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| - As finals week approaches, the hot topic of discussion is Penny's skipping town with Rich. Aggie and Marshall, who've started jogging together as friends (although Aggie's still secretly in love with him) joke about Penny's decision, although Marshall reveals that Karen's oddly obsessed with it. Penny's friends discuss it animatedly, while keeping it a secret from her parents, Penny having told them for now that she's staying over at Brandi's to study. Katy-Ann, however, feels her friend is making a big mistake, and agonizes silently over whether to tell her parents the truth, finally turning to God for guidance.
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| - As finals week approaches, the hot topic of discussion is Penny's skipping town with Rich. Aggie and Marshall, who've started jogging together as friends (although Aggie's still secretly in love with him) joke about Penny's decision, although Marshall reveals that Karen's oddly obsessed with it. Penny's friends discuss it animatedly, while keeping it a secret from her parents, Penny having told them for now that she's staying over at Brandi's to study. Katy-Ann, however, feels her friend is making a big mistake, and agonizes silently over whether to tell her parents the truth, finally turning to God for guidance. Penny and Rich, meanwhile, are staying at a motel just off the highway, sleeping with each other and living the rustic life. Before long, however, Rich tires of Penny bragging about what a sacrifice she's made, leaving her family, friends and life of luxury behind, and asks her to cool it. This leads to an argument in which Penny assures Rich she's "totally, totally committed" to a life with him, while Rich is concerned she'll return to her "palace" as soon as she tires of it. A shared laugh over Penny adopting Rich's grammar eases the tension, and Rich goes out riding by himself for a bit. Penny takes a nap, only to be awoken by an unfamiliar knock. It's her parents. Penny refuses to go home, telling her father she doesn't want to end up like him, feeling lively only when he's having his supposed affair with Charisma. Rob is strangely flattered by this accusation, while Lynda finds it hilarious, as he's such a homebody she knows his whereabouts every moment. This stings Rob's pride a bit. While Penny's still resisting them, Rich pulls up, sees her parents, and angrily turns around and rides off, neither saying a word nor allowing her to explain that it wasn't she who called them. Some days later, Penny, back in Belleville, finishes the last of her make-up exams and goes home, sullenly greeting her parents, who discuss with good humour Rob's need to become more active again and put the fun back in their marriage. Penny, grounded for the summer, goes upstairs to find her friends waiting for her. When Michelle says Rob and Lynda like them, Penny turns on her in suspicion and accuses her of having told on her, perhaps at Stan's prompting. Seeing Michelle stunned, hurt and speechless, Katy-Ann admits it was she who called her parents. She tells Penny that she and Rich weren't right for each other, that Penny wouldn't answer her phone, and that she couldn't just stand by any longer, but hopes Penny can forgive her. Penny, in tears, tells her to "Rot in hell." As Sara consoles her best friend, Michelle turns away from Katy-Ann, while Brandi looks at her in empathy. But Katy-Ann realizes she's been expelled from the group, and leaves sadly.
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