Cherry was using a pay phone and was talking with Atticus as they were spending time away from each other as Drell gave the boy a solo mission while she went to visit her family friends. "So, where'd Drell send you, Atticus?" she then asked after a while.

"The same place where Tarzan the Ape Man lives." Atticus said.

"Okay..." Cherry said. "You have fun with that now... I gotta get going, Penny wants us to watch her get her driver's license."

"See ya later, Cherry." Atticus then said as he hung up and it was time to go.

"See ya, Atticus," Cherry said and then hung up, going over to where Penny and her friends were with the driving instructor. "I have a feeling this driving test might not end well."


"There ya are, Cherry." Penny smiled.

Cherry got between Zoey, Dijonay, and LaCienega. "Let's get this over with." she then said, hooking on her seat-belt. She could already tell this wasn't going to end well. "Thanks for letting me participate, Mrs. Hightower..." she said to the driving instructor dully.

Cherry started to pray and hope that this would all end well. Penny then started the car so she could start her lesson.

"Drell, please for once keep me from harm and make sure this test ends well." Cherry whispered while looking to the back of the car.

Penny seemed to zoom with the car.

"PENNY!" Cherry yelped.

The driving test didn't go as great as Penny had hoped.

"Penny, stop, you are driving worse than your grandma!" Cherry gasped.

They soon crashed into surfboards on the beach. The other girls squealed because of the radio broadcast which mentioned a teen rapper many of them liked known as 15 Cent.

"This is insane!" Cherry exclaimed.

"I know, girl, 15 Cent is off the hook!" Dijonay smiled. "I can't wait for those dance lessons!"

"Me neither, I've been practicin' my Beyonce moves all week." Penny smiled back to her best friend.

"I meant the driving!" Cherry told them.

"I just hope I can learn all the steps," Zoey said. "Hey, guys, am I popping or am I locking?"

"Look out!" a boy called.

"Oh, man..." Cherry said as Penny kept driving crazily. "Sorry!"

Penny then backed up and ran over some of the traffic cones.

"You're not supposed to run over the cones!" Cherry told her.

"Proud, knowing your dad, I bet he won't even let you go to the dance auditions." LaCienega smirked darkly to Penny.

"Ahem, for your information, LaCienega, I'm turning sixteen tomorrow," Penny replied, looking back to her while Cherry and the driving instructor clung onto each other. "And according to the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Conjunction Junction, I'm officially mature enough to make my own decisions. Thank you."

"How about not HITTING THE WALL?!" Cherry panicked.

"What wall?" Penny asked.

Mrs. Hightower took the wheel and drove them away from the wall. "Pipe down you future Crash Test Dummies!" she then yelled before clearing her throat into her soft and gentle speaking voice. "Um, now let us continue with Driver's Education. Penny, hands at ten and two."

Penny then smiled as she did that.

"Good..." Cherry smiled in relief. "Hopefully the rest of the driving test will be easy."

"Hey, if we become 15 Cent's dancers, then we can chill with him on his yacht, check it out, y'all!" Dijonay beamed and put her magazine in front of Penny's eyes.

"I spoke too soon," Cherry sighed. "She can't see where she's going if she has a magazine blocking her sight from driving!"


Penny drove with what she could and everyone nearly flopped into the car. "Oh, look, Mrs. Hightower, I knocked over all the cones!" she told her teacher before cheering, but then saw that her teacher had an opposite reaction. "That is what you're supposed to do, knock over all the cones, right...?"

"Has anyone seen my glasses?" Cherry looked around.

"Here you go." Zoey handed her glasses over after mixing them up with her own.

"Thanks." Cherry said after accepting her own glasses.

"Come on, let's tell Daddy about 15 Cent." Penny told Cherry.

"Like your dad is gonna let you be with some boy." Cherry rolled her eyes with a smirk, knowing how Oscar was about Penny and boys.

"Oh, come on, Dad might allow me to be with 15 Cent." Penny said.

"Mm-hmm~..." Cherry doubted that.


After the driving test, the two girls came into the house.

"Cherry, is that you?" Oscar asked in surprise. "I-I haven't seen you since you were a baby..."

"Hi, Uncle Oscar." Cherry greeted her father's old friend.

"How have you been?" Oscar asked.

"Oh, I can't complain..." Cherry shrugged. "I'd show you my friend Atticus, but he's with his sister in the jungle."

"Your friend sounds impressive..." Oscar commented.

"Yes..." Cherry hid a slight eye roll. "Anyway, Penny has something to tell you."

"What is it, Penny, did you pass your driver's test?" Oscar smiled to his older daughter.

"No, Daddy, but I wanna be a back-up dancer for 15 Cent!" Penny beamed. "Please, Daddy, can I do it?"

'And Uncle Oscar's reaction comes in 3, 2, 1.' Cherry thought to herself.

"No way!" Oscar declined and ignored his daughter's protests. "Keep dreaming! Not gonna happen!"

"DADDY!" Penny complained.

"No daughter of mine is gonna be a back-up dancer for some half-pint hip hop wussy!" Oscar replied. "Haven't you seen those girls dance in those videos?" he then asked before imitating a back-up dancer in a suggestive music video which made his baby twins giggle.

"No one dances like that anymore." Cherry said.

"She's right." Penny agreed as she looked annoyed with her father right now.

"That girl on Soul Train does and she's as old as Suga Mama!" Oscar defended as he pointed to the TV.

And where Suga Mama soon walked by him with a sack in her hands and where she stepped on his foot. Cherry winced at that as that looked rather painful.

"This isn't fair!" Penny complained. "All my friends are gonna be there! MAMA!"

"Uncle Oscar, Penny isn't a little girl anymore, she's old enough to make her own choices." Cherry told him.

"Cherry is right." Trudy agreed as she took out a birthday banner for her older daughter.

"Sure, whatever..." Oscar mumbled as he folded his arms.

Bebe and Cece giggled as they were watching 15 Cent's newest music video on the TV.

"I think 15 Cent's pretty fly," Suga Mama smiled at the TV. "Good looks, lots of talent, ooh, just like a certain son of mine!"

"Aw! Mama, thank you." Oscar smiled as he hugged her, thinking she was talking about him.

"Oh, get off me, boy," Suga Mama replied. "I was talking about Bobby!"

"Ow! Here ya go, Mama~" Bobby walked by as he sang as usual, dropping a bag onto his brother.

"Suga Mama, what're you doing with all this stuff?" Cherry asked.

"Sweepstakes!" Suga Mama told her.

"I think those are scams." Cherry shrugged.

"Well, me and Puff are feeling real lucky," Suga Mama said as she untied the sack. She then reached in. "If there's enough, we'll then move to Alaska."

"You're gonna move to Alaska? "Oscar smiled hopefully to his mother. "I'll chip in for that!"

Cherry rolled her eyes, then looked to Trudy. "I'm gonna go with Penny now."

"Okay, sweetie, you have fun, it's so good to see you after all these years." Trudy smiled as she hung up a birthday banner.

"Mama! Have you seen my mini skirt?!" Penny called down as she came out, holding a sleeveless top.

"Top drawer, left side." Trudy replied with a smile.

"And there be plenty of skirt in that mini skirt, young lady!" Oscar called back to his daughter.

"Okay!" Penny called back.


Cherry came to join Penny into her bedroom.

"You should dress up too, Cherry." Penny suggested.

"I'm rather self-conscious about my looks..." Cherry sounded anxious.

"Okay." Penny shrugged.

Cherry looked around the room as Penny looked for an outfit for herself. Penny then smiled as she put an outfit together.

"Not bad..." Cherry had to admit.

"Thanks." Penny smiled.

Penny had on the top with a black mini skirt, black short heels, a sideways cap, and shades. She then came downstairs to show her family her new look and smiled, hoping they would love it.

"What in the?!" Oscar flipped out of course. "Trudy! Why's our daughter dressed like a... Like a-"

"Wholesome teenager?" Trudy finished for him. "Oscar, I think Penny looks very fashionable."

"Yeah, it really does," Cherry said. "Even Rarity, a friend of mine, would say that she looks fabulous."

"I'd like to meet Rarity." Penny replied to her.

"I'll see what I can do." Cherry gave a small smile.

"It's what the kids wear nowadays." Trudy approved.

"Not my kids!" Oscar glared. "Do you see Bebe and Cece dressed like that?" he then picked up his infant son who was now missing a diaper.

"You were saying, Uncle Oscar?" Cherry asked.

"I can't wait until I grow up and move out and then I can do whatever I want!" Penny groaned before storming up to her bedroom.

"Aw, Penny..." Cherry frowned.

Oscar soon started to do a comeback saying if there was anyone that were to move out it would be him.


"Is your daddy like this?" Penny asked.

"My dad's more sensitive about me being with boys, but he's not over the top like yours..." Cherry shrugged as she leaned on the door-frame while Penny sat on her bed.

"Well, at least your dad's alright." Penny said.

"Dads are mysterious creatures." Cherry shrugged.

"They sure are." Penny said.

"Don't worry, Penny, there's still your birthday party." Cherry reminded.

"Yeah, that's right..." Penny had to agree.

Oscar poked his head into the door. "Bobby and I are off to show my new snack, you girls wanna come?"

"Pass..." Penny rolled her eyes with a scoff.

"Sure, Uncle Oscar," Cherry shrugged. "Besides, it might be interesting."

"Count me out." Penny told Cherry.

Cherry shrugged as she then decided to go with Oscar and Bobby.