season 5, episode 10
"Stop, Drop, and Roll!"
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Dalvin happily opened the front door and wheeled his Gucci suitcase inside the house. "It feels good to be back home!"
The tour the young idols had been on had finally come to an end, and they had arrived back at their New York home that they missed so much.
"I hope the landlord ain't mad about the fact we ain't been here to pay no rent," K-Ci mentioned.
Tanai pouted. "I'm lowkey gonna miss being on tour and traveling from city to city."
"Puff was gettin' on my nerves bossing us around every five seconds," JoJo shook his head.
"Bein' a cheerleader is his favorite thing to do," DeVante joked.
"I heard a rumor that he'll be getting fired soon so we won't have to deal with him for that much longer," Dalvin told them. "His income is only like seven to eleven dollars every two weeks anyway."
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In the middle of the night, hot orange flames decided to make their way into the household as everyone slept peacefully. It started as a small fire in the kitchen but soon turned into a conflagration. The blazing heat increased by the second, causing Dalvin to wake up from his spot on the couch. His eyes widened and he leaped up in fright, racing straight upstairs.
"Fire!"
Dalvin ran up and down the hallway, knocking on the doors to alert the others. "It's a fire! The house is on fire!"
JoJo was the only one that exited the house without wasting any time. Meanwhile, K-Ci, Dalvin, DeVante, and Tanai tried to grab unimportant belongings of theirs to take out the house so they wouldn't get damaged.
JoJo watched from the window as they came downstairs holding clothing items, perfume, money–and even a damn television.
"I know y'all ain't–put all that back! All that ain't worth getting burned up over!"
"You trippin' if you think I'm 'bout to leave my sneakers in here!" Dalvin yelled.
"Help!" K-Ci called out. "My shorts caught on fire!"
There was a small flame at the bottom of his shorts indeed, causing JoJo to run back into the house as he, Dalvin, and DeVante ran over to K-Ci and began to stomp on him to attempt to put the fire out.
"Why has no one called the fire department?!?!" Tanai questioned.
Within seconds, the sprinklers were triggered and rained down on them all causing their pajamas to get soaked.
Eventually, the fire authorities were called and put the fire out. The damp adults stood around in the street near the firetruck.
"We gon' be getting paid for all the damage that was done, right?" K-Ci questioned the fire chief.
"All of your insurance will cover the items that were destroyed."
"Oh," K-Ci said blandly. "What if I ran back inside the house, with the flames still rising, and got severely burned? Could I get paid for that?"
The chief eyed him oddly, at a loss for words. Tanai sighed, "Please ignore him."
"Y'all mind if we take Spot off y'all hands?" DeVante asked, petting the dalmatian that accompanied the fire department.
"His name's Rocky and yes, we would mind. He's a part of our team," the chief responded. He was about to say something further but DeVante interrupted him.
"Why'd you give him a dumb name like Rocky?"
"Stop askin' dumb questions!" JoJo shouted, clearly irritated.
The chief looked back at the house for a brief moment. "So does anyone know what could have caused this fire?"
No responses, but all eyes landed on Dalvin.
"....what?"
"You the one who sleeps downstairs," JoJo pointed out.
"And you obviously like playing with fire since you set the neighbor's house on fire that one time," K-Ci added.
Dalvin looked at them, offended. "First off, I was sleep when the fire happened. Second off, I don't have a motive to set the house on fire...this time."
"Well I'd suggest finding a place to lay your heads at since your house is...you know, pretty much, no more." The chief suggested.
"And I know the perfect place! Let's go!" Dalvin began to lead the way with everyone following, realizing that something was off for a few seconds.
"De, go take that damn dog back."
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Dalvin carried his bags into the house. "Thanks for letting me stay here."
"No problem," Kass yawned, beginning to make her way back upstairs.
"Oh, one last thing!" Dalvin made her halt her actions, opening the front door to reveal K-Ci, JoJo, DeVante, and Tanai.
"Heyyyyyyyyy!"
Kass blinked, staring at everyone in front of her. "Oh hell nah, Ion know what y'all thought this was. Well I'll take Nai—and maybe JoJo–but Ion know about all five of y'all."
"We ain't gon' stay for that long," DeVante objected.
"Yeah," K-Ci sided. "Just until we figure things out."
"Come on, it'll be fun," Dalvin tried to negotiate to Kass, who gave in.
"I guess y'all can stay."
"Thanks Kass, we owe you one!" K-Ci spoke.
"Mmhm. Now I ain't gon' be able to go back to sleep for a while," Kass rolled her eyes. "So how'd this fire start?"
"We have no idea," Dalvin shook his head. "All I know is I was sleep and woke up to flames."
Blank stares were aimed his way but no one said anything about their assumptions. In actuality, it wasn't Dalvin's fault that the house caught on fire.
"Imagine if Sabrina escaped outta jail and set the house on fire to get her revenge on us," Tanai joked.
K-Ci cringed. "That ain't funny. It probably was Santos lil badass, he look like the type to touch the stove to figure out if it's hot."
"He can't even reach the damn stove," JoJo defended. "But I was gon' say maybe Walton came back, found out where we lived, and threw a match."
"I woulda' assumed it was Robin," DeVante joined the conversation. "Y'all think he's still mad?"
"Most definitely, but I wouldn't put it past Darlene either. You know one of her first toys was a lighter," Dalvin spoke, earning little laughs around the room.
Kass looked at them, confused at how they could be laughing and joking at a time like this. "What—and who are these people—"
Dalvin was about to respond to her but he stood there, eyeing her oddly.
"What? Why you looking at me like that?"
"How do we know if you weren't the reason why our house burned down?" Dalvin inquired.
Kass gave him an eye roll. "Are you dumb? What reason would I have to do that? You expect me to set the house on fire, run home, automatically know you'd call me, then pretend to wake up just to let y'all inside the house? Does that make sense to you?"
"...Well yeah, but by your tone of voice I'm assuming that you didn't do it," Dalvin answered.
Kass threw a pillow his way. "Whatever. Burn my house down next and I'm killin' all of y'all!"
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