Heidi and Lauren technically have separate storylines with different supporting players, but the parallelism is undeniable: both girls have supposedly official, though clearly dysfunctional engagements to deal with. Heidi’s storybook wedding fantasy is a situation that Spencer, who wants to elope in Tibet, can’t completely control. Jason asked Lauren to meet his new girlfriend Katja at their housewarming party where he announced the shocking news of his haphazard engagement. I mean, it wasn’t so shocking to anyone who’s picked up an Us Weekly within the past month.
It was more shocking, though, that Jen Bunney, who apparently is going to be Heidi’s only bridesmaid, had sensible advice for Heidi (perhaps she got some common sense with the new nose), warning her about the susceptibility couples in their early twenties have to falling out of love, though it’s yet to be determined if one can call Speidi a couple. Well, I guess they are two people. (Are gremlins people too?)
The usually levelheaded Whitney made some lapses in judgment when she decided to take the band whose photo shoot she’d be overseeing the next morning out for drinks. Could it have been in the band’s contract for their Hills appearance that they had to go out with the girls? The photo shoot wasn’t as disastrous as Whitney’s face or Lisa Love’s post-shoot bitchfest made it out to be, especially since the most tense moment the editors could come up with was a band member getting all attached to his jeans. It was a nice change, even a little inspirational, to see career-oriented Whitney get her own storyline, but if the producers are going to give her the only non-boy-related story arc, they need to come up with something more compelling ASAP.
Lauren shared another outdoor meal with Jason who invited a caught-off-guard Lauren to his housewarming party. Audrina accompanied Lauren to the celebration where they civilly greeted Katja and a just-sober Jason was inappropriately serving the drinks. (Anyone else catch Lauren sketchily sniff the drink Jason gave her? Aren’t roofies scentless?) When the announcement of Jason’s engagement came out, Lauren looked more resigned than surprised, like she had begrudgingly gotten over the grizzly drunk. Her surrender was even more apparent in her post-game, I’m-over-it conversation with Whitney.
Spencer went with Heidi to the store where she wanted to have their wedding registry, but the gremlin acted like a three-year-old forced to go to the store with his mom, insisting that they didn’t need to be there. When Heidi later started to discuss when they’d have the wedding, Spencer told her he hasn’t even told his parents. Maybe he was waiting for them to, uh, find out when the reality show that co-stars his fiancé aired the proposal. Or maybe he was so confident that he’d made the actual proposal so vague and un-proposal-like that they’d never find out.
