This week a heat wave hits our favorite zip code, and the temperature isn't the only thing that's rising . . .
In the opening scene of tonight's episode Ethan and Annie are talking on the phone and Ethan says "I love you". Before we can have a minute to digest this, Annie reciprocates right back and grinning, squeals "I love you too!". A serious PDA-fest follows the next day at school.
Silver seems repulsed by Annie and Ethan's new found obsession with lip locking and Dixon starts to feel the burn of her negativity.
Meanwhile, Navid has reappeared and is thrilled to dote on Adriana. Rather than bask in the glory of her adoring boyfriend, Adriana has to plan how exactly to tell him she is pregnant with another guy's baby. Gosh, high school is tough! She turns to Naomi for support.
Naomi breaks away from her new mean girls clique long enough to hear Adriana say she needs to talk to her. Naomi takes this to mean Adriana is using drugs again, and proceeds to rant and rave to her mean girls, who of course, spread this gossip around the school.
The heat wave causes West Bev to close for the following day and everyone hits the beach. Adriana has shared her news with Naomi, who is trying to keep Adriana happy and distracted. George the meathead makes some snide comment about Adriana at the beach party, causing Navid to lunge at him, and defend her honor. Adriana rips Navid away and shares her big news. He is horrified by the realization Adriana is pregnant by a stranger and walks away from her.
Ok, pause from the story for just a moment. This is the same Navid who visited Adriana in rehab. Separated out her favorite flavor of jelly beans from a box of hundreds, and introduced her to his family after a few dates. He would NOT just walk away from her after she trusted him with such huge news! CW, keep your characters consistent please!
Resume. While the rest of West Bev is at the beach, Annie and Ethan have escaped to Palm Springs, courtesy of Grandma's vacation home. Annie decides she is ready to lose her virginity to Ethan, and they are making out by the fire, when she stops him to say how this means so much to her, she loves him, she thinks he might be the one, blah blah blah and Ethan, shock of shock, recoils. High school girls have so much to learn! Ethan is totally freaked out by Annie's admission and says he doesn't know if he can go through with it. Annie looks as if someone shot her, hastily picks up her clothes and rushes into another room.
Side note - during this whole, about to lose her virginity scene, David Archuleta's song "Crush" is playing in the background. This tells me two things. One, I am clearly older than the target demographic for this show. Two, the CW needs a lesson in setting the mood!
Back in Beverly Hills, the Wilsons discover that Annie is not at the beach party and decide to drive up to find her. They arrive to discover Annie alone in bed, and Ethan on the living room couch. They can't help but laugh at their intended stake out, and the whole situation somehow turns them on. Enough that they get it on in the family mini van. Classy, Principal Wilson, real classy. Annie and Ethan awkwardly discover them in the morning, and shake their heads trying to shoo that mental image out of their brains.
As the beach party is wrapping up, Dixon decides to tell Silver her loves her, thinking that will ease the tension between them. She clearly isn't ready to say the same herself and responds "thank you". Uh oh. Dixon is not pleased, and she doesn't appreciate his angry reaction. I think this relationship might have hit its expiration date.
At the end of the episode, Annie and Ethan make up, and decide to take things slow. We will see how long you last, Ethan. Ask our dear friend David Silver how long he had to wait.
Things don't go quite as smoothly for Adriana, who gets dumped by Navid, and ends up in tears. What about the jelly beans Navid?? Did that mean nothing to you??
Next week's preview teases that several people may get a second chance at a relationship they have already torched.
Game on. Double or nothing.
