Cédric

Cedric is home, sick in bed... but with a very particular kind of illness: he's come down with "lovesickness"! He tries to explain the symptoms to Christian: chills, no appetite, shaky legs when he sees Chen... Christian, who's never been in love, finds it hard to understand. In a flashback, Cedric explains how he caught the "virus of love".

Grownups are sometimes really hard to understand. Cedric still remembers the day he ran home waving his report card like a flag - a report card that was brilliant, extraordinary, better than he'd ever had in his entire scholastic career! However, his father had remained completely indifferent, unimpressed. So his mom had explained that it was because his father was worried...

Nicholas throws a costume party for his birthday. Robert drives Cedric over, but a punctured tire causes them to be late. Poor Cedric's choice of costume is therefore quite limited: he has to dress up as a marquise!

Love has to be tended to, and the best way is to offer concrete proof of your affection. Cedric is well aware of this fact of life. He also knows, that it's not always as easy as it sounds!

Chen's got rollerblades. That is a very bad piece of news, because Cedric, on his skateboard, is much slower than she is. The result is that the love of his life is always well ahead of him, and he can't talk to her anymore. He's got to get a pair of rollerblades.

Chen has come over to do her homework with Cedric, who's determined to take advantage of the situation to declare his love. But Cedric surprises his grandfather spying on them through the keyhole. To cover himself, Poppy invents a preposterous story about oiling the lock, but Cedric doesn't believe a word of it, and decides to take revenge.