
"You're hiding something!" Michelle said eyes beaming, secrets were always exiting, but sixth grade secrets were mega huge.
"No I'm not!" Steph said and took a defensive step infront of the sliding door that lead to her closet.
"You really think I'm that dumb?" Michelle asked, arms crossed, shooting a pointed look towards her sister.
"Yes?" Steph said, sounding hopeful.
"I'll find out somehow" she said. "I'll just tell dad that you are hiding something and then he'll figure it out!"
Sweat was starting to build up on Stephanie's forehead, Michelle could NOT tell dad about this but Stephanie couldn't tell Michelle either.
"NO!" Steph exclaimed " I can't tell you, but you cannot, and I mean cannot tell dad or Joey or uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky about this do you understand?"
The six year old nodded. Steph seemed really stressed and serious about what she just said.
"Promise?" Stephanie asked.
"Yes" Michelle said and held out her pinky.
Stephanie locked it with her own.

Michelle couldn't shake the thought of her big sister and her secret in the closet. But it wasn't the fact that she didn't know what Steph was hiding that bothered Michelle, it was the way Stephanie had acted when she had been caught. Something was up and she figured that Steph needed some help, far beyond the abilities of a six year old. So Michelle thought about bringing Steph help via someone wiser. But almost all wise people Michelle knew she had pinky promised not to tell. But one of them was left, and that's how Michelle ended up outside the door of the room that once had been hers. She knocked.
"Come in" she heard her biggest sister say.
Michelle entered and found the teenagers who occupied this room pretty much as they usually were. Kimmy and DJ on the bed, Steve on the floor, their school books were on the bed infront of them but no one had opened them yet.
"Michelle, what do you want?" DJ said, slightly annoyed. "We're studying"
"I can see that.." Michelle said rolling her eyes at her biggest sister. "It's Stephanie"
"Then why don't you go talk about it with Stephanie?" Kimmy said.
Michelle didn't deem Kimmy's comment worthy of a response.
"Something is up with her." She said and sat down in DJs desk chair.
"What do you mean Michelle?" DJ said, now sounding slightly worried.
"She was hiding something inside her closet earlier and when I saw her she made me promise not to tell pretty much anyone but you." Michelle said.
"And you don't know what she was hiding?" DJ asked.
"She wouldn't tell" Michelle answered.
DJ knew what she had to do, she didn't really have the time, she really had to study but big sisters duty sometimes shoved homework to the side. She sighed.
" Michelle, go tell Steph that I found a huge stain on the shirt she borrowed last week."
The six year old nodded and left the room.
"How will that help with anything?" Steve asked.
"Wait a second" DJ said.
Before Steve could say another thing the door to DJs room flew open and in barged Steph.
"IT WAS TWO WEEKS AGO AND YOU ACTUALLY WORE IT AFTER ME!"
"Great, now that you're in here, close the door and take a seat." DJ said calmly.
Her calm approach threw Steph of her track and she just closed the door behind her with a small;"What?"
"So what's in your closet?"
"She told you guys ?!" Stephanie exclaimed.
"Yeah, the kid sounded kinda worried about you also" Steve said looking at Steph.
"It's my own fault, I didn't consider the fact that she is the queen of finding loopholes" Stephanie said.
"You are avoiding my question" DJ said. "Tell me before I go look for myself.
Stephanie tired to find the right way to tell her sister without it sounding just as bad as it was. She also wished she could say that she had it all under control, but she didn't. What was the solution to this problem?
Steph threw herself backwards onto DJs bed and landed with the words;
"I.am.doomed"
"I'm pretty sure you're not doomed" DJ said, "how much trouble can one really get into in the sixth grade?"
The other two teenagers laughed slightly at DJs comment but it died down quickly when Stephanie spilled the beans.
"I have the answers to the midterm exam in my backpack"
"Wait, what?" DJ said, looking at her little sister with disbelief.
"Woah, blonde, how did you even manage to snatch those?!" Kimmy asked, eyes wide.
"I DIDN'T SNATCH THEM" Steph protested.
"That doesn't explain how they ended up in you backpack tho" Steve added.
Steph sighed, then she told the teen squad everything, how she found the paper on the ground, that she intended to go find her teacher right away, but that Felicity had planted the idea about the Jennifer's.
"And now I don't know what to do, because like if I just straight up return the papers, then Mrs Patterson will wonder why I didn't do it earlier, but if I don't return them and she starts to question the class and then someone might have found out from Felicity that I have them and then she'll probably expel me or something, and giving the answers to the Jennifer's is cheating, which will probably backfire and she'll call dad and then again, expelled. aaand"...Steph ramble without pausing to breath.
"Steph, chill." DJ said. "There has got to be some way to return the papers to Mrs Patterson's desk without her knowing."
"She's never in her classroom before school starts in the morning." Steph said, the plan starting to form in her brain.
"So sneak in, dump the papers and ditch" Kimmy stated.
"Exactly my plan, but more thought through." Steph said rolling her eyes at Kimmy.
"I'm gonna need help" Steph stated. Look at her big sister.
"Why are you looking at me?"
"Deej, I need you, I really really need your help" she asked, basically pleading.
"Well, fine then!" DJ said, giving in quicker than she use to. "But only beause I'm not in school tomorrow, and I'm bringing Kimmy"
"WHAT??" Kimmy and Steph said in unison.
"Yeah, or I won't help you" DJ stated.
"Fineeee." Steph muttered," the airhead can come, but she better not ruin all this for me!"
"Has anyone considered to ask me if I want to go?" Kimmy interrupted.
"Come on Kimmy, were you really going to use the time of school to study?" DJ asked.
"Nah, of course I wanna come!" Kimmy said.
"I just want to be asked!"
"Well I'm glad nobody asked me" Steve said and rose from the floor. "I gotta head to practice"
He gave DJ a kiss before gathering his bag and jacket, then heading for the door.
"I love you Deej, see you later Kimmy and good luck with everything Steph" he said.
Luck, was something she was going to need a lot of.

To be continued...