Now the reason Tiff's heart was racing,her face was
flushed and her personality was becoming a little snappish towards
other girls was because she was facing in love
for the first time in her (so far) short line,being
only 16 year old.
Both Katie,Tiff and the other girl had been newly arrived in the town
of Auradale by a matter of days when they'd broken ito the apparently abandoned
mansion together months earlier.
So they'd been clueless about the towns
eccentric genius inventor
Phineas Dimphelfyre,who was still alive,hale and hearty at the age of seventy five.
So when Tiff saw the handsome intelligent and
articulate class jock ,she'd fallen in love at
first sight when he'd asked for the first dance
in the ballroom.
They'd danced,and he'd asked her name,
Tiffany Summers\
and when she'd asked for his name,he'd seemed a little surprised that she didn't know
it,Horace Dimphelfyre,grandson of Phineas Dimphelfyre.
They'd both excused themselves from the ballroom
and sat on a beatup old park bench
that sat on the cobblestoned gardens that overlooked
the pond where the beautiful swans glided gracefully and the
filthy ducks quacked and splashed about as they dove for bugs and worms in the pond bottom muck.
So Horace looked down at Tiff,who was staring up at him with
love in his eyes,and kept saying "Yes Horace?"
to him regardless of whether he was talking about the weather,asking her a quesion about her parents and kid brothers or about
the unsightly mess the quacking ducks were making as they waddled out of the pond and left mud on the cobblestones.
So,since clearly Tiff was thinking with her ovaries rather
then her head,he decided to pull out
the ring Tiff had left behind in his grandads boarded up mansion and which the old gent had found when he'd
noticed the break-in,gone
back inside and checked on some of his early vintage
lab equipment.
The ring had lain on the floor beside the <Locator Circuit>
for the prototype
Dimphelfyre Audio Re-Generating .... machine he'd
first started inventing half a century earlier.
Phineas,never having figured out how to use the DARGON
( basically a nuclear powered air fuels transformation ray gun)
to make himself young by about 50 years,had given the ring to his
grandson Horace to see what he could find out about its presumed
female student owner.
So Horace took out the high school "Class of '15" ring and asked
her if she recognized it.