Laurie takes a fancy to poker and Nan steals ideas from Nat for their creative writing assignment.
Meg is taken with an associate of Laurie's while Dan and Bess are at each other's throats as they're paired up for a science project.
Asia's father arrives in Concord for an unbidden reunion while Nick takes a temporary job at the Mr. Gerson's general store, where he finds some unbidden attention of his own
