- Deanna wakes up to an empty house. She pulls out her journal and writes that even though things with Tommy are over, she doesn't feel any different, and she still doesn't know what to do with her life.
- The phone rings and she hesitates to answer, because it might be Darren and she doesn't want to talk to him.
- When she finally answers, it's her mom. Talking about food, of course. She has to work late at Mervyns and tells Deanna there are ingredients for a tuna casserole if she wants to cook for her dad.
- Yeah, right—Deanna says she has to work.
- Stacy comes through the door. She's been hanging with her old friend Corvette Kim, and she was never at the lighthouse.
- Deanna goes downstairs and calls Darren to say Stacy's home; Darren says to tell Stacy to get out of his house.
- Deanna gets out of there instead, and she and Jason hop the bus and go to the Serramonte mall.
- On the bus Deanna tells Jason everything that's happened with Stacy—Jason isn't surprised; he says Stacy was always kind of wild and crazy.
- At the mall, Deanna drags Jason to Express to look at clothes. She goes into the dressing room and tries on lots of normal-girl, make-Jason-like-me clothes like white Capri pants, but they're all too expensive, and she feels stupid in them anyway. She doesn't think she deserves to wear them.
- They head to the food court for lunch, because Deanna's taken eighty bucks of her birthday money out of the bank and they're ballin'.
- As they're standing in line at Panda Express, Tucker and Bruce come along. They're extra obnoxious today: Bruce actually puts his hand between Deanna's legs.
- Deanna shoves him to the floor and yells some choice expletives at him.
- A security guard approaches, so Deanna and Jason haul out of there and run into Macy's, where Deanna sits at the feet of a mannequin in a tux and proceeds to lose it. Can't say we blame her…
- Jason pulls the handkerchief out of the mannequin's pocket and hands it to her to dry her tears, which is pretty sweet.
- A salesman chases them out of Macy's, so they head out on the elevator—and, since she essentially has Jason trapped in a box, Deanna seizes the moment to ask why he never asked her out.
- He says she's his friend and he's never thought of her that way.
- Even though Deanna feels seriously uncomfortable now, he's still her best friend so they ride the bus back to his place.
- Where… drum roll, please… she kisses him.
- He kisses back, but then tells her she'd better go.
- She leaves, wearing a shirt he let her borrow and wondering how on earth she's supposed to find her own way out of Pacifica.